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A CITIZEN with no “special interests” wandered into a Republican clambake the other night at 137 N. Delaware St. The citizen learned many things, What? You ask. For one thing, polticlans and book matches are soon parted. Politics is nog getting better 3 a room, boiling coffe and donuts Hoty stusty are not popular, But a good citizen disregards the details. He's Inter ested mainly in good government. A fishy handshake and acandidate’s glassy stare bother him not. This is the year of decision. This is the year for harmony in the ranks and th¥ accusing finger is pointing to the dirt under the carpet. With difficulty the citizen entered the GOP campaign headquarters. The sidewalk out in front was crowded with candidates passing out cards. A man needs big pockets at this time of the year, ~ ; : > HARMONY REIGNED within the long, narrow room. Prosecutor Frank Fairchild was passing out matches. Right behind him County Treasurer Louis Rainier was passing out matches. Mr. Fairchild quipped with each booklet, “Go out and start a fire.” Mr. Rainier followed with “We have matches to burn.” The room was so packed you couldn't raise an arm to strike a match or build a fire, A nondescript voter asked the citizen if they're going to “pass out donuts.“ Yes, there were rumors to that effect. “They may even serve soup,” added the citizen. “Had soup for lunch,” answered the voter. Oh. Over the public address system, a voice welcomed “all good Republicans” to the Republican headquarters and the assembled were reminded that “good Republicans” would “always” be welcome. Py

THE PROGRAM for the evening would consist of one speech by Probate Court Judge Dan V. White. There would be introductions of the candidates. No speeches by them. Scattered applause rippled from two corners. As each candidate’s name was called, the office-seeker elbowed his way to the center of the room and waved his hand in the manner of a boxer, It was noted the applause always came

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Apr. 22—D’you like stories about “crashing Broadway?” Well, pull up a bale of money and squat. I'll pour some Earl on troubled waters.

You might enjoy Stutterin’ Joe Frisco's story. He's my pet character. In Milwaukee once, Eva Tanguay was to pay him $50 to teach her how to hoof. She paid $60, because she forgot he drew $10 to buy two silk shirts. You could do it in those days. So she dunned him for the saw, “At present I have no money,” Joe wrote her back in Chicago. “But I may go in the Army. If I do I'll pay you off in cartridges.” I had trouble getting Joe’s story of crashing Broadway. We were at the Lambs Club. Joe knows everybody. He's a favorite of Bing Crosby, Pat O’Brien and Peter Lind Hayes—and often on the Milton Berle show, :

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HE HAD JUST lit his cigar. He'd been talking about New Orleans music, and SancFrancisco— his namesake—and playing Cleveland and Columbus, and was about to begin when an actor told Joe he was laying off. “You're layin’ off,” cried Joe. “I'm on the s-s-same bill with you. “Hollywood wants my story. But they're moved slower’'n an ant eater with a double hernia. They wanta wait’ll I d-d-die so they don't have to pay me nlithin’. “I got as good a life story as a couple dames they're doin’. One 6f ’em so fat, Jack Osterman said gige had to have two dressing rooms, one for each ankle.” A waiter pulled past us a table of dirty dishes covered with a table cloth. “How’d he get hurt, doc?” Joe yelled at the waiter. Joe's audience laughed.

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JOE PICKED up his coffee cup. By holding the saucer with two fingers, he made it dangle erazily from the cup. Another laugh. “In n-n-n-ineteen and seventeen,” Joe, a former Rock Island boy, said, “I come from Chicago

Sympathy By Kenneth Brodney

FRANKFURT, Germany, Apr. 22 (UP)— American Air Force pilots who refuse to fly have aroused sympathy among U. S. servicemen in Germany, a survey of opinion showed today. The sympathy extends to earth-bound GI infantrymen and tankers as well as Air Force pilots and enlisted men. They generally believe that the government shouldn’t order a man to risk his life, except in combat. They also think that younger fliers should be sent to Korea, since the “won’t-fly boys” did their share in World War II.

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TYPICAL of the comment was that of Pvt. 1/Cl. Ted R. Golubie, 23, of New York City, an ordnance man with 10 months in the Army. He said: : - « “On first inipression you might think they were just trying to goof off, but when you get to thinking about it and you realize what they might have gone through. “If they saw combat before, I can see that they’d remember it, and maybe have a good reason to be afraid, and not want to go through it again, particularly now that they're older, and maybe married. They'd know what it was like.” Pvt. Benny N. Devido, 24, of .Schenectady,

N. Y., a veteran of 20 months in the Army, said:.

“What about these young guys, 21, 22 years old, college graduates and trained pilots? Why don’t they send them to Korea, instead of the old

.guys, like most of the jet aces we've been reading

about? “I can see how it's possible for a guy, even if he has flown for years, not to be able to do it any more. I had a buddy, a pilot, who had to give it up. After a shock, you get that way sometimes.” “ o 5

SGT. 1/01 JOSEPH D. BYRD, 24, a North Carolinian whose wife now lives in Houston, Tex., commented: ' “I don’t think you can order a man to’ risk his life, except in combat, of course. I think risking your life should be voluntary, except in coms bat or in a special emergency. These fliers apparently think going up in a plane is hazardous, and they've flown enough so they should know.” Sgt. Byrd, a tanker in the 2d Armored Division, cited a recent experience of his own. “I had my platoon working in a stone quarry blasting rock we needed for a tank trail,” he

* sald. “We dynamited the top of the 100-foot cliff,

but all the loose rock didn’t fall, and somebody had to go up there and knock it down. The guy who went up could very easily have been knocked by: the falling -yock ang killed, “NONE of the 22 men in the platoon volun

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from the same persons. Judge White worked up a lather as he blasted the Korean War. Why he picked an international issue to lambast the Democrats was a puzzle to the citizen, A faithful party worker was asked for an explanation. Don't we have any local issues? Is our local home in such order that we concern ourselves with international problems? _ “Don’t be silly,” retorted the faithful party worker. “How do you suppose we won the city

* election?” A citizen just stood there and gathered

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GEORGE CRAIG, candidate for Goyernor, received a fine ovation. He shook hands with about everyone in the room, including the citizen's hand. “I'm George Craig, candidate for Governor,” said Mr. Craig. : “I'm Sam. Hooplemyer, displaced person,” the citizen answered. It was all right with Mr, Craig who flashed recognition by saying, “Oh, yes.” Mayor Alex Clark was introduced and he gave a fighting talk. He sald that some people are critical of City Hall already. Well, maybe things aren't going as well or as rapidly as City Hall would like, However, “this is the year Republicans” were building for and all party workers can expect City Hall to do all in its power to make this the big year. Two men walked in carrying a huge frame wrapped in brown paper, Across the front was scrawled the name, “Charles Brownson.” They stood, out of deference to the Mayor, in the center of the room while City Hall was being pledged to the coming fight, * So

MORE CANDIDATES were introduced. A party worker remarked out of the side of his mouth to the citizen that “He's a crackpot.” “Are there crackpots in the Republican Party?” the citizen asked, aghast. “Don’t be silly.” There it was again... “Don't be silly.” A believer in good government was trying not to be silly, In 40 minutes the program was over and Mr. Fairchild ‘and ‘Mr, Rainier quit passing. out matches and began pouring coffee and handing out donuts. Business was slow. The citizen noted that the man who had inquired about donuts was getting a fistful. He refused coffee. He hustled out the door when he held eight in his hands. Too greasy to put in one's pocket. A citizen left, too. He was beginning to feel silly.

He Pours Some Earl On Troubled Waters

with my derby-and-cigar dance. And my pull-up. I'd slide across the floor and then pull myself up. Ziegfeld seen me. He says, ‘I want him on the Roof.’ \ “I was dressin’ with Will Rogers.’ Everybody was dressin’ with Will Rogers. | “I d-d-done my act and thought it was all right. But when I went off I heard a terrible noise behind me. “I says to myself, ‘Just like Chicago, there's a fight startin.’ I better get outa here. “I run like hell to the dressin’ room. I says to Will Rogers, ‘Beat it, there's a big fight.’ Just then I heard a yell, ‘Get him. Get him. “ ‘My God, they're comin’ after me,” I says to myself. ‘I didn’t think I was THAT bad.’ I didn’t stop running till I come to the first saloon. “Well, I guess I had blew my balcony and flipped my melon. I found out they were stompin’ on the floor. And hammerin’ their champagne buckets, and beatin’ the table with their bottles. To bring me back for an encore. I k-killed 'em and I thought they wanted to K-k-k-kill me.” e * % THE MIDNIGHT EARL... A famous tycoon, they say, dropped $5 million last year—and may quit . . . A potato black market's developing due to a spud shortage. Gov. Adlai Stevenson's sense 6f humor tickled the R. Y. Dems . . . Sen. Kefamver’s invitation to delegates to meet him before the dinner was declined by some who thought it was a move to commit them. Groucho Marx, furnished a secretary by NBC, has so little to do, he plays the ukelele to her... Pvt. Eddie Fisher's around with the lovely Joan Wynne . . . With attractive Mimi Benzell of the Met singing at the Plaza, the Persian Room is “simply Benzellegant” . . . Singer Arline Carmen is featured at the Iau Quarter. &> > PRODUCER Cy Howard, once a Houston Post ad seller, plans a movie called “Buck Brady,” in which, he says, “Texas secedes from the Union. This means that the highest Army officer left in the Pentagon will be a corporal?’ "Cy’s reticent to discuss his romance with Paulette Goddard. “When anybody asks me about a girl,” he says, “I say, ‘Berle? He's a wonderful cdmedian.’”

Faye Emerson, they say, fell into $100,000!

. « « Bill Love was upped to executive editor of Look . . . Actor Herman Timberg, father of Tim Herbert, passed away . . . The Poet Joe Auslanders (Audrey Werdeman) have a son. * Sb WHEN a sixtyish woman put only 30 candles on her birthday cake, Lanny Ross observed, “She’s really burning the candle at both ends” « + +» That's Earl, brother.

Gls in Germany Favor 13 Fliers

teered, and I told them I didn’t blame them, and I wouldn't order them to go. “But it had to be done, so I went up myself, and then a squad leader decided to come up with me. He was almost killed by a rock slide, but escaped. “I still don’t think I should have ordered my men to go up and risk their lives if they didn’t want to go, and I think it's the same way with these fliers. If they're really afraid to fly, don’t make ’em. I can understand how they feel.” > & 9% JORDAN L. DOMBROWSKI, 24, of Chicago, an Afr Force movie photographer who regularly flies over Europe, said: “If they are in the service, they should act like me: and obey orders. But as far as the lieutenant who was court-martialled is concerned, the Air Force should have shown some leniency. Particularly if his wife was going to have a baby while he was overseas.” Dombrowski added that “the men were wrong for disobeying orders, but the punishment shouldn’t be so rough.” “I don’t believe they're really afraid to fly. Nobody is afraid to fly except in combat, I think it is just an excuse.”

Dishing the. Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—I am just starting to raise flowers and always liked marigolds because they are so pretty and last so long. But I am*just wondering if I can grow them. You make it sound so easy. Mrs. Herman Fox, Bloomington. (Also answering Mrs. Dale Cooper, Terre Haute.) A—You most certainly can grow marigolds. Their chief réquirement is plenty of sun. They will grow on almost any kind of soil. Actually they do better if soil is not too rich. Plant your seeds in a week or-10 days, Then they'll escape

Read Marguerita Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

any unusually late frosts. Thin -the plants after they come up so they stand at least a foot apart. Eighteen Inches is better. Fér just about the only trouble marigolds ever have is a wilt that strikes them once in a while. And such troubles are always better controlled if plants get enough air circulation around them. Marigolds like heat 80 well that you can use them where many plants simply wilt under hot summer sun. And that’s in the strip between house or garage and sidewalk with a southern exposure. Readers who want ‘the free marigold seeds offered by The TIMES should send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Marguerite; Smith, Seeds, THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES, Indianapolis 9, Ind. This offer is be withdrawn shortly, ~~

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THREE STUDENTS plot their course during a map-reading problem in the field. Given minimum instructions, they cover a five-mile course relying on their compass and designated check points.

THERE'S a little expression in the Army that carries with it a story of long-life or sudden death, It goes something like this: “If you're in the Army, you're a soldier first, last and always.” Ask any GI who served in World War II or in Korea what it means and he'll probably tell you: “It means a guy has to be able to step into any posilon. any time during fighting. attles are planned by generals but it takes a GI in the right place at the right time with the right know-how to win 'em.” Take the case of a finance crew of the 24th Division in Korea. These boys were all specialists, moving their office forward to set up a pay line for front-line troops. Packed into trucks like sardines, the crew slowly made its way over a winding road and ran smack dab into enemy machine gun fire. Reds had infil-

APPROACHING an enemy patrol post, the finance soldiers are in dead earnest. The main objective of this mission was to secure detailed information on enemy locations and strength and report undetected back to headquarters,

trated through United Nations lines and established a road block to halt all traffic connecting front line companies with rear supporting units.

The finance specialists grabbed their carbines and jumped for cover, Minutes later they had wiped out the road block, killing several Reds and capturing others with no casualties on our side.

How these specialists were able to smash the attack can be< explained by the training program at the Army Finance School at Ft. Benjamin Harrison.

“Students in the Army Finance School are taught that they must be ready to meet any situation,” explains Col. John C, Lackas, Findnce School commandant. “Although we feel the function of paying the troops is perhaps the greatest single contribution to morale, a

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finance mah mist be able ‘to fill a battle vacancy.”

A separate department a‘ the school offers instruction in battle methods and techniques, Courses in map reading, troop leadership, command functions, infantry unit tactics and guerilla warfare are only a few of the required studies. Most of the men who teach these courses know what they are teaching... like Lt, Norman McKinnon of Oskland, Cal. Lt. McKinnan was an infantry

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War II. Fighting with the 66th Division in Northern France, he led over 100 platoon missions against the enemy.

The boys are getting good combat training and as Lt. MecKinnon puts it, “They know present battle conditions demand a specialist be ready for hand-to-hand combat . . , if it's necessary for survival.”

HOW TO GET RICH IN WASHINGTON . . . No. 8—

By BLAIR BOLLES

SENDING a ship to sea has been a grand and heroic way for a man to make a fortune since the dawn of history. Traditionally, the calling of the seafarer has been risky but rewarding, The ship-owner gambles what wealth he has in the uncertain hope of gaining much more wealth, Perhaps that tradition still flourishes in some parts of the world. But the United States government has changed it {or Americans. Shipping for an American is rewarding but the risk is gone. The risk has disappeared for the American shipowner because the federal government

. has transferred it to the tax-

payer. : The operators of ocean-going vessels flying the Stars and Stripes have become privileged to live off the, fat of the Treasury. The net worth of the 12 leading ship lines increased from $64,786,221 before World War II to $363,554,141 in 1948. That prosperity the government created. .

” ” » THE Navy Department longs for the United States to maintain a great merchant marine, but few Americans are willing to invest in the shipping business. So Washington subsidizes the, construction and operation of ships as a kind of bribe to encourage Americans to send them to sea. The subsidy pay-

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the eighth of a series from the recent book, HOW TO GET RICH IN WASHINGTON published by W. W, Norton & Co. The author, Mr. Bolles, is the well known author, writer and Washington reporter, 2

ments covered about one-third

of the leading shipowners’ costs before World War II. They have soared since then to abput half, When World War II ended the United States owned more commercial ships than any country in the world. The fleet consisted of 29,100,000 deadweight tons; the world fleet had 76,200,000 tons, » ” rx ALL of the American ships belonged to the federal government. Some of them Washington had bought from the estabblished lines after Pearl Harbor; most of them had been built during the war at public expense by Henry Kaiser and other speed-masters. The total construction cost of

the 1950 ships which the Com-

mission sold in carrying out the act of Congress was $4,561,020, 140. The sales price was $1,719,405,776. According to simple subtraction * the taxpayer lost $2,841,614,364. ! The extreme of génerosity was reached in the sale of two ships, Del Argentina and Del Brasil, built by the United States for $6,292,266, to the

American South African Line, Inc. The commission gave them up for $34,000 in cash. Then it took mortgages against the ships in the “amount of $926,146. Then it subsidized the operation of these ships. » " "

THE Maritime Administration in 1950 sold the Mount Mansfield, Scott E. Land, and Louis McHenry Howe to the Nicholson-Universal Steamship Co. for $102,944 each. The government had ordered the ships during the war, but they had not been completed until 19486. . The three vessels had -cost the Maritime Commission $24,500,000. Upon gaining title to the ships for a total of $308,832, Nicholson - Universal used them as collateral at the Reconstruction Finance Corp. for a loan of $4,950,000, to fit the ships for service on the- Great Lakes. Most of the ships were sold to foreign purchasers, for the worthy purpose of strengthening: the economies of nations which recently had been our Allies. The sales on the whole did not achieve this end. But sales to China only weakened our national security. Seven of the 33 vessels transferred to

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followed by the government in the purchase and sales of ships. Comptroller General Lindsay Warren on May 4, 1951, reported a special kind of abuse of the taxpayer by the Maritime Commission for the benefit of established American ship lines. Mr. Warren's examples of this abuse are anonymous. Nevertheless, they inevitably interest the student of how to get rich. g In a letter to Representative Albert Thomas, chairman of the Subcommittee on Independent Offices appropriations, Mr. Warren wrote: “The company purchased 23 vessels built by the government during 1919, 1920 and 1921, at an estimated cost to the government of $41,421,000. The company's cost. of acquisition was $1,570,000. The book value of the vessels at Dec. 381, 1941, was $082,000, and the former Maritime Commission’s estimated world market value at Dec. 31, 1938, was $2,170,~ 000. The commission chart"ered all these vessels for varying periods during World War II and paid’ effective bareboat charter hire of $7, 162,000. ? ; Ten of the vessels were sunk, and for those 10 vessels the owner received insur-

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910,000, most of which was paid by the government. Two of the vessels. were requisis tioned for title in 1945 for $640,000. Thus, the amount res ceived by the owner for the use, loss and taking of vess sels for which he paid $1,570, 000, was $12,712,000. Following World War IIL, the same company bought 26 vessels, most of which

were built in 1944. The cost to the government was $74 835,000, of which $3,434,000 was for national-defense fea= tures. The basic sales price to the purchaser was $24. 720,000 less class and recoms version allowances of $1,056,» 000, leaving a net recovery to. the government of $23, 664,000.”

CONGRESS has obliterated the Maritime Commission. "A Maritime Administration ‘now handles shipping affairs for the government. The new agency has lost its “independence” since it is merely a bureau in the De partment of Commerce.

But it has not changed. “The