Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-05-25 | Page 22 | Bubble Gum Proves Snag

THE TEEN SET Bubble BubbleGum Gum I Proves Snag By BETTY BETZ 1ST ISTANBUL ISTANBUL-A A A bubble gum smuggler That's a fine thing to be called when Im I'm on a will good-will trip isn't it Today when our Pan Pan-Am clipper swooped down over the domes of the Ule lovely mosques of Istanbul Istanbul bul but I fell In love with the city I immediately This was the home up baggage there was a big t Turkish gabfest and they sent l for the chief of police My stock of bubble gum which I carry to toof toof toof of Turhan Bey and the Turkish bath I thought it was strange that Tina Leser and her husband with whom Im I'm traveling breezed through the customs in five minutes when when the themen themen themen men In blue opened my beat beat- give away to foreign children has aroused the curiosity of all the customs men but never their suspicions I had to laugh when a big fat man with a handlebar mustache mustache mus mug tache carefully opened several pieces of gum and then held a abig abig abig big board of directors' directors meeting behind a crate of chickens with the tho other customs officers After 5 hours of waiting I was permitted permitted per per- to go into town but without my luggage which was to be kept in bond until my departure departure de de- de I for Rome Some democracy I 1 I thought i I Ito to myself and felt very ery sad that rI r I wouldn't be able to give a party for the kids In Turkey as all ot of of f my balloons souvenirs decorations decora decora- lions and bubble gum were being inspected by police