The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 9

5 I 0 I THE COERI EK-JOl-RN I. 0 I 1 1. 1. I mdk.mm;, Mi emu kcntuckv Kernels I 1 1) I MI'MM" I' attaint liv. She's A Ixciiuhir OF Cav-ut-biK Louisville.

Tithe JSole: Pure Pikeville Water Tasles Terrible, Too SIMli.Y out "man," t.t bud:" sai ui. ne a regular "Say which?" 1 said "A regular ol' cay ut bud," she sail) I was entertaining four young ladies in the Blue Room of the Shoreham Hotel. In Washington. D. C.

These cupcakes, 1 gather, are about 17. They can Rv JAMES COBLE took over and made the thing run away. The trailer didn't stop until after it had made a fast downhill run and smashed a utility pole. -9 hardly wa't for 18 to roll around. They are attending Mount Vernon, which is a plush junior college for oung ladies.

A sort of emergency landing field between high school and matrimony. And the wav this came about Pmtm's wall ashtrajs, lump sugar and other 'Hienir. "For pri-p-i." they nd. A "sus prise" is a cross between suspense and surprise. When Mount Vernon girls are liberated for the evening, they must bring back a "sus prise" for their roommates.

Otherwise they are not admitted to the room. They must be home by 10 o'clock. Otherwise they net a bad time from somebody who is a "regular ol' ray ut bud." I was informed later that the party was a success. And all the young ladies thanked me politely. T'iry said if I ran into any cute dates, I could send them right along to Mount Vernon, thank you.

They had to leave at 9:30. Before the show. Mr. Barnes Breeskin who runs the orchestra, plaved "Dixie" for them. And 'The Eyes of Texas." Mr.

Marty Heflin was pretty insufferable about the whole thing, I must report. He told me very little about the state of the nation. Just sat around and told the young ladies about the state of hil brother Mr. Van Heflin. A subject they seemed to find most fascinating.

He's a regular ol cay ut bud, that Marty. Pony Rites Car? LEITCHFIELD: Bill, the 10-month-old pony owned by the Wick Earles family of Grayson County, had a run-in with a State police car driven by Sgt. Joe Sharpe. The car ran into Bill, or vice versa, on U. S.

62 between Leitchfield and Clarkson, according to the Grayson County News. The car chugged off second-best, damaged about $70. Bill chugged off with no damage except a slight limp. rpHERE'S rarely a dull mo rnent in Kentucky. That's proved by a recent batch of unusual goings-on reported in newspapers throughout the state.

Strep Story FIKEVILLE: Thousands Pikeville residents have been suzzlinj willow leaf tea. Fact is, that's all they've been netting from the Pikeville Water Works, whose supply conies from the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy. No end of willow leaves have fallen into the slow moving Ftream from trees along the banks, according to The Tikeville Daily News. And they've been steeping, or something, jn the stream for many a day. Water Works Superintendent James R.

Huffman assured the citizenry the State Board of Health had O.K.'d the water, and there was no need to boil it. The stuff's already pure, he said, and the bitter taste won't boil out anyhow. Shattering News WINCHESTER: Halloween came and went, but one or more spooks lingered on at Winchester. A trailer that had been used as a judges' stand for the cos MAYBE HE WANTS TO HEAR NOTHING BUT QUARTETS was very curious. We packed our bags the other day and drove down through Tidewater Maryland to check the stale of the nation.

In Washington, called up Mr. Marin llejtin, (lie public-relations agent. I also called up my little Texas cousin at ftfoimf Vernon. "Would 50" like to have dinner with us, Honey?" I said. "Marty is a brother of Van Heflin.

tcha is in the I gathered there tens a good deal of fainting on tlie other end. Honey arrived early tn tlie afternoon. Slie brought friends. From South Carolina, Xorth Carolina and Alabama. They spent a good deal of the evening staring at the brother of Mr.

Van Heflin. Possibly expecting some of the glamour to rub off on them. Between talk on the state of the nation, I learned something of the state of young ladies these days. It took some doing. For the chatter was in teen age Deep South.

A "cay ut bud'' is a "catbird." Whatever it is, it is not good. The Shoreham is one of the very fine hotels in the country. It has a terrace and a lighted fountain and looks over a deep wooded ravine out in the Embassy district. The young ladies immediately crammed their Oil, lie Patient AUGUSTA: Mrs. W.

C. Witt-meier of Augusta seems to be a very patient soul indeed. She dropped into the office of The Bracken Chronicle and reported a valuable sidesaddle missing ever since she lent it for a city-wide celebration. The Chronicle reported the facts, including the date the saddle disappeared 1947. That's right more than five years ago.

Dry Dampening NEW COLUMBUS: "Mayor" Horace Sparrow caused a big to-do at New Columbus, according to the News-Herald of Owenton. He went through the town, notifying one and all to get ready I'uh (Jels Scotched TALES of Londoners' heroism during the Nazi -blitz are legion; but Bobby Clarke knows ona worthy citizen who had a special grievance against the German planes. He was found in a mass of rubble and smoking ruins, waving a doorknob and screaming. "Bloody blighters! They blew a pub right out of my hands!" TWO SHAVERS were sitting on a fence rail chewing bubble gum when one suddenly announced, "I'm 5 years old. How old are you?" "Dunno," was the answer.

"Ilmmm" mused the first, "do girls bother you?" "Nut nt all," said the second. The first nodded sagely and said, "You're 4." Bennett Cerf for a big rain in 30 minutes. Although the sky was clear, the folks had a lot of confidence in Sparrow. After all, he was the unofficial Mayor, so they put out everything from tubs to cream pitchers to catch much-needed water. Then they went inside their homes, closed the windows, and waited and waited and waited.

Two hours later, Sparrow admitted he must have made a mistake. He reckoned what he thought was thunder had been a jet plane passing overhead. Mystery Program LEBANON: Bob Helm furnished entertainment as well as according to an alarm put out by their parents. But the lads didn't know they were lost. Meanwhile, The Madisonville Messenger reported, police, firemen and volunteers searched all over town, including an abandoned pit.

No lost boys. Twelve long hours after the lads started wandering, they were found in the Arnold boy's home, asleep on the bathroom floor. All tuckered out, they had crawled into the house through a window. No grown-ups were around at the time. They were out hunting for the boys.

Or missing. Or lost maybe. mystery recently foij patrons of his barbershop at lbanon. The entertainment was a radio program. The mystery was which of the shop's four! radios was on.

The M.Irion Falcon let the secret out of the bag It was the little portable radi, the one that was atop a big radjb that was on a great big radio Uhat sat on a great, great big radio on the floor. End of item. Also radios. Pair of Prodigals MADISON VILliE: Charles Edward Jones, SI, and Harold Dean Arnold, 10, had a fine time wandering arourd Madisonville. Only trouble wasythey were lost, tume contest figured in the news, as reported in The Winchester Sun.

When workmen tried to remove it from in front of the Courthouse, said spook or spooks HILL I XIUt'S Almanac The Neighbors 7 lly George Clark 4, -n ltc Louisville's Buddy Pepper Penned The Very Popular JVaya Con Dios' DON'T know whether you knew it or not, but that new popular tune "Vaya, Con Dios" was written by a Louisville product, one Buddy Topper. Buddy started life in Louisville as Jack Starkey. Movies changed his name to Buddy 1953 SELF-DEFROSTING Pepper some years ago when he went to Hollywood. "Vaya Con Dios" Be With You," or first real batrg for Buddy Pepper's tune. Buddy Pepper has been a busy boy since heilcft Louisville; and there is no ict up in his schedule, according to a letter Boyd Martin, Courier-Journal movie editor, got from him a few weeks ago.

Toured ith Smith At the IFme he wrote Martin, he recently had completed a tour as musical director, arranger and accompanist with Jack Smfth. They had played clubs and theaters in Toronto, Washington, Detroit, Denver, Buffalo, iSan Diego, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Following that tour, Jack started (on an N.B.C. television show called "Place The Face." No sirring was called for, so Pepper was "taking it easy" as Smith'sf personal adviser. This left hmi free to play some dales with fother people, including 1,1 I I more literally "Go With has been building week by week through the last few NO MONEY DOWN (1) Magic Cycle Defrosting (2) Giant AcrossThe-Top Freezer Chest (3) Built-in Butter Chest (4) Roll-Out Dairy Shelf (5) Shelves In The Door (6) 5-Year Warranty (7) 10-Day FREE Home Trial months.

It has PEPPER been on top of all popularity lists, and is now second in Variety's lists. "Vaya" Is ninth already in England's popularity poll. This is pretty quick action, since English success usually comes many months after the ride in America. The rendition of the tune by Les Paul and Mary Ford was the 7 Hm ly! IM, --lljjf LJf "Let's move to a table. I can't enjoy this soda if I watch myself drinking it." I) II IV Savs: PAY $3 WEEKlY of While, Truman Was Upset Over Appointment Jane Russell, Ginny Simms, Lisa Kirk and Gertrude Neisen.

Buddy is in the publishing business himself now, associated in Hallie Music with his co-writer, Inez James, and Eddie Kaye, musical director for Allied Artists Pictures. They started in business with a tune they wrote for Jimmy Boyd's first starring picture. Sells four More Another Pepper song, "Somebody's Cryin'," was recorded by Anita O'Day. He has sold four additional tunes recently. "I nearly flip every time I look at Variety and see 'Vaya Con Dios' listed in the top five all over the nation," Buddy says.

"I've been trying so long for a real commercial success, despite all the movie music I have written through the years." Dana Records is putting out a Polish version of "Vaya Con Dios." Sounds like a nice, easy life, doesn't it? But it isn't all so easy, as witness an expedition Pepper made last April. He had been building a new act for Lisa Kirk, and it opened in the Persian Room at the Plaza Hotel in New York. Buddy went along as musical with the understanding that if Jack Smith needed him, he would have to leave the Kirk act immediately. (iol Hurry Cull In the third week, he got a call from Jack at 1:30 a.m. Jack h.1d a sudden booking into the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, opening the next night.

The arrangement was that Buddy would be there, too. Lisa and Buddy got on the' phone at 2 a.m., found a replacement for Buddy, then sat up all night rehearsing. At noon Buddy was on a plane, at 8:30 he arrived in Los Angeles, at 10 he was on the floor at the Coconut Grove with Smith, "still in the same soiled shirt and dinner jacket I had worn the night before at the Persian Room." Buddy's mother and stepfather recently visited him in Hollywood. They are Mr. and Mrs.

Dave Schneider of Louisville. Lots of Louisvillians remember Buddy and his start on the piano here In radio programs and so on. arv Fund 'Always Intensely to AND YOUR OLD REFRIGERATOR ERATO RS track down any other Americans and Russians he might be doing business with. If White was prosecuted immediately, the other members of the spy ring would be alerted and it would be impossible to catch them. About a year and a half later, White's name was placed before a Federal grand jury which failed to indict him.

Vincent Quinn, asistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division, has stated that the evidence was not conclusive enough to bring an indictment. From British Sources My own information was similar. It was obtained largely from British sources, not from the storv given by Elizabeth great detail at that time. In fact, Mr. Truman hurled some strong words in my direction shortly thereafter because I was critical of Vaughan.

Therefore I cannot sp'eak firsthand regarding their vifws on White. 1 heard that Mr. Truman was unset over 'White's appointment to the Monetary Fund and felt that it was slipped by him (in February, 1946) without his knowing too much about it. It is unnecessary for me to add that I owe nothing to Harry Truman. Quite the contrary.

He took every opportunity to belabor me both publicly and privately. But I would be unfair if I lid not report that Mr. Truman was intensely, vigorously anti-Communist and anti-Russian. In fact, Jimmy Byrnes once told me that, he and Churchill were flabbergasted at the Potsdam Conference at the way Harry Truman, a very green and very new President of the United States, proceeded to bawl out Stalin to his face. A couple of times, Byrnes he tried to pull Harry's coatttails to get him to sit down.

But Mr. Truman could not be stopped from bawling out Stalin. CopyritM, 1951 made Secretary of the Treasury. To the best of my recollection this was in midsummer of 1945 and before the F.B.I, submitted its report on White to the White House and various members of the Cabinet. I told Vinson that while I could not be certain about White, it looked to me as if he were not only intensely pro-Russian but had been linked up with the Russian spy ring in Canada.

Vinson thanked me for the information, made no comment, but later I noticed that White left the Treasury. Later he turned up with the International Monetary Fund. I never asked Fred Vinson what happened. He was appointed United States Chief Justice some time later and removed from the realm of political comment. But I did ask J.

Edgar Hoover. I had learned that subsequently certain Justice Department officials considered putting White's case before a grand jury and that Hoover had been opposed. 'Plausible Explanation' When I asked Hoover about this he gave the perfectly plausible explanation that he had White under observation, wanted to keep him that way in order to USED REFRD a i UP 0 1-Year Warranty 0 Reconditioned 0 Leading Makes Benllcy. Indirectly it came from Igor Gouzenko, the code clerk in the Russian Legation in Ottawa, who eventually spilled the beans to the Royal Mounted Police. Gouzenko indicated that there was a man in the U.

S. Treasury the Russians contacted for information. He was not quite clear as to who he was, though the signs pointed to White. Neither Harry Truman nor General Vaughan were among those who confided in me in TUCSON, Ariz. Harry Dexter White, the alleged Communist spy, whom Attorney General Herbert Brownell has just "exhumed" from his 5-year-old grave, was a Treasury official whom I knew slightly in Washington during World War II.

A wizard in monetary matters, he was always intensely pro-Russian, but at first I attributed this to the fact that he had been born in Boston of Russian parents and that we were allied with Russia during the war. At the San Francisco United Nations Conference in April, 1945, however, I first began to be suspicious of Harry White. By that time the United States was having diplomatic troubles with Russia, and Stalin had sent a brusque, almost brutal note to Roosevelt one day before he died. While Protested General Eisenhower at that time had pulled American troops back from the outskirts of Potsdam to the River Elbe, in deference to Russian protests, and I recall that, when I broke this story, Harry White, whom I saw in San Francisco in April of 1945, protested against it. Harry Truman, incidentally, who had taken office only a few days before, was much tougher on the Russians than General Eisenhower appeared to be in Germany; and "Chip" Bohlen reported that when Molotov flew to Washington en route to San Francisco, Truman gave Molotov the dressing down of his life.

Bohlen, who acted as interpreter, said he had never heard one top official scold another in such a manner. Shortly after that I picked up the first trail of the Russian spy ring in Canada a story which took several months to nail down. Harry White's name entered the picture. It was difficult to prove that White was involved at least to the point of being safe from libel. But it certainly looked as if White was one of the men the Russians came to for secret information in Washington.

The evidence was such that I took it to my old friend, the late Fred Vinson, who had just been Co 1 1 css i on a 1 Quiz Ht Congressional Quarter) NO MONEY DOWN PAY 00 fiNiY mm 10-DAY FREE HOME TRIAL 1 -Y .1" Rhode Island ihoose all statewide candidates by the convention method. 7ow many Slates hare Fair Employment I'rartires Lams? A Twelve. They are (with date of enactment); Colorado (1951), Connecticut (1947), Indiana (1945), Kansas (1953), Massachusetts (1946), New Jersey (1943), New Mexico (1949), New York (1945), Oregon (1949), Rhode Island (1949), Washington (1949) and Wisconsin (1915). The Territory of Alaska approved an F.E.P.C. law in 1953.

In addition, Americans are covered by nondiscrimination statutes if they are employed by a firm operating under Government contract, work for the Federal Gov ernment, or ire members of the armed forces. When vert V. S. imt elected by popular title A In the election of 1914. The 17th Amendment, providing for the direct election of senators, was declared ratified by Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan on May 31, 1913.

From 1789 to 1914, senators were chosen by State Legislatures. How old is our primary system of nominating candidatct? A A popular-vote system cf nominating candidates for local office was first adopted by Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in 1866. In 1863, New York and California passed laws giving their counties the option of adopting the "Crawford County system." At the present time, only two states Connecticut and I LJliLi 317 S. 4th 428 W. Market 333 W.

Market 3730 Lexington Rd. AM 2414 AM 2451 AM 1804 ST, MATTHEWS-TA 2201 HERBERT BROWNELL HARRY D. WHITE The Attorney General "exhumed" the alleged spy.