Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1942 — Page 15

Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie pyle

‘SAN DIEGO, March ‘12.—As you tunafish eaters ‘know, your delicacy is gone for the duration. Do you © know exactly why? | | Well, it's partly Japanese-right now (they used to catch lots of tuna : on jour side of the fence,; and then sell it to us). And itis further because the navy has taken over ag part of our American tuna t fleet. Tuna fishing had got to be a whopper of an industry around San Diego. In fact, this is the only place in the United States where there was a tuna industry. In [boats alone, the fishermen had an investment of $10,000,000. he navy has already taken more than half the total tonnage of the 110 boats in the tuna fleet. Those left are small ones which can’t go very far to sea. - So this year’s catch pf tuna will be small, and every bit of it will go to army and navy. Its rather ironic—the governmeni has contracts with the ‘tuna * canneries for a certain/ amount of tuna this year, but by taking away the ts y make it impossible for ‘the canneries to fill the contracts. So, you see, there'll be none left over for civilian palates.

Only About 15 y ears Old

THE TUNA-FI G industry is a relatively new one—about 16 years old on a big scale—and a thrilling one, too. Tomorrow I'll tell you some weird fish stories. From early in the century until 1925, the fishermen around here caught al re, which is a very delicateeated fish of the tuna variety. But the biggest J catch was around 10,000 tons, compared with the 1940 tuna catch of 104,000 tons. Each year ‘the al re, after disappearing to the south, would show up in ‘these local waters at a certain time.. They were as regular as the seasons; as

Insid Ansiae ] THEY REALLY do things up brown at our new defense plants. For“ instance, Henry Cruse of the

ause we aren’t trading with the 1 : : "loop that year. But they recovered quickly. They de-

cided to go south, farther away, after tuna, which are|.

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ful in their rendezvous as the swallows of San Juan Ce, \ . :

bigger than albacore. It's a Paying Business

* THEN BEGAN AN era of building bigger : ger boats. Today there are tuna clippers that $250,000 and can cruise for 15,000 miles. The, far south as Peru, and fish 1000 miles from

Sometimes they are gone three months, and return]

with 400 tons of tuna. The biggest of the boats carry 22 men, and can bring in as much as $64,000 worth of tung on one trip. ' They say tuna fishermen are the highest-paid seamen in the world—$3000 a year is not unusual for just an ordinary pole man. Engineers make as high as $8000 and $10,000 a year. / There gre about 1200: actual tung fishermen, and most of them are Portuguese—80 per cent of them in fact. Eight per cent are Italian, and two per cent plain American. So fruitful is the tuna game. that some of them have fished themselves into quartermillion dollar boats and $50,000 homes here in San Diego. eR Tuna fare all caught individually, on hand lines, and it takes experience to make a tuna fisherman. Because you fish by rhythm, and your nerves and sight must be above par. 4 ; : When the navy took over the tuna clippers many of the fishermen enlisted and went right along with the boats: And I've heard one report from a naval officer that, as lookouts, these fishermen made the regular navy men appear silly. They could see things with the naked eye long before in officer could see: them with binoculars. : ! And, oddly enough, they've found that the bestseeing tuna fishermen are color blind. . ;

Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum)

of fence around defense plants in the state recently that he gets to dreaming that he’s fenced himself in and can’t get out.

Refinery Stocks Low as

‘have cut off at least 25 per cent of

Tankers Sink; Southwest Has Surplus.

"By DALE McFEATTERS : Thates Special Writer ‘WASHINGTON, March 12—Gasoline rationing is on the way again for eastern states—and possibly for the Pacific coast—but this time apparently there is nothing “phony” about it. ics Oil. men ‘and transportation men, as well as federal petroleuni administrators, are agreed that tanker| | sinkings and diversions to war duty| |

the Atlantic seaboard’s normal sup-| ply of oil. ~~ : . Gasoline consumers in the Bast haven't forgotten the alarms and curfews of last summer when Petroleum Co-ordinator Harold Ickes’ threatened shortage failed tb materialize. There has been some inclination to look upon the latest reports of scarcities and curtailments as another cry of “wolf.”

East Coast Shortage Real But. the evidence is that the East coast shortage is very real. Stocks of one major refinery were virtually exhausted recenfly and the.com-

pany reportedly was on the verge of notifying its dealers to close when

Jack Cohen of 5428 Central ave. .

6 MORE RESCUED FROM LOST SHIP

Tell How 14 Others Died in

« « an already cut part is prepared plane.

for assembley into model

Model airplanes made by Indianapolis schoolboys - for training military and civilian watchers will’ be submitted for inspection from 7 to 8:30 o'clock tonight in the Meridian st. entrance of Shortridge high school. Sponsored by the Indianapolis

Bill ‘Roll of 3674 N. Delaware st. . . . he makes sure the wing width his model is exactly right.

public schools as a navy project, the plan is to make the models like the shapes of various enemy planes. The models then will be given the watchers in order to teach them what to look for. Gordon O. Johnson is director of the project. Indianapolis’ quota is 1600 model planes.

NEW TRIMS IN CAMP SIZE DUE

3000 More Acres Likely to Be Cut From Down-

Crescent Paper Co. tells us he sold an order, early > January, for 10 million paper drinking cups to be used at the new powder plant near Dana, Ind. Although work on the plant barel has started, the company is shipping 100,000 cups a week and by April is to be shipping a million honth, we're told. . . . A former telephone Sk for the AmeriC Legion ®headquarters tells ‘about a woman who phoned the headquarters a while back, asked

other producers came to the rescue with supplies. ; Mr. Ickes, still feeling the backfire of last August’s gasoline curtailment, has been proceeding with caution, consulting with spokesmen of the industry at every step and even speaking of “modifying” proposals of eastern refiners who have recommended a 25 per cent curtailment in deliveries to filling stations, pending installation. of a

Pretty Fair Idea

WHO SAYS there's no chivalry in business? We hear that the Indianapolis Insurance Board, Inc., of which quite a few insurance agency heads are members, is planning to look after the interests of any of its “one-man agency” members who are in the armed services. That way, if the agency head has to leave his business in the hands of an office secretary, the other board members would help sign renewals and otherwise see that his business keeps

Lifeboat From Cold; 38 Still Missing.

NEW LONDON, Conn., March 12 (U., P.).—Six additional survivors of+the torpedoed Brazilian steamer Cayru, four of them with frozen feet, were landed here today and

Lehman to Rule on Death For ‘Mad Dog’ Espositos| Ste Prost

ALBANY, N. Y., March 12 (U. P.)—Herbert H. Lehman must de-|P.).—A second revision by the war cide today whether the state sponsors an unlovely spectacle in the department in the boundaries of execution chamber of Sing Sing prison toniglk or burdens itself and endangers its citizens for an indefinite period with the “mad dog”|C®MP Atturbury, new amy canEsposito brothers. tonment- under construction near

the operator twice what place that was, and then even asked the opergtor her name. Apparently satisfled and a little embarrassed, she : explained she’d found a slip of paper in her husband’s pocket. On the slip were the initials “A. L.” and the phone number “LI-4353,” and she just wanted to check up.

Around the Town :

ED McCREARY, who's worked for the Water Co. " 30 years and in all that time has worked facing the Soldiers & Sailors’ Monument, happens to be one of the town’s better amateur photographers. The other day one of the camera companies wrote and asked him for some ples of his work, preferably shots of the Monument. And would you believe it, after all those years of staring at the Monument, “he'd never photographed if... . ..And speaking of the Monument, g really is here. A workman was seen yesterday using a lawn roller on the Monument lawn. . . . Roy Ford, the fence man, hasn't been sleeping well f same of fhe bev He 14S Yuh WD, So Many ile

going without being “raided” during his absence. Sounds like a right noble idea. . . . Mrs. Robert Sheeks, right-hand “man” of J. Frank Cantwell, is moving to Ft. Wayne. Mrs. Sheeks, the former Helen Boston, has helped “boss” the last four home shows.

Jaycee Politics CANDIDATES IN the regular primary election might get a few pointers from Junior C. of C. candidates. Jack Reich, who’s opposing Lyman Hunter for the presidency, opened his campaign at the Jaycee

luncheon Wednesday by distributing reprints of The Times’ “Wake Up America” editorial, as part of his program, Donald B. Keller (running against Arthur Wengel for the executive vice presidency) killed two birds with one stone. He passed out campaign cigars,

announcing they also were in celebration of the birth

of a son last week. ‘The election is scheduled for A nica 1. apse. Tider in

April 8 but the boys are talking about postponing it. You see, four of the organization's bowling teams will be in action that njght and won't be able to get to the election.

Raymond Clapper is on his way to Cairo, by plane. His column will : | resumed, by wireless or cable, shortly.

VOY WEST AFRICA, March 12 d Liverpool the night we sailed.

They moved down the Mersey, dropping magnetic and acoustic mines. On the blacked-out deck of the

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t up a chattering barrage. t didn’t last long, this raid. 200 Junkers like last spring, but it gave the convoys a headthe. When dawn broke we beslipping down toward the open sea, with mine sweepers head of our ship and others following. Some of our ‘ships flew the red flag of the ammunition ps, whose crews got extra money far carrying nitroglycerine and g md 8 ers, like ours, rely ‘had eral cargo—above Ry deck, two Gl Martin bombers, below, a ton or two|of TNT, dismantled Hurricane fighter planes, lubricating oil, copper wire, guns and food. :

~ | The convoy accelerated speed when the Irish sea 'n_began the 30-day voyage to

6000-ton ship guns |

e settled into routine. But let's do' sink ships every day.

| the air when a torpedo struck, 7 ang vessel with cargo of steel rails e a severed | eggshell and disappear in 30

lon takes command. On deck makes drab London seem [ lights and music. No one ever

By Paul Manning

reach when depth charges begin exploding with their vicious crack. When near, they just about roll you out of bed. It was during the first 20 days on any clear afternoon that you could see the little Russian and his wife striding slowly around the narrow deck of the New Zealand liner which plowed forward at head of the third column, Their route lay to Capetown, then up the Persian gulf to Bandor Shapur where they were to entrain for the Caspian sea and home. That first morning in Liverpool they had been laughing and cheerful. This Russian and his wife had said it was fine to be going home. You knew what that meant. At breakfast we had washed down the porridge and fish with vodka which the Russian had mysteriously produced as a toast to the journey which lay ahead. ; And they had told me of their two sons in the Red army and of their daughter Tatiana, who works in a gun factory just outside a city between Moscow and Kuibyshev. x

A Sudden Flash on the Horizon

WHEN THE LATITUDES of the Azores and Cape Verdes ‘had been passed, the ship over at the head of that . third column and a lone oil tanker steamed from the huddled safety of the convoy toward the horizon and Capetown. They didn’t quite make it.] You could see the sudden flash of an explosion Just this side of the horizon and then through glasses you could watch the big 10,000-tonner settling slowly at the stern. A destroyer later flashed a signal that the u-boat had been accounted for. The fanker had long ago shuttled back to safety. 2 But there never was any signal flash for the little

“Russian and his wife, who were not listed among the

survivors. That was too bad, for they were going home —to their two sons in the Red army and to their daughter Tatiana, who works in & gun factory just outside the city between Moscow and Kuibyshev.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

This will happen here, unless we start at once to .meet the situation. The agencies which will have to

work together on the problem are the children’s

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consumer rationing plan.

been worked out, the industry is understood to favor a system of consumer coupon books and the

shipping facilities. The industry

told how 14 persons in their 20-foot lifeboat had died one by one in a howling sou'wester and sub-freezing weather. : The six are Brazilian crewmen. The naval vessel which rescued them late yesterday also picked up an unidentified Portuguese passenger from the lifeboat, but he died soon afterward. Forty-seven passengers and members of the crew of the 5152-ton Cayru, sunk by a German submarine 130 miles off the New Jersey coast Sunday night, have now been accounted for. Twentysix survivors were landed at New

oo Tuesday by a Norwegian five’ passengers out of a total of

85 who got away in four lifeboats still missing.

Amputations Considered

Those landed here were in “fair condition,” although all were suffering from exposure. Only two could stand and they had to be helped ashore. Physicians said several of the four might have to have their feet amputated. None saw the submarine. They said the first torpedo didn’t sink the ship and all aboard were off in lifeboats before a second torpedo was fired, sinking her in 30 minutes: A storm blew up within a few hours. They said the 14 crewmen on their boat died one after the other as the lifeboat was lifted like a match on the crests of mountainous waves, A patrol plane sighted them yesterday and directed the-rescue ship to them.

Got $20 More? You Should Have

WASHINGTON, March 12 (U. P.)—Do you have $20 more in your pocket than you had a year

ago? as You would if all the money in circulation in the United States were divided equally among the nation’s estimated 134,000,000 men, women 8nd children. The treasury today reported that $11,484,001,310 — $85.67 per person—was in circulation Feb. 28, compared to $8,780,868,377—$66.13 a person—a year ago.

While rationing details have not

closing of retail gasoline outlets from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m. week days and all day Sunday. :

Surplus in Southwest

Instead of a nightly curfew, many retail dealers have told the office of the petroleum co-ordinator they would-ratker have the option of closing in any 12-hour period, due to demand for night service from war workers in industrial

the west and southwest are confronted with the problem of what to do with mounting surpluses of motor fuel. Storage tanks on the Gulf coast are brimming with gasoline for which there are no

must continue to operate at a high level to fill demands for residual fuel oil, so gasoline keeps pouring forth. : Both rail and pipeline shipments of oil and gasoline have been stepped up but they are unable to make up the tanker losses. Tank-car shipments can still be expanded beyond their present rate, in. the opinion of W. C. Kendall, head of the car service division of the railroad association, although he doubts if they can be stretched to the 600,000 barrels a day hoped for by the OPC.

FOE GROOMED FOR DEAD MAYOR'S J0B

NEW ALBANY, Ind, March 12 (U. P.).—Chester.V. Lorch, busted from his post as city attorney. by the late Mayor Noble F. Mitchell in the city administration’s recent battle over police personnel wages and hours, may complete Mr. Mitchell's unexpired term. City council members said they will elect Mr. Lorch for the office at their next regular session Monday. to replace Councilman John Tribbey, now serving as mayor pro tem. . fii The former city attorney said he will accept the council’s vote to serve the remaining 10 months of Mr. Mitchell's tenure, but added he will not. seek the Republican mayoralty nomination in the May primaries.

HOLD EVERYTHING 1:4 ’

Sam Brownes * Now Optional

- WASHINGTON, March 12 (U. | P.)—The Sam Browne belt, a “must” for marine corps officers since the last world war, has been

POSTAL AUXILIARY | NAMES

“35 “rewmen and

TEST BLINDNESS BY BRAIN WAVES

Doctor Tells of Machine That Diagnoses Feigned

And Real Cases.

CHICAGO, March 11 (U. P).— Ur. Frederick Lemere of Seattle described today how electrical waves from the brain can be used for the first reliable test of hysterical or feigned blindness. The test, Dr. Lemere said in the

current American Medical Association Journal, permits a physician to confirm his diagnosis when he suspects a patient is not suffering true blindness or is “malingering.” He said “alpha waves,” most prominent of brain waves, were active only when the eyes ar: closed. They may be carried over wires from the patient's head to an electrical instrument which charts their rhythm. : : The waves, with an .approximate rhythm of eight per second, are interrupted when a normal person or a patient suffering only hysteri blindness opens his eyes and looks at an object such as a pencil. Dr. Lemere said. If the patient is really blind, no interruption occurs. The diagnosing physician, reading the - chart, then can prescribe method of treatment. If the person is suffering from hysteria and actually believes he cannot see, mental suggestion is used to bring him back to normality. If the patient is blind, the doctor can then hunt for a physical cause. Dr. Lemere asserted the test would be of great value in proving or disproving loss of sight in mili-

STUDIES BURMA DEFENSES

CHUNGKING, March 12 (U. P). —Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, American chjef of staff of united nations forces in the China zone, was en route today to major stations along the “Burma road” after conferences with Generalissimo

Chiang Kai-shek.

They had no intention of dying graciously or even well. From

the moment they were caught redhanded murdering a clerk and a policeman in a cunningly planned hold-up in New York City, they have made themselves helpless and irresponsible—particularly in ' the physical sense—in the way infants are. 2 If they go to the chair tonight, they'll be carried there., To all appearances, the agents of the state will be strapping two drooling idiots to the hot seat and turning on the current. Claims Both Insane Irving J. Tell, their court-appoint-ed attorney, was before Governor Lehman again, insisting that the brothers"Were what they appeared to be—helpless and insane—and that the state couldn’t offend its social conscience by executing them. But Governor Lehman had also the report of three alienists that they were sane, galvanized in their present attitudes by hysteria induced

here, would trim another 3000 acres

from the camp area and reduce the £

total area to approximately 37,000 acres, it was reported today. \ John R. Walsh, project real estate manager, said he expected a de tailed drawing showing the exact cuts and the new boundaries to are

rive from Washington today. Might Exclude Resorts ' It was reported that the revisions would eliminate 1850 acres. from the present northern boundary in Johnson county and cut off 1150 acres from the eastern boundary in Bartholomew county. The revisions also would exclude several well-known summer resorts on Driftwood river. Originally surveyed to cover 52,000 acres, the camp area was cut by 12,000 acres in February, most of it lopped off the, southern ‘boundary in Brown county.

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by the fear of death, and the opinions of the trial and appellate courts that they were merely feigning insanity. Mr. Tell alleged that Governcr Lehman had suppressed the report

Open Bids Today Army officials announced mean-

William and Anthony Esposito at|projects include the building of 1200 Sing Bing Dec. 22, and, he suspects, | wooden structures. found them insane. The governor appointed a second board which returned the hysteria report last week. This second board, Mr. Tell alleged, had been sppained in part from a Lvs, sectors, tev SPEC, 10 18 list of psychiatrists submitted by the district attorney’s office of New . York county (Manhattan) which prosecuted them. DOMINIONS DRAFT Sane at Time of Crime Governor Lehman, custodian of execution of sors regards the| WELLINGTON, N. Z, March 13 hhd before him the criminal records (U. P.)~Supply Minister Daniel G. of the brothers which, for ahimal|Sullivan said today that Australia viciousness, have few parallels. Itland New Zealand at their recent had been pointed out to him that|war conference had worked out :

jected as too high, reportedly to= taled $20,000,000. Contracts for the

for insanity—that the brothers were countries and their plan would now acting like idiots, withoyt minds,|be forwarded to President Roose= not like adults with twisted minds.|velt and Prime Minister Winston And there was the undeniable fact|Churchill. : that the brothers were not idiots| The joint plan, Mr. Sullivan said, when they committed the murders|called first for building supply bases for which they were condemned. |and then, when the time came, for Jan. 14, 1941, they followed Al-|{an offensive against Japan.

ing his firm’s payroll, into the|J. G. Coates, minister without port« elevator of an office building on|folio, from Australian conference, lower Fifth ave. and tried to hold {said he had been greatly heartened him up. He resisted and was shot|by the plan.

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the untutored mind mistakes idiocy plans for defense in depth of both

fred Klausman, 55, who was carry-| Mr. Sullivan, returning here with

in the back of the head. They fled] “Matters have gone as far as with the payroll, a crowd in pur-|/words can take them,” he said. “All