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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

IKE HOAGLAND'S Florida-flavored note vesterday scattered the Monday blues into the neighboring counties. The father of public relations at the Stock Yards left these parts two years ago. He also is remembered as a retired vice president and manager of the local Armour & Co. © Lovable ol’ Ike (he used to say the letters i-k-e meant “I know everything”) sounds as if he's still operating with a full head of steam. He wants it known that the latch is always open “for our Hoosier friends.” Friday Ike moves into his new home at 2130 Coronado Way South, St. Petersburg. Ike did a little needling, |, which means he is in top form. “Come down,” he wrote, “sit on the green benches, grow younger, ‘see budding romances, ‘bask in the sunshine, inhale the sweetness of the flowers and grass and go bathing in the Gulf.” Is that all there is to do in St. Pete? A man would get tired of that stuff in no time—60 or 70 years.

Mr. Sovola

HOTTER FUTURE: R. Standhope Easterday, 35 Riley Ave, made the room temperature go up 20 degrees with his discussion of why he thinks the earth is getting warmer. He confided the earth has shifted on its axis and is inclined about 30 degrees instead of 23% from the perpendicular of the orbit. This shifting made the: perpendicular rays hit “several degrees north of the Equator and consequently made it hotter.” And, Mr. Easterday says, the worst is yet to come. That doesn’t mean you can forget those storm windows this year. Complicated stuff. Those wishing to argue about the changing axis, call Mr, Easterday at IR-6359. I have no axis to’ grind. Lit PUMPKIN WHISTLE: Mr. and Mrs. Paul B, Shuppert, 225 N. 7th Ave., Beech Grove, sent in an idea that might still make me happy that I attempted to grow pumpkins.

" Hoosier Tintalizes With Florida Line

It's unlikely the crop now under cultivation with the help of the men of Fire Station 15 will ever be entered in the Muck Crop Show at Nappanee, Oct. 28-31. The pumpkins stopped growing weeks ago. They're just turning orange. The Shupperts sent in Bert Vincent's column from The Knoxville News-Sentinel, 2 Scripps-

" Howard newspaper, in which Bert explains how

to make whistles out of pumpkin leaf stems. Bert suggests a stem be cut so one end is closed. Then you make a small slit at either end. With small holes along the stem and some breath applied to the slits, a piccolo sound emerges. If there was some way to make it sound like a trombone, I'd rip up, that pumpkin vine so fast... .. WN H SIGHS AND SOUNDS: Retired Traffic Officer Frank Wray talking to Traffic ‘Officer George McAllister at Washington St. and Capitol Ave. Frank's corner for 19 years, Biggest chuckle was about the changing fortunes of a cop. George McAllister used to be Frank's sergeant. Then came the election. . . . The Central Library received a book, “The Magic Garden” by Jane Stratton Porter, that was checked out in 1931. Mathematicians figured out the anonymous sender owes $153.30. The book cost $1.50 in 1927 when it was published. I screamed once at a 68c fine. . . Big problem on Market St.—which odor is more pleasant to the nostrils—roasting coffee from O’Mahoney’s store in the City K Market or baking bread at Wonder Bread Bakery? Stone man Ralph Ittenbach had a fine party thrown in his honer for making life master (goal all- bridge tournament players seek). No bridge was played the next day . . . And on the other hand, there was Jim Dilley, of the printing and writing Dilleys, drinking a Coca-Cola and telling — that's right, Coca-Cola — telling about his 2000-mark German necktie ($1.75). . . . Best Maine lobster in town is at Circle Tavern. . . . Bartender with the best-looking ties is Ed Hunter ‘at the Athletic Club. ... Best brain sandwich in town is at the Saratoga Bar: If you don't believe it, ask Manuel (Doggie) Leve, owner. Sells 500 pounds of brains a week. Just a thought: I wish the presidential election were tomorrow,

It Happened Last N ight A Hot-Tempered Doll—

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Sept. 23—I got a little yarn here about hot-tempered women. Us gents are all sweet-tempered. We all know that the dolls have worse tempers—always did— always will—due to their instability-—and fragility. : Y vor things, I pity ’em . . . and finally got one to admit it-—Blossom Seeley, the great, wonderful all-time singing star of stage and vaudeville. “I'd get so mad I'd take my clothes off and tear them up,” she was telling me the other night. “My maid used to bring papers and phone books into my dressing room. She'd say ‘Tear these up and save your clothes.” . Thirty-one years ago Blossom married Benny Fields, “America’s Minstrel,” right after she starred in “Girl Crazy.” Now nothing can make a woman madder than her lovin’ husband, especially when. they're working together. “I remember,” Benny was saying, “coming in late from a ball game—during the Black Sox series—and going on without makeup. Bloss’ went crazy.” . “I snarled ‘Paleface’ at Hm, Blossom said. » BUT SHE only exploded because she wanted perfection. When they left the theater and went to eat, she was sweet. One day she decided to retire. Benny did the

family hamming exclusively. Blossom got known "as the sweetest-dispositioned woman in New York

or Hollywood. ; ‘ The extra phone books—for tearing only—dis» appeared. 9 No slammed doors any more, no hard looks. One day Betty Hutton waggledr along. She made a picture of their lives, “Somebody Loves Me.” And “Bloss” began to come out of retirement. She'd join Benny and tell reporters pleasant stories of the old days—how once in Milwaukee she broke her leg. He called his sister, who didn’t ask about the injuries, but said: “Where'd it happen?” “At the depot.” “You got a case,” said his sister.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Sept. 23—1I go right along with the girls on this latest affront to their sex, the

"thing that’s been making so many headlines

around here recently. We have had a very nasty prostitution story running for weeks now. The enforcement of vice laws has been as phony as ever, a complete double-standard deal with the scarlet ladies taking the fall and the scarlet gentlemen larking off free. We: have an odd bit of law in the old land which says a man may be called as witness in a prostitution case without publicly revealing his identity, The buyer of the illicit goods may charge the seller and remain anonymous, and his testmony is good in the courts. But the poor dame’s hame gets smeared all over the front page, and eventually they hustle her off to the hoosegow. Nothing happens to the

oy * * @ THIS IS REALLY a peculiar piece of law, In theft; the receiver of stolen goods is equally guilty with the seller. In murder, an accomplice, although he may not fire a shot, may be punished in ‘direct proportion to the actual killer, if it is shown that he is party to the act. But not in prostitution. In this one they forget the old aphorism that it takes two to make a bargain. - At the time of the now fairly famous Nancy Choremi case, in which a woman was convicted of “loitering” in her own apartment for immoral purposes, the names of all the women came out but the boys who testified beat publicity and punishment. Nancy drew a sentence-—which was suspended —but her father's reputation suffered for the daughter's alleged sins. Her father was a reasonably large wheel in the State Department at the time. ‘ Wo dO WITHOUT INDORSING sin on large or small scale, I got awfully annoyed about the Choremi thing, when the cash-in-hand suitors received no scathing at the hands of law or press, and a dame was made a harlot for pursuing a private life in her own apartment. What you have to realize is that a woman «annot be a prostitute on her own time, without The woman fallen, then, must be pushed to fall, anél the guy who pushed her over

the commercial precipice must be equally guilty .

in the eyes of justice.

The professional feminists of our. town have

raised a great clamor as the result of the legal persecution of a 20-buck call girl, while her associates in illegality went free to charge under a mask of name and face that they enjoyed her favors, They have an awfully good point. Women have achieved the ballot, and they are regarded as equal under the law in most cases. It seems ridiculous that a girl may be punished for selling her body when the-man who buys it goes free. And that his testimony can convict

her and send her to jail or cause her to be fined.

" & <>» <> I DON'T ARGUE morals, here, but. merely jurisprudence. Prostitution is against the law.

How She Was Cured

Pleasant stuff like that. Then just re-

cently they made a record album together. Blossom’'s pipes were great. They began playing theaters again. They

signed to play the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles. Yep, they were working together again. They had a tough schedule, and “Bloss” wanted to do it right. Yesterday during a radio Interview she flared up just a wee little bit at Benny. Just a little. Last night in Toots Shor’s I happened to see Benny idling around when I was ‘looking up a number. “What are you doing here?” I asked him. “Nothin’. much,” he said. “I just wondered if Toots's got an old phone book around here he don’t need.” : eo 2 THE MIDNIGHT EARL , . . Pat Neale— having extinguished her Gary Cooper torch—has moved to Park Ave. and is reading B'way play scripts . . . Kay Summersby, who gave up department store ‘selling and went to Europe, is back and about to enter some other field. Hasn't TV Star Jackie Gleason been tagged to lead the Thanksgiving Day parade? « + + Celeste Holm (at lunch with Richard Rodgers) discussed taking over Gertrude Lawrence's role in “The King and I” some weeks distant— and “it's possible.” (Mary Martin and Greer Garson are also mentioned.) A California firm now puts out the Marilyn Monroe calen- % dar without the calendar. . . . i Alice Kelly beautifies “Francis Goes to West Point. . . . Tony, Bennett'll replace Gloria De Haven at the Copacabana. Taffy Tuttle doesn’t trust blondes. Fact is, she doesn’t believe most of em are.... That's Earl, brother.

Alice Kelly

It Takes a Little Push "To Make a Girl Fall

It has been with us since there were people, and nobody has ever been able to stamp it out, but today, at this moment, it is against the law.

If it Is against the law for the prostitute, for the procurer, for the madame in the fancy house, then it has got to be against the law for the customer, for the purchaser. It is impossible to live a life of shame, as it is usually described, without encouragement. This encouragement is rendered in the form of $20 bills and up, in this inflated age. Maybe $20 bills and less, depending on the locality, PB

SOMEBODY HAS to pay the money to the girl, and by golly, he is as guilty as she is—as guilty as the man who contributes to the delinquency of a minor, as guilty as the man who violates the Mann Act, as guilty as a professional trafficker in women for a share of their earnings, :

Women—even “bad” women—have come - a long way from the olden days, and even a common trollop deserves an equal break in the courts of law in direct ratio to the males who make trollop of her. ! We progress slowly’to an updating of ancient law, which is still administered largely according to the precepts of Moses. . Moses passed on a far piece back. Offhand I would say we live in an age of equality, and this equality applies as much to strumpets as to debutantes, as much to the bad as to the good. ~- If there is such a category as bad and good in a troubled time.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q-—Information on raising roses from seed, please. After picking the seed how long does it take for them to dry before planting? After planting how long before germination? Last week I collected some rose seeds. Could I plant them now either in a flower pot or in my flower bed? Mary C. Asher, 319 Wichser Drive. A--Do not plant the seed indoors. Expert plantsman Alfred Hottes says seeds should be washed out of the red pods (rose hips) as soon as they are gathered if you want reasonably fast

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

germination. If you dry them, it may take up to three years for germination. Easiest method would be to sow seed ih coldframe or some other protected outdoor seed bed in late fall. Cover rows with a loose substance such’ as straw or vermiculite over winter, Or you can keep the seeds in moist peat moss in the refrigerator for at least three months, then sow in a flower pot indoors. One point to remember. Don’t judge results by the first flowers. Seems they're likely to be poor in comparison with later blooms. It’s said that when ‘the famous and practically perfect rose Peace first bloomed it was so insignificant ft almost got uprooted and tossed away. i

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1952

‘OPERATION BLUEJAY'—

By DOUGLAS LARSEN NORFOLK, Va.; Sept. 23 — With partial security wraps’ just removed from

the vitally new strategic

Thule Air Force Base in Greenland, the story of the key role played in that project by the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation can now be told.

It has been called the ‘“nest” for “Operation Bluejay,” code name for Thule.

Even. to the residents of the Norfolk area, used to"the highly secret comings and goings of the ‘Navy fleets based here, the activity of Hampton Roads since its reopening in May, 1951, has been a deep mystery. In¢ reactivating this famed World Wars I and II Army port to support Operation Bluejay, the Army Transportation Corps has made it into one of the most modern facilities of its kind in the country. And under a cloak of secrecy it has become one of the country’s. big-

gest ports on the basis of ton- .

nage handled. 8 = ~ FOR MONTHS after the Army moved in, persons in the area watched with awe as almost unbelievable amounts of all kinds of material and equipment piled up on the acres of open storage space and in the big warehouses. Then they were more puzzled to see it all melt away in a few weeks as fleets of eight to 10 ocean-going ships at a time, being loaded day and night, carried ‘it off. This build-up and sudden removal of cargo will continue. The cargo included long rows of giant cranes, fleets of huge earth-moving machinery and 50-ton trucks, giant rock crushers, enormous packages containing pre-fabricated buildings,

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LIKE A MAN-MADE WHALE, landing ship dock swallows load

of LCMs, loaded with gear for Bluejay, at Hampton Roads port.

stack upon stack of heavy steel beams, innumerable steel fuel storage tanks and sky-high mounds of odd-shaped crates

and packages. = » ”

WHEN THE Joint Chiefs of

Staff decided soon after the start of the Korean fighting to go ahead with Operation Bluejay as a major new strategic outpost against Communist aggression, they were faced with some unique problems. First, because of the barrenness and lack of industry on Greenland, everything from concrete for the runways to

ketchup for the workers had to.

be shipped in. Further, enough material had to be moved in during a few weeks in summer to keep the big project going for a wholé year, because the waters around Greenland are frozen most of the time. Although supplying Thule with workers, troops and materials is the major mission of Hampton Roads, it is also used extensively to support American forces in Europe. Each of its two large, modern piers has three depressed ralilroad tracks for fast transfer of heavy cargo. The port facilities include 28 miles of rail-

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Norfolk ‘Nest’ Hums With Activity

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ENDLESS LINE OF CRANES awaiting shipment for Operation

Bluejay is inspected by Maj. Gen. Frank A. Heileman, Army Chief of Transportation, and Col. T. J. Weed, former commanding officer of the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation. : :

road track and 2 million square

feet of warehousing space, » » » THE ACTUAL shipping job is done by the Military Sea Transportation Service. Ships sajl from here individually as they are loaded, then rendezvous somewhere in the North' Atlantic and cover the last leg of the cold journey through the Baffin Bay-Davis Strait area to the Arctic Circle in convoy behind Navy icebreakers. The last ship of the season

SCRIPPS-HOWARD FOOTBALL ROUNDUP . . . (South, Southeast)—

Southland Insists Its Football Is Best

By JOHN ROGERS Football Writer, The Memphis Press-Scimitar

FALL IS NEAR, but football is already here below the Mason-Dixon Line. Only the whistle signifying the opening kickoff is needed to make it official. Telling a Southerner Dixie football isn't as good as

the best played anywhere in the country is like telling a hillbilly he doesn’t know good likker when he tastes it—they're both ready to fight. In fact,

"some of the more rabid fans insist southern football is THE best. Maryland, Tennessee, Georgla Tech, Clemson and Kentucky, to name a few all figure to be extremely strong on the gridiron again this season, with the possible exception of Kentucky’s Wildcats. And this year there are some added starters to boot—Duke. in the -Southern Conference; Ole Miss in the Southeastern; and any number ‘of. “sleepers.” If you figure Maryland as an independent because of the suspension, Duke looks ripe for the mantle of No. 1 team in the Southern. Next should come North Carolina and then South Carolina, Virginia’s independent Cavaliers have what it takes to go undefeated.

Southern Conference

DUKE IS generally .accepted as the best team in the Southern Conference fwith Maryland dnd Clemson ineligible for a shot at the “paper championship.” Bill Murray’s Blue Devils face a brutal schedule, will

need all the breaks and then some to go through undefeated. They'll get the acid test Friday against Southern Methodist.

Murray has a well-rounded squad, with several standouts including Worth Lutz at quarter; Ed Meadows, a great tackle; Ray Green and Tank Lawrence, two other stars at the same position; the Smith boys—but not brothers—at halfbacks; Center Lou Tepe; and End Howard Pitt. Carl Snavely at North Carolina has switched from the single wing to the T. He hired George Barclay from Washington & Lee and, the word is that the Tarheels will improve on last season's 2-8-0 record. The full schedule is a man-

killer, though, and such play-

ers as Bob White, fullback; Billy Williams and Larry Parker, each a triple-threater, and Ken Yarbrough and Wilson (The Great) Alexander, a pair of powerful guards, face a rugged task.

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SOUTH CAROLINA rates as one of the “sleeper” teams of the conference. Coach Rex Enright has better material than usual and the schedule is a lot tougher than usual. The Gamecocks probably will

knock over at least one of their more famous rivals before December. Jack Freeman comes in as head William & Mary coach and an excellent first team greets him. After that is a question mark, but Freeman

has a good freshman crop and -

a team that could win the Southern championship. Top man will be Ed Mioduszewskli, all - Southern selection last year at halfback. Lack of Wake Forest reserves will be the Deacon’s main dif ficulty. Always tough on defense, Wake Forest packs a scoring punch this year. Bruce Hillenbrand, halfback, and Joe Koch, quarterback, will carry the mail. Line is bulwarked by Jack Lewis, an all-American candidate, at end. Washington and Lee Generals like to get up and go. A favorable schedule could give them the championship, but not an undefeated season. Gil Bocetti, the flashy quarterback, is gone, but there are some good boys back. Bob Thomas is expected to repeat as all-Southern end. :

” » 8 WEST VIRGINIA has 23 lettermen and only two seniors are listed on the squad. So “wait until next year.”

North Carolina State has a

new system-—the split T-and a new coach-—Horace Hendrickson, former Duke star, There's an air of optimism, even though 15 lettermen are gone and a rebuilding program is on, Alex Webster, 200-pound senior halfback, is one of the conference's best.

Virginia Military Institute lost 23 lettermen, but Coach Tom Nugent of I-formation fame isn't crying. “We may be slow starting but we'll win some games,” he says.

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RICHMOND is rebuilding and Virginia Tech is in the second year of a 5-year plan. The Citadel lost 19 lettermen and is expected to repeat 1951's record, win four, lost five. Furman . may improve last year’s 3-6-1 record and George Washington doesn’t figure to go anywhere. Davidson Coach Bill Dole will count on freshmen and is looking to the future, Maryland will play an independent schedule after being chastised for going to the Sugar Bowl. Coach Jim Tatum

_ has scraped together a better

schedule, including five games with Southeastern Conference foes. The Terps have a 12-game winning streak and will be just as good if not better. Two AllAmericans are returning, Quarterback Jack Carbath and Dick (Little Mo) Modzelewski, 245pound tackle. ~ Virginia had an 8-1 record last year and should match it this time and Clemson, in the same boat with Maryland, should be potentially stronger.

Southeastern Loop

GEORGIA TECH fans are predicting their best team since 1928 ‘because 48 of 49 lettermen are returning. Leon Hardeman, classy runner, will supply the backfield punch. You'll

sailed for Greenland early in September in hope of getting through with one last load before the ice pack closes in for the season.

Maj. Ger. Frank A. Heileman, Army Chief of Transpore tation, claims that “without the logistical support which we have provided here, the great Thule base would be on the drawing board ine stead of in its present ade vanced stage of construction.”

hear about Buck Martin, out. standing pass receiver.

This year is no exception at Tennessee. Any time Gen. Bob Neyland fields a team, it's gonna’ be good. Although he has lost Ted Daffer, Pug Pear man and Hank Lauricella, Neyland has a lot of talent to call on,

Coach John Vaught must re «

build his line and come up with a fullback for 'Ole Miss while Georgia followers can point to one of the slickest pass combinations, Zeke Bratowski to Harry Babcock.

Kentuck will be young and inexperienced without AM American Quarterback Vito (Babe) Parilli and Alabama is hurt with the loss of 15 lettermen. . - »

“IT SHOULD be an interest ing season,” comments Gaynell Tinsley at Louisiana State, who has a suicide schedule and a Squad of sophomores. oach Bill Edwards figures his Vanderbilt eleven will finish in the “middle third of the standings.” Experts don’t place him quite so high. Auburn, Florida, Tulane and Mississippi State figure to wind up near the bottom. Among the independents, Miami is rebuilding and should be rolling by November. Coach Andy- Gustafson calls Nick Chickillo “one of the greatest guards I've seen.” University of Louisville hopes to improve its 5-4 record of last year and Memphis State will be one of

the better small class teams in the South.

What You Eat Is What You're Like, Says Psychologist

CHICAGO, Sept. 23 (CDN)—|meat first, then each individual Tell Harriett Bruce Moore what|vegetable dish. He mixes nothyou eat, and she'll tell you what|ing.

you're like.

The conservative person usu-

Mrs. Moore is director of psy-|ally eats the same meals each

chological services for Social Re-|day.

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each morning and night.

He ¢atches the same train He al-

After four years of studying|Ways is on a prompt time schedAmericans’ food habits, prefer-|ule. He is neat. His desk always

ences and attitudes, she finds:

The hard driver usually is the

steak-potatoes-and-pie man.

is clean of work.

Introverts like unusual dishes: Extroverts like to eat every-

A person| who has a fondness|thing, as long as it gives them a for efficiency and a passion for|chance to chat with people. They organization will often eat all hisare the ones always wanting to Dietetic Association, many sol- ish,

ON THE TOWN

go out for a cup of coffee. Light eaters usually are high strung. Their stomach is never relaxed. Sensitive persons have a fondness for sweets—or alcohol. There's a subconscious reason for the soft milk diet, Mrs. Moore

believes. Milk is charged with symbolism. It means home and mother. During the last war, the psychologist points out In the current Journal of the “American

IN THE STATE

CRIMINAL COURT 2 PRESENTED THIS DRA YESTERDAY MORNING. A 19-YEAR-OLD CHARGED WITH STRONG ARMED ROBBERY PLEADS GUILTY AND RECEIVES 1-10 YEAR REFORMA

diers suffering combat fatigue developed a craving for milk,

“Milk expressed the memories,

comfort, security and contentness of life as it was at home,” Mrs. Moore said.

Food +s used as a source of

prestige, Yhe survey found. Social climbe®g will pattern their eating after ons in the group

to which they want to be accepted. Mrs. Moore finds food sometimes is used to reward and pun-

If a mother serves steak, choco~

late milk, fruit salad and {ce cream to her family, it is likely she is subconsciously communi-

cating her affection and warmth to them.

On the other hand, if she serves

liver, spinach and starch pudding, (she is punishing them in her own subconscious way,

She may deny this consciously,

pointing out you have to eat those things once in a while because they are god for you.

By Gene Feingold

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