Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1942 — Page 7
MONDAY, JAN. 5, 1942
The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
ALBUQUERQUE, Jan. 5—The greater portion of
my time and energy during those recent three months of non-columning was taken up with my housework. I carry today upon my person all the honorable badges of my profession. I have dishpan hands, housemaid’s knees, and that Monday-morning look. I will be a disappointed man if Time Magazine doesn't pick me as America's Typical Mother of 1941. But industry and diligence have their compensations, and in those three months of menial toil I developed into one of the finest all-around domestics in America. The only trouble with me is that I'm Slow. I cleaned our little house so meticulously that I almost cleaned it out of existence. But any moron can scrub and sweep. My cooking is what I wish to dwell upon. There are a lot of men in this country who go around bragging about what wonderful cooks they are, when actually all they can do is fry an egg. But I can make pudding; I can roast fowl to a tum; I can baste and stew and skewer. Give me another month and I could fix you up some pate de fois gras meuniere a la mode that would make tears come to your eves. My cooking is classical.
Just Remain Calm
WHY, ONE NIGHT I served a full-course dinner for six people. The banquet was outstandingly successful. At least I assume it was, for that was six weeks ago and nobody has filed suit vet. (In fact, I haven't seen anv of them since). Give me a cookbook and a watch and I can produce as tasty a morsel as any of your Vermont
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
BUYING DEFENSE Bonds and Stamps is a lot more interesting wien vou have an idea what your money buys. For instance, Uncle Sam tells us that one of these 25-cent stamps will pay for a soldier's mess kit, or a dozen bandages. You can provide a soldier with a steel helmet by buying $5 worth of stamps, or if vou want to go into “big money,” $18.75, the price of a $25 bond, will buy a field telephone for the NMarine Corps. For $185 you are financing a life float big enough for 10 persons. And it may be needed most any day in either the Atlantic or the Pacific. But wealthy ordinary five 45 caliber cartridges. And mavbhe vou hadnt thought about the possibilities, but that dimes worth of cartridges, used in the right places, might end the war. In fact, only one of them might be needed to turn the trick. Maybe you know who we mean,
Better Get a Cane
IT WAS A CASE of the “blind lead the blind” | the other afternoon when Dou Young, The Times advertising manager, saw a blind man standing on the curb at Capitol Ave and Maryviand St. The blind man was tapping the sidewalk impatiently with his cane. Lou, wishing to be helpful, took the man's arm and led him safely across the street.
On the way
you dont have to be to help. One of those 10-cent stamps will buy
back across the street, by himself,
"Washington
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. —The Declaration of Washington, which binds 26 nations to full effort against the Axis and not to Make any separate peace, will serve to emphasize the solidarity of the peoples fighting Hitlerism, The signatories pledged themselves to the principles of a free world, laid down in the Atlantic Charter. The Declaration of Washington is a pledge to achieve the victory over the Axis which is necessary before the aspirations expressed in the Atlantic Charter can have 3 chance anywhere. The actual declaration is simple and restricted, and stays close vo present realities. It is concerned with full use of economic and military resources of all parties to win the war. The fact that Russia is not at war with Japan was a complication. This situation was met in the statement that each signatory pledged itself to fight against those members of the Axis with which it is at wan
Peace Pledge Seems Tight
HOWEVER, the pledge against a separate peace seems th be tight. Fach government pledges itself Hot to make a separave peace or armistice “with the eremies” That would seem to Bind Russia against dropping out of the war ahead of the ethers should she become satisfied with her victories over Germany. Although 28 nations signed the agreement, the list does not include any South American nation. Central American republics signed, but none below Panama. THe reason fe that none of the South American nations has declared war. Whether the Pan-Ameri-can conference at Rio de Janeiro later this month
My Day
WASHINGTON, Sunday—Y had a rather ong meeting here Friday evening, but the President and the Prime Minister worked even later. When the President finally decided to go to bed, the Prime Minfster still decided to go Into the map room and work a little longer. There is no ques tion about it, when you are deeply interested, it is possible to go on wQrking till all hours of the night.” But, for vhe people who have © wait up tll you ave through, it is a deadly - ance. I was amused to 100k at the various sitting out in whe hall, they looked 0 Obviously feady for a good, long sleep! Yesterday, I spent the morn ng at the Office of Civilian De< fense and saw a great many peo I took some of them home to luneh oF I'd stl there, Ih the afternoon, I went up to see Secrety ahd Mrs. Morgenthau's new house, whieh I have hol had time to visit sinee they moved in some months ago
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By Ernie Pyle
grandmothers. The main thing in producing a meal I've found, is simply to develop the ability to remain calm. If you could have stood outside my kitchen window the first night I got a full meal, you would have thought somebody was thrashing wheat inside. You never heard such a commotion. Chicken grease was popping, kettles were hissing, asparagus was boiling over, skillet lids were sliding off, the oven @oor was whanging open and shut like a drop 4 Ws pieces of chicken were falling on the , sugar was flying through the air, and I, covered with flour, was leaping from refrigerator to sink to stove to table in grim frenzy. t experience has taught me to keep my head. Let me give you an example. One night I had invited five guests, and had the meal all ready to serve, when it dawned upon me that the potatoes had threequarters of an hour yet to bake. But did I lose my head? No.
And He Got Away With It!
I SIMPLY WALKED into the living room, lit & cigaret, and announced in a quiet voice that there would be a slight delay on account of the delivery boy having fallen off his bicycle on the way over and broken his leg. wo set the guests so that they didn’t realize v “as all cold when they finally got it. In f -Jase wound up by the guests making up a a 365 to buy the “delivery boy” some flowers. Yes, I am a cook of renown and agility. Vet in spite of this admitted prowess with the skillet and the roaster, I am not agog over cooking. In fact, if pinned down, I would say to hell with cooking. I'm proud of my cooking simply in an academic way, as one might be proud of developing a certain grace and finesse in the taking of castor oil. P. S.—Furthermore, I lost five pounds eating my own grub.
Dou failed to see an approaching car. Its fender grazed him and a rough spot on it tore the seat of his trousers. “That blind man should have been helping me,” muttered Lou.
Another Pinch
THE RUBBER SHORTAGE is pinching in another direction. Patrons of the Fletcher Trust Co. and maybe some other banks, too) calling for their monthly statements and canceled checks are sure prised to get them without a rubber band around them. “Sorry,” explains the clerk, “but it's the war.” . . Some of the boys down at Camp Shelby sent word back they'd like for us to find out if Hoosier Army officers scattered over the country have to pay Indiana Gross Income Tax. Well, we checked with Gilbert K. Hewit who tells us thé answer is, “Yes.” Mr. Hewit said “We notified as many officers as we could find addresses for that thev are liable for the tax, and we got some hot letters back.” The law says anyone whose residence is in the state and who makes over $1000 a year must pay the tax. Sorry, boys,
Merely Prudent
Japanese Co
employed in the
WITH THE BRITISH
meeting them with jungle
single-trunk
waged in the
counter-rush
Here in Mr. Weller slowed to a
present fear of ambush.
limited to quick sorties as t defense. here, for both are pushed down the long category of
offensive weapons to where the armored trains of World War I days now stand. The limits of the road are the limits of their opération and the highways their track bed. Neither side has vet used armoreéd trains along the railroad which parallels the north-south highway before leaving it, in Japanese-held Malaya, to cross the jungle alone, but such armored trains would be fully as effective as panzer vehicles so far as a permanent decision in the army phase of this war is eon= cerned. ” ® ”
At Stalking Pace
IT IS MOBILE warfare but carried on at stalking pace. Pre= ferred weapons are the hand grenade, submachine gun, pistol and, to a lesser degree, the rifle. Combat distance is bracketed on the long side by the rifie and the short side by the bayonet which
lor Blends
Sos With Tangled Trees In Slow Sneak Attacks
This is the first of a series of articles on the military techniques
Malavan jungles,
By GEORGE WELLER Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News, Ine.
IN MALAYA, Jan. 5.=Jap-
anese troops led by suicide bicyelists, and British soldiers
sharpshooters, are matching
wits here in the jungle no man’s land in an attempt to solve the problem, new to both, of warfare among tangled forests pierced by Malaya's
north to south highway.
This struggle is the antithesis of that
naked vacancies of the west-
ern desert. There, everything is long-range with squadrons of tanks making rush and
and blasting freely at any-
thing armored upon the horizon.
the shadows, movement is creeping speed by the ever-
The struggle between Japanese light tanks and British armored cars upon the road is
ests of the enemy’s depth of
Tanks and armored cars are equal opponents
the Japanese, though courageous, are reported to dislike. The Tommy gun is a favorite because although it too pumps scattered fire forward over 50 yards it is capable of delivering annihilatory bursts of fire at short range. In this warfare camouflage is the price of life. The Japanese have the advant-ge in being small and sallow. Their natural color does not wash off when they wade through swamps. But their faces must be kept strictly downward for, in the quarter light of the jungle, an uplifted visage shines like a pocket flashlight. The British, at first ill-adapted to the leatherstocking tactics of the Mikado's yellowsking, are now catching on. They have learned progressively more about how to carry out Shakespeare's advice,
“Look like the leaf but be the ser="
pent under it.” # #8 #
No Place for Blitz
BLITZ ON A grand scale is impossible here even if the moment
Men of a battalion of the Gordon
Highlanders carry out construction
work in the Malayan jungle,
had yet arrived for the Japanese high command to co-ordinate such attack with a landing party at= tempt against Singapore. The main push is expected only after the sea transports end their Philippine job. The artillery ean work only with difficulty, for either side, because although camouflaging a battery's position is simplicity itself==the entire jungle is one big nest of camouflage-—guns can be moved the distance from the road limit= ed by side roads. When observing the Mitsubishi= 968 bombers returning from the raid upon Kuala Laumpur the day after Christmas, I noted that they kept discreetly to the west of both railroads and highway at= tempting thus to avoid being troubled by British anti-aireraft fire. The difficulty of the Japanese and British artiliery is the same in that the targets are not oblig=
ing enough to fly overhead in plain view, This means that observation posts must be made. But the straggling hills and El Capitan=like eminences of the jungle are frequently wrapped in mist and forever curtained in foliage. Furthermore, it is almost ime possible to observe the effect of shots because they fall in a spurt of mud water which never reaches the height of the surrounding sea of trees. s
Use Leapfrog Tactics
AN ARTILLERY officer cannot direct his fire when he cannot see where the shells are falling. Thus, artillery fire has been pared down to keeping the road under intermittent fire, as far as large caliber guns are concerned, and carrying on closer work with morstars. The mortar’s high-lobbing shot makes this a favorite weapon of the Japanese High Command,
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The technique the Nipponese have tried here in Perak and Ante, northern Malay provinces, can be described because the British already have found the answer to it. Both the main highe way and offshoots have a come mon characteristic in that they are straight for about 200 yards, then veer sideways to avoid swamp, or pass between the stony cliffs about 300 feet high, which are common here, The Japanese have been trying to move along the road by what is called leapfrog tactics. They arrive at a road corner, peep around and are met by rifle fire from the next corner held by the British. They select a suicide squad of three or four infantrymen on commandeered bicycles. They get their mortars into position bee hind their concealing corner. At the command of an officer, the Japanese pedal madly forward giving the best imitation possible of ignoring that the British are ahead.
Malayan Jungle Cuts Blitz to Stalking Pace
. LJ 8 IF THE JAPANESE have their way, the British open fire upon this tempting target with machine guns and thus betray their own positions. The Japanese begin
high-angle fire with mortars and continue until the British position becomes untenable, In theory it is a lovely plan and it is not my intention here to give away the British answer. But the reader may speculate upon what would happen if the British were not co-operative enough to open fire upon the suicide squad while it was on the road in view of its superior officers and thus refuse to bite at the bait by sending the Japanese immediately to their ancestors. Supposing the Japanese rounded the corner and continued pedaling frantically southward. From the Kualala Kangsa bridge, across the Perak River, and from Ipoh (now in Japanese hands) to Singapore is a long, long, way full of curves. If no one else stopped them, they would soon reach a traffic cop in bomb-scarred Kuala Lumpur, But someone else would stop them just a couple of corners be= low their mortars. Nippon's clever little officer would hear nothing but a sharp, disagreeable noise indicating that another suicide club had met its reward--useless-ly.
Next: The cue to Singapore's Fate. ‘
IF YOU FIND Allison plant employees deaf vo vour inquiries about their work or the Allison plant itself, don't feel offended. Theyre not being rude— "merely prudent from the standpoint of national de: fense. A slip of the tongue, their plant publication reminds them, might prove of value to the enemy. | The same goes for employees of a lot of other plants whose products are less spectacular but just as el portant vo National Defense. . . . Speaking of Allison's the “AllisoNews” reminds us that employees there are both Fast and Idle. The “fast” one is Her: | man Fast; the “idle” one is Robert Idle,
By Raymond Clapper
WAR VIEW GRIM
Congressmen | Find Neo Fanfare, but People 100% for Victory.
Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 Hoosiers are taking the war “grimly and
| without fan’are” but with a “100 per
|cent determination for vietory,”
will adopt a declaration giving support to the Declara-! tion of Washington is uncertain, although the inter | ests of hemisphere solidarity would seem to make it in order. The Declaration of Washingvon subscribes to the principles of a free world set forth in the Atlantie Charter. However, the Atlantic Charter looked ahead to the postwar world and the Declaration of Washing ton goes no further than to bind the sighérs not 0 make a separate peace. No pledge of co-operation 0 carry out the peace is stated or even implied. Some in this Government had hoped that might be done That is a step which still needs to be taken.
Solidarity Is Increased
THE DECLARATION OF WASHINGTON, in spite of this failure to look through to a partnership in controlling the peace, will have its effect in increasing the solidarity of the anti-Axis powers. Necessarily, the first job is to win the war and it is a bigger job than most people realize. It will take everything we have. The resources of these 26 nations, In materials, manpower, industrial capacity, and in the justice of their cause, are overwhelming in their overall total But this superior strength is still partly potential rather than actual mobilized strength. Certainly that is true of the strongest of the anti-Axis nations= the Unived States. The job on our side is to produce the weapons and get them where they are needed to turn the decision. The Axis gains much ef its strength by synehronizing. This method will be used now to even greater advantage since we are involved in a vwo-ocean war. The Declaration of Washington is a way of saying that the anti-Axis powers likewise are resolved to synchronize their effort and to Aght the war as one team.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
We now have 12 grandchildren and eight of them are boys, which adheres to the old tradition, that in wartime, the male sex predominates. I received yesterday a copy of a rather distressing letter Which had been sent vo the President by a resis dent of one of the South American eountries. In ib he points out how extremely careless we are in talks ing and writing about our impressions of SpanishAmerica. He mentions the fact that one of our wellknown whiters spent about 48 hours in ‘each of ne & Latin: American countries and then wiote a book, the title of which iapiied that he Telly hed’ INtNmAte KNOWS ledge of these countries, He betrays hiz ignorance hy characterizing one of the greatest heroes of South America as an advens turer, whith I% tantamount to considering one of eur historical figures as unimportant and lacking in any claim to fame. The South American then gost on to point out that another writer, in an i. on another South American country, only talked with a few Beale in the main eity and never saw any of the rest of the country! 4 I must say that a letter of this kind
nay PA
the
|mdiana Congressional delegation
reported today. Those Who were back in the State
[for the holidays are unanimous in
reporting that
“politics is out the window until we win this war” “I never heard less political talk in mdiana,” Senator Raymond BE. Wil lis (R. hd.) reported. “I addresed a meeting of soldiers
home on leave and draftees ready
to enter the service and all were determined to lay down their lives, if necessary, to win a complete vie tory over all our foes,
Net Like Last War
“Before the shooting started, even such meetings had a pelitieal tinge, But that attitude prevails no longer anywhere in the State. That this is right and proper is the unanimous opinion of everyone.” Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind), who made a short trip to the State after spending Christmas here,
bought back a like report, “This isn't the last war,” he said. “At that time there were parades
the speeches and all the fanfare
possible. Today people in Indiana are just as determined to win as they were then, but they are going about the task with the grim determination whieh it deserves” Like all the Hoosiers in Congress,
with the exception of Rep. William | these men |
H. Larrabee (D. Ind),
REPORT HOOSIER
Citizens Invited To Service Clubs
WHAT IS BEING done in downs | town Indianapolis to ease the lot | of the boys in the armed services ! will be visible to local citizens who attend open house at the Service Club and Enlisted Men's . Canteen tomorrow. Cadettes and hostesses will serve as guides both at the Army, Navy and Marine Service Club, 128 W, Wabash St, and the Canteen at the Union Station, Both of the rest and play elubs
dianapolis Park Board and WPA until Jan. 1 when the United Service Organizations took over the major part of the fAnancial burden.
EVENING SCHOOLS
apolis Public Evening Sehools is at 7 p.m. today and tomorrow at Technical, Washington, Attucks High Schools. These classes, which are mainly commercial and industrial speecfalty courses, are open to all over 18 whe are not enrolled in regular day schools.
rector of special youth services of the public schools, the classes are separate from the Federal Defense Training Classes. Because there is no provision for these classes in the eity budget, there is a charge, none exceeding $4. The classes will be in sesison five nights a week, each meeting two or three nights a week at one of the three schools
were under sponsorship of the n= |
OPEN REGISTRATION
Registration time for the Indian-|
and Crispus
According to John A. Mueller, di=|
small tuition |
2 APPOINTED TO
Economics and Language Professor Added; 2 Others Resign.
Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Jan, 85.= Indiana University today announced |the appointment of two members to its faculty and the resignation
Af {wo others, one from the medical center, | Four other appointments were made and leaves of absence were granted to two members of the secnomics department, Dr. Kurt Bhlers, formerly on the faculty of the University of the Philippines, has been appointed acting assistant professor of economies, Dr, J. H. Parker otf Columbia Uni= versity has been named an instrues tor in Spanish. Resignations ineluded those of Kimberley 8. Roberts of the Span= ish department and Dr. Frank W. Cregor, chairman and professor of dermatology and sphilology at the medical center, Those granted leaves were Dr. Gerald Matchett and Taulman Miller. Other appointments were Mrs. Gale W., Lambert, secretary in the Bureau of Audio-Visual Aids; Spencer J. Drayton, lecturer in police training; Cecil K. Byrd, assist ant in history, and Mehmet K. Bedges, assistant in government, The leaves of absence of L, ©. Bryant in the business school was | extended and the gift of $450 from Smith, Kline and French Laboratories,
was announced,
HOLD EVERYTHING
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In the Services
Students May
Edward Wick, aboard a gunboat in the Pacific, has written to his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Frank Wick, 144 Wisconsin St, that he is “well and safe.” He was 17 and attending Tech High School when he decided to join Uncle Edward Wick Sam's naval forces. That was 14 months ago. His letter came from Pearl Harbor where he has been based for several months, . ” ” BLOOMINGTON, Inds Jan, 5 Junior and senior men returning to Indiana University following Christmas vacation will be told they can enlist in the Naval Reserve and be assured of completing their university courses, The Navy's new ensign and midshipman training program is open to college men with degrees providing they have two semesters’ eredit in mathematics including trigonometry. To further the program the university intends to of fer courses in navigation, Morse code and others if there is sufficient interest, »
Plan Naval Tour
The Navy Recruiting Department plans to tour Indiana towns with a display of defense materials. Included in the display will be an Allison motor, a light Marmon-Her-rington tank, anti-aircraft and anti= tank shells from Switzer-Cummings, along with other defense items. The displays will be exhibited in cities where the Navy plans to organize booster clubs. The first of these exhibits and meetings Is scheduled for Terre Haute a week from Wednesday. The exhibit will be set up in the gymnasium of Indiana State Teachers College. The Navy Day Booster Club meeting will be held that evening. Other meetings this month will be at Richmond and Muncie.
Lieut. Brozo Reports
Lieut, L. F. Brozo, U.S. N.R,, today began duty as commanding officer of the Naval Training School |. here, and head of the Indiana Naval Area, Lieut, Brozo relieves Lieut.Comm. Boyd Phelps, U.S. N.R, who has been ordered to duty as executive officer at the Naval Training School, Norton Heights, Conn. Ensign Will T. Hyde, U.S. N.R., member of the local training school staff, has received orders for sea duty and Lieut. L. W. Sieck, U. 8 N. R, has been ordered to
1 FACULTY Edward Wick Safe in Pacific;
Finish Classes
Naval Reserve Aviation Might
. | Training program will be given a dinner Thursday night at the Naval '
Armory. . The guests will be addressed by Governor Schricker, Mayor Sullivan
#land Comm. Richard Whitehead,
U. 8S. N,, uviation aid to the come mandant, Parents and cadets will intro duce themselves and honorary wings will be given each cadet of the unit by Governor Schricker., Men assigned to “Indianapolis Own” unit will begin training Jan. 29 at Glenview, Ill, Naval Reserve aviae tion base.
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Mrs. Helen Darner has received word from her husband, Walter Darner, chief machinist's mate sta tioned at Pearl Harbor, that he was “all right and was somewhere on the Pacific hunting the Japs.’ Machinist Darner was a member of the Naval Reserve here for 15 years before entering the service. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wal« ter Darner, 1233 Grand Ave.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—"The Whisky Rebellion” in 1704 was a protest by Colonial whisky manufacturers against the tax on distilled spirits, or the low tariff on French wine? 2—How many dozen are in a great gross? 3—Who first established the theory of blood circulation? ¢—What are the present names of the countries, formerly called Persia and Mesopotamia? 5«Who wrote “The Innocents Ac. ad"? 6—Who became President of the United States upon the assassie nation of McKinley? T—If you bought a car for $170, sold it for $180, bought it back for $190, and finally sold it for $200, how much profit would you make? 8—The rank of lieutenant general is higher than major general; true or false?
Answers
1—The tax on distilled spirits. 3=One hundred and forty-four. 3-—-William Harvey. 4—Iran and Iraq, respectively. 5—Samuel L. Clemens , (Mark Twain). 6-—Theodore Roosevelt, T—$20. 8§-True.
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