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Inside Indianapoiis By Ed Sovola

IT MIGHT be a rough row to hoe and my

Grab a Pumpkin Seed, Join in Fun

I have Big Oakie III growing in University Park.

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who use them of pumpkin. : -growing is practically nil The late Mayor Feeney gave me permission t . ev (as of now) Lut, Nappanee, I hear you calling. plant an acorn. It would be risky to a we ; pepe Nappanee, this new contest to promote pro- pumpkin séeds in the park. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1952 PAGE 19 k matches at duction of bigger and better pumpkins sponsored The good deal would be in somebody's garden. ; han 1,000,000 by rh State Muck con Show, Oct, 28-31, sounds Samhebody who can appreciate growing things 8s each every mighty good and a growing boy's desire to enter the biggest, a lot of fun ALL CONTRIBUTE TO HAPPINESS— .

The fact that I have no place to plant a pumpkin seed doesn’t worry me. And I'm writing Roscoe Fraser, extension horticulturist at Purdue University, for those free pumpkin seeds. That's right neighborly of the Muck Crop Show committee to donate the seeds to encourage participa-~ tion in‘ the contest. Count Now that I'm out on the vine, friends, is Shere Jayome in the audience who has a square 1 Nn Space he could let me use whe the seed from Mr, Fraser gets here? n

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I PROMISE not to be in the wa and would be hardly any bother at all. Ne small Javors have heen asked in this space and it alen for someo crippled a] ne else, polio victims, ay it is a tiny spot of good, rich, black dirt for one pumpkin vine. This est. up in oll contest.-up north I never had a garden of my own, not even a window box. A pumpkin vine sounds like just the thing to find out if there's any green in my thumb. Besides, the winner of the contest will get $1 a pound for his pumpkin, If the grower happened to be this bumpkin, he would turn over the prize money and the pumpkin to the kids In Riley Hospital. Can you imagine how much fun it would be to earve the prize-winning pumpkin for the kids at Halloween? Many growers have planted their pumpkins, Mr. Harry Fraser said in his bulletin. However, it’s not too late if a man takes-action right away. The pumpkin seeds certainly will be sent posthaste. The big problem is the garden spot.”

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

HOUSTON, June 11—Wohile everybody else is going around the world this summer, the Beautiful Wife and I decided to go around America. “America,” said Taffy Tuttle, the Broadway showgal, when she heard about it. “Gee, always wanted to go there myself sometime.” We figured Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston and Galveston would be a good start—then we'll g0 in another direction. So we flew down to Atlanta — winging over Stone Mountain, quite a sight from the air.*Then we paid a visit to Texas. That's all-the Texas oilionaires will let you pay—a visit. x Books have been writ-

brightest, heaviest pumpkin in the State Muck Crop Show, : I promise not to be a nuisance and to do all the work. All the landowner has to do is watch the pumpkin grow. Especially watch the pumpkin grow beginning July 12, the day I get married and leave town for three weeks. You won’t have to worry, though. A complete itinerary will be left in case of an emergency. The guardian of the pumpkin will be able to reach me collect, at all times Really, will someone please-let me plant a pumpkin seed in his garden. Her garden? His and her garden? ’

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ALREADY I'VE learned that a scoopful of well-rotted manure and a handful of complete commercial fertilizer is to be mixed in the hill as a base for the seed. A commercial gardener can set me straight on the two ingredients. I don't know the difference yet. When the plant gets to be two inches high, the soil is supposed to get a thorough soaking of water or skim milk each week. Every three weeks the plant is to be fertilized with a nitrate solution. It shouldn't be too difficult to find out what nitrate solution is. - Controlling beetles and vine borers will be easy. The best way is to keep your eyes open. Mr. Fraser recommends leaving only two or three fruit-forming blossoms on a vine. Makes the task of guarding the vine practically child's lay. : ? Boy, wouldn't those muck farmers ‘around Nappanee get orange with envy if they saw an Indianapolis lad show up with the finest pumpkin in the show? Telephone or write me or grab me on the street if you have a spot of real estate suitable to grow a blue ribbon pumpkin. Nappanee is calling, will you? Have a heart, let me use your dirt—hmmmmm?

Down Texas Way In a Private Plane

7000-acre ranch and taught him about outdoorlife. That left Mommy and Daddy free to go to see the fights in the private clubs. Texans laugh a lot, and that's one advantage to going around America—you can understand the jokes. One popular guy here was Bob Crosby. Bob told how Bing’s fame had been a big handicap to him. “For years I was known as Pop Crosby's baby son, Bob,” he said. “Then I became known as Bing Crosby’s brother, Bob. Now look what's happened. The other day I heard a bobby-soxer

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uncle. No, - thiere's nothing..like Texas or Texans.

After Glenn McCarthy returned to town, the gang was trying to hold a-jani session at 2 a.m. in Bob Crosby’s suite, but. had no piano. Glenn called room service.

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GYPSY DANCE—The younger children sing and stomp their feet as Christine joins in a gay

dance with relatives. Soft-spoken Romanian words and brilliant

the proceedings.

costumes give an old world flavor to

Camera Records Gypsy Betrothal

ENGAGED—Miller Eli (left) and Christine Miller are now

formally engaged after 3-day gy ington St.

psy celebration at 440 E, Wash-

n-Tailored : % , in piped ten about Southern hospi- : “Send up some ice and a piano,” McCarthy loth. Pink, tality—still, not enough’s said. : : blue, or been said about it. iy So they sent up some ice and a piano. That's izes 32 to A Texan sent a pri- 3 why I'm crazy about Texas. I don’t think it'll $1.98 vate plane to New York pe hard to find people as fascinating as Texans for the B. W,, Slugger and in our tour around America—because even Texans me, and flew us back admit that the proudest Texans came from Ohio, down here for the Hous- Georgia, Florida, Indiana or even California. ton Viorse Show. Ya I'll be looking for some to match Texas’ charflew Li aL ate 9 ane acters. Got any suggestions? ndarin from Hollywood, Jack $a * > o ising in Dy i a oy Mr. Benny ARTIE SHAW was back with Doris Dowling Pink, blue 56 heard two Texas 3 the Embers . . *Sayierd Hauser is on his way ize. Sizes drunks talking in the Hotel Shamrock lobby. dO I ure. C i Toran 2 fee hoHay. D. $1.98 “What have you got in that sack?” asked : y 3 Doig Or 3 the frst couple to get married in the Fun House . . “None of your business, and whisky,” replied Ruthie Duskin, the one-time Quiz Kid, is a guest is the second. ’ ’ editor at Mademoisetie mag. i : ion & " . You feel adventurous and grandiose as soon ty 2 CONTRIBUTIONS—According to gypsy custom all who attend the celebra- DANCING WITH UNCLE—The bride-to-be dances gaily with her uncle, 88 you get down South, When a taxi driver asked EARL'S PEARLS . . . Dagmar hears from 4,0 contribute to the future ha iness he oung couple. Here Frank Zeko is Frank Zeko, to the strains of a Romanian song. More than 200 friends and relatives [, 8311) Jack Benny where he wanted to go, Jack said: Art Frank that prices are so high in Europe, . h donafi d blo th 24 ng ple, i : ded the: festivith 9. ; . “Take me wherever Glenn McCarty’s fighting Americans have to send Louvre paintings back accepting cash donations and blessing those who give. om four states attended the festivities. tonight.” ; : Cw now instead of French postcards. By LLOYD B. WALTON | A banquet table in the middle and future happiness of the| Mr. Zeko said it is not unusual [star-Spangled white nylon marriders Bul Glenn was’ Sghting-e wash i Jowa: * SR Miller Eli and Christine Miller of the room swayed beneath the young couple. for newly married couples to get quiset. The white lace veil was s show to. faite mohev for i Mn I it TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Joey Adams re- Were formally engaged yesterday weight of six roasted turkeys, 15| It is customary at Gypsy wed-| > much. a3,52000 In one of these fastened. io 2 small crown of ug, y for a dtilgre PHA" calls Gertrude Niesen's retort to a ringside heck- in a quaint, colorful Gypsy cere-| collections, lace, sequing and roses, She Wore : Jack Benny said they could afford it. Fonsi brio gl Be ay ngsle 2 hee : q ’ y (geese and 20 chickens. Lettuce dings and engagements to take| Max Eli, Miller's father, said dangling pearl earrings and a Why, I" watched a poker game here ome _*- 10 TI Ut oat PROEe SS TS Tyeo? mony handed down from their and tomatoes combined with a|up a collection to give the couple it will be about two years before necklace fashioned from oid RoNownshales pent, we 321d, when Gaiyesion changed hands or Pp A you. forefathers. More than 200 gaily-|dressing from an ancient recipe a good start in their married life. the wedding ceremony takes place, manian coins. . . a 2) WISH Fr dressed, high-spirited friends and to form a delicate. salad. A large Frank Zeko, the bride's uncle, At that time a hall will be rented,| The necklace is considered a dons Q i " VISE D SAID THAT: One thing we'll relatives came from four states wine bowl glistening with float- performed this ancient rite. |a band obtained and another 3-({good-luck charm and was given DOWN HERE the automdbiles are air-condi- admit the Russians did invent is a sure cure for to join in the feasting and merry-|ing ice cubes furnished the cen-| He took a long loaf of rye|day celebration will be had. Fol- her by Miller's mother. Christine, tioned. There's a rumor that Western Union boys indigestion—no food.”—Tony Pettito. making at 440 E. Washington, St. |ter-piece for the king-like feast. |bread, hallowed the inside out [lowing that thé couple will go|in turn, will hand it down to her —— are going to deliver telegrams in Cadillacs. > HD It was the second day of a 3-day| At one end of the table a rec- and passed it around for the con-/on a honeymoon, either to Cali-|children.

celebration. ord player substituted for the tributions. As each donation was|fornia or to South America. Today the gown has been put The bride-to-be and her youth- band which usually plays at made, Mr. Zeko blessed the giver| Christine wore her wedding away awaiting the wedding day. ful suitor were guests of honor, Gypsy ceremonies. It repeatedly with a few soft Romanian words gown for the engagement cere-/But there is still one more day | in the long, low-ceilinged room Played the Armenian “Catskillin and placed a brilliant silk scarf mony. It was a full - length, | of celebrating and réjoicing. And 3 which bounced and echoed to the Yerke” while the guests al- around his neck. This was ac-|pinched - waist gown patterned in two more years the feasting danced Gypsy companied by much yelling and after those worn by her ancestors.|will start again and Miller and

The B.W. and I actually had a thillionaire baby-sitter. | Oil Man L. M. Josey took Slugger out to his

“IF YOU THINK JOE WALCOTT is a good fighter now,” observed Bob Olin, “wait'll about 10 years from now.” , , . That's Earl, brother,

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Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, June 11-1 don't see how the President can stand up there before God and everybody and deny that air power has deteriorated, and say that Bob Taft's charges are so much nonsense, because truth is truth and facts are facts. And when the President says that we are building the “best, instead of the biggest” Air Force in the world he is just slightly off his facts. Maybe the boys have been telling him the wrong things. The fact is we have had, for over two years, a great deal of trouble putting new planes together. A plane with no guns is no plane, for instance, for military purposes. You can own a million of them 2 and they aren’t any good unless they are armed and masned the air. : » La WE HAVE BUILT some fancy jet bombers which are not flyable because of certain shortages of equipment. The same goés for fighters, Intricate foul-ups in contract allotment, and conflicting interests, both politically and economically, have made a torturous job out of what should be a simpler one. It is a reflection of divided opinion and divided techniques of manufacturing that ‘was as evident in World War I as in World War II as in World War Maybe. Mr. Truman says we are building the best one,

" tosbe backed up by the.industrial capacity to ex-

pand, and to keep itgup-to-date. From all I ther, the MIGs are doing us in the eye in oréa, and the MIGs are Russian-made, * Be

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WHAT I DO KNOW is we did not consistently put the best planes in the air in the last world war. We put the most, maybe, but not the best. From a standpoint of fighters, the Messerschmitt and the Heinkel and the Junkers and the Mitsubishis and the Spitfire and the Stormovik boys tied us, and in some instances topped us plenty. If there was an answer to the ME 109-E as a fighter ‘it was the Spit, and the early Zeroes were hard to lick for function. An aviation expert was saying the other night a self-evident truth, which is a plane is only a flying weapon. If it is a fighter, it is a flying gun; if it is a bomber, it is a flying bomb. Most nations build their flying weapons from a standpoint of the weapon. They sew the gun on first “and build the plane dround r <

WE SEEM TO concentrate on the plane first and the gun second. We stress the Creature comfort and the potential safety of the pilot, at the expense of ultimate function in“the aircraft. The more cynical nations usually consider pilots expendable, and surround them only with the , Aimate in speed and firepower, sacrificing

Does Air Quantity Rate With Quality?

weight of proection and comfort for maneuverability and speed. In this country our vast potential for industrial expansion has lent us a touch of the braggies, which is to say that anything we do has got to be the best as well as the most prevalent. It is a myth, actually. We can hustle up the most, but the very thing that gives us volume often gives us an inferior product. : We make the most autos, for instance, but I do not think we make the best. We have been topped in planes and tanks and guns, consistently. We do not actually make the best clothes or shoes or. wine or whisky. Much of what we rush off assembly. lines is second-class goods, in which peak performance is sacrificed to multiple issue. > & I SHOULD LIKE to see us become a little less smug about our great potential for overpowering all opposition with our knack for massive output. The other lads have been studying our massive output techniques for quite some time now, and may be pretty well caught up on how we do it. In regard to the controversial air force, 1 would say you cannot fly a blueprint airplane and bomb a target or protect a target with it. A plane flies when gunned and manned and gassed and maintained on the ground, and not before. I venture to differ a bit with Mr. Truman in his speech to his old Army outfit last Saturday. We haven't got the biggest air force, and we haven't got the best, either, if you consider an air

force something that is capable of flying off to .

war.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—What are the little red swellings all over the maple tree leaves? West Side. A — They are maple leaf galls — swellings caused by insects. Control is an early spring spray, but since they don’t ‘ordinarily do permanent damage you won't need to worry too much about them.

Q-—-What is a rugosa rose? Lover of oldfashioned roses. A—"Rugosa” is simply a hard way of saying “rough.” Rugosa roses are rough-leaved roses.

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

As you have obviously read about them, they are old-fashioned roses, the leaves deeply veined and thick compared to the hybrid teas.

_ Q—1Is it necessary to use DDT on glads if the bulbs were dusted before planting? E. 38th St. A~—To be doubly sure of thrip protection, yes.

Thrips are so bad and so tragic in their drying .

up of flowers, once they get started, it's wise to dust every couple weeks as the flower . ih

feet of the visitors.

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SPIES, DUPES AND DIPLOMATS ... No.9

‘Case Of The Six’ Starts To

By RALPH DE TOLEDANO

WHEN the “Case of Six" broke into newspapers on June 7, 1945, Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew was satisfied that a job of preliminary and necessary housecleaning had been done. : Mr, Grew had been meticu- TO HIS astonishment and lous in his acts before the ar- horror, Mr. Grew was met by a rests. He had insisted on not barrage of abuse and vilificaknowing the names of the sus- tion--as if breaking the Amerpects for fear that personal asia Case had been the crime. feelings might lead him to in- In a terrifying demonstration tervene or somehow influence of ill-will, influential segments the decision of the Justice De- of the American press began partment. systematically to obfuscate the On June 5 and 6 the FBI ar- {gsues .and to belabor those

rested six persons: who were attempting to inJohn Stewart Service, a ca- yoke the laws of the land. reer diplomat in the Far East- The press onslaught against ern division of the State De- the State Department for tak-

partment. ing essential steps in the deEmmanuel - Larsen, civilian fense of the country obscured employee of the intelligence jn the public mind the fact that

sections of the State and Navy Departments. Lt. Andrew Roth of Naval Intelligence. Philip Jaffe,’ editor of * Amerasia magazine and his assistant, Kate Mitchell. Mark Gayn, a writer on Far East affairs. Though Acting Secretary of State Grew was an admirer of Service's work, he pressed for quick indictments. In a statement to the press, he declared: “Officers of the Department of State have for some time been giving special at“tention to the security of secret and confidential informa-

the six had been arrested. for violation of the Espionage Act. Instead, it had suddenly become a question of freedom of the press, on the one hand, and Mr. Grew’s policies on the “other. Gayn said that he had used the material for articles and denied that he had ever dealt with the Communists. Jaffe, released on bail, issued a statement that “the red-baiting character of this case is scandalous” and often libelous.”

But he never did sue his “libelers.” The case of the six became the case of Jogeph Grew. The defendants became heroes in the leftist and liberal press. So pernicious ‘did the charges against the Undersecretary become that he took the extraor- - dinary course of replying publicly. oo - Military secrets and not personalities were the basis of the case, Mr. Grew said,

became apparent that information of a secret character was reaching unauthorized persons . . . A comprehensive program is to be continued unrelentingly to stop this illegal and disloyal conveyance . . . The matter is now

in the hands of the Depart- and “ample evidence has been: partment of Justice for found to support the charges prosecution.” i e+ + We heard somebody in

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the chicken coop and went to see who was there.” Kate Mitchell's uncle, James M. Mitchell, a former president of the New York Bar Association, put his law firm to work on the case. Col. Joseph M. Hartfield, a member of the firm, vigited Washington at least once to ¢all on top officials in the Justice Department. Rep. Emanuel Celler, a Dem-ocratic-American Labor Party stalwart, also called on the Attorney General. Mr. Celler's law partner, Arthur Sheinberg, acted as Jaffe’s attorney. A substantial defense fund was raised for John Stewart Service, with the help of Mor-

timer Graves, secretary of the American Council of Learned Societies. The battle was joined. ” ” ~ THE EVIDENCE against the Amerasia Six was presented to a Washington grand jury whose term was expiring, The Justice Department later claimed that, since the accused had offered to appear and waive immunity, it was decided to dismiss that jury and re-pre-sent: the evidence to a newly impaneled one. The argument was that an examination of the six would enable government attorneys ‘to strengthen the case. «

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McInerney, the Justice Department felt that the entire business was of piddling importance since the documents were of “innocuous, very innocuous character.” . The special assistant to the Attorney General chosen to try the case, Robert Hitchcock, Buffalo, had decided, by Mr. MclInerney's testimony, that John Stewart Service was innocent. * Mr, McInerney testified before the Tydings subcommittee that Mr. Hitchcock took Service before the grand jury © “but he didn’t give him the same penetrating examination that he gave Gayn and (Kate) Mitchell.” At no time was the jury teld of Jaffe’s Communist background. % How the rest of the evidence was presented is locked up in the grand jury minutes. Mr, Mclnerny said that the jury believed that the documents “could be seen in almost every magazine and newspaper office in New York.” Somewhere along the line, the charge of conspiracy to commit espionage was dropped. In its place was substituted a charge of conspiracy to violate the statute concerning the ille- - gal possession “of government property. ¥ Since no government documents were found in the home of Service, the shift automatically - eliminated him. Twelve votes were required to indict. On Aug. 10 the grand jury voted: ;

On Larsen—14 for, 6