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system administrator “That's one of the

suggestion box.”

ture tubes.” Gus Jones, suggestion at RCA Victor, chuckled. ridiculous ideas we get in the For an hour Gus hid been banging my ears about RCA Victor's new employee suggestion plan. Passing out $7056 in 1951 to Indianapolis RCA workers had my approval. And 1952 is going to be a bigger bonus year for sharp employees., : Before. Dec. 1, 1951, the maximum for a bright idea was 500 bucks. The maximum for a single accepted idea now is $7500.

® > o MY ONLY contdct with suggestion boxes has been in the New Yorker magazine cartoons, I've always assumed they were glorified trash containers and a repository for gentle gibes at the boss. You see how one can be misled by car toons? . Gus mentioned a G. P. Sanders, employee of the Yandes St. plant, who racked up $1000 fo making suggestions. . "RCA pays off only on ideas that save the company money. The more savings involved in the suggestion, the more the suggester gets.* Gus read a suggestion “To fix the hot water not too hot—the cold water not too cold.” No dough for the employee for that suggestion. Another bright lad suggested “To have a beauty contest for the women and have me be the judge.” They call this type a “crank suggestion.” I don’t know. It has possibilities. LE

MEN AREN'T the only ones with ideas. Rosemary Mahoney, employee in the chassis testing department, rang the register twice-for a total of $662. Nice figures in anyone's pay envelope. Even after the dough is gone and forgotten, RCA has a method for keeping the memory of a good idea alive. A winner of $100 or more in awards gets a membership in the Century Club and is entitled to wear a sterling silver pin. When $300 or more in awards are pocketed,

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW ORLEANS, June 12—D’you ever eat diamond-studded meatballs? “Diamond Jim” Moran really serves them in this razzle-dazzle town, Every few weeks a customer finds a small diamond ring in a meatball. Naturally that helps the meatball business. But two stickup guys :

_ who sauntered in just at ="

closing time recently were not after meatballs. They wanted Jim's $200,000 in jewelry, and “money , . . and maybe Jim. “I knew they was hot when they come in,” Jim said. “Don’t give me no static while I tell you the story. ; “First, ‘they don't like their center table. They got to be down in: front by my cash register . .. and all my diamonds...” Big Jim—whom you probably saw monopolizing television at the Kentucky Derby—told the story to the B. W,, Slugger and me. We'd dropped in on this part of our Round America tour. We'd come over from the “International Suite” at Seymour Weiss’ Roosevelt Hotel. It rents for $150 a day. Weiss let us have it free. He knew we couldn’t pay for it. “I opened my register,” Jim said. “With my hand on my .45, I watched these guys. “I naturally don’t want to lose all this.” Jim {indicated his diamond cane, diamond glasses, diamond zipper and diamond teeth—‘falsies” which he avears for show, but not for eating. In his mink tie he has 8 separate diamond studs. A quiet-dressed fellah, “I don’t reckanize 'em,” Jim sald. “And I know all the burglars. I lend them fives and tens. “TI call a friend off the street, He says these two look rec hot. . “I tell him to get a cop. But if they make a move I decide I stant soe state with my .45.

“SUDDENLY these guys pass something under the table. Like transferrin’ something. “I figure this is it. But when you're nuts about diamonds, you're nuts, I bought my first one when I was 9. For $5. “These guys scrape back their chairs’. . up ... and walk over. “I'm.ready to start the static with my .45—

Diamond Jim

. get

they say good night and walk out.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, June 12—Once more we deal with the Koje. prison riots and wonder aloud if the entire world has gone completely mad. We are reporting Koje casualties in terms of communiques these days, as if this were a separate war from Korea—a tiny, vest-pocket war-within-a-war. It is like fighting a two-ocean war while simultaneously being stymied by the principality of Monaco. I never heard of a war before in which the prisoners are allowed to forge weapons cpenly in their blacksmith shops, where ‘the generals get kidnaped as hostages and where the succeeding general signs a separate peace with people who have already become prisoners. In the old war I knew, when a guy got taken prisoner he lost his bargaining power, and either sweated out an armistice or tried to escape. He didn’t challenge the armed might of his captors. You might expect sloppy handling of the first emergency out of that Gen. Colson, the one who succeeded Gen. Dodd and got busted for making ‘outrageous terms with his captives, because I knew Gen. ‘Colson when he was the strong right arm of Gen. John Lee in Europe, and even then he was more of a valet than otherwise, intent on petty detail. That he is busted to colonel as a result of Army displeasure does not surprise

me.

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BU? this Boatner boy who is currently in charge seems mostly to have got us involved in a third front with people we already done whipped. It all reads like Gilbert and Sullivan as rewritten by madmen. Dress-rehearsal ‘military exercises to impress people we already got locked up, and the like. And then pitched battles with the vanquished, with the jailers losing lives. I should hate to have to die over any Korean, North or South, but to get killed fighting caged Koreans seems to me the ultimate in idiocy. I would say that the entire cageful is not worth one life on our side, but maybe I don’t know the nuances of modern war, where you fight to lose and prisoners cause you more grief than the enemy-at large.

THIS is a harsh view to take, but war fs harsh, involving death. If a prisoner gave me heavy trouble and refused to conform to the order of my camp, I am afraid I would give the the choice of behaving himself or dying very suddenly. The choice would be with the man, and would be backed by my might, as jafler. Certainly, I would, not let him run a munitions factory within the gates, or operate in any way which was displeasing to me as

fe » Bright Ideas P In Cash at RC: an employee receives a gold pin. An award of $500 or more warrants a gold pin with a diamond and each additional $500 in awards adds another diamond, Four diamonds are the limit. If I had four I certainly wouldn't want to stop there. Thirty-eight diamonds make a nice cluster. Gerald Moran and Gordon Thomas, tube department, recently ogled checks for $163 and $157, respectively. Mr. Thomas is on the books for a total of $560 and a sod pis with a diamond.

AFTER kicking around figures like that, even a small boy could readily see suggestions aren't a laughing matter in spite of the New Yorker cartoons. (Wish I had a small boy right now to prove the statement).

But since there isn't a boy around, I'll mention another suggestion that struck my fancy: “Lay a rubber egg and bounce on {t,”"" The writer of this suggestion is going far with RCA. Gus said a man began with the local RCA plant a few years ago as a sweeper, I think that's a grade higher than the nail-and-stick wielder. Today, because of his regularity in submitting sound ideas, many of which paid off in cash, the man is'a foreman, and that’s more than a grade higher than a sweeper, brother.

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THERE'S a committee that studies suggestions and it is always on the lookout for initiative and drive. The only trouble. with being on the committee, or having a job like Gus has, you're not eligible for puggestion awards. Monetary, that is. The same applies to some foremen, section managers and men at higher ‘organizational levels. This rule precludes a boss with a strain of a Nogoodik in him from capitalizing on an employee's suggestion. Gus figured one out of 20 suggestions are of the crank type. It's probably most unfair to have this thought but, I just wonder if the sweeper who pulled; himself up to the foreman level by suggestions, didn’t drop “Lay a rubber egg and bounce on it” in the box. ’ Ah, a foreman wouldn't do that. All foremen are wise, kind, trusting, helpful to all those old ladies who sell their cars to used car buyers. Right, foremen?

Diamond Jim Nips Big Diamond Holdup

“An hour later I'm home thinkin’ what a fool [ am to worry. Somehow I get a brain storm. I call my watchman.

“I says, ‘Look under the-table if there's a gun under there.’ “He looks. He says, ‘Mr. Jimmy, there's two guns under there. “They figured,” said Jim, “I knew ‘em, and they gave up. They think they're gonna get frisked by the cops so they ditch the guns on me.” Diamond Jim twirled his diamond cane, “It's gotta happen sometime that I get robbed,” Jim said. “But before I do, this .45 and me is gonma raise a lot of static.” - CAE ae 2 3 THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Strip-Teaser Lili 8t. Cyr said—before flying to Europe—that she'll divorce ‘the husband who gets $300-a-wk. to help manage her . .. Glenn McCarthy was offered $14 mfllion to pull out of everything and surrender all holdings to a financial group. He wants more. Margaret Truman lost a pearl earring helping kick-off the “Winner Take All” TV show. Guess who looked for it. Everybody . . . The Johnnie Rays resent rumors of trouble. They honeymoon July 28-Aug. 7 after he plays the Atlanta Fox Theater. Rosemary Clooney's: new admirer: George (Sad Sack) Baker . . . Josephine Baker's mgr. Wm, Traub has an offer for her to costar in Betty Grable's “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” ‘at 20th. She’d do a Folies Bergere routine portraying herself . .., Siri is one reason why “Of Thee I Sing” is doing good business. Frank Riggio, the tobacco tycoon, helped rescue five fishermen floundering in Gardiner’'s Bay in life belts . . . Hats off to Gertrude Lawrence who fought it out and is again in good voice . + » Capt. Geo. 8S. Patton, the General's son, weds Joanne 8S. Holbrook, daughter of a Pentagon general. 3 : Ex-fighter Kid Goodman's now part-time doorman at Leon & Eddie's., . . Georgie Jessel may get the Tuesday night TV spot vacated. once a month by Milton Berle . . . Lisa Kirk gets laughs at the Persian Room singing her own campaign song, “Gable Is as Able as Ike.” . LE WISH I'D SAID THAT: Jimmy Nelson notes that most show girls have the kind of figure men will BARE in mind. : ®* 2 & TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Taffy Tuttle just got her first compliment: Someone said she has the perfect face for radio. Irwin Corey claims a gentleman is a man who, when he invites a. girl up to see his etchings, shows her his etchin®s . . . That's Earl, brother.

Seems Like a Poor Way to Run a War

not allow aggression against the weaker members of our friendship group. We have fiddled along with that for two years, fighting a kind of parliamentary action, and refusing to prosecute the battle to maximum potential. > AS GLOBAL: policemen we have succeeded in looking. awfully silly, since we have shown ourselves to be cops who can’t cope with the burglars. But we did not plumb complete idiocy until we allowed the prisoners to take over and inaugurate a new war of their own. My logic may be oversimplified, but it seems to me that a mighty nation which cannot control its own prisoner-of-war compounds is in the wrong business-of fighting wars. We had better start beating the generals into plowshares and pleading celemency, because I do not see how we can stand off Russia if we cannot dominate a few thousand vagrants behind barbed wire. » Pb YOU COULD call this treasonous talk if it were not for the mightily embarrassing facts, which is that the Red prisoners did kidnap Gen. Dodd, did sign a separate peace with Gen. Colson, and are even now in the process of fighting pitched battles with special American assault troops. This I did not invent, as mad as it seems, i Maybe there are all sorts of delicate political implications which escape me, but I will say that from 4 distance this in one hell of a poor way to run a war.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—What to do for rhubarb that has small stalks and just doesn’t grow? Mrs, 8. M. H. A—No growth usually indicates starvation. Rhubarb is a gluttonous plant. If your plants seem crowded, divide them this fall. Then really prepare the ground well and enrich it. Rhubarb thrives on rotted manure, dug into the planting soil, or used as a mulch around it. It likes lime.

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

(Be sure not to overdo lime, A light sprinkling only if ground is heavy clay.) Add a complete chemical fertilizer. (preferably a lawn type that is high’ in nitrogen rather than flower stimulating phosphates). Loose soil, and good drainage (raise the bed if your ground is poorly drained) will make your Thubarh happy. : 4

P , @—Will chrysanthemums grow in light shade if I fertilize them well? West side. 3 A—Not too well. They're likely to grow leggy , of course, on how light the shade is. Also, -fashioned

THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1952 ‘DIXIE DAY’ AT ATTERBURY— .

EQUIPMENT DISPLAY —Civilians will see where tax money goes.

By ED KENNEDY imes Staff Writer

CAMP ATTERBURY, June 12 — GI blouses were getting a last-minute pressing and brass was being blitzed here today in preparation for the big “Dixie Day” cele-

bration Saturday. . The 14,000 soldiers of the 31st (Dixie) ' Division are to look their snapplest for their “Open House” program and division review. The review to start at 2 p. m. will be the first for the famed former Mississippi-Alabama national guard outfit in more than a year. . o

o ” " FOR 5000 men in the unit the Confederate Clad members of the division band will troop the line to the strains of Dixie for the last time. : > Korea and combat are the orders for 2500 of the division's men. Another 2500 are bound for assignments in Europe. The “Dixie Day” open house will get underway at 10 a. m. and continue until 5 p. m. In addition to the review the divi; sion will repeat the popular “Military County ‘Fair’ demonstration which was set up here on Armed Forces Day. For the kids there will be jeep rides and a chance to climb on and in big tanks. For father ani mother there will be a chance to inspect vital defense equipment each piece of which is price tagged to show how the defense dollar is spent. For all there will be free lemonade, courtesy of the doughboys.

” » » IN ADDITION to playing for the review the band will play concerts throughout‘the day at the county fair. Civilians will see how an in-

fantry division operates when

.it is in combat. They will get

a .close-up look at every infantry weapon, ranging from small 45-caliber automatic pistols to medium tanks and will be allowed to operate themselves walkie talkie radio sets, field telephones, switch-boards,

‘and other types of communica-

tions equipment. . A complete field kitchen will be in operation and members of two .infantry companies will eat two meals, at the exhibit. A field chapel, consisting of altar vestments and ornaments mounted on the front of-a jeep, will. be set up by the Dixle Division Chaplain. Section, By using a jeep as an altar a Chaplain can bring religious services to the men whenever they are in the field or combat.

= 2 » A MAJOR attraction of the day will be the actual operation of the “eager beaver” jeep which operates under water by use of a Snorkel breathing type device. A jeep will be submerged in a water-filled tank for the demonstration. A demonstration by the Division's Air Section will show how messages are relayed and packages ‘picked up from ground units. In addition, a medical aid station of the type used for emergency treatment of wounded soldiers and a bridge construction demonstration will be included in the colorful display.

On hand to view the well trained, precision marching infantrymen as they pass in review will be Maj. Gen. A, G.

SPIES, DUPES AND DIPLOMATS ... No. 10

U. S. Lawyers Make Deal With Jaffe

By RALPH DE TOLEDANO

NLY three of “The Amerasia Six" had been indicted by the federal grand jury in Washington in August, 1945. 3

They were Emmanuel Larsen, of the Intelligence section of the Navy and State Departments; Lt. Andrew Roth, of Naval Intelligence; Philip Jaffe, editor of Amerasia magazine. Following the indictment, Larsen learned that the FBI had made a search of his home prior to his arrest. Such a search was in violation of the Fourth Amendment. According to law, all evidence obtained illegally (as well as all leads secured in this manner) was inadmissible in court.

Larsen’s lawyers immediately moved to suppress all evidence seized in Larsen's home at the time he was taken into custody. The FBI examined the Larsen motion to quash the indictment. It prepared a 21-page memorandum, and submitted it several weeks later to Robert Hitchcock, the special assistant attorney general chosen to try the cade, and to Donald Anderson, another Justice Department attorney. It was Anderson's view that the Larsen motion would not stand up in court, simply because thé case against him could be. backed by the documents seized in the raid on Amerasia—documents in his handwriting or bearing his fingerprints—and by his own admissions, But Hitchcock and Assistant Attorney General McInerney had already decided that their case against the remaining three defendants was “collapsing.” : On Sept. 28, Hitchcock and

Doctors Weigh Heart Patients’ Diet

a day, “what's the use of living vocate a diet (for heart patients) at this time, with so little information available.” !

.CHICAGO, June 12—Doctors teries, at which 12 of the nation's were urged today to stop spooning|top experts on heart disease “horrible” fat-free diets “down the sli

McInerney moved with a rapidity virtually unknown among lawyers. Jaffe’s counsel had already offered to enter a plea of guilty if he could make a deal with the government.

Hitchcock and McInerney have since insisted that they were ready to accede to this request because they knew that the FBI had entered the Amerasia premiges illegally previous to the arrests. Once Larsen’s motion became public, they argued, Jaffe might make inquiries and learn of this entry, whereupon he would also move to quash the indictment. Even for a legal mind, the Justice Department's reasoning was not particularly logical. The original lead in the Amerasia case had not been tainted,

«it had been developed by legal

surveillance,

Jaffe’'s lawyer was called in and proposed that his client would plead guilty to the illegal possession of government documents if the Justice Department would recommend a fine and no jail sentence. The: lawyers agreed, and a fine of $5000 was stipulated. “We asked if this was a firm commitment which under no ciycumstances would ~be withdrawn,” Hitchcock told the Tydings subcommittee. ‘He also said that he insisted that our recommendation as to the fine would not be perfunctory, but made in good faith to the court, with a genuine effort on our part to have the court follow our recommendation. We gave r.n that assurance.” * 8 ” THE NEXT DAY was a Saturday. With no reporters present, the case was brought before Judge Proctor. In its own way, it was a classic in jurisprudence. When Albert Arent, Jaffe's lawyer, met McInerney

gullets” of so many heart pa- othe,

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these diets themselves before ad-| Association convention here.

vocating them for patients,” declared Dr. Irvine H. Page of overweight patients with heart Cleveland, who confessed he putitrouble should be placed on re-jivas can himself “through the wringer” un- ducing diets to lighten the load til the craving for a chocolate put on their hearts by “excess fat > | good only for insulation.” Dr. Page. research director at ~ Beyond that, however, Cleveland clinic, spoke at a sym- was little agreement. 3 posium on hardening of the ar-, Dr. John W, Gotman of the looks like he enjoys three » :. 2 . ; :

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EMMANUEL LARSEN — Moves to quash indictment.

and Hitchcock before the court went into session, he had already read in the papers of Larsen’s motion to quash. the indictment and suppress the evidence. “You're not going to back out on your word?” McInerney asked. “No, you're not Boing back on’ yours, either,” Arent said. Both Hitchcock and MeInerney cited the exchange with Arent as a great vietory. . They had gotten him to agree to a plea before he had learned of the Larsen motion. This, however, had freed Arent from any legal or moral obligation to plead as he had promised. Yet ‘Arent still seemed as ready to enter a guilty plea as he had been the night before. After the legal preliminaries, Arent led off with a statement on the distinguished editorial

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saved or prolo! by eating get definite answers”

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University of California insisted “an appreciable number” of patiénts with hardening of the arteries “respond favorably” to the

“We may save lives by diet,”

But Dr. Louis N. Katz of Chicago pointed out there's no proof

fat. And “until we|people” and “maybe some on this/neurotics” . Ei point, ‘he said, there's no sense themselves, he said. x

there subjecting patients to such it's | “After all.” sald Dr

GETTING THE FEEL—Youngsters can handle the big guns an

Paxton, division commander, and military dignitaries of sev-

eral states.

The governors of Mississippi, Alabama and Indiana have

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board of Amerasia—Owen Lattimore, William T. Stone (then in the Foreign Service), and others. He mentioned that Jaffe had belonged to an organization headed by Secretary Stimson, and painted his client as thoroughly scholarly and patriotic. “If Mr. Jaffe has transgressed the law, it seems he has done so from an excess of

journalistic zeal,” and with “no intent to jeopardize the welfare

.of his.country.”

Hitchcock told the court that he agreed “in substance” with this statement. When asked how long it would take to present the government's case, he said, “Less than five minutes.” o 5 sn PHILIP JAFFE, had taken the classified documents for his magazine, Amerasia, to “lend to its weight and, perhaps, its circulation,” Hitchcock said. Though several hundred government documents were involved, there was no evidence that “injury or emharrassment” to the government was intended. By saying ‘no evidence,” he might ‘have been speaking as a careful lawyer. But he suggested also that there was evidence that the intent of taking the documents was, “quite to the contrary,” innocent. So persuasive was Hitchocock—and so careful not to mention anything damaging to the defendant—that Judge Proctor characterized Jaffe's work as “evidently for- a trustworthy purpose.” In 1950, Hitchcock was to assert that he did not mention

Jaffe's Communist affiliations .

because he was certain Judge Proctor had read about the case

“in the newspapers.

“I accept without a doubt the

if you can’t have fun eating?’ . Dr. George E. Burch of Tulane {University, who handles lots. of low-fat diet” of which he is a heart patients, said that just putting an ailing person on a Witch aker him Jee better. “" e pa something 306g ding to manipulate,” he explained. reported Dr. crazy oral

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been invited as special guests of the division. ; Dixie’ Day this year will coincide with the 177th birthday of the United States Army.

assurance both of your counsel and of the government attorneys that there was no thought or act upon your part which was intended or calcu lated or had a tendency to injure the government . . .” he added. “It would make quite a difference to me if I did not have that assurance and did not know, confidently, that that was true.” :

Then he imposed a fine of $2500—one-half the amount of Jaffe's annual contribution to the Communist Party, ” » ” HITCHCOCK told the Tydings subcommittee that Lare sen’s motion to quash the indictment and suppress the evie dence could not stand up in court—although the prospect of a similar motion by.Jaffe was given as the reason for making a deal with him.

The FBI summary of the case and Justice Department legal opinions also show that Larsen had no case. Yet Hitchcock agreed, after “prolonged negotiation” with Larsen’s attorney, to accept a plea of nolo contendere and recommend a $500 fine. On Nov. 2, 1945, Hitch cock again went before Judge Proctor, advised him that “there was no element of disloyalty involved,” and acc the same Jaffe whom he had some weeks before exculpated, of being .the “corrupter.” : The. fine was imposed, and Larsen walked out a free man. Out of the kindness of his heart, Jaffe paid Larsen’s fine and legal expenses. The case against Lt. Roth was nolle-prossed because, according to the Justice Departs ment, he was “exculpated” by Philip Jaffe. ‘ It was one happy family.

aN Greatest Spy of Them

Dr. Gofman, who claims the