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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovels,

IN THE spring a young man's fancy turns fo

thoughts of convertibles, if he has any get-up-and-go at all. Ask any young man with get-up-and-go. © ;

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sk the young man who remembers the Stutz Bearcat, Jordan Playboy and the Graham-Paige touring car. Ask the young man who remembers the time when automobile tires were such that a kid could curl up inside and be rolled around the block. : Those were the good ol’ days. Or were they? Come with me in my 1913 Buick convertible and let's g8 for a ride with the top down. Of course, you know, to go that far into the past a man needs a helping hand. William R. Krafft, presi: dent of Monarch Buick, was the man with the hand and the convertibles to pull back the curtain of time. “Take whatever you need,” said Mr Krafft, and little did he know how much I would take. “» 0 Wn

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Krafft's 1913 red Buick convertible was on the line with Mechanic Harry (Bud) Stewart behind the wheel. A 1952 yellow convertible Buick purred in my eager hands. Beside Bud was Times Photographer Dean Timmerman. Beside me was Wm. H. Block Model Miss Jean Schneider and how she got there is a trade secret. We needed atmosphere. Timmerman selected the lane that a young man man whose fancy turned to thoughts of convertibles might choose. Reluctantly Jean and I parked the yellow horses and climbed into the struts-and-canvas dust-catcher. Curtain going up. “Shall I put the top down ...er... ah, Jean? Wonderful day. You can wear my goggles if vou care to.” “Oh, let's. But don’t go so fast, Ed, when the top is down. You were going 30 and golly, gee, that's fast.”

Ho, ho, ho and 23-skidoo. Top coming down.

Rear curtain and the front strans . . . ta-taaaa. Now this little ol’ cotter pin. What's a fingernail on a beautiful day like this? Ta-taaaa-

ta-ta, top coming down. We'll be rolling in a jiff, Jean. a» 6 6 COME ON GIVE, strut, time's a-wastin’.

Stand back, Jean, the top may be coming down «+ « 0000f. Let's see this brace folds down . . . no, folds back . .. ouch, Why don’t you pick a bouquet of violets, Jean Thanks, I can handle it all right. Done it many times. The supports are a bit stiff from winter. Knuckles, knuckles, who wants skin on knuckles? There's more where that came from. Pull that strut, twist that cotter key, tug that strap, push that stanchion. One side loose, Jean, we'll be rolling in no time. I'm hurryin’. What do you want me to do, use a hack saw? This side must have been on the outside all winter, Some day a clever lad is going to figure out a: collapsible top that will collapse before the collapser. Jean, I know all about the uprights. This side bar doesn’t go forward, it's supposed to . ,

It Havnened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Mar. 28—Handsome Tony Curtis, the young movie star, was explaining “The Miracle of Bernard Schwartz.” “That was me. Bernie Schwartz,” Tony Curtis said. “That Friday I'm playing stickball in the Bronx. It's 11 in the morning. “My mother comes running out of the house : oui yelling ‘Bernie, Bernie.’ : 48 She says I'm wanted at an office downtown. PF “I changed from my sneakers to shoes. But I kept on my sweat shirt. When I got to the office, this nice woman handed me something. She says, ‘Here’s your plane ticket. You're leaving at 3 o'clock Monday for Hollywood.’ “I borrowed money from my uncle over the week-end and bought a valise. Next thing I'm at the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood. “Bob Goldstein calls me into his office at Universal. ‘There’s your contract, he says. I didn’t dare look at how much money. I signed without looking. “Don’t you want to know how much you're getting?’ he says. “ ‘No. Surprise me,’ I said.

“Two weeks later they said, ‘Get your first check.” I figured I'd be getting $175 at least. I looked at the check. It's $32.50. “I started to cry. I could make more than that in /the garment area. I took it back and says, ‘Man, this is a mistake.’ “He said, ‘It is a mistake. $5.

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Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Mar. 28—As a simple citizen I do not wish to know anything of Gen. Eisenhower’s private plans—nothing inside, that is; no deep scuttlebut. From here on, as one who may conceivably vote for him, I want him anly on the record. You might even call me a man who wants to vote for Eisenhower, if Ike himself will make it possible. But one thing clear I want, if 1 vote for Eisenhower, is for him to quit kidding around with politics on the one side and this NATO business, worth billions of our dollars, on the other. We are not asking the man to dance, you know. We are practically beseeching him to run for the presidency of the United States. : Ike has played a real cute tune, so far, between his commitment to the forging of forces abroad, and his susceptibility to the political beckon. It is becoming a touch too cloying for my personal tastes. 1 feel a little like a guy in a trance when the man who may run for my money makes headline news with a warmed-over quote delivered two years ago.

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NOW HE SENDS his chief of staff, Gen. Al-

fred Gruenther, over here to talk about what. goes on with

the union of European Iances st a ession, a little item which will e A nearly $8 billion. I don’t want Gruenther talking for Eisenhower before the Congress in Washington. Gimmé Ike. Gimme the H-coon. He's the boss of the show. Come to mention it, the big trouble so far with Mister-General Eisenhower as either a defense boss or a presidential candidate is that too many- people have been telling us what Ike thinks and what Ike believes. It has been an“exceedingly coy campaign from the first, with Ike peeping out from behind his position as NATO boss to wink at the boys in the political stag line. We have heard the politicos speak for Ike the politician; now we are hearing the military boys speak for Ike the military man. Somewhere the two-headed cat seems to have conquered Ike's tongue. NOT EVEN a member of the Communist Party could deny the fact that in the public esteem Eisenhower is way out in-front—and has made it all the way with no comments. ~ He has made no commitments, he says, because he is working for the President and the people of the United States as a commissioned officer, who has no political voice to utter in his: own behalf as a politician. | You now read that the reason he isn't over here to give the Congress the full dope on the

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UP SHE GOES — The good ol' days were never like this. You get the top to your car down as easily as you get the idea and "Mr, Inside'' and Model Jean Schneider have it.

ummmmmf fff , . . I appreciate your helpful nature but will you let a man handle a man's job? All right, just to prove to you it doesn't . ,. stand back, there she goes.

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WON'T BE long now. Just let me climb into the front seat and push the top back ... no, I can handle it. Poor footing. You have to get more leverage. Why didn’t I think of oiling the connections . . . ah, here she goes . .. oops, dabnabit. I'll be all right. That tear on my elbow won't show and we'll stop at the next creek and I'll wash my hands and face. Would you mind, Jean, handing me the cover to the top? This buggy is going to look neat if it takes all day. Help, my arm is caught in the folds. Can you lift . . . pull the canvas , .. no, on this side. Don’t mind a little dirt, get me loose. Like I said, we'll find a creek . .. Jean! It was your idea as much as it was mine to put the top down. We have another hour of sunshine left. The snaps on this custom-made cover will be ... that's strange, the snaps don’t line up with the catches. Maybe I've got the thing on wrong. Yep, that's what happened. Say, Jean, we'll be on our It's three miles

way . .. Jean, where you going? back to town .. . Jean. Scene II: Time, 1952—"Jean, let's put the top down.” “Oh, let's.”

Ho, ho, ho and Johnny Ray, the top is down. Must take the car in one of these days, Jean, that button pushes and pulls a little too hard. A man could crush a grape with the power he has to use to put the top down. Shal! we go for a little spin? These are the good ol' days, Jean, and there aren't many more left.

Tony Curtis Still Can’t Believe It

“I didn't know they took out Screen Actors Guild membership and everything. Well, it was straightened out. And here I am.”

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HERE HE 1S, at the top of the pile of young stars, married to lovely Janet Leigh, and able to live at the Sherry-Netherland and look back on it all. “My brother and I shined shoes outside of all these restaurants,” he said. “One time the headwaiter at Sardi’s kicked me out for trying to get in to collect a tip. “I would go home and say, ‘Mamma, look, I got a buck.” She would never take it and say, ‘We need it for the house.’ “We were dispossessed out of the store once, but Mamma could always make a dinner out of lotkes and a bottle of cherry soda. Mamma used to jazz it up some way and it was always wonderful. “Christmas Eve we would beg. I would take off the warm jacket Dad had bought me and I'd wring my hands and cry how cold I was. “One night a woman said no, and the top box fell off her bunch of packages. I almost slid under her car getting it and ran home and gave it to my mother. , “She gave me such a rap. It flimsy negligee. She knew I stole it. “And this very hotel where we're staying now— . “This is where we used to trv to helo peonle out of the taxis and hansom cabs for tips. The drivers would yell, ‘Get out of here you little ------ ? “And now I can look down out of my hotel suite and see it . . . the whole scene.”

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WISH I'D SAID THAT: “On account of his money, Milton Berle now orders pants with two pairs of pockets.”—Robt. Q. Lewis. Taffy Tuttle has a girl friend who's as beautiful as a bubble—and just as empty. . .. That's Earl, brother.

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Careful Ike, You're About to Lose a Vote

public office, and his political program forbids his returning to this country until May. That, in my book, is a lot of double-gabble, purely designed to keep him off the hook on both counts.

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IKE 1S way, way out in front, right this moment, but I can remember wheneTom Dewey was way, way out in front on the day before election, too, and something awful happened to him in 24 hours. It is barely possible that this puss-in-the-corner operation of Mister-General Eisenhower can lose him some votes, It was not long ago that Ike said he would never, never, ask for retirement for political purpose. Then the other day the letter pops up with the old escape hatch in it. , . . Ike now reckons that the task of building the alliance of Europe is far enough along to allow him to bow out modestly in order to come home to politick, I would like the last one better if I hadn't read the former. Mister-General Ike is beginning to stretch my one-vote patience, «because now he is neither warrior nor stumper, on the record, but a shy wallflower, hiding behind his handkerchief. There is a rough possibility if he waits too long some of us suitors may not ask him to dance, no matter how pretty he looks in his party clothes,

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—I would like information on when and how to plant carnation seeds. John A. Welch Jr. Circle Tower.

A—If you have the pinks that resemble the

greenhouse carnation (in distinction to the many -

other kinds of pinks that get called “carnation”) vou'll want to sow the seed indoors right away. For you won't get bloom from them this year unless you give them an early start. However, I once brought some of these really gorgeous

Read Marquerite Smith's Garden Column "in The Sunday Times

things’ to flower in four months from seed. They always cause a lot of comment from your visiting friends. If you don’t have a light, cool window to raise your seedlings on indoors for a time, you might give up the idea of flowers from them before next year. Then you can sow the seed outdoors any time. The plants are very "hardy. But get orf to a slow start outdoors. Chief soil requirement are good drainage and rich soil wellconditioned with humus-y materials such as compost, rotted manure or ground cobs. |

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FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1952

, REVEILLE AT5:30 A. M—

Army Bandsmen

CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind., Mar. 28—"Look, fellas,

he's playing.”

This was the amazed exclamation of a member of Camp Atterbury's 276th Army Band after a recent

performance, when Warrant Officer (JG) Robert Miller, leader of the band, absent-

mindedly reached for a piccolo and tootled a few notes.

Although W/O Miller holds a degree in music, and can get a tune out of almost any instrument you can name, the business of running an Army band leaves little time for such things. * " Combat training and administrative work come first,

Every Army band gets extensive combat training of the infantry type and the 276th is no exception. Marches, target practice, sleeping out in the field for days at a stretch—the 276th does it all.

Having completed basic traning, individual training, and unit training, the bandsmen are now undergoing their fourth three-month cycle of classes and exercises.

ALONG with this training, the 37 enlisted men in the band do get to play—but not under conditions which would warm the heart of a concert artist. Playing reveille on a wintry street at 5:30 every morning is all in the day’s work. What really hurt was rolling out at 2:30 a. m. and other odd hours—40 times in nine days— to serenade departing 28th Infantry Division troops last fall. But the bandsmen admit they liked the feeling of doing something for the morale of the men bound for Europe. Next month, the 276th will be playing around-the-clock again when {it greets: members

of the 31st Infantry Division as

they arrive here from the big Texas maneuvers.

IN THEIR own special combat duties—handling prisoners of war, interior guard duty, perimeter defense, etc. — the bandsmen have more training than most of the troops they see off. Their weapon is the carbine, lighter than the infantry rifle. Perimeter defense consists of digging ih on the outskirts of the area where your troops are assembling and providing their security while they prepare for

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the next attack. Interior guards help protect the. area from enemy infiltration, a maJor threat in Korea,

Band members get plenty of chance to use this training, ace cording to Cpl. Howard Irve ing, one of the 276th's nine members back from Korea.

«Cpl. Irving served in the 1st Cavalry Division Band and wears a Bronze Star won hy men of his unit in the Waegwon Campaign.

5 ~ on . “IT WASN'T until late last summer,” he says, “that we

started playing for the troops In rest areas. Until then, the only instrument members of the band was a carbine.”

Besides the marching field band which is what most people think of when an Army band is mentioned, Atterbury’s 276th Army Band can send out

three other units—a concert band, a dance band, and a “combo.” It supplies pit music for

Camp Atterbury's soldier shows and plays at service clubs both

on the post and in nearby cities.

A notable off-post appearance of the concert band was at the kickoff rally of the Indianapolis blood drive, sponsored by The Indianapolis Times, last fall in the Murat Theater.

THE EDUCATIONAL level of the band is among the highest of units in the camp. Onethird of the men have been to college.

The degree of bachelor of arts in music is held not only by W/O Miller but also by one enlisted man as well, He is Cpl, John Olivo, who graduated in music from DePaul University, Chicago. Olivo occasionally fills in as conductor of the 276th. “My advice to young musicians who face the draft,” says band director Miller, “is very simple. Study hard and become versatile on an instrument, so that you can get in the band and not have a chance to play.” But he says it with a smile,

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(Fifth of a Series) By ALLAN KELLER

Times Special Writer AN ARMY plane crashed upside down in a pond near Springfield, Mo. The two occupants were unhurt. The plane itself was of a type devoid of military security.

Despite this, state police

approaching’ the plane, from getting the names of the pilot and passenger, or any other information. It was pointed out to Col. David Harrison, superintendent of the Missouri State Police, that under the laws of the United States the military has no jurisdiction over civilians outside military reservations. If the military wants such powers, it must ask for martial law, and even then martial law is declared by the civil authorities—not the military,

IN THE face of this, Harrison refused to budge. “We will continue to obey the instructions’ of any military forces and comply with any request of the military to withhold information.” he said.

To a lot of men, the wearing of a uniform somehow establishes the right to censor, to hide behind a veneer of superknowledge as to what the ordinary man in the street should be told—about anything. Col. Harrison is not unique. This abrogation of rights is common wherever the military or police are in command. The Air Force, perhaps because it is the newest of the services, has been the worst offender. A short recital of just a few of these un-American, illegal seizures of power, or attempts at thought control, will show the pattern of thinking that dominates much of the Air Force brass.

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AN F-51 fighter of a type that had fallen into the hands of every potential enemy we have, and no more secret than ‘the color of Hedy Lamarr's eyes, fell into Vancouver Lake, near Portland Ore. Air Force police refused to let photographers get near the plane and threatened to seize their cameras. Another plane fell near Cloquet, Minn., and the Air Force police seized the film "in a cameraman’s possessidn. When Gen. Douglas A. Mac-

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Arthur flew to Honolulu to give a talk, Air Police mistreated both photographers and reporters. Thomas A. Finletter, Secretary for Air, sent official and public apologies, but the damage had been done.

IT DOESN'T ‘matter what general it is. The Air Police “protect” them at the expense of virtually everybody's civil rights. When Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower returned from Europe the last time, he landed at Mitchel Field on Long Island, A little man with lieutenants bars on his shoulders herded reporters and photographers into a room and closed the door, He said there would be no interviews. Air Force MPs said also no pictures would be taken.

The General landed and happened to walk past the room where the press was isolated. Sensing the injustice, he called th newsmen to a larger room and granted a pleasant, friendly interview, He posed readily for pictures.

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SOMETIMES censorship stems from stupidity, as it did here, but the important thing is that it has to be fought wherever it appears. : It was sheer stupidity again that caused the Army to refuse information to a 8t. Paul, Minn., newspaper at the time it took over management of the nation's railroads under presidential orders.

A reporter asked the Army's

‘regional chief which lines were

under military supervision, which. railway unions have contracts with the lines involved, and how many workers were covered by the contracts.

THE replies were not forthcoming, the Army said, because it was “restricted” information dealing with nationdl defense, A protest was wired to the Pentagon and after much hemming and hawing the informa-

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tion was wired back-—together with more apologies. The most significant thing about the St. Paul gag order, of course, is that it shows how swiftly the military .tries to wrap a cloak of security around anything it touches, whether justified or not. The armed services seem able to crawl farther out on limbs than other agencies of the gov; ernment, and to look sillier while doing it. Honors in this questionablé sweepstakes were

held for a long time by the

two-star general in command of the Carswell Air Force Base, F't. Worth, Tex. » = o A B-36 bomber crashed in New Mexico, far from his base of operations, but under his jurisdiction because it flew from Carswell, the Ft.

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cident. The general didn't like what some of the relatives said, 80 he issued an order banning representatives of that paper from the air field. For five days he made the ban stick; despite the embarrasment it caused the Defense Department. Finally he was ordered. by Washington to stop playing censor, and the ban was lifted. But: for those five days he had singlehandedly set aside the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States in a matter that had nothing to do with security, the nation’s welfare or information valuable to an enemy. Like a rash, such illegal censorship of what the public

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spreading suppression of news when a Navy plane crashed in thé’ middle of a state highway outside of town. The sheriff of Hutchison County seized the camera and films the paper's photographer used taking pice tures of the scene.

The next day the Borger News -Herald had a three. column-wide blank space on the front page where the picture would normally have appeared, The caption was the obvious one, the perfect one—'It Did Happen Here.”

Yet that was no stranger than the incident when the Army put on a special show of new arms and techniques at the Infantry School at Ft. Benning, Ga. Reporters form the Colum bus newspapers, just at the edge of camp, were barred from maneuvers, while newse papermen from 10 foreign nae tions watched from places of honor. : :

"THOSE Columbus “feporters were acting in behalf of their readers who help to support the Army, pay for the arms” and ammunition and who supply a large share of the money given to the nations whose men were admitted.

If such things are hard for the average citizen to undere stand when considering the mile tary mind, he should not be too discouraged. Most other persons have the same difficulty, As an example of the frustrae tion that comes with censorship, stupidly .imposed, this one will serve: A reporter asked a spokes man for the Navy for the thickness of the armor plate on the German battleship Von Tirpitz, sunk by the British in 1944.

EVERY major nation on earth knows the answer, and it is'in many manuals and techni cal books, but to save time-con« suming research the question was telephoned, to the Navy at the Pentagon. Hours later came the word that the desired information was “confidential.” ‘That {s censorship at its worst, and, unfortunately for the people, it is spreading at every level of government. NEXT: Secrets in Washinge ton Only the Spies Can Find