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. Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovela

* HAVE YOU had your chlorophyll today? How ‘about your dog? And don't forget the of goat

hills of Brown “nature's deodorant.”

gum, tablets and toothpaste. - My results haven't been studied scientifically, and of course, I jM@ven't given up the use of soap a tub. Finding material dealing Fe chlorophyll is difficult. A report by one .re- , search worker in “Consumer Reports,” published ' by the Consumers Union of U. 8., made me swallow several times. x eB “IN PART, the researcher said, “We eat chlorophyll in large quantities in spinach, broccoli, col-

. lards, and green salads without notable deodori-

zation of our persons, or of the onions, and other odoréus substances that may accompany chlorophyll. Many animals with strong odors, including horses and goats, eat 1 quantities of chlorophyll. Only poets, I thi nk, consider the ‘breath of kine’ sweet, not oo farmers.” It seems the green light went on for chloro-

' phyll after a New York internist, wrote an article

for the New York State Journal of Medicine about

. the work he was doing with chlorophyll to aid

in the treatment of anemia. The tests were unsuccessful, but the doctor noticed deodorizing

effects of chlorophyll.

Three groups of subjects were used. Consumer Reports said four nurses and doctor comprised the first group; 12 college girls were. in the second group and the third was made up of 50 patients from the doctor's Practice; > &

NINETY PER CENT of the subjects reported

my ‘weight 1150 pounds) to a eam; abolish the word “very.” “Franklin P. Adams and John O'Hara abolished “very” years ago, but it didn’t stay abolished. The fact is that Mr. O'Hara, discussing this with me the other day, said: “1 very seldom use At. I mean—I seldom use it.” All this started at the Twenty-One bar, * The Beautiful Wife and 1 happened to. meet tent B a

Cowan, the publicist, . and Joe asked me how was I. ‘*Very good,'' I said, bragging a little. “Oh, don’t ever use ‘very. It makes me wince,” said Joe, wincing. | “Think what newspapers could save in typsetting if copydesks cut the word out of every story.” LA “IT WOULD run into very many millions,” I agreed, causing Joe to wince again. “Have you eonvinced your wife of this?” Content Peckham—very pretty name, I always thought—smiled. Time magazine uses very very often. : “I can’t be responsible for other people's addlepatedness,” snorted Joe (very loudly). “Have you heard people say something was ‘very bad’? The word ‘very’ doesn’t mean anything.” &. “Shakespeare used it,” I pointed out. “He was a space-writer and a hack,” growled Joe. # ‘What about ‘Very Important Person’ that came up during the war?” “It served a purpose,” Joe said. “But they could just as well have called them ‘IPs’ instead ° of ‘VIPs.”

John O'Hara

LA IT WAS JOHN O'HARA who convinced me. He was out at Quogue, L. I., polishing up a play, when I got him. “An old English teacher taught me thatthe word ‘very’ doesn't lend emphasis—it detracts,” Mr. O'Hara said. “There are others that you should work on. Nearly every magazine misuses ‘valid.’ there's the word ‘wise.’ Everything is ‘percentagewise’ or ‘televigion-wise’ All kinds of wise but wise wise.” “How much progress are we making in our campaign?” I asked Joe later. “Not very much,” he grinned.

Frustrated

By Harman W. Nichols

WASHINGTON, June 3 — Probably the most frustrated press agent in the world today is Beverly KelleyGen, Eisenhower has my man boxed in—and just when he might have had one of his greatest moments in the entertainment world. It was like this:

Bev is press agent for the play “Call Me Madam.” After a run in Washington, the show moved to Pittsburgh. Mr, Kelley, thinking ahead, decided some time back that -it might be a good idea to have the General on hand in Pittsburgh tomorrow,

His reason was that three of the boys in the cast sing a little ditty called “They Like Ike.” The warblers are Pat Harrington, Jay Velie. and Ralph Chambers, and if you think they aren rt disappointed, too—well. ¢ > 2

ANYHOW, Presidential Candidate Eisenhower will have to wait to hear the boys sing and the boys will have to wait to sing for him, if at all.

The trio will be blowing its lungs out in Pittsburgh while the General is visiting his home town of Abilene, Kas., tomorrow.

Even more embarrassed, at the moment at least, is the show’s producer, who had higher hopes than Mr. Kelley, even. Leland Hayward is chairman of the Eisenhower committee for the city of New York. Irving Berlin, who penned “They Like Ike, has had his trouble with the song, too, He wrote it and was prepared to forget about it. But he has had to change the lyrics twice. First when Ike announced that he wouldn't mind being President, and second when President Truman announced that he would not run.

SS THE TRIO, Mr. Hayward, Mr. Berlin, and the

unhappy Mr. Kelley hope that maybe sometime

later the General can hear the song. dedicated to

Bev Kel ey has made practically a career of riding pick-a-back aboard national events—with pictures.

That's one way for a press agent to keep on eating. He flew a baby elephant named “Little Eva” to = GOP convention in Philadelphia in 1948. The pachyderm, a miniature symbol of the Republiéan Party, turned out to be a big hit. She fe, too. When President Truman and Viee ‘President Alben W. Barkley rode down Pennsylvania Ave “for their inaugural, Bev shipped an old steam ealliope here and somehow managed to get it in a Peominint spot in the parade.

chlorophyll-covered RY 708 the Past Year ur so ang haven't beard,

-of my youth. . .

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department of chemical enPerytochaic Institute of Brooklyn, The two chemists said Sloropnyll <2 can be 3 be re duced commercially from “any rapid ey a ry

flowering state.” Best sources are stinging nettle, Spinach, alfalfa, bluegrass ald cawpeas,

IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL uses are for coloring candles, waxes, wax preparations, resins, inks, edible fats and oils, confectionary, gelatin, egg white, chéwing gum, cosmetics, perfumes, lotions, rubbing compounds, liniment, ointments, mouth washes, face creams and dyeing leather

Ss. Physiologifally, chlorophyll is harmless. (I'm

‘certainly glad to learn that. Might even try to

come up with green hair. That might be healthy.) The eficyclopedia takes a swipe at “activated chlorophyll” for which claims have been made as a “household freshener.” I read in the big chemical book that “No ‘activated chlorophyll’ is known to exist and any

. deodorizing effect of these preparations must,

therefore, be due to other ingredients, or to their property of masking or effectively modifying odors.” All that is mighty high-powered stuff. Now, I ask you, what is a little user of chlorophyll supposed to think? Three high-domed local scientists, who should know uch things, were consulted. > 0b +

x THE BEST that I could*get out of them was.

that chlorophyll wasn't harmful and “there is some basis for a portion of the claims.” “T never considered it too seriously,” one whitefrocked gentleman said. “I fed chlorophyll-treated dogfood to my dog,” laughed another, “and he still smells like a dog.”

‘Very’ Isn't Yory

¥ ere's anpther one ‘really’ ” he said. “What does that word mean?” | The B.W., who is my adviser on such matters, said we should only abolish “very.” We'll let “really” survive. We don’t want to put Katharine Hepburn out of business. eb >. THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Gov. Stevenson will accept the Democratic Presidential nomina-

tion—even if he must oppose Gen. Ike—party

leaders now predict

Chairman Frank McKinney—not the. authority oy for this—tells me: “I've canvassed 41 states. He's :

the strongest man. He=is. NOE afta)d: of Gon

Russell. - NBC's Theater on B'way for’ a big TV showcase— ironically it’s the house where the first film talkie was shown. . . , Police unearthed some “interesting facts” in the Arnold Shuster ‘shooting. . . . Darryl Zanuck cabled a complete denial of the rumor he’s leaving 20th Century-Fox. He owns 125,000 shares. Farley Granger's in Europe to meet a gal he first dated while he was courting with his exlove Shelley Winters. Strange incident in Toots Shor’s: Great pitchers Dutch Reuther and Leon Cadore (of the early 20s) nodding smilingly when a fellow called them “old geezers.” They were .the heroes . Fawn Tirman, a Coaldale, Pa., gal, married to Jack Tirman, is’ one of B'way's loveliest people. : oe ap WISH I'D PUNNED THAT: “ Alben Barkley can soon sing to his wife, ‘Veep no more, my lady. 0 John Jacob Astor flying to Elrope soon, tells girl friends he's going to rest. . , . Mrs. Melvyn Cooper, the Dodge heiress, is ill. . Cheesecake Photog Gary Wagner. now writes Py column for TV Today. . > @ a TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: “Taft and Kefauver want to trade their seats in the Senate for a piano stool in the Yonite House Bob Haymes. = @ EARL'S PEARLS . ‘Pear! Bailey at La

Vie en Rose says people who go on the air for

nothing evidently do it Jor love of Mike. @ SHAPELY DENISE DARCEL calls ad man Bill Plowe “my Bill.” ' She expects to marry him. He's a lucky guy. Then there was a man married to a drunk, says Bob Olin, who called her “my highball and chain.” , , , That's Earl, brother.

Gen. Ike Won’t Keep Date in Pittsburgh

Margaret. It was a well-planned operation. Tt was hard to hide the calliope from the news picturemen and the television boys. This time the great Kelley is stopped — temporarily, he hopes.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—A mulberry tree, removed last year . . shoots surrounding it and seedling, probably planted by birds. Is there a chemical we could - use for easy killing of the plants? Some are in a hedge with other shrubs. Mrs. George Deering, 2441 N. Harding. A—Special bush sprays are useful to get rid of woody plants you don't want. They are combinations of the weed-killing 2,4-D and another

“chemical, 2,45-T. The latter works well on woody

Very Anymore .

“we should” Rl fom 1

. his. skin.” Prospective ticket now: Stevenson and -

reported set to buy the Warner .

SPIES, DUPES AND DIPLOMATS

John Service's Past Ti

By RALPH DE TOLEDANO N POLITICS, as in war, it is the act which counts —not the motive. is important in meting out punishment, not in assessing error.

Perhaps some of those who sheltered Communists, both in

' and out of government, did so

for reasons we might respect. So be it. But I have only anger and scorn for the new strategy of “liberalism” which defends the motive by denying that the overt act was committed. - It is almost an understatement to say that John Stewart

Service and four other career °

diplomats cooked up the stew of America’s suicidal China policy and served it steaming hot to Dean: Acheson. The four others were John Carter Vincent, John P, Davies Jr., John Emmerson and Raymond P. Ludden. . John Emmerson in May, 1945, returned from Commu-nist-held territory in China and recommended te the State. De-

partment that Japanese pris-

oners in American stockades be - turned over to Japanese

of: 7478) * backed up -enfhusiastically "by the Institute of Pacific Rela-

tions, the Foreign Policy Association, the magazine Amer-

asia, and a group of scholars -

‘and publicists led by Owen Lat-

timore, T. A. Bisson, Lawrerice"

Rosinger, Maxwell 8. Stewart, and John K. Fairbank.: . What has been . alléged 6f Inese men_in sworn testimony is enti

. er or not they are Reds. The important consideration is that * they led ‘the United States astray. At the very best, they were

completely and damnably -

GERMANIUM—

New Element Boosts Transistor Value

By RICHARD KLEINER NEW YORK — An element that was predicted before it ‘was found has united with a device that was invented before it. was built. Together, they

give promise of amazing advances in electronics.

The device is the transistor, a gimmick about the size of a shoelace tip. It .is designed to do the sameé job as certain vacuum tubes, and its advantages, against the tube, are quickly apparent. The vacuum tube, like those in your radio, does its job by

boiling off electrons from a

heated filament encased in glass. Right there, you have the chief drawbacks of the vacuum tube. = = n TUBES CAN BREAK; transistors can’t. ‘Tubes need to warm up; transistors don't, Tubes have a filament which

" burns out; transistors are ex-

pected to last about. 100,000 hours. Tubes need relatively high power to bring the filament to the right heat; transistors can run on about onemillionth of a watt. And transistors are much smaller than tubes,

The transistor is the result of research to find something that would do the job of a vacuum tube without its faults. The search led to a class of metals called “semiconductors,” which

plants. The combination of the two is more ef- go 2'® Midway between a true con-

fective than gither chemical alone. Ask your garden dealer for whatever brush killer he han-

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

dles (you can waste hours trying to pick up special brands.) Brush killers come under any number of different trade names. Then use whatever kind you get strictly according to directions. Sprays are worth using if Weedy plants are bunched together, If your mulberry seedlings are scattered it will take little mare time to go around with a sharp: spade and cut them off below ground level. In the hedge your safest procedure is to do just that. For even on a quiet day, with a carefully directed spray you may damage valuable plants with drift of the chemical. Even with. Spray keep a close watch and cut off new top growth or spray again until roots sre discouraged.

Q—1Is it 0. K. to move rhubarb in June? when? B. R.

A—Do not try to move rhubarb in summer. Wait until fall or do it early next spring.

Q—Bleeding heart needs more room. When do- I move it, spring or fall? B. R. A—Move it preferably in the fall. Very early in spring will do if your ground is light enough to be workable before plant begins to grow very much. It is not true of all plants, but 3 Is 91 Moat, that the best time to move them is right after they have bloomed. But" that means bere in

ductor of electricity, like copper, and an insulating material. The flow of electrons in these metals can be controlled. For ifistance, a semiconducting wire can be rigged so it will conduct current well in one

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You Haven't Seen Anything Yet—

Motive -

ra ett by the Far "ast %

Our oe Ching nd was.

Deside. the point. In:

John C. Vincent

wrong—a fact which neither they nor the State Department will admit. They held té their position long after events had demonstrated the folly of their

acts. : 8 NN

‘JOHN STEWART SERVICE is noteworthy because he remained ar II. Hig rep eld desk of the American State De‘partment, were used to destroy Chiang and build up Mao Tse-

tung. Of particular significance

is the ‘history of one such report by Service, It arrived

in China throughout :

in Washington with a covering

Tetter from .Ambassador Leighton Stuart’ at Chungking which ‘discounted its information and stressed its bias.

It was circulated in the State

‘Department with a second cov-

éring - note, written by. AQHA,

dor was wrong." - Until he was’ arrested under the Espionage Act in 1945,

. Service was unknown ‘to the

American public. The outline of his life and career up to that

State” TIepartmient T.oya

The Indianapolis

“TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1952

No. 2— * Hi

point was described In 1946 by FBI representatives before a House Judiciary .subcommittee: “John Stewart Service was born in Cheng-tu, China, Aug. 3, 1909, of American parents. + + « Since June 28, 1938, he has been employed by the State Departgent . . . “He has served the State Department in varying capacities from clerk to the. position of second secretary at Chungking, China : , “On July 14, 1943, he was named consul at Kunming, China. On Oct. 10, 1948, he was placed on detached service, assigned to Gen. Stilwell. “On. Nov, 1, 1944, he returned to the United States for a short period of time, and in January, 1945, returned to China. Shortly -thereafter, he accompanied Army Intelligence Unit to the Yenan area occupied by the Chinese Communist Army, and then returned to the United States on Apr. 12, 1845. On Apr. 19; 1945, he was observed to meet Philip Jaffe (the leading figure in . the Amerasia documents case) in the Statler Hotel at 6:50 p. m “It will be recalled that following Gen. Patrick. J. Rurley’s ‘veturn to United : States; after having servedins United States ambassador to China, he criticized Service's

theories, and considered his _

political reporting as biased. . “Gen. Hurley pointed out that Service had shown kimself to be liberally disposed toward Communists, and also on occasion to be most unfriendly to the . Nationalist

" government of the Generalin- 3

simo Chiang Kai-shek . These are the bare bones. 8 flesh can Be: found Si Sere

curity Board, which cleared him in 1950. - It was before this board that Service suggested that to checkmate the Russians we must bolster the Chinese Reds.

LIKE MAN-MADE SPIDERS — Germanium transistors made by General Electric are almost dwarfed by book of matches.

direction, other.

but poorly in the n » H 3 AT THE BELL Telephone Laboratories in New York, the electronics men sat down and Planned a device which would utilize a semiconductor, and, through this quality of controlled flow of electrons, do the same job as a tube, It was, the Bell people say, “pure research,” in that the whole thing was worked out on paper before it was built. When they finally constructed the first transistor, it performed like it was supposed to. It is, actually, a simple device in looks. It contains a tiny chip of germanium, about 40-thou-sandths of an ingh square, with two wires touching it barely two thousandths ofan inch apart. These wires are soldered tofa metal base. . Current, flowing in one of the wires, Induces electronic changes

2000 AD Could

By JAY BREEN United Press Staff Correspondent

NBW YORK, June 3 — The truth is catching up with. science fiction so rapidly. that

+ the most eye-opening predic-

tions current writers can make for the year 2000 is universal adoption of nudism and conversion of the moon into a giant old folk’s home. H. L. Gold, editor of Galaxy, a magazine devoted to taking long looks into the future, pointed out today why this generation of scientific peekers into the crystal ball are so conservative,

as Tredictions on such things as space travel. have, ’ he Metin wag” ne S4MTAN:

reached ne conbing od

our writers seem to thik we'll be traveling to Mars before the century is out, but that's not very sensational when you consider that plenty of hardheaded engineers think so too.” Science writers of the year 1890 had a better time of it because they. could let themselves go in their estimate of: mechanical and technical progress, according to Gold. That, he said, was why such luminaries as H. G. Wells, Edward Bellamy and Ignatius

in the germanium. These electrons, operating in a controlled pattern, then go to work just as they do presently in a vacuum tube, amplifying and oscillating. . 8.» : TO THE AMERICAN CITIZEN, the transistor may eventually mean many things.

Its first practical appearance is scheduled this year, when it will be used for nationwide telephone dialing in equipment now being made by Western Electric Company. Transistors may replace tubes in hearing aids, thus eliminating the batteries which are needed to heat the tube filaments, Because of its small size, the ‘day of startling gadgets—like very small radios and mechanical brains the size of a desk, not a room-—may be near. Already, General -Electric engineers have developed an ex-

Prove To Be Hot Stuff

“The old hands did fine on a. .

technological level,” Mr. Gold said, “but they” missed sadly in their political and social prognostications. They were especially blind in not taking a good look at the future

. woman."

For instance, all the savants in,1890 expected girls to keep

their skirts at floor length and

Donnelly hit the nail on the °

" head by predicting 1952 would

ae alas Of uirvianes, Sub-

3am.

not one foresaw such cut-upe as the Bikini bathing suit, Maken ~ and smoking for women. Today's science fiction writer takes things like rocket ships for granted and predicts vast social improvements, ts, alopg

Fai

John S. Service

It was also before,this’ board that he discussed his association with Guenther Stein then but a few years away from his collaboration with Richard -Sorge, notorious Communist spy.

“Stein. was a useful source of news,” Service said, “and

. some of my memoranda here _transmit slong sections of his

“hotes of interviews: ihc with _Commiimiist leaders.” ~ Service found Stein “a very conservative person by nature,” the board was informed. Elaborating on Stein's views, Service added that “his attitude is a little bit like Agnes Smedley . . . Guenther Stein was stricken with the sweet-

- ness and light theory about the : Chinese Communists.”

The best insight into Service, however, comes. fr

criticizing: apn Kai-shek for his “reckless adventurism” and “cynical desire to destroy unity among the United Nations.” Emphasizing the need fof not arousing. Russia's ‘suspi-

perimental : -radio transmitter that fits in a vest pocket. Currently, the transistor has a few bugs in it. It doesn’t work too well on high frequencies, which means it’s out as far as television is concerned. It also is affected by changes in temperature. » a i ® EVEN BO, as Dr. E, W. Engstrom, RCA’s vice president in charge of the laboratories division, says: “As the vacuum tube made possible the modern miracles of radio, television and radar; so will the transistor become a tool with which to open vast new horizons in the electronic art.” It will not completely sup.plant the vacuum tube, yet. That will still be needed for high-frequency jobs and other work the transistor cannot handle at the present. It is the tiny chip of germanium that has wrought this exciting electronic prospect. There are other semiconductors, like silicon and zinc sulphide, which could be used, but germanium’s physical properties are such that it is the best at this early stage of the transistor’s history. The choice has made the producers of zinc very happy. For years, germanium was a nuisance. It occurs in zinc ore in the huge tristate field — Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma—and had to be disposed of in the zinc refining, process. But today the Eagle-Picher Co., biggest germanium producer, has a market. for the germanium it gets as it turns out zine. And, since the ele. ment is found in such small quantities, it is classed as a semiprecious metal and commands a good price. Germanium now sells for about $340 a pound, but even this is down from the pretransistor-- price, $4500 a Pound.

» IT. TAKES between 1000 and 1250 tons of ore — about 20 freight cars—to get one pound of germanium. It takes two’ months before the complex

nouncement of a faet, rather than a look at the future. For instance, Mr. Gold said, most of his writers expect people in the year 2000 to be living in houses which will be automatically sterilized daily by ultra violet rays and cleaned by ° man-made © whirlwinds which suck up dust from all Sur{aces several times a day. The lady of the house won't have to worry About 4 a careless. - ly forgotten pair of Todings disappearing in Agni in the street - ‘wear or

fehl]

of the war against Japan . . ,

. View that economic collabora-

the dis - faiths he pent, while. in. nas

vo “Sa Se

cions, Service recommended that the United States “avoid all a of unqualified diplomatic support to China ++. and limit American aid to China to direct prosecution

soft-pedaling . . . grandioss tfomises of post-war aid and ‘conomic rehabilitation. . . J”

“Show a sympathetic interest . n the Communist and liberal ;roups in China,” the dispatch ‘ecommended further. “The Communists, from what little ve know of them, are friendly: ‘oward America; believe that democracy must be the next step in China, and take the

tion with the United States is the only hope for speedy poste war rehabilitation and develop ment.” - L Se THE NATIONALISTS would be forced to take any treatment we handed out, since they could turn to no country but the United States, Service continued.

“American interest in the Communists will be a potent force in persuading Kuomintang China to set its house in order,” he wrote,

+.4Thus, he. advised, . we would. ‘build ‘up a “democratic and it unified -China;” which would ~~ “naturally . gravitate” toward the United States, es A Communist China did “naturally gravitate” toward the United States—on the Korean battlefields. On Sept. 28, 1944, John Service informed the State Department (Report No. 34), that: “Politically, any orientation which the Chinese Communists may once have had toward the .

their thinking and program realistically. Chinese, and they are carrying out . democratic policies.” 1 NEXT: The Historie Reaposp § No, 40. : £

VACUUM TUBE and rival show size of transistor required to do same job as small tube,

manufacturing process turns” the crude ore into the silvery metal that is pure germanium, Germanium is also found ine side chimneys, partieularly Eng lish chimneys, as a result of the burning of coal. A small deposit, now believed exhausted, of an + ore very rich in germanium was ’ + discovered at Tsumeb, South- : west Africa. But the germanium recovered as a by-product of i zine refining is stil the best roth industrial source.

Research in the whole fed i coftinties. The first transistors were somewhat unreliable; this has been remedied. A new type, $ called the junction transistor, is i a solid piece of germanium en- | cased ina bead about 3/16 of ] an inch in diameter, It seems to have certain advantages over ol the original point-contact tran- # sistor. Electronics experimenters, themselves, have no idea what lies ahead. As one says, “With electronics, today becomes yesterday this afternoon.”

for inspection from inside the house.

Retiring old folks to the moon