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NOT SO FAIR CITY—The downtown alleys

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, July 22—America hag everything Europe has—and air-conditioning, besides. And sa us Wilsons will resume our ambitious “Around America” tour as soon as the Demoeratic Convention's over. We want to try the Milwaukee Mamba, the

Francisco Samba and the Rocky Mountain Rumha, We'll have to slow down in Rapid City, sit down in Sacramenfo and get out of the rut in

Rutland. oo 3 5 © “Go Abroad {n ibe U.S. A.” advises Holiday

In its July issue—and- that's us, too.

You can hardly tell the* difference, Holiday

-says, between Sahara and Death Valley—the

Rhine and the Hudson—the Netherlands and She-

+ hoygan, Wis.—the French Riviera and Southern California’s beaches—Shanghai and San Fran-

cisco’s Chinatown—and the Amazon and Okefenokee Swamp in Florida. » » WE'VE. BEEN AROUND the world—but we've never been to Yellowstone, Niagara Falls, Gettysburg or Sun Valley. Have you? “Where all will we go?” asked the Beautiful Wife. | “America’s a big story this year,” T said. “Everybody's watching the election. Let's go sverywhere.” We want to feel flirty in Ft. Worth, happy in Hoosierland, clever in Cleveland and bully in

* Bangor, devilish in Dallas, but we'd like to feel

no pain in Painesville, Off ‘we go to Butte, Seattle, Portland, Reno, Tacoma and Spokane. We'd like to howl in Hollywood, laugh in Las Vegas antl get serenaded in San Antonio. We've been to Yugoslavia and you can have it, but IT wish we could go to Wahoo, Chicopee, Fos-

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q-—Why do the blooms on my tomatoes drop off? Mrs. C.B. . A—I take thif fo mean that the blossoms fall without setting fruit. Blame the heat wave: Too high temperatures recently caused lots of tomato pollination trouble, the county agent's office reports. If yours iz a small garden where this idea is workable you might like to try what we do every spring. For tomatoes don’t set fruit in cold spring weather either. So we spray the blossoms with fruit-set’ hormone. You can get this under different trade names. Ask your dealer. If by any chance you mean that blossoms are chewed off the vines, dust with rotenone or similar insect bait. a Q-—My neighhor and I have sent away for some African violets. Before they come we'd like to know how.to take care of them, especially what kind of soil. Sumner Ave. A--Pot them in loose rich soil. Be sure to add flower. stimualting phosphate fertilizer to the potting mixture if you suspect plant food iz not well balanced in it. Use no pressure around roots when potting. Firm soil only by watering thoroughly. hen send a stamped self-addressed envelope to DISHING THE DIRT and I will mail you the free leaflet on African violet culture.

REPORTING THE NEWS—These young students are studying radie announcing at Indiana

Ed Sovola is on vacation. His column will be resumed on his return.

By Gene Feingold

are filled with these drifting hulks of society.

Around the World Within the Union

toria, Bogalusa, Monongahela, Oscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, Wapakoneta, Woonsocket and Culpepper. Give me Bismark, Brattleboro, Attleboro, Hillsboro, Foxboro, Green Bay, -Red Wing, Bluefield, Black Lake and the White Mountains, = Buf spare me fronf' any Reds! or black shirts, or blackstrap, or yellow jaundice, or white mule. On the way around America I'll. be looking for the best jokes and the prettiest “Earl's Girls.” Hope I run into Cowgirl Patti Lyons in Phoenix. . Oh, yes, we'll be strictly American this trip,

Our slogan’ will be “On to Moxcow"'-1daho, Yogy

ly : . Get your bags packed, B.W. We're going to vigit the greatest country in the world. 4 Hh >

THE MIDNIGHT EARL . .. The Joyce Math-ews-Billy Rose romance is broken off—again. Aca cording to whispers overheard at ®l Morocco, they quarreled, Billy went home mad, and now it’s “finis.” Couldn't reach either party for comment. (Wouldn't it be funny if Joyce got back together with Uncle Miltie—for a 3d marriage?) NBC's fixing over a studio for a new Frank Sinatra TVer, for a cigaret sponsor. A film star's Central Park orgies drew f neighbors’ complaints. He moved to an Eastside apartMr.; Sinatra ment-—and resumed ... Joan Lyle, Geo. Jessel's ex-gal, was so angry about that incident involving her roomie that she says, “If T see him, I'll pull out his toupee.” There's new talk of a Negro ambassador . . . Arthur Godfrey ordered one of Inventor Bill Lear's electronically controlled sailing catama-

‘rans to race in L. I. Sound. (Why doesn't Fatso

enter himself in the race? He'll float). ocd db EARL'S PEARLS . . . Taffy Tuttle told Myron Cohen, when he mentioned insecticide, that she'd never known insects killed themselves. +e & : CLARK GABLE'S Paris girl friend, honey

"blond Virginia Keiley, has known him 10 years—

went through the London Blitz with “big ears.” “New” Colony coosome: Diplomat Stanton Griffis and his ex-wife Whitney Bourne (remember?) . .. John Roosevelt, who won two ties betting on Ike, now predicts Stevenson on the 3d ballot . . .The Pentagon ain't happy with Gen. Mark Clark's peacemaking and will bring him home or get him an “assistant.” Flair, coming out as usual, will still be hole-y . Beautiful model Jackie Copeland Courtney and husband Cress Courtney are split again , . .- Faye Emerson used some of that $125,000 Pepsi loot to buy a home in New Canaan, Conn. . . . F1 Morocco hose John Perona has three swimming pools at his New Jersey home—one for each member of the family. ae Ne “* +> AROUND THE CORN--—-"“Washington is a place where half the politicians are waiting to be discovered, while the other half are afraid they will be''—Geo. Schindler. 4 > * -* WILLIE THE WOLF, the dame-dropper, gives this female fashion advice: “It’s not what you wear but what you bare.” . . . That's Earl, brother.

University's annual High School Journalism Institute. Giving a news broadcast over the University's

radio station are

to right) Dick Carter, Indianapolis Manual; Barbara Hibner, Southport; Charles

MeClary, Evansville Bosse; Betty Ann Billings, Evansville Bosse, and Marlene Sterling, Southport,

~The Indianapolis

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TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1052

The Old Man Would Have Loved lt—

FDR Jr. Shows Dad’s Old

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By ANDREW TURLLY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

CHICAGO, July 22-—The Old Man would have

loved it. :

For there, on another Democratic’ Convention platform, was another Franklin D. Roosevelt having his

way with an audience. It might, for that matter, have been the Old Man himself. There were the same. carefully careless waves of the hand, the same big grin, the same con-

fident cock to the head. And, from time to time, the same emotional bursts of applaus from the crowd. ! And, like the Old Man, Frank was winning. 1t was just a party squabble about whether delegates should be pledged to support the party nominee for President, but it was the best they could offer at the moment and Junior was giving it all he had. For a confused convention, hungry for a name it could cheer, the timing was perfect, too. The crowd had listened to the arguments of a lot of good party regulars, but they wanted somebody spectacular. And when Sen. Blair Moody of Michigan introduced “the great son of a great President of the United States,” they had it.

» » n JUNIOR walked up to the mike with that air that is a

Roosevelt hallmark. his gray

double-breasted suit crumpled, *

his face gleaming with sweat and his hair dangling over one side of his forehead, and the cheers rolled up in a great wave. Like the old man, Junior had them with him from the start.

The voice naturally had to be a disappointment to fhose who remembered the Old Man's broad, velvety tones. But it was clear and loud. and Junior was feeding it some good phrases. “We are not trying to run anybody out of the Democratic Party,” he shouted, “we're here tonight trying to bring everybody into the party.”

And the cheers rang out again, because Junior was saying a popular thing. Junior was playing it the old man’s way, too. He was not so much pleading for a resolution, he emphasized, as he was pleading for the Democratic candidate. And he had a good Roose-

CONQUEST BY TERROR . . .

Red Labor Works In Chains

.: By LELAND STOWE 15 MILLION WORKERS IN SHACKLES

FOR TRADE unionists in Eastern Europe to stage a protest under a Red regime is an act of desperation.

Yet they sometimes do.

. were protesting a new wage system which cut their average pay, already under $25 a week.

Security police and army units attacked the workers

from all sides. They were “broken up into groups and beaten. Several hundred were

"arrested. Next day firing squads executed 40 of the workmen’s leaders—a Kremlin-style warning to labor.

. & ~ » THUS THE self-proclaimed “defenders of the proletariat” reverse the stirring promise and summons of the “Internationale” — from “Arise, ye wretched of the earth” to “Keep down, ye prisoners of starvation.” . They have indeed united Eastern Europe's 15 million industrial workers — in misery and in chains. Communist rule in Eastern Europe has ended the right of about 15 million employees to bargain collectively. It bars the worker from quitting one job to take another. He has no right to strike. The State compels him to work wherever it may decide. Then there are “labor decrees.” Here is a Hungarian version: . “Those who hamper the functioning of the company

Shocks Still

Jar Quake Area

By United Press

: .Nearly 6000 Polish workers “rallied in’ a central square of*Vilna July 29, 1951. They

by leaving* their work” are subject to as much as five

years’ imprisonment. (All “Companies” are State owned.) The Stalinists “la-

Jbor-discipline” laws began by imposing percentage reductions in workers’ pay envelope for absences from work. They hit their high with slave-labor sentences for absenteeism. Even for minor infractions a worker may be deprived of his ration card. That can mean starvation. The Communist wage throughout satellite Europe ranges between $12 and $25 per week. But in purchasing value puppet-state wages are below the subsistence level, and are far lower than in 1938, when free markets, vast amounts of goods and moderate prices existed.

- » » WHEN THEY were wooing labor the Stalinists denounced piecework as ‘capitalistic exploitation.” But by 1951 they were introducing it wholesale. In Hungary, following a decree in May, 1951, 56 per cent of .industrial workers were put on piece-rate wages. In most plants overtime pay also was abolished. - Another method is the use of the quota or “norm,” the

scale

veltian kicker ready to make the crowd happy.

“If every citizen has that right in November,” he shouted through the famous grin, “then I guarantee you there'll be another general who faded away.”

Then, another round of applause, when he pulled another gimmick out of the bag. ~ “Don’t,” he pleaded with the crowd, “don’t take up too much of my time.” It was nearly two in the morning when Junior finished, but the weary throng still had time to call back for a bow. ~ - ~ THE VOTE WAS CLOSE, of course, as it was figured to be. But temporary Chairman Paul A. Dever had a firm hand up there on the rostrum and he disposed of the voting swiftly and surely. The convention he ruled, had voted that delegates must pledge themselves to see that the party's nominee is placed on their state’s ballot, and he didn't seem to hear the roars of protest over his ruling. In a chair far back on the stage, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. drank thirstily from a coke bottle, put it down, and tossed a wide grin at the nearly empty galleries. Like the Old Man always did, he was enjoying his moment of triumph.

amount of work that must be turned out each day by the worker and on which his wages are hased. To cut pay, it is only necessary to raise the “norm.” . The Sopron State Lock Co. in Hungary .pays its “lockmakers ‘(on paper) 468 forints a month. But the joker is that this is for a norm of 136 locks a day. That is so far beyond what the worker can actually turn out that the actual wages averages only 240 fYorints a month, » » ”

THIS POLICY of “more work, less pay” throughout Eastern Europe angered workers so much that the five-year plans fell seriously below their goals. Heavy penalties still fail to prevent workers from quitting their jobs in large numbers. Eastern Europe's workers fight back as the peasants fight back, with every ruse at their command. It is almost impossible for the Communist bosses to know where slowdowns, shoddy work and similar subterfuges pass the line into outright sabotage. A few examples of the weapong used by workers: At Hungary's Danube Construction Enterprise the party press admitted that 35.180 work hours were lost, and that 1552 workmen were reported absent without adequate reason in the month of May, 1951, alone. The Communist daily Nepszava stated that “between 300,000

. ter of the quake was set at about

TEHACHAPI, Cal, July 22— After-shocks from the worst earthquake to jar California since 1906 still trembled the earth today as residents pitched in to help rescue units clean. up this ©

devastated town. There was no fear in the faces of the volunteer workers as they dug through the ruin and rubble § jeft by the “killer quake” when = it rocked this small prison town, =

Today's after-shocks were little more than a reminder of the rolling, jolting power of the earthquake that cost 11 lives and’ caused millions of dollars of damage in dozens of California cities. Los Angeles seismology professor, Hugo Benihoff, who said the seismograph at the California Institute of Technology recorded the 'quake’s intensity at 7.50 on a scale of 10, said the after. shocks “are expected to continue with decreasing intensity for sevral days.” Homeless citizens were fed breakfast by mobile kitchens set § ip by the Red Cross, the Marine § Jorps and the Navy. Bulldozers plowed through the “ubble of flattened buildings. Men, women and children of the town’s 2500 population pitched

in ‘with shovels, and even their = sud Hn {

hands, to clear away the debris. eo United Press Jownsorg c

ge ted at $5.8 mil. EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS—Killed in the quake which struck lion. California were three Tehachapi youngsters of this family: Mary Ann Martin, 12; Linda, 8, and Nancy, 10. The three sisters are

Eleven persons were killed, and at least 34 were injured. The cen-. ynidentified in picture. All were killed in the same room.

10 miles southwest of here, Points ak far east as Reno and|bodies, said he was satisfied all It was felt from Santa Rosa, Las Vegas, Nev, also reported were recovered. Nine of the dead 60 miles north of San Francisco, feeling the tremors.. {were children, and seven were south into Mexico to Ensenada Tehachapi Fire Chief Franv Ol-' members of two families visiting a distance of some 700 miles. son, who led the search for the under the same roof,

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TIME TURNS BACK THE PAGE—Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. reminds convention of his father as he pleads for loyalty pledge.

He won.

and 400,000 tons of coal are lost annually through absenteeism™ (July 13, 1951). In this manner rebellious trade unionists are inflicting”

serious, offen yery large, losses,

2 CO Te THE WARNINGS to which the governments are driven is clearly shown by Prague's Rude Pravo (Oct. 18, 1951): An employee who misses one shift without good reason may not be: aware to what extent he is cheating himself by doing so. Assume that he earns 22 crowns (44c) per .hour. He loses 176 crowns ($3.52) in his wages for that shift. His vacation i= cut by two days, which means a further loss of 352 crowns ($7.04). He also forfeits his claim to one-sixth of his Christmas bonus, or 250 crowns ($5.00). Thus he cheats himself out of at least 778 crowns ($1556). If he is a miner, he suffers the further loss of his loyalty bonus. . . . Finally, the shirker disqualifies himself for selection for recreation teams, participation in cultural tours, etc.” Communists have already harnessed close to a majority of Eastern Europe's women. Here are samples of authentic underground information from Iron Curtain countries: Poland: “At Wroclaw 1000 women are employed as turners, machinists and blacksmiths in the railroad repair plant. . . . 7000 women in electrical industries . . . More than 2000 as

- come

construction workers on the Nowa Huta industrial project, including the first women’s bricklayer brigade. . .. As en-glite-stokers on the railroads ..+'» Under instruction at the professional ‘school for female railroad workers, to be- - 8 conductors, brakemen, - e er -

- » ” CZECHOSLOVAKIA: “Women are working as railroad conductors, signal operators and porters . , . In coal pits as miners , . . Several thousand are Now carpenters, bricklayers ang electricians.” Hungary: “Women are given six-week cotirses tS belng motive engineers; carpenters, masons, ete. . . . From Poland to Bulgaria more and more young women and girls are being sent into the mines. Rumania’s leading party newspaper launched a recruitment drive in Sept., 1050, under the headline: “Even women can learn to become miners.” : acysen-age gis, a well as omen, are digging coal or ) potas in Rumanian mines. Girls’ bri also work In Rumania’s oil fields. In Poland and Rumania more than 2 million women are enrolled as workers in the Reds “Unions of Democratic women.” Including Eastern Germany, the total ‘is about 7 million. Why? Because the Red programs for industry cannot be achieved without women, (Copyright, 1953, by Leland Stowe T: Conquest of the Church.

‘My Sisters Are Dead

Eighteen - year - old Henrietta Martin was sleeping in a room next to one In which her three

_ + sisters were killed during the

earthquake that devastated Tehachapi, Cal, yesterday. She was being treated for injuries when she told this story.)

By HENRIETTA MARTIN As Told te United Press

+ MOJAVE, Cal, July 22 (UP) I am alive today by the grace of God alone. Three of my sisters are dead. I could be dead too buf for some miracle that made me grab another sister and clutch her to me while the roof caved in on my family. My sister Lois who is 16-—two years younger than myself— was sleeping with me, I awakened suddenly to feel her arms reach around me nervously. The bed shook violently,

1 said, “Honey, what's the matter?” She sald, “I don't know-—I

think it is an earthquake.” Then . , . it was horrible, I saw a heavy brick wall collapse and fall right on top of us and then roof came down. At that time I didn't know that my other sistérs, Mary Ann, 12, Linda, 8, and Nancy, 10, were crushed to death in the next room, All I remember is a terrible pain when my back was crushed and there I.was clutching Lois who wds sobbing, “Dear God, please don’t let us die.” And I remembered the sickening feeling during the quake. Each time it would jolt it would make my stomach feel funny . sick like, : We decided to say our prayers together and ask Ged to

And | Could Be, Too’

forgive us for our past sins. We believed it was the end.

Lois whispered, “Honey, I can't breathe much longer.” There seemed to be tons and tons of rocks and bricks on top of us. Then we heard the sound of voices and footsteps of people walking on top of us. We screamed with our last breath. Then they dug down and finally got us out and took us to the Mojave Hospital. My little brothers, John. 8, and Louis, 3, escaped unharmed, and my father and mother were not injured seriously,

I think I'm lucky to be alive.

Dr. Sevitzky to Direct San Diego Symphony Dr. Fabien Sévitsky, conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, again will be musical [director and conductor of the San {Dlego, Cal, Symphony Orchestra jwhen it presents its 1952 “Music {Under the Stars.” ! This is the fourth consecutive season Dr. Sevitzsky has been on ithe podium, in Balboa Park Bowl [conducting the summer symphony, Opening concert for the orchestra is tonight and features |Grant Johannesen, brilliant young | American pianist who won first {prize at the International Piano |Festival sponsored by the Belgian government. Five other weekly concerts will follow. 3

‘Wounded by Bullet { EVANSVILLE, July 22 (UP)— |Seven-year-old ‘Lee Shelton was recovering from a minor wound {today suffered when a rifle bullet {he squeezed into his went |off, grazing his head. His

Jsormally shoots eorka