Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1942 — Page 7
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rch 7.—Spring has come alornia. There are buds on thd trees, and newly seed grass is green, and people ar: getting out their new flowers. And if you get away from the streets and the sidewalks you can smell th? fresh earth, as you can smell it in Indiana a ‘couple of months from no The sun beats down, and. my tan|is coming back. The heat of the day drives away little aches and pains, and your spirit takes heart anew, and you expand. It is to be alive in the spring, when warmth comes again to the h.
ybe that’s what's the mats ter | with America. Maybe we‘ all pleased at just being alive. Maybe if it snowed alll summer we'd be more willing to die. \ . Speaking of dying, in my hotel coffee shop the other night there was & very noisy and jovial drunk. 1 gathered he was a h executive in some big de: fense factory. % He was telling his friends (everybody could over: hear) that he had j one ambition—to live for two days after the war is over. | The first day he’d spend tooting a horn, he said. The second day he'd, go and see his dogs, which he'd had to put in a kennel} for the duration. After that, Jet death come.
You Old Traveler, You!
GOVERNOR JOHN |[E' MILES of New MeXico has recently been in a hospital here ‘in Los Angeles, so 1 decided to go see him, We phoned and made all arrangements. Then we got out
PROFILE OF THE : Francis Wesley Dunr,
president of the Uniof Insurance (Co., secretary of
the Contemporary club, one time corset factory efficiency expert, overseas veteran of World War I, and one of thaf rare ies—a, successful businessman : with a decidedly liberal philosophy. Francis Dunn is a chunky (but not paunchy) individual with broad shoulders and a deep chest. He's 46, and doesn’t look it; stands about 5 feet, 11, and weighs around 190. He has sandy hair and is getting baldish. There's at e in his deep blue eyes, and| wrinkles around them. His v is deep ‘and low, and he habi y hums under his breath. Temperamentally he’s quite shy, yet poised. He has strong likes and dislikes, yet ne’s more likely to indulge an-
other’s shortcomings than to criticize. He’s slow to
get riled; enjoys arguing; is as apt to be on one side as the other, and usually picks the side with the fewest on it. |
Please! He's a liberal in the sense of being a realist, has an abiding interest in ial and civic work, and hes worked long and hard for Flanner House, of whica he is treasurer. bo ans
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unfolded the map of Los Angeles to find out how to get where we were going. Los Angeles is so terrifically big that you almost have to be a trained explorer to find anything. But we finally located the hospital's street on the map, marked it with a pencil, and then went through the same long process of finding our hotel, so we could then draw a line between the two and figure out the shortest way to get there. And when we got all through with this complicated combination of geography and geometry, we discovered the hospital was in the next block, and I'd been looking at it out of my window for days! So we pe the car back in the garage and walked over. P. S.—The Governor was glad to see us.
~The Childish Elephant
A FRIEND OF MINE who used to be with a circus got to talking the other day about Congress voting the pension, and then unvoting it after the public began to clamor. He said it reminded him of a smart elephant .they used to have: This elephant, when staked out, would wait tm nobody was looking, then get her trunk around the stake and give it a quick little pull to loosen it, then quickly start eating or flecking bits of straw around with ner trunk, as though she hadn't done a thing. Pretty soon she’s slyly give the stake another pull, and then quickly pretend to be eating again. Finally, after five or six surreptitious tugs at the stake, she’d have it completely loose and start giving it the final yank. Whereupon her trainer, who knew all her tricks, wtihout even turning his head would say “PUT THAT BACK!” and before he got the setence finished she'd be jabbing the spake back in its hole, just as though the bad old stake had popped out by itself. My circus friend says that Congress, in unvoting the pensions, acted just like the childish elephant. He thinks Congress: should have thrown the stake at
car, but before starting wg somebody.
ndianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
"ing cups. He can’t keep away from y.the office on Sun-
days; likes to go down and see what's in his mail His dog, a pointer named “Sloop” because as a puppy he had ears “like sails,” always has to go along with him to the office on Sundays, but never offers to go week days. Interested in amateur dramatics, Francis has participated in several plays; once upset the cast by forgetting an entrance.
A Battlefield Vacationer
Born in Chicago, he was reared in Marion, iInd., spent a year at the University of Chicago, and then went to Harvard. He trained two summers at Plattsburg, served as commandant of the Harvard regiment. Enlisting, he was trained at Ft. Oglethorpe and Ft. Sill, won a commission, and was sent ‘overseas for a year. Back home, he served as factory manager, efficiency expert and then as sales manager for the Gossard Corset Co. .He came here in 1928 with the Union Insurance Co. Crazy about Civil War history, he réads anything he can get his hands on about it, and wears the family out on vacation trips, dragging them over battlefields. He's fond of symphonic music; hates opera; prefers instrumental to vocal music; makes a hobby of collecting symphonic albums, and knows them, too. In his youth, he was a violinist. He has a nice ginging voice, and likes to tune up in the shower.
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- Oh, Those Hats!
‘". Rather particular about food, he particularly -enjoys oysters and rich desserts such as chocolate cream pie. He wears black silk sox the year ‘round, even with white shoes. His hats are just the least bit on the disreputable side, particularly a couple of old borsalinos he wouldn't think of giving up. Francis loves the movies; seldon misses a war picture. At the theater he judges a play by whether it could have happened. He always listens to the 10
EB Pp. m. news broadcast, and one of his favorite radio
“WASHINGTON, way of looking at
We yhiave to change ot during the war. A lot of pec-
ple want to help the
mr give their support to proposal to increase taxes.
groups ‘that will try to away the heavy taxes just by Secretary . Morgen-
ery one ‘of us in civilian life -
might ds well take the attitude , now that we must work one or ‘ two/ or three days a week for the
; government—or ‘maybe five days
government payroll, we stay in private 1ife and contribute the earnings of one or more days a week toward ] Never has the pa privilege as now.
"taxes are far more co mptible than the soldier who
Somnplains of ‘hard duty.
programs is “Henry Aldrich.” He loves to dance, consumes a lot of Old Gold cigarets, has mastered an electric razor and won’t use anything else. And he’s anything but a handy man. If he fried to fix a lock, he’d probably end up by having to buy a whole new door.
By Raymond Clapper
A lot of high-priced lawyers have been hired to come to Washington and ease down the taxes for somebody. The best way td deal with all such arguments will be to say “no” without even listening. We will hear about the widows and orphans. But it isn’t the widows and orphans who hire expensive lawyers to come to Washington to talk congress out of imposing taxes. Corporations and rich péople are the ones who do that. If somebody is going to have to give up some servants and an extra golf club membership, that would be too bad. But war is hell. Even General MacArthur has a hard time of it.
Mighty Few Will Starve GRADUALLY WE ARE learning that we can help
‘with the war even without getting a commission in the
army and navy. Donald Nelson in his radio talk explained how every production worker is a soldier in this war. Secretary Morgenthau explains how even those who are not in war production can be soldiers in this war. Yes, even the hea A stockholders can help. They can help more than, they realize. Because most of the chiseling on tax bills comes through corporation
‘executives who say they have to look out for their
stockholders. Well, this is one time the stockholders can take a
+ cut. Let them call off their lawyers down here and
As Secretary Morgen war taxes will be felt ij be severe. But as
au says, the impact of the new every American home. They
=n to lose 1.
he said, it is a million times.
take their rap just as those who work for a living are taking their rap, if you can consider war taxes as a rap, rather than an opportunity to help. Before this war is over there will be work for everybody. So people who have been living off their stocks won’t starve. Mighty few people have starved under this administration.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
By Ernie Pyle|[Jf
Become Eligible for School If They Qualify in Training Course.
Draft registrants who have been deferfed because they have dependents can volunteer for officer candidate training, Col. Robinson Hitchcock, state director of selective service, announced today. The volunteers who are accepted will be given four months of train-
whether they promise development into officers. If they qualify at the end of four months, they will enter
fail to qualify, they may request a transfer to the enlisted reserve. Men put in the enlisted reserve would return to civilian life and they would not be subject to call
(Class III-A) are called. How to Apply
Induction for the four-months’ training pointed toward the officer candidate school must be made through the local draft board, Col Hitchcock explained. “Class III-A registrants who volunteer to try for a commission must be American citizens,” he said. “Local boards, at their discretion, may reject applications of any who should be deferred as ‘necessary men’ in war production. Volunteers who are under 21 years of age must obtain the written consent of their parents or guardians.” The first step to be taken by a Class III-A registrant desiring to volunteer for officer candidate training is to file with his local board a form entitled “Application to Volunteer and Waiver of Dependency.” A volunteer's dependents also must sign the waiver.
Pay Own Expenses
After an examination by the local board’s physican, the volunteer will go to a designated army reception center or army replacement center for a qualification examination. All expenses incident to travel to the reception or replacement center must be borne by the applicant. The qualification examination report then will be submitted to the local draft board. If the registrant is ‘rejected ~ for ‘officer ‘candidate training, his application to volunteer is automatically rejected by the local board and he is retained in Class III-A.
Pay Low While Training
But if he is found acceptable by the army he is placed in Class III-A, and he will be ordered to report for induction as a volunteer for officer candidate training at the next call for delivery of men by his local board. “Registrants with dependents should keep-in mind,” Col Hitchcock warned, “that the average period of training will be from six to nine months, during which time he will receive the same rate of pay as a private—$21 per month for the first four months, and $30 per month for the remainder of the training peri
EVENING CLASSES BEGIN ON MARCH 16
The spring term of the Indianapolis public evening schools will begin March 16 and close May 22 The slogan for the term is “Trained People Serve Best.” ‘Registration, beginning Monday, will be held every night next week from 7 to 9 o'clock.
Courses are offered in airplane mechanics, algebra, American government, arithmetic, blueprint reading, -bookkeeping, chemistry, comptometry, drafting, dressmaking, electricity, English, filing, geometry, human relations in business, increasing sales efficiency, machine shop, mathematics, mechanical drawing, pattern making, printing, psychology of selling; retail selling, sheet metal, shop mathematics, shorthand, soldering and welding, Spanish, trigonometry, typing and welding.
MOCK RADIO PLAY AT TB HOSPITAL SLATED
ing in the ranks to determine]
officer candidate schools. If they|
for active service unless registrants, having similar dependency claims
ing a search for the sub.
Smoke and flames pour from the wreck of a tanker after it had been torpedoed off Curacao, “somewhere in the Caribbean,” by an axis submarine. This photo was taken from a united nations aircraft dur-
Tanker Burns After Sub Attack sl
war. How he achieved his fame scribed in the following dispatch,
on his last flight.
Capt. Colin P. Kelly Jr. was America’s
'l Flew With Kelly on Final Trip—He Was a Real Man’
first hero of the present and died for his country are deone of the first detailed accounts.
The author is Second Lieut. Donald Robins, captain Kelly’s co-pilot
By DONALD ROBINS (Copyright, 1842, by United Press) CORREGIDOR, Manila Bay, March 6 (U, P.) —(delayed)<After moving from field to field eluding Jap attacks in the first two days of the war and even sleeping under the wing of our B:17 (flying fortress) one night, we proceeded to badly bombed Clark field (north of Manila) the morning of Dec. 10 for a load of bombs and gasoline. When we were about half finished with our loading, an air raid
warning sounded. I well recall. It was then 9:35 a. m. I started all four motors at once—something highly unconventional—and we took off hs soon as possible. We had had time to load only three bombs but those were big babies. We cleared the field safely, proceeded east of Lingayen gulf and waited for other planes which were scheduled to join us. Colin, who was deputy squad leader, told me that our mission was to. get. an aireraft carrier bes
other B-17s apparently received a different last-minute order. Anyway, they didn’t appear. So we started looking for the enemy alone and flew as far as the small island north of Luzon, where we observed two small Japanese transports
\ Climb Away From Fighters
But we were after bigger game and changed our course to travel south, hitting Luzon at Aparri.
transports, three destroyers and one big fat son of a . Three pursuits took after us, so we climbed up to 20,000 feet and the pursuits left us, leaving the field open on a perfect bombing day. At this choice altitude, Kelly, myself and the navigator took turns looking through the glasses and concurring that the fat boy couldn't be anything but a battleship. So we decided to let go. ° Over the battleship, we dropped our three bombs in a trail. They made a perfect bracket—one hit very near the starboard side, so close that it was almost a miss. The second hit midships near the funnel and the other explosion occurred near the port side.
“Luck Was With Us”
It was a bombardier’s dream. The gods of luck were with us and when we left the battleship already was burning fiercely. Bombardier Corp. M. Levin deserves special credit since he was using an untried bombsight of a type slightly different than he usually operated. Highly ' satisfied with the accomplishment, we started returning to Clark field and let down to 10,000 feet. Rally instructed the radio operator to ‘call the field for in-
HOLD EVERYTHING
lieved to be off northern Luzon. The}
There we saw seven ships—three|
{the crew landed safely.
structions, and while the operator was doing so, two or three pursuits came out of a low bank of clouds immediately below Clark field and attacked us. Their machine guns and cannon set the ship afire, Evidently ' they came up from underneath and if the radio operator had been at his usual‘ battle position, he would likely have seen Plane Set Afire
The Japs hit our radio compartment. Also our oxygen supply was blown up and the left wing set afire. When hit we dove for a scud of clouds and got below. The ship was burning like a holocaust. Kelly ordered the men to bail out and the rear crew jumped first with the bombardier and the radio operator leaving next from the frontal eicape. A minute later the plune went completely out of control and threw both of us (Kelly and Robins) against the cabin wall. I thought, “well this is it.” All this time, Kelly had been hollering to the machine gunners to do their stuff and beat ‘em off. Kelly was a fighter to the last and, as usual, he didn’t swear, even though in a plenty tough spot.
“I Couldn’t Seem to Move”
The rest of the story is vague. I tried to make my way to the nearby. overhead escape, but couldn't seem to move. I believe I was thrown out of the plane by an explosion, certainly through no volition of my own. Six of the eight members of Kelly’s body was found near the plane, while the engineer manning one of the side rear guns, was killed instantly by one of the first bursts from the Japanese pursuits.
I flew with Kelly from Hawaii and even with only one day’s notice concerning his unexpected transfer to the Philippines, he didn’t seem to mind. He was a real man, acted always calmly and deliberately, and, I am convinced, died with a smile of satisfaction on his lips because he knew the battleship Haruna never survived those three wounds.
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LONGER RATION LIST SUGGESTED
The War and You—
Designs Will Be Simple; Preserving Capacity To Be Increased.
millions of jars and bottles.
The war production board revealed it is working out a program to step up glass r produc tion and increase nation’s preserving capacity. : : There is no glass shortage, WPB officials said, but th program does not envisage an increased ‘use of material. They explained that the shift from tin to glass would bring it larger containers, simple designs, elimination of excess weight and reduced breakage, and round—ratiter than - square—containers. Other civilian war notes:
TOOLS—The owners of idle machine tools have been asked by the WPB to put them up for sale to plants in war production. TEAK WOOD-Is used for ship decking and other military pur poses, and comes from such threat ened or closed sources of supply as Burma, Thailand, Java, India, and the Dutch East Indies; ergo, teak wood no longer may be used for civilian work.
Sugar May Not Be the Only. Commodity on Cards March 25.
By LOUIS ARMSTRONG
How far will this rationing program go? That is the question state rationing officials are asking here today. They have just about reached the conclusion that the registration for sugar books will really turn into a
registration for the rationing of additional commodities.
The probability of the broader rationing program is based on the fact that officials in Washington econtinue to send up “trial balloons” on additional rationing and the recent hint of Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau that “it might be necessary to ration -all commodities in order to defeat inflation” ~~ Another important “lead” upon which the officials here are pondering is that the coming registration for sugar stamp books is significantly called by Washington the “national registration for commodity rationing.”
615,000 Ration Books
Marion County Clerk Charles Ettinger % to receive a flood of forms and : me terial within the next few days which will be used in the “rationing of sugar.” Included in this flood are 615,000 “war ration books,” 652,000 consumer application forms, 652,000 instructions to'consumers and 6600 instructions to rationing personnel.
The report of this information sent to the chairmen of local rationing boards also points out that the “time to be. devoted to the national rationing registration program and for sugar rationing is between the hours of 4 and 6 p. m. and 7 and 9 p. m. on four consecutive days during the latter part of this month.” The registration will probably begin on the 25th and it is interesting to note the hours set for the rationing. Indiana teachers will be able to handle the registration conveniently after school. The state rationing officials explain that these hours may be extended by the county superintendent of schools and the local rationing board. The state officials also suggest that it might be advisable to
close the schools during the regis-|
tration.
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Nutrition Program
A state nutrition program .is under way to teach consumers how
-|to get the most food value from
their meals and yet stay within the rationing boundary. * The program is directed by the Indiana state nutrition council and the Indiana state defense council
.|and its efforts will be directed along|-
three channels. ‘The first is an education program, the second is a survey to eliminate waste, ‘and the
{third is an inspection program to
assure consumers that restaurants,
| cafeterias and private dining rooms
are preparing nutritious foods.
| nutrition committees are forming. These groups, when organized, will
carry out the work of the program. They plan forums, discussions and
OIL—The Federal Works Agency won't use any oil-burning heating
| equipment in .public works under
iits supervision in 14 eastern states ‘and the District of Columbia, Twenty-six existing orders call for
| oll-burners and substitutions will be
made wherever practicable.
RUGS—Effective Monday there'll be a ceiling on wholesale prices of domestic wool rugs and carpets. SHORTAGES—The steel -industry has been asked to use less nickel, chromium, tungsten, cobalt and other ingredients in alloy steel for civilian use. Many war industries, including parts of shipbuilding and airplane production, are threat ened by shortages. ELECTRICITY—President Roosevelt asks you to use less of it to save valuable power for war needs. In cidentally, the President said that if people attending night baseball games turned off vaeir lights when | they loft’ their - homes, ‘the game wouldn't result in an increased use of power. Maybe night baseball won't be cut out after all,
Applies for Tire Of Wood Patent
". BROOKLINE, Mass, March 7. (U. P.—With the nation’s 32, 000,000 automobile owners facing a tire shortage, Harry H. Johnson, 54-year-old. chauffeur, an= nounced today he has invented a wooden tire,
.. He has presented the government with a model of his inven= . tion. There are four sections on each side of the tire, which is fitted tightly against the rim, The sections overlap to prevent split ting and under the wood on the rim there is a channel fitted with waste oil or water to keep the wood from shrinking and breaking off.' Mr. Johnson has two of the tires on his car and says he has driven them more than 100 miles with little wear. A speed of 20 to 25 miles an hour can be maintained with little noise. or shock from the tires, he claims.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Pvt. J. L. Barrow in the U. 8 Army is known by what other name'in the prize ring? -
{2—Name the canal that joins the
Mediterranean and the Red Sea,
3—Why were the Minute Men of the American Revolutionary War so called? 4—Which of Shakespeare's habs acters is called “The Melancholy Dane”? : 5 5—Califor nia, ‘Or egon, 4 Idaho or 7 Montana has the largest tional Forest area'in the United States? 6—Mulled wine is served heated and spiced; true or false?
8—Which of the gem or ornamental stones is most valued by the Chinese? : 8.8.8
1—Joe Louis.