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Insidé Indianapolis = By Ed Sovola

‘SOMEWHERE in these United States a young

punk is planning a burglary. It might be the punk’s first. I wish it were possible to talk’ to

“him. #. We're not observing National Crime Preven-

tion Week or Young Delinquent Day. The anticrime flavor is a result of a visit to the offices of American District Telegraph Co. (ADT) in the Lemcke Building. The crime-does-not-pay lesson was ‘easy to learn. I had a good teacher, of "course. That's why accounts of Joe Tough Guy who tried to break in the offices of United States Lead Nickél and got picked up on his way out, who currently is contemplating his sticky fingers in the pokey, always seem ridiculous. %

Bid Ri NO MATTER how inept one might think the arm of the law is, once you're afoul of it, the odds against you pile up. The fact that you've been nailed by a cop who couldn't find a horseshoe in ‘a plate of hash doesn’t alter the fact that you're nailed and punishment follows crime, 2 E. Johnson, who manages the local unit of the 80-year-old ADT which specializes in electric protection services, should take a day a, week to talk to high schools. He has a way of getting across the idea that tampering with other people's property can be most embarrassing. Ae a SIX HUNDKED municipalities throughout the United States have electric protection and ADT is guardian over property with values in excess of $29 billion. There's a reputation ‘at stake. Insurance companies frown when they have to pay off claims. It is a well-known fact that experienced burglars are wary of ADT protected property. The novice, the “quick-haul” Aleck is the one who blunders through a window or a door and finds ‘himself explaining his presence. ADT provides protection against entry, fire, faulty sprinkling systems, maintains a close check on watchmen who patrol plants and business

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It Happened Last Night .

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, May 23—Miss Sonja Henie wears so much jewelry, or “ice,” when she dresses up to go out in New York, that some folks mistake her for the Aurora Borealis. I was moved last night to make a feeble little joke to her. “What I like about Sonja,” I sald to her brother Leif, blinking and cowering a little as I turned my eyes on her necklaces and bracelets, “is that she carries her own ice rink with her.” “That's right, she does. It weighs 70 tons, costs about $100,000 and takes: seven trains to carry,” the literal fellow replied. He meant one kind of ice rink, I meant another. Sonja’'s never been robbed of any jewelry. Of course she practically lives in a bank vault. When she’s around town, detectives usually aren't far away. They always seem to know via the grapevine who's eyeing her ice. Once in Hollywood, Sonja knew in advance that she was to be robbed at a given hour. She (and police with shotguns) waited for the robers, who didn’t arrive. Sonja had stayed home from a party just to be robbed, and was pretty disgusted with the robbers for not coming. “Next time I hope the, robbers will be more dependable people,” she said. Her movie makeup man, who was.picking her up the morning after the rokhbery that wasn’t, almost got killed by the police whom Sonja'd forgotten to tell about him.

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SONJA had on one 25-carat ring last night, and also a couple of large ones. And this was only her West-Side-of-Town jewelry.

Laughingly, she announced she would put on “a very big ice show” next year “and give the others a little fight.” Brother Leif told how he got out of Baltimore with their cash so it couldn't be attached by nuisance-cuers after the bleacher crash. “Every day I went to the bank and asked for thousands of dollars,” he said. “They: asked, ‘How do you want it?’ I always said, ‘Cash.’ Then after several days I left at 7 o'clock in the morn-

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‘ing with about $200,000 in cash. I got out fine.”

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, May 23—We have not dealt previously with the sometimes startling developments in the divorce case between Billy Rose and Eleanor Holm for a very simple reason: A wise man once sajd- there were times in my business when a man did not really have to write a piece. I know that names make news, and that trouble in paradise is supposed to be newsworthy, and that the flagrant fisticuffs between famous people are méat and drink to the readers, or so they say. But my own particular tummy turns a touch at the great devotion of space to the marital troubles of other people. If there is one right which should be privileged, it is a man or woman's right to fight with the spouse, and to disband the marriage, if so they both desire, in comparative privacy. It is difficult to say what goes into a rift in the marital lute, but if Mary suddenly hates John, or the other way

_around, it seems to me it is their business and

strictly out of the public clutch. dB Db I SEE by the glaring headlines on the front pages that Billy and Eleanor are really going to get down to basics and play it tough, and that Mr. Rose, the baby Barnum, is seeking a divorce in New York. This means the details will be dirty, because adultery is the only ground for divorce in New York. T kind of don’t want to he around on this one, because I have known both contestants for a lot of years; and am still fond of both, merely because both have been nice to me. It seems sad that both cannot settle their troubles in a dignified quiet, and that the whole story of their mutual discontent must be dunked muddily into the coffee cups of the country. Marriage, or the disbanding of same, is such a very personal matter that I think it is really none of the public's business. This does not apply to the clowns who get-married every hour on the hour, as much for publicity as for any other reason. It is not true of the Tommy Manvilles and the socialites who swap around and the Barbara Paytons and Franchot Tones. So @ BUT THE Rose-Holm marriage was a sincere effort that lasted 10 years, and I am not the boy to pass on the rights and wrongs of who did what to whom to make it bust. The clinical

details of disenchantment don’t send me, and.

oddly enough, don’t interest me. iy very permanent picture of Billy and

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rounds. The time he was allowed between clocks went by. It was immediately noted at the central station. A guard was dispatched to investigate. The watchman was found in serious condition and prompt action saved his life. Mr. Johnson explained his company never takes anything for granted. The worst is always expected. When a station signal is disrupted, there's trouble. He recalled an incident that amounted to a pot of beans. A husband came home one evening and started an argument. Wifey "happened -to be handling a pot of beans. When her patience gave way she threw the pot. It missed her spouse, sailed across the alley and through a window of an ADT protected tobacco warehouse. eS

ADT GUARDS and Indianapolis police arrived before the beans cooled on the warehouse floor. The beans and the argument were cleaned It could have been more serious,

Two local hot shots entered a lumber company office shortly after midnight. They broke through a protected window. ADT guards and city police found the pair ransacking the president’s desk. What they overlooked was a strip of tin foil around the window. When the glass shattered, the tin foil parted. An impulse instantaneously set up an alarm in the central office. In a matter of seconds the exact location was pin-pointed, the city police were notified by direct wire and ADT guards were on their way.

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THERE 1S NO way to break the contact with out ringing bells and flashing red lights in the central office. Onee a business firm or a plant is closed and the ADT system takes over, any dis turbance to the hookup is investigated. Bank vaults can be protected by the Phonetalarm. Hit it, drill, burn or set off a charge and somébody's on your neck. After hours. when a safe is supposed to be let alone, ADT has in operation an eleetronic system known as the Teleapproach. Before a burglar touches the safe an alarm is set off, The law has the cards stacked against a wrongdoer. And ADT has the cards wired to further complicate matters” Yes, “sir, I wish I could talk to that punk who is going to try to make a “quick haul.” I could save him a lot of trouble.

Sonja Skates On And Wears Ice

Quite a piece for Sonja to come, isn't it? Leif, once a hockey player, said that Sonja as a little girl of 3 and 4, used to follow him around, begging to skate. Finally he let her use some of his cast-off skates. She quickly got amazingly good. One day her father said,” “I think maybe we buy Sonja her own skates.” That's how it started, Sonja has taken two real falls in America—both in Kansas City. One was a dozen years ago, the last one this year. She was just asked whether she'd be back in 1953. > “One thing you can be sure of,” Sonja answered. “I NEVER will.” oe D oo

THE MIDNIGHT EARL: ,.. If Gen. Ike should become President, many think his secretary will be Kevin McCann, president of Defiance, O.,; College, who wrote the book abbut him. . .. While he was getting his divorce, Franchot Tone was phoning here to model Canda Loden, who wants you to know Candy is spelled Canda. No romance, she says, “Just buddies.” We knew a month ago from people close to Billy Rose of the charges he would make against Eleanor Holm, but, because of libel laws couldn't print it, except to say he planned an “explosion.” Some people involved are talking of drastic retaliatory action. , . . Phil Rizzuto was voted the Shoe Industry's “Gold Shoe” award, won last year by DiMag. A Park Ave. vascular specialist flew to the Dominican Republic to attend President Rafael Trujillo . . . Carl Ravazza bought a cattle ranch. Near Reno . .. Aly Khan's brother, Sardi, dined with Edna Kemp, Boston socialite-actress, at Manny Wolf's . . . Giovanna Mazzoti is Miss Italy in the Miss Universe contest. * db EARL'S PEARLS . .. Patti Page, after spending an evening with dumb show girl Taffy Tuttle, said she had “been sitting up with a thick friend.”

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WISH I'D SAID THAT: “A fan dancer is just a nudist with a cooling system.”—Ben Maksik. $$ > TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: A kid in Texas, says Dick Sheresky, came home covered with oil. His ma yelled, “Didn't I tell you not to dig holes in the yard?” “If he's in the sporting crowd,” sneered the Lambs Club’s- Jimmy Little, about somebody, “His game must have been jacks.” , , . That's Earl, brother.

Bob Keeps Nose Out Of Marital Troubles

all was fine with them as I knew them. If it isn't fine any more it seems to be their business. We have placed a high premium on backfence gossip and what Westbrook Pegler called the gent’s room school of journalism many years ago. I personally do not believe it is so important as we have made it. Other people's dirty wash is pretty much the same, as you read it day by day, and unless it becomes so frequent and flagrant that .it sets a trend of

morals I don’t care to eavesdrop it.

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THERE ARE a great many important and interesting things going on around the country and many of them seem more worthy of headline than Billy’s intent to sue Eleanor in New York, with ‘all its. implications. I just can't believe that one man’s differences with a parted wife is of sufficient news value to displace other news, unless we have become S80 enchanted with the unsavory that we treasure it vicariously. This piece is in reality an answer to many letters and more questions as to why I hadn't written anything on the Holm-Rose cause celebre. My answer is that it's none of my business, and I don’t think it's any of yours. You start taking sides in a marital cat fight and wind up being clawed by both contestants.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—What do you use to make iris bloom and when do you use it? B. R. A—Fertilizer can never take the place of good cultural conditions for any plant. German iris need sun and good drainage as well as fertilizer for good-bloom. . High phosphate chemical fertilizer in' the spring and bone meal in the fall will encourage bloom. Divide plants when they become crowded. Q—What care for a Martha Washington geranium? Mrs. Arthur Richardson. A~—The giant flowering Martha Washington geranium needs plenty of light rather than direct sun during spring and summer, Also a cooler

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temperature than its better known cousins. 53 to 60 degrees. 65 if you must. In summer, sink the pot outdoors with a layer of cinders of gravel under it. Water it daily unless rain does it for you. Give it-a little piant food in June, again in July. In August start new slips. Take it indoors before frost. Keep it cool and definitely on the dry side until early February. Then give it water and fertilizer and bring it into. growth

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THE SCHRICKER STORY—

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(Last of Two Articles, j By IRVING LEIBOWITZ HEN Gov. Schricker steps out of office next January, the new chief executive will inherit. a fat -bank ac-

count and, more important pexhaps, a state that is cruis-

ing along the highway of progress.

Mr. Schricker is the first to admit his administration accomplished nothing spectacular. Under his guiding hand, however, the state has shifted emphasis in mental ° hospitals from custodial care to cure treatment, thousands of tax dodgers: and chiselers’ were caught, libraries and schools were established at penal institutions, new highways were built and old ones repaired, land values / were reassessed more equitably and an attempt was made to take Hquor out of politics. All this was accomplished on the state's pay - as - you - go plan. Indiana is the only state not in debt — a tribute to the state constitution which prohibits borrowing money and to the men who have headed the state. Unknown to most Hoosiers, the state is operating all of its services cheaper today than it did 10 years ago. Most publicized of the Governor's accomplishments was the highly effective ban on slot machines in Indiana. After

learning nation-wide gambling’

syndicates controlled the slots, Gov. Schricker ordered the state police to “run them out of Indiana.” Next state legislature, as in every law-making the ward heelers, floaters, goons and conniving racketeers, will attempt to buy or scare the politicians into special laws favorable to the racket interests. It happens every session.

s = a IN 1949, three thugs approached Gov. Schricker with

such a proposition. With them was a lady—Gov. Schricker's description — and a politician

who obtained the interview. Already the racketeers controlled a vast monopoly on rackets in Lake County. There the mob operated handbooks, lotteries, slot machines, brothels and gambling dens. Now, the hoods said, they wanted to open a race track in Lake County. Gov. Schricker was expected to use his influence with the legislature to push through a law legalizing parimutuel betting. The racketeers “guaranteed” the state a $50 million “take” to help pay Indiana’s soldiers’ bonus. ‘ An amazed Gov. Schricker, flustered by the brazen approach of the racketeers, could only muster a curt: “No, no. Get out.” Later, he said: “I would have used stronger language but I did not want to offend the lady.” But Gov. Schricker’s administration hasn’t been all sweetness and light, He has had trouble, for example, with a state Public Service Contmission that contradicts itself on highly important utility mafters affecting the entire state.

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And even Gov. Schricker himself ‘must sometimes wish he could put a halt to the constant bickering among members of the State Highway Commission. A source of trouble for the Governora¢has been the Alcoholic Beverage ‘Commission, which mixes liquor and politics in large doses. It should be noted, however, that the Governdor himself attempted to take beer out of politics with moderate success. Before his administration, home politicians, through favorable laws, were able to gdin control of the beer business. The Governor upset the beer barons when he forced Republican brewers into a ‘shotgun marriage” with Democratic partners. There have been fewer complaints since,

» » - “SCHRICKER is poison to the Republicans,” the politicians commented after the Governor, in 1948, carried the entire state: Democratic ticket into office with him. (President Truman, however, lost the state.) But, if Republicans regard Gov, Schricker as their number one foe (which they do), the professional politiclans in the Democratic Party don't feed any different. Many Democratic: politicians .. dislike the

Governor fully as much as the . Republicans.

The Democrats, of course, recognize his vote-getting talents, his popularity among Indiana's independent voters, and even his popularity among rank-and-file Republicans who have come to trust him, Gov.” Schricker's political independence infuriates Democratic machine politicos. Publicly, they have used his big white hat, (the only kind. he wears), as the symbol of purity in government. Privately, they cuss him for being a Boy Scout, The Governor was one of the founders of the Boy Scout movement in Indiana, still wears a tenderfoot pin in his lapel, has always been a Scout booster. Politically, Gov. Schricker's prospects seem fairly remote, primarily because his charming wife, the former Maude L. Brown, wants him to retire after more than 50 years in poli tics. There have been frequent newspaper stories Mr. Schrick‘er will be drafted to run against William E. Jenner for Senator; a few that he might make a strong Democratic Vice Presidential candidate since he gets along so well with labor, business and farm groups.

uv ” n GOV. SCHRICKER actually is overjoyed by such speculation, but he insists he will bow out of the political arena. Proud as a Hoosier farmer

FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1952

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showing off a new silo, Henry Schricker likes to take visitors on a tour of state institutions which he’ watches like a hawk. for fear of improper handling. He is proud of them all, but he takes a trifle more pride in the Muscatatuck State School for the feeble-minded. The Govérnor recently persuaded the Budget Committee to build a modern nursery theré for mentally retarded children. The Governor visits the school often. After the last trip there, he told his aid, Arthur B. Peterson, a strapping 6-foot 3-inch state trooper: “Watching these poor children in there leaves me sick inside. It breaks my heart + avery time.” Although: Gov. Schricker is a bitter foe of the Ku Klux Klan,

‘MASTER MINDS’ OF BASEBALL . . . Np. 5—

Richards Keeps His (White) Sox Fresh

By ERNIE HARWELL PAUL RAPIER RICHARDS, manager of the Chicago White Sox, is a

sleepwalker whose players must be wide-awake and running. ’ : A tough leader who demands the ultimate in hustle, Richards last season prodded the oncelistless White Sox to fourth place, their highest finish since -1943. i

Richards is a perfectionist. In 1938 he drove the Atlanta Crackers to a Southern Association pennant and to a clean sweep over Beaumént, their Texas League rivals, in the Dixie Series. Before the final galpe with Beaumont, Cracker pitchers were stunned by Richards’ order that all of them except

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the starting hurler and those assigned to relief duty dash to the outfield and chase fungoes. The Crackers needed only that one victory, There was certainly no place to go after the final game-—except home. But Richards had the pitchers’

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out{ield grass as they chased line drives from. his bat.

Richards is probably. the toughest of the present-day managers. While in Atlanta he issued an order thaf none of his players shower until after Manager Richards had sprinkled himself. Given to brooding over defeats, Paul sometimes sat on his stool in the locker room for two hours before showering. His ‘players waited impatiently. But the trick taught them to win more games and get their showers on time. Like McGraw, Richards has

his run-ins with umpires. He has been calmer in the American League, but in the Southern Association. he led the league in spieling. He was ejected from 40 games over a’ five-year stretch. rn » » BASEBALL insiders often dismiss “Master Minding" with snide remarks but Richards woke 'em up last year, In Boston with Ted Williams leading off the ninth.inning for the Red Sox, Richards. moved his right-handed pitcher, Harry Dorish to third base and brought in Lefthander Bill Pierce to pitch to the left-hand-batting Williams. After Pierce had retired the Boston slugger, Dorish returned to the mound from third and retired the side. In the International League Richards used- to treal's pitcher on purpose with

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RESERVED—Many are the friends of Gov. Schricker who fool he rates a statue.

which once waged political war in Indiana, he was the only Governor not afraid to pardon D. C. Stephenson, the former Grand Dragon of the KKK, who was found guilty of the murder of a Statehouse secretary. This took courage since ‘“Stephensonism” would be a label fatal to most any politician. : Gov. Schricker pardoned Stephenson on the advice of

his Clemency Commission. The

Klan leader repaid Gov, Schricker by refusing to report to his parole officer. He was found, after a nation-wide manhunt, and is now back in the Indiana State Prison where Gov. Schricker vows he will stay “as long as I'm Governor.” ~ » ”

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two out and pitch to lead-off man Sam Jethroe. He knew Jethroe couldn’t run wild on the bases with a slow pitcher ‘on first. The move also prevented Sam from leading off next inning and then running wild “on the bases,

“I don't care too much about playing ‘by the book,'" Paul says. “I'll play by it to - win, but I won't let it make me play to lose. No sir, I go by my .own percentage and nobody else's.” : One of the best handlers of nitchers in the business, Rich-

irds has worked wonders wherever he has caught, roached or managed. At Detroit, he coached Hal

Newhouser ness, teaching Hal how to control both his pitches and his temper. With the White Sox Richards fias made a new hurler out of cast-off Saul Rogovin.

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confuses his friends as well as his political foes. On his rounds of state business, he more often than not has a wad of chewing tobacco which he offers occasionally to guests in his entourage.

His frequent trips over the state for “nonpolitical” talks to Rotary clubs, churches, and youth organizations bothers the politicians. Republicans are especially suspicious of these jaunts for fear “the little man in the big white hat” is going to run again for political office. Gov. Schricker’'s friends report, however, he is not running for office, but rather for a statue on the lawn of the State House—one of those reserved for Indiana's great statesmen.

He improved Billy Pierce's effec tiveriess by teaching him to throw more breaking stuff to righthand hitters. » - ~ : % LIKE RED ROLFE, Richards charts each game, concentrat‘ing on pitches which gre hit by the opposition. He is a master of detail—like Rolfe and Billy Southworth—and has a memory almost equal to that of the Phils’ Eddie Sawyer. ; It's parado¥ical that such a hustler and firebrand as Richards has a habit of walking in his sleep. However, his players don’t sleep while they play. And they don't walk-—they run.

After a fine year in 1951, the White Sox under Richards will be trying to go higher this season. They may not win the pen« nant, ‘but it's a cinch they'll hustle,

NEXT: Professor Sawyer of

the Phillies,

H-Bomb May Revolutionize Strategy Of Future Wars

By DOUGLAS LARSEN WASHINGTON, May 23 — Some time early this’ fall, Joint Task Force 132 is going to explode history's first hydrogen bomb at the Eniwetok Proving Grounds in the Pacific. If the test is successful — and it’s certain to be—the event will usher in a new era in warfare, just as the first A:bomb did.

The military men and scien: tists who are working on the project don’t regard it as just a bigger atomic bomb. With a potential explosive force anywhere from 10 to 1000 times that of an Abomb, or even more, they regard the H-bomb as a brandnew weapon, creating new , tactical and strategic problems for its use. Following its policy on such matters, the Atomic Energy Commission neither confirms nor denies reports of impending tests. "But based on cautious AEC and Congressional

progress reports on HM-bomb

developments, and activities which can’t be kept secret from the public, unofficial observers ' now regard the up-coming test as sort of an open secret,

Under the direction of Maj. Gen, Percy W, Clarkson, Task

, Force commander and one of

Army's top nuclear experts from previous Eniwetok tests, elaborate preparations are already under way for the historic event, n Key scientists from Los Alamos, the new H-bomb plant at Ellenton, 8. C., and other AEC installations have already said goodby to their families and are on their way to Eniwetok. Giant Air Force C-124 cargo planes are busy ferrying the elaborate new electronic testing devices and other special equipment needed for the test to - the tiny group of Pacific islands. Super security including rigid surface and air patrols of the area have been ordered by Clarkson. . There's a- maximum motive for Communist espionage in connection with the event because it will put the U, 8. a big step ahead of the Reds in arms development, despite the Hbomb information convicted spy Klaus Fuchs was able to give them. .

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a superbomb, on a hydrogen bomb, was possible was made by President Truman, san. 31, 1950, with the announcement that the AEC was working on such a weapon. This was after many unconfirmed reports of the existence of one. ” o » SOON AFTER, articles by prominent atomic scientists revealed the following facts about the new-type bomb: It takes the explosion of an A-bomb, generating heat in the: neighborhood of 50 million degrees centergrade, to “trigger” an H-bomb. The AEC can and is making in its plants the special hydrogen substance, called tritium, which fs an essential ingredient of the H-bomb, It is likely that there is no peace-time use of an H-bomb or its nuclear reaction which is called “fusion” It's strictly a weapon of destruction. Key problems facing the AEC in creating a usable H-bomb' were timing the explosion. of the A-bomb to the millionth of a second required for starting tritium,

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and putting the whole shebang into a deliverable package. One of those problems has definitely been licked. A terse AEC announcement a year ago that a series of ‘successful

thermonuclear tests” had been

concluded at Eniwetok is generally assumed to mean that they solved the problem of timing the atomic detonation to set off the tritium fusion process, ; ~ ” » THE NUCLEAR FUSION thus started is similar to the reaction which takes place in the sun and starts creating heat and fight energy. There's no official military announcement to the effect that all of the details are worked out for -delivering an H-bomb to an enemy. But constant references to it as a “bomb” recently, rather than as a “nuclear device,™ indicate that they have.

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