Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1942 — Page 13

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SAN rhaNGibo. Feb, 19.—I know of a man who ad a rather odd experience the other day. /He was driving from Portland to Seattle, and on the : The flow Was nol on

pl i on toward Seattle the man died on

‘strange authentica ‘motorist

urrence is another pred seer. He stated fla at the war would be ove!

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* the manager’s name to it, and walk out. But the girls spoiled the whole thing by. forgetting

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| here at the Hotel ying $1.94 for bacon Ra ed a joke to play on me when I came back to San Francisco. | All the girls know what I eat for breakfast, for 1 | never vary. So whoever got me on my first morning | ‘back was to make out my bill for $3 or more. | Well, I got. wind of it, so I was all set. I.was just

Inside Indianapolis Bs Lowell Nusshaum|

FAB. sprit pitched into the rough-and-tumble of | the Butler University Forum the other | “might. Gave a good account of himself, too . . . .

| "The: 's guests at Tuesday's luncheon were city councilmen, county commissioners,” etc, and when Thomas Reed hauled off with his

vigorous demand for a single-unit county government, you could almost hear the moans of anguish from the various tables . . . Todd Stoops of the Hoosier Motor Club * just called up to spike a rumor. Todd:says a lot of people have the idea that you can drive down to Mexico and get all the new tires you want. “I have a wire from Mexico City now,” said Todd, “and that rumor is just whole cloth, The only way you can get co is to break down and be stranded.

‘a tire in

Theyll let you buy a tire then to get you off their

hands. t that’s the limit.” Well, there goes our

last Shucks.

Stars for the Mayors °

STAR LICENSE plates (the kind some people “would give their right arms to possess) are. being distributed by Secretary of State Jim Tucker to In: diana’s mayors. thé mayors usually serve as civilian defense directors | oP their home towns, and the star license plates are supposed to facilitate their movements in “case of emergency.” And. besides, it’s good politics, since about 70 per cent .of the mayors are Republicans, Personally, it’s hard to imagine a mayor needing “star license plates to make his home town police “treat him. respectfully: tv:

The Fishing's Fine

.. FROM FLORIDA writes Oscar Wuensth, of 3: N. Tllinoid sti with the news that the fishing’s fine

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The led trout are plentiful, he reports, with the shee running as large as 12 pounds . . Bob Lorne, the airy of state’s office, is back from

‘Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 —He's done it. Donald Nelson has used his new power as chairman of the War Production Board io shake airplanes loose from the cramping clutches of hide-bound brass hats, He hap 8 Just ordered all- materials needed for military aircraft put into the same

“naval vessels. After Pearl Harbor the Navy shoved in higher priorities for ships and the Army for other equipment. This left air‘planes with lower ratings as compared with ships and tanks. Nelson is moving in now to overhaul the whole situation so Vhat the most urgent equipment will come first in the light of the changed war picture. He is driving particularly for

- tain bald headed man who was among those register-

-an clerk came to the physical description, she glanced

Around the Town

The reason, it’s explained, is that .

“cellophane wrapping and also that some beauteous

top priority rating as tanks and -

Its Hardly Reassuring

girplanes. England is using 92 per cent of her

“aluminum for planes, ‘We are using only 65 per cent. * The remainder being diverted by the Army and Navy

for other uses. Nelson is attempting to break that up. 3 Nelson) explains that as a matter of fact the WPB taking care of the situation by arbitrarily materials for plane | \production regardless of w they had top p! rating officially. So that his formal action now is n, as it is explained, largely | for psychological reasons—to rescue the Air

"Corps from a feeling that it was being pushed out of

the picture by. not being able to get top priority rating:

EXPLANATION, intended to be reassuring,

anything but reassuring. It is alarming to be told thab'at this late date the Air Corps feels it is SR nis Mato Male the An om: ‘Now, if

ever, the air corps ought to be favored. Is | possible that the Army and Navy still haven't to the primary the airplane has taken

. Just the opposite, the British couldn

fications.

"a ne would 3 books, Pearl Harbor,

"not cover the whole range of need. g

“over the world today is quite appalling. It did oe * surprise me to have both Dr. Jerome Davis and Dr.|

' know that those you love are anxious : be anxious about them, and yet have no way ofip

‘going to look at’ the check, never sta a amills sign

to do it.

IN A RESTAURANT up in northern California the other day 'I heard a fellow telling about having: a small auto accident out in the country; which neces-

Sitated his hitchhiking fo the nearest town to get|-

repairs. . And when he got back to his car, some pa ‘citizen had stolen tires right off his wheels, broadminded about fmaurder any mayhem,’ but I'm =

so sure I don't favor capital punishment for tire

thieves for the duration.

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FER 15 A new war peril ws just all gard our

children against. A letter from an Albuquerque friend says her young son is staying home from school with a sort throat,

which he attributes to the fact that his sergeant in| high-school military drill the day before wouldn't

let fm spit!

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1 have another friend—quite a girl, too—who his hs

Just written me of a lifelong ambition, in case shel

ever gets rich.

tray full of fresh celery, so she can nibble all day. I've been trying to think what I'd like if I were

rich. And all I've been able to think of is that I'd like

to be the boy who carries the celery oy;

a business trip to Washington and he says it made his hair stand on end to see signs directing pedesArians to bomb shelters . . . Some ‘of our state officials | have been preaching tire conservation. And then,

sonje other State officials still are using their. State-|’ owned cars to make week-end trips back to their|-

home towns, a mere 100, or 200 or more miles round trip . . .| George Schricker, of Shortridge, the Governor’s youngest son, will be 19 on Washington's birthday. That’s how he got his name.

Hair? Er-er, Brown MAKING THE ROUNDS is a yarn about a cer-

ing last Monday for the draft. This bird was so bald he, didn’t have a hair on his head. When the wom-

rather confusedly at his head, then looked away ‘and inquired: “Color of hair?” "“Maybe you can tell; I can’t,” he replied. The clerk still ingisted that the regulations required her to put down the color of his hair, “All right,” grinned the registrant. And with that, he unbuttoned his vest and shirt and displayed his’ hairy chest. The clerk blushed prettily, then wrote: “Hair, brown.”

THE ALLISON PLANT publication advises employees: “Don’t be a dope and spread inside’ dope.”

heater and oil filler—very low mileage.: Cliff Bergere.” Maybe Cliff’s mad at the car because he locked himself out of it last week. .. . The state con-

servation department is taking a fish and game|

census by sending questionnaires on last year’s kill to a representative list of license holders . . . Here it*is only*Februafy, and the Indidna Stéte Beekeepers

| "associdgtion is thinking about state fair week al-}: - réady. The association’s February bulletin suggests

that fair displays of honey be in variously colored

damsel be crowned the queen’of the honey show. It isn’t clear whether the cellophane idea is' to extend to the honey queen.

By Raymond Clapper

Crete. The way the Germans used air "protection to get their battleships through the Straits of Dover the other day. The cy of éverybody in the Far East for planes. Cecil Brown reports from there that 30 flying fortresses six weeks ago might have changed the story. Dutch officials’ have begged our Government frantically for just a few planes—far less than al month’s production. Harold Guard, the United Press| correspondent, tells us how brave British troops had to lie in the mud at Singapore while Japanese planes machine-gunned them with not a defending plane in the area. Every dispatch. from out there cries for planes. They are not asking for battleships, Battleships are no good without planes to ‘protect them, as the British have finally discovered,

Do Brass Hats Learn Too Late

LAYMEN CAN HAVE only the vaguest ideas about such matters as these, We are ohliged to give -the benefit of the doubt to professionals. Yet there are times when the evidence seems so. clear to the layman that he cannot repress astonishment at what appears to be stubborn resistance, or at least a _habit-bound inahility to see the obvious.

It is like the British. officer Who says they didn't think it was possible for the Japanese to come down to Singapore through.the back jungles. The British sat there at Singapore waiting for the Japanese to come in by water. When the perverse little devils did| ys. 't understand it. For, a long time .the Army continued to reject aluminum sheets for airplanes because they were ‘dis+ colored. Only after plane manufacturers proved to them that the sheets were just as strong.in spite of slight color blemish would the Army change. its speci-

It’s that kind of: attitude that shakes the confidence of laymen‘in professionals who are supposed to know their business. - Of ‘course, always we remember what the Army did to Billy Mitchell. - It makes you Rigpest Wat sume: Whe bias ude’ JoardNob Tata,

+ By Eleanor. Roosevelt |

voluminéus indictments.

It’s to wear nothing but red” shoes] = (oh, clothes of course, but’ only shoes that ‘are red) ia and have a boy follow her around constantly with: 8 2

‘ship in Ménils Bay raid.

. The publication also carries an ad: “For Sale—|' : Five nearly new tires with ’39 DeLuxe Ford Coupe—|

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n- Histories

U. S. TORPEDO Wats made two daring dashes into Subic Bay to sink Jap supply vessels, hit another enemy

DEATH IN, THE NIGHT came to bargeloads of Jap invaders in ®ne of Batain’s historic encounters. “Arthur's “air force”—a solitary P-40 pursuit plane— sighted approaching barges off the west coast one night and flashed a warning. American artillery and bombs. from the plane smashed and fired the barges, stopped them all short of shore. In the morning there were dead Jap soldiers and smoking ruins of barges on the beach.

fag ily Japanese LUZON : [Scale of Mites) ! “WITHDRAWAL to ‘Bataan followed BARRIER of Jap bases and seized this pal - MacArthur, pressed by areas ringing Bataan has kept aid : + Jap : landings: on: Lugon, retired to from reaching Philippines’ “doomed “* _peninsula-and Corregidor. but undaunted” defenders. ( be yi p i @®Ternate : s Scale of Miles ; 0 ‘ 10 _20§} \

ON BATAAN PENINSULA, a mountainous, jungled region half the size of Rhode Island, Gen. Douglas MacArthur. has com American and Filipino troops in a stand rivaling any battle in U. S. history for intensity and heroism. - MacArthur's men have stood off land, sea and .air assaults with continued tenacity, slowly retiring toward the rocky fortress of Cor: . ‘regidor Island, Supply 4 and communications base Protecting their rear.

GUNS. of Corregidor and other ‘U. 8, forts dueled with Jap artillery across Manila Bay - near Ternate, blasted barges lined up for invasion.

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“A ‘BRAVE LOT, not afraid of death, ”* one chronicler called the mien with MacArthur, '] " Pressed by 200,000 Japs, they have battled blitz in the jungles of Bataan with the strategy . of American’frontiersmen. When the enemy charged with planes, tanks, troops, U. 8. ‘fovces have retired to prepared shelters in the mountain forests, only to ‘emerge, make a -stand, then counter-attack and drive the wearying foe back.. Anti-aircraft unifs have bageed many a Jap plane, asked for more; accurate artillery fire has blasted out enemy tions before the attackers could get mioving; and plucky Americans‘and Filipinos still asked to go on: ‘the [Oftensive after two menths of. pounding. ios

Mac-

VICHY PUTS WAR

CHIEFS ON TRIAL

Hand-Picked Court to Hear Charges; Case May _ Last-4- Months.

RIOM; France, Feb. 19 (U. P.)— Five leaders of the third French republic today went “before a court set up by the Vichy government, to answer charges that they were responsible: for the fall of France. They were Edouard Daladier, premier when the war started in 1939, Leon Blum, the Popular Front premier in 1936, Gen. Maurice Gustave Gamelin, supreme allied commander until Dunkirk, Guy La Chambre, Daladier’s- air. minister, and Pierre Sarit, general secretary of the ‘ministty “under Daladier. Heirs Cot, air ‘minister under

Blum, whois in the United States,

was "being tried in absentis. The court, consisting of seven

judges, had spent‘ 17 months in-

vestigating records and drawing

It I may judge from my own’ feeling, everyones pe

must have gone away inspired realization : the work which is being done, 8 it meg

The number of prisoners behind barbed wire all

Dri Davis emphasize ihe fact there is such a thing called “barbed wire sickness.” To have nothing to do mentally or : t you, to|

"Anything that we’ can do tor oh. Bein Pg have a

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‘Red Hair Seve:

Gin SE 3= Bonus: Points in Scoring Add Greatly to Interest

' By WILLIAM E. MCKENNEY America’s Card Authority a IN MY ARTICLE yesterday about Gin Rummy, I explained that any player may go down, that is, expose his hand and end the play, foe if his odd cards total 10 or less. a In totaling the odd cards, face cards are counted at 10 each, the 5] ace counts as 1, all other cards count their pip value. ~ ° . ‘When a player goes down ‘with an incomplete hand, his opponent Divs, any odd cards he can on the exposed sets, then totals the re- .

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20 GENERATION JAPS ARE HIT)

Face Forcible Evacuation From -Strategic. Points Along Pacific. WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U.P) ~ Plans for, forcible. evacuation from

strategic Pacific Coast areas of sece ond-generation Japanese who- are

American Pilof Copyright, 41043, bv T The 2 Indianapolis Times BATAVIA, , Feb. 19.—America ought to start building a separate aviation corps of red-headed pilots for duty in the future cam"paign for the recapture, of the Philippines. ‘An American pilot, who parachuted into the. jungle, had his

life saved from the Japanese-hat-ing Filipinos through the orange

hue of . his hair. Seeing him fall and not having observed his

plane's insignia they began firing.

but halted as the red-head drew near ‘to earth, explaining after< ward: “We knew it couldn't be a Jap. We never saw a Jap with hair that color.”

TECH TO HEAR ZIEMER

Gregor Ziemer, author of .“Education for Death,” will speak to

Tech students at. 10:30 a. m. Tues-

day. > He will talk on his experi-

ences in Nazi Germany.

|HOLD EVERYTHING

L American citizens will be announced lin a few days, officials said today.

The plans, which also would affect any other citizens deemed dangerous to national security, are be-

ing discussed in joint Justice-War :

Department conferences. . Under consideration are plans for martial’ law, the licensing of all persons, citizen or alien, in huge

areas from which the unlicensed:

would be barred, and the asking of legislation which would permit arrest for “protective custody” and removal of unrestricted areas of citizens and aliens alike,

the totals.’

points.

“maining odd cards. If the player who went down still has the low-. er total, he wins the. difference of

ie if --the ‘opponent of the player shows ‘an equal or i r total of odd cards, he wins “the difference of the tetals plus .a bonus of 10 points.

IF A PLAYER lays down a complete hand, with no odd cards, this is gin and the opponent may '

not play any of his odd cards on the sets. The winner is credited with ‘the: full total of the adverse odd cards, plus a bonus of 20

It is usual to play fer a game

the only safe course, “Sand-bag-ging” is failure § to go down when shle—waiting for the opponent to $0 down. and then trap him with & lower hand. ' ‘When ‘the’ stock is pretty well gxhausted, you must try either to go “gin” or if you do go down it must’ be’ with a very low count— -otherwise your opponent might {rap you and not only gain the « down but the bonus of 10 points.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Java: or Fiji?

14-The city of Batavia is in Malaya,

2--To whom does a taxpayer pay

a ras

of 100 points. A running total is kept of the scores of each player, The game ends after the hand in which one player (or both play-

« ers). reaches a total of 100 or more

points. Then the difference of the

totals is “credited to the winner, “plus. a bonus of 100: points for

i game. The rules also provide that in

|. ‘settling up a ‘game each player is

: Srefified with 25 points: for each

. That does e bonus goes to t laid his hand who tk wn. As we have seen, the opponent of the player who goes down sometimes

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, » s ” ' THERE 18 SOME difference of

his federal income tax? 3-~-What is the name of the statue + surmounting the dome of the «Capitol in Washington, D. C.? 4--Hens’ eggs with’ brown shells are more, nutritious than white shelled eggs; true or false? 5-~-The Declaration of Independence drawn by Jefferson was slightly + amended by which two men?: Lh "o composed the “Minuet " i

, Answers 1-~Java. 2--Collector of Internal Revenue of oh his district. i

. |3--Freedom. .

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