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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

TVE asked mysélf 10,000 times whether 1 did’ right.” e John T. (Jack) Bevan, detective ‘sergeant in the ‘hotnigide division, glanced toward the hos-

“wpital room where John Jr. lay. We were seated

near the elevators on the third floor of General Hospital. ] 1 was going to comment on the remark.~_ Then I noticed Jack's eyes fill with tears. He had talked freely for.a quarter of an hour and suddenly there was silence, We gat without speaking. Perhaps you remember the shooting accident that occurred on the night of Feb. 9 when a detective sergeant’s 10-year-old son shot himself in* the leg with a 38-caliber service pistol. He thought he heard a prowler. His daddy and mother weren't home. Johnny was going to protect his grandparents. ode NOBODY KNOWS exactly what happened. The gun went off, the bullet tore through Johnny's leg. A week ago it was amputated above the Knee, The accident cian be explained as “one of those things that happen.” In your home, maybe. Not in the Bevan home where Johnny will be aoon, in bed some more, talking to chums who came over to see him on their bicycles, spending long hours thinking of summer. Thinking and wondering of the new life. Jack has been interested in guns for years. He collects guns and there is a room in the Bevan home set aside for the:collection. It was natural for Johnny to become jntensely interested in firearms. His dad, remembering a boy's natural bent for an exciting hobby, thought Johnny was more fortunate than he was. Johnny would have excellent training and guidance in the use of firearms, That's more than Jack had. “. G & THE RULES about firearms were inviolate. Johnny was never to touch a gun except in the presence of his father. Under no circumstances wae a gun to be removed from the displays. There was never a loaded gun in the Bevan home except when Jack came home. Then his service pistol was put away in a safe place until it was time to go to work. §

It Hap By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Feb, 29—My gal Taffy Tuttle, the blond with more men than mentality, had a snappy answer for a guy whe kept saying he'd die for her. “You keep saying that,” she pouted, “but you never do it.” Fred Allen outlined his contemplated TV giveaway show this way: “We're going to give away what money the tax guys haven't taken. So you ean see, the prizes will be negligible.” Sv bb »

WELL, I was pretty astonished, talking tn actress Gaby Andre, “the French Jane Russell.” when she charged that American wives are too strict with their husbands. “I think it’s better to be married to a nice man who cheats a little,” she. said, “than to be married to a man who doesn't cheat—but isn't hice.” i (Argue that one out, gis. Hetzing “The Green Glove.” * 4 e

GEORGE JEAN NATHAN, Ft. Wayne, Ind.'s ft to letters, who's just turned 70, was at the ‘olony, wining and dining Lillian Gish, Who's only 55. Cradle-snatcher. % <@ <«

HENRY MORGAN will probably m.c. show made up of a panel of real hoboes. In the audition, Henry asked ene hobn, “Can you tell me how to get to Chicago on $107" The 'bo snorted, “How the hell would I know? But I can tell you how to get there for nuthin’.” . * oo » : PAT O'BRIEN was headed for a television Appearance the other night, driven by a cab driver who didn’t recognize him and didn’t think he could get into the show because of the lineup of people waiting. Pat, without telling who he was, finally told the cabbie to drive to the stage door, as he was on the program. . The way Pat tells it, the driver said with a iook at him, “Oh, Life Begins at 80, eh?” a TE TODAY'S BEST REPARTEE: Father Paul Bussard's Catholic Digest under the heading “Repartee With Restraint” tells that a Protestant minister and a Catholic priest were involved in An auto accident. “If J weren't a minister I'd tell you what I

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Americana By Robert C. Ruark

i NEW YORK, Feb. 29—The case of Willie (The Actor) Sutton, who has been portrayed as a kind of superbrain among criminals and quoted almost reverently as a master Raffles and a modern Robin. Hood, has made for me the best argument yet against crime, AH crime. Consider poor Willi,” who owes the States something over 200 years of back time, and who says ruefully that a man nn the lam from a jailbreak an’t plead not guilty. Here is Willie, the superbandit, finv2red by a pants-presser, and nabbed by a couple of cops who were almost dumb enough to Jet him go, What kind of mastermind gets lagged by a fuzzcheeked youth and two beatpounders who have to go hunt np. a detective to decide whether to make a pinch jon erimirial No. 1. And who wait an hour before ifrisking him for- the gat he was carrying. | Then consider Willie's life as a fugitive. One ‘time he served as a porter at a poor farm for two years while hiding out. Pardon me if I fail ito distinguish between life in the clink and life at a Staten Island poor farm. | And consider his life on the lam for the past ifive years, cowering in a tiny cell of a furnished room—seeking small companionship on. the sly, ‘afraid to go back twice to the same bean joint ‘for fear of identification, and living daily under creeping fear of being Tecoghized and pinched.

CONSIDER that in his 20-odd-year history of * Ietsting banks and swiping jewels, the only real ‘peace of mind and temporary security that Suttop ‘has known was enjoyed while he was serving time in jail for one of his sins. In the tank he was secure, outside be was néver—any better than a ‘furtive shadow, afraid to enjoy his spoils, afraid

fo relax, afraid , . . always afraid. iA criminal's pervading. fear is a frightful

hing. Whereas all men know ‘momentary fear, Fhe B ofermonal criminal lives with it like a perpetually sBremish nagging wife. It never lets

im up. He cannot really trust a partner in crime. ae Aoi 1 make new friends. He cannot indulge

imself in love or, normal relaxation.

any impunity, for the search for booze and. Doty i bl him wide open to arrest. He even, without wondering if some John won't come Wishing in to drop the ‘arm

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WILLI he mastermind, who so carelully bu JE, = whol walked in and out of prison: th equal ease, Was geading a library shaped help him find peace of mind. Willie fed pigeons always more than half afraid: that pigeon could turn stodl and lead him

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~One must try to understand the grief, the disappointment a father must. feel when he experiences the one event he has guarded against accident with a firearm. His son disobeyed him. The penalty for disobedience almost proved fatal “and the effects will last a lifetime, Today, the father looks to the future and wants his san to do likewise. It is difficult for both. ‘The past is so intricately related in a thousand different and pleasant ways with the present. Can you tell your son that the Saturday afternoon target sessions weren't any fun? Can you say the hours spent in the field hunting rabbits were bad? How can a father tell His only son that never again will they have the same fun? a ve. dy JOHNNY DOESN'T have ta be told he was

~._ wrong by taking his father's service pistol, load

it by himself, especially sinte he hadn't been trai with the heavy gun. He has seen his father Toad it, and fire it. But it wasn't a gun for Johnny.~ : : How many “ti és has he heard Johnny tell young friends who were wsiting that, “Daddy doesn’t allow anyone “to take the guns off the wall,” He had great confidence in his son. Still does, as a matter of fact. Johny was doing what he thought was right and daddy wasn't around to give counsel. dt hospital how

Jack remembers in the Johnny asked, fears streaming down his cheeks, “Daddy. I wasn't ready for a 38, was I?" : > Agecouple of days ago. Jack asked Johnny if

the gun collection ought to be traded off or sold.

Get them out of the house. Johnny shook his head. S & a 1 DIDN'T stay long in Johnny's room. ' He

didn't want to talk about the accident, A hig problem faces him and it is going to have to be unscrambled, slowly. Johnny had this to say to his generation: “Listen and do what your daddy tells you.” Jack can ask himself 10 million times whether he did right by allowing guns to be in the home He'll never get the answer. Removing the guns might be the answer. But what are the chances of a similar accident? Won't shooting be fun anymore” = Who i= wise enough tn foresee and prevent the one in a million accident? We do well enough to remember that the one in a million happens.

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we had snow and thunder simultaneously last week, he rushed to the window of. his duplex senthouse which he has taken strictly for economy reasons, stuck his head out, and yelled upwards: “You got Your cues mixed.” Sidney Wood, star of tennis courts and laundries, and pretty society singer Susie Mulligan will be married today ‘in {Greenwich . . Freddie Robbins subbed for the ailing Barry Gray . Lovely Vivian Blaine’s working too hands - She fainted on stage the other night but most people didn't know what'd happened . . . Those low necklines that Rise Stevens, Marie Wilson and others aimost come out of have beén given a special name by their worried directors: “Double Jeopardy.” . Joyce Mathews blissfully reports that her next vacation stop. after Switzerland, is Ifaly What's Tommy Brown so worried about? (New- . bold Morris?) . .. Monte Carlo reopens Thursday as Peggy Fears’ Room . .. Sam Clair, veteran employee of the Palace, who's been putting up marquee signs 23 years, wept when he took Judy Garland’s sign down. ‘Judy told him: “Don’t you light anybody else so good.”

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JASCHA HEIFETZ met President and Mrs. AVIATION’ S PARADOX .

Truman in Wash'n. and was told Margaret al- ~ ways wanted to meet him. It's being arranged. (Margaret's now busy rehearsing for her tour) . Dagmar fell and broke two straps. Unfortu: nately they were her shoe straps. She plays the Hartford State Theater this week-end . . . Behind the divorce of a prominent local woman fis the fact that she fell in love with Aly Khan. he @ o ° DOOLEY WILSON is quite ill at Sydenham Hospital . . . Peter Lawford had no gal when he showed up at El Morocco with Pat Di Ciceo and Polly Aaron ... An overhead East-West expressway at 30th and 31st Sts. i= one of the Traffic Board's current considerations .. . Jerry Malmed, ex-AP photog, became Israeli gen. mgr. for Scrip

to Israel. anh

WE LIKED Marie Wilson's crack about the knife-thrower who worked with his wife and had very bad aim-—he threw 40 knives at her and never hit her once & > o*

WISH I'D SAID THAT: “A drunken woman isediscreet—up to a pint’—Harry Hershfield. o* bo»

A HUSBAND, accftding to Tony Pettito, can wait all day long for his supper, but not five minutes more , , . That's Earl, brother.

Super Crook Willie— Just Another Punk

battle, like that which cut down Dillinger and did in Ma Barker, but a meek and apologetic approach from two harness coppers who “Hterally begged his pardon when they interrupted him fixing his car—two laws who were tipped by a voungster who recognized Willie on the subway. Willie didn't go for his gun—he. didn't-go for the one they frisked him for or the one they left. Willie just went quietly. He was sick and tired of the horrible life of a lammister. JE SR WHEN YOU ask yourself quietly if the king of thieves, the aristocrat of the crdoks, couldn't do better for himself in a lengthy life devoted entirely to crime and its punishment, you wonder what chance the fool kids with pawnshop guns, the filling-station heisters, the petty-larceny punks, have of any sort of success? The dapper Mr. Sutton did not know that the sheepish finish to his gaudy career would write a powerful sermon on the ancient cliche that crime doesn’t pay. He wrote it unwillingly and he wrote it large for all to see. In-New York we have devoted two flamboyant weeks to detailed coverage of poor Willie's decline and fall, because it was interesting reading and Willie had always been billed as a ‘kingpin criminal. Actually, we did not chronicle the downfall of a super crook. We wrote an anticlimactic finish to a man who in the end was just another punk.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—TI'd like to try starting house plants the way florists. do. Could I get some books on just how ro raise them from slips, which ones from seed and so on? Mrs. M. B. A—Yes, you can get lots of books, good, bad and indifferent. My ‘own two favorite house plant hooks ‘represent two approaches to the problem. “Enjoy Your Houge Plants” by Helen Van Pelt Wilson and Dérothy Jenkins presents the suhject with’, a nice casual attitude that doesn’t a=sume you necessarily have all kinds of Hime and.

"Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Colum. . in The Sunday Times

‘fancy soil ingredients on tap. But for the real

hobbyist, Montague Free's “All About House Plants” is more complete and certainly has lusclous pictures. But he does irritate me with his assumption that life is nothing but a pot of house plants. These and many ohter books you will find

at most bookstores and also on loan at Central

Library. Then you might also call the county agent's office for the free leaflets offered by Pur-.

‘due on various phases of indoor plants. And

write to Representative Brownson, 1522 House Die Bunidin Taigins. .Washington 25, D. C.. for ow leastets. (some of them Young Books) on

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“You gotta’ treat a radio scrip’ like a wife and go to bed with it." —From the Sayings bf Mr. James Durante, : By GENE FOWLER DURANTE, the great clown, had just turned 50. His

amazing fourteen weeks at the Copacabana demonstrated

that .the public idolized him.

The celluloid Caesars thumbs down verdict. Lou Clayton, Jimmy's agent and closest friend, negotiated a five-y2ar contract with-M-G M. The Sehnozzola was to make two pictures a vear at $73,000 ear h. He was permitted to do radio ( ibpear in theaters or nightclubs. The team of Durante and Garry Moore clicked on the radio from the “heginning. The young, literate, educated, fasttalking Moore and the veteran Jimmy,’ frustrated fumbler of words and syntax, became a popular combination. Moore decided to quit in 1947 because he wished to keep his own identity as a comic, It was a very honest separation, A personable young executive, Phil Cohan, became Durante's producer, both for radio and television. In contrast to his informality fn night clubs, the Schnozzola goes to hi= room with.a radio or TV script to “woodshed it" for hours. " » - 4 AS FOR Durante's genius at scrambling words, his producer says that he actually does not try to mispronounce them. One of the Schnozzola's writers, Jackie Barnett, agrees with Cohan: “His mispronunciation of the English language is natural to him. For example, 1 had the word ‘nostalgic’ in one of the scripts. I wanted him to say- it as ‘neuralgic.’ I was sure it would bring a laugh, so I wrote ‘neuralgic’ in the script. “But when he came to it, he pronounced it ‘nostalgic.’ He doesn’t purposely mispronounce a word. He wants the real words set down in a script, because he knows that he can manhandle them on sight, as he did ‘catastrastroke’ and ‘corpsuckles.’

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of Hollywood forgot their

EDITOR'S NOTE: The 11th

chapter of & series from the recent hook, SCHNOZZOLA, published “hHv=<The Viking Press. : Garry Moore has also analyzed the 8chnozzola's eft. handed delivery. “Jimmy Durante knows ‘at all tines what he is talking about. It would he very easy for him to learn that ‘catastrophe’ is not ‘catasirastroke’; but it first came to his eye that way; and he doesn’t bother to change it, because everyone knows what he is talking about. He takes the easy way. out, and lets bad enough alone.”

" ON IF YOU were to "sjt with Jimmy and indulge in serious conversation, he might use wards that would lead you to

think his brain was in a meatgrinder—unless® you happened to be well acquainted with Durante and his ways, If familiar with hig johberwocky lapses, you would know that when he says, “I feel perfectly abdominal today,” he means ‘“abdominable.” Sometimes, however, he astonishes everyone by using a long word in the right place and enunciating it with professional authority. In regard to his habit of throwing up big words for grabs, the Schnozzola says: “When you try to mispronounce word, you don't get real laughs because people seem to know. But if they know you didn’t dé it deliberately, then it gets A laugh.” One of the guest stars on Jim's radio program was screen actress Greer Garson. When the Schnozzola and his troupe arrived at Miss Garson's house

No. 3—

By WADE JONES Times Special Writer

MIAMI, Feb. 29 — It's a little surprising at first to see the burly aircraft mechanics daintily manipulating bottles of apple-red nail polish. But then, to the first-time visitor at the giant over-

haul base of Pan American World Airways here, everything is a little surprising. About the nail polish. The mechanics are not, as you finally note with relief, putting the polish on their nails, They are daubing it’ on the electrical, gasoline, and oil line connections of newly overhauled airplane engines. ” » ~ THE IDEA is that if ‘a connecti works loose in the future fing ight daub of polish wil fonfle ich is a trouble Fplainly le. to any nic from h to Hel-

mec sinki=% 3 That one little trick” is but a drop in an ocean of know-how applied daily here to the maintenance of the mighty engines which power our modern airplanes—a phase of the total aircraft operation ‘which as much as any other thing means safety in the air for you and me. Here, in Pan Am’'s 900-foot-long Building 121, the world’s biggest airplane engine overhaul shop. under one roof, air ‘safety is not a couple of words read in an editorial, heard on

the radio, or spelled out in a -

CAB ruling. 5 » » AIR SAFETY here is a thing you can touch with your own hands, see with your own eyes, smell with your own nose. In that space over there on the side, with the rubberized curtains around it, 51-year-old Charles Russell holds forth with an ultra-violet light as inspector of all aluminum parts off the torn-down engines. Working in darkness, behind dark goggles and a rubber apron, he looks for cracks and

., flaws in the parts, which have

previously been dipped in a _Special chemical dye. The dye works into the metal, and under the ultra-violet a crack shows up as a vivid yellow streak often invisible to the naked eye. If the flawed part can be remachined to perfect

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Each sueceeding air travel tragedy leaves aviation baffled. “It just doesn't make sense,” says a veteran pilot, who knows the pains taken on the ground and aloft to make air travel as safe as possible. Times Special Writer Wade Jones was already at work, before the latest crash, on an exhaustive report *on what the airlines and government agencies are doing to cut the toll of air disasters. Here's the last of a series on aviation’s paradox.

condition, it is routed .to6 the proper station for the work. Ir not, it is thrown out. 5 » " ALL steel engine parts go through a similar testing with a magnetic device. At a long, high workbench. three men in the almost standard uniform.of white T-shirts and multi-hued sport caps are freezing valve seats and ‘guides in dry ice to a temperature of 20 below zero. s At the same time they are heating the cylinder into which the valve seats will fit to a temperature of 400 degrees Fahrenheit. The ice-contracted valve seats will thus slip easily into the heat-expanded cylinder. And later when the two reach the same temperature they'll fit together like—well, like a valve in a cylinder, » » ~ ALL Pan American airplane engines are completely overhauled after 800 to 1100 hours of use, depending on the type. The giant R-4360 engine, four of which power the Boeing Stratocruiser, costs $13,600 to overhaul. Which is not surprising when you consider its 3500 horsepower, 28 cylinders, seven magnetoes, and 56 sparkplugs. Each engine, traveling one of the four 900-foot assembly lines in Building 121, is completely disassembled down to the last

Jammer Troubles—

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HOBOKEN. N. I. Feb, 29 The ship that will launch a thousand voices will soon go to sea in a non-combatant. role in the cold war of propaganda be-

tween East and West. _ Its mission will be to outwit the Soviet jamming.of “Voice of America” broadcasts as a

, mobile, sea-going broadcasting .

station that can shift its posi-

"tion whenever Russian inter-

ference blacks out the Voice's

messages to countries behind ceeds _— i

“the Iron Curtain. ia ship is the former Coa Hestenger, a 800-1 ov

age Navy cargo ship now being demothballed and converted in a Hoboken shipyard. Although its old name is just as appropriate for its new role, when the ship is completed in midFebruary it will be commissioned in theCoast Guard service as the cutter Courier, : : "ow : IT WILL be the first of a series of floating broadcasting

Stations for “Operation Vagabond,” ‘if the Courier sue‘mission, the es Department plans to ring the

Iron Curtain: with a fleet ‘of

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ENGLISH—"He takes the easy way out and lets bad enough alone.”

for a conference, warned them, “Fellows, let's all be polite, because Miss Garson is a very high-class lady star.” ” . ”

MISS GARSON came downstairs to find Jimmy sitting ab-sent-mindedly with his hat on. Reading the script, she commented, “Well, Jimmy, what happens if these particular jokes die?” He rose up from. his chair and slapped hig thighs. “Well, Miss Garson, if them jokes die, we'll all go down the terlet.”

Suddenly he remembered his

CRADLE FOR AN ENGINE helps & remove the 3500horsepoier, 7800.pound engine of a giant

clipper plane at Miami, Fla.,

operation, bolt. cleaned; inspected, unusable parts replaced or remachined, reassembled, and thoroughly tested in a special

cell.

The complicated equipment, alone, required for the engine

job is worth $2.5 million. ~ = »

THE ENTIRE-aircraft gets a complete overhaul every 8000 hours of its vperation. Besides engines, this overhaul takes in wings, control surfaces, landing gear, instruments—everything. Each is sent to a particular shop specializing in its maintenance. Pete Parham, year-old foreman of the accessory overhaul shop, who flew the “Hump” 33 times whilé on loan as g maintenance specialist to the China National Aviation Corp. during the war, presides over much of this work. Pete iz a great believer in the senses of touch and smell as indispensable aids to the complicated: testing machines. “For instance, -the Vickers piston hydraulic pump - works under very high pressure,” Pete

Thousand Voices In Cold War

similar ships that will be continuously on the move, * The Courier's route will he secret. But George Q. Herrick, chief of the State Department's international broadcasting facilities, hopes it will force the Russians to keep moving, their

land-based ‘jamming equipment .

to try to keep up with the ship's movements, and thus minimize

-. the effectiveness of jamming.

The Courier’s skipper, Comdr. Oscar C. B. Wev, a soft-spoken, _

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ho actual “voices” aboard his

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lecture on decorum, glared at his sniggering companions, and said, "“Oh,. pardon me, Miss Garson.” On the “Information Please” program in the summer of 1946

moderator Clifton Fadiman referred to his guest of the eveing as “Dr. Durante.” Fadiman asked the S8chnozzola, “If a man brings flies home to his vet, whatd kind of pet would that be?” “A giraft,” Jimmy replied. The experts on this quiz show, John Kieran, Franklin P.

says. “When it's on the testing stand we lay a hand on it to see if we can feel any vibration, If we get vibration that way, we will reject the pump whether other tests show anything .or not. . “S8ame way with certain pieces of electrical equipment. We can smell whether the winding on one of the.big Boeing's 50 or more_ little motors has gone bad or not. A testing machine might have passed it as QR" As a further safety check, a complete biography is kept on every part of every plane that goes through the shops, showing its life expectancy and what flaws, if any, it hag developed. The Pan- Am maintenance and overhaul operation here can be considered fairly typical of the kind of care other airlines give their planes, Each believes it has the best system, but for the layman to compare them is a little too much. o f =» : THE WORK and planning and

. brains that go into maintenance

be an oceanic relay station with the most powerful transmitting equipment ever installed on a vessel. ; ? ” x = COMDR. WEY, a 22-year veteran of Coast Guard service— including rum-running patrols, anti-submarin~ operations and

five Pacific invasions in World

War (II—views his new com-

mand as one of thé most im- .

rtant he’s ever had.

“If we're successful,” he sald, tra “the Vofee will gain mobility. }

and * flexibility ‘has

Maintenance of these engines is vital to safe airline

Adams, Deems Taylor, and Dr, Durante were then asked, “Can \ you touch your scapula’ with your patella?” The Schnozzola remarked, ‘I nope the program ain't getting off-color." » w »

WHEN asked in 1949 by columnists on the radio program “Byiines” how he felt when he heard a Durante imitation, the Schnozzola replied, “I feel. pretty bad about ii. The reason is they do the job better than I do, That is, all but the songs.” Many listeners to the Dus rante programs on radio and television have wondered about his oft-repeated closing line, ‘Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.” When he says that line hi#z manner changes to one of great seriousness, and his voice takes on a tender, emotional depth. Who is Mrs. Calabash? Assuredly there is some dis guised significance here, for Durante will change the subject when’ questioned as to the fdeniiiy of Mrs, Calabash. Nor will he permit his writers to involve this character in a slapstick routine.

WHEN asked to reveal the significance of the Calabash farewells, Jim replied, “That's my secret. I want it to rest where it is.” According to Lou Clayton, it is quite unlikely that anyone ever will know what really g2e2 on in Jim's mind when he says his solemn good nights to Mrs. Calabash. . “However,” Lou added, “it might very well be that he is saving good night to the spirit of Jeanne, and covering up his sentiment with a kind of publia privacy, if there's such a thing, That would be like him, to say it out loud, where everyone can hear it, but keep the secret of his feelings inside himself, like a prayer to somebody up in Heaven.” Copyright, 1952, br Gene Fowler)

NEXT: A goodby is said.

and overhaul ia * impressive, Whether it is enough, only an expert and the air accident fig. ures can tell,

Figures from the National Safety Council for 1850, the latest year for which the come plete information is available, show that scheduled air transe

port planes had 1.1 passenger deaths per 100 million passenger miles that year, autos had 2.2. busses 0.17, and railroads 0.58. And how do the airlines of this country stack up from =a ' safety standpoint from those of 4 other countries? 1 The International Air Trans. port Association reports. that ! figures based on the operations of 57 of {ts member airlines 4 throughout the world, including « /, | several American, show 2.46 ie deaths per. 100 million passenger miles in 1950. Generally speaking, this gives our airlines about a 2 to 1 per cent safety edge avér those of other couns i tries. . y ge (End of a Series)

The possibility that the Ruse sians might not take too kindly to this new effort b only a mild gleam to. ve ht only r eyes. 3

. : “PVE BEEN hor at before,» he drawled. i A hand-picked crew of 80 der Comdr. Wev will nine Yalio: