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My Day

, MARCH 3, 1942

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March 3.—In North Hollywood there is a man who sits every night and reads the papers about the war in Malaya, the war in the Indies, the war in the Fhilippines—and then puts the about how many lives might have been saved, and even how the results might have been different if they had used dogs. es, dogs. For this man is one erica’s premier dog trainers, he right now training a bunch of sentry dogs for the American arm; , and he knows about war too, (for he spent four years in the last one—on the other side. name is Carl Spitz. He ig 47, and he has been training dogs most] of his life. He is one of the leading trainers for the movies, He owns a huge dog-t school that covers the better part of 10 acres, his staff. As far back as 1930 Spitz tried to get the army ta let him train dogs for war use. But nothing came of

. it. Finally last summer they took him up, in a limited way. Spisz agreed to fu

the army with 50 trained sentry-dogs—at no cost!| vo

He has delivered has 12 more under training;

and already has spent $1500 of his own money in the * process.

Japs Using Dogs

SPITZ SAYS G last. war, and that 7 being used in this war, The most. startling s yl he has heard out of this war is about a messenger dog dropped by parachute to a Finnish scouting party behind the Russian lines, He says a messagh was attached to the dog's throat,

ANY had 50,000 dogs in the were killed. He says they're

Inside Indianapolis

THE PHONE RANG about midnight Sunday. Sleepily, Frank A. White, editor of the Hoosier Legionnaire, got out of bed and answered. It was son, Donald, an I. U. student, calling from Franklin, borrowed a relative’s car, picked up a couple of boys and st for Franklin. A bearing burned out before they got there, The boys hitchhiked on to Franklin, {but couldn’t find an auto re: pi shop open. “Come and. gel us, [Dad—and bring a tow rope,” plegded Donald. “Everything hapto me,” grumbled Frank, but essed and looked, vainly, for a rope. ‘He managed to rent ong for [$1.95 after visiting several] garages, then went on down and towed the car back here. Tired and sleepy; he was towing the car along E. 59th st.— only a couple of blocks from home—about 4 a. m, when an alert squad of police stopped him as a “suspicious character,” released him after Frank's profuse explanations. ofuse and/or profane, Frank?

|. Try the Weather Bureau

THE WASHINGTO] OFFICE of the American Society for the Hard | | of Hearing received a letter

polis, the society’s Indiana chairman. In it, Mrs. tzenberger discussed work of the local office, and that she Was being bothered quite a bit Back, ss Ada Hill saying she was

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made a very thorough check unable to find any governhose initials,” Miss Hill wrote. «

Washington

WASHINGTON, March 3.—One source of much trouble in war production is the fact that the army to switch from abundance to - scarcity, That is, before the war, we had an abundane 0 ‘of every kind of material. There was aluminum for everything. The aluminum industry was pushing its product out in competition with steel and many other building materials. The army wouldn't take a sheet of [aluminum for an airplane if the| color was slightly off. The navy, to save weight, began using aluminum everywhere on shipboard that it could be used—for furniture, for galleys, and in structural ways. ow aluminum is short. The has had to change its reyerhaps it uses a quarter less But that affects

. Countless army and navy specifications _ have had fo be changed to save aluminum. Perhaps not, enough has yet been done. ‘the old days, when only a few guns were used, it ‘was possible to i over each one with the care mother curling the baby’s hair. One gun required 400 man hours to whittle down and assemble. ¢ t job now in 15 minutes by yroduction methods.

Enemy Has Been Doing It

Ro IT GOES through the whole field. Abundant

materials, plenty of time, and small quantities, led ' to hand-tailoring methods, to luxury trimmings, to refinements, to use of scarce materials in a way that is out of the question now. It has been difficult for an army Or navy p ment man, grown up in

| those leisurely days of plenty of everything, including

time, to readjust h If. Instead of ordering a hundred guns he must order thousands. It is a Sears-Roebuck job, which is why Donald Nelson, when he reorganized methods in the army quartermaster c Sua do a better Job than

SEATTLE, Wash, | Monday. —This has been an ‘anxious day. No one, no matter how well disciplined, can sit and wait while someone one loves is underan operation, and not suffer pangs of anxiety the things which may happen, but which,

ami out here to see’ my daughter, Anna, who is having an appendectomy, I have been’ thinking t \things which I have negto tell you. . One of them is a. little ceremony which occurred at our ho in. New York City last TH afternoon. I received then the first collection of red, white and blue flower seeds, and hope to plant them in the garden

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By Ernie Pyle

and it made the 14 miles back home in 20 ‘minutes. Spitz says the Japanese are using dogs. He feels

that in Malaya thousands of lives could have been]:

saved if the British had used dogs. He expresses his feelings picturesquely. “The Japanese slithered through the jtingles,”: he

says, in water up to here. We white people couldn't do that. We don’t fight that way. We aren’t sneaky ‘ enough.

“The British weren't trained in jungle "fighting. They were always getting caught. But if they'd had dogs, Japanese couldn't have surprised ‘thet. Dogs would have given warning.” Spitz feels that the American army needs at least 15,000 trained dogs. So far, the dogs trained by Spitz for the army have cost around $250 apiece. But if done on a large scale,

he says the cost could be hpought down to $60, includ-|'

ing the dog. Sentry Dogs for Coasts

HE FEELS THERE should be two sentry dogs for every mile of the west coast, which would mean 3000 trained dogs. The same for the east coast, and the gulf. And then countless dogs for war factories and army warehouses and other key points. In addition to that, dogs for actual use at the battlefront. He would provide four types of training: 1. Sentry dogs, for guard duty. 2. Scouting dogs, for smelling out enemy troops at the battlefront. 3. ‘Messenger dogs, for running front-line messages. 4. Red Cross dogs, for locating wounded soldiers -and carrying first aid to them. Spitz's relatives have been in the’ United States for génerations, and it was always his ambition. to get here. He finally made it in '1926.. He is a citizen, and has only one distant relative still in Germany. His two brothers were killed in the last war, and he had seven first cousins (Americans) fighting against him. But that’s all water over the dam now.

By Lowell Nussbaum

Phone: MA. 3321

W. R. McCULLOUGH of ‘the civilian defense speakers’ bureau has figured out that a lot of old newspapers. are going to waste here in Indianapolis. He estimates there are 225,000 copies delivered here daily by the three local papers, weighing 245,000 pounds. The Sunday papers add another 100,000 pounds. That's 175 tons of waste paper ‘a’ week. That many tons, he figures, will make enough packing cartons to carry about 300,000 dozens'cans of food to the boys in the service. Or this 1756 tons of waste paper, if salvaged, will produce material for more than 1,500,000 shell fuse component parts, or six million practice targets. Personally, we'd rather use Japs for targets.

This and That Dept.

SHERIFF FEENEY is dieting these days,/and high time, too, if you ask us. His usual lunch is a salad, or maybe a piece of caramel pie and a cuppa ‘coffee. Al ‘says he’s managed to get his poundage down to aboul, 220, thus far. He won't say whether he’s getting in trim for a primary race or maybe for a commission in one of the armed forces. ... G. O. P. Chairman Jimmie Bradford had a birthday Sunday (his 39th). Sherwood Blue and some of the boys threw a chicken dinner for him and in the evening they all went out to the hockey game. . . . The editors of the Shortridge Echo apparently believe in looking for the silver lining. Shortridge was eliminated from the fourney play Saturday. Yesterday's Echo gave aboud:-a-was headed: Contest.” » ” »

NOW.-THAT Nish Dienhart is going to the'army,

* Rowland Allen probably will be our nominee for the

town’s No. 1 “hard to catch by phone” citizen. - - -

By Raymond Clapper

Jépan and Germany got along on what they had— ‘which was not enough of anything. They have zone throygh unbelizvable sacrifices. Meany of the Japanese¢ soldiers who fought in Malaya caught malaria. Practically every Japanes: prisoner taken was found to be ranning a temperature. They didn’t have quinine. ‘The British didn’t think the Japanese could come down to Singapore through the jungle because they didn’t think anybody except the jungle natives could live through it, much less cut through it. The enemy knows what it is to fight a war on scarcity. We are just discovering it. It means changing many habits and practices, improvising, using second-best. What if there are scars on the hides? They will make shoes that wear well, and there is no reason why the army should reject them.

Politicians Must Change, Too

IT ALSO MEANS “other changes of habitss We still hear industrialists say that labor's place is to do the vrork assigned—management will take care of the idea stuff. But the man working in the plant often sees things that could be changed or improved. Now, with industry in an upheaval as it goes into a totally new kind of work, there will be countless more bugs to be discovered and eliminated. Here the men working in the plants can be of enormous help—spotting methods that could be short-cut. War production officials here can profit from suggestions coming from both management and labor, because it is all new territory. New habits are called for also among politicians,

.This tant be a political campaign as usual this year.

We have to elect a new house and a- third of. the senate. But a campaign as usual—or similar to those of the last decade—would do infinite damage to the war. Te undermine public confidence in the administration that is in office would be the best break the axis could get. This war is bigger than Roosevelt. If we lost it, we would suffer long after he was gone. Republicans would suffer just as much.as Democrats. No political office-seeker has any more right to damage our ¢chances of winning this war then you or I have to go into a crowded theater and yell “fire!”

By Eleanor Roosevelt

red, white and blue, old-fashioned bouquet, showing what delightful flowers we can grow next summer. Unfortunately, we cannot have patriotic colors in vegetables, but it is just as patriotic to grow them, because they will help to feed us the kind of food which we all need. _ There is a method of increasing the sale of defense: ‘stamps ‘and bonds, which has been developed by Northwestern university. I find it is being followed in one way or another by various institutions and of groups. The plan which Northwestern has startéd, offers its alumni the possibility of helping both the government and the university at the same time. Invéstment of the gifts they give, in defense bonds, will be a’ start ‘in the fund to finance the university's development, through their century plan. : The grand lodge of the Massachusetts Order:

purciiatie 81. $50,000 orth defense bongs.

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‘of tustlages, wings ene the Sons of Italy in America has sent me their maga-/addition, planes will zine. ‘I think they should -be congratulated on their! Boy- Scout organizations, Jou clubs of the city;

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YOUTHS PLEDGE NAVY MODELS

50 Groups Here. Will Turn - ont. Replicas for Armed Forces.

Replicas. of army P-40's, Airacobras, flying fortresses, and even German Messerschmitt 109-E planes will soon. be rolling off the assembly lines of model airplane builders in Indianapolis. = Identical in every detail except size to the war planes of the nations.in conflict, 1600 of these solid scale’ models will be built by some 40 or. 50_youth organizations of the city.” The program is sponsored by the.pavy. .. - Plans and specifications were outlined last night by Gordon O. Johnson, mechanical drawing instructor at Shortridge high school and director ‘of the program, to more than 75 ' representatives of city youth organizations.

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types at the meeting i Caleb Mills

Chief Petty Officer Joh Sullivan ‘the’ naval armory, explained the duties of the various types of craft. ‘the models were on a scale 10-13 inch t 32 feet a ‘looks fust like the ‘real plane a half a mile.

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different .types of t would be duplicated in the am and he| presented. plans for the first 20

one of our navy’s. 2. Our first hero of the war, Sergt. Joseph Lockard, who gave the unheeded warning at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, is shown in San Francisco, en route to an officers’ training school at Ft. Monmouth, N. J., the training being a reward for his deed. With him is Maj. Robert A. Gillmore. 3. Trailing dense black smoke, an Italian torpedo bomber plunges toward the surface of the Mediterranean. The penalty was exacted during a five-hour raid on a British convoy by Italian and Nazi

planes.

Persia, is shown with Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell.

Gp—_— 1. This striking photo just released by the navy shows fhe effects of the opening phase of the M d l Pl Pacific fleet’s bombardment of Wotje, one of the eight Japanese bases in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands oae anes— blasted by the fleet’s guns Feb. 1. The plane soaring over the flaming ammunition and fuel dumps is

4. Lieut. Gen. E. P. Quinan (left), recently named commander of the British 10th army in Iraq and Gen. Wavell, until relieved yesterday to return to his

old command in Burma and menaced India, was supreme commander of the allied forces in the Far East. 5. It was during peaceful and happier days that this picture was made of the leaders of the American and Filipino forces in the Philippines. Manuel Quezon (left), president of the Philippines, greets Gen. Douglas MacArthur, heroic leader of the beleaguered Bataan forces.

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the dancer friend of Mrs. ‘Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose employment by OCD created considerable controversy. 2—The average length of life of persons in the United States is increasing or decreasing? 3—What is the title of Isaak Walton’s hook on fishing? 4—What part of a tooth- is crown? 5—White plague is a name for leprosy, tuberculosis or eczema?

6—What is an oboe? T—Name the capital of British India, | 8—What was the title of the former emperors of Russia?

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Answers 1—Mayris Chaney. 2—Increasing. 3—“The Compleat Angler.” 4—Part exposed above the gum. 5—Tuberculosis. 6—A musical . instrument. T7—New . 8—Czar. . » t J »

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RAIL REMOVAL CONTRACT LET

Company Promises 200 Tons of Steel a Week for National Defense.

The board of works will receive $67,000 to pay for repaving of streets torn up by the removal of 35 miles = of streetcar rails. A contract for removal of the .

‘(rails . from the pavement has been Go i

awarded by Indianapolis Railways to the Indiana Asphalt Co. on a bid = of $13 a ton. Levand & Co. of Cleveland submitted. .a bid of $10.08 per ton but Railways officials said the company failed to guarantee to ) remove 200 tons of the rails a week, . = according to contract ‘specifications, = A third bidder was Red Top Trucke. ing Co. of Hammond, whose bid was $13 a ton, but the company failed to meet specifications. 200 Tons a Week 24, The specifications. calling for re-

moval of rails at a speed of 200

tons a week was made in order to ] get the metal to defense industries as fast as possible. The Railways company will sell the rails to the National Malleable steel company « of Indianapolis for defense tion at $22.40 per ton, Pi Under an agreement With the board of works, the railways ‘com. pany will-turn over to the city all | of the $9.40 per ton profit’ on’ o rails, In:addition to the Prof fraff the sale of the rails, the

{company will pay the city $17

additional as a bonus to the under an old street main agreement. It is estimated that the cost. o touching up streets ‘will cost to $100,000.

TOMMY AND EX-WIFE D NEW YORK, March 3 (U. P.).

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