Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1942 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1942

al, March: 4—The idea behind "the army is this:

a saboteur naturally wouldn’t ard to get in. He’d get in unseen,

ding. But a dog would know iH for he doesn’t have to see, he

These newly trained army dogs alk their posts alongside the egular sentry. Every now and then the sentry tells the dog to e a search of the warehouse grounds or| whatever they're guarding. The dog does it, then comes back to walk ~ his post. : But supposing he {does find somebody? He barks a warning to the guard, and then goes after the intruder. long as the intruder stands perfectly still, the dog never lays a tooth into him. He just stands end polices him. But let that intruder start to rum, or move a hand toward his pocket, or come out with a gun—and the dog is on him in a flash.

i a Tedious Process

It's ££ ALWAYS for the arm (he’s trained to attack nowhere else); and if the enemy has a gun in either hand, he goes for that arm. He doesn't tear the man up, he just holds him til! help comes. Soe men couldn’t tear him loose from that arm | his. “owner”’—the sentry—tells him to let go. Then he turns loose like a lamb. | Now, how is all trained into a dog? Its a Jatidhs process, takes two and a half months. a fourth of all|dogs submitted are good enough to finish the course. Every dog i i goes through a preliminary

Inside

ACHER enjoys telling abous

he couldn’t quite place it. Seeing the Nashville post- , Doc asked about the fam- . “Don’t know who they are,” -the postmaster replied, “but they ure do get an awful lot of high lass mail.” . . . Local Shriners re boosting’ C. E. Cox, treasand past ‘potentate of Murat hrine, for the post of imperial uter guard. That’s the first step ward election as imperial potente—head man of the entire ortion. It takes the, outer 15 years to work up tg the p. Along with the high distinc"tion, the imperial potentate also wins the privilege of riding trains and planes the next 365 days, making speeches and eating kanquet food on visits to: local shrines. ;

Watch Out for Moths

GOVERNOR SCHRICKER had $75,000 in his contingent fund to spend during the current fiscal year. "Seven months of the year have passed and one of our agents has discovered that “Scotty” Schricker has spent only $2327.93 of that $75,000. The biggest single expenditure (was $888.02 to pay railroad fare for the official delegation to the launching of the pattleship Indiana. Now that we've mentioned it, watch the wolves start pressuring the governor for a hunk of that dough. . . . Some of our high ranking state selective se officials are due to be transferred to Washington soon for duty in the War De-

Washington

WASHINGTON, March 4—An increasing number of persons here arg saying we should Have a general staff for the war. "I am not certsin in detail what they mean by that. Perhaps they are hazy also. But their point is clear It is that President Roosevelt cannot be the general staff himself—even = though the main decisions must be made by him. " Under the present arrangement, lines run from President Roosevelt to the army, navy, war production board and maritime commission. When representatives of each are brought together, they appear as pleaders for their respective agencies. Admiral Land fights for plate for merchant ships fights for plate for tanks. his need is the greater. Under such arrangement, only President 1t. is de red, free to view the whole picture

.and strike a balance, insert a general staff between the president and ithe services and agencies have in mind a detached , viewing the war as a whole,

and Secretary Each must argue

conscious always the main direction of strategy,

emphasis, working as a central: This group would not be, as

. decisions still must be his but he would have an independent group upon which ‘to lean instead of having to resolve by himself the of the various services. gement would go , probably, = situation with regard to air

Jorces, It would

My Day

| SEATTLE, ah Tuesday.—I spent all day yesterOn returning there this morn2 d that all was going well with : my daughter. No one feels very comfortable 24 hours

JalEE- any oper on, but when the doctor is satisfied, the family feels cheerful, even if the patient can’t rise to the same ense of satisfaction. I wish very much that the dren’s paintings, which I saw n exhibition at the Metropolitan seum of Art in New York City, be sent to other cities ghout the country. The little cared for by the Quakers Samp and schools in various of Europe, have done some

able us to use our bmited supply

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‘By Ernie Pyle

test, to show what his nerves and intelligence are. One of the tests is throwing a firecracker at him. Practically any dog will jump or cower if you do that. But a dog with steady nerves will be over it within five minutes. The nervous or cowardly dog will still be cowering 20 minutes later. That's the dog they don’t want. At Carl Spitz’s school—it’s called the Hollywood Dog Training school—the army dogs are trained from 4 till 7 p. m. The school devotes the rest of the: day to its regular private dog, training.

‘This Is Your Dog, Private’

IT IS A LONG process, this making a gentle dog a. warlike dog—but always under control. Controlled savagery, you might call it. For at the end, except for the one thing he’s trained to be tough about, the dog is as lovable and playful as at the beginning. It takes vast patience.

When at last the dog is finished, Spitz delivers him to [he army. When he delivered the first three he spent eight days at the post, training ‘the soldiers. Spitz went in and said: “Look, Private Murphy, this is your dog. He doesn’t belong to the army, he belongs to you. You are his master and he is your servant from now on. He belongs to nobody but you.” ‘And that’s the way it works in the army. Each dog has one master, and one alternate master. No-

body else bothers him. Not even the commanding

general is allowed to come within his sight in civilian clothes. He sees only army unjforms from then on. He wili not attack a man in uniform. ‘Every day, when the dog is taken from his kennel to go on duty, the sentry has a little secret ritual of cornmands he must go through with the dog. The dog will not go without it. Further, the guards have secret words by which the dogs are given their various working commands. Only Spitz and the army sentries and the dogs themselves know these words, And once a week the guards must repeat the dog’s whole course of training, from

beginning to end.

Indianapolis By Lowell Nusshaun

partment. Uncle Sam figures they're needed more in: Washington than here. The tough part about it is [they all have army rank and thus won't get any more pay in Washington to equalize greater expenses.

Stuffed Shirts! Phooey

dtkaariis Times, has an article in the current Saturday Review of Literature. The article takes to task the professional musicians—at least the stuffed shirt variety. The author doesn’t seem to like them. (P. S. The magazine printed his iret, rons) “ein Duke Hanna of the Lesh Paper Qo. sfill is getting panned about a little slip of the memory. He left his car one night in a driveway shaYed with a neighbor. Early in the morning, the neighbor wanted to drive out, and awoke Duke, asking him to move his cgr. Duke just slipped his trousers over his pajama pants. Then, instead of going back to bed, he absent mindedly went ahead and finished dressing. Later shat day, at the office, he sat talking to a customer and crossed his legs. And then he (and the customer) discovered he still had on his pajamas. That's the way his friends tell it, anyway.

We Suspect Rep. Wilson . IT'S GETTING tougher and tougher for the hired hands over at the statehouse to enjoy a social hour while drinking their mid-morning and mid-afternoon cokes. Somebody’s always taking the joy out of life. First it was the governor when he ordered out the sécond floor lunch stand, complaining employees frittered away too much time there. He did permit establishment of a soft drink stand in the main floor rotunda. Now somebody—we aren’t sure who—has removed the benches from the rotunda. Wasn't that a dirty trick? Or was it?

By Raymond Clapper

cf shipping to more effective purpose because the Jeneral staff would have a clearer idea of the main purposes of strategy. Now the shipping goes wherever the yell for it is loudest, not necessarily where the over-all plan of the war calls for it. Planes go where the pressure of the ‘competing interests is strongest. They may go to our own bases or to whichever of the united nations is most successful in lpbbying, wheedling, and maneuvering for them.. President Roosevelt is caught in the swirl of these rival pressures. It is a superhuman job for oné man, gs pressed as he is with a multitude of questions, to co the final compromising alone and do it with wise decisions.

That Battleship Complex

. SUCH A GENERAL staff, if properly composed, would do much to offset the tendency of the older controlling officers, in both army and navy, to think in traditional military terms. The agitation for a separate air force gains its strength from that situation. Both services are full of younger more imaginative dfficers, but the policies and emphasis are determined by senior officers. One informed authority says he will never be satisfied that the battleship complex has been broken in the navy until at least 100 younger cfficers, men who think in air verms, are moved up into positions of influence. Only through a general war staff can we achieve that real unity of command which everyone is demanding. The real unity of command that they want is unity of planning -and direction at the top. It does not mean uniting the army and navy into a ‘department of national] defense or any similar formal reorganization which might only cause confusion and loss of time. ‘Once there is unity of decision as to the major directions of grand strategy, army and riavy operations and all other parts of the complicated war machine will be steered in those directions. | It all gets over toward the German system. Making total war is one thing the Germans know how to do. If they have hit upon a successful scheme, that’s a good recommendation for it.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

City, could be shown in different parts of the country, I think it might inspire in many people the realization of what may be accom by feeding, clothing and housing children away from the horrors of war. Yesterday, with the greatest interest, I read the Survey Graphic for March, entitled “Fitness for Freedom.” in a People’s War,” by Dr. C. E. A, Winslow, should not be missed. I want to bring one quotation to you here: “There are those who fell us that long range planning is irrelevant to the present issue—that we should think at the moment of nothing but winning the war. There are others who see in the war emergency a golden opportunity to serve their own vested interests and to get rid—as they hope, for all time— of all this socialistic nonsense. “There have been wars in the past in which this happened. But this is not that kind of war. This is a ‘war so arduous and difficult that it can only be won by a uiiied People, bY a people Who know. that the. civilization for which they must be ready to die is, in truth, worth dying for.” other article Iy

The openmg article, entitled “Health Front|

yartioflesly. interested in

14 SCHOOLS IN CITY SELECTED AS PLAYLOTS

Parent-Teachers, Official Boards Act; One. Less

Than Last Year.

Representatives of the school board, parent-teacher associations and the park board today selected 14 public schools at which playground activities will be supervised this summer by the city recreation department. The schools selected are: Nos. 2, at 700 N, Delaware st.; 3, 23 N. Rural st.; 7, 748 Bates st.; 12, 733 S. West st.; 13, 714 Buchanan st.; 16, 1402 W, Market st.; 23, 360 W. 13th st.; 26, 1301 E. 16th st.; 32, 2110 N, Illinois st.; 36, 2801 N. Capitol ave.; 41, 3002 Rader st.; 43, 140 W. 40th st.; 66, 604 E. Maple road; 75, 1255 Belle Vieu st. These schools must be approved by the school board. It will be the

School 75. Playgrounds were supervised last year at 34 and 84, neither of which are on the list this year. Fifteen school playgrounds were supervised last summer but the number was reduced because of budget limitations officials said.

Meet in City Hall

Selection of the schools was made at the meeting at city hall by Mrs. Robert Wild, Mrs. George L. Clark of the council of parent-teacher associations; Mrs, Carl J. Manthei of the school board; Mrs. Joseph Miner of the mayor's advisory committee on ‘recreation; Miss Bertha Leming, John Mueller and W. A, Hacker, all of the Indianapolis public schools; H. W. Middlesworth, Patrick Rooney, both of the city recreation department, and Miss Gertrude V. Brown of the park board. Schools of instruction for recreation A leaders will be held this spring. Applications for summer instructorships will be accepted at the recreation department until March 15. About 130 instructors will be selected to supplement the year-round recreation staff of 25.

CAPITAL HOLDS A

WASHINGTON, March 4 (U. P). ~The capital emerged from its first 10-hour practice “blackout” today with the _major criticism directed

at the federal government, Government offices, street and traffic lights. and transportation were cxempted from the first dusk to dawn blackout. Government officials had promised to reduce lighting in federal buildings to a minimum, but local officials were pointing today at the public health service building, now occupied by the united nations’ high command. Not only were its ordinary lights within the building in operation, but a battery of floodlights played on it, they said. The annex to the library of congress, now occupied by the office of facts and figures, was described Ly Brig. Gen. Albert Cox, commanding officer of the Washington provision brigade, as the brightest building he saw during the night. Rep. Earl Wilson (R. Ind) is expected to be looking at all girl

Jgovernment workers today to see

if the blackout helped them get “a good night's rest.” : He recently created a furor among girl government clerks by suggesting a 10 p. m. curfew for them. He suggested that last night was a good time to try out his plan. His new slogan is: “Early to bed and early to rise will make your complexion and brighten your eyes.”

Suspect Poison

In 3 Dog Deaths

MALICIOUS poisoning was suspected today in the death of three dogs in the 4000 block on N. New Jersey st. Two of the dogs were the pets of the M. A. Gaskins family, 4026 N. New Jersey st. One of them, Teddy, a year old, died five minutes after Mr. Gaskins had let them out of the house upon his return home from work last night. The other, Trixie, 10 years old,

shot it at the owner's request. The third dog, Skippy, 4-months-old, was the pet of the Ralph G. Ittenbach fi y, 4014 ‘ N.-New Jersey st. If died in pain before the Gaskins dogs were turned loose. All three dogs were fox terriers.

NEW ALBANY MAYOR DIES, NAME PRO TEM

Times Special

NEW ALBANY, Ind, March 4— Councilman John R. Tribbey was elected mayor pro tem last night at a special session of the city council. He succeeds Mayor Noble F. Mitchell, who died yesterday following a second major operation. Mayor Mitchell, a dentist, was a past exalted ruler of the New, Albany Elks lodge. He was born in New Albany and was graduated from the Louisille Dental school. A Republican, he was elected mayor in 1938. Services will be at 2 p. m. tomorrow with burial here.

A A ‘ ~ i ; 2 a er iy

first year for a playground at,

SECOND SECTION

Washington held a blackout last night so Miss Lorraine Lindsey, employee of the WPA— nighty-clad, candle in hand—demonstrates how air raid practice can be combined with the 8 p.m. “curfew,” as proposed by Rep. Earl Wilson of Indiana. But at the same time, capital bluebloods are just starting to prepare for another nightly social whirl.

By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 4.—The teacup and cocktail glass not only have repelled all assaults against them in this capital of the united nations but have made their strongest counter-offensive since the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth three years ago. As Hope Ridings Miller put it, phets who declared that ial blackout was due (be- \ of the war) have had to jeir words,” not to mention an unprecedented number of crumpets and canapes. Miss Miller, society editor of the Ww, lon Post, has seen a lot of parties in her time, but recent events, including four diplomatic rece, in close succession, have amazed even her. : “There has never been anything like it since the visit of the king and queen,” she said. EJ ” »

IN ADDITION to last week's receptions at the Russian, Cuban, Brazilian and Mexican embassies there was the “small” dinner party at which French Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye was host to. 52 men and women. The gentleman from Vichy entertains several times a week. More numerous and, in the aggregate, more costly are the luncheons, cocktail fetes, tea parties and dinners in private homes or hotels. All observers agree that the capital never experienced such a whirl before. Hattie Carnegie, New York socialite and designer, said after a visit that “it has the atmosphere of old Paris.” Occasionally, a congressman deplores goings on in capital society. President Roosevelt has

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Seamen Risked

was in such agony that police

Lives in

Trying to Save Comrades

CAPE MAY, N. J., March 4 (U.

dawn last Saturday.

pedoes from a U-boat, fired within 15 seconds of each other, sent the 23-year-old destroyer to the bottom, As she slipped beneath the waves an hour after the attack, her depth

| charges exploded. - Sailors clinging

to life rafts, were blasted into the sea and were drowned.

Possibly 150 Aboard

The navy did not disclose the exact casualty list, A destroyer of the Jacob Jones class, however, hormally carried seven officers and 125 to 150 men. It was the first naval vessel known to have been lost in Atlantic coastal waters since the war began, and the first in American history known to have been sunk so close to her home shores. It was the ninth American warship announced as sunk during the war in the Atlantic or Pacific. The 11 survivors, nine engine room enlisted men and two apprentice seamen, were picked up after drifting on life rafts in a rough sea for four hours. Two who were injured were taken to the Cape May naval hospital. Apparently none of the survivors was aware of the submarine’s presence before its first torpedo struck the destroyer’s bow and wrecked its bridge, killing all the men who were there, plotting the course. The ‘blast carried away the bow and the second torpedo shattered its stern, touching off some of the depth charges stored there, each of which contained 300 pounds of TNT.

2 Blasts in 15 Seconds

Lieut. Comm. H. D. Black of Oradell, N. J., was presumed to have been killed by the first torpedo. Joseph Tidwell, a seaman. said he had gone to the ship's galley to get sugar for coffee that had been made just before the attack. “I had, just turned around to leave when a terrific explosion shook the ship,” he said. “Pots and pans flew all over the room.

P.).—Cool courage under fire, which

prompted them to return to their sinking ship in an effort to save more of their mates, was revealed today in the stories of 11 survivors of the 1200-ton destroyer Jacob Jones, torpedoed off Cape May just before

PRACTICE BLACKOUT|

More than 100 men, including all officers, were lost when two tor-

“About 15 seconds later there was another explosion. “When the pots and pans stopped raining down, I ran on deck to see what: I could do:” Reaching deck, he said, he saw the shadow of the U-boat about 150 yards off the destroyer’s port side. It lay there surveying the damage it had wrought and waited for the Jacob Jones to sink. But for an hour, the destroyer’s watertight compartments kept it afloat. As their ship was pounded by the waves, the crew moved about quickly, launching rafts into the near-freezing sea. In the hour the destroyer still floated, Richard Dors left the sanctuary of a life reft and returned to her decks to loose more rafts and seek out mates who might be saved. “I tried to make a raft out of two gasoline drums but the ship started to settle in the water before I could get finished,” he said. “I jumped over the side and swam around until I found another raft. Just as I grabbed hold, a terrific explosion went off in the ship. I was blown clear of the water. I finally got back on the raft with three other fellows.” The explosion was believed to have been more depth charges, and the conclusion spilled many seamen from rafts and killed others swimming in the oil-coated water. Thomas Moody’s story was a testimonial ot navy training and coolness. Before he left the ship, he said, he drank hot coffee and paused to take off his life-jacket and coat and don three suits of heavy underwear over his regular clothing beSa “I realized it was cold outside.”

WOMAN, %5, BURNED Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, 75, was in serious conidtion at City hospital today because of burns received when her clothing caught fire last night in her home, 7200 E. 10th st. Her dress was ignited as she: stood with her back to a fireplace.

HOLD EVERYTHING

A Social Blackout? Not in Capital Prophets Eat Crumpets and Canapes||

talked of parasites, gossipers and Cliveden sets. But no one, ap-

parently, feels that the shoe fits |

him, or her. os » n

“THERE 1S MORE entertaining than ever before,” according to Evelyn Peyton Gordon, society editor of the Washington News. Betty Hynes, society editor of the Washington Times-Herald, said that in addition to parties the war had multiplied the number of society weddings. Generals, admirals, diplomats and such government officials as come under the heading of “personable” or “eligible” are being rushed off their feet. But many key government men are what one ambitious hostess called “exasperating.” Such men as Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the war production board, and Nelson Rockefeller, co-ordinator of inter-American affairs, are too busy to accept invitations. 2 8 = ONE OF THE TOWN'S most enterprising entertainers recently had to call off a cocktail party because she couldn’t get enough of “the right sort of men.” The capital's liquor consumption has kept pace with its social schedule. Taxes were paid in the district on: 373,055 gallons of wines and spirits in Deeember, the month war was declared, compared with 308,085 in December, 1940. But despite the pace, capital society also is up to its ears in the war effort. Washington Junior Leaguers - hold 730 defense jobs of one kind or another, the D. A. R. and girl scouts were never busier, and . . . Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, owner of the $2,000,000 Hope mond necklace and chatelaine of “New Friendship,” is a local air raid warden.

DIL ASSOCIATION CONVENES HERE

Independent State Group To Study Problems Growing Out of War,

The Indiana Independent Petroleum association operied its two-day spring convention-this afternoon at the Hotel Severin with about 200 attending. : Principal problem facing the refiners, marketers and supply men is the question of government emergency regulation, according to A. W. Roth, president, The question was to be considered this afternoon by Dr, John W. Frey, marketing chief of the office of the petroleum co-ordinator, Washingion. He was tb speak on “Outlook for Marketing Branch of the Petroleum Industry,” | Other speakers this afternoon included Frederick A. Fletcher of the Indianapolis FBI office; E. J. Gallmeyer, vice president of the Wayne Pump Co, Pt. Wayne, and J. E Gheen, New York humorist,

Tyndall to Speak |

Tomorrow afternoon the question of government oil regulation again will be taken up when Elmer E. Batzell, also of the Washington office of the petroleum co-ordinator, speaks on “Effect of Priorities and Allocations on Oil Industry.” Maj. Gen, Robert H. Tyndall will speak on his work as county civilian defense director and Dr, J. Raymond Schutz, Standard Life Isnurance Co. president, will deliver an address on “All Out for Democracy or Slavery.” The convention will close tomorrow night with a banquet and floor

HORSE-RIDER SURVEY FOR DEFENSE BEGUN

A state survey is under way to determine the number of horses and

horse patrol. E. A. Crane of Indianapolis, president of the Indiana Saddle Horse association, said the survey was being conducted by the association

G. 0. P. CLUB TO HEAR

J MRS. GRACE REYNOLDS

Js (Ghtues B. Reynolds of Cam-|%= Cty ‘Republican

riders available for Indiana’s civil

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Hewit Tells Committee Measure Would Wreck Indiana Income.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 4—Enacte ment of the Cochran bill to exempt war contracts and contractors from state tax payments would wreck the tax structure in Indiana, Director Gilbert K, Hewit of the Indiana

'|gross income tax division ‘told the

house ways and means committee today. Mr, Hewit appeared in opposition to the measure against Rep. John J,

Cochran: (D. Mo.), author of the

bill; Maj. Gen. Eugene Reybold, chief. of the army engineers; Rear Admiral Ben Moreell, chief of the navy bureau of yards and docks, and Under Secretary of War Robe ert P. Patterson.

“Taxpayers’ MacArthur”

Being the only opposition witness scheduled at the opening of the hearings today and facing the come bined force of the army and navy, Mr, Hewit said he felt like “the taxe payers’ Douglas MacArthur.” Joseph McNamara and Fred Mce Clurg of the state house staff accompanied him here, In presenting the case against the bill, Mr, Hewit estimated a probable tax loss to she state of $6,045,000 in 1942 in w a: $2,300,000 “probable revenue 3 § through priorities and rationing” might be added, he said. The $6,045,000 was broken down into a direct revenue loss of $4,650 000 and refunds of $1,395,000 to de= fense contract taxpayers through retroactive features of the bill trom Sept. 8, 1939.

Sums Up ‘Opposition

In summing up, Mr. Hewit said; “It is believed that this bill is (a) an unwarranted invasion of a ¢ | fundamental right and power of a state; (b) is sought to be passed at a time when the revenue received by the states is sorely need~ ed; (c¢) will not, in fact, afford a real saving to the federal government, and will, in fact, benefit no one except certain private individ. uals and (d) the effect, if passed and held valid, will be to ravish our present system of dual governs ment, the state and federal gove ernments each acting within his toric constitutional spheres.”

SUES ELWOOD- FIRM FOR WILLKIE PRINTING

The Daily News Publishing Co, Beloit, Wis, filled suit in federal court here yesterday against the National Book Co., Inc, Elwood, seeking payment of $24,478 for printing programs and pamphlets used at Wendell L. Willkie’s presie dential nomination notification ceres ; monies at Elwood in 1940. i The . publishers listed claims of $13,759.52 for printing 50,000 pams«

phlet autobiographies of Mr. Willy

kie, $561224 for 50,000 programs, $1241.66 for illustration and engrave ing expenses, and other miscellan« eous costs. C. F. and John M. Rutledge, officers of the Elwood concern, alse were listed as defendants.

|SISTER OF MAYOR

INJURED IN CRASH

Mrs. John E. Hollett Sr. 340 Ei Maple road, sister of Mayor van, was in Methodist hospital day because of injuries received a traffic accident. 1 An auto she was driving an driven by William Stiving ana of Cicero, Ind., collided at blvd. and Allisonville road. She received a broken right shoulder and lacerations on the right leg,

authorities who will direct tion of an estimated 120,000

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

dent Wallace is Agard, or Allen?

|2—Prior to 1042, national daylig

saving time has or has not b in eflect in the United States # winter? 3—Name the capital of 4—What have the following in ¢

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