Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1952 — Page 10

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ills of Adak. | tioned on the ymost incredibly {lonely outpost of the entire bleak 7 |Aleutian fort- | | ress. | Of Judy Gar[land and Johnny Ray, Hollywood follies and {Broadway foi | les, I have told them, until the ‘Hi larctic dawn of 2 |a. m. . Praying

Miss Frazer | that my sports scribe pals would | cisco, just look at the lights on] hands, that I may enjoy my|

forgive me, I touched on Jersey |

{Joe Walcott and Ezz Charles. I| ‘have even piroueted to show the design of my cocktail dress and| |toeless sandals, for fellows who| have neither seen nor talked with} a woman for many long, lonely] days and nights. It was an adventure that began, with a jeep ride up a craggy, jcrooked Adak road. And ended! [with a glimpse of the murky Bering Sea, over which Moscow Radio comes to them dally with {frightening clarity.

| The fog was falling in little but-| [termilk bunches as we inched up {to this barren spot where radar’s mystery guards America’s Alaskan defense line. Through the |cloudlets rose a barren building, looking like something out of Wuthering Heights. With Lt. Dick Slepen, Philadel'phia, Adak Naval Station commu|nications officer, I entered a dark{ened corridor with crudely built plank floor. The real roughing-it | quality of our quarters as the Universal - International picture “World in His Arms” Alaskan |world premiere stars and scribes {had prepared me to expect no ele{gance here.

Scrounged for Furnishings

| We turned toward a door where, 'warm light flickered through an anchor cut-out design. We (opened it. And had the Stork {Club or Romanoff’s appeared be-

{fore my eyes, I coudn’t have been {more stunned. The men in spic-and-span Sides) sat expectantly around a com.-| fortable-sized room which, I latet| learned, had.been decorated wn heart-breakingly hard effort. “We scrounged,” sald Edward Kent, Pittsfield, Mass, RD2, the enlisted man in charge of King Radar Station of Adak. “We, got this bar from an abandoned Iquonset hut that burned down he added, indicating a curving! blue piece complete with chrome]

chairs we got the same way. The

honograph.

push.

study the stack of records.

cowboy melodies. Songs by the famous girls who sing songs of | unrequited love penned by men! in New York's Tin Pan Alley to whom Alaska is a land of igloos) and Eskimos and fishing—but| never a land where their ballads would so poignantly echo the] emotions of young men lifted away from American towns .into complete loneliness.

One Watches the Dials I sat in one of the carefully

five of the men sat in a circle at

{my feet. Another went to fetch|

{a batch of potato salad and sand'wiches, specifically prepared for|

| their first “outside” visitors. An-

{moon look as pretty in the sky as|

rail. “The linoleum and the wood paneling” and the couch and two

light fixtures we just made of and ends. The refrigerator, | Ea turned interestingly als creet at this point. And I didn’t Instead, 1 strolled over to!

There was “Lonesome,” and] “Cry.” A half-dozen plaintive)

Sailors on Adak Long for Home

|gabbr quartet stood by the bar,|

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where. Yet ‘the real, heartbreak-,

gabbing with each other and/ing prinson-sentence quality of}

ADAK, Alaska, July 18—I am/shyly edging toward our group./it all came when we were to the only girl in the world who has, But this #8 who was there. leave.

From every section of the coun-|

'secret radar station high on the try they’d come, these fellows being able to see the Ann Blythe

whose top intelligence rating put|

I have talked with 10 men sta- them into Alaskan radar. Besides fully.

{Ed Kent, the group included Jim| - [Clark, RD3, Berkeley, Cal; Cal-| lvin Ervis, RD3, Flint, Mich.; Ed-| imund Hull, Juliet, Mont.; Noble! Smith, ET3, Effingham, nL; Har-| vey Newcomb, RDS; McMinnville, Ore.: Eddie Dyer, RDSU, Claren-| don, Ark., and John Ellis, RD3,|

{San Diego, Cal.

I can’t remember who asked {the questions. But they ran like

(this, simple little queries that re- t hesi hat their hunger for scenes Were, 1a direct anitinesis {9

that spelled home: “When you get to San Fran-|

the bridge at night. Does the

it used to? That sounds silly, |

What's a Soda Like? | — “How does a chocolate soda (taste? You know, one of us can igo into the main base once a week, for supplies. There's a soda fountain in the new service club. But somehow it isn't the same. And —“Tell-us-what it's like to walk in the park. Even to see a) tree. Man, you know, there are 17 {trees on the whole island of Adak.” The whole island of Adak was, an Alaskan territory about which Russia never bothered when it was their own. Now-—well.| Surely, its only value could be for defense. Not a native was on it, until American forces moved in during World War II And not a man there now looks| at it as anything but something to be borne—with .fortitude, or with desperation. On Christmas Day, there was a suicide. { But in King Radar Station these fellows have licked the] problem. They've licked the] morale problem by getting along and by making their own little civilization in the midst of no-|

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“This has been even better than show,” they said, almost prayer-|

And as we rescended the hill to the main installation, where Spar-| tan simplicity is the rule, yet! which seems almost Paradise by comparison to King Radar; we {mused on it all Young men of 18, 20, 27 at the {oldest they were. Assigned to one year in near solitary confinement. Yet their attitudes and their wholesome conversation

the juvenile delinquency of which we read so much. America’s safety is in such

|steam-heated: apartment, my | taxicabs and daily routine of] | work and play. I felt very, very ‘humble.

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