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Inside Indianapolis
By Ed. Sovola
THE SEARCH for the Unknown Hero on the Indianapolis police force is “ovér. Rookie John A. Bush, 1401 N, Chester St. is the man who saved two tiny tots from heavy evening traffic on Massachusetts Ave, Charles McConnell, 835 N, witness to Officer Bush's herofem, started the hall rolling for “we are quick to kick a policeman in the britches but slow to pay him a compliment.” Mr. McConnell saw a policeman plunge. out of a. trolley and, heedless of heavy traffic, shoo two little girls to the curb
Grant Ave, a
Working on the lines of my radio favorite, Steve Wilson of the Illustrated Press, I found” the mother ,of the two girls, Mrs. George Main, 5202 Riverview Dr. She left Lvnn, 3, and Diana, 1'5, for two minutes while she went into her husband's drug Store to tell him she was on her way home,
Officer Bush
WN oe LYNN WANTED to see her Daddy, so she left ‘the station wagon. Diana followed. Fortunately, the policeman at that moment looked
out the window of a trolley and went into action. He snatched them from the maze of moving cars. Mrs. Main forgot to ask the officer his name. At the station, any reports or rumors. John anyone what had happened. One evening, Charles Boyd, jeweler and: a friend of John's, delivered a repaired watch and Mr, Boyd told about reading of the Unknown Hero and said I was looking for him. . John said something similar happened to him.
A. Bush hadn't told
Mrz. Bush became interested and in a few minutes the story was reaching a climax. John wanted to forget it. Mrs. Bush called me at home. FE
THE FOLLOWING morning T was at the staHon for 8:30 roll call. Officer Bush admitted he wag the man, There wasn't enough time to really get his story." No visitors are allowed. .in the room
| It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Jan. 16—Even O. Henry, 1 think, would have liked this little story of the priest and the man who burst into the rectory with a revolver. Did you ever hear it? Well, we were sitting around the Algonquin Round Table when somebodv mentioned a priest. That started it. “That reminds me,” said Harry Hershfield, the great story-teller, beginning to chuckle softly, “of a true story told me by Father Martin Fahy . © years ago. “You see’'—Harry's voice rose with excitement -“‘the first day he was ordained, this man with the gun rushed up to his door .., ."” Let me explain this wasn't at the old, old Round Table made famous by Alexander Woollcott, Dorothy Parker and Franklin P. Adams.
This little luncheon group includes Atty, Louis Nizer, Atty, Austin Keho, Author. Konrad Brencovici, Publisher Jack Alicoate, Columnist Frank Kingdon, Broker Elmer Leterman, movie publisher Martin Quigley—and even Algonquin owner Ben Bodne,
“We let Bodne sit with us hecause then ‘we get bigger portions, but we don’t let him tell stories,” the others say good-humoredly. But to pick up the story of the priest—and let me sav I asked ona priest and one bishop ahout it later, They both approved it and. said to print it. & SB “FATHER FAHY,” continued Hershfield, “told ft on himself. He heard the doorbell ring and started downstairs to open it. Just then he saw the man come right in—with this revolver in his hand. “Father Fahy hesitated on the stairs. “He figured this might be some fanatic who wanted to kill him! He'd never seen the man. “But Father Fahy didn’t retreat! This was his first day as a priest, and his first crisis as such. He would go downstairs and confront the man and the gun head-on. e “Down he went. The man’s eyes were burning with excitement, “Father Fahy tried not to look at the gun. That was hard, for he just realized there was no one else in the house. “Walking straight up to the man brandishing the revelver, Father Fahy said, ‘Hello’ “The man didn't put the gun away. Instead he pushed it right at Father Fahy, and said, ‘Father, I wonder if you would bless this revolver
for me that I may use it only in the cause of-
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‘Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Jan. 16--The workings of the executive mind are wondrous indeed to the man who knows only what he sees in the papers. So T suppose there is some dark logic behind Mr. Triiman’s nomination of Att, Gen. Howard MecGrath to clean up government corruption, as per recent promise, This is the classic case of sending the mouse to bell the cat, or of nominating = the prisoner to try the judge. It seems only yesterday-—and it was, b'gosh-—that Mr, Truman was remaining glumly silent when the boys were asking him if he was going to kick McGrath out of office. The guess was good that Harry was either going to invite him to quit or bounce him with the boot. It also seems only yesterday that Harry was trying to hire Judge Tom Murphy, as Chief White Wing in charge of governmental stable-sweeping with Mr. McGrath's Department of Justice as one of the likely stables. Looked as if Big Murph was going to take it, too, but something slipped and he reared, balked, and backed up. This left Harry with nothing much in the way of a Hercules to wield the mop. oN
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BUT IT IS a peculiar switch; in an election year, for Harry to perform such a heedless, politically dumb deed as appointing .the head of a suspect agency to play Snow White after wave on cresty wave of scented scandal. Even a minor ward heeler, it: seems to me, would have made a great show of housecleaning in order to soothe the screamers. Our Mr. Truman has maintained a reputation as a practical pqlitician, with an ability fo act for the best general interests of his party at, sometimes, the expense of the state. The retenHon of Mr. McGrath, despite the pungent odors ‘n and around his department, strikes more as semisentle loyalty than as gem-hard Hozitical
do Tr. de ; AS A CASUAL onlooker at the ship of state, I am beginning to wonder more and more if Uncle Harry has not been overrated as-a smart politician, and underrated as a mere machine
about. since Stu Symington decided to. Tot. he RFC, and Clark Clifford gave up the President's pink ear for private industry.
The last year’ or =o’ has been ciammed - ‘the’
with’ presidential gaucheries, including . Suse dismissal of Gen. MacArthur as he’ d 1 fire n office Sok the assorted. ‘met-tos. with th
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during rojl call. He said ft ‘would he over#n- 10 minutes In the meantime. I went to see Chief Ambuhl, He was delighted that one of his rookie policemen: had conducted himself courageously. Bush donned hig uniform last Novy. 15. Ten minutes later IT went pack to the roll el room. Officer Bush was gone and the room was empty, A couple of officers didn't recognize the name. One said he left on his beat. » Back I went to the Chief. What kind of a guy- was. this Bush? Could he get. him to the station so a man could talk to him?
“Be herd at 2 this afternoon. Bush will be here,” gaid Chief Ambuhl At 2 p. m., Officer Bush was seated in front
office. Questions were fired at
him. Well, he thought I was through with him in the morning. Besides, ‘he had a call box to hit,
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“1 JUST DID what anyone else would do, said Officer Bush. ‘I just saw two kids in danger and moved. It's everybody's responsibility to take care of kids. Especially when ybu don’t have any of vour own.” Officer Bush, after careful his story. The trollev he wis oy was being held Ip ‘by a streetcar. He glanced¥out the window and saw tHe kids. He was in the middle of the trolley. He remembers saying ‘Excuse me,’ a couple of times before getting out. “Did vou look both ways before you crossed the street?” ‘Nope. I was after those kids.” (Mr. McConnel said, “I don't know how in the world he got
questioning, told
through to those kids.”)
“Why didn't you say something te someone”
“I don’t know. I didn’t think it was important.” We received permission from Chief Ambuhl to visit Mrs. Main. She thought it was important
and was very happy to meet Officer Bush. And «vou should have seen his eves when he saw curley-headed Diana in Mrs, Main's arms. Officer Bush was uncomfortable. I know. but I didn’t give a hoot. We had completed the story ‘qf a fine deed. Later, I asked. “You had to wait: for another trolley, didn't vou?” “T didn’t mind.” Officer John A. Bush, step.up and take a salute from Indianapolis. And stop fidgeting,
man.
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justice, I was admitted to the Police Dept. today." 3 THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Mayor Impellit-
teri confided: “Frank Sampson stays as long as I do!” stay in office. ... We saw Phil Baker at the Colony bar on our 16th wedding anniversary. Said he: "Wanta try foi 327” Maharanee Nancy Valentine — back .from India — has one aim: “To get a job.” Any offers? . Bernard Baruch, 306 W. 92d St., got about 100 calls from folks who thought he was Winston Churchilll's Rost The 55-year-old Ph. D., who's “no relation’ ‘said only ONE apologized for. calling a wrong number. He's never met Bernard M. Baruch. . ... The handsome young guy in an Air Force uniform with Miriam Hopkins is—her son, .. . Billy Rose and Joyce Matthews looked cozy in. a very swank restaurant that not many reporters visit. . + Comedian Harvey Stone suffered a collapse in Hollywood. Condition
Miss Valentine
‘reported not good. ¢
Frank Sinatra may return to the Paramount personally with his pic, “Meet Danny Wilson.” . Winston Churchill's staff put up at the Sulgrave to be near the Boss. ... Walter Shirley, the Mayor's pal, bought a $100,000 Palm Beach home --a showplace. . . . Rudolph Halley will do some more TV. ... Doris Duke's letting it be known she doesn't want to be linked with any cheap jazz joints. ... El Morocco duet: John Roosevelt and Dusty Miller. !
. Sen TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Sam Levenson tells
of the disconsolate widow whose husband left her $40,000 insurance. ‘So what?” she said. “I'd give back half of the insurance to have him back again.”
WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Caviar has gone up —in Russia even the fish are afraid to open their mouths’’—Hal Fimberg.
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OF AN AGING ROMEO, no longer what he used to be, Ronald Rogers said, “His eves are on “their last legs.” , , » That's Earl, brother,
Strange Things Going
- On in High Places
now, instead of a smooth ignoring job, when it was practically an open secret that Ike might have had the Democratic nomination with Harry's approval, ‘is not the performance of a slick politician. Harry's hurried departure from vacation in Florida to look at “world affairs,” but really to check on who was stealing what In his own concern, was not a veéry-suave operation,. either, HARRY'S message to the Congress the other day didn't tell me a great deal over 1951's spirited speech; the ring. of conviction had a downright tinny sound. His passionate declaration of intent to swamp up his own galley sounds considerably like hollering into a rain barrel as of today, with
his bouncing boy McGrath now wearing the sheriff's star and an expression like J. Edgar Hoover.
Possibly, it is dN part of a scheme to ride differently into the ¥lections, with Mr. McGrath wearing a mink toga to go with his jousting lance against the evil windmills, and the gallant Gen. Vaughan peering through the deep-freeze doors he wears in lieu of vizor. Having given ‘em hell in the last campaign, maybe Harry reckons to slide into this one on belly laughs alone. 5 I give up, myself. The Whole procedure down there in Truman’s Alley see more like a skit from Allen's Alley, with emp €18“on the ancient Sen. Claghorn, and it will not surprise me a whit if the kitchen cabinet winds up whacking each other with bladders. Even so early in 1952, we hid fair to revive burlesque, lacking only the reappearance of Henry Wallace to make it
Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
QT have been advised to plant acanthopanax sieboldianus under shades trees. I have been further advised this shrub will endure the conditions found under Shade trees. However, I am
Read Marguerite Smith’ s Garden Colum in The Sunday Times
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unable to find this scientifit ‘name in nursery
‘catalogues, Please give me the common name. John 8. Rober, 228 E, 13th St;
A-—This shrub with the terrible name is fairly
ommon around o nde I
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handle. That is fiveleaf ‘aralia, You might find it in catalogues (though it's also available locally) under another.of its names—aralia pentaphyllum,
which is just a hard Latin way of saying aralia.
fiveleaf. . Gardeners looking for a practically. faultless’ landscape plant can get acquainted with
“this one by inspecting it. in the planting around te a eo a ues : red by drought, dust, sm or shade, Even insect hei
its many Pests seem to keep away
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WEDNESD AY: J A NUARY
TEMPORARY REPAIRS—Lt. George A. Abbott Jr.
sing, Mich., has his blisters bandaged in the cold.
By IST LT.
BOB GRAY,
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Written for The Times
* PICKEL MEADOWS, Cal,
you've got to fight.”
Jan. 16—"Cold or not,
That might well be the philosophy behind the new Marine Corps Cold Weather Training Course here—a spot
6800 feet up in the high Sierras where the snow is often hipdeep and the mercury plunges to 25 below. & A steady stream qf Far East replacements have been learning the deep-frozen art of winter warfare at Pickel Meadows since last September. To. many of them the six-day course is now proving to be a life insurance policy in Korea. It's a course that ranks with anything the Marine Corps has ever conceived for being rugged and exhausting. For six days and nights, the Leathernecks w#de through snow, sleep in poncho-covered snow huts, and live on C-rations at altitudes where you gasp for breath and wonder if the next step you take will be your last,
n n . “WE WILL get you just as close to exhaustion as we can,”
the camp's executive officer, Maj. William J. Stewart, told one group of trainees. He made
it clear that Pickel Meadows is not just another obstacle course;
it's the “final exam” for Korea or any other frigid spot in which Marines may have to
fight. And the course is ideally located. The sharp high ridges, the altitude, temperature - and
snow make it a dead ringer for much of North Korea. n » u ~~ LOCATED north of Yosemite National Park, the training site was selected last fall by experts from Brig. Gen. Merrill B. Twining’'s Training and Replacement Command at Camp Pendleton,
Here's what happens to =a trainee while he's there: He'll get off the chartered
bus after a 12-hour ride from Camp Pendleton and right away he'll start putting on some of the cold weather clothing he'll have been issued. % n un n first two days are funVeterans of Kohim how to conto be deliber-
THE damentals. rea will teil serve his energy, ate in moving about, and that being too hot, not too cold; is his biggest headache in intense cold. ¢ His feet will require extra care if he is to carry his 75 pounds of clothing and equipment through the 15-mile course, He'll start on that problem after he's learned to cook his rations in the snow, build a lean-to or. makeshift snow “igloo” and take care of his weapons at subzero temperatures. 2
This Will Kill You—
Alcohol Is Fine—If You Want A Rubdown
CHAPTER THREE | By CHARLES FURCOLOWE
Last night at twelve | felt immense, But now | feel like thirty cents.—George Ade (The Sultan of Sulu).
NEARLY TWO out of every three adult Americans are reported to drink alcoholic beverages in some form or
other. .
You'd think this tremendous flow of fluids. down the
human gullet would be enough to cause the WCTU and the Temperance League to drape crepe over every branch office in the country. But evidently the teetotalers find consolation in the kids and the approximately 35 per cent of the grownups who.indulge in no imbibing whatever. If you're in this group, don't
bother finishing this chapter. If you're an alcoholic, you can
also skip it. Better still, skip éver to your doctor's. The fact is, of .course, that
about the only time alcohol will do your body any good is when you use it for a rubdown. Taking it internally may be fun, and—sensibly used—won't do. you any damage but it can't do you much good, either,
The Case for And Against Alcohol
Like so many subjects about which people hold strong convietions, alcohol has spawned a variety of opinions concerning its use and effects. Here's a true-and-false breakdown of some of the more common beliefs. How many can you hit correctly? ONE: “Excessive use cohol will ‘inevitably cirrhosis of the liver.” False. Many doctors doubt whether there's any relation at all hetween this ailment and alindulgence. Others think there is. At any rate, it is certain that most chronic alcoholics do not suffer from it. On
of alproduce
the other hand, -many non- . drinkers do. TWO: “Alcohol is’ good for.
snake-bite.”
False. This used to be a wonderful excuse for keeping a bottle In the medicine cabinet. But” the only way whisky or any other intoxicant will -protect you against snakes is to give it to the® snakes. Paur
some down. their throats when .you see them next time you have the D.T.'s.
: vill helj cure a cold.” es False. This has having a bottle “around the house, If that's the only way you can get away with'taking n occasional snort, O.K. But ‘don’t ‘expect the stuff to. 7 vent-or eur a cold, .. : thera
replaced . snake-bite. as an excuse for
These articles give you aecurate instructions for making a short-cut to the graveyard. They also explain how to postpone your funeral indefinitely —and have fun doing it, Your various habits—good and bad—are with rare wit and humor. These installments were prepared under the supervision of a distinguished physician. They "are taken from the book, THIS WILL KILL YOU, just published by B. C. Forbes & Sons.
believe it will help, take an oeccasional shot. You may think you're feeling better, which in ‘“furn may help- you really to feel better. FOUR: “Alcohol is helpful in cases of shock.” False. Let's hope this .prevents at least a few wellmeaning souls from forcing brandy down the throats of people in shock, It doesn’t help them —it's more likely to drown them.
Alcohol or Not, You Ought to Eat
FIVE: “Alcohol is -rich™ in calories.” True. An ounce of alcohol
contains almost twice as many calories as an ounce of carhohydrates. But don't think this means “that you can stay healthy by drinking instead of
eating. Alcohol has calories, but it doesn’t have any vitamins. SIX: “Mixing your drinks
tends to make you get drunk quicker.” False. You're more liable to get sick before you get drunk,
*but you probably won't even .
get sick if you don't expect to
be (not any sooner than you usually do, . anyway). This don’t-mix-your-drinks business
is a hard notion to down, which seems a bit strangé in view of the fact that many of the most popular. hard drinks—Manhattans, Martinis, Side Cars, etc, -—-are themselves mixtures.
empty stomach is more .intoxieating than drinking on a full one.”
True. “The hes t: though, is not to drink on your stomach at all, Better sit: down iA a chair... - . .- EIGHT: ‘envy drinking is
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"INTO .THE COLD BLUE YONDER—A long line of U. S. Marines trudging through the snow of Pickel Medows, Cal. This is part of a final exam for Korea or any other frigid battleground.
TRICKY BUSINESS—Marines learn how to use rope bridges
to cross icy streams. They'll find "em like this in Korea.
Then he's ready for the four-day “war.” Organized into companies and platoons, the
trainees head up.into the mountains for battle with the ‘“Aggressors” permanentlystationed, white-clad Marines. Usually the man doesn't go far hefore he's deploying after the blank-firing Aggressor mae chine guns or cooking his frozen chow in a blizzard or standing security watch at night when
it's 20 below. The Aggressors pride themselves on the number of trigger housing groups they
can take from a bivouac ares . by infiltration. Aggressor Lt, R. M. Johnson
once told a tired and bearded trainee audience: "It's heen our job here to make your lives miserable. If you got good and mad and tried to wipe us out, we've accomplished our miasion.”
Bert Kirchheimer,
This business of mixing your drinks.
False. Hard liquor has nothing to do with hard arteries, NINE: the more you are able to drink
“The more you drink,
without feeling it.”
Falso, If two cocktails made
vou tipsy when vou first started tippling back in your’ days the same amount have the ame effect today. The reason that it doesn't
callow will
seem that way is simply because
- you know how to harffile it bet-
ter, and you keep a little tighter grip on yourself than the amateur imbibher, But there isn't any appreciable difference in its physiological effect,
TEN: “Drinking may affect your judgment.” True. Even relatively small
quantities can blunt your eriti-
life . almost ‘replacemen
finally ‘snowballs at
To do his job, Lt. Johnson calle on his own experience in setting up tactical situations, On one occasion the trainees
from three direcriver crossing. Tha situation are almost éxactly the same as tha winter day in 1950 when Lt. Johnson's platoon was hit hy the Communists at Yudam-Ni in North Korea. Occasionally, and terrain
are fired on tions at a terrain and
when weather combine to make unbearable for the groups, Lt. Johnson's men will find trainees failing to respond when the Aggressors attack. After ons hard blizzard, the Aggressors resorted to throwing the trainees’ scouting elements. In a matter of minutes the worn-out but infuriated troops were attacks ing vigorously.
” ” » . WHEN their four-day war is
over, the trainee groups return to the point where they began. They're given a critique on their performance, they get their first A-ration hot chow in four days, ‘and then they go back to Camp Pendleton. Every man in every group will tell you he's never heen so tired in his “life, But he's also gained the knowledge that he can take care of himself when the bottom drops out of the thermometer and he'll know how to handle himself when a real enemy starts squeezing off live rounds from some foreign picture-postcard hillside.
cal capacities a bit. This is one reason why it isn’t wise to drive voir car after a bout with Bacchus. You can’t stop it so quicks ly, either, since drinking makes your reactions slower,
ELEVEN: “Alcohol will give
‘you ulcers.”
False. At least there has never been any satisfactory evidence of it. The reason for the belief is probably the fact that many ulcer sufferers also tend to be drinkers. There isn’t neeessarily any cause and effect relation involved,
TWELVE: “Continued and excessive drinking will eventually make you feeble-minded.”
False. A lot or people still believe this, though no one has been able to prove it. There doesn’t seem to be much likeli« hood of your becoming weakminded from drinking too much, But if you're weak-minded in the first place, you may very well drink too much in the second place—or in any other place where you can get it.
Learn When To Say When
That about sums up the case for and against alcohol, Not that it will make much difference to most of you. If you like to drink; you will. If you don't, you won't, And anything said here isn’t likely to influence you greatly one way or the other. At any rate, there is really only one important thing to learn on the subject, which is: “when.” In general. gav {t a little sooner than you think you, heed to, . . .
NEXT: A hearty horse laugh at the food fanatics.
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