Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1952 — Page 17

23, 1952 rs. stage and Times.

we L OFF

INSON

Tey

1

® ”

Inside

&

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

Indianapolis

By Gene Feingold

CITY MARKET—A maze of counters, good food and swarms of people.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

CHICAGO, July 23-—Deémocratic Clambake— I hope and pray the Republicans won’t get mad at me for saying the Democrats seemed to me to be more romantic. . Personally, T heard Mrs, Veep tell Mr, Veep he “looked beautiful,” which my wife never told me up to press time today. Then ‘there was the day the Russell campaign really began “taking shape.” Jane arrived. Looking low necked, the “I'vé-nothing-to-hide” Hollywood sweater girl bounced into this fiery furnace where nobody wanted to think of a sweater, even on her. ed “There’s one Russell I could really go for,” séveral delegates said fearlessly. Their wives weren't there.

Mr. Barkley

Jane waa sort of innocent. Press agents for Jane's latest film had her stop here en route to New York hoping Sen. Dick Russell would meet her—and pos for a picture. Scouts were out look--~ing. for an-off-the-shouider shirt for the Senator.

Natura “Does he have to be handsome and well-built?”

this correspondent asked her when she was caught -

downing caviar at the Pump Room. A code OT

“HOW SILLY, he only needs to be well-built from the ears up,” ‘replied the girl who's wellbuilt from the ears down. ’ Fact is, Jane was a little out of place. She Ike. a hk it. i % HE Ee eh a fan of Ike's for so long it seems like a member of the family’s running” said Jane —whereupon several Democrats clamped a Harriman button over her mouth, The phenomenon of Mrs. Barkley’s continuous praising of her husband as a romantic figure puzzled some of us husbands—who wished our wives were like that. ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Veep were off on one of their appointments when I heard Mrs. Barkley tell the 74-year-old spouse, “you look beautiful. “Beautiful?” echoed the Veep doubtfully. “Beautiful,” said the missus. “What do-you mean—a knock-kneed, bandylegged stand-in-the-corner-and-bawl-for-butte-r milk guy like me being beautiful?” laughed the Veep. Hes just trying to get out of being called beautiful,” said Mrs. Barkley who, it will be seen, means what she says about her hero. Personally, I have great fun roaming the convention with an exclusive badge—bearing the letters “LAK.” SAN TWENTY-FIVE were turned out by badgemaker Emanuel Ress, and it caused Mrs. Rudolph

Americana : By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, July 23 — You arrive at a desperation point in penology when your attention is directed, in the same week, at a man who shoots a stranger to attract attention for a

rejected thesis and a kid who shoots a rabbi because the rabbi was “a moving target.” The first man, Bayard Peakes, is clearly insane, with a record of insanity behind him. His military record pointed to dementia praecox, a mental disease that gradually retrogrades the mind to' a status of idiocy, after it has run its course in the dangerous delusions of grandeur which led Peakes to murder a little girl named: Eileen Fahey just to = concentrate attention on himself. . Too late, they'll button Peakes away in the hatch, and let him toy with perpetual motion and lite everlasting until the poor brain melts down a little more and finally reduces its owner to babbling babyhood. As a dementia patient, he should have been there all along, because

- dementia praecox is not. a sometime thing, and

the Army knew he had it. ” irae BUT THESE two punks who police say gunned the rabbi to prove to each other that they weren't “chicken” are a different facet of our modern civilization. Obviously, the mentality is pretty low, but not insane so much as horribly irresponsible. The record of stickups and vagrancy and reform school is another thumb pointing in the direction of inevitable tragedy for the innocent bystander. It is a harsh thing to say, but the state may

just as well save itself a lot of grief and trouble,

waltzing this pair up to the execution cham- » py : aw gah proved guilty, instead of sometime later. This 17-year-old Donald Ferrik and his pal, Edward Baldwin, comprise the perfect raw material for career thugs—just dumb enough to choose a profession of unsuccessful erime, ‘just stupid enough to shoot their way out of an unimportant corner, * ¢ o> % WE PROBABLY take the pair now and send them to jail and in-their pecular way they are big shots, because they shot a stranger for fun. What they do not know of the mechanics of petty crime they will learn in the big house. Young as they are they eventually get out, buy the pawnshop gun, and head for the nearest candy store. for a delayed stick-up. Then somedy else gets knocked off and this time the { penalty will likely be enforced.

. wanted in a President. j

‘Pear Alben’s’ Wile Says He's Beautiful

Halley, Mrsr. Michael DiSalle and others to furrow their brows, and finally ask:

“What does that stand for?” “I Am Konfused,” was my answer. “But you don’t spell confused with a K,” they generally said. : “You see,” was my reply, “I told you I was confused, I met one man here who wasn't a candidate for President. He was a candidate for Vice President. Due to the plethora of candidates, you had to be especially tactful. Comedian Joe E. Lewis ran into one candidate and told him how he'd worn his badge around all the cafes until 6 a. m. to boost his candidacy. “But where's your button today?” demanded the candidate. . “Oh, I'm sober today,” explained oe. : . Big' Jim Farley's. whooping-it-up-for-Mr.-Bark-ley. was so much in the old-time tradition that Norman Thomas, working as a journalist, told Jim after hisg press conference “I don’t agree with anything®you said, but it's a thrill te hegr an old professional sayilt.” oo. iy =e righ bret he obi!

“Was ‘on “professional,” sald

Tre

Mr. Thomas. he ; The convention ass usual was full of rumors, « And in one of the saloons late last night I saw several newspapermen “scotching some rumors.” SE SR - THE MIDNIGHT EARL—-Mrs. Dick Reynolds files divorce papers in Florida any day, the settlement having been tentatively reached. She “won't

. starve.” rp

Eleanor Holm canceled her trip to Europe—~and Billy Rose wants _to know why. (Did she fear some legal shenanigans by Billy in her absence?) « « +» Gus Edwards’ grandniece, Judy Ann Schachter, 8, is an actress already. Signed up at $75-a-week to play Sylvia Sidney’s. dtr. in “The Gypsies Wore High Hats.” Mama is Joan Edwards . . . Anne Roberts turns the cards on “Information, Please.” Has a high IQ of course. : LE : EARL'S PEARLS-Joel Grey reminds us—before election a politician shawes your hand. After election he shakes you. eS 0b WISH I'D-SAID THAT—“My wife drove my car 10 miles on her first lesson. That's not bad, for running on the starter button.” Herb Bhriner. Nicky Hilton and Gloria DeHaven, a new combination at Toot Shor's, behaved as though they were very old buddies . . . While George Raft's in Europe, Betty Binder’s keeping occupied with clothing magnate Ted Lewis . . . Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. is off to Europe next week to about films in Germany.—That Earl, brother.

The Corpse Deserves Some Sympathy. Too

It has been popular. to blame “society” for the antics of kill-crazy kids, but “society” also produces honest people of poor circumstance, people who do not shoot strangers through the head as a boyish prank. From the record so far you would just have to say that these punks are plain bad, poison mean, inhuman little animals who deserve no consideration, no clemency. Society didn't make them that way, either. The rottenness must dwell within a man who kills strangers for fum when the killer himself is not insane, ; > + & I USED TO study penology in the old college days and they had some pat and ready answers for all kinds of criminal infractions against the state. But I do not see how you can rehabilitate a deteriorated brain in" the case of Peakes, the crazy murderer, or the potential pinheadedness of the two fledglings who goaded each other into a state of murderous whimsy, In the case of any one of them you must nearly dismiss the welfare: of the transgressor and think only about the future security of nameless strangers. Life-long, inflexible imprisonment, subject -.te no commutation or parole, is the minimum precaution. In the case of the young killers capital punishment would not be undeserved—for the companion of the actual killer as well as the fuzz-faced young bum who actually pulled the trigger. On the pattern of useless violence over the last few years my personal sympathies have switched entirely from the causative pressures on' the villain. They rest completely with the innocent corpse on the floor, and on the people he leaves behind to mourn him.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q-—-How. do you pronounce “naegelia”? I do not have a plant dictionary and sometimes I need it. Mable Horine, Greentown, ‘A—This lovely plant is described’ by Mrs. Horine as ‘very attractive, one variety with red velvety leaves, the other green and red mottled leaves. The flowers resemble a slipper type gloxinia, somewhat only smaller,” The name is given in my plant dictionary as nay-jee-li-ah. But since it was named for a Munich botany professor, Von Naegell, the hard “g” is probably acceptable, too. "he naegelias, incidentally, are coming into favor 80 rapidly gardeners who dabble in house plants need to know about them. They, like the increasingly popular achimenes (a-kim-i-neez, accented on the second syllable) are relatives of the African violet. And it was discovered by anether German, the baron Saint Paul, who certainly didn’t know what he was starting. Ae

Sa ; K 8 ; cr so Pkwy. 8B: qs Mi ler, Mrs, Nina Spargér,

re

-_mmn

~The Indianapolis Times

i

Wading Pool Contest—

City’s Children To Go On Parade

UNDREDS of youngsters will be on parade tomorrow at 20 city park

wading pools. The children will be flashing

their bright eyes at the adult

judges and walking their best strides in the annual “Wading Pool King and Queen Contests. The boys and girls selected by the judges will represent their pools in the finals at 1:30 p.m. July 31 at Fall Creek Park Wading Pool. One boy and one girl will be the winner at each pool. The “cute kid” -contest is open to every boy and girl under 6 years old. Any who become 6 Friday would still be eligible. » » ” TO GET IN the contest, all the children have to do is have their parents take theth to the wading pool nearest their homes by 1:15 p.m. tomorrow. They will be registered then. There are no entry fees of any kind. The public will be admitted free to see the contests. Judging will begin at 1:30 p.m. The boy and girl winner from each pool will be selected for attractiveness, personality and

poise. : The children may wear swim

suits or sun suits and shoes or slippers. Each child must walk

alone in parading before the judges. Parents and escorts must remain outside the fences surrounding the wading pools.

The contests are sponsored by The Times and the City Park and Recreation Department. Mrs. Norma Koster, supervisor of special activities for the park department, is in charge of organization. Here are the city wading pools where contests will be held tomorrow and the judges: ARNOLDA PARK, Arnolda St. near W, 0R, SMe. BT Sirs. Vir ginta Haverstick. Simesite atid nether Sta iss Eunice Ehristmon, “Ren Baith c! \

Lo8t.

Mrs. raine Nicholas. . Y. N %% CAMP SULLIVAN, W, New .—Mrs, Lorene Bre“ Clobine nities and Louis J.

Douglas. CHRISTIAN PARK, 4300 English Ave.—Mry, Howard Kelly, Mrs. John Reynolds and s. Paul dems, ma COLEMAN PARK, 2500 W. chiga rn erick, Mrs. John Mec« : a Goldie Yates. aut FALL CREER PARK, Fall Tee! . at College Ave.—Jam Emergon aise June Lewis pnd Mrs. J.D. ec!

FINCH PARK, 8. Fletcher Ave — Mrs. illiam » Mrs. oyd Cruse, Mrs, Glenn Myers and Mrs. Ed Plummer. a FORTY-SIXTH ST. PARK, 4 v and Indianola Ave.—Mrs. Helen Stahl, Mrs. Dorothy Killion and Mrs. Bertha Schmutte, GREER ST. PARK, - Greer and Stephens Sts.—Mrs. Charles Navarra, Mrs. Minnie Poett and Mrs. Angeline Kramer. HAWTHORNE PARK, W. Washington St. and Bellevieu Place—Frank Hopper, Miss Oleo Wright and Miss Beulah Schiftman. KANSAS & MERIDIAN PARK, Kansas and Meridian Sts.—Mrs. Harry Borinstein, Mrs. David Grundy and Mrs. Ralph Matlock. MEIKEL PARK, Meikle and Wyoming 8ts.—Mrs. Maude Washington, Mrs,

Julia Craig and Mrs. Rose Armstead. NORTHWESTERN PARK, North-

+ gnd Pern)

CONQUEST BY TERROR . . . No. 8—

rk Stith, .

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1952

®

AT KANSAS. AND MERIDIAN ST, PARK—Danny Holler, 5

on

(left) Mollyann Muscatel, 4, and Danny Rist.

- Mary Kay Dawson, 3. °

PAGE 17

w,

Bo

AT 41ST & BROADWAY POOL—Bobby Heidloff, 4, and

AT NORTHWESTERN PARK—Levi Jones (left), 3, Mary Lois Bouye, 4, and Lynn Harkins (right), 16 months.

western Ave. at Fall Creek Pkwy.— Miss Esther Long. Miss Christine Martin and John Hobbs. 4 RADER & UDELL PARK, Radef and Udell 8ts.—Mrs. Gayther Lee, Miss Gail Turner and Mrs. George Brown.

RILEY PARK, River Ave. near Oliver Ave. — Mrs. Lionel McCown, Mrs. Bernice Elliott and Mrs. Frankie Sebree y

res, SIXTY-FIRST & BROADWAY PARK, Broadway at 61st St. — Mrs. Albert

Reds Tighten Grip

CONQUEST OF THE CHURCHES By LELAND STOWE The Communists have won control of the great

Roman Catholic ‘hierarchies in Eastern Europe and cut

them off from the Vatican.

They have thus eliminated

Moscow's last, organized opponent inside the Iron Curtain.

“In less than eighteen months the Btalinists usurped the cen-turies-old church power in the great Catholic strongholds of Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland. This is of far greater

significance than the trial of an arch-bishop or cardinal. But it was managed so as to attract far less attention abroad.

To this day, few Americans understand the true scope and meaning of the Reds’ subjugation of the Catholic hierarchy— least of all how it was done. » ” » LAST FALL the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States declared in a resolution: “We are . . . appalled by the apparent inability of the free secular press to inform the public of the true facts of the persecution.”

The Reds have demonstrated their ability to dominate every church, of whatever denomination; in any country. No organized church--Christian, Jewish, Moslem or any other——can hope to escape being reduced to a tool of Kremlin policy. No believers, however devoted or loyal, can escape the subversion

.-of their organizations to Red

designs.

That had already happened to the Greek Orthodox churches in Rumania and Bulgaria, to the Jewish congregations. Because their church was by far the most powerful, it happened last of all to the Roman Catholies. ~ » » Here is how the Reds divide and dominafe churches.

ONE-—They destroy their financial ‘ strength by seizing church properties. TWO-—They suppress religfous education. THREE-—~They enlist the services of a few weak, politically ambitious or corrupt priests or pastors, : FOUR--They use these “patriotic” clergymen to found

: x ran - ; \¥

Moscow ~ gtyle ments.” FIVE—They put these ‘peace priests” into key posts, take over church publications. BIX-—Loyal laymen are confused by publication of false statements attributed to church leaders. SEVEN-—Force and cynical pressure are applied against clergy and laymen alike. NNN IN THEIR tactics, the Reds stoop to anything. Budapest Catholics rallied for a Good Friday procession in 1951. They found their entire route cluttered by great sewage-cleaning operations. In some places the streets were blocked entirely by city sanitation trucks and equipment. The. religious pilgrims had to march through nauseating stench and ankle deep, filthy water, When Prague organized a “National Peace Conference’ in September, 1951, many priests refused to attend. The district commissioner for religious affairs called on them personally, He warned they would be arrested unless they accompanied him at once: “Why risk your liberty for a mere formality 7" b - Some priests yielded rather than. be permanently isolated from their congregations.

In Rumania the Reds operate a school which graduates alleged priests, actually ardent ‘Communists trained to- supplant loyal clergymen. If a priest or pastor knows he will be replaced by a Red tool, should he invite arrest? Or ’should’he. strive to remain with his flock? How did the Reds split Hungary’'s Catholic church? First, they removed Cardinal Mindszenty's indomitable leadership by sentencing him to life imprisonment. For about a year afterward they applied thei pressure slowly. :

“peace . move-

ie

THEN A “PRIESTS’ peace committee” was formed. The party press. bitterly attacked the church as “an enemy of peace.” In two nights more than 3000 monks and nuns were arrested and locked up. That accomplished its purpose. The Bench of Bishops was forced to begin negotiations for a statechurch agreement.

The “negotiations” were wholly one-sided. The Reds refused to admit a single grievance of the church. Their life-and-death power over the thousands was used as blackmail. In: this cruel dilemma Archbishop Joszef Groesz saw no choice but to sign a document which ‘dissolved all but four of Hungaxy’s once powerful Catholic orders. It ended the church’s supremacy in Hungarian education.

After that, only three renegade priests were needed by the Communists to undermine Catholic leadership. The Hungarian priests who betrayed their faith and church for the Kremlin's “mess of pottage”

have since been decorated with |

the Red regime's Order of Merit. \ Fathers Istvan Balogh,

Richard Horvath and Miglos

Beresztoczy, constitute this triumvirate, LE » HOW THE REDS made a

tool of Beresztoczy is revealing.

He ‘was arrested and cruelly :

tortured during the Mindszenty trial. When released he seenied

.2 broken man. The Red police | are sald to have rigged up a

damaging file and blackmailed him into serving Moscow. By arresting a church-ap-proved Incumbent, and promising to arrest others, the government forced the

. bishops .to accept Bereszo-

toczy as Canon of Esztergom. Thus he became a member of the Bench of Bishops, and a champion of the Peace Priest Movement. When the bishops

finally forced Beresztoczy's |

resignation irreparable damage had already been done. There were no such extenuating circumstances in Balogh's case. He had long since abandoned any pretense of religious’ or personal integrity. A cynical

“

they had arrested

ford Robert Steele, 4.

Meyer, Mrs, Margaret Lawlis and en. IG & WALNUT PARK, Spring ’ ; . O. LaFol- . E. Hendricks and Mrs, Sch

effel, WASHINGTON PARK, 3200 block of

AT HAWTHORNE POOL—Janet Rose Kindley, 3,

Ra

and Clif.

N. Dearborn 8t.—Mrs. Gladys Mitch ell, Mrs. Mary Poehler, Mrs. Frances Apple, YANDES PARK, Yandes and 4th Sts —Miss Erma ne Stewart, Miss Margaret Carter and Miss Zobia Finn.

On Churches

opportunist, he had tasted power and wealth. The Red rulers had more of the same to offer, » » » HORVATH, PRIMARILY a teacher, was virtually unknown. But he quickly became a powerful Red tool. The overwhelming majority of Hungarian Catholics—elergy and laymen—stood —unshakeably loyal to their faith. But despite the church's power and its communicants’ devotion, Catholicism, even in

Poland, was reduced by. Red terror, threats and ruses to a resigned tolerance toward its enemies—and finally domina~ tion. Above the fate of any church or creed, however, stands the Stalinists’ determination to ren~ der all organized religions subservient to Kremlin policies. No church's freedom of wor ship and of conscience can cons ceivably escape wherever So« viet communism seizes power.

(Copyright, 1952, by Leland Stowe) EXT: HOW YOUTH IS COMMUNIZED.

Boy, 14, Polio Victim, Accidentally Kills Pal

By United Press MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 23— Norman David Bowman, a 14-year-old polio victim, sat in his wheelchair yesterday and accidentally killed his best friend by firing a bullet through his heart. Police Inspector Pete Wiebenga {identified the victim as. Gilbert Peebles, 13-year-old newspaper carrier. Mr. Wiebenga said that bath Norman and Gilbert were in the Bowman home playing with the rifle prior to the shooting.

Police sald Norman thought he had a dud cartridge in the rifle, pointed the weapon at Gilbert and sald “I'm going to shoot you.” The youth pulled the trigger and fired a slug into Gilbert's heart,

Mrs. Allen Bowman said her son Norman “likes to play with guns.” (She told police Norman has two 22-rifiles, an air gun and several |grenades and other souvenirs {from the war, a collection he |started after he was stricken with |polio last September. Mrs. Bowman said Norman has [22-caliber ‘athunitién,” which he makes into dud cartridges. by dril{ling a hole in the cartridge cas{ing and removing the powder.

“Gilbert was apparently a very

close friend of the Bowman boy,” |

‘Mr. Wiebenga said. | “Ito seems the boys frequently play at shooting each other, using (the dud cartridges in the guns,’ the Rald. “Yesterday morning Gil/bert and another friend, David

/Eli, 12, brought to Norman's room some live 22-cartridges which they {planned on drilling out and making into duds.” Mr. Wiebenga said that Norman (apparently placed a live cartridge {in the gun, “thinking it was a dud, and pointed it straight at Gilbert's heart.” | “And while. young David EN counted to 10, Norman said fo Gilbert ‘I am going to shoot you. Then he fired.” Gilbert was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. Young Bowman uses a wheels chair but can move about on {braces and crutches. Mr. Wiebenga said no charges have been placed against Norman.

Season Tickets on Sale For Circle Play Series

| Season tickets can now be obtained for the 1952-1953 season lof .the Circle Players, Theater-in-the-Round. Owing to limited seating capac. ity and a maximum run of four performances for each of the six scheduled shows, only a limited [number of season tickets are available, Yd ay, Sune Tickets can be bought for $p {from Circle Players members * [by mailing an order to Cire Players, c/o Hotel Antlers, Indf anapolis. 2.

Aug. 18.

. y a “

The drive will continue untll ‘

\

GH A it it