Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1942 — Page 13

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‘cogst are no longer allowed to give weather forecasts, because it might help the enemy. So the San Francisco News pays $1 a day for the best silly forecast submitted. For example: ‘Possibly rain, conceivably snow, it may even clear up, we really don’t know.” During the first week of the war, after San Francisco had had two nights of blackout, people were still calling up police stations on the third night to ask, “What are the lights out for?” Several cities, after getting their new air-raid sirens installed, have had test blackouts and discovered that nobody could hear the sirens. Frisco has eight new and powerful sirens, but hasn't had a chance to hear them yet. The city intended to test them, after duly notifying the public. But the Army said no, that

| poy Rime San Franciscans heard those sirens, from

5a; on till the end of the war, it would mean real ter overhead, and not just a test or practice t.

IPs a Strange Thing

THE FIRST FOREIGN shore I ever saw was that of Japan, 20 years ago. And although I, like the rest of America, detest the very thought of the Japanese now, that youthful view still remains one of the greatest thrills of my life. And I remember one day in Tokyo when, being

By Ernie Pyle

bank, and inquired the way to the Siyoken (I've even forgotten how to spell it now). cashiers couldn't speak English, and they kept ing upstairs for higher and higher officials bank, until finally one came down who could stand a little. He was in a gray silk kimono, all I know was the president of the bank. He didn’t just tell me how to get there. He out into the street and led me four blocks to hotel. And to think that people like that could out to be people like this.

Brother Pyle and Christmas

CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR in Frisco was my first Christmas in the United States in five years. Last year I spent all of Christmas in the underground bomb shelters of London. Four years ago it was on the sunny beach of Honolulu. Wonder what'll be left to spend next Christmas in? : I GOT TO checking the other day, and discovered that when I arrived in San FranciSco this trip it was the 25th time I had crossed the continent. And as my own hollow remark echoes in my ears, the only rejoinder I can think of at the moment is “Well, what of it?” MY WITTY FRIEND Cavanaugh down in Los Angeles writes me as follows: “I just got this from a friend who is no fool and has exercised the proper restraint from the start. He says that the lost continent of Atlantis has suddenly appeared off Catalina Island and declared war on the whole damn works.” Welcome to our messy midst, Atlantis.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PUBLIC PATIENCE during the recent Christmas shopping season was nothing less than amazing, an official of one of the big department stores tells us. It was the easiest Christmas within the memory of the store's adjustment manager. People just seemed to accept little inconveniences as matters of course. Nobody went into tantrums, for instance, because “that package is wrapped with blue ribbon when I wanted pink.” And there wasn't a single call, at least at this particular store, for an odd sized gift package box. Last year the store ran the box factory ragged with requests for special sized boxes. The store attributes this amazing phenomenon to the “new mood of the public after Pearl Harbor.” What they probably mean is that the public had something more important than trifles to think about after

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Patriotic Dog

SKITTLES, the black cocker spaniel that “owns” Artist Elmer Taflinger and his family, is one of the most patriotic dogs in town. Skittles not only is proViding. for his old age but is helping the country by collecting defense stamps. It all started when Miss Jane Messick, Shortridge art teacher, gave Skittles two stamp books—a 10-cent one and a quarter book— for Christinas. Callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Taflinger, where Skittles lives, have to bring gifts of stamps before Skittles will notice them, and, says Elmer, Skittles personally licks the stamps before they

£0 in the book. Elmer prophesies that “Skittles will

pwind up owning more bonds than any of the restiof us,” wits Army Brig ANDY SARVICH, who used to drive Ayres’ threeeeled package delivery motorcycle before he went to Ft. Sill, Okla, tells friends he likes most everything

bout Army life—even the brig. It's against regulations to have fires in tents, but he decided just a little

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—As Winston Churchill sald in Ottawa, the war is l'kely to go through three stages. First is the stage of prepargtion. Planes, ships, tanks and guns must be built, If we had them now what a different story we would be hearing n : from the Pacifici On the vehemence of our effort in preparing, said Mr. Churchill, will depend the success of the two later stages, one being the liberation of the conquered peoples and the other being the final smashing of the Axis. We don't have to know how many planes and tanks are being built to know that we are far short of our full effort. Here are some figures that can

be used. In the United States are about 180,000 industrial plants, including all of the little ones. We are using only a fraction of them. fincas ce per cent of the war work is concentrated ‘in plants. Seventy-five per cent of it is confined to about 100 manufacturers. | How ‘can we hope to produce what the comi ‘war program will call for on that basis? It will cal for using half our national income instead of 20 per cent as now. We are not even keeping up with the existing ' program.

It's Typical of OPM

OUR WHOLE INDUSTRIAL economy must be treated as one gigantic industrial plant. Until there is enough imagination, central planning and directing brains at work to begin treating the whole country 8s one vast war plant, we will be fighting a total war with partial effort. Typ of the sluggish attitude is the small fact that alth OPM called upon industry and labor to work through the New Year holiday, OPM itself closed down for the day. If keeping industry going

My Day

; WASHINGTON, Thursday. —ft was & very smal BFty Which gathered here 14st night. Unlike other jedrs, We Had no children with us and, Kiiowing we 0 - rot reach them alt by telephone, we contentéd jirselves with sending telegrams. Soe of them Rute went out into space, with very Fw livtle idea of when or where they Es would be received.

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dent's annual tohst to the United Staves meant more to everyone of us than ever before.

holidays. . Providence hockey game Jan. 8 to be sponsored by the Junior C. of C, will be a “broom ball” game between

about taken over the Peoples State Bank here, president, Felix M. McWhirter is on leave of absence and is serving as a commander in the Navy, now stationed at the Great Lakes Station on the staff of the Ninth Naval District commandant. His son, Felix T,, a bank employee the last several years, is a Naval ensign stationed at Akron, O. Three other young men from the Peoples Bank are in the Navy. One of them, Wayne Montfort, is in Hawaii. McWhirter, daughter of the bank president and Mrs. McWhirter, recently married Ensign Wesley P, Martin, stationed on the Navy Pier in Chicago. If the bank had a theme soug, it probably would be “Anchors Aweigh.”

fire wouldn't hurt, he reports, The only trouble was the tent burned down and he was given 10 days in the brig. He got out just in time to get home for the . An added feature of the Capitals-

picked teams of soldiers and sailors. The game is new here but those who have seen it in other cities say it’s a scream. The players, some of whom never skated before, will wear football helmets, wield broomsticks and use a football for a puck. The smarter players probably will wear pillows on the seats of their trousers. The Jaycees will use proceads of the game to buy Defense Bonds.

Bank in the Navy

IT LOOKS LIKE the United States Navy has just Its

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Farmer Kemp STATE SENATOR Harold W. Handley, one of the

most popular G.O.P, freshman members of the last General Assembly, has orders to report to the Army Jan. 14. He's a reserve first lieutenant, and lives at La Porte. . manager, is a sucker these days for farm book salesmen. He’s just acquired a farm southeast of the Lake

. Tom Kemp, Gas Company general

Shore Country Club and is reading up on such mat-

ters as recognizing hoof and mouth disease, and in

setting up a farm accounting system, Don’t tell him we told you.

By Raymond Clapper

on New Year's Day meant 50 more airplanes, it ought to have meant something more than that to the total defense effort to have OPM working that day. The attitude reflected in this is that there is plenty of time, That has been much of the trouble here. There was always plenty of time. Now there is np more time to build nice plants. Existing plants must be put to work. Machinery may have to be taken from one plant to another. In England some civilian industries have been pooled so that one company produces the whole supply of kitchen brooms, for instance, apportioning the various trademarks to its goods to protect the competitors whose plants have been taken for war work. We may be compelled to shift machinery from one plant to anotRer. The whole economy must be treated as one unit.

F. D. R. Has Power to Act

PERHAPS A ministry of supply will have to be set up. The idea has strong backing in Washington. It would operate as a central agency having full responsibility for procurement and planning of production. .

Strong opposition exists to taking procurement from the Army and Navy. Possibly a compromise can be reached so that although leaving procurement services in the Army and Navy, the supply ministry will undertake to build them up, as Donald Nelson earlier rebuilt the Army Quartermaster Corps to take advantage of modern merchandise purchasing methods which he learned as the chief buyer for Sears, Roebuck. Mr. Roosevelt ha ywer under the new legislation to revamp the sham of the defense into an effective supply agency or ministry. e dissatisfaction with the present situation is so widespread that he may be compelled to act. € was on the point of setting up & one-man agency last summer. He had his plan and he had his man. But somehow it was scuttled and SPAB appeared as a compromise,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

_ THe other night, when I gave my Christmas party

for the staff of the Office of Civilian Defense, we had & fil called “Joe Smith—American,” which everyone Rufhea to enjoy very much, and which is also timely

At this same party, two South American artists gave us a delightful performance. One, Miss Maria Ee ahi a very young Argentine pianist, beautifully and then danced for us. She

automobile row. ever, weren't sitting around worry-

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{I's War and We'll Have to Take It, Is View of Motor Row.

The OPM curtailment of new automobile and truck sales came as an unexpected blow to the automobile industry in Indianapolis and the state, Herman Schaefer, Automobile Dealers Association of Indiana secretary, said today. He estimated that more than 20,000 persons employed by auto dealers in Indiana would suffer immediate loss of income. Accessory supply dealers and service stations would be indirectly affected, he said. In Indianapolis and Marion County he estimated, about 2000 persons employed by dealers will be affected. Mr. Schaefer said there was not a way of determining thé number of new cars tied up in showrooms and warehouses in the city or state. [Indications are that the stocks of new cars are not as large as they normally would be, he said, although there probably are a considerable number, Stocks of used cars, he said, are insufficient to meet the normal demand in the city and state for 30 days, since these stocks have been depleted by heavy buying. Distributors and dealers received no formal announcement of the curtailment from the Government,

he said. They are cutting off sales on the basis of the information received through press and radio.

Gloom hung ober Meridian St.’s The dealers, how-

Sales Forces Dwindle

Their salesman early this morning moved new cars into storage and wheeled late model used cars onto the showroom floors. There was no rush for used cars, but used car dealers anticipated one. One dealer said his force of 32 salesmen already had dwindled to six, so that there was no need to let anyone go. He said he was not going to raise the price of used cars immediately. Other dealers indicated that for the present, used car prices would not go up, although they added that used car stocks were limited. Most of the dealers said they were sitting tight, waiting for word from Washington on the rationing plan.

Some Look for Jobs

“I hope it comes soon,” one salesmanager said. “We've got 125 used cars: in-stock. ‘We'd been. back, thinking that was what the Government wanted.” Only a few dealers, however, were caught with more than 50 new cars in stock. Most had from 13 to 30. One was reported to have more than 200. Salesmen came to work this morning and immediately banded together in the showrooms to talk things over. Several went out to look fer jobs after reporting to work and checking on reports of the OPM order. Both the salesmen and dealers were unanimous about one point: “It’s war,” they said, “and we've got to take it.”

One Will Join Army

One salesman, sitting thoughtfully in a brand-new, convertible coupe in the showroom, announced his intention of joining the Army “if I can sell myself to them.” As the public and the dealers awaited the auto rationing plan, Maj. Gen. Rohert H. Tyndall, Marfon County Civilian Defense director, said he would name a committee to supervise the rationing of tires this afternoon or tomorrow. The committee will open its office Monday in the Chamber of Commerce Building.

o Business Looks n . * To Peace in '43 NEW YORK, Jan. WU. P)— The consensus of 56 of the nation's foremost business leaders is that the democracies will win the war in 1943. A poll released today by Forbes Magazine showed that 20 per cent of those asked for an opinion be: leve the war will end this year. Twenty-one per cent predicted

1944 and 36 per cent predicted 1043.

ALONZO ROMINE DIES; BURIAL TOMORROW

Alonzo Romine, who drove a huckster wagon on the North Side for the last nine years, died yesterday at his home, 1313 W. 30th St, after a short illness. He was 62. Born in Scottsburg, Mr. Romine came to Indianapolis 36 years ago. He was a salesman for the ol Grand Union Tea Co. for 19 years. Surviving are his wife, Oral M.; two sons, Alpha A. and Lloyd A, i. Vadiline 5. of ianapolis. Services

HE ONLY NEEDS 5 MORE POUNDS

Pals of Kenny Goslin at Wright Plant Help the Good Cause.

The campaign to fatten up Kenny Qoslin for the Navy Air Service ounced ahead today at the Curtiss-Wright Corp., Propeller Division, as the 20-year-old hub inspector downed his umpteenth gallon of milk, Kenny is curly-haired, five-feet eight and one-half inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. Two weeks ago, when he appeared before the Navy Examining Board to join up, he was told to put on eight more pounds and come back, Too lanky, the Navy said. So Kenny has adopted a sudden fondness for milk by the five-gallon can, a departure from custom for a young man who never particularly

bolding{ went. out of his way to drink the

stuff. boys in the Final Hub Inspection Department are seeing that he gets his milk, too.

His Pals to the Rescue

When they learned that Kenny needed only eight pounds to get into the Navy, they took decisive action. They put up a box on the second floor with a sign: “Give freely to the milk fund for Goslin. All money donated will be used to buy milk for Kenny Goslin in order to increase his weight to the minimum requirements of the U. 8. Naval Air Corps.” The nickels rolled in and Kenny began drinking milk. The boys drew up a weight and sleep chart on which they recorded all of the candidate’s activities.

Leading Model Life

Several mornings ago, Kenny stepped off the elevator and the boys rushed him to the scales. A shout went up: “Kenny's up one pound!” Like most things in life, Kenny's weight has its ups and downs. After Christmas and New Year's eves, his weight tumbled, but he’s building himself right back up again. He's leading a model life. : In two weeks the Naval Board meets here again. So Kenny is drinking milk as fast as he can get it down. He has only five more pounds to go.

FETED ON "0TH BIRTHDAY

Twenty-seven great nieces and nephews held a surprise party for Mrs. Leonora Gordon on her Toth New Year's Day last night. Mrs. Gordon has lived in Marion County all her life. She was born on the Rockville Road just outside the eity.

No. 1 Bride

Staff Sergeant Weds In First Ceremony of 1942 Here

WHEN Staff Sergt. Jason MeGuire and his bride returned to

Chanute Field, Rantoul, Ill, yesterday, they had the distinction of being the principals in Indian apolis’ first 1942 wedding. But it took a bit of doing. Sergt. McGuire and his fiancee, Miss Mary Elizabeth Brewer, had arranged to meet in Indianapolis for their wedding during the sergeant’s holiday leave, Upon his arrival here, he was notified to report back to Chanute at 2 p. m. yesterday. Miss Brewer and her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Edward IL. Brewer, had arrived. Mrs. Dorothy F. Buschmann, director of the Army, Navy and Marine Service Club, and Miss Helen Hartinger, colonel in the ist Regiment of Service Men's Cadettes, came to the rescue with lightning arrangements with Dr, Daniel IL. Bower for a blood test, and Francis M. Feeney, martiage leense clerk, for that certificate. The marriage was performed yesterday at 1 a. m. at Miss Hart« inger’s home, with her father, the Rev. Willlam C. Hartinger, officiating. The couple left for Chanute Field shortly afterward. In their haste, they lost the marriage license, which was found by Thomas E. Bell, inspector for the Board of Works, on N. Illinois St. It will be mailed to them.

DENIES JAPS HAVE BASES IN MEXICO

ENSENADA, Lower California, Mexico, Jan. 2 (U. P).=Gen. Lazaro Cardenas, in an exclusive interview with the United Press, tos day categorically denied reports that the Japanese had established sub= marine or air bases anywhere along the 3000-mile coastline of Mexico's Lower California. Gen. Cardenas, former President of Mexico who now commands the Pacific Military Zone, said he had travelled over most of the sparsely settled coastline and had found nothing “abnormal.”

IMMIGRATION OFFICE TO LEAVE CAPITAL

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (U, P) = The Immigration and Naturalization Service will be moved from Washington to Philadelphia, director of the Budget Harold D. Smith announced today. The office is one of 12 Government bureaus that will be moved from the national capital to pro= vide office space for expanding de fense agencies.

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Navy candidate Geoslin weighs in . . , “Ah, another precious ounce.”

PREDICTS RUSS T0 FIGHT JAPAN

Col. Gardner, State Security Head, in June Forecast Nazis Would Stall.

By EARL RICHERT Two days after “invincible” Germany invaded Russia last June, Col. Bverett I. Gardner, State Employment Security Division head, made the then startling statement that the Nazis would not defeat the Russ sians quickly. He asserted that the invasion was the beginning of the end for Hitler and that although the Russians might be pushed back, their enormous reserves of manpower and mas terial would exhaust the Germans Just as it had done Napoleon, Even after the diplomatic and press corps left Moscow, Col. Gard= ner (who was in. Russia from 1038 to 1938 as a representative of the White Motor Co.) told friends that the Germans would never take the Russian capital. Now that time has proven Col. Gardner right about the Russian

campaign, what does the colonel have to say about the future?

Served in A. E. F,

He says: 1. That within a “reasonable time —=six months at the most and prob= ably much less than that’=both Russian and American planes will be bombing Japanege cities from Si« berian bases. 2. That Russia is preparing right now to strike Japan and “will strike” at the opportune moment. 3. That the U. 8. and its allies will defeat Japan “within a year or two.” 4. That Germany will never de feat Russia nor will they take Mos cow in their spHng offensive. Col. Gardner, who served in the A, E. F. during the first World War, won't say much about the present German-Russian battles except to state that the Russians will keep on fighting all winter and will con= tinue “to give the Nazis everything they've got.” As to the recent stories from Moscow that the Russians are planning to drive on to Berlin, Col. Gardner comments, “if that ever becomes possible, the war will be over because the Germans will quit just as they did in the last war.”

Uses Map to Follow War

“The fighting on the Russian front at present is more bitter than most people realize and the Germans are still close to the Russian capital,” he said. The colonel follows the war news closely and he has a huge war map on the walls of his office at 141 8. Meridian st. Pointing to Siberia and the Ruse sian islands off the Siberian coast he shows visitors the many nearby places from which Russian and American bombers “will” soon be bombing Japan, As proof that Russia intends to strike Japan. he asks: "For what other reason was Marshal Voroshilov =oOne of the best Russian generals =gent to the Far Bast?”

U. S. FORCES HUNT SUBS OFF HAWAII

HONOLULU, Jan. 2 (U, P).= Bombers and warships were believed to be searching the sea today for enemy raiders, presumably Japanese submarines, which shelled three islands Tuesday night.

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, new commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, warned that any port may be

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2 KILLED HERE IN NEW YEAR'S DAY ACCIDENTS

Seven Die in State Auto Wrecks.

Two fatalities marred Marion County’s 1042 traffic record during its first 24 hours. The holiday toll here, including the death of an aged pedestrian New Year's Eve, was three, while traffic elsewhere in the State age counted for seven other deaths. One of yesterday's accidents was in the City while the other oce curred on U:. 8. 52 in the County, There were no deaths in either the City or County on Jan, 1 a year ago. Senior at Tech Miss Mildred Daugherty, 17-years old Tech High School senior, was the vietim of the City accidents Clarence Cauldwell, 17, of 5206 1, Walnut St., told police he was drive ing south on College Ave. shortly after midnight when the girl ran from behind a streetcar into the path of his car Mr. Cauldwell said he stopped his car and carried Miss Daugherty wo the curb. A taxidriver called an ame bulance but ‘the victim was dead when physicians arrived. Miss Daugherty lived at 1410 Cole lege Ave. with her sister, Mrs, Thelma McGinnis, She was a na« tive of Hope, Ind.

Lafayette Man Killed

The victim of the County accident was Averitt J, Wharton of Lafa« yette, Ind.,, who was killed instantly when his car skidded off State Road 52 near 82d St. and crashed into a tree. William D. McMahan, 78, of 488 Limestone St., was killed New Year's Eve in the 1200 block of W. Michigan St, the 135th traffic fatality of 1041, The state dead: KENNETH REINHOLT, 18, Kew wanna, killed instantly while walking along & Pulaski County road near Monterey. Herman Hartman, 20, driver of the car and a friend of the victim, told police he was blinded by the lights of an approaching car, RALPH L. PORTER, 21, former Alexandria High School athlete, killed when his automobile collided with another at an Anderson street intersection,

? Die in Headon Crash

CHARLES MATZ, 23 Walkerton, killed when his automobile crashed into a bus near South Bend. Mat

hospital at the time of the ace cident. CHARLES SZABO, 54 and HARVEY KUSS, 38, both of South Bend, injured fatally in a twos car collision near South Bend. Five occupants of the second car involved were injured critically, STEPHEN SIKORSKY, 25, South Bend, killed three miles west of South Bend when he lost control of his car and it overs turned, b HARRY DONHAM, 61, Terre Haute, killed in a traffic accident near Terre Haute,

237 Dead U. S. Toll Over the Holiday

By UNITED PRESS Sudden death in the form of trafe fie accidents, airplane crashes, fires and suicides olaimed 237 lives— enough to man a destroyer and two submarines—over the New Year's holiday. Traffic accidents caused 163 of the deaths. Last year 142 were killed in U. 8. traffic accidents, For the past month, the National Safety Council has issued frequent warnings to drivers, calling for spe cial care on the highway to reduce accidents which hamper the nation’s all-out war effort. The council warned that 4050 highway deaths in November were pushing the 1041 tos tal toward the all-time high of 30,« 643, reached in 1087.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1==The original Selective Service Act provided for drafting men between the ages of 21 and =? 2-Japanese funds and other assets in the United States were “frosen” in the summer of 1030, 1040 or i041? 3==Name the largest island group in the Malay Archipelago. 4-=The number of sewing threads increases as the size decreases; true or false? S-Flicker is a name for a bird of what genus? '

by mixing copper and sine? T-=What is the common name of the war between the houses of Lancaster and York in England?

1-38, 21041, 3--The Philippines. $=True. S-Woodpecker, 8--1rass. T-War of the Roses.

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