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“Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola®

IT'S OK to take a beautiful model with a new

poodle ‘haircut to dinner, hut not if vou have dog’

food on her plate. That's what 1 did and darn near wound up eating can and all. As a member of that great fraternity of men who are thankful for having hair on the roof, no matter what color, shape or. size, changing styles for the opposite sex ruffle my coxcomb. The latest is the poodle cut. »1f hair styles for les femmes were left to me, rd decree the long bob: and let it go at that. Those were ‘the days. Upswept styles and the poodle and horse’s tail make me want to run off to the wilds of some rembte land like Florida fanywhere along Ocean Drive in Miami would be all right) and forget the rest of the world. “Nw HOW TO STRIKE BACK at the poodle cut? What can a clever lad do to show his disapproval? Why not ask some gorgeous creature like Joanne Mings, model at H. P. Wasson & Co,, who looks terrific , ., who used to Inok better without a poodle cut . , . to dinner and

have a can of dog food on her plate? Aaaaaawoono . , , well, why not? After all, if a g&l has hair like a poodle,

she ought to eat like one. Of course. 1 wasn't overlooking an opportunity of having a choice steak on my plate, I .could hardly wait ‘to have Joanne ay ves so the Wheels, would start turnIng. She finally consented and suggested that [ choose LaRue's. Perfect. Harley Horton, owner and connoisseur of fine food and drink, would bust a suspender when he heard about dog food. Complications set in. Harley thought the idea of serving dog food was revolting. More so, Edward Leonard, when you suggest serving it at LaRue's. Harley saw the light eventually, and how it was accomplished would make a good thesis for some sociology studestt Vorking for his PhD. FRANKLY, 1 wish Joanne hadn’t looked sa beautiful when I called. Took my mind off the dog food. But don't get the idea I'm sold on the poodle cut. Joanne happens to be one of those girls who would look good with peach fuzz on her head. We arrived at I.aRue's, and the Horton touch was visible everywhere. Joanne was enchanted,

and I tried to appear as if I eat off silver platters and drink water out of silver goblets every day.

> food," says Hangdog Ed, practical iokester.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Mar. 13—Having crept out of town for a few days in Mexico, I was almost knocked down by public reaction to the brutally mysterious slaying of Arnold Schuster, the.young fellow whose sharp eyes were shot out for the act of recognizing a show-off bank robber named Willie Sutton. When you climbed off the plane at LaGuardia, the hot blast of indignation almost suffocated you. Only ‘once in my memory has a single murder stirred a people so. That was the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby, in another era when gangsterdom had reached an abnormally lofty rule. The law-abiding folk had become accustomed to hoodlum rule in those days, too, and were intrigued by the colorful carryings-on of the gangsters, so long as the torpedoes transferred their affections to one another. There was a feeling that the citizen was immune—auntil lawlessness reached into the home of a private citizen of high public esteem.

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WHEN THEY snatched ‘the Lindbergh child and later abandoned him dead, there was a sudden realization that nobody, high or low, was immune to violence. The innocent baby, son of a hero, Pecome the symbol of helplessness—and a sharp accuser of the cynical tolerance for evil that we had nurtured during the gaudy prohibition days. 80, I think, the wanton murder of the Schuster boy has become a similar symbol, even more so than little Charles Lindhergh, because Schuster was the embodiment of the common citizen who does his duty and gets mangled for his pains. Schuster saw a crook on the subway, and recognized him from his “wanted” pinups. He hollered copper, and the law collared Willie Sutton. And now Schuster is dead, rewardlesg, for his act of citizenship.

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IT MAKES no great deal of difference whn shot Schuster. It could be almost anvone—game

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Mar. 13—Bing Crosby once shot a deer up.north and tried to load it on a baggage car of a streamlined train back to Los Angeles. But the train couldn’t stop long enough to open up the.baggage car. “Well, then,” asked Bing, an upper berth to Oakland?” They couldn't. But word of Bing's idea for getting a deer home got around. So Bill Morrow, his pal, asked him what he had Planned to do with the deer at Oakland. “Well,” said Bing, “I know some people at Oakland. 1 figured from there on in I. could have got him a roomette.” . ' JOHN CARRADINE, now doing a cafe act at the Village Vanguard. tells a favorite story nf his friend. John Barrymore, who made a purchase ‘and told a clerk, “Charge it.” “Who tn?’ said the clerk. “Barrymore,” replied Jawn. “What's the first name?” , . John gave the clerk his profile and said. “Ethel. " BEN BLUE explained, at the Embers the other night, the Broadway mind. by telling a story of a character who was offered an elephant for $100. “Nah,” scoffed the character. I keep it? I live in a rented room.” “I'll make you a deal” said the other. give you THREE elephants for $200.” “Now you're talking.” said the Broadwayite. “on de ob FARL'S PEARLS . . . Mae West puts it this way: “Many men are very short, but when they have a lot of money they.could stand on. they get a lot taller.

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o* “oR A NEW ANIMAL'S been developed in Israel, David Ben-Gurion told the Joey Adamses (who've just returned from that country which is. workihg mo hard on its austerity program). “We've crossed a cow with a giraffe, Ben-

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Oh, and you should na¥e sci) me ‘try to act as if four martinis were the usual number before dinner, Once Harley agrees to go with a gag, you can count on him all the way. Everything was special. Some of the silver dishes and pearl-handled gteak knives, looking like stilettos, were brought Joanne was going to have a buildup to the dog food that would rattle the chandeliers in the “Avenue of lights." oo OG

THE BIG MOMENT arrived along with two silver covered dishes. One was a double porterhouse steak and on the other was a can of Ideal Dog Food. Harley gave me the high sign that the waitress knew where to place the steal. Waitresses, working as if they intended to join the next safari heading forzAfrica, hauled in plattéy” after platter of 1ood. Joanne added to the illusion by acting the part of a checker in a commissary. Where she got the food lists, I'll never know, Anyway, the atmosphere was ripe. “Let's eat,” giggled Joanne, twisting her nose in a manner that made Harley and me Kick each other in the shins in order to preserve a modicum of decorum in the dignified Gold Room,

o> > ocover an Joanne's ash. A covered my face. Lovely round, clear (my weakness) eyes rolled down ward and gazed at the dog food. Cold, narrow, venemous eyes snapped upward. A smile from ear to ear contracted to the size of an olive seed. Joanne lifted the cover off my dish with her left hand. By that time the steam rising over her head clouded the mirror And I so wanted to see if the green my face had turned to went with my tie. With her right hand, which clutched the steak knife, she made a tew simple gestures that brought back scenes from “The Mark of Zorro” starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Plates changed. Say, the dog that complains about Ideal Dog Food to me is going to get a punch in the nose, I'm ready to sign up for a testimonial. Miss Mings (I can’t call her Joanne anymore) was quite generous. After dinner she allowed me to take her home right up to the front steps. I went back to LaRue's to see what was left of the double porterhouse. Should have listened to Harley. His place. I feel like a dog.

1 LIFTED the smile from ear tosear

All bis fault.

Did Schuster Give Eyes To Make Millions See?

warped moron, inspired to action through idealization of violence; some old pal of Sutton, killcrazy for laughs; some local punk with a stolen gun; some minor hoodlum hoping to impress the local “organization”—or possibly some paid gunner who was hired expressly to impress others with the futility of informing. There have been no real clues, and the odds are fair that the murderer may go free.

But we have been building an anger at lawlessness for some time now, needing only a sharply focused incident to touch it off. All unwittingly, a boy from Brooklyn-—a nice-looking kid who worked for his father's pants shop and played the girls in his evenings— became that incident.

Schuster has heen made the martyr to the implied threat of modern time, of an age when crooks can control cops and politicians and big bhusiness—when a man like Kefauver can make himself a presidential candidate by simply saying to a people that lawlessness is bad instead of not-so-bad or mere routine expectation.

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IT IS IRONIC today that Schuster died withnut receiving anything much but lumps for his pains, even before his death. The cash rewards for Sutton’s apprehension proved to be nonexistent. Schuster’s part in Sutton’s capture at first was denied by the very policemen who finally slipped the cuffs on the crook. Sutton himself, a publicity-happy little thief, received more of a hero's reception after his capture than did the young man who nailed him. And now, of course, the O. Henry ending gets written by the offer to date of some $37,000 bona fide rewards for the capture of the young man’s killer. Now, of course, anonymous tips from everyone flood the police stations. and anonymous threats have been filed with others close to the ndd tableau, The “good” citizens are on the rampage. It is a most peculiar story all the way, not lessened hv the fact that the killer shot out the Schuster boy's eyes. It is almost as if “he had to give his eyes to make many million people see.

Deer Trouble. Let Bing Help

Gurion said. “It'll have. such a long neck that you can feed it in America and we can milk it in Israel.” ... That's Earl, brother. .

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—Please give some information on different kinds of maples. Speedway. A—Soft (silver) maple is tops In quick-shade tree class. Not suitable: for street planting Branches dip too low. It grows too fast and tall under telephone lines. too. Sugar (hard rock) maple is one of the finest trees. Slow-growing. Good fall color- -gold, red. In hetween these are

Read Marquerite Smith’ s Garden Column in The Sunday Times

many varieties, Norway maple is popular. It makes thick shade, grows moderately fast. Good gFass is difficult under it but you can always use a ground cover around it. Norway is good for city conditions—smoke, poor sunlight, etc. Red maple is good for fall color. Many popular maples are offsprings of the Norway, resemble {t in sturdiness. Schwedler's maple has re ves in spring. They turn bronze and deep reklirer Some folks object to dullness of foliage. The patented variety Crimson King is another child of the Norway maple. It is very popular for its purple-crimson foliage, Wier's cut-leaf is a soft maple with deeper cut foliage, weeping branches. Besides these more common kinds there are many others. Decide on what you want in your trees— as quick shade, symmetrical growth, colored follage. long life, etc. Then ask your nurseryman to help you decide if growing’ conditions in your yard will keep that variety happy.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 13; 1952 *

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‘MYSTERY MAN’ GRUNEWALD .

. No. 4—

Henry F inds Out He’ s An Alien

By EDWARD F. RYAN HENRY (THE DUTCHMAN) GRUNEWALD got

the shock of his life in 1940 when he was 48 years old. He learned, for the first time, that he was a native of South Africa and not of the United States.

He got a letter from his father, in South Africa, telling Henry that he was born in Port Elizabeth. and not in New York City. Grunewald had been thiiking right aong he was an American citizen. and that was

on his Navy record, He quickly registered as an alien. a His wife, Mrs. (‘hristine Grunewald, found that she had lost her own American citizenship, acquired by ‘birth in Brooklyn, when she married

Henry. She applied for repatri-°

ation in District Court in Washington. This was granted in January, 1941. Grunewald applied on Dec. 19, 1941, for-U, 8. citizenship, It was granted in District Court Feb. 3, 1942. His sponsors for naturalization were William Power Maloney, then special assistant to the Attorney General and William E. Leahy, 4irector of Selective Service in the District of Columbia. » ” » His Américan citizenship brought Grunewald's way back into U, 8. govefnment service. Twenty vears after heing fired as a prohibition agent, Grunewald was hired as a special investigator for the Alien Property Custodian. The Custodian then was Leo Crowley. Crow-

ley says he can't remember Grunewald, that his role- was minor.

In a letter of Aug. 25, 1942, Crowley notified the Civil Service Commission that his office

had investigated Grunewald. The letter asked, in the interest of the work to be done, that

the Civil Service Commission refrain from making its own investigation. Grunewald was sworn into office Sept. 12, 1942. He performed 10 days of service, including a trip to Omaha. He was paid $222.20 salary and $51.20 expenses, and resigned Feb. 27, 1943. His mission remains a secret. Grunewald’s patron and employer for many years, Henry W. Marsh, died Apr. 13, 1943 at his: home in Florida. Word went around Washington he left Grunewald ‘comfortably fixed for life.” ” » ” TO GRUNEWALD, Marsh's will granted a bequest of not

Gibraltar Of The Pacific .

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fourth of a series that tell the life story of Henry Wiltinm Grunewald, the fablous character of the fed. eral tax frand investigations, The author is a staff reporter of the Washington Post. to exceed $50,000. He had paid Grunewald an annual salary of $12,000 at the start, later ranging up to $18.000. He gave Grunewald a number of additional cash gifts. When the estate was settled, Grunewald's share was about $32,000. Grunewald paid Marsh's final expenses out of a joint bank account the retired insurance millionaire had opened for them in a Florida bank. The joint account totaled some $50,000. When the bills were paid, Grunewald turned the. balance over to the estate, Soon after Marsh's death, Grunewald for the second time in his life got into trouble with the government over liquor. For alleged black market activities in 1943, Grunewald was named a codefendant in a 5-million-dollar suit by the Office of Price Administration for treble damages for over-ceiling liquor sales, one of the largest OPA =guits of its kind, ” ~ ~ GRUNEWALD and other defendants' denied it. The suit against Grunewald was dropped early in 1950, and against the others later that year. Among those named as codefendants in the suit were the American Distilling Co., and several of its officers; the partners of Foster and Co., also of New York; Country Distillers Products, Inc.,, of Deatsville, Ky.; Ben Burk, Inc. of Boston, Mass. One OPA citation charged that Grunewald, Brown and others conspired with the Burke company to sell 1000 cases of whisky to a Washington liquor store in December, 1943 for $17,500 more than the ceiling price of $21,460. About 1944 Grunewald did his first investigating job for Samuel Pryor, vice president of the Pan American Airlines. He said Pryor had the idea that com-

No. 3

Fancy Clubs H

By DOUGLAS LARSEN Times Special Writer

(QEINAWA, Mar, 13—On the highest point of the southern part of Okinawa, with a magnificent view of the ocean and harbor, there is located what is probably the fanciest and largest U. S. officers club in the world.

It is the social hub for the civilians and officers of the Ryukyu Islands, but it didn’t cost the U. 8. taxpayers a cent. The officers built it and paid for it themselves. A few blocks away is the Stateside Club, at least equal-to-the finest non-com club that can be found in the U. 8. A 15-piece Filipino ' band plays nightly, featuring the singing of one of the most prominent Filipino movie actresses. Many civilians and officers prefer it to the “0” club for dancing.

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NEXT to it is the Fiddler's Green, a club for any enlisted man who wants to go 'there, also as good and managed as well ag anything like it in the U. 8. The enlisted men’s clubs .also pay for themselves.

These three clubs plus others like them and many movies, PX’'s and similar concessions, represent the big difference between Okinawa and just any other lonely U. S. island outpost, as far as the moral of the personnel stationed here is concerned.

A littfe more than a year ago when the island didn’t haye its standing as a vitally strategic spot in the Far East, morale among the troops nere was zero. It had the reputation of a cemetery for officers . . . you came out here to be forgotten.

» EJ » TODAY, with its new role as the future keystone of American defenses in the Pacific, morale and living conditions are excellent. And this is mostly the result of the efforts of Maj. Gen.

Robert 8, Beightler, boss of the Ryukyus Command.

“This is a long way from home and you've got to give the people who come here or who are ordered here as pleasant a life as possible, with plenty of recreation,” he explains. Most of the troops and officers stationed here agree that it is now a pleasant place for duty. The influx of wives and families is helping to bolster that atticude, along with new housing and other improvements going up all over, » " ~

MARY BROWN of Columbus, 0., a young, attractive civilian employee of the Army who

wftame out as a secretary a few

months ago, expresses the typical view of the place: “I love it. There is good swimming practically all year. Hiking. Dancing. Sightseeing. Practically anything you can do in Columbus. And vou can’ save money." From the looks of the Okinawans, most of whom have adopted American dress including lipstick for the ladies they seem not to be chafing under the occupation. They are

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HOOCH AGAIN—For the second time the Dutchman went ‘round and ‘round with Uncle Sam about liquor sales,

petitive airlines had agents following him, 80 Grunewald checked into it.

» » » HE SAID Pryor also had the idea his telephones might be tapped, and Grunewald checked and found they were clear. Grunewald said he made a similar check for Pryor in 1948, explaining “he was a fellow who always thought his wires were tapped or he was being followed.” For his first Pan American job, Grunewald said he was paid about $750 for two days work, and for his second about $1500 for three or four days work. “They have got plenty of money so you can charge them and don't worry about it,” he

explained. Grunewald listed John IL. Lewis, the UMW ch and “Billy” Hutchinson, the d of

the AFL carpenters’ union, now retired, as among the clients for whom he made investiga-

tions. When asked, they didn’t recall it. He listed Edward J. Noble, former Undersecretary of Commerce, and chairman of the Board of the American Broadcasting Co., as another client for whom he did a confidential investigation. Noble conceded the investigation had been made a confidential personnel matter—but sald it was handled through the lawyers, and he did not know directly of Grunewald,

” » . GRUNEWALD also Kept an ear turned to politics, On the eve of the 1948 presidential election he talked by telephone with former Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring in Kansas, Woodring predicted that while Truman would lose Kansas he would carry the Middle West because of farmers’ discontent. Grunewald figured that “Harry Woodring ought to know his awn apple orchard,”

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and rode his Bunch to win $20.000 with a bet on Truman. It was a handsome return for the $1600 Grunewald had contributed to the Democrats, He reported his winning on his income tax return,

n » " TO TOP it off he got a personal letter of thanks from the President for his campaign contributions —one of several similar letters fhat were gent out, According to the White House, the letter said:

o"Dear Mr. Grunewald:

“1 have heard of the gener. ous way in which yon expressed confidence in my lead ership and want you to know of my heartfelt appreciation, I am more grateful than I can say. “The Democratic Party must go forward with progress and the support which you gave so wholeheartedly gives me strength and courage and renewed faith in the principles for which our party must always stand. “Very sincerely yours, J (signed) “HARRY TRUMAN. In the next few montha, Grunewald took some major steps and suffered a major setback. He built a $100,000 luxury home in the Val Harbour section of Miami Beach, Visitors

there included Internal Revenues

Commissioner George J, Schoneman and Charles Oli phant, General Counsél of Inter. nal Revenue.

» » » IN WASHINGTON he joined with Woodring in a business deal with two New York brothers .to barter American hides for German concrete, Woodring went to Europe on the project. The trading went slower than expected and Woodring pulled out with $2500 to show for the $3200 he spent, Grunewald kept Woodring's name on the door of the Washington Hotel office suite for which the former Cabinet officers paid the rent for several months. Finally, Grunewald suffered a severe bout with a mysterious allment that gave him some-

thing to talk about when he .

was haled to the Capitol as’ “mystery man” of the Senate

wiretapping probe.

(Copyright, a, by United Feature Syndicate)

NEXT: Grunewald in wire-tap inquiry.

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OKINAWA NATIVES, like these women leveling a baseball diamond, were cheered by the U.S. offi. cial attitude. They were promised that the U.S. had no colonial ambitions on Okinawa.

friendly and obviously prosperous. Gen, Beightler says: ” o n “WE ARE working to restore the Ryukyus to self-sufficiency.

We have established a sound political structure and, as fast as the people become ready,

have given the Okinawang resspongibility for their own governmental functions. For the firat time in their history they

are electing their own governore, assemblymen and Ryu kvus-wide assémblymen. “l.and is being returned tn the proper owners ag rapidly as consolidated military installations are completed. Small local industries have developed in surprising numbers and have found outlets and markets for their products and goods not

only within the Ryukyu Islands,

“VAST STOCKPILES of equipment dot Okinawan landscape. Lt. Col. Riley Harris (left) shows corre-

spondent Dgugles Larsen some 2000-pound general purpose: bombs.

but in Japan, Formosa and the United States.” On a recent visit to the island, Assistant Secretary of the Army Earl D. Johnson made the best explanation yet given to the Okinawans as to the goals of the government there. He said: NB ”.. ” “MY country h¥s no interest in a colonial policy or in governing other people. We helieve that Okinawans have a life and culture of their own and they should preserve it. We do not want to keep any permanent respongibility for the civil ad-

ministration of the Ryukyus.*” This statement probably did more than anything else since the invagion to help relations with the Okinawans,

The very long view for the future of Okinawa, of course, depends on the state of the relations between the U. 8. and Russia; If the U. 8. should ever decide that the island was no longer needed for defensive reasons it could return it to Japan or place its fate in the hands

of the United Nations, » (End of Series) %

OKINAWA PERSONNEL have fun at the Island's fancy clubs,