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Ed Sovola is on vacation,

By Gene Feingold

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NOON RUSH HOUR—William Reynolds, chef at the Danube, works with both hands when

everyone orders at once.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

ST. PAUL, Aug. 4—This city rings with good Irish laughter and the roving Wilsons were soon gmiling after they arrived here on their “Around America” tour. The Irish stories: tumbled over each other, which seemed fitting in a city that has a St. Peter St. They told of an Irish priest who was asked if it was a sin for another Irish priest to play golf on Sunday. “The kind of golf he plays,” replied the first priest, “it's a sin any day he plays it.” Here they paddle their canoes in the Mississippi, and joke about politics, and talk about Tommy Gibbons’ famous fight with Jack Dempsey at Shelby, Mont., back when I was a boy. Tommy’s still sheriff here—a fine one, they say. Tommy tells of a backwoods teacher who sent -a note to the mother of a little girl telling her to give the girl a bath. Next day A the teacher asked the child ¥ about the note. Mr. Gibbons “My mother says you must be crazy, wantin’ anybody to take a bath in the middle of the winter,” the girl said. Merely a joke, I assure you, for the people look wondrously scrubbed, and the air is clean and good. We went down to a restaurant, “Tughoat Annie's,” that sits on an island fight in the middle of the Mississippi, 435 feet wide at this point. Suddenly. came a shower, Rain never looked more beautiful than it did as it slanted down and met the Father of Waters, og oo We “YOU SEE,” I remarked to the Beautiful Wife, “here is more proof we have everything in America that Europe has. This is the equivalent of

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Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Aug. 4—About five years ago or more I did a piece on Bill Murphy, a bright young ex-Naval officer who had an idea. Bill founded a business called VIP, meaning very important persons, a military term that meant the red carpet must be. spread and the de luxe laid on. Bill came home to a time of great shortages. Nobody could get nothin’, This was especially true of such things as hotel

reservations, theater .tickets, @& » refrigerators, cars, alarm clocks—I suppose you remem- gE

ber. Mr. Murphy set himself up H& dn business as a procurer of § hard-to-come-by commodities, and sold his services to a flock of big industrial concerns. ‘In late 1946, a great deal of the hard stuff you saw on the giveaway shows had been ferreted out by Mr. Murphy and his wife, Charlotte. He specializes in the plush treatment for executives and their wives, and later for the junketing salesmen who had won trips to New York for excelling- their quotas, or whatever. He met them at the planes and escorted them to their rooms and saw that there was a bottle for papa and a corsage for mama. He booked their shows and squared them away at the plush restaurants and his assistants took mama shopping while other assistants took papa to the track or wherever either wanted to go.

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THE BUSINESS BLOOMED. It bloomed from

40 accounts on a $100,000 maximum business to 100 accounts and a million-a-year business. Mr. Murphy now operates out of a whole floor penthouse at 35 West Third St. in New York with branch oftices in Paris and London, with such vast firms as General Motors and Westinghouse among-his clients, ~The success-of VIP. iliustrateS one thing about the state of the nation. I was talking to Mr. Murphy the other day and he says he put himself out of business, literally, on the procurement of hard-to-acquire commodities and now does, his major business in providing plush perquisites and kind - attention for his clients, especially abroad. “It's got so Charlotte and I are looking for hard things to get,” Mr, Murphy says. “So we settled on the coronation of Queen Elizabeth next June. This figured to be the toughest, since it is possibly the last coronation of a queen this living populace ever will see. It would be sold out from the start. We started working on it. a decent interval after King George's death, and found already that the British were ahead of us, Buckingham Palace had already sewed lip the best hotel space, and I hear today that sidewalk space

~ I= going for $100 per Sqtitre foot.”

“oe 80. MR. MURPHY WENT to work in a sFically Murphy. fashion. He is rufining an exe

Nt. Paul Has Plenty Of Irish Laughter

that househoat on the Seine (operated by a Cincinnati girl) that we saw in Paris.” The St. Paul people love to laugh at themselves. They told us of a tippler, leaving a bar, who was asked if he meant to drive a car in his condition. “Oh, I can drive all right,” he said. “The trouble is, I'm too drunk to walk to the car.” Years back, they said, a native was a prospect for appointment as Treasurer of the U. S. An irreverent friend heckled, “You Treasurer of the U. 8.? Why, you can’t even make change for a buck.” They make scotch tape here and St. Paul has, just as Milwaukee does, its rich brewers or “malty-millionaires.” e '"--But one thing we admire St. Paul for is its love of laughter. One of the city's great storytellers, J. I.. Shiely, the builder, relates that the late Charles W. Gordon helped build the Somerset Golf Course here. He asked that he be buried outside the fence on the ninth fairway and that his epitaph read: “Here Lies Charles Gordon—Out of Bounds As Usual.” ‘ ahs

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THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN N. Y. . . . Gen,

“Jimmy Doolittle heads for Europe in the fall on

an Air Force assignment , .. A dozen garment manufacturers are in Hollywood trying to sew up the rights to Marilyn Monroe's name on their dresses. Sidney G: nstreet’s virus plus a diet shaved 53 pounds, and he’s now a scrawny 215. ... Jack Benny's back from Europe .-, . Princess Maria Pia, daughter of Italy's former King Umberto, is due here. She'll visit her pal, John Sanderson, and singer Dorothy Warenskjold . . . Rita Colton is one of Barry Nelson's leading ladies on the TV series, “The Hunter.” Jose Ferrer, in Europe, sent scarves to his gal pals and to his wife, from whom he’s separated . . Rocky Marciano dropped by the Blue Angel to see his friends and loyal suppofters, the kitchen help . . . Singer Eartha Kitt climbed a tree on Riverside Drive for publicity pictures, and a cop gave her a ticket for it... ., That's Earl, brother,

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pedition to the coronation, for 500 or more people, for a flat fee of $1500 per each, including transport. In England’ he has rented five castles and 10 manor houses to accommodate his clients, plus a fleet of 75 Dalmier limousines to drive them around. For the overflow he has rented some hotel space in Le Touquet, in France, and will fly his people back and forth across the channel. He has made deals with several air lines—TWA, Pan American, BOAC, KLM--to fly-his clients overseas, Seats for the coronation cost him $50 apiece, 5 D FOR THEIR dough he will give his people three days in London and three days in Paris, and fetch ’em back to the states again. Bill Murphy is maybe the only man in the world who would attempt to run a brig like this without fear of a foul-up, but, knowing the man, I'd say there will be a minimum of hitches in an -enterprise that would test the ingenuity of a magician, He is the one guy I would like to meet in heaven, just to get me past the customs: On second thought: place beyand the powers of VIP. Mr. Murphy's good, but I expect I would be too much of a security risk for him to tackle.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—Did you ever see annuals just stand still and not grow? I have used a liquid fertilizer on them once a week. Last year (the first year I ever planted anything) I had flowers in the same place that did very well. I suppose beginner's luck.

Read Marguerite Smith’ s Garden Column in The Sunday Times

So this year I planted several kinds and only the marigolds came up and they're not growing. Any idea why? Mrs. Scott Ging, 3608 Lesley.

A—My guess is that the soil is so hard the fertilizer is not penetrating well. It may also be so tightly packed that roots simply do not get the air they need. For if you get liquid fertilizer down to root level in proper amounts you can raise almost any plant in cinders, sand or gravel. This is the principle of Hydroponic gardening. So try conditioning your ground this f@ll with compost. Start making it now with your dead weeds, lawn clippings, ete. Add rotted manure, peat moss or ground cobs if you can. You might also like to try the new chemical soil conditioners. A mulch of decaying plant material onthe flower bed right now will help. And in the fall you could start a really big step toward better soil by sowing some

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Benefits for Korean Veterans—

College Money, Loans Available

By JOHN TROAN The man in Korea no longer is America's forgotten GI.

He has just been served

up a platterful of benefits on which he can feast when he returns home, Our government still insists on calling the conflict in Korea anything but a war. Neverthe-

(This is the first of a series explaining benefits avallable to ” veterans of the Korean War.)

less, the men serving in this “police action” will be regarded hereafter as war veterans in everything but name. Their status as second-class veterans has been wiped out by Congress. Little by little, during two years since the outbreak of hostilities in the Far East, Korean veterans have been granted benefits similar to those available to ex-Gls of other wars,

» » ~® FIRST CAME disability compensation for those actually

injured on active duty. Then, medical and dental care, free service insurance, a new type of post-service insurance at bar-gain-basement rates, free autos for amputees and a myriad of other fringe benefits, This month Congress topped it all off by passing a new “GI Bill of Rights” for men who

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have been in uniform since June 27, 1950. Like the GI Bill for World War II veterans, the new law provides educational benefits, subsidized on-the-job training, loan guarantees and unemployment compensation. = ” w IT ALSO makes these vets eligible for mustering out pay, a sort of discharge bonus which World War 1I vets obtained under a separate law, However, the new GI Bill differs in many respects from the old one. This is due to Congress’ desire to plug some of the old loopholes in the original GI which led to abuses that placed certain phases of the

veterans’ benefit program in disrepute and put a sour taste in taxpayers’ mouths, ~ ~ ~

FOR ONE THING, there will be no more bartending or ‘'personality development” courses financed by Uncle Sam. And it will be harder for Korea vets than for War II vets to enroll in many other courses that border on the ridiculous. Safeguards also drawn to prevent a new crop of fly-by-night schools seeking to take a new batch of veterans for a ride. And the Veterans Administration is equipped with a new set of teeth with which to clamp down on schools that try to cheat the GI or the government,

GOVERNMENT ECONOMY— : Must A ‘Liberal’ Also Be A Wastrel?

POSSIBLE CIVILIAN SAVINGS

CHAPTER ONE By PAUL H. DOUGLAS United States Senator from Illinois Since the coming of the New Deal in 1933, efforts to achieve reductions. in government spending have ‘generally been identified with the ‘“conservative” forces in the country.

When I came to the Senate in 1949 and began to campaign for economy, a great many evebrows were raised in ‘“liberal” circles. For I was elected on a liberal platform and have worked for numerous liberal measures in the Senate. There is some confusion over the term “liberal.”

True liber-

This is the first of a series from Senator Douglas’ hook, Economy In The National Government, recently pnblished by the University of Chicago Press. Prior to his election as a Democrat to the United States Senate, Paul Douglas was a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. During World War II he enlisted in the Marines, rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, fought at Okinawa and Peleliu.

“alism is a noble faith based upon a firm belief in the essential worth and dignity of human beings. It “believes that men and women should be given a full opportunity to grow and to develop and that it is a proper function of the state to help provide some of the means for obtaining a good life. True liberals, therefore, want to free the individual from oppression. They are opposed to tyrannical governments, whether these be absolute monarchies or Communist and Fascist dic-

tatorships. True liberals know that the moral life is based. upon the

exercise of intelligent choice. They believe, as others do, in freedom of the press and of speech, religious toleration and political democracy. But they also know that the human spirit needs more than the negative virtues of freedom. Gradually we have. come to realize that people, and particularly children, need protec-

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The student vets will help po-

lice the educational program because the VA is going to give them the money with

which to pay their own tuition, Thus, it is hoped, the vets will be more careful in selecting a school—to make sure they get their money's worth,

Under the War II law, the government issues a check to the school for tuition and other educational expenses and another check to the student for subsistence.

In the job-training program, there are provisions designed to stop unscrupulous employers from chiseling at the taxpayers’ expense, - w »

EVERY SO OFTEN, the vet trainee’'s subsistence check will be reduced by the Government —on the theory that he's worth more to his boss as he develops greater skill. : Under the War II law, some employers used the GI Bill to get cheap labor because the government made up the difference between the vet's wages and a stipulated income level,

A similar method of pay- .

ment will be employed under the new GI Bill, but with some reservations aimed at lessening the burden on the public. . . »

WITH REGARD to home loans, the VA is given specific authority by the new law to blacklist jerrybuilders and loan

Personnel ... »..$ 200,000,000

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150,000,000

TOTAL SAVINGS. . $1,400,000,000

In odd to the $1,000,000,000 saved in Civilian Budget during 1951-52, a further annual savings of $1,400,000,000 is possible.

tion against - overwork, illhealth, hunger, and slum housing. While the primary responsibility for thoice should always be placed upon the individual, the community can help to provide better and better opportunities for exercising

these choices. This, then, igs the basic faith of a liberal. And, in that sense, I am proud to be one.

n » ”n SOME CONSERVATIVES have charged that liberals are those who are ‘liberal with

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sharks in such a way that undesirable contractors and lendIng agencies can he barred for good from the juicy veterans’ home market,

There will be no new “52-20 Club” like the one which flourished after War II — even

though Congress caved in under pressure in the final weeks of its last session and voted to extend unemployment compensation to Korea vets, something dt had resisted for months. This time the goldbricks won't get any of the gold—the way they did under the original GI Bill.

TO AVERT ANOTHER jobless pay scandal, Congress specified that Korea vets may draw idle benefits only under the same rules as non-vets. They won't get any preferred status, Thus, in Pennsylvania, striking Korea vets won't "get any ald. And those who might balk at accepting a suitable job, or to dodge work, will get the same treatment as a non-veteran. No checks will come their way, By no means does the new GI Bill représent the extent of benefits available to, Korea vets, : Even before this law was enacted, many benefits available to other ex-servicemen had been extended to the Korea Gls. - ” » » UNDER CERTAIN conditions, they can qualify for free

other people's money.” This charge is not without some foundation, Some thoughtless liberals

have unfortunately behaved much like the dos’ conditioned by the famous psychologist, Dr. Pavlov. As we know, he would ring a bell and then feed his dogs. The dogs became conditioned to the fact, that, whenever a bell rang, they would be fed. When the bell rang, their ‘saliva .would flow in anticipation of the f{pod. Then Pavlov rang the bell” but provided no food. The dogs had come to associate the bell-ring-ing so closely with food that their mouths watered anyway. Finally they had to be treated by an animal psychiatrist. During the depression President Roosevelt spent large sums of money to relieve hunger and provide work. On the whole this was money well spent. For, in addition to saving men’s lives and health, it helped to provide purchasing power to put unemployed labor to work with otherwise idle resources. That spending increased the real national Income. Liberals looked on this and pronounced it good. Their emotional saliva began to flow. Then the threat of Hitler and fascism was upon us, and the administration spent even larger sums to keep us free. This also was money well spent. Once again the mouths of liberals watered in happy agreement.

» » » NOW WHEN we are in a period of comparatively full employment, the reflexes of liberals have been so conditioned by the past that many applaud practically all expenditures, civilian as well as military. They bitterly condemn economizers as reactionaries, Since liberals have by default not heen advocates of economy, this cause has heen taken up primarily by economic conservatives who have opposed state programs for human welfare. This in turn has caused many liberals to label economy as “reactionary” and thus unwittingly practice the application of “guilt by association,” a techriique they properly deplore in other fields. But men should think ration-

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“home attention, free free

free care,” free medical free dental treatment, prosthetic appliances, autos, free houses, Those who are disabled can draw compensations or pensions and get subsidized vocational training under a special rehabilitation program. The cheapest insurance ever offered by Uncle Sam {s theirs for the asking. And survivors of Korea vets also may qualify, under given circumstantes,

for death compensation and death pensions. In no case must the man

actually have been engaged in combat to be deemed a Korea veteran, ~ » » THE GOVERNMENT regards as a Korea vet any man who served on active duty in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps or Coast Guard on or after June 27, 1950 even if he spent all his time inside the UU. 8. Generally, to qualify for the GI Bill benefits, the man must have served at least 90 days and must have been released from active duty under other than dishonorable conditions. The benefits apply to enlistees, draftees, National Guardsmen and Reservists— including those who have yet to enter active duty.

NEXT: Schooling and other educational benefits for Korea vets.

ally and not like conditioned animals. I certainly do not wish to see liberalism become a permanent victim to the conditioned reflexes of Dr. Pavlov. It becomes evident that to be liberal one does not have to be a wastrel. Waste in government is a frittering-away of resources which could be used to improve the lives of people.

~ " » WHEN THE government budget is balanced, the money spent has to be raised by taxation. And tax moneys are taken from Individuals and corporations which, as a result, have less money to spend, save, or invest. Wasteful expenditures, therefore, reduce the disposable income .of individuals and corporations.

In the main, waste has to be

borne by the poor, the middle “lass, and the moderately well-to-do. These people could spend or invest this money to much better advantage, Even among the very wealthy, governmental waste does not merely replace private waste. It also reduces private saving, private giving and Investment in productive facilities. Hence is undesirable for this group, as for all others, There is a further point which both liberals and the general public do not fully realize. That is the degree to which the federal expenditures are swollen not merely by waste and less necessary outlays but also by open or hidden subsidies to the wealthy,

» ~ . SUBSIDIES to the silver interests, to shipping and airline companies, to the huge publishing industry, sugar growers, prosperous farmers, and profiteering contractors do not help the underprivileged. Such expenditures, indeed, extend the concept of the welfare state too far. Subsidies to the wealthy are also given by permitting the existence of loopholes ih the tax laws. Many groups are thereby permitted to escape paying their fair share of the tax load. The poor and middle class are being asked to pay taxes-in order to subsidize rich adventurers and speculators. NEXT: Economy Alone Won't Balance the Budget.

(Copyright. 1952. by the University of Chicago Distributed by United Féature Syndicate, Inc.)

We Traced Flying Saucers On Our Radar Screen

By ASHINGTON,

HARRY G. Aug. 4 — Shortly after midnight on

BARNES

July 19, Ed Nugent called me over to. the radar

Seope and laughingly said:

“Here's a fleet of flying saucers for you.”

As it turns out now, Ed could

very well have been stating an absolute fact: I am a senior air route traffic controller for the Civil Aeronautics Administration and was in charge of the air route traffic control center that particular night at National Airport. Briefly, part of our

. Job is to constantly monitor the

skies around the nation's capital with the electronic eye of radar for purposes of controlling air traffic.

Our shift had been on duty about=40 minutes: ~ Eight men were on this particular shift. It was a normal night for both flying and weather. The sky was cloudless, no storms were approaching. Air traffic was light, as usual for that period. I think those facts are important in connection with what came later. ~ » ~

THE “THINGS” which caused Ed to call me over to the scope were seven pips clustered together. irregularly in one corner, The gcope is 24 inches in diameter and the pips show. up as pale violet spots. Ordinarily they represent aircraft in the air. The radar we were using

Rearry G. Barnes, who wrote this eyewitness account of tracking “flying saucers” on

radar exclusively for The Times, has heen with the Civil Aeronauties Administration for nine years. For the last five years, he has heen working on radar trafic control.

the objects, or whatever they were, were in the air over an area abofit nine miles in diameter, 15 miles south-southwest of Washington. We knew immediately that a very strange situa‘tion existed. First. from all the information we had on hand, we knew that the spots were not aircraft—at least not friendly aircraft. = ¥ .

THAT LEFT three possibilities, enemy aircraft, some unexplained flying objects or something wrong with _the radar, We tracked the seven pips for about five minutes and quickly" determined that they were moving between 100 and +130 miles per hour while we could observe them. But their movements were completely radical compared to ‘those of ordinary aircraft. They followed no set course, were not

seemed to be ablé to track them

for about three miles at a time.

The individual pip would seem to disappear from the scope at intervals, Later I

realized that if these objects had made any sudden burst of extremely high speed, that would account for them disappearing from the scope temporarily. Our radar is only designed to track known types of aircraft or objects in the alr at speeds known to all of us. 5 ~ » n AFTER FIVE minutes of watching the strange pips, I asked Jim Copeland and Jim Ritchey, two experienced radar controllers, to -check our observations. They confirmed our findings. Then 1 called the airport control tower to see what the radar showed there. The radar operator verified the same thing instantly,

At this time I notified the Air Force of our observation. This is a regular procedure but some parts of it are secret and I am not at liberty to explain it in detail. ” LJ » EARLY SUNDAY morning is an especially busy time for both ‘private flying - and military reserve flying. Before notifying -the Air Force of our findings, our technicians’ had carefully checked the equipment to make certain that it was operating perfectly. These are the important events of the next six hours: During the first hour the ob-

of our scope. That meant that :

they had been over te restricted areas of Washington, including the White House and Capitol. At the first opportunity Ritchey contacted Capital Airline pilot Capt, 8. C. Pierman, a veteran of 17 years of flying. Shortly after taking off, Ritchey asked Pierman to look for the objects we were watching on the scope. He agreed to do this. . n ~ ” ALL OF A SUDDEN his voice came over the radio, which we could all hear, with the words:

“There's one, and there it goes." He described it as just a

bright light, moving faster than a shooting star at times. His subsequent descriptions of the movements of the objects coincided with the position of our pips at all times while in our range. During the next 14 minutes he reported that he saw six such lights. He said they had no tail, no recognizable shape and were just bright lights in the dark sky. : ’ * 5.2 “ EACH SIGHTING coincided with a pip wé could see near his plane. When he reported that the light streaked off at high speed, it disappedred on

our scope for the apparent rea-

son I cited. The radar we were using does

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vertical formation without our recognizing it, At one time toward daybreak we counted 10 ‘objects - over Andrews Field, just outside of Washington. We sighted seven originally, Most of the time we could count eight of them. n n n SPEAKING PERSONALLY, and not officially for CAA, .1 would like to make these additional comments: Radar is strictly an elec tronics device. It has no imagination, It reports only what it “sees.” The equipment was in perfect operating order during that period. There is no other conclusion I can reach but ‘that for six hours on the morning of July 20 there were at least 10 unidentifiable" eb jects above Washington. They were not ordinary aircraft. I could tell that by their movement on the scope. " = » I CAN SAFELY deduce that they performed gyrations which no known aircraft| could perform. By this I mean that our scope showed that they could make right angle turns and complete reversals of flight. Nor in mw opinion could any patural phenomena such as shooting stars, electrical din turbances - or clouds, accoun for these spots on our radar. Exactly what they are? 1 don’t know, You‘know as much

about them as I do. And your:

guess is as good as mine.’

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