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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

PATIENTS of the new Veterans Hos ital had A rare treat recently which added ivi shin ng oShapter to Indiana's progressive penal proFive inmates of the Indian Pendleton entertained the. 1000 Ran oe hospital with a program of religious songs. The singers received high praise from the patients and two fraternal organizations attending the program.

> & & IT ALSO was a personal triumph for such men as Officer C, H. Baker of the Reformatory, who sponsored the group, Lt. H. Toppe, who accompanied the men to Indianapolis and ack, and Evangelist Carl L. Smit, who have been working 4 Sovela or more than a year to get this pro am star Certainly the name of Sin an 3 3 Lane must be ‘included in the list of forwardthinking men. To a segment of society the thought of allowing prisoners to leave an ‘institution to give musical programs might be objectionable. ‘ But to those who believe rehabilitation is the Key. tape soner y Sventus] return to society, etera forward toward that ey Hosts] 5 a big shop

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SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: City Hall officials pooh-poohed the new Los Angeles ordinance which legalized a “coffee break” for its 15,000 employees. One local city papa said, “We have so much work to do and we do it. If there's any time left to take a breather, we take it, Besides, with an ordinance like that, what happens to the person who doesn’t drink coffée?” Let 'em eat cake. Jim Norris, Butler University athletic trainer, has heard many excuses from footballers for missing practice. Guard Bob. Safford came up with one Jim thinks will stay on top of the heap for a long time. Bob called Jim and said his wife wasn’t feeling well and their new Baby was out of three-cornered pants, Cm, “I just can’t believe a baby can use 18 diapers An one day, can you? asked Bob, the laundry man. Poor Jim, after all these years doesn’t know what to believe,’ especially when diapers enter the picture. ' > >

RAY FATOUT, who dabbles in reclaimed oll, was passing the Telephone Co, and saw a group

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It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Sept. 27—Somebody’s got $biow the whistle on the breakdown of American decency. More bums and scum are fouling up life today

than at any time since killers and kidnapers were making with the bang-bang. I've been on the berserk Broadway beat for 10 torrid years, and on newspapers for 27 years, My eyes—and nose—are good. Never have I seen so many vice lice—so much tomcatting—such hordes of fallen females, panderers, hopheads, phonies and abnormals—as deface America now. (I might as well add that my Beautiful Wife, with whom I talk these things over, says I'm crazy.) I'm not belting Broadway particularly, for it’s my home, and most of the folks are as good as you'll find in the Corn Belt.

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BUT THOSE FEW here, there and yonder, who do make a mess out of living, add up to an alarming total in my opinion. I wish I could name a Park Ave. woman—wife of a famous man—who gets her kicks from narcotics. She's been handkissed all over Europe, for she has pedigree, 20 to 30 servants, and that many doctors. I'm also upset about a nice little girl who recently became a star, then became a wolfess, chasing some of our top male stars to their storm cellars. Then there's the “art study” pornography. For weeks, at every Cafe Society wingding, a naughy pose of a certain Hollywood headline honey was pushed at you. This Ohio clodhopper still gets blushy over those. * ° o

LOTS OF COLUMNS ago, I snatched Billy Rose's sleeve in a restaurant. I asked whether his Joyce Mathews dates meant he and Eleanor Holm had broken up. “No, sweetie,” he replied, saying he and Eleanor had just had some words. Everybody around here cheats but you,” he said, with a sweeping gesture of his arm that took in the whole restaurant. “You and...” Billy didn’t mean everybody, but maybe it did seem like everybody to him. In some esthetic circles, abnormals are in command and, God help us, abnormality ‘is becoming normal. * & 9

FUNNY for an old “saloon editor” to be talking that way? The B. W. says it's because I went

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Sept, 27—We see by the papers that Mrs. Beth Short has just been awarded a job paying $18,000 a year as President Truman's correspondence and research secretary, Mrs.

Short’'s husband was Joe Short, the President's I am happy

press secretary, who died recently. for Mrs, Short that she has received such remunerative employment from a grateful chief. The only thing that mars my jubilance is that she is making $3000 a year more than the Senators who represent the nation, and more than some who may eventually lead it. She is making three grand better than Dick Nixon, the candidate for VP on the Eisenhower slate— them an who was recently forced to confess he just couldn't hold up his budgetary end as a legislator on what they paid him. : A Senator makes $12,500 a year. He- gets another $2500 on which no tax is levied.

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WE HAVE here the peculiar position of a President's stenographic staff member, so to speak, making more dough than a man who could be the next President of the United States, if Ike should happen to get elected and die. We have here a mighty sermon on the dreadful penurity with which we have recompensed our top public servants. It is small wonder they aren't all thieves or sharpshooters, if only to eat. I'm not knocking 15 grand a year as a good salary even in time of vast inflation. But it is peanuts for a legislator who must live up to the diplomatic Joneses of Washington, D. C., and who must put up a stout front both with the neighbors and the constituents, A Congressman cannot very well plead poor mouth in front of the help, his friends, or the odd boy from down home who needs a fast 10 to tide him. i

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A BERIOUS Congressman must live in the nice section of town-—both in Washington and back home. He must own an auto. He must dress hs wife in a fashion unbecoming td a mateh seller; He must send the kids to school and pay his light bills, and he gallivants an

Big Step Forward In Rehabilitation

of Bell workers sitting by the side of the building on the sidewalk basking dreamily in the sun. To anyone except Ray, the men looked like purple martens on a telephone wire, Ray thought they looked like the War Strategy Board. Ray is an ex-GL Pat Lazarus, general manager of Fred Williams Jr, Inc.,, has as his most prized possession a cashmere sport coat. Material was a gift from the boss. During the past 18 months, Pat has

. worn the coat four times and was nervous as a

cat each time. Afraid of spots, cigarets, door frames, people feeling the material. The other day he took it to his tailor for a slight alteration, Personally supervised the cutting. Tailor's remark. “Cutting you wouldn’t hurt as much as cutting the material.” The tailor is right, too. : Bo THE REV. EARL L. CONNER of St. George's Episcopal Church, gave us the good word that the church interior will be painted by praishioners Tuesday night. We thought that was good Chris-

tian news. “Yes,” said Rev. Conner, “we have plenty of paint and bruses and spirit. If we could -only have a few more hands handling the brushes.” Paint makes me sneeze, Father, other- . wise

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SHADES of autumn—Bob Efroymson, Frank Brennan, Henry Calloway and Horace Moorman returned to the noon gym class at the Athletic

Club. ¢ © ¢

FROM THE LATE WATCH: A mint julep bouquet to Bill Krafft of Monarch Buick and Bernece Gray of The Keys for adding heart to a night club interview and entertainment radio show, “Collins at The Keys.” Debut last Friday at 11:30 p. m. and repeated last night. Sid Collins of WIBC runs the show, doesn’t play the piano. Format calls for plugging a worthy and current’ charitable project on each show, Interviewing celebrities, spotlighting The Keys piano team and spinning a few choice p'#*ters.» Try and catch the show next Friday and Saturday and agree with us it has possibilities.

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JUST A THOUGHT: A_ Sunday driver is a person who looks straight through the windshield six days of the week and side windows and rear window on the seventh day.

Decade May Go Down As the ‘Filthy 350s

to church recently. She says there's no more sin than there ever was. ‘ Maybe I've contributed a dime’s worth to. the mess by reporting too thoroughly. Should I ignore Marilyn Monroe? Some parents thinks so, I'm thinking it over soberly. Shucks, this leaves me no room for another holler—a blast against lying. Once it was a sin, later it was naughty, today it's a fine art. What this Booze Beat Boswell meant to say was that unless we do something about it all, this decade’ll become known as the Filthy Fiftise.

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HE MIDNIGHT EARL , . . There'll be a grand jury investigation of the Pearl Bailey beating. (Pear takes the Liberte to Europe Oct. 15). . . « This telegram was actually received: “Please put Nixon on ‘Strike It Rich.’ He needs it.” Ingrid Bergman's Beverly Hills home was sold

to Margie Hart, the ex-stripteuse, and husband *

Seaman Jacobs the writer. . . . Paulette Goddard returns from Europe Oct. 11, Erich Maria Remarque won't be far behind. Henry Morgan, who starts broadcasting from Huttons Sunday at the witching hour, says he'll interview all the witches , . . Jaeger the Waiter (at Lindy’s), who got so rich he vacationed at the homes of Hollywood stars, is back at work, giving autographs. Gogi’s La Rue reopened with a splash—and a new bar ... A movie star's wife flew to New Orleans to collect him . . , Frank Sinatra's now breaking records at the Philly Latin Casino. Whatever happened to Johnny Ray?

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THE DIZZY DIGEST , , . Taffy Tuttle would love to get married—-but she hasn't met the right amount. . ¢ 2 9

TODAY'S BEST LAUGH .. . When Milton Berle and young Comic Joey Bishop had an ad lib battle, Milton finally said, “Please, Joey, haven't I got enough trouble with one Bishop every Tuesday night?” ¢ &

WISH I'D SAID THAT... “The best time to buy anything—was a year ago.”’-=Frank Cerutti,

EARL’S PEARLS . . . “There isn’t much difference between taxies and taxes,” sighs Randy 3 ersiman. “These days you can’t dodge either of em.” “Some people,” says John Juliano, “would be on a strictly liquid diet—if it weren't for pretzels” + + « That's Earl, brother, .

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obit Senators’ Pay?

awful lot around the land. This. calls for tips, sundries, incidentals. They are all costly. If you are ducking in and out of hotels and airports, taxis and limousines, you must know the high cost of tipping is comparable only to the cost of cleaning and pressing’ travel-stained clothing. And you can almost buy a shirt for what it costs to wash one. - If you are making a round of free-loads you occasionally have to haul off and toss a party back at the people who've been feeding you the canapes and stoking you on the warm Manhattans. * & o

EVEN for Congressmen, a baby’s bootees come high, and the supermarket does not recognize rank. You go down there with a basket of money and exchange it for a basket of food in our modern simplified barter system. Rent increases occur. The seats of pants wear through. Mama gets awfully surly about that 1939 cloth coat. It makes the neighbors sniff, And doctors still send bills,

According to the demands of their rarefied living, we pay our world moulders just enough to keep a church mouse in a state of shabby repair. By the time the taxes are clipped from the pay check, even when you top off the tax-free cherry on the sundae, the public figure has nothing more than break-even money if he's living a nonpublic life. * »

THERE'S not a one of them, except the independently tien boys, who doesn’t have to pracce a e law or make speeches or take a free ham to feed his flock. A Congressman is a big man in his home town and in Washington, but we pay him a literal pauper’s wage for the work he does and the ves he influences. We pay the widows. of presien flunkies more than we pote: Presidents. oy tial ¢ oo 9 :

WE THROW the dough all over the world to buy tractors for people who do not understand the plow, and we have subsidized just so long as it was foreign and fancy. But we pay the men who allocate the billions in cigar coupons. A man worthy of being a high public official is worthy of sufficient pay to keep him reasonably bonest in his appointed tasks. He at least deserves as much as a ress secretary’ an honorary job. y oa

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1952

BLOWTORCHES IN THE SKY. .

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about to fly.

CONFERENCE — Allison test pilots before flight are {left to right) Walter Amberg, Luke Stear and Art Talmage, who is

neer George Jaeckel,

PLANNING PHASE—Test pilots start following the engine from blueprint. Pilot Jim May (right) works with flight test engi-

By ED KENNEDY SCREAMING ACROSS Weir Cook Municipal Air-

port the big jet fighter settled down and taxied to a stop.

“How'd it go?” a man on the grqund yelled up to the

pilot. ©. - “perfect,” the man behind the stick replied as he cut off the blow torch which powered the craft. “Let's rip it apart and try her again, then,” the first man said. - “Right,” said’the pilot, “and I'll be looking over your shoulder.” That night the plane which had been reported in “perfect” condition was in hundreds of pieces on the floor of Plant 10 at the Allison Division of General Motors Corp. Walter Amberg, test pilot, watches. And the engineers welcomed. his every glance, for Pilot Amberg was their project pilot. He gave them the results of their designs and experiments. Allison’s has six test pilots working here. Their mission is to test, perfect and help design engines. the plant comes up with an engine design for which there is no plane, 80 they adapt one. That's why you'll see a B-17 with five engines or a jet bomber with a tremendous exhaust pipe hanging out the bottom.

THE PILOTS are matter of fact about their work. Among the six there are 18,000 hours flying time—most of it solo. Dean of the crew is Col. Vernon A. Ford with 6000 hours. Rookie is Luther W, Stears with 1500 hours. Others in the crew are Arthur Talmage, Robert F. LeSuer and James W., May. , With the exception of Col. Ford all the men are 30 years

old. The colonel, or ‘granddad” as they sometimes call him, is 43.

The open secret of the crew is they love to fly. But, in addition to being hot pilots, they have mechanical aptitude to work hand-in-hand with the engineers, . » » - “ FOR M. R. AMBERG, who is Sills “brains,” jets are much re interesting than tractors he was testing before he joined Allison earlier this year, “Just couldn't get those things off the ground,” he observed. These men who test the engines to power the planes in the event of future wars relax by" relating experiences from the one hehind them. .

But sometimes -

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The merits of British beer, MIGs, ME 109s, the officers club at Abadan and a girl met one night in Rangoon came up while chewing the fat, Three of them belong to the select circle of airmen known as the “l12-Mile High Club.” They gained their membership by enduring flying conditions 12 miles in the air. Thats the same distance up as it is from Monument Circle straight out N. Meridian St. better than a mile beyond the county line. ” ” ” WORK CLOTHES usually are sport shirts, Dress suits are

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shunned in the office just as G-suits are when they whip theirrexperimental planes through their paces.

A G-suit is a pressure device to keep pilots from blacking out under the stress of gravity in dives and turns.

“When you wear a G-suit you can't feel how much strain you're putting on so you can never tell when the wings are going to fall off,” one of them explained. One of the hottest ships the crews work on is the Scorpion night fighter.

“Great airplane,” one of the

pilots commented. “Sure is,” said another, “Has

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fly the “turbo-liner."

THE "COLONEL" == Vernon A. Ford, with 6000 hours, is the dean of Allison's test pilots. He is the only one checked out to

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ut Serious Are The Jet Test Pilots Of Indianapolis

CLASSROOM SESSION—Not all flying. Allison: pilots are briefed by a project engineer. :

a fine engine, a great tail asSSiubly and wonderful wings,

“Someday somebody’s going to figure out how to keep all the pieces together in the air and it'll be even greater.”

” ” » ALTHOUGH the Allison pilots have an outstanding spirit and are fast with quips, they are a serious lot. Not one has had to hit the panic button and bail out despite daily flying of unknown and untested equipment. Much of their work is in a building where everything is secret, “Sometimes we can't figure out what those engineers are

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doing. Now they're bending up a bunch of tubes. All we can figure is that it's going to be a still,” one said. “If it is, we'd better get six more pilots to handle the output—those tubes are two inches across. Even we couldn’t drink all the whisky that would pour out.”

But despite the levity—mostly a hangover from days as fuzzy faced youths as peashooter pilots—this half dozen men take their great pride in their-busi-ness seriously. The day might come when another generation of fuzzy-faced ]Jads take off into the blue in a full-scale war of democracy.

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