Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1941 — Page 22

REMEMBER GILMORE, ttie ‘lion cub that Col. ‘Roscoe Turner used to carry around with him as a mascot in his plane back in his aie racing days?

Well, they've got Gilmore the Second out at

unicipal Airport OW Ths Gilmore happens to be M six eight-week-old stray Kitten that wandered into the dor.mitory of Col ‘Turner's flying school. The fiying | ‘stiidents: quickly adopted she kitten as their mascot - and fixed it up with a box of sawdust, and - gave it a bath. It took seven.of them to hold it during the bathing process. Now whenever the boys go up for practice flights they like to take Gilmore along. They've fixed

up a log book and already he's gr. forthcoming show on one night.

_ starts here Friday, Dec. 5, and ends Thursday, Dec. 11.

got about 10 hours ‘logged.

Maybe No, Maybe Yes

| THAT “WHO IS Johnny Townsend REALLY go-

ing to play pro basketball with?” thing popped up again yesterday. Johnny, you'll recall, is under a contract which supposedly - prevents him from playing with anyone except the Kautsky club. But Leon Kempler, organizing .an “Indianapolis An-stars” team, phoned to report once more that

the former Tech and Michigan U. flash would play.

-& game with his team in Detroit around the first of the month.. | Queried, Johnny said “NO,” he wasn’t. going to play with the All-Stars; then he said “MAYBE” and finally he stamniered “YES,” but added that his hame couldn't be used in promoting the game. It’s all rather confusing. The way we figure it out is: You pay your money for an All-Star game and—

surprise—there’s the great—and sleepy—Johnny Town’

send. But keep it under your hat, |

Hey, Mr. Lindbergh—

JOHN W. THOMPSON, formerly of The Indiana: olis Times staff and now publicizing A Consolidated Afrcratt, was in town seeing folks yesterday after

- Hoosier Casualty Co.

riding a Britain-bound bomber from San Diego to

the East Coast. John tells us that there's a bomber] .

for Britain taking off ey dav or oa Howi-of places—Lindbergh Field, San Diego. Sort of a continuous insult to the Lone Eagle, eh? . . . On Page 107 of the current issue of the Satevepost there’s an ad for the Central Manufacturers’ Mutual Insurance Co. showing a man bringing home the Thanksgiving turkey. In case you're interested, the man who posed for the picture happens to be the vice president of another insurance company—Norman Green of the It’s a hobby of his to pose for. commercial photos. :

Saturday Night Town?

DICK MILLER, boss of the. Coliseum, is having Saturday night trouble. No, his shower’s not out.of ~order; it's merely that everybody wants to See Sonja e show

Af least 90 per cent of the ‘mall order reservation re-

- quests are for the sixth—Saturday—and Dick is hav-

ing trouble filling them. Why Saturday night? Probably because they can sleep late Sunday. . . . Bud Hess, the ‘local American Airlines manager, is ‘sending his friends postcards from New York. He flew there on vacation this week and ex ts-to be ‘back the 24th. He writes that it's a “won

Southern Hospitality SOME OF THOSE southern cities. aren’ missing

any bets:'when it comes ‘to getting favorable publicity. :

For instance, the C. of C. in Gulfport,” Miss., wangles visiting ‘soldier boys into filling in a blank. form to be sent to their favorite hometown newspaper. The mail brings us one of the blanks from Pvt, William ‘Gh. Nichols, Camp Shelby, Miss, whose home herg is at 1438 W. 23d. Among the questions on the blank is: “What impressed you most in Gulfport?” Answered Pvt: Nicholas: “The many people who were so hospitable and naturally the beauty of the coast.” As to what message he “would like to have sent to your ‘home town folks,” he writes: “People:of the North, we hope you treat those Southern soldiers as. good as the Lind people are treating us. God bless you Ly»

Ernie Pyle is on leave of absence because of the illness of his wife.

Washingt WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—Both sides have lost their sense of proportion in the captive-coal-mine dispute. Compared with the damage it threatens to inflict upon the Government effort in this emergency, the point at issue in the mine dispute is trivial. The National Defense Mediation Board has reduced the issue to its simplest terms. Ome coal miner out of every 200 has not | joined the Lewis union. The point (is whether that one .Temaining {holdout shall be compelled to join. |The mediation board urges him | to join but refuses to try to force him. That is the issue which the steel companies have refused to compromise. John Lewis has refused to compromise. All C. I. O. officials have pulled out of the National Defense Mediation Board, perhaps destroying that body’s usefulness, That in itself is little short of an act of sabotage against’ the Government’s machinery to provide peaceful settlements of disputes. One C. I. O.| official has walked out of his OPM post. - “There are rumors of a general strike in the bituminous 1 industry. An attempt probably will be made fo line up‘the whole C. I. O. at its national convention next week. All of this, and the trampling upon the of the Government, for continuous * production, over the question of compelling employers to force the remaining 5 per cent of the cap-tive-coal-mine workers to join the union. lewis

can’t induce them to join so he wants the Govern- - ment to rs it. He Py not content with a 95 per cent

3 Ingratitude by Lewis

ROOSEVELT CALLED both sides to the White House today in a. desperate effort to get Ine White House says it is a struggle be--ernment and the United Mine Workers.

during one of the graves crisis in our use Lewis—seeking a personal triumph— is insisting. japon gonsdlidating the last 5 per cent of

“Stock Athi shows a decline of. .. = more than a quarter in the prices + of industrial shares since the old September peak of 1939, marked ‘up a few days after the fighting broke out in Europe. “American stock values’ the last =. few days have been approaching “the two low points reached so far in the war, the first one in June, 1940, the second one last May. The low point in the Dow-Jones averages of industrial shares in , ©1040 was 111.84, reached the day om ‘Italy entered the war, June 10. m so far this year has been 115.30, reached:

s bit 1938 and 1939 was sik 4" long ared with the almost uninterrupted climb P34 to 1937, but its gain of 60 ponis was

By Raymond Clapper)

his mine-labor monopoly: now. The Defense Mediation Board, in asking Lewis to waive the union-shop issue at this time, did not consider it was doing anything that would jeopardize his stranglehold on mine labor. As the board pointed out, 90 per cent of all soft coal mined in the United States is dug by members of the Lewis union. In the open-shop captive mines now in dispute, 95 per cent of the men are members of the Lewis union... The membership has grown steadily. That significant+fact led the board to say that the existing condition was not jeopardizing the strength of the anion in any way. +The board went even further. It said that. the hold-out miners, one in every 200, had enjoyed the

_benefits won by the United Mine Workers and in re-

turn could make a great contribution to the troubled labor relations in the coal industry now. by joining the union voluntarily. While thus appealing to the men to <join up, the board refused to say the employers should force them to join. For that refusal Lewis is now staging what amounts to a C. I. O. revolt against the Government—or a walkout against the Government. For that refusal to go ‘all of the way, and with flagrant | ingratitude for all that the Government has done for organized labor. since Mr. Roosevelt has been in office, Lewis would now line up his men and secede from the national-defense effort.

Mistake Made in Beginning

BEYOND THE IMMEDIATE dispute, Lewis has dealt a blow, perhaps a fatal one, to the National Defense Mediation Board. His men on the board have quif it in protest against its decision. C. I. O.

‘leaders are talking of refusing to-allow future dis-

putes to be'submitted to it. If this becomes a policy, ‘the board will be crippled as an effective body. Probably it would be better anyway to overhaul the board. A mistake was made when Mr. Roosevelt se ra without issuing at the same time a governg Cc

The present board has tried to decide each case on|

its own. A fixed policy in advance would have rescued it from its present embarrassment when it was forced to make a decision under a strike threat by Lewis, without any guiding rule upon which to rely for protection,

By John W. Love|

From then on ‘they have heen seeing how impossible it apparently is to confine a modern war, and how the enormous exertions of war reach down into every trade, affect every price, and throw uncertainty over ‘every calculation of the future. In Washington, where there still are economists ‘who are not unfriendly té private investment, the reasons: given for the low spirits in Wall Street are the same as those heard among the speculators themselves, The. ones commonly. mentioned here are the uncertainty in the outlook for 1942 taxes, ularly the recent Treasury proposal fi a 15 per cent levy at the sources ny incomes, the current labor disputes. on the railroads and in the coal mines, the Government regulation of Fides, and the assurance that .many civilian “ind will be pinched down to small size.

‘Tax Selling’ Now Heavy

* “THE ONLY WAY AN industry can maintain its ‘earnings in the face of higher costs,” said one economist, “is to increase its volume of business, and about the only concerns that can do that are the ones which sell to the Government, and there the controls are the strictest.” To these reasons are added the effect of the income tax in. persuading people who have paper “losses in their Ln to convert them into. actual pray losses in order to make allowance for them as deduc-

Tax Sires Them, Too

THIS BELIEF WAS mainly responsible for the last portion of ‘the 1939 rise, but speculators apparSully were shanging their minds within twy Weeks) "after Whe; troops were marching.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday. —The Mayor of Cincin: nati and Rabbi Wohl, with several other members the forum, met us at the train at 8 o'clock yesterday i MOLE. ail al 2.5, lctls Overwhelmed by Sos

ever before and the shock of their enactment .is a recent memory. “Tax selling” is heavy. The fear of having to fight a war in two oceans is included in Washington's list of explanations for the way the stock market bumps its lows. The

public is said to be apathetic to the menace of war}

with Japan, but the apathy may not extend w the

By Eleanor Sel oh

LLELE

erful ‘way to travel, Hal”

Thi i he psind of » sre of aries by Lela Slows on she : Road, “m of our BN

present state of - tthe Burma day.”

5% Significant highway

Copyright, 1841, by The ‘Indianapolis Times and The Chicago. Daily ‘News, ne. : - KUNMING, South China (By Clipper) —At Mangshi the Burmese and Indian chauffeurs turn over their trucks to Chinese drivers. Here on the second day of our trip we

encountered a demonstration of why it’s such a terrific

task to push traffic over the Burma Road up to i poter- :

tial maximum.

If American aid to China i is to Become: fealty effective this winter. three times as much lend-lease war materials must leave Mangshi—and actually be delivered in Kunming—as the combined total ‘tonnage of Chinese Government and pure- §

~ Kunming.

{ ‘To triple the strictly commercial ard “war material traffic over the whole length of China’s lifeline should be possible, ac. cording to the American transportation experts on the Arnstein-Davis-Hellman Nevertheless, it’s a colossal

Mr. Stowe Committee.

ly commercial cargoes previously to reach

job in view of habits, practices and abuses which have be-

come established over three operation,

Moreover, with the best will in the world, many things can only be accomplished slowly in this primitive South China area. - First-class mechanics, chauffeurs and technical operators can’t be produced from raw material over-. night. Under such a wide variety of handicaps the wonder is that as much governmental cargo has traversed the road

in the: past, even though it could have been much larger if serious reforms had been ruthlessly applied months ago. = Last May, when John Earl Bak-

.er was appointed American man«

ager of the Burma Road, most ob= servers said traffic could at least be doubled within’ a year—providing Mr. Baker were given such authority as to be “czar” of the highway. In practice Mr. Baker never obtained anything: like that amount of authority, so conditions’

.could be improved but slightly.

Drivers: Need Practice

TODAY ' GEN. YU. FEI-PENG has been delegated by Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek to put the Arnstein. Committee’s recommenda-. tion into. effect; this order having been given in late August: Whether Gen. Yu exercises a “czar’s” authority in reorganizing the Road or finds: his efforts vitiated on important issues by internal

have an increased realization of the urgency for reform, and certainly Marshal Chiang is heartily dedicated to it. Mangshi revealed some of the. normal handicaps to ‘us, Early that morning the drivers from Burma turned over the fine, new 28 American . station ‘wagons to representatives of the Chinese air force, as scheduled. Here each station wagon must take on at least one 500-pound drum of gasoline in addition to its load of six big tires. : Some of the new squad of Chinese drivers also needed practice runs because they had never handled Ford: V-8's before. Then the cars Had to be refueled, have

filled. Even without the loading to be done this : ‘might take. six hours for a caravan of 28 machines,

Without any night crews to load °

‘the drums and reshuffle the tires

a two-day delay in Mangshi (incidentally, the worst malaria cen~

years of the Burma Road’s

"leaders seem to

their oil checked and radiators :

‘But having been held up a

week back at Lashio by floods, we simply had to make Kunming in five days if humanly possible, A most considerate Chinese air force colonel kept us in the runPing by ordering our three cars to be reloaded right away. “The big heavy drums were tough things for three or four small

.Chinese soldiers to boost into the

trucks.

Then ensued a grant dekate

about where the drums should

best be placed to keep them from rolling. The two rear seats of the wagons had to be taken out and

‘packed at various: angles- several

times. In short, three hours were

. gone before the three machines

were ready—yet that was wonclerful compared to about 48 hours for the others.

At noon we were off on our-

first 3800-foot climb. We snaked up around endless curves and soon the yellow road fell twisting behind and below us in’ the Jong valley,

wriggled upward coolies in patched, blue cotton outfits and

bare feet toiled by the rogdside,

refilling holes or chiseling another foot out of the elbow bends. ‘Women and ys and many girls ‘of about. 10 or .12 years

* steadily pounded rocks into small

pieces ; or heaped them ' into baskets, ready for These were ‘the little, unkrown people who had performed a 750-

mile road building miracle with-. out rollers, crushers or oders

machinery or any kind badc in 1936-317.

‘Marvelous Scenery THE MOUNTAINS around : us are all .green, some clad with scrub pines and others bsirren

save = short, grassy. haircuts,

But terraces .of upland wheat and and tiny fields of seared cornstalks reached far up the steep slopes, knob after rounded knob. - Then cultivation became

“impossible and finally our car slic

through ‘a skyline pass and went

* corkscrewing downward. inside the busses, it looked like :

We were ‘dropping towarc| the

' Salween River, twin of the Me- * kong ‘and nearly as long as its sister, the Yangtze. The highway.

while the humpbackedYunnan ranges-loomed upon the . lofty ranges ahead of us, As we.

' the incessant dust.

resurfacing. .

developed as ‘many kinks as a pickaninny’s topknot—miles a :d

‘miles of hairpins, groping circu i=

ously but persistently to touch f e Salween River’s edges at the b: i=

tom of the gorge 3500 feet belc 7.

Clouds - blanketed the mount: ‘n sides across from us. V7onderful scenery —if peo le only drove this way for esthe ic banquets. But we've lost morning, that part of each cay

when the road is comparativ ly.

free. The Burma-bound ocutw: rd

trucks are now grinding up at is.

The curves are diabolical and. ae

fall’ awdy with terrific sharpne 5

13ére a lorry—or & station Wag | for that ‘matter—would roll’ and over for some 500 feet be:

rit 'eoulq hit, so muchias af ®

Suddenly we feel rend ow

e road heath us is dry, aT T for a few hairpins the dust fr our number one car ahead ts s0. thick “we ‘¢an’ scarcely

through it.

Joast to Save Gas

OUR CHINESE DRIVER, ke virtually all those on the road, n-

- sists on using the clutch to cast as to save gas—and ni ver

80 mind the wear and tear that | uts on the brake bands. ‘They lea; ied

tu drive that way and nobody yet:

has ever been able to cure tI m,

_séive ‘when a driver -occasior oy € by weaves: up ‘and down as the truck

cures - himself permanen wearing out his brake on the wrong curve. Our cars. are new but F ter Rowlands is worse off than I am. Ele knows how to drive,

jresp ts a fine piece of machiviery nd wishes he were at the wheel. -.

Plenty. of trucks now,“ tho gh. They. crawl and creep; then § urd

luckiest is

i (3

e¢ road workers ‘what a - story, in part pli the: Burma

‘rashly upward, Jamming trate on the curves and heedless of anything they may hit. Burma Road drivers are tough and wreck-hardened and most of them. sary guns.. Survival of the ‘their ‘rule. A lorry loading a huge rolled cable holds us up half an hour. - At last the Cc zigzag back and forth across the Yace of the mountain zgzmes itself out around a great wall of

“rock and red earth.

Before us lies the Salween River -and ‘the 260-foot suspension bridge which, ‘if destroyed, would cut a cardiac artery in: China's. lifeline.

¥ 8 8

Bridge Shimmies”

BUT THE AMAZING hinge have sewn up such sliced artéries

times, They'll always sew them

a Eats takes the. bumps shimmy. our way over,

fast-flowing Salween m 40 below us. 4

Now it's a case of.

' mere 3300 feet, ‘More wind ‘ing down .and com

on the descent. ree a tw foot margin and you could § 4 straight 400-foot roll in Salween here. We remark

fact, and’ with reason. It _, beautiful. climb, ‘tense’ to ‘appreciate

Se han is ‘a ‘big, oll ;

_city and we're there. . within a few hours a number of hz

up, and they've got it down to a its

fine technique now. different

Road might be. So far, too, and even after three days we have seen only one machine shovel on

. all the route.

We watch a truck ahead of us crawl out on the bridge. only one car at a time on the bridge is the rule. We see why—snd

I've never seen anything like it

If the drivers had the spirit. of the coolie

whose ‘population (ac somebody statistics) oh surprising total LR they put them hinese could tell you. devil, like »myself,

guessed ‘that’ - must sleep vertically, 5

in my life. - Underneath the truck *

proceeds and the floor behind it actually ripples—at least a two-

foot undulation and pi Dog three ‘weight

feet where the truck's depresses the next stretch of fi

The ign shimmies. for two-

ican lend-lease materials, will ¢0 long before they reach E Ye ‘seen what Chit

and persistence | 1 The Great Wall pt Gane fectly understandable n “th at road.

thirds of its length. No other Bj

way 10 dessribe it, 80 our station \

BURMA ROADS | EASY TO D FED

| Temific’ ‘Mountains Guard]

Yorn ie {fad),

It From Japanese, Says U.S. Army Expert.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. U.P

P)—

“tough time time” if “they. move against, China's, lifeline—the - ‘Burma Road,| ' F. Hellman; - p

from| i} a survey of that vital highway, said} '

pre Jl ngrn

“To effectively cut the road,” he| f in interview, *

[Ho EVERYTHING

PERFECTS ALIENS "| |ROUNDUP PLANS|==:3

hd u. S. System Is Devised. to}:

Avoid Infringement: on Rights of Loyal.

WASHINGTON, Nov, 14 (U.P) —| =

{| WASEINGTON. Nov, 14 (UB) ~

plan: under which the

|aliens of any ‘nation at war withi io 1 |up immediately : aT on the freedom ‘of he loyal

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without. ‘infringe -