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Inside Indianapolis J By Ed Sovela

“ANYONE can have a figure in this bathing suit,” said the saleslady, . : My tired old eyes meandered over the customer. The legs were. straight and filled the stockings and the chassis, suit-dPaped, fulfilled all of the’‘requirements of streamlining. Handsome woman. For 10. minutes the. _customer and the saleslady. discussed the merits of a “Rose Marie Reid,” the .suit with the struts ih front, ; It behooves me to be acquainted with folks in all walks of life. Other people's business often beéomes mine. And a statement about ‘anyone can merits investigation.

NOW ON THE second floor of the Wm. H. ‘Block. Co., it's easy for a man to feel at home. When the handsome woman departed, I addressed the saleslady. “Why would she want a suit with a built-in figure?” “With or without, a Rose Marie Reid improves the figure,” said the saleslady, in a voice usually

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“Here, I'll show you why.”

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COLORING slightly, I watched the lady turn out the front end of a suit’and began bending a It was shaped. “You could put the suit on and have a figure,” laughed the saleslady. “Just leave me out,” was the best answer 1 could give at the moment. Things have certainly come to a pretty pass when a member of the opposite sex can show the secrets of a garment that would be best left untold. THE FACT that designers have -been monkeying around and reshaping, remolding feminine attributes hasn't escaped my attention. What a man doesn’t know, doesn’t hurt him. But to be

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, May 27—1 will always remember her. There she was . . . Johnnie Ray's mother: in-law. A very proud Mrs, Ernest Krueger of Los Angeles had flown in and was now at Toots Shor's telling how she'd been dieting on buttermilk and orange juice for days. Why? So she'd look thin and trim when she met Johnnie for the first time. Greater love hath no mother-in-law.

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DONALD O'CONNOR was telling us at Danny's Hideaway how he was being shown through Germany by a German who pointed to a victory monument. : i “Victory- monument?” repeated O'Connor. “Oh, we win a war once in"a while,” snapped the German. > > % NOTE TO Arthur Godfrey: Joe .Oliver of Jackson Heights thinks Chuck Barnett's name for those college bra-bra boys {“‘undie-gradu-ates’) was good. But he says how about ‘“undietakers”? * Bb “THIS STURGEON is dry,” complained a customer at the Stage Delicatessen. Boss Max Asnas, who m.c.'s everybody's meal at the Stage, looked at the customer witheringly. “How can it be dry,” demanded Max, “when it spent all its life in the water?” “SP Bb GLORIA SWANSON has a wealthy middlewestern beau (who's married, trying to get a divorce). Her “romance” with her secretary Brandy Brent was a cover-up to fool the other side. o & 9% SONJA HENIE emitted a lady-like roar -at some of the gags in “Of Thee I Sing,” and we couldn’t blame her. During a burlesque of a diplomati¢ crisis between the U. S. and France, Jack Carson (as President Wintergreen) says: “So what's the worst France can do? Sue us for what she owes us?” And Vice President Paul Hartman handles the appropriations this way: . “Eeny, meeny, miney, mo, catch a committee by the toe; if it hollers, give it the dough.” Bb Pb > ED WYNN recalls a wire once from Flo Ziegfeld that said (in part): “You are the only actor I would ask to loan me money because we understand each other. So please, Ed, send me $4000 immediately. Please wire it.” x Ed did. “Imagine my surprise,” Ed says, “when he spent $3900 of it for a private car to travel from California to New York.” Go dS SOME FOLKS. CLAIM New York City college girls aren't as beautiful as those from the wide open spaces (like Ann Fairchild of Southern Methodist in Dallas). Miss Fairchild is coming here in June for tryout as a Conover model. It seems that very few N. Y. college girls are considered attractive

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told that a particular piece of merchandise is good for “with or without,” is going too far. 2 What is to happen to me this summer on the beach or beside a pool? Doubt has been cruelly iffjected into the conscious thought processes and’ I am doomed to endless wonder. Women paint their fingernails, toenails, faces, legs. They dye their hair and. curl it. Eyelashes ind eyebrows are not what nature gave them Bumps and curves-are bought over a counter, *

oo oN UNDER. THE SUN, in the wind and water, I entertained the foolish notion that woman came close to being her natural self, No more, for Rose Marie Reid tells me her creations ‘are "for sun ... for swim , .. for psychology. My dear Rose Marie Reid, how about us men? Don't we need psychology? Did you ever take a good look at the male portion of bathers? Awful sight, isn't it? Which reminds me, how about a bathing suit that, would put about 10 inches on my chest (throw Some hair in, too), four or five inches through the shoulders, a couple of inches-on the biceps and forearms.

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AND I'D be eternally grateful if you could do something with my hips. The way they're constructed now, the only safe way I can dive is to wear suspenders or coveralls, I'm getting tired of shedding outer garments on the water's edge and plunging in. Sometimes the. water is cold and it would be so nice to stretch out in the sun instead of staying sub merged for an entire afternoon.

If .we're going to correct Mother Nature's

omissions, smooth out her additions, let's do it for men .as well as women. When we go to. buy a bathing suit, all we're asked i8 “What size?”

Nobody cares whether I want more chest, more shoulders, more hips. biceps. If a man doesn't have a figure, he isn’t getting one off a counter. He faces the world, as he is or not at all. You can do it, Rose Marie Reid. I know you can. I'll take the Buster Crabbe model.

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enough to get these positions. They nearly all come from the out-of-town colleges, where the fresh air makes them lovelier, MIDNIGHT EARL . . Wealthy Dick Reynolds- lost ground in his Florida divorce case against former starlet Marianne O'Brien when his action was stayed by a N. Y, State Supreme Court order temporarily restraining him from proceed

ing outside N. Y, State, “COLONEL GIMP” arrived here from Chi-

cago--without luggage. He got famous in-’38 for pg Ll 7% shooting the accompanist of Ruth Etting, then his wife. He's soon to get $20,000 for his { share of picture rights to the. story. Crime does not pay? ... The Sol Rosenblatts were at the Colony for dinner Downbeat midnitem: Marion Hargrove and actress Cara j Williams. ve: Pv Milton Berle's mother 8anMiss Adams dra celebrated her 75th birthday at the Copa listening to Billy Daniels . . . The Danish pastry bakers are striking . . . Hollywood Agent Lou Irwin's. valet-butler's square name is “J. Pierpont Morgan” . . . Edith Adams is on the Ernie Kovacs TV show. A legend's growing that John Garfield's first heart illness resulted after he played 50 consecutive sets of tennis in a non:stop demonstration of ‘strength,

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TWENTY CAFES and restaurants —top ones— are in a jam with the OPS. They're charged with price violations. -8tiff- cash penalties are likely. A major New York newspaper is missing a lot of lead. Some big shots are suspected. (Maybe they got lead in their pants) . .. Maestro Al Postal's in the Adelphi Hospital, Brooklyn, He and his wife each have had two operations this year. o> oe oe WISH I'D SAID THAT: Coleman Jacoby, the gagster, interrupted a boresome bloke this way: “I've heard of small talk, but yours is microscopic.” oo oe L 3 EARL'S PEARLS . . . Lucille Ball tells Tony Petito she'd like her children to be philanthropists when they grow up. She's never heard of a poor one yet,

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TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Comedian Joe

Frisco's agent advised him that due to a conflict he had missed making a film with “the First Lady of the Screen.” Stutterin’ Joe said, “Get busy on something else. The way thingssare I'd do one with the L-L-Last Lady of the Screen.” oe o> oo A CAFE'S trying to sign a five-year contract with a big star. (Wants the star to agree not to come back for five years.) , , . That's Earl, brother.

Robbery Series Keeps

Horse Drowns ‘Getting Drink

thirsty. junk-wagon horse

London Police Busy |... mean me

By WILLIAM M'GAFFIN

iguards armed with pistols and

yesterday afternoon when it

LONDON, May 27 (CDN)— tommy guns. (The loot is a rob- dragged its half-ton.load to the “Banditry on a scale hitherto ber’s dream as it was made up of middle .of the stream.

confined to Chicago tomes to the easiest money in the world to] ; That's the way one'pass without arousing suspicion— California St., said he drove 8unlisted bank notes in small de- year-old Nell to the water's edge

London.” newspaper” puts it.

Wilbur Tillberry, 19, of 125 8S.

A gang of robbers, armed with nomination on their way to be de- to get a drink. He said Nell kept only a wooden club and their stroyed as they were soiled from right on walking and he couldn't bare fists, held up a post office having been long in circulation.) hold her.

delivery truck here a few nights,

Some Englishmen are begin-|

Mr. Tillberry waded out and

ago and made off with the equiv- ning to think it was unrealistic, tried to lead Nell back to shore,

alent of more than $560,000—the too—especially greatest haul ever made Britain. {plled this year, There were three men on the]

since in/the third job the same gang has forced her under.

this was he said, but the junk-laden wagon

Owner of the horse, Homer

Quéstions were asked in the Mosteller, 63, of 119 N. Richland postal truck—the driver and two/House of Commons—always

a!Ave., said Nell was worth $150

guards who had been assigned measure of the gravity of a situ- and the best of the 11 horses in

to protect

custom in

the precious cargo.lation—and David Gammans, As- his stable. In keeping with long standing sistant Postmaster General, told this country where his questioner that the protec- covered the wagon and Nell's

Police and an"§uto wrecker re-

even the policé®normally do not tive arrangements which broke body.

carry guns, they were not armed. down the other Nor was the The British don't go in for bul- years.” let-proof glass and armor plate. He continued: An Easy Haul

or seven robbers, who outnum-|postoffice vans

bered the three men on the post!carrying money will. require a

office truck, two to one, to do the|different degree job by brute strength once they had sandwiched the truck be- ter

truck armored./in force successfully for many

{to assume a different state of| It was an easy haul for the six probity on the part of the public,

Mr. Gammans’ boss, Postmas-| General Earl De La Warr, Made on Friday will be made

day “have been -— - Garbage Collections “But it we are Won't Be Made Friday

Garbage and trash collections {will not be made Friday, Me|morial Day, city sanitation of-

and messengers

» |ficlals announced today. rotection. bt rotection.” Instead, collections ordinarily

tween the two cars they used on|told the House of Lords that Saturday.

the job. too, to do the job without guns isfactory in the

for the penalty is much stiffer/quate under the present circum-| stances” and that “extra prema- garbage and trash off the street

for armed robbery.)

(It was smart of them, | “procedure which has proved sat-

Harold J. Hughes, superintendent, | holders

collection requested house-

past is not adein that area to keep

To American ears, however, it/nent safeguards” were being dis- until Saturday morning at 7 a. m.

sounds completely that so valuable a cargo should; metropolitan not have been protected by|police.

unrealistic| cussed with Sir Harold Scott, commissioner of Snot British Airliner

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| ‘Down in African Desert LONDON, May 27 (UP)-—A British Overseas Aairways airliner reported missing yestérday on a flight from London to Lagos, Nigeria, with 18 persons aboard, has been found partially {burfed In soft sand .in the | North African desert;n airlines spokegman said today. . He said a rescue plane reported eonsiderable activity” around e four-engined Hermes which crashed 230 miles south of Port Etienne in French West Africa, However, ‘it was not known if any of ‘the 10 passengers and eight crewmen were injured or (killed, - “> wie

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FREDDIE'S FANS — Mrs. Nea White (right), Cummins bookkeeping clerk fastens a Cummins Diesel badge on the blouse of junior secretary Miss Evelyn Bell.

without a pit stop.

By LLOYD B.. WALTON Times Staff Writer

COLUMBUS, May 27 — “If Freddie Agabashian were a candidate for President he

would get every vote in Bartholomew County.”

These words by’ Bruce Dalton of Dalton & Payne, Inc, have been echoed by nearly every man, woman and child in Columbus since Freddie drove the locally built Cummins Diesel Special to fame and new records in qualifying for this year’s 500-Mile Race at Indianapolis. Racing hysteria hit this Bartholomew County seat a week ago last Saturday when Freddie piloted his sleek red and yellow mount to a recordshattering speed of 139.104 mph for one lap 6f the 2%;-mile oval. His four-lap average of 138.010 mph also set a new mark for the 10-mile qualifying distance. “I didn’t have any doubts about his doing it,” Mr. Dalton continued. “I've predicted freely that he'd turn a lap at 140. And I still think that if he'd had a decent break in the weather he would have done it.” 2 = »

COLUMBUS merchants, sharing the enthusiasm of the rest of the town, are planning their window displays with a racing atmosphere, There are few stores in town without a blownup photo “of Freddie and his car prominently displayed. The. Columbus Chamber of Commerce has notified merchants they have plenty of checkered flags available for use in window displays. And sales of checkered-flag design neckties have reached an alltime high in the men’s shops. As race day nears, the tension is mounting in town and in the Cummins Diesel plant on Fifth St. Little groups of people gathering on street corners find the race in general and the

By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May 27—All this meat and no potatoes. & That's a dinner table paradox U. 8. housewives never thdught they'd face in this day of high meat prices. : But as the result of a weird jumble * of government price controls, $500 million potato subsidy programs, pork-raising incentive plans and misjudged crop estimates, this is the No. 1 dilemma of housewives today: You can get meat, plenty of it-—if you want to pay the price. But the lowly potato, which the Department of Agriculture has been burying, dyeing and even giving away since 1946, has suddenly disappeared under the counter,

LR ED THE DEPARTMENT of Agri-

culture's efforts to get farmers to raise more pigs boosted the. U. 8. meat supply during the first part of the year to a

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RACING ENTHUSIAST—James La Civita, drill press operator, has a big ‘~ture of Freddie and his car on his toolbox. Most of the workers have them,

WISHFUL THINKING—Milton Lee Trotter (right), 99 Lafayette St., gazes at the racing display in the window of Cummins Book Store and wishes he could see the race.

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1934 MODEL—Wild Bill Cummings at the wheel of the second Cummins car to be entered in the race.

Cummins entry in particular as the chief subject of conversation. To the workers in the plant it is “our car” which is running. And hopes are running high that it will be in there at the finish. - » n ” “IF IT PLACES in the first 10 this town'll go nuts,” said E. L. Snider, operator of Gates Service Center. “There's. more excitement here about this race car than there ever has been on basketball,” he added. “And that’s saying something.”

Mr. Snider has. a large banner proudly digplaved across the entrance to his service station. Its words “Columbus, Indiana—Home of the Fastest Diesel in the World” proclaim to the world how the whole town feels abdut the speedy racer, “I even had to put up an extra telephone pole to fasten the banner to,” Mr. Snider said. “The race and our diesel are all that people are talking about in town,” said .Finley Salkeld, proprietor of Cummins Book Store on Washington St. “I've seen the car, but I haven't

Weird Jumble Of Controls—

Case History Of The Vanishing Potato From U. S. Tables

near record high, Sales hit 5537 million pounds. The amount of beef on the market is going to increase, too, from now until the end of the year. But while the pigs were getting fat, the potatoes were shriveling. It looks now as. if they'll stay that way until July, when the present shortage should be over, Some experts, however, warn it may be worse again next year. : Housewives have to get up af the crack of dawn and- rush down to the corner market before the meager supply of spuds is gone. What they're likely to wind up with, if they're on time, is a few tired - looking second-graders, .Marketmen, doing their morning produce shopping, find thémselves in a similar spot.

” o ” . A POTATO black market is flourishing. There are underthe counter sales. over-charg-ing, and tie-in sales, Grocers

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beauty.” ” » ” MR. SALKELD said the official photographers from. the Speedway had brought some: pictures down to his store to be put on sale. They had a large stack of prints showing Freddie Agabashian sitting in the Cummins Diesel and inquired if he would like to have pictures of any of the other cars and drivers. “I was kinda surprised,” Mr. laughed. “T didn’t know there was anyone else entered in the race.” Saturday night after Freddie’'s record-breaking run was one of the gayest evenings in Columbus as remembered by many of the town's older resi dents. Bar owners seized the opportunity to capitalize on the crowds. Vodka, vermouth and other ingredients hastily blended to become “Agabashian Specials” and “Cummins Diesel Specials” in the Palms Cafe.

” o o GEORGE NENTRUP, owner of the Columbus Bar, topped off

who want potatoes for their customers have to buy extra lots of non-scarce items. Potato prices are controlled, But those on produce in plentiful supply are not. One tie-in ratio is three sacks of onions for each sack of potatoes. Another requires the purchase of. coconuts left over from last Christmas. In some places restaurants, which had been absorbing the black market prices without raising menu prices, have stopped serving potatoes. Others have put them on the a la carte list.

' » ” 8. THE. OFFICE of Price Stabilization has put potato detectives to work to fight the black market, and so far has taken. legal action against 50 of the country’s big wholesale produce outfits. But it hasn't stopped the potato profiteers. ‘The government and the po-

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a tall frosty glass of gin and brandy with a cherry and orange slice and named it the “Cummins Special.” “That was the biggest night we've ever had in here, Mr. Nentrup said. “The people talked and laughed so much some of them lost their voices.”

On Monday after the diesel qualified, the Cummins Engine Co., Inc. joined the celebrating. Management furnished cokes for the employees apd another record was set, The approximately 3000 employees of. the plant consumed 9261 cokes during that ane day u u u LAST FEBRUARY the company sold 1100 race tickets to its employees.

“And we could sell another 000 right now if we could get them,” said John T. Weber,

manager of Sales Development.

Donald 8. Graham, plant publications editor, told of Mr. Agabashian visiting the plant to meet the employees after he had qualified. : “He went on a tour of the plant and shook hands with nearly everyone,” Mr. Graham

in their explanations as to the cause of the spud supply. A Department of Agriculture potato expert blames Congress for the subsidy program which cost taxpayers half a billion dollars and created the fabulous surpluses of potatoes from 1946 through 1850. " » ” LAST YEAR, the first without a subsidy, the USDA esti-

mated the crop would be 335.

million bushels, part of which would normally be stored for sale in 1952. Bad weather — and bad guessing left the crop 10 million bushels less than the

estimate, The current shortage, the USDA expert says, is dye to

a combination of two tHings: The 16 million bushel shortage carried over from '51, ard bad weather this wintér in the southern states and California,

which normally would have had.

their winter crops on the country's markets by May L

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sald. “In one department an elderly lady got up to shake hands with him and sald— ‘Well, kid, gapd luck.""” Joe Gates, in diesel assembly, who has been a race fan as long as he can remember, was glad of the opportunity to meet Freddie and shake hands with him,

“I told Freddie I saw him qualify and that it was the \ greatest thrill in my life,” Joe said. “And he grinned and came right back — Well, buddy, I want you to know it was the greatest thrill in my life, too.” ” n . WILLIE HAYES, a toolmak= er in the large plant, also saw the diesel make its run. “1 was feeling happy that day anyhow,” Willie said. “And I fell right out of one of those box seats when that man an« nounced the speed.”

This year's car is the fifth diesel entry from the Cummins Engine Co. And it ‘is being watched with keen eyes by research engineers who have put years - of planning under its shiny hood. The first Cummins entry in 1931 became the first car in history to complete the 500-Mile grind without a pit stop. In 1934 Stubby Stubblefield finished 12th in one of the two Cummins Cars, ' In 1950 Jimmy Jackson qualified his diesel mount with an average speed of 129.208 mph to become the 33d car in the

race. However he was forced out of the early part of the race with a broken supercharger shaft. All of . Columbus will be

watching Freddie Agabashian and his red and, yellow speedster Friday when he lines up in pole position for the big race, And most of them feel as if this is their year. or As Joe Gates put it, May will be “D-Day’—Diesel Day,

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THE POTATO growers blame the whole thing on OPS price controls which were slapped on potatoes early in January.

A Potato Council spokesman claims that this discouraged southern growers from plant. ing enough to relieve the approaching shortage. The council is urging Cone gress and OPS to take controls off of potatoes. This is the only thing which will ine spire the northern growers to plant enough now to prevent a shortage next: year, the spokesman claims, Ro . # - . .

. spring. But unless price re-

strictions ate removed, he predicts, the U. 8. in 1953 will

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