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Ins ide Indianapolis . By Ed Sovola

THIRTY-NINE years ago a 19- year -old Louis--“ville youth boarded a train to see the world, His

‘first. stop was Indianapolis. Henry: Stormer is till here, . Thirty-nine years ago Henry Stormer an-

swered an ad in a lecal paper for a bug hoy at the P, Merkle & Sons Restaurant at the Union Station, It's Tendrick’s Restaurant now and

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Here's An Employee

a Happy With Mis Job

Oldtimers ‘may remember when the Dairy Lunch was in the Union Station.” At odd moments Henry flirted with oné of the eashiers who worked for a competitor. She became Mrs. Stormer." Henry's wanderlust went down another notch, . ; He remembers what he and his did on their first date. They went to see

future wile “Uncle

Tom's Cabin” at the theater which occupied the Henry went up a notch, he's same location Indiana Theater doés today. Bea waiter. fore my time. ‘ Nothing bothers Henry very | So. . The fact that he always ; : a and didn't is gm HENRY HAS served notables such as John

a circumstance that — worthy of a mention. And when he left Louisville, Henry was determined to get.a job that would keep him outdoors. Fen1rick's isn't a drive-in. ii | Talking to him made me a ' rifle nervous. Henry won't sit down. He even ‘ats his lunch standing up. It’s something hé earned a long time ago when a waiter helped 1 customer with his hat and coat and wouldn't

werve a man in shirt sleeves and asked men to cmove .their hats at the table, In other words the good ol’ days.

HENRY STOOD while 1 sipped coffee and istened to one of those rare individuals who is rerfectly happy with his job. After five years 13 a bus boy he became a waiter and he says ne’ll remain a waiter until he’s ‘fired -or retires. The reason Henry stopped off in Indianapolis ‘hat memorable Christmas eve 39 years ago was that he was hungry and the money in_his pocket made a faint noise. Copper doesn’t ring. It was a day Henry will remember. He wasn’t dressed in the fanciest of traveling clothes but what he had was dear td his back. When the head waiter told Henry if he wanted the bus boy's job he'd have to cut off his cuffs, Henry almost walked away. The odor of food wa strong, however, and the cuffs came off. hungry lad can't eat cuffs. THOSE WERE rugged days. Henry had on white detachable collar that saw a lot of servic Every evening he would wash -it .and wrap th collar around a light bulb to dry. “You would be surprised how nice it looked." sald ‘Henry. “Ever do anything like that?” “Never wrapped collars.» Bacon strips work pretty well.” Henry hadn't tried bacon. We were even,

It Happened Last Night

‘By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Jan. 24—This ix one .of those Hollywood stories you hear on Broadway, and you're afraid it’s not true; but you like the story, $0 you print it without asking anyhody about it. . It seems that thére was a men’s room attendant at Dave Chasen's famous restaurant who was very efficient. So one day he told the boss he had washed the ‘walls of the men’s room very thoroughly because some convivial customer had been drawing pictures on them. ; “He had the whole wall covered,” the men's “I told him that stuff didn’t go in a nice place like this.” “Oh, my God,” wailed Mr. Chasen. “That was a mural, and the customer was the famous James Thurber.” Inasmuch as Mr, Thurber is the dafling of the great state of Ohio, where I come from, I think I can say he'd probably agree with the men's room attendant. Twenty years ago when I was a student at Ohio State, he told us, on a return trip there, that he had done his first drawings on scrap paper and taken them to the publisher of his first book. “Tell me,” the publisher said, zled, “are these drawings funny?” “We think they are,” said Mr. Thurber and his collaborator, E. B. White (as I remember the story 20 years later). “All right,” said the publisher, doubtfully, and published them, still doubtfully, and thus Mr. Thurber’'s art was born, and saved from men’s room walls, dq eB PERSONALLY, we're staying out of politics, but we enjoy the Republican skirmishing. The Wayne Independent of Honesdale, Pa. says: “Taft's followers call him ‘Mr. Republican,’ but we think the voters think of Eisenhower as ‘Mr. America’."

somewhat puz-

"JULES STEIN is “Mr. Show Business,” practically, and when his Music Corp. of America gave a party, his employees hustled around pointing to the exquisite furniture, saying, ‘Mr. Stein picked out this chair, Mr. Stein picked. out this table, etc.” At last Mr. Stein met Mrs. Oliver Sterling, a socialite, not “hep” on show business. Her greeting to the man who holds the fate of so many stars was: “Oh, Mr. Stein, are you an interior decorator?” : oe o o> “HOLLYWOOD—The Joe Pasternaks are divorcing.” He's the Hungarian-born MGM pro-

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Jan. 24—There is something electric in Miss Martha Rountree’s TV needle session, “Meet the Press,” that invariably rouses

the beast in the most sedate politico. And so at least a small portion of the nation was delighted to see Bob Taft appear a touch snappish in his appreciation of the possible candidacy of Ike Eisenhower, Sen. Taft's background has been largely unruffied, and [ke .to date has been a plaster mage of probity and decorum. o oo ~ IT WASN'T much, and vasn't snide, but Sen. Taft was pretty sharp about the Gen. Kisenhower forces’ “crying to high heaven” because of the Senator’s recent announcement ” that he had the Republican nomination cinched. Brother remark: wryly that he himself had been subject to vhispering charge that he couldn’t beat a Dem rat for the top job this fall. Me, I like to see the boys testy, and growl ing a little bit among themselves. I hope the) vell and whoop and heave a spittoon or two before the electioneering’s done. And I hope ien. Eisenhower shucks his miliary armor retty soon so he can hqller a little. 0 o oo

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THE CHIEF FLAW in the Eisenhower pros ect is a record of polite aloofness from the qualls of politicking. We only .just found out the other day that he was a Republican. Some of us would like to see how he shapes when he gets mad and speaks his mind. The Republican Party, since the first election of Franklin D. Roosevelt, has either cowered in

Taft

‘dark defeatism or refused to lower itself to com-

mon. combat. No more pérfect gentlemen, for the record, ever existed than Thomas, E, Dewey, ind precious little it bought him or the party. Mr. Dewey sailed smugly into the last affray, his hair slicked down and his buster brown collar speekless. He did not deign to flop down and rassle in the dirt with Harry, because everybody sald that Harry was a-stiff and Mr. Dewey, as the unanimous peepul’s choice on the Republican side, was a cinch to belt Mr. Truman out of the ring in the first heat. Using knees, elbows and feet, Mr. Truman took the issue to the people, over his own party’s lack of confidence, and severely rumpled Gov. Dewey's Fauntleroy suit - the final returns.

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t WHAT the Republicans forgot then, and d might

forget "again, is- that America is not entirely populated by fine ladies and-elegant gentlemen who think clearly and calculate coldly. There is, ammunition and to spare to heaye at the Demo-

- crats, this trip, but so there was-on the last one.

L. Léwis who never talked much. Babe Ruth was always loud and always had ham and eggs. Spike Jones usually caused a commotion. He also mentioned as customers the late Wendell Willkie, Ed (Strangler) Lewis, Sonja Heinie, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, Tom Taggart, who owned a hunk of real estate known as French Lick, and Fatty Arbuckle.

“Everything is’ too fast now and’ the bill of fare has-changed,” Henry said. “Now it's rush, rush. For breakfast we served steaks and fish. You didn't have orange juice and toast and coffee.”

1 asked him if he ever felt like flinging a dish of hash browns at the cook and taking off for parts unknown. Henry said “1 stick wherever 1 go

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HE'S BEEN to Chicago and Cincinnati. “he extent of his travels. At one time “idered visiting.a brother in Portland. hadn't seen his brother in 31 years. Henry didn't 70 out. His brother is dead now and Henry doubts vhether he'll ever get out there. During the winter months Henry usually goes ‘0 bed about 6 p. m. The Louisville 4 a. m. train vakes him up. He loves trains. When the train whistle dies away, Henry begins his routine which will get him to work at 6 a. m. Seven is his :tarting time but he likes to report early and ot rush. In the summer, Henry enjoys sitting on his ront porch until about 8 p. m. The Louisville rain gets him up just the same. “Didn't you ever think of having a fling. goir, omewhere, doing something exciting?” I asked Are you happy?” “Can’t say I ain't happy.” a I would say Henry Stormer is an unusual employee and at the rate he's burning the candle he should he around Fendrick's. for another 39 years. And still happy..

Thurber's Mural Not Appreciated

ducer; she's former lancer Dorothy Darrell whom he met at Leon & Eddie's. A week ago they had a celebration—their 10th wedding anniversary. MIDNIGHT EARL . .. Frank Costello'll be a! 1 “psychological disadvantage” in his retrial because of the big vote for conviction, thinks (or anyway, hopes) U. S. Atty. Myles Lane

Hollywood's Kay Buckley . marries agent Milton °

Pickman in a trice . . . Jane Powell wants $9000-a-wk. to go into the Copa. (What, no cabfare?) . The gent helping Doris Duke celebrate her appendectomy is Johnny Gomez, mgr. of her Hongluti Shangri-la who says her Somerville,

N. J., estate is even Dukier.

NEW YORK VISITOR Winston Churchill saw dtr. Sarah on TV Sunday on her own show. Naturally, his comments are off the record, but we hear, confidentially and subrosa, he thought his dtr. looked real nice . . . Billy Rose and Joyce Mathews sure looked romantic in the spaghetti at Mercutio’s . . . Farmer Louis Bromfield's going to S. America. It's the only place he ain't been . . .

On the air last week, Lon Chaney Jr. shouted, “Open the G—— D—— door!” Poor guy,

he thought it was only a rehearsal . . . Valerie Noble is the featured singer at Leon & Eddie’s

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WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Taffy Tuttle knew the importance of punctuation when she was a stenographer. She always got to work on time.” —Robert Alda. Satira (remember?) is rehearsing an acrobatic act with two men , . . Lisa Kirk was offered a Dan Dailey film at Universal The Saints & Sinners will “go easy” on Bob

Valerie Noble

Taft when he's their Fall Guy Friday. (No “physical humor”) , . . Aren't the Jackie Robinson's expecting, too? Daily Doubles: Ted Briskin and Joan Crawford (the model); Orrin Lehman and actress Drew Mallory, Ruth Lehman and Chuck Bowey .,. That's

Earl, brother.

Ruark Wants to Hear Some Yellin’ From GOP

We must still remember that the American voting public chews gum and chaws tobacker. Ii loves a cat fight and it loves a dogfight and it loves a fist fight. It drinks beer and watches soap operas and leers at Dagmar and bets on hoss races and shoots crap and has dirty fingernails and drinks licker and cusses and watches rasslin’ on the TV,

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IT GOES TO church-and pays taxes and sends ts children to school, too, but it has a woefully hort memory fer facts and a long leash on motion, It cries easy and believes what it hears rom the last man to say it. It sometimes buys ‘loudness of voice over logic, and it admires the Juke box more than the Philharmonic. The Republican Party in recent years seemed awfully aloof and primly starched, in its eat blue roundabout and sincere shoes. It has reminded me more of the nasty medicine that is ood for you than the gsudy soda fountain oneoction that renders up the bellyache. It can tand some humanizing, and there is no great umanizer than a hvely squabble.

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THE PRESIDENCY is a ‘big job, alwa) nd could likely be perched on its most importan vear of decision in 1952, I would admire to se the boys on both sides of the fence kick an claw some for the nomination, And if a purse-lipped, fine-haired dude should suggest that a mite of brawling is undignified and unworthy of the candidates. just remember who got in the last time, and how he got there.

Dishing the Dirt Ry Marguerite Smith

‘Q.—Will you please suggest a few flowers not too hard for a beginner to raise? N. A. I. A.—Start out with annuals. You'll get enough confidence from easy-to-raise kinds to tacklé more difficult sorts and even some perennials from seed by the following season. About the easiésf~ are zinnias and marigolds. They're to be had in such great variety you could have a lively garden with only these two kinds of flowers. Marigolds especially will be good- looking all Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

summer long. Zinnias may mildew and get ragged around the edges by early fall. ‘Especially. if - they're planted too close together. So it’s wise to plant part of your seed in late April. part in late May. ‘Pefunias are ‘among the most satisfactory flowers for all-season bloom. But you'll be wise to buy plants. Petunia seed can give an inexperienced ‘gardener a hard time. Other

Tom . Dewey didn't fight and he didn't spellbind "ahnuals to try—candytult, alyssum, portulaca,

and he didn't promise. Harry performed all three sail chores and scooped up the marbles. i

California poppies, annual : pinks, nasturtivms, spider plantto mention Just afew. °

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‘WE -RUSSIANS CAN'T BE TRUSTED’

Why Did Litvinov Risk His Life?

By RICHARD C. HOTTELET

WHY did Maxim Litvinov take his life in his hands to warn the West

against Stalin's policy that Russia couldn't be trusted? ~ He knew the risk he was run

ning. If the facts were pub lished while he lived they would be his death warrant.

If they were made ‘knowh after he died, he would be cursed in Soviet history as the renegade who betrayed the Kremlin’ pfans. My only conclusion is this Maxim Litvinov, old Bolsh vik, ambassador, foreign mini ter and history maker “for thi Soviet Union finally turned hi back on his party and on th: loyalties of a lifetime. Only . Litvinov could hay given a full explanation for the strange interview he gave.me in 1946, which I have recounted in previous chapters. But hi

* life ‘and the interview itself sug

i CLASSIFICATION. TEST—Keith F. Extell Sr.; Jodi Gi Swem Sr. and. Mr. Hesisldon: will be rated on n fob skill and Yochwigues, °

gest a personal tragedy mate ing the scale of his decision The first solid clue came tw months later. On Aug. 23, 1944 Pravda printed a brief notice in small type on its back page to the effect that Maxim Litvinov had been relieved of his post as deputy foreign minister, that Feodor Gusev and Jakob Malik had been promoted to that rank. ~ = 2 THERE was nothing more, 11¢ went into oblivion without a kind word. He would not have expected (one. It iz probable that I happened to come into his office just after he had received the first notice or a reliable warning of his dismissal. His posture, half bent over the desk, the quick shuflfling of papers and his heavy breathing indicated nervousness and emotion. The closed windows and the bright fire in the fireplace as 1 walked into the room on that blistering hot day should have told me that private papers were hurriedly being burned. . The resigned certainty in his manner when he assured me that he would have no influence on foreign policy, and the vehemence with which he described himself as a private citizen when I left reasonably suggested that he knew his career had just come to an end. But these ‘external details leave much unexplained. I was a complete stranger to ‘Litvinov. We had no mutual friends. To be sure, I was correspondent of the Columbia Broadcasting System. But for all he knew I might have been working for the secret police, or been a fellow traveller who would hear his story coldly and spread it with astonishment. Barring these hazards I could have been indiscreet. The consequences for him would have been no less fatal. Even more to the point, Litvinov never lowered his voice during our conversation. x ” » HE MUST have been at least as mindful as I that Moscow

LOCAL RESERVE—

UTILIZATION of an individual’s civilian job knowledge and training in classifying men for ratings in the post-war Naval Reserve is the goal of local units of the Organized Reserve which meets three nights each week a% the Naval Armory, 30th St. and White. River. Operating on the theory that

every man's individual skills will ‘be put to the test almost mmediately in case of mobili-

zation, the Naval Reserve has idopted a classification proqram designed to convert men from civilian jobs to Navy ratings_ with the least amount of change and loss of techliques. Immediately. upon enlistment n the Qrganized Naval Reserve ‘ach man is put through a proJram of testing and interviewng designed to produce information on his special talents ind. ability to learn. Test scores and interviews inform training officers as to the best type of instruction to give the individual,

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a milk and water idealist was a rough and tumble who preferred results

ing an astonishing interview to pretty formulas. But all his between Maxim Litvinov, for- life he had in his fashion served mer Soviet foreign minister one broad ideal. He had beand Richard _ C.. Hottelet, lieved in the revolution as (he Moscow correspondent for painful birth of a better life Columbia Broadcasting Sys” y a = tem, : AFTER 1930, as People's Today's chapter gives Mr. : : 4 Hottelet’s opinion as to why, Commissar for Foreign Affairs, in 1946, Litvinov suddenly de- Maxim Litvinov left his im-

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signed nonaggression pacts

with every one of Russia's European and Asiatic neighbors

Jan. 2. except Japan and paved the way for mutual assistance treaties with France and Czechoslowalls have ears. As it turned vakia. out he was quite safe, but the risk he took Fangs enormous. He He had for years been deaccepted it calmly and with manding world disarmament. dignity. , Neither Litvinov nor his This was probably Litvinov’s government h a d sprouted last chance to be hedrd. My ap- halos in those years. Their pointment with him had been foreign policy was hard nemade before his dismissal ‘as cessity. The Comintern had deputy foreign minister, He was been unable to provoke world not likely ever again to have revolution. Internally the rea long conversation with a ‘Rime staggered from one Westerner, and he was de- crisis to another. termined to be heard. The struggle for succession, Several times during that the Five Year Plan, collectivihour, at pauses in the discus-, zation of agriculture, famine sion, I half rose to go. But if and the purges of the thirties I misjudged this unique oppor- kept the country in bloody contunity in my desire not to vulsions. overdo a good thing, Litvinov he Soviet regime desper-

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ing spell Stalin felt vigorous enough to dismiss Litvinov. n ” ” MOLOTOV took over and the policy of collective secugity gave way to the Stalin-Hitler alliance and the taciic of turning Russia's capitalist enemies of all complexions against each other, : *When Hitler invaded Russia in June, 1941, Litvinov was swiftly brought back to favor. In November he became Ambassador to Washington and for the next two years he was doing business in his own specialty, While Russia rocked under Hitler's blows and the Germans drove to the Volga and the Caucasus, Litvinov pleaded the cause of the democratic coalition and urged increased assistance to Russia in the common -struggle. There is no doubt in my mind Litvinov was sincere. But Stalin was not. The tide of war in Russia began to turn at Stalingrad in the winter of 1942. Stalin waited cautiously to see

how much bite Hitler had left for the summer offensive. In July the Germans’ maximum

effort against the Kursk salient failed to dent the Soviet armies. Stalin once again felt vigorous. In August, 1943, he recalled Litvinov. - This time a more decent obscurity awaitéd the old campaigner. He was kicked upstairs to become Deputy Foreign Minister under Molotov. He had nothing to do and no voice in policy. n ” ” BUT HE knew that as long as he was in office he was avail-

ably in Stalin's too,

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able for use again if the Soviet line should-change. He had become in his own mind, as proband in the world’s, the symbol of Soviet willingness to live with the west on a reasonable, tolerant basis. In February, 1946, Stalin had announced several more Five Year Plans. They meant no_conversion to peace production despite * the abject misery of the Russian people. Instead, all energy was concentrated on heavy industry and war production. The evidence suggests that on June 18 Litvinov was dismissed for good. He must have known then that he would nev-_ er be called : “in, Stalin would have no further use for someone who genuinely believed the USSR could live with the Wéstern world. Litvinov's hopes of a better life had been destroyed by the regime he had helped create and strengthen. His spirit had been killed by the Kremlin. " n on HE WAS fully prepared to risk physical death to send the world an urgent warning. He still wore no halo, had by no means been converted te Western democracy. It was in all likelihood his sheer humanity which moved him to cry out in alarm against the Soviet machine's design to dominate the globe. I believe he had the satisfaction of knowing, before he died, that the West no longer trusted the Kremlin.

NEXT: The effect of the Lit vinov interview on the American State Department.

Woman's-Eye-View of Korea

Navy Tests Seek Out Skills Children Learn About War the Hard Way

By GERALDINE FITCH Times ‘Special Writer PUSAN, Korea, Jan. 22. Some of the most. tragic vie‘ms of this war —Korean chil‘ren Wounded by American romBs-—are being treated board the famous Danish hos-

ital ship Jutlandta in Pusan arbor, Typical of the cases on a re-

ent visit to the Jutlandia was hat of 11-year-old Neuk-Hyun Chung, obviously a once pretty girl, A bomb fragment had ripped open the right side of her face from the corner of the mouth almost to the ear.

Because she was without medical attention for so long much of the damaged tissue

died. Even with the expert surgery the Danish staff provides,

the child will be horribly scarred the rest of her life vy ” ” OVER there under the port-

hole, his sightless eyes fixed on the ceiling, lies a boy of 12 named Yong-Phi Ha. Caught in a bombing at Seoul, his home he lost ore arm, injury to the other; was permanently blinded, and suffered horrible ‘mutilation of the face from bomb splinters. “* 8 n MOST PITIFUL of all, though, are the. fire (napalm) bomb victims, One of them is Yong-Nam Ham. He had no treatmeént at all for a long time after the fire bombs struck his village. Surgeons say it's a miracle he even lived. : But somehow he reached a ROK (Republic of Korea) hospital.- Danish medical men, on the search for cases the hospitals. canndt cope with, brought Yong-Nam to thé Jutlandia. 2-8 8 - several

AFTER operations

. Yong-Nam Ham: is able to close “his eyes again. When he came

to the Jutlandia, they were held constantly open by drawn scar tissue above and below the lids. Scar tissue under his chin

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His hands are scarred stumps, with protrusions (what remains

of his fingers) sticking out at _

odd angles. All the other Yong-Nam Ham's n the bombing. "” Fd » THE TRAGEDY of these children does not end with the fact’ that they have ‘been maimed for life. Where will they go and what will they do when they are discharged from the hospital, crippled and disfigured? Many of their families, like Yong-Nam Ham's have been killed. And in Korea the cripple who has no one to care for him has always been a begsar Finally, irony that

members of family died

there iz the terrible these children—and there are thousands of them besides those treated on the Jutlandia —were injured by the bombs of their protectors, the Americans. The military necessity of striking at villages and supply lines of military importance ia recognized. But also there remains to be recognized a heavy moral duty to aid as much as possible in the rehabilitation of the children>™ = a 5 a THE JUTLANDIA ‘is caring for the wounded soldiers of many nations, and thus cannot. take care of any appreciable number of civilians. The ROK hospitals are understaffed, overcrowded and often have inadequate equipment. The United. Nations Korean Reconstruction Administration has plans eventually to bring in technically-trained personnel to teach vocations to the disabled. The Red Cross in.the Scandi navian countries intends to establish at Taegu ‘a medical training institute for Korean

aefors and Mirses,.

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