Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1952 — Page 11

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It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, July 15—There are many crazy stories told on our crazy street, but the one about ex-GI Al Martino, Philadelphia's “singing bricklayer,” is one of my favorites. : Al always thought he could sing—and his wife

Jean thought so—but most people thought that as a singer he was a great bricklayer. “And what happened,” says Al's pal, road manager and admirer, Jimmy Ceres, “happened because a guy's looking for a place to sit in a restuarant. Al don’t give him no brushoff. Al says to him, ‘Siddown.’ ” “It's no big deal,” insists Al, who's only 26, and modest. “Am I proud or something? I just said to him, ‘Sit down.’ ” After the man sat down

Mr. Mitchell

said, “Say ain't you Al Martino, the singing © bricklayer?” > 5 “This is a coincidence,” the man said. “I've been looKing for you. I got a great song for you

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A Broadway Tale Of a Singer's Rise

“I'm supposed to convince them I can sing. I stood there two days convincing them,” says Al. They came through—and now there was excitement in Al's slum—‘“the furniture in the place is so old it’s not safe to sit down, and the last picture they put in it was Dempsey when he was a young boy,” Al says. And then—a crisis. Ai—who'd been a signalman with the 3d Marine Division on Iwo Jima was afraid he'd be called back into the reserves.

“They needed signalmen. If I got called back, that would stop me from making the record. I called up and asked my status. “The chief petty officer said, ‘You're a lucky dog. Your time expired a month ago.” The recording date was set—“And four days before, I got laryngitis for the first time in my life.” “I stay up with him all night,” Jimmy Ceres puts in, “rubbin’ him and puttin’ hot towels on his neck. - “I says to him, ‘If you gotta die, die now. Don’t die the day of the recording. Die now and save us the money.’ ”’ : : > >

AL GOT WELL—made the recording—and in

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CONQUEST BY TERROR . . . No. 2—

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By LELAND STOWE

TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1952

THE COMMUNISTS CONTROL EVERYBODY How do the Communists in Eastern Europe control

everybody ? question:

Here are factual cases that answer the

A “displaced” Budapest banker ordered coffee at his

/ “favorite cafe, started a conver-

sation with the waiter, an old acquaintance. The waiter glanced carefully around, said, “Please, sir, don’t talk these days with any walter.” Three waiters in Buchares('s most popular cafes have won startling promotions, One became a colonel, the other two majors in the MIA-—Rumania’s equivalent of Russia's dreaded MVD. Throughout satellite Europe every waiter is compelled to serve as an agent of the secret police. He must make nightly reports of “useful information.” Otherwise he loses his job A Prague SNE officer told a meeting of Czech customs inspectors in July, 1950, that they

must show their loyalty by de-

nouncing “at least one enemy of the state each month.”

» ” ” BY JANUARY, 1951, under the slogan of “more denunciations to help world peace,” each customs official was ordered to boost his denunciations to three persons per month. Failure to conform would be considered “lack of vigilance.” Customs inspectors also have to eat. Russia's Europe 1s infested with police spies. Hotel employees, apariment-house managers, janitors, mailmen, railroad conductors and countless others are forced to act as informers for Soviet-type, secretpolice organizations. Even at the risk of sounding like a circus blurb-writer, it is sober fact to state that the Soviet Communists possess the greatest, as well as the most barbaric, _police system the world has ever known. It controls, ‘watches and intimidates all persons living between Kamchatka’s and Viadivostok’s Pacific coast and Berlin and Vienna. No other single policeterror organization has: ever dominated such a vast grea of the earth, nor such a huge total

of human beings. This is T T

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to wax.” 17 days the little hastily-put-together firm had & * + sold 300,000 records. 3 rg CRA Gh Noel - deidlioz- you tborepkied. Ad idee, Fgot:into "a car=ionted WHtFFeOorg mus =n mmm:

ain't on any label.” Chan sa Al was thoroughly discouraged. He was living (almost) with Guy Mitchell the crooner on 48th 8t., but selling flowers on Broadway to get by. “I was making about a buck a day,” he says. “Two bowls of soup cost 16 cents at the automat. One day we only had 15 cents between us and got the guy to cut the price a cent.” The visitor at the table, William Borrelli, a Philadelphia tailor, importer and song-writer, wanted Al to record his then unheard-of song, “Here in My Heart.” He had $1000 for the project, needed $5000 more. “We agreed to do it—when we got the money. That might be never. Sometimes we forgot we were going to do it. We'd see each other around, and laugh, and say, ‘Remember that song we're going to do?" ” Al'd occasionally go back to Philly and lay brick a while. ‘ “My ‘wife was there with her mother. Al Jr. didn’t even know me. The first thing a wife wants is her husband around. But Jean wanted me to sing. “She worked as hard as I did, believe me.” One day Borrelli wanted Al to go to Landsdale, Pa., to sing for two potential bankrollers.

‘A Niece Crook By Paul Ghali

PARIS, July 15—London jewel and fur insur-.

ers have had a rush of business lately according to reports reaching here. The story of Little Ann and her gentleman burglar no doubt is responsible. Little Ann is the sociable child of the assistant military attache at Frange's London embassy. One night her parents were entertaining dinner guests on the ground floor of their Eaton Square house. Around 11 o'clock Ann suddenly woke up. A handsome gentleman in evening clothes was standing near her bed. She thought, of course, it was one of her parents’ guests. “Hello,” said Ann. “It is nice of you to come up and see me.” The gentleman replied in French, “I always come and say hello to the little daughters of my friends, éspecially when they are as nice as you, Ann. What a nice nursery you have here.” “Oh,” said Ann, delighted by the visit, “That Is nothing. You should see mama's and papa's rooms, They are much much nicer,” : “I'd like to see them,” said the gentleman. “I'm sure they're very beautiful.” ‘ 0D SO ANN GOT out of bed in her little blue gilk nightgown, and took her visitor by the hand. Buch fun and such a kind gentleman to come and see her. And she proved a perfect guide, “This is mama's bed, and this is where mama ‘keeps ner jewels. She is wearing some tonight

The nicest ones are still here, though. This is the wardrobe for the furs. S8uch beauties.” The gentleman was properly admiring. Then he suddenly became worried about her. “Don’t you think you should go back to bed now, It's getting late and I must return to your parents,” he said. . . . 86 Ann, with her best company manners, kissed the man goodbye and told him he must promise to come to see her again the next time he had dinner at her house. : Spl ee “SURELY,” said the gentleman. “You are a .. very sweet little girl.” : The next thing Ana remembered, wast her

and drove west plugging the song via disc jockeys.

“By now it’s sold almost a million.

Capitol Records quickly -signed up Al. He's now playing in cafes and soon goes into the Paramount. When he was singing in Buffalo, Marilyn Monroe came to hear him. - Naturally, Al and Borrelli broke up—they always do—but Borrelli probably made $50,000 off the record. . And in a week or two Al Martino will be living with—you can guess—Mrs. Al Martino. And one other: Al Martino Jr. They can afford it now. “A lot of talk is going around that Martino is busted up into 50 or 80 pieces and owned entirely by somebody else,” says Al. “It’s not true. I have got, believe it or not, 80 per cent of myself.” Al, Mrs. Al and little Al will be living in a New York hotel probably, thinks Al. “In the tower—sort of like the penthouse,” says Jimmy Ceres, admiringly. °' * > 2

WISH I'D SAID THAT—The Omaha. World- -

Herald said it: “No lady ‘is ever fat—she’s just a little short for her weight.” LB TODAY'S BEST LAUGH--If all the cars in the country were placed end to end—98 per cent of the drivers would start pulling out of line to pass the car ahead. ... That's Earl, brother.

Little Ann Found The Gems for Him

mother coming to kiss her goodnight after the last guest had gone. “You know,” Ann told her, “One of your guests came to see me and he was so nice.”

“Nonsense,” said her mother, “None of my guests left the drawing room. You just invented it in your dreams. Now go back to sleep.”

But 15 minutes later both her mother and her father woke Ann up to ask all sorts of questions about the man who had come to see her, Apparently, he had not been a gentleman at all—just an old burglar,

Cat burglars have been a major worry to French embassy personnel ever since Little Ann's adventure. Lots of Ann's embassy playmates are playing detective these nights and watching for visitors to their nurseries after dark-—gallant gentlemen wearing evening clothes.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—1I received a lovely gloxinia full of buds. The buds seem to dry up or rather, rot. And the leaves have curled up. I have tried water, letting it get dry, sun and warmth and also cool and shade. None of these seem to help any. What should I do for: it.—Mrs. J. 8. Jaynes, 220 S. Fifth Ave. Beech Grove. A~~Try watering your plant regularly with

manure water. Or replace some of the soil at the top of the pot with rotted manure or other

organic matter, Or, if the pot seems too awfully small for the plant, move it carefully into a larger pot with rich soil to fill. I had a gloxinia that performed in much the same way. So I went into the subject and found a lot of conflicting advice. But Cynthia Westcott, the well-known “plant doctor,” says such a condition (bud-blasting, curled leaves) may be caused by a lack of boron in the soil. Boron is a trace element. That is, plants need very tiny servings of it. And an overdose can be fatal. That's one

reason organic matter (and manure) is so important in soils, They supply trace elements and

seemingly without overdoing it. Don't overwater.

your plant. Give it in general the same culture you'd give African violets, rs

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years at the Ppint, no

graduation, is not definitely known,

-.. By WADE JONES. CHICAGO, July 15—The strangely unwarlike Eisenhower still reflects much

that his mother believed with statements like: “Total war would be the suicide of our generation. We must train the youth of America to ‘avert World War III, not refight World War II. Belligerence is the hallmark of insecurity.” Ike, like his brothers, worked extremely hard as a boy in the often futile race to make ends meet, He helped his mother with the washing, cleaning, woodcutting and cooking. He still likes to cook and is pretty good at it. But there was still some Lime to play and Ike was good at sports. Later, at West Point, he was a star halfback until he injured his knee severely, Today he's a good golfer and shoots in the low 80s. Ike, who had always been good in English and history, wanted to get an education somewhere—he didn’t care too much just where=-so he took the Kansas examinations for both Annapolis and West Point. He got the appointment to Annapolis, but learned to his dismay that by the time he entered the Naval Academy he would be over its age limit. Then, fortunately for him, the top man in the West Point exam failed to pass his physical exam, and Ike got the appointment. :

” n ~ HE GRADUATED from the Point in 1915, ranking 61st in scholarship in a class of 164. In conduct, he wasn’t so good, ranking 95th. He got several demerits for oversleeping and swearing, Classmate Omar Bradley stood sixth in conduct. During his first couple of Ike “gave indication that he would follow a military career after What decided him

A year after he got out of

the Point, Tke married Mamie Geneva Doud, daughter of a prominent ‘western meat packer,

They had two sons, Dwight Doud, who died when a baby,

of scarlet fever, and John Sheldon Doud, a West Pointer and

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In 1920: President Wilson lay

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olyzed business; the 19th amendment,

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Murder, Incorporated — reaching one-third of the way around

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THE STALINIST police system has now been installed and consolidated in every city, town and village. An example of secret police control of a village: The town of Hlucin, Moravia, Czechoslovakia, has about 5000 inhabitants. Before World War IT Hlucin's normal police force was -5 men, Today the town has two SNB police stations, manned by thirty police. In addition militia men frequently patrol the town, The total of secret agents in Hlucin and vicinity is unknown. The Spviet police system penetrates every nook of daily ocq cupation, every cranny of human activity or entertainment. No conquered nations have ever been so utterly and inescapably police controlled as the socalled “liberated people's democracies,” The Kremlin's MVD network reduces Hitler's murderous Gestapo to a sec-ond-rate status by a wide margin. It is much more allembracing, more tightly organized,

How is the Communist police system organized? The Stalinists have five major, separate police-control organizations in every satellite country:

ONE—The" Security Police, identical with the Soviet MVD, highly political secret agents, specialists’ in mass arrests, purges, torture and executions. TWO Internal Security Corps, uniformed strongly armed adjuncts of the Security Police, who maintain order with many weapons, THREE—The People’s Militia, used chiefly for ordinary spying, subject to call by the Security Police. FOUR Frontier Guards, heavily armed units who keep all borders sealed té prevent Dperated” citizens from escapng.

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maintain rigid control over all rail transportation.

” ” ” AT THE BEGINNING of 1952, the combined strength of these five varieties of police and internal armies for all satellite Europe numbered two million men or more. They are definitely armies in structure, training and equipment But only the very big Reds inthe secret police organizations can have mistresses. Ordinary members of the secret police for a long time indulged in drunkenness and affairs with women when off duty. Heady with power, many of them became involved in drunken brawls in public places. The prettiest, most enticing young women in every city and town were also at their mercy. Communist ministers of the interior have set an example for wholesale coercion of attraetive females into their palatial residences and their beds. But top-level Red high-jinks

HIGH LEVEL—Ike talks with President Roosevelt in plane

over Mediterranean just before lke

boss.

now an Army major, married, and with three babies whom

, Sranddaddy Ike adores.

Ike didn't get overseas in World War I because he and many other young officers like him were needed here to train the troops who were going. La » » SHORTLY after World War I, Gen, Eisenhower was ordered to a tour of duty in the Canal Zone and there, on a secondstory screen porch which he called his war room, he got a lesson on things to come which he never forgot and which must have accounted largely for his future enthusiasm for the military. His commanding officer, Gen. Fox Conner, startied young Ike with the pronouncement that World War I had solved noth: ing. Gen. Conner was vehement as he urged Ike to prepare himself for what was to come. “I mean you in particular” he suddenly shouted. “I've worked with you for two years now. I know that fine brain of yours, its skill and foresight, and the drive of your energy. Men will always follow you because they like you and put their trust in you. Those qualities will be wanted sometime, desperately. The moment you leave here, get to Leavenworth. You must qualify at the General Staff School.” Thanks to Conner, Ike did get to the General Staff School

became Normandy invasion

and ‘came out the top man in his class. That was in 1026 and he was a major, ” = » IN 1832, HE WAS SERVING with Gen. Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff, during the Washington bonus army march. He became Gen. MacArthur's aide a year later, and from 1935 to late 1939 was Gen: MacArthur's right hand man in the Philip-

pines. It was there he learned

to fly a plane and picked up 300 flying hours. Five days after Pearl Harbor, Ike was on his way from Ft. Sam Houston, Tex., to Washington, over the long road that was to lead to the heart of a smashed and defeated Germany, : In February, 1942, he was made assistant chief of staff in charge of war plans, and the next month he made major general. In May of that year, Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, sent Ike on an inspection trip to England. Later, Gen. Marshall had him in for a long conference and discussed the African plan in detail, Finally, Gen. Marshall asked, “In your opinion, are the plans

As nearly complete as we can

make them?” “Yes, sir,” Ike replied. “I consider them excellent.” “That's lucky,” said Gen.

Marshall with a twinkle in his

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room, party leaders looked {\ over the field

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are something else; the recog-

nized “right” of the rulers. When such practices became prevalent among secret police officers of much lesser rank, the Soviet MVD chiefs cracked down. » » ~ AN ORDER was issued hy the Czech secret police in April, 1051, prohibiting STB men from having mistresses, The risk of security officers and militia

members whispering - boudoir confidences had become too great.

Severe disciplinary measures were also taken against excessive drinking. A Czech STB agent now faces expulsion if he separates from his wife.

One Red departmental chief, Joseph Urbanek, was sent to hard labor in the mine pits for

six months for mistreating his’

mate. The leaders of history's greatest criminal actually issue solemn pro-

ecret

HIS GRIN AND MAMIE—Those, plus passion for work, are

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nouncements that the party's “high moral standards” must be upheld. ‘ Perhaps the most cynical’ joke of all concerns the puppet’ states’ Communist big brass. Most of them, of course, are “Muscovites”—the popular term for domestic Reds trained in: Moscow, :

” - s BUT DESPITE their authority and favorable status they’ are strictly controlled by the’ Russians. Satellite premiers, cabinet ministers and army: generals - are surrounded and: watched by representatives of: the MVD. ? Since late in 1950 top Communist leaders in every puppet: state have been made literal prisoners of the Russians. : This is the final triumph of | the Soviet’ slave-state system: Its chief foreign propagators are bound by police coils, ¥ Next: Where Crime’ Has been ’ Legalized. (Copyright, 1052. by Leland Btows)

given as reasons for Ike's success by a close boyhood friend,

eye, “Because you're going to carry them out.” The North African campaign resulted in a tremendous victory with a total of 252415 German and Italian prisoners taken-in the final days of Tunis,

" » ” WITH the Sicily invasion out of the way, and the Italian campaign well started, Ike met President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Africa as the latter was returning from the Tehran conference. “You'd better pack your duds,” ;Roosevelt casually told him." “You're going to London,” And that was the first Ike knew he and not General Marshall was to command the big show, the Normandy invasion, As Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Ike gave the signal for D-Day on June 6, 1944. His role in the titanic battles and ultimate victory that followed are well known. However, there occurred at the end of the war a littleknown incident which again illustrates sharply the qualities of mind of this citizen-soldier. Ike, victorious commander of all the Western forces allied against Germany, sat in a schoolhouse at Reims, France, in his moment of supreme triumph as a soldier, He was accepting the surrender of Germany.

u Ld 5 COL. GEN. ALFRED JofiL, German chief, of staff, signed

the papers, and with the other! German officers was led out of the room.

For minutes that seemed endless, Gen. Eisenhower sat and stared straight ahead. His face seemed carved in granite. Finally, he snapped out of it, turned on his boyish grin, and the spell was broken.

What was he thinking about? Of armies, of guns, of personal or Allied triumph?. None of these, -

He was saying to himself, “This Gen. Jodl looks like an intelligent man. Yet how could an intelligent man have sold himself out to that crackpot Hitler and helped to murder 15 million people?” Ike told that to a reporter several years later, After the war, Ike came home to serve as U, 8. chief of staff until 1948, when he became president of Columbia University. But at President Truman's request he returned to military service in December, 1950, to head the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Europe. He returned to this country last June 1 to campaign for the

Republican presidential nomiination, Many people honestly question whether a general

should ever become President. To which Ike's admirers reply, “But is this guy really a general, in any but the strictest meaning of the word?”

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By JAY HEAVILIN and RALPH LANE

14 Jovial, poker-playing Harding wos nominated. To his few supporters, he