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By Ed Sovola
off it.” . ¢ The interesting information which was flippe at me by Joe Price, one of two young I rey wrenching. a living out of Sports Car’ Service, piqued the magneto in my stomach. to life. “I have a farge yen for a : large amount of chili,” I said, smacking my lips. “Joe, let's see how clean it really is.” Joe explained he didn’t want to.be taken literally, He was simply trying ta, drive home a quality that is inherent in every owner of a sports car, Sports car owners don't speak the
car owner, . “What language does he — E speak?” Joe caught the nod —
and glanced at Fred Eichrodt, British sports car owner, s we
“Fred's thinkin’,» half-whispered Joe.
“Fred's meditating,” whispered John Wood, Joe's partner, 3
S & o IF I WERE describing the look Fred had on his face as he peered at his shiny, chromed power plant, I would say he had just seen the most beautiful woman in the world, Or, Fred was watching a sunset below the ‘equator when the sea was calm and he was heading home with a foot locker chuck full of rubies, Fred was looking at an engine, an MG engine. Joe -Price and John Wood took me by the shoulders and said they would explain what a sports car and a sports car owner were. “Sports car owners are interested primarily in engines; performance, power,” began John. “The engine Fred is looking at is an experimental gem. Everything in it is basic and essential. Fred is probably thinking of a way to improve it, It's the eternal quest of sports car addicts.” JOE INTERRUPTED. “Guys like Fred don't care how many air filters, ash trays, fancy window and door handles are in a car, That's not the case when the average man or woman decides to buy an automobile. They seldom ask about cubic displacement, brake horsepower per cubic inch or concern themselves with the power to
weight ratio.” >
it Happened Last Ni By Earl Wilson
WASHINGTON, Mar. 25—You think more of sickness as you get older. Thus it was that I left Broadway for a day and lunched with the Surgeon General, 1 got a strange impréssion. y Some day, very few people should be sick— unless they're quite old. : . The Surgeon General didn’t say exactly that. Dr. Leonard A. Scheele is no old fossil with a spade beard. He's 44, Comes from Ft. Wayne, Ann Arbor and Detroit. He's a career man. Big and young-looking¢ “Look at al! the things being accomplished” he said. “Right here we have a blood vessel bank — people who've died Dr. have left blood vessels. They have a bone bank, a nerve bank and soon— a skin bank.” We were out at the U. 8. Naval Hospital in tethesda. “A skim bank?” I asked. “Yes. Dr. Wilton Earle of the National Caner Institute has grown human skin in test tubes.
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Jrow it in sheets. They can graft this onto other humans who've beén burned or otherwise injured.” oo
THE SURGEON GENERAL paused to let me appreciate it. “Think of what this might mean to injured boys back from Korea. “In heart surgery,” he continued, “marvelous things are being done. . “Think of it—puting plastic valves in the place of diseased heart valves. And using an artificial heart and letting it do the work while you do all sorts of operations on the heart.” I pretended to understand all this, “The polio people,” he hurried on, “hope to find a vaccine. You know about the new tuberculosis drug. Everybody's hoping this is it.”
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“DO YOU THINK we will lick cancer in the next 10 years?” I. inquired. “Definitely, ves.” “Five vears?” 1 said. “It isn't safe to put a time tag on that.” he answered. “But,” he continued, “our health problems now largely concern the aged population. “We've been saving lives at the early end of
Bonanza By Frank Flaherty
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OTTAWA, Mar. (CDN) —Being a diseasecarrier suspect is like being the winner of a bagful f prizes at a radio giveaway. At least it's proven so for Willi Bruntjen, a farmhand from Germany. Probably the only person to profit out of Canada's recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, Willi's got a lot of free travel and publicity for his troubles. He's had a good chance to look over his adopted country<and plan his future, unmarred by fears of deportation. All because it was once, thought he brought the virus which causes the disease from Westhalia to a farm in Saskatchewan. WILLI'S JOY is shared by that western province's cattlemen, but not so lucky are other (3erman or European farmhands who may want to emigrate to Canada. Government veterinary experts who examined Willi and his clothes and found no evidence he was a carrier, have decreed that no more people ire to come to Canada if they've been near
diseased European cattle within the previous 72 lays. Canadian’ livestock men, threatened with a
serious market slump because they can't sell surplus cattle in the United States, have another reason to breath easier: No new cases of foot and mouth disease have appeared outside the juarantined area in southern Saskatchewan. - ALL ANIMALS that had the diseases, or were exposed to it, have been shot and buried in deep pits. Fapis in the affected area are being cleaned up and disinfected.
Hopes run high, in fact, that in a few months”
the whole cattle business, nationally and interafionally, will be"back to normal. Willi, who speaks no English, was quite a
~ worried farmer for a while after the Canadian
government took an interest in him. He thought ne’d be shipped back home, at best, or locked up in jail, at worst. ? What looked like foot-and-mouth had appeared on a farm on which Willi had his first job in Canada. When 4it was learned he came from Westphalia, where foot-and-mouth disease existed, he was traced back. It was found he had been
on & German farm where there were diseased
cattle. A de 8 BY THIS time Willi had left his Saskatchewan farm Job without leaving a fofwarding address. He went to a lumber camp for a while, then moved on to Vancouver, Unable to read Canadian newspapers he knew nothing about a nationwide manhunt being staged for him by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. -
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“All that cubic stuff in’ a pleasure car?" Several wrenches feli off the wall and Fred Eichrodt returned from the land where Jaguars ‘you are supposed to raise your head and clap your hands sat the mention of the name) grow on trees and everyone has a backyard like Day.tona Beach. . wc or a I don’t know why but whenever anyone mentioned Jaguar, the name was spoken with rey. erence usually reserved for chassis such as driven by, for example, Lana Turner or Betty Grable. Excuse the comparison, please, I'm not mechanic-
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Everyone in the garage which faces N. Talbot St. and cuddles up to E. 14th St. stiffened as a sleek, black hood peeked around the corner. It was John Broerse Jr.'s Jaguar, Quickly Joe explained what a true sports car, which is not-to be confused with a hot rod, is. It is a two-passenger roadster and in most cases foreign-made. Only the man who owns a sport car knows the true nfeaning of driving, Joe said. on oo ow I ASKED JOHN how he got started with sports cars. He said he was in California a few months ago cruising around im his Cadillac. A young man pulled longeing Si in a Jaguar, They looked at one another, each proud of what they possessed. The lights changed and for” a few seconds it was neck-and-neck. “Then the guy in the Jaguar quit’ fooling around and poured the gas on. I felt like I was standing still,” John laughed. “That's when I decided to have a Jaguar” Almost as if someone had given a signal, the sports car boys began to explain that they don't go around looking for a race. They are not highway jumping-juice jockeys. “John, in his Jaguar, gets a kick out of knowing that nobody on four wheels can go around him. Only another Jaguar will make him sit up and really take notice,” said Joe. “When you know that your car can go from zero to 60 mph in nine seconds, from zero to 80 mph in 15 secs onds and from ( to 100 mph in 21 seconds, you're not worried.” John summed the morning - with sports car owners in this way: “If 1 invented a 10c item that added to the performance of a car I could sell it for $1000; if I had a $1000 item that didn’t, I couldn't sell it to John or Fred for 10c.” Hmmmmmm.
Only the OId Will Be Sick
life—controlling children's diseases. Now we're at the other end.” In 1900, the per cent of population over 85 was 4.1. In 1920, it was 4.7. In 1940, it rose to 6.8. Now they estimate that in 1960 it will be 10 per cent. £ So there you are. If these miracles-a-minute continue, in a century almost everybody will have a long life and a happy one. I can dream, can't I? THE MIDNIGHT EARL . , , Franchot Tone was at the Little Club with Elaine Carrington, an old friend, when news of his bustup with Barbara Payton shot across the U. S.- Calm, dignified and uncommunicative, he got up and took Miss Carrington home. It's virtually sure now that Milton Berle will be back with Texaco .,. Veep Barkley's friends feel he'll runs for U. S. Senator ... As a press stunt, Li'l Abner wili marry Daisy Mae very soon + « « Valerie Wallace is a TV dancer. Gypsy Markoff announces she married Renee Bellair, big Cairo hotel operator . . . Katharine Hepburn leaves for London to star in the Shaw play, “The Millionairess” . . . Toots Shor and the Duke of Windsor were photographed together in Palm Beach ... Joe La Salle, who was released in the Willie Moretti shooting, is now in Cuba, helping Batista. (Who isn’t?) Mrs. Moss Hart (Kitty Carlisle) told a friend: “We don’t believe much in child psychology. We take the attitude, ‘We're bigger'n you are and it's our house, so do as we say.” EARL'S PEARLS . .. Arnie Rosen told Jack E. Leonard he had a very fat aunt who got that way eating candy. “In fact,” he said, “she had a very sweet tusk.” ? TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: To complaining hypochondriac, Coleman Jacoby said, “What's the difference, as long as you've still got your sick ness?” Irony: Hollywood producer Joe Pasternak. recently divorced by Dorothy Jarell, will be best man when Bullets Durgom marries June Lamont. . Marilyn Maxwell's been dating ex-husband John Conti. . . . Maurice Feldman says it was he who got swell actress Gusti Huber (Mrs. Joe Besch) her B'way chance in “Flight into Egypt.”
So, WISH I'D SAID THAT: “A boy has become a man when he'd rather steal a kiss than steal home.” -—Myron Cohen. In the new show, “One Bright Day,” actor Glenn Anders says he was such a had boy “1 drove my mother back to my father.” And Howard Lindsay =avs, “I understand your parents ran
away with another child.” ,,. That's Earl, brother. v »
Hoof-Mouth Disease Lark to Immigrant
When he got to the West Coast, city friends there told him he was wanted and he reported to the -police. They didn't arfest him but it amounted to the same thing. He was detained, put aboard an airplane and flown to Ottawa where he was quartered in seclusion in the animal
diseases laboratory of the Department of Agriculture.
AFTER ABOUT 10 days the virus sleuths reported they had examined his person and effects and found no trace of virus. They gave Willi a new suit of clothes, a free ticket back to Van‘ouver and $50 in cash. - When last reported he had a good job on a farm near Vancouver, thought Canada was a zood country and, having seen most of it from the air, had decided to save his money and set
nimself up with a hog ranch on the Canadian prairies,
Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q—What is best fertilizer to use for lawns” How apply it? Fall Creek Blvd. A—Most lawn problems go back to hard soil So most lawns need a fertilizer that will both enrich and condition the soil by loosening it up. There are a number of good types. on the market
One is a:compost that will both enrich and loosen your ground. Another is made from sewage (ir another city) and adds chiefly nitrogen to the lawn You can, of course, get much the same thing fror
Read Marguerite Smith's Garden-Column in The Sunday Times
our own sewage disposal plant. (But this should i hauled in the fall, left out to freeze .and tha into workable condition.) One way of getting the most out of these soil conditioning types is to use a mechanical soil aerator, then put on the fertilizer so part of it gets down to root level. Otherwise, with these slow "acting non-burning ferti lizers you need not be too concerned about how you apply them. Just don’t pile them thick on top of established grass so they smother it. You could safely use up to a half inch layer all over your lawn if your pocketbook could stand it. Mechanical spreaders help to get it on evenly, If you use chemical fertilizers it is wiser to-use a complete ‘fertilizér than one that is almost entirely nitrate.
~ If you're a good weather prophet, spread ¢hemical
fertilizers before .a rain.. Otherwise hose it in so it doesn’t burn foliage. And don't useour four lbs, of the garden chemical fertilizers’ tH a hundred square) feet, =
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(Second of a Series)
By ALLAN KELLER Times Special Writer
JUST because your tax dollar supports the local government in New York City, it doesn’t mean you can learn
what's going on,
Between the citizen and his municipal government
are hundreds of ofhicials who are convinced they know best just what and how much should be told you about the affairs of City Hall, the departments and other agencies of administration. There was a day when newspaper reporters - accompanied the police on raids and other assignments so the public might hetter be informed of how their lives and property are protected, In this era of creeping dictatorship that day is over,’
n n rn TODAY it is impossible to pick up the telephone and ask the police lost property clerk for information without first clearing it with the secretary of the department. An inquiry as innocuous as how many horseshoes are worn out py the department's “cavalry” must be submitted to this guardian of the force before the officer in charge of the stables can answer a reporter's query. Thought control isn’t unique with the police, however. From the Bronx to Tottenville the order has gone out: Don't talk to the press without the permission of department heads. Rudolph Halley, elected to the post of council president on a reform ticket, issued an order gagging all of the men in his office save himself and one other. Later, he explained at length that it was done ior reasons of accuracy only, but the order still sticks.
THE significant point is this: The reason behind such censorship may be legitimate in intent but it draws a curtain that may well hide graft, scandal or misfeasance,
A World-Telegram and Sun reporter wanted to interview an employee of the Department of Marine and Aviation who had a dangerous job working in water, to repair piers and docks. It was to be a human interest story, devoid of security, policy or politics. Only after repeated arguments was the interview arranged and then only with the agreement that the man’s superior be present. Such situations invariably lead to suspicion on the part of the honest observer that perhaps fear of
publicity is based upon knowledge of wrongdoing or inefficiency. Grover Whalen, as chief factotum of New York's Golden Anniversary Celebration, had printed and distributed an incredibly ornate brochure on the atom. It was done in gold leaf, on hard celluloid and expensive paper.
BECAUSE every bit of the
story ‘had been printed before,
the question of the book's jus-
tification arose, and its cost to *
the taxpayer. One might think the answer would have been forthcoming at once. Instead it took three days of digging and fighting with city employees, who are paid out of your tax money, to learn that the 3000 booklets cost $7 apiece. It was your - money but they didn't want you to ask questions about it,
Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri doesn’t like the press as an institution. He finds, reporters annoying because “they ask questions. He puts off or cancels press conferences whenever he can. Now the newspapermen who cover City Hall have a system that works.
Knowing the mayor's fondness for being photographed with pretty girls who have just been crowned Miss Stenographer (South of Canal St. Division) or Maid of Sheepshead Bay, they follow the photographers, into the Mayor's private office for the ceremony, Then they just stay on after the keys to the city or the pretty scroll or whatever it is that has passed hands is taken away by the glamour girl.
IT WOULD be a ludicrous travesty on civic affairs if it were not the result of a con-flict—deep-rooted—between the desire of the people to learn what is being done with their money and the desire, or willingness, of officials to cloak most city business in secrecy. Taking ‘their cue from the mayor, most of the city commissioners have clammed up so tightly it takes a blast from the opposition on the floor of the City Council or the Board of Estimate or a writ of man-
IKE'S PROBABLE SUCCESSOR
Gen. Gruenther
By WADE JONES Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Mar. 25—If Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s wishes mean anything—and they usually do—the next supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty army may well be a compact, bridge-playing brain of a
man from Nebraska. That would be a four-star general named Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, now chief of staff for Ike. His SHAPE staff members reserve for Gen, Gruenther such unmilitary-sounding tributes as stupendous, fabulous, fantastic, This enthusiasm for the sharpminded general is shared, if in not quite such glowihg terns, by the head men in the military. Top brass had Gen. Gruenther (pronounced like month-er) pegged as a winner for years, and he came through for them. He was the anonymous planner of the African invasion under Ike in 1942 and later was chief-
of-staff in Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth Army in the Mediterranean, Strangely, Gen. (GGruenther
gained a spot in the public eye before he did with the military. And it all came about some 20 years ago in a curiously nonmilitary matter, An incident which happened then gives a pretty good insight into the man who may soon head the military strength of the Western World. Back in the 1930's Gen
Gruenther, obscure as only an Army lieutenant in the 30's could be, rose to sudden and singular prominence as, of all things, a tournament bridge director. (He was also a top laver.) Iis efforts to inject some \ilitary order into the tournanent haphazardness of those lays met the big test in the first. tourney he directed, The reigning bridge star, the late P, Hal Sims, dnd several cronies showed up for play 10 minutes ‘late, Gen. Gruenther forthwith barred them from play. The ~nsuing argument lasted just 30 seconds. Mr. Sims and his riends sheepishly walked iway.’
; 1.8m . OTHER players who had already begun the tournament rose from their seats to cvheer their dauntless director. ' Gen. Gruenther had latecom-_ er trouble no more. i
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Twenty years later, Gen. Gruenther still is a fast man with a direct order, and his bridge-sharpened brain functions with a speed and clarity that is almost dumbfounding. With the people’ under him he is tough and demanding. He once wrote in a letter, “If a'man can work for me, he can work for anyone.”
Rather than talk personally to his subordinates about all
the day-to-day things that have to be done, he writes them notes which have become known at SHAPE as Gruenthergrams. He signs them Just with: the letter “G.” And woe bhetide the officer who doesn't act as directed by the cryptic messages, n ~ ~ HE HAS a quick temper, but he cools off fast. If things aren't going right in a conference of some kind, he indicates his displeasure by a series of loud, sharp coughs. * Gen. Gruenther has an amazing memory. Tell him ydur birth date and a year from now he can give §t to you. x He astounds officials of NATO countries by reciting to them off the cuff such things as their steel output two years ago, how many locomotives they have, where their production bottlenecks lie,
A mind like this stands Gen. Gruenther in good stead when dealing with different countries on such complex and ticklish problems as who pays for what in NATO, which wéapons shall be made the standard for all, who gets what raw materials and why. > . wn “ GEN. GRUENTHER got invalyable training for his present job during World War II, and after, , The day he arrived in London in 1942, Ike told him: “Have a plan for the invasion of North Africa in five days.” He did. Later, as chief of staff for Gen. Clark, he not only planned
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formation out of their departments,
This is Néw York. Remember that. It isn't Prague, or Budapest or Moscow. But within the last few weeks, an incident involving the Fire Department occurred which belongs in the annals of the Soviet MVD-or Gilbert & Sullivan, ~ » ~ FIREMAN Willlam McCrea of Hook and Ladder 19, entered a cooking contest on the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. His “Fireman's Special Stew” won second place. A reporter for this paper tried to get the recipe, For four hours she was shunted from deputy to deputy, to secretary, to per-
sonnel clerk, to commissioner's -
aid. Finally an official said “O.K. The story is going to be complimentary, isn’t it?”
The virus of censorship filters into many fields—including the courts, Why the public should be interested in the marital affairs of Billy Rose and Eleanor Holm is open to debate, but no one will deny that this couple deserves no kinder treatment then the Joneses down the
street who can no longer make a go of their marriage.
Yet, the other day, in Supreme
Court, - Manhattan, reporters scanned the printed calendar of motions prepared for their session and found nothing of interest. The calendar clerk called the 133 cases that were on the list, Then he asked if there were any additions, Attorneys stepped forward as if in well-rehearsed agreement, handed over certain papers, and sald ‘Yes, Rose against Rose.”
* ALMOST as a football is lateralled on the gridiron, the papers went from the clerk to another clerk and upstairs to the chambers of Justice Kenneth O’Brien, who sealed them. Ordinarily these papers would have been handed to a clerk in Special Term Part 1 to be entered in-the docket book and also In the book for dispositions, giving the reporters plenty of time tc see what the papers contained. . Sometimes the gag Is clamped on openly, sometimes as a clandestine “suggestion.” Rarely is it challenged, William G. Christy, director of the city’s Bureau of Smoke Control, imposed a gag order on
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Rear Adm. Willlam 8. Maxe well, USN (Ret.), the deputy director. It climaxed a long controversy in which Mr, Maxwell was outspoken in favor of rigid crackdowns on smoke violators. Mr. Christy favored more moderate methods. » . ” SIGNIFICANTLY, the bue reau is controlled by the four. member’ Smoke Control Board, of which both men are members. Adm. Maxwell thought membership entitled him to speak out. : “In order for me to continue to do a job I must have freedom of action,” argued Adm. Maxwell. “You cannot separate this bureau into one of action and one of silence, This job can only be done without any restrictions placed on the deputy director. The charge that this order was made because of news leaks in a flimsy one. It is my sincere hope that it will be rescinded. I can’t do a job with a gag on.” The admiral was trained as a fighting man. Most governs ment employees open their jaws meekly when the gag is slipped on,
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Called ‘Brain Of A Man’
GEN. ALFRED GRUENTHER "Stupendous, fabulous, fantastic." ficers of the many nations who (Gen. Gruenther sums up the
had troops in the American Fifth and British Eighth Armies,
n » ” GEN. CLARK once called him “the best damn soldier in the Army.” | my For a time after the war Gen: Gruenther was deputy commander of our occupation forces in Austria. He was recalled to Washington in December, 1945, to be deputy com-
mander of the National. War College, - » » TWO years later he was
named director of the Joint Staff, which does the plans and logistics for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ; »" When Ike was named to head SHAPE a year ago he called again for Gen. Gruenther, the planner, “You're my chief of staff” Ike told Gen. Gruenther when the latter reported for duty. “I suppose you've started planning already.” Gen. Gruenther had. From his pocRet he pulled th blueprint for SHAPE.
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aims of SHAPE like this: “Nobody can guarantee that
Stalin won't start a - war’ whether the West rearms or not, All 1 know is that if the
West does huild a force capable of halting the Red Army, it may give Stalin some sober second thoughts.” 5 o ” FROM the ‘way Gen. Gruenther goes at his job, you'd think he was building the forces of the West singlehanded. His work day often lasts 20 hours, including the heavy load of home work he takes with him from the office each night. And this is for a seven-day week, not five, ’ When he doesn't lunch with Ike, he has yogurt and crackers at his desk. He often has as many as 20 visitors a day. And when Gen. Eisenhower is away from his affice, Gen: all Ike's problems, as well as his own. But despite the importance of
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“just an ordinary Midwestern American,” says Maj, John 8, Wood, his aide.
ONE OF Gen. Gruenther's pet schemes at SHAPE was a semimonthly tea for officers’ wives at which he explained the important job they had to do in making things run smoothly, To Gen. Gruenther's regret, the parties had to be discontinued because of the pressure of work. Gen. Gruenther can also be a very warm and human gent, an aspect which comes to light through another bridge story, Shortly after the end of World War II, Gen. Gruenther attended a national bridge tournament at Atlantic City, He also invited the walking patients of a veterans’ hospital to come over and have a bull
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yw» WHEN a tournament official appeared to see what was keeping Gen, Gruenther, he found the general diligently scribbling his autograph for the veterans, “Don’t you know,” exclaimed the official, “that those are week-end. passes you're signe ing?" “Nonsense,” said Gen. Gruen« ther, “they look like bridge
scorecards to me.” And he went right on signing the delighted veterans’ week-end passes,
r 0 IKE EISENHOWER — If he has his way about it, and he usually does, there won't be:any
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