Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1942 — Page 13
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Hoosier Vagabond
PORTLAND. Ore. Jan. 22.—The Willamette Iron & Steel Corp is 75 years old, and it had never built a ship in its life. But it’s building them now, all right. Two years ago it had 60 men working for it. To-
day the number is crowding 4000. That's the way
things go when you have a war. -
You do what vou gotta do Most of the shipyard workers at Willamette had never built a ship before either. They are green hands who are learning the business. under a cadre of experienced shipbuilders. They learn pretty fast. Suppose vou start as a helper. If you've got pretty good sense and try hard, you can be a welder or riveter in four or five months. And your pay jumps from 87 cents an hour to $112. All winter I've been hearing yarns about fantastic wages that ex-gas-pumpers were making in the shipyards. Stories about boys who'd never made $20 a week in their lives. now drawing down all the way from $80 to $150 a week. I asked about it out at Willamette. They said nonsense. They said their scale was as high as any, but that the most even a highly skilled and long-experienced artisan could make, ever with overtime, would be about $112 a week.
From the Bottom Up
THE WORK at Willamette is hard, but so is a lot of work. It is terribly noisy; in fact the din of ing weuld drive me to the bughouse. It is chilly in winter weather, but fortunately the have much really tough winter
Ti el! and miserable Northwest doesn't weather During blackouts, work stops completely and ail lights go off The men don't leave, but sit right where thev were. That's parilv because it would be dangerous to clamber around in the dark, and partly
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
IF YOUVE BEEN WORRYING about where to the new Federal auto use stamps,.stop worrying ht now. Some people have been confused over the apparent conflict in regulations. One of Inside’s friends called and asked: “Where'll I put my stamp? On the back of the mirror looks like the best spot, but the papers savs the Internal Revenue collector says you have to put them on the windshield.” We called the collector's office and asked R. A. Curd. who is the official use stamp information dispenser. “The collector's office.” he says, never has teld anyone where to it the stamp. They can put it on the front fender if they want would be safer inside the ar—on the windshield, or on the back of the rear So that's that ne pointed out that provided for getting
to. but it
apparently no replacements
the way, been lost stamps. Anent the location of stamps. Attorney Louis B. Ewbank has an idea. He suggests wetting the gummed back of the stamp and affixing it to the center of a piece of strong paper which is a half inch larger. all around. than the stamp.
*Then,” he suggests,
1eans has
“gum that half-inch strip clear around the stamp on the face side and paste on the windshield from the inside, so the stamp shows through. Thus attached, it is safe from the action of rain or of thieves or mischief makers.”
Once a Hoosier—
wonders George Wellbaum, New York information director. “was the pal subscription to The Indianapolis
“WHO.” Bell Telephone that gave me a
Washington
WASHINGTON. Jan. 22. —Some will wonder why President Roosevelt is asking $300.000.000 for special unemployment relief when war industry is short of That question goes to the heart of a new It is one of many which have broken upon us out of the sudden upheaval now taking place in the daily life of "his nation at war. Workers and Jobs are going through a violent shift as we change frcm peace industry to war industry. Detroit, the metropolis of war industry. has some 200.000 idle because of the changeover in the automobile industry. Throughout the country tire and autemobile salesmen are losing their jobs. Others will be thrown out of work as the shutdown of unessential peace work grows. They must be given special relief until they can find war work. or be trained for war work. But to give them money for food and rent while thev are waiting for war jobs is only one part of what t be done.
workers. problem.
mus Manpower as a Unit
OUR WHOLE handling of labor and manpower must be overhauled. Here is one of the biggest internal jobs of the war—mobilizing manpower. We have Become so used to thinking we have a labor surplus that we can scarcely realize we are already go! in g into a most acute labor shortage. At least 10 million new war workers will be needed for the big p! oduction program demanded by President Roosevelt We will have to do what England did—plan to make every man count, not only in the armed forces, but on the equally important industrial front at home.
It happens that a report has just been made to the
My Day
WASHINGTON. Wednesday.—Until 5 terday afternoon seemed, for the most part, ord of office work. Then I came home to find our guests, Alexander Woollcott and Miss Connie Ernst, another friend from distant parts who had arrived to spend two nights, and Mr. and Mrs. Max Ascoli, all gathered around Miss Thompson at the tea table in the west hall. We had a really pleasant hour and then a quiet dinner and an evening of talk and work. This morning I was at the Office of Civilian Defense by 9 o'clock. One person after another followed in close succession for interviews. L’ke many other Washington officials. I consider the day is only a time for storing up work, for each person who comes in to see me starts me on some new subject. Because I see one person after the other. means that. when I go home, I have to gather up all my notes and material, sort out what 1 have tc do and to dictate, reach such people as I can at their homes after business hours, and line up those whom I have to contact the next day.
o'clock yesa rec-
By Ernie Pyle
so no time will be lost when the lights go on. The sight of a huge ship being built wasn't as thrilling as I had thought it would be. It's just sort’ of like building a house—using steel plates instead of board siding. They start at the bottom and just keep riveting or welding on plates, building up a story at a time, until thev get to the top. They put in cross-plates| as they go along. making the thing into rooms, you might say. The ship is really just an unspeakable number of cells. riveted together, if you look at it in the simplest way. |
Months Ahead of Schedule |
THE REALLY INTERESTING part comes after the ship is launched. when th ship-fitters start put-| ting in all the gadgets. It takes just as long to finish | a ship inside, after it’s in the water, as it does to build it from nothing up to launching time. The ships here now are running several months, anead of schedule, and I remarked that the Navy, must be pleased. “Not especially,” was the answer. “Our schedule | was set pretty loose to begin with, because we were | inexperienced. And anyhow the Navy isn’t satisfied nowadays with your speed, no matter how fast you go. | And that’s the way it should be.” | This rather staid old ironworks, which for three-| quarters of a century has turned out heavy castings | in a great, dark, dirt-floored, hangar-like shed, has | now mushroomed and spread all in a year until it teems like a beehive. credible that it could have happened at all. | I asked the president what would happen if they | word from the Navy tonight, exactly doubling’ contract. Could they get the men, could they the confusion of building more shipways.! they expand rapidly enough to make a go
got their handle could of it? | Easily, was the answer. In fact. they more or less anticipate a huge new load before long.
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Times? We read it from cover to cover and then pass it on to other homesick Hoosiers who do the same.” Well, George, about all we can tell you is] that the man walked up to the subscription counter, | laid down the cash and walked out without giving his own name. Just one of the many pals you have back home. . . . { As the E. 10th St. trackless trolley was passing the Roberts School for Handicapped Children, a 3-year-old in a blue snow suit piped up: “Look, Mommy, building upside down.” “No, it's not upside down,” corrected her mother. “Well, it's all out of shape,” came the answer,
Too Many Teeth
A RESERVE OFFICER. who happens to be the vice president of a local bank. was ordered to report] at Ft. Harrison to be examined for active duty. On| the suggestion of his wife, he left nis bridgework at home in the hope of being deferred. “Ah, perfect health.” said the physician. “But won't my teeth | keep me out?” asked the banker. “Oh, no.” said the! doctor. “You've got one more good tooth than re-| quired.” . .. Fred Lahr of the Indiana Lumbermen's | Mutual is having fun with one of those phonographic | recording outfits. . . . The I. A. C. is charging $3 for its anniversary ball Saturday night. but each admis-| sion includes a dollar's worth of defense stamps,
Wanted: A Boy
BILL JENNER. expecting to be a papa most any minute now, and he's praying for a boy. “If it's a boy,” he says, "I am going down to ihe radio station and announce it myself. | If it’s a girl—well. I don’t know.’ . Sign on window |
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the Senate president pro tem, is!
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ll—Hatred Smoulders Under Nazis
everything that Naziism stands for or does. Just as the blitz touched off some hidden wellsprings of character among the English, so the gray-green legions
of Hitler, by taking freedom tinent what it means.
away, have taught the con-
The continent’s response has béen almost unanimous without regard to the attitudes of its governments, allied,
neutral or conquered.
I encountered this smouldering, often poorly concealed hatred on dozens of occasions. It charged the atmosphere in Praha where centuries of foreign rule have been inadequate to break the spirit
of the Czechs.
It added grim significance to the chalked inscription “reserved” which appeared overnight on some of the tele-
To the oldsters. it seems in-' phone poles there, for “reserved” to every Czech means
reserved for a German hanging—some day! One felt it in former Poland with its Jim Crow street cars for Poles and its provocative signs limiting them to certain stores and activities. In Switzerland, it was an
invitation to fight to speak high German,
French grow daily in intensity. “We'll chase them out with sticks some day, if we can't do any better,” said a Parisian with tears in his eyes. Most of the occupied areas and the general-gouvernements (former Poland) have been closed to American correspondents for months, but the signs are evident that a similar spiritual kinship exists in all of them. Dutch and Poles, Norwegians and Belgians alike have been a source of constant difficulty to their conquerors who have turned to the only ultimate answer they know—brutality. The Nazis in their turn have been reluctant to let the world know the full story.
The Chicago Daily News once
and the feelings of the
Is Germany headed for a gigantic collapse? If so, when and how will it come? An attempt to answer that riddle which bewilders a wartorn world is presented in this series of notable articles by David M. Nichol, one of the most recently returned American correspondents assigned to troubled Europe. The Times herewith presents Mr. Nichol's second article.
Himmler Never Denied Purge Story And Nichol Never Got to Norway
published a report from London
that Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler had loosed a blood purge in
the wake of a tour of Norway. in Berlin, that something must be done. I declined to deny the story without having an opportunity to check it first hand. That, I was told, was impossible. Would Himmler deny the story in a formal statement? Perhaps. He never did, but neither did I see Norway. No amount of Nazi censorship was sufficient to keep many wellreports from filtering out, however, The police force of a large Norwegian city resigned en masse in the race of threatened imprisonment rather than serve
of a Delaware St. empty storeroom, near MassachuAve.: "Total war demands you buy less appliances and more bonds. If our customers will buy as| many bond in 1942 as they did appliances in 1941, Uncle Sam can't lose.”
under a German-chosen chief, for example, and this fall there have been numerous unannounced executions for “anti-German activity.” Poland was similar, but the horror there is even greater. Visiting | Warsaw involved obtaining perBy Raymond Clapper mission from the general-governor, | Dr. Hans Frank. This I had. but Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry “suggested” that the time was unfeasible to organize a party of | correspondents. I told them I didn't want an escorted tour. I
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American Public Welfare Association by Eric Biddle, who spent months studying how the British met the same problem. The British found they could not depend on haphazard supply and demand, and chance, for industrial workers, any more than they could for military man-! power. Jobs were going begging while men in other
I was called to the foreign office lectured as a recalcitrant child might be, and instructed
same. The hatred grows with each day. If the Germans have spectacular success, it submerges somewhat but the first Nazi setback restores it even more strongly. Those who believed they could make a deal have found bitter disappointment. Those who were conquered were stunned by the initial impact, but they have now begun to breathe and feel again. “The Germans can't go on forever with so much hatred around them,” cafe waitress whispers at the risk of her life.
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Show Resentment
LESS GENERALLY known is the rising resentment of the Austrians which as early as a year ago resulted in a demonstration against Goering's wife in front of her hotel in Vienna and prompted Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach to warn them that extreme measures would be used if they continued. “We made a great mistake with the Austrians.” a German official
Citizens of Oslo line up in the hope of obtaining some food. Norway has been a source of constant diffi-
culty for the Nazis.
once admitted wryly. “We gave them citizenship. We can't use quite the same methods that we can in other countries.” The Germans in Berlin and the northern part of the Reich are unfamiliar with this aspect. It came as a shock and surprise to a Berlin businessman when a Viennese hotel manager paid a visit ‘to his room soon after he had registered and apologized in advance for any ‘incidents or ‘unpleasantness’ that might arise. But the citizens of neighboring Munich recognize it readily. “How,” one of them asked bitterly, “can we hope to make friends of the other peoples of Europe when we can't be friendly
with the Austrians? = n o
Duce Teaches Hate
NOT EVEN THE NAZIS allies have escaped this virus. Mussolini has exhorted the Italians repeatedly to hate. They do. They hate the Germans. Scarcely more than formal efforts are still made to conceal this, or the contempt the Germans feel in return for the south of the Axis. Attempts to use German and Italian armed forces in conjunction have proved most delicate. When German Stukas roared out over the Mediterranean a year ago for their first attack on the British aircraft carrier, Illustrious, they had Italian fighter escorts. The Nazi pilots returned to their bases in Sicily prepared to carry out a private war with their allies. “Where,” they asked, “were the Italians when the going got tough?” The Italians had an excellent reply. They shrugged and said that it was “much too dangerous.” One of those Stuka bombers who had flown in Poland, France and over England told me later that the Illustrious’ antiaircraft fire was the worst he had ever experienced. Tt is but one of numerous similar frictions.
AS FAR AWAY as Portugal, the feeling 1s only slightly less intense. Temporarily, it is somewhat confused by the British occupation of Portugal's Pacific colony, Timor, but Hitler's New Year's message was still sufficient to drive a Lisbon citizen into voluble, profane Portuguese. An official with whom I spoke said, “We'd all be completely pro-Brit-ish again” should the Nazis make a move toward Spain. The net result of German diplomacy and armed force has been to isolate the Reich more completely even than the Kaiser's empire was isolated in 1914. It has no single dependable ally. The three-power pact and all its adherences remains little more than a paper structure while Europe goes on hating—and hoping that something, perhaps America’s entry into the war, will prove the opening wedge for a flood that will sweep away Hitler and all his works. Most of the Germans are keenly aware of the extent and the depth of the hatred the other peoples of Europe hold for them. Many are honestly puzzled, unable to understand the reason despite the increasing clarity of the “new order” as nothing more than an economic system under which Europe will work for the Nazis and live on what may be left. Otliers, however, see it more clearly, ” ” ”
Berliners Stunned
GOOD FRIDAY afternoon the Berliners turned out by the thousands to stare in fearful anticipation at the afiermath of the most spectacular fire-bomb. raid the British have yet staged there. Among the crowds in Unter den Linden and Kaiser Franz Josef Platz I found a German acquaintance, gazing thoughtfully at the still smoking ruins of the Prus-
never got farther than the border. Everywhere the story is the localities were begging for lack of jobs. The British found that manpower--both military and industrial—
must be treated as one. Sometimes men had to ~ NAZI Nara transferred back from the Army to munitions fac-
tories. England recognized that the keystone of the! war effort was the mobilization of manpower and; material resources. It is easier said than done. Just the matter of, : bringihg the man and the job together was a big one,!
they found. ‘Hitler Goes Over Over Heads of
Here's How It Works Army Chiefs to Name
TO USE a simple illustration, a British worker, Henry, was thrown out of his job at Leeds because! Auto Inspector. his plant was closed down as non-essential. He reg- By UNITED PRESS istered with the Leeds Labor Exchange. Birmingham Adolf Hitler installed today an had a call out for workmen. Henry agreed to take one of these jobs. The Leeds Labor Exchange paid ‘unprecedented motor vehicle check- | his expenses to Birmingham. He reported to the Bir- up system, indicating that German's mingham Labor Exchange and was billeted and sent ‘supply and transport establishments | to the job. His family stayed at Leeds and received! /may have been thrown out of gear | ° an extra allowance. Another worker was ready to take a job, but was unskilled The Government put him into a training! center—England operates 35 of them—and paid him! a nominal wage and subsistence until he was ready for a skilled job. Those simple illustrations the task is. We shall have to bring women and! vouths into industrial work. Salesmen who have! never touched a machine will be needed in factories. The selective service will need to work in even closer | cor seq igo a A a Re to avoid taking out essen- responsible directly to Hitler and | : will inform him “with greater ra-| pidity than reports passing through customary military channels.”
‘by the Russian campaign. He indicated new tension between | ‘himself and the Army by naming a ranking officer of the Hitler elite! guard as inspector general ®for all! “questions” concerning automobiles | and lorries in the Reich and con-! {quered territories.
suggest how complex|
Wants Prompt Reports
By Eleanor Roosevelt
“It has been proved necessary that I be informed more rapidly, better than in the past and directly, of all questions concerning automobiles and lorries in order that I may be able to give orders and take measures which can become necessary by the military situation,” Hitler's decree said. Werlin was said to have been one of Hitler's advisers for “a great many years.” Other reports broadcast by Berlin hinted at new economic trouble for the Reich in its occupied lands. Regulations were said to have been published at Oslo, Norway, effective Jan. 26, to put an end to increased prices and “black market” methods in Norwegian restaurants and hotels.
I think really anyone in Washington will bear me out; a person needs two days, one in which to see people and one in which to do the things which seeing people entails. But the same 12 working hours must contain both working days! Most of us try to cram it all into a day and a night. It is fun, but one can only justify it on the theory that, if one's boys, scattered around the world, are doing a straight 36-hour turn of duty every now and | then, one certainly should be able to do 17 or 18 hours a day. It is interesting to know that, beginning Feb. 9, we shall go on daylight saving time. It is rather early in the year, but I have an idea that we shall find it a good innovation. For once, this will be the same throughout the country. I think that is a very good idea, because I have gone through many anxious moments when I left | home on standard time, and wondered whether I was |
| result of
| especially difficult. Miracle Rock in Colorado get its ! he querried George S. |
Questions Baffle Kiwanis
And Red Cross Gets $289
THE WAR chest of the Indianapolis Red Cross Chapter was
more than $289 richer today as a | misformation” of | | a bill. | also went down under questioning.
| Frank McKinney and George Lilly | collected the donations.
“the Kiwanis Club members. It was ‘Quiz Day” at the club yesterday. Robert M. Stith, interrogator, questioned members on various subjects and when they failed to answer, time, they were required to donate a minimum of $1 to the Red Cross. “Prof.” Stith made his questions
name,” Olive, chairman of the Red Cross campaign. Mr. and dug into his pocket.
| log weigh,”
which was nearly every |
Olive didn't know | | gavel.
“HOW MUCH does a mahogany he asked another
member, The Kiwanian merely |
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opened his wallet and peeled off
Harry Geisel, the umpire,
And so it went — one member
after another was questioned and
each donated. Once in a great while a member would answer a
| question but donated regardless. | At each donation a cash register “Where did |
on the speakers’ table rang up the amount. The register revealed a total of $289. : Henry Barr, the club's new president, was presented with a
Ye at my destination on daylight time; or Vice) HOOSIER PASOR CYCLES The Office of Education has set up a wartime com- |\ HUNINGTON, Ind. Jan. 22 (U mission, which I think will fulfill a most valuable P.).—Rev. A. P. Teter of the First | function. It represents 18 major national education | Methodist Church here is aiding in! and library associations. It is to effect more direct | (the national emergency by conservand workable contacts between Government agencies ing gasoline and automobile tires. on one hand, and educational institutions ad organ- | He calls on his Parishioners on al izations on the other, ‘shiny red bicycle. i
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sian state opera and the burnedout roofs along the street.
“How do you like it?” I asked,
He hesitated long before ane swering, “It's time we like this,” he said. what we've done.” His reaction is far from typical. For most of his countrymen this rising sea of hatred has become a powerful propaganda weapon in the hands of Hitler and Goebbels, Germany must win, they say, or be torn apart and destroyed in the maelstrom which would follow a Nazi collapse. It is one of the most factual statements they have made. No amount of political demon= strations, such as the renewal of the anti-comintern pact in November, with all its windowe aressing of continental solidarity, can conceal the truth that one factor and one factor alone, the Nazi armed forces and their ruthlessly efficient police and gestapo, still holds Europe together."
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Rebellion Perilous
FOR THE TIME being, there is little prospect of any successful outbreak other than the acts of sabotage and individual terror that have been reported so regu larly from all the occupied territories.
Revolt is little more than suicide. The Czechs tried it. The Jugoslavs have fought so valiant ly that Bulgarian and Hungarian forces have been called to the assistance of the occupiers. Unarmed peoples, as Ribbentrop recently warned, do not as a rule repel in the face of Stukas, panzers anc 8. S. troops. Should a crack appear, however, rebellion would flash up and down and across Europe overnight. The Nazis can never relax their vigilance for an instant,
had something “Think of
PREDICTS DIP IN AUTO ACCIDENTS
Rationing, Says Hadden In Purdue Talk.
Times Special
LAFAYETTE, Ind. Jan. 22.—As with almost everything, there is a bright side to tire rationing and the curtailed automobile production, according to Samuel C. Haddeny Highway Commission chairman. He believes that because of this 1942 will see an overall reduction in accidents and fatalities in Indiana since the average motorist will drive less and more carefully.
In reviewing the effects of the
war on State highway work at the Purdue Road School here today, Mr. Hadden reported that there was a reduction of 500 accidents in December as compared to November.
Terms Situation ‘Ironical’ “From this one month's experi-
| ence it appears that rationing of
tires and discontinuances of new car production will be felt most heavily in reduced pleasure travel. Attempts to conserve cars and tires will result in more passengers per vehicle and lower speeds. It is ironical that persons who wouldn't reduce speed to save a life will do sc to save a tire.” Looking into the fufture, he predicted the following for 1942, providing no further restrictions are placed on the use of vehicles and gasoline: 1. Little reduction in total vehicle miles traveled—increased: commercial traffic making up “for the decline in travel for pleasure. 2. Regrouping of type and location of traffic to form gn entirely different road pattern—with commercial traffic being routed over specific routes to save time and congestion. 3. Congestion around areas and on city streets. 4. Trafic confusion and delay
industrial
: during blackouts.
|2—Name a former
a More 3 attention paid to maintenance and
fosusticn- to. seshion
| trac inefficiencies and continued
| emphasis on construction. The Chairman said that most of | the work done by the Commission
during 1942 would be on strategie
highways and access roads to dee
| fense areas.
| That's Bright Spot in Tire,
As an example of the strain placed on Indiana highways around defense areas, he cited travel stae | tistics on Road 62 south of Charles town. In 1937, the average number of vehicles traveling over that road per day was 525. In 1941, approxi mately 6300 cars traveled over the same road in a day, an increase of 1250 per cent. The situation is similar in other defense areas, he added.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—On which of the Hawaiian Ise
lands is Honolulu? President who .led the famous charge up San Juan Hill, near Santiago, Cuba, in the War with Spain. 3—In what country did Walter Hines Page serve as American Ambassador during World War I? 4—Wh#¢ are the important come modities produced in the state of Sarawak, on the smorthwest coast of Borneo? 5—Which President of the United States was a surveyor? 6—How many arms has an octopus? 7—What body gets between the
moon and the sun to cause a lunar eclipse?
Answers 1—Oahu. 2—Theodore Roosevelt. 3—Great Britain. 4—Rubber and oil.
5—George Washington. 6—Eight.
T7—The earth. s 8 9
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