Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1952 — Page 11

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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

ONE FINE.tomorrow a man of vision, daring,

conviction and horse sense is going to sit down,

or vice versa, and do something spectacular with men’s fashions. After a tour of shops featuring accoutrements for the male animal to wear while witnessing the arrival of the first sprig of - forsythia, I see this.man to be about 32, brown of hair and eve, blacksof beard, pink of cheek, regal of bearing, easy of smile, loose of mouth, strong of character, flat of feet and by now you know of whom I speak ...me, What do we have to look forward to this spring? Is there anything being offered to excite the pulse? Have designers cast off the shackles that bind them and us? Are they bringing fo us something like the knee-high cuff for the little businessman, navel-low T-shirts for the office worker on muggy summer days, socks with open toes and heel for longer life? odd THAT'S JUST a sample of what could be done

"and isn't. And here is a sample of what is “new”

for spring. In the suit line—lower waistlines, straighter backs, natural shoulders, narrower coat openings. Li Checks are strong in suits and topcoats. A wardrobe won't be complete, I'm told, without a tweed suit and topcoat. Big for spring. We're going to have, as always, creases in our trousers, lapels. patch and slit pockets, handkerchief pockets in our coats, useless buttons on coats and sleeves, double and single breasted coats. So Sb A GREAT many of us will wear last year's sult and sport larger waistlines, rounder backs, naturally sloping shoulders and larger coat openings. most practiced eye couldn't tell us from the model in Esquire. Nothing startling is happening on the handkarchief front. They're still square and white and colored and, for best results, it is necessary to provide your own air pressure. Belts and suspenders will continue to hold up trousers separately and together, Neckwear has been sliced thinner in knits and some fabrics. Patterns, in the main, hold the revolting line although stripes are tolerable.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Mar. 11--Db you folks suffer, too. from juke box jitters, or Johnny Rayitis? Well, you will. They call Johnny Ray “The Heat Ray” and

‘he’s the wildest, craziest, looniest, goofiest, weird-

est singer since Frankie Swoonatra. Omar Khayyam's coming back to life to rewrite the Rubaiyat, something like this: “A bowl qf pretzels underneath the Bough, “A glass of beer, a juke box and -WOW.” But how the heck to get Johnny Ray in there? One night recently, finding myself in-a bar in a strange town, and longing for my Beautiful ; Wife, I turned on the juke box. . * Johnny was all over it, Johnny Ray “Cry”—and “Little White: Cloud That Cried” — and “Please, Mr. Sun,” for example. Those songs are listed as first, third and seventh in the top juke box tunes this week in ‘Cash Box.” the juke hox journal. ” . Johnny, a. Roseburg, Ore, bhov of 24, partly deaf, and forced to wear an earphone, gives the impression when he’s singing that he's having a baby, though I know positively that he isn’t. Now take “Please, Mr. Sun.” Johnny sings “Please, Mr. Sun” and “Please, Mr. Moon, tell her I love her.” No Western Union for him. No air-mail specials. He's gotta have the sun tell her. And the juke box set drink it in—drinking in some beer, too. There are close to half a million in the United States. And a couple million little wall boxes. The weekly grab is $3 million. Miss Savannah Ray, a beautiful Negro gal from New Orleans, is great, too. Her new hottie is “Sin.” But this Johnny Ray is the cwaziest people. After wringing himself out by singing, he bows to the applause and =ays, “I know what it means to be kissed by God.” He has this broken-hearted voice and so he cries more than George Jessel of whom ‘it's been safd, “He cries at card tricks.” When he opens’ goon at the Copacabana, we expect to hear crying all over town, especially at the other night clubs. Somebody said, “What's the hum crying for— when he's making $£10.000-a- week?” “Because,” answered ‘a friends of his, can't keep any of it.”

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Jet War By Keyes Beech

WITH TASK FORCE 77 WATERS, Mar. 11 — Until the Navy gets a faster, better, all-around jet fighter its best defense against Russian jets is distance. For the present, at least, this isn't as had as ft sounds, The Navy's primary fighting mission in the Korean War..which is not a naval war, is interdiction of enemy supplies. Operating pff the coast of northeast Korea, the Navy's carrier-hased planes are well out of range of enemy MIG-15's based in the west. If and when Red jets jump the Navy—well, that will he another story. The MIG is probably a good 100 miles an hour faster than either of the two carrier jets the Navy has in operation out here. These are the single-cagined Panther F-9-F and the twinengined Banshee F-2-HN, the Navy's newest and best operating jet. Both are considered excellent planes, within the 500-mile-per-hour class... But the Navy has plans ‘under way to give the Banshee sweptback wings, like the MIG and the Air Force's F-86 Sabrejet, to increase its speed. !

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IN COMPARING the relative merits of Air Force and Navy fighters it is difficult to steer clear of the standing dispute between the two services over land-based versus sea-going air power. Naval aviators are inclined to reject comparisons, on the ground that the two are performing different missions. : ’ “Comparing a Navy jet with the ¥-86 is like measuring your mother’s virtues hy whether she can play three-cushion hilliards,” said one naval officer testily. “The F-86, which incidentally started out as a Navy fighter, is strictly an interceptor and as such is a very good one. But don't forget {ts work is purety defensive. It doesn't carry an offensive lnad of hombs, rockets or napalm. So it flies faster. “On the other hand, a carrier task force is a fast hit-and- run outfit which must pack an offensive wallop. Therefore, its fighters must represent a compromise between defense and offense. In the compromise a certain amount of speed must be sacrificed.”

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& @ BOTH Panthers and Banshees, which fly flak suppression missions and protective cover for the Navy's durable propeller-driven Douglas Skypaider bombers, also carry homhb and rocket loads, he Banshee carries up to 1700 pounds of bombs, It can carry two 1000-pounders. “We will accept reduced “ight characteristics fn order ‘to gain offensive power.” says Cmdr. Marshall U;, Beebe, Anaheim, €'al. commander of Afr.Group Five ahoard the Carrier Essex. “But that doesn’t mean we aren't always looking for a better compromise.” It . and when Navy fighters tangle with the MIG, Cmdr. Beebe continued, “we will rely upon better tactics and teamwork to overcome the

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Socks continue to come in 500 delicious colors and sooner or later will dribble down around your ankle. Surely designers should be able to present us with a sock that is truly different. Surely we haven't reached the millenium in sock production, They're always doing something for the ladies. : Ever since that exciting ‘day I cast aside black cotton socks forever and slipped into my older brother's hand-me-down long pants, socks have been . . . well, just socks. How much longer will we have to put upfifith- this? 1s there any reason ‘hy men can't paint socks or have rhinestone tops or built-in thermostats for year-around comfort? - oo 0

EVERYONE interested in selling shirts is talk ing about the one with the “spread roll” collar, Jumpin’ Jupiter, come summer and it will be as hot as the one with the frayed collar. It still buttons down the front, it isn't dirt-resisting, and buttons aren't guaranteed to stay on for the life of the shirt, Why, oh why, when asphalt is melting in the streets, fashion demands that we wear a shirt and tie for certain occasions? We give Shep a haircut, we growl and worry about heat prostration but still bow to an unwritten law. Bah, Has anyone ever thought of a combination garment for the male? What would be wrong with a super thingamajig that would replace the undershirt, shirt, necktie, sweater or vest, coat? Well, say something. : 0b

SHOES come in brown and black mostly and

they're square-toed and pointed. You can buy a -

wingtip -or plain model as easily as you could 20 years ago. Most of us will continue to lace our shoes and tear out the heels because we're too lazy to reach for the shoe horn. By the way, can't we improve on the shoe horn?

Hats will be smaller, higher crowns. IT don’t know, it's too early to t#ll. but is this a prevue of things to come when everyone will have a

pointed head? Sports shirts hold the liné right along with pajamas. How would a back.scratcher, built-in, of course, strike your fancy in the pajama department? You know, sometimes I sit and shake my head hour on end when I contemplate men's fashions, One fine tomorrow, one fine tomorrow a man of vision , 4

Johnny Ray New Rage on Juke Boxes

THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . President Truman sent one of his personal cigaret lighters to Irving Fisher, who plays HST in “Call Me Madam.” It's a Ritepoint “visible” (made in Missouri) with the President's picture and autograph on the front, and his seal on the back.

Billy Rose sold a national magazine article about Eleanor Holm's attorneys titled, “The Terror Technique.” . . . Benny Fields and Blossom Seeley are celebrating their 30th anniversary. Joe Louis’ voice is changing. He's taking dictation lessons for lecturing. . Betty Hutton may go into the Copa—the Copa hopes,

Frank Fay takes over the Milton Berle show Apr. 1 and 8 while Miltie vacations. For PLENTY of money . Frank stopped at a cafe table the other night where his ex-wife Barbara Stan. wyck, was sitting. Mrs. Howard Rushmore said to him, “You know vour ex-wife, don't you?” Barbara was busy talking to Nancy Sinatra ang so no words were exchanged between .the sexes.

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EARL'S PEARLS . . . When a woman said to Jack E. Leonard, “Will you call me a taxi?” he said, “Certainly, lady. You're a taxi.” > 2

GEO. JESSEL now wears tweed suits with tweed toupes to match. , . , Jo Jones, the great jazz drummer is in Bellevue, . . . Margaret Truman gives Secret Service men a few hours off when she has dates here with reliable friends. But on her tour now she's well protected. Ca WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Taffy Tuttle changed from blonde to brunet so often, she got hair sick.”—Will Jordan. o> > 0b MERCHANTS’ LAMENT: “Merchandise is better than money nowadays-—money you can get rid of.” Irving Heller. Jackie Gleason planned to use four wrestlers on his TV show but they tore a ligament in his arm at rehearsal, endangering the stunt, Gleason's arm’ll be in a sling. ... “Poot” Pray reports “Many a bosom companion turns out to be a falsie friena” . . . “FDR, Hyde Park,” will be released on the anniversary of FDR's death.

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HERB POLESIE told James A. Farley on “20 Questiohs” that his mother-in-law wanted to see him. “What for?” =afd Jim. ‘‘She wants to play post office,” said Herb. , , , That's Earl, brother.

MIG Fighier Holds Big Speed Edge

(Navy Panthers clashed with MIG's on Nov, 18, 1950. Results: One MIG destroyed and three damaged; one Navy jet lost. The Navy claims to have shot down the first Russian-built jet on Nov. 9, 1950.)

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BEEBE, a top-ranking ace of the Pacific war and veteran of A9 missions over Korea is the dnly pilot aboard the Essex who flies both jets and propeller-driven planes. Speed is not always the deciding factor in aerial combat, Cmdr. Beebe pointed out, “The Japanese Zeros could always outmaneuver us, but because we had a sturdier plane and superior tactics we shot dewn hundreds of them with minor losses to ourselves.

“I think we may have reached that stage in

the relationship of our own jets to the MIG.” (Air Force Sabrejet pilots who have fought the MIG object to this analogy. They say that the MIG, unlike the Zero, is a.tough, hardy plane which not only has tremendous speed but is hard to shoot down. On two or three occasions, according to pilot reports, MIG's have disintegrated in mid-air—hut they were traveling af 800-miles-per-hour, which is 80 miles faster than the speed nf sound).

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

QI saw such beautiful tuberous hegonias raised by a friend in northern Minnesota, She uses them on her table, She raises them on the north side of the house. Is this a good place to

. put them? Mrs. A. C. Palmer, Danville,

A—Yes, they are protected from wind and from too much sun. Also they're one of the few really colorful -plants for complete shade. They will do better though if you raise them in filtered sunlight. As under a shade tree or as specialists in a lath house. You will find them a bit more difficult to raise here than your northerly friend does. Indiana's intense mid-summer Heat

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column = in The Sunday Times

means special care. The flowers are ‘so thoroughly lovely and =o long-lasting for indoor use they're worth the trouble. Many local gardeners have wonderful success with them in spite of our hot summers. Readers who want to try ‘their luck may have the TIMES free leaflat on tuberous hegonias if they will send a stamped =elf-ad-dressed envelope tn Marguerite Smith, INDIAN APOLIS TIMES, Indianapolis 9. ers who have requested this and the African violet leaflets but have not received them--are you sure you enclosed that self-addressed stamped envelope? A number of requests came without

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TUESDAY, MARCH 11,

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‘MYSTERY MAN’ GRUNEWALD .-. . No. 2—

The Dutchman And

By EDWARD F. RYAN GERMAN spies were sitting ducks for G-man Henry (The Dutchman)

Grunewald during World War 1. He spoke their language and they fell for his. His specialty was to pose as a German agent, a role for which his German ancestry and schooling made him a natural, Many agents of the Kaiser spilled secrets to Grunewald. Grunewald worked two years as a federal agent In the New York City branch of the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation. His superiors valued him as an unusually clever agent. A contemporary account degeribed spy-hunter Grunewald in these terms: “He was endowed with a seemingly easy going joviality, coupled with ability as a rough-and-tumble two-fisted fighter which made him capable of being all things to all men.” And in two languages at that. Many of the trails Grunewald followed in the spy roundup started in documents he helped to cart away from the German Embassy's safes in the Swiss

Consulate in New York City and turn over to the: U. 8. government. ~ » ~

ONE letter carried the thanks of a German vice consul In Chicago, Baron Hans Curt von Reiswitz und Kaderzin, to two German agents in New York, Curt Courant and Hans Jacobsen, for stealing Navy and aircraft drawings from the Sperry Gyroscope Co.

Gurnewald posed as a German agent named “Mr. Grimm,” met Jacobsen in a swinging-door saloon at 148th and Broadway. “Mr. Grimm” gave Jacobsen the thanks of the fatherland, and Jacobsen wasn't interested. Grunewald signalled his fellow G.men to move in, and as “Mr, Grimm” Grunewald was arrested with Jacobsen and taken to Bureau headquarters at 15 Park Row.

“Mr. Grimm” loudly demanded his lawyer. In came a lawyer — another Bureau agent. “Mr. Grimm" demanded to get out. His lawyer thought it might be done, for $50,000 bail. While the lawyer went off, “Mr. Grimm” put the heat on Jacobsen. ~ - .

“l DON'T CARE anything about you and you don't care anything about me,” said “Mr. Grimm” to the German agent. “But if we can help each other out, we'd better do it. If you know anybody on the outside, give me his name. I have some ‘pretty influential friends in .this town who don't suspect what I really am. Maybe 1 can get out of here on bail. If I do I might be able to help get you out.”

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PROHIBITION AGENT—Grunewald and other agents captured the ocean going tug, Ripple, and its $100,000 cargo of liquor at a Brooklyn dock.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the life story of Henry William Grunewald, “mystery man” of the federal tax fraud hearings. Twice in 13 months Grunewald has been cited for contempt of Congress, is now under investigation by a Federal Grand Jury and a congressional committee. This is the second installment. The author, Edward F. Ryan, is a staff reporter

of The Washington Post,

With this kind of talk, Grunewald finally got from Jacobsen a note of introduction to

Courant. He then went ouf with other agents and repeated the

double-arrest act. = When "Mr. Grimm” with Courant saw Jacobsen at the Bureau, “Mr.

Grimm” accused Jacobsen of a double-cross, and launched into a long confession. “Mr. Grimm" confessed to a share in assorted German sabotage crimes including the Black Tom explosion. W.ith the German agents looking on, “Mr. Grimm" was let off with a warning. The amazed pair promptly confessed their own activities, believing the Americans were dopes. But they weren't warned. They were sent to internment camps. > Grunewald soon found further reason for just pride—his

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first daughter, Christine, was born Sept. 5, 1918, As a G-man he was drawing $6.50 a day. When the war ended a few weeks later, he began looking around for a new job. n . . 2 HE FOUND his new job, and with it the most important busicareer, with Henry W. Marsh, an internationally known American insurance broker. They met through mutual friends in the Bureau. While Grunewald was chasing spies, Marsh was helping the Bureau complete an elaborate report on German insurance pipelines into American industry.

From Marsh, Grunewald got his exit from government service an entree to high places and behind-the-scenes politicking at an attractive salary. Grunewald was 26, Marsh 58, when they met. It was the start of an association, intermittent at first and then continuous, that lasted until Marsh's death in 1943. :

Marsh was founder and head of Marsh & Lennan, Inc. one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in the world. ” n ” GRUNEWALD and another Bureau of Investigation agent, Albert G. Adams, signed a contract with Marsh in 1919 to work for him as investigators, at a salary of $8000 a year and expenses. Grunewald and Adams set up the Adams and Grunewald Investigation Bureau with offices

GIBRALTAR OF THE PACIFIC . . . No. 1—

Okinawa Being Readied As U. S. Bastion

By DOUGLAS LARSEN Times Special Writer

OKINAWA, Mar. 11—This vitally strategic island in the heart of the Far East has a new name. They are calling it America's Gibraltar of the Pacific. Tremendous construction and a mighty munitions

stockpiling program is transforming Okinawa into one of the nation’s strongest key outposts. Up until now, this work hag heen obscured by. security restrictions and the Korean War. : However, the full story of the new strategic role which the Joint Chiefs of Staff has aesigned to the island — as a major bombing base and prime area for airborne and can now be

staging ground troops told here for the first time, By the start of the summer than $200 permanent

there will be more million worth of construction under way barracks, typhoon - proof storage areas, dock facilities and other defense projects. Although the major part of this

work was hegun only recently and has not yet reached its peak, It is being rushed through at the rate of $2 million worth per month.

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a shambles out of what few ramshackle, rusting {installations were left over from

World War II. Living conditions for the troops stuck here were deplorable. { Swarms of Chinese Nationalist troops were futilely trying to salvage trucks and other equipment from the huge, rusting stockpiles which had been poured into the island for the never-needed invasion of Japan. The materiel had been given to the Nationalist government for their last ditch defense against the Reds.

The semi-tropical vegetation was already beginning to cover

the shell craters of the invasion,

Much of the 1eland was out of bounds, because. of the thousands of land mines which had been planted by the Japanese but which hadn't been removed. ” ~ ~ PRACTICALLY nothing had been done to rebuild the leveled citiex, And only the first feeble attempts to help the Okinawans

out of thelr pitiful plight had been started.

then, the change on and on the other islands in the Ryukyu group— is amazing.

Since Okinawa

Madern shops sell the latest in statewide style and gadgets, You can buy most any make of hrand new car right off the salesroom floor. Housing projects of modern California-type bungalows dnt the island. Construction of new, native-type

housing and buildings in the villages {8 booming. : » n n EVERYWHERE you look

there is a tremendous bustle of activity, Busses loaded with Okinawans, soldiers and U. 8S. tivilians combine with trucks taxis and native horse carts to jam the streets and highways. Almost everyone will tell you that if one more giant buildozer is.-brought here the island will sink beneath the sea. More than 2000 pieces of heavy construction equipment are being operated seven days a week, cutting giant swaths through hills and mountains for roads, new housing areas and bomb storage sites, At Kadena Air Force hase, headquarters for the 20th Air Force which daily sends

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huge new strip ‘is being completed. which will handle B-36s and any type of jet bomber.

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at 110 W. 40th 8t., New York City. Into their office building soon moved a target tailored to Grunewald’'s talents. It was the Soviet mission of Ludwig C. A. K. Martens. His announced aim was the opening of trade relations between Russia and ‘the United States, but officials soon decided his purpose was more sinister.

The State Department denied him diplomatic status, The Union League Club demanded he be curbed. Congressional leaders urged his expulsion. A New York legislative committee launched an investigation. Into this tense picture moved Grunewald. On June 12, 1919, Grunewald led detectives and state troopers in a raid on the Martens offices, They were armed with a warrant, and they hauled away a truckload of papers for the New York committee. ".8

A FEW days later Grunewald gave detailed testimony in public hearing to support official charges that Martens’ real purpose was violent overthrow of the American government. The material seized by Grunewald led to a sensa-tion-packed U. 8. Senate investigation in 1920, and to Martens’ departure in January, 1921, a step ahead of a deportation warrant.

Grunewald did other chores for Marsh, and for the Republi-

MODERN SHOPS mingle with old customs on Okinawa.

Other fields on the island are also being improved, » ” . IN NAHA, biggest city of the island; a modern: 48,000-kilo-watt steam power plant, which will be the center of an islandwide high voltage transfission system, is well on its way to completion. The city's water supply BYS-~

tem. is being renovated by the

addition of the latest in filtration plants. Modern office buildings are going up. The adjacent port facilities are being greatly expanded and. im- . 5 . : a

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proved to provide close-in docking for all types of ships. Handling of the mass of construction are 23 leading U, 8,

-Japanese, Okinawan and Fili-

pino contractors. In addition to their own supervisory help, they are employing close to 15,000 skilled and unskilled Okinawan ‘laborers, And. always you can see dotting the key hills and peaks, the business-like snouts of anti-

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can national committee. He also made some investigations for congressional committees. In the summer of 1921, Grunewald returned to governs ment service as a general prohibition agent at $4000 a year, It was not quite the kind of Job he wanted. Powerful friends sponsored him for assistant chief of prohibition in New York, but that did not

The friends were Clarence B. Miller, secretary of the Republican national committee, and Postmaster General Will Hays, But the agent's job looked like a step toward security, and his second child was on the way when he was hired. » ” » EARLY In January, 1922, Grunewald took a deep salary cut, to $1800, to stay in the New York area. In June, he and other agents fired some 30 shots In capturing the crew of the ocean going tug, Ripple, and its $100,000 cargo of liquor at a Brooklyn dock.

But in October, Grunewald struck the first major setback of his career, He and five othe er prohibition agents were suse | pended in the midst of a Grand Jury probe of illegal liquor withdrawals from a bonded warehouse, The withdrawn lige uor represented $140,000 in fed« eral taxes and penalties.

Grunewald was indicted Nov, 23, 1922, with 32 other persons, including five fellow agents. The charge was conspiracy te defraud the government by use of forged customs permits in the trial a year later. Grunewald and the other agents all won directed verdicts of ace quittal before the testimony was completed. |

A number of their co-defend-ants, including “The Bootleg King” and “Joe the Book,” were convicted and drew heavy pen< alties, t ~ » . WITH the trial over, Grunee wald went back to private ine vestigating. He did some work on insurance matters for Marsh and others. A move to return to government service in the FBI fell through when J. Edgar Hoover turned down the idea. In November, 1928, Grunewald was charged with impersonat~ ing a prohibition agent. The charge was dropped a few weeks later. : Soon after that he found his silver lining in the clouds of the depression a $1000 a month job as secretary and investigator for Marsh, who had retired from business but still wanted to keep in close touch with politics. He told Grunewald to move into Washington and find out what was going on. 4

(Copyright, 1952, by United Feature Byndicate)

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