Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1942 — Page 7

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SATURDAY APRIL 11, 1942

The Indianapolis Times

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SILVER CITY, N. M., April 11.—Silver City is one of these high-altitude once-tough old mining and cattle towns of the southwest. Most of the picturesque two-gun men and ironnerved sheriffs have died off now, but Silver City has many a more tractable resident who has a glamour about him. : Such a man is Wayne Mac V. Wilson, who never shot anybody and who has never been shot. He is an Easterner whgq, came to New Mexico more than 40 years ago. He is past 60 now, but walks with a lilt, smokes a pipe, knows more funny stories and tells them better than anybody else in town, and dresses as though he were still in Princeton, where he went to school. And in spite of all this youthful gaiety, he has probably been through more torture than anybody else in the city. Fase Wilson first came here for tuberculosis when he was 19, and in college. In a year he was able to go back to school. He got his diploma, and worked a few years in Philadelphia, but he worked too hard and broke down again. That time he came here for good. His lungs have never bothered him since. But, a few years ago, he did come down with spinal tuberculosis. Before the doctors realized what it was, several of the vertebrae in his upper spine had been destroyad and his backbone, as he describes it, was just like a willow twig—it wouldn't stand up straight. The pain was indescribable, and doctors said he would be dead within a few months.

A Year and a Half Rigid

THEN HE FINALLY got hold of a doctor with a different idea. This doctor's idea was not to oper-

By Ernie Pyle

ate, but to suspend all motion in Mr, Wilson's spine —from that day until it had healed itself. The only way to do that was to make him rigid. So this doctor made a plaster cast of Mr. Wilson's back, and then had a permanent mould made, and built this solid mould into a Special steel bed. The lower half of the bed was canvas, for the Wilson legs to rest on. They rigged up another thing, whereby he could lie on his stomach half of the time. This new apparatus was a canvas arrangement over a wooden

frame, which they would place over Mr. Wilson’s chest

and head, and strap down tight. Then they would turn him over, and he'd lie on his stomach, with the hard mould still fitted to his back. Mr. Wilson lay in this thing for a year and a half. The doctors told him the terrible pain would start to subside in six weeks, and it did. After that, he never minded his imprisonment a bit. He never got despondent; in fact, enjoyed himself.

Took Year to Learn to Walk

MR. WILSON finally got out of his rack three years ago. Then he was in a solid plaster cast for several months. Then a steel and leather brace affair. He even abondoned that six weeks ago. It took him a year to learn how to walk again. Today, you'd never know there had ever been anything wrong with him. He’s head of the Grant County War Bond drive, and they have set some sort of a record here in selling $600,000 worth of bonds to a population of 20,000. They say it will hit a million before long.

Mr. Wilson's father was a colonel in the Civil War,

and stayed in the army afterward to fight Indians,

in the West. Mrs. Wilson’s uncle was General John C. Bates, once Chief-of-Staff. So there is a lot of military in the family, but none in Mr. Wilson. However, as somebody in Silver City remarked, he’s the kind of fellow who, if he were a military leader, you would follow to the death.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: James Stewart Rogan, president of the American National Bank, the town's No. 1 bathroom baritone who gets up cheerfully every mcrning and who then proceeds to make ferocious noises under the shower. An even tempered, serious minded, hard worker, Jim Rogan likes: Spareribs and sauerkraut, attractive ties, vaudeville, golf, bridge, poker, biographies. He dislikes modern novels, slipshod work and some of the economic theories of the last nine years. At 54, he's a spare, good looking six footer who weighs about 165. His head is baldish on top; what hair is left is turning gray. His eyes are bluish, his complexion fair. He carries himself erectly, walks briskly and always seems in a hurry. His manner is decisive, verging on the abrupt. He squints when he talks. He has a good sense of humor and “grows” with acquaintance. He’s noted for his “picturesque” language—swears quite a bit, does it gracefully and apparently without being the least conscious of it.

J. S. Rogan

Served itn Aur Corps

HE STILL LOVES his native Texas and frequently sings its praises. He has lost most of his Texas accent, but every time he visits his relatives, he returns with a pronounced accent—picks it up unconsciously. He was born on St. Patrick’s day, reared in Austin, Tex.,, and began his banking career in another American National Bank—at Austin. From there he went to war, serving as a captain in the air service during World War I. He usually says he fought the “battle of Broadway,” since he didn't get beyond a camp on Long Island. After the war, he spent nine vears with the old Bank of Commerce in New York City, then another six years with a California bank. He came here from Cleveland in 1933 when the American National was formed to take over the old

From China

CHUNGKING, China, April 11.—India is by no means the only great nation that has a self-rule issue with the united nations. Talks with top-flight Chinese leaders here have made it clear to me that when this war has been won

Fletcher American. And it's his pride that since he came here the bank's deposits have increased five fold.

Watches the Pennies

JIM ROGAN doesnt work “bankers’ hours’—at least, not the popular conception of “bankers’ hours.” He's usually on his way to the office by 8 or a little after; frequently doesn’t get away before 7 p. m. As a banker, he’s conservative, fussy about detail, cautious and hard to pin down, and watches the pennies as well as the dollars. | One of his favorite recreations is golf. He shoots in the upper eighties and lower nineties—useg to be 10 points better when he had more practice. He used to play handball and squash frequently, but not so much lately. At home, he reads constantly; mostly biographies and economic books. He has a rollicking time at bridge and still plays a pretty good game. It’s seldom that he gets to a movie, but when he docs he prefers comedies. He isn’t interested in| serious theater. Partial to southern foods, one of his particular favorites is spoon bread.

Breaks His Glasses Regularly

HE WEARS GLASSES for reading, and breaks them regularly. He puts them in his breast pocket, then leans over and they fall on the floor. He's | getting a pair replaced right now. he’s forever saying he’s going to quit cigarets, but his friends are pretty sure he won't. Breaking bones is one of his habits. He's broken ribs several times—once when he slipped while taking a shower, another time reportedly when he was swinging a golf ciub. Last year he broke a bone in his hand. He's careful about his clothing; neat but not flashy, and he generally has a tie-matching handkerchief in the breast pocket of his coat. At vacation time, he always insists he wants to, go to the seashore and swim. but he usually winds up in the New York City banks just visiting with his old friends.

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By Raymond Clapper

ain alone, and China by a number of powers. There has been a growing pressure for years to throw off this control. Today China feels that her resistance to Japan has further strengthened her claim to real freedom in practice. | Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and all his ad-

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Fred Ferguson market”

would soon bring forth the on again.

products, may be necessary. In such event, an examination would be made by the wartime prices and trade board. The first thing to be decided would be whether the product was an essential; that is, essential to the war effort. If it were found to be an essential, then the importer or retailer, or both, would be paid a subsidy so that the product could be continued on the market under the ceiling. If the decision should be that the product were not an essen- | tial, or that a domestic substitute could be used, then the imported

product would simply pass out of the Canadian market.

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Without a ceiling, the United States, of course, will become a tempting market for Canadian

CHUNGKING SET FOR MORE RAIDS

City Where 1st Jap Attack Killed 5000 to Enforce |

Evacuation Orders.

By ROBERT P. MARTIN United Press Staff Correspondent CHUNGKING, April 11 (U, P.) — This city, where 5000 people were!

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actories Co-operate

Under Strong Leaders

This is the last of two articles describing Canada’s unique battle : against wartime inflation.

By FRED S. FERGUSON

Times Special Writer OTTAWA, April 11.—Strong, determined leadership, patriotic co-operation from all elements—producers, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and the buying public, as well as employers and employees, and will to win— these are some of the things that are vital for a fight against inflation through establishment of price and wage ceilings, they’ll tell you in Canada. Half-way measures and compromises

They tried partial price con-

trol in Canada before they went to the all-out ceiling, and it didn’t’ work. Now the fight is to prevent puncturing of the ceiling in any respect. . A price ceiling, without a salary and wage ceiling, more than would a wage ceiling without price control.

would not be eftective any

a salary and wage ceiling,

they'll point out to you up here, a “black would be sure Shortages, accompanied by increasing spending power,

to develop.

commodity bootlegger and

away would go the ceiling, and the inflation spin would be Thus, the Canadian effort is “all out,” and as time goes on subsidies on imports, as

exporters. With tle price of beef already higher below the horder than in the dominion, there is a possibility of a beef shortage in Canada unless something is done about it, despite normal duty payments. Canadians, however, will not be permitted to export at higher prices at the expense of adequate supply at home, and this would be controlled through export license. To answer the question as to whether the Canadian system could be successfully adopted in the United States, you would have to be able to guess whether any administrative and control job carried through on one scale could be multiplied 10 or 12 times over and still click. The population of Canada is around 12,000,000 as compared with 130,000,000 in the United States. The volume of business, the number of buyers, and the number of different establishments and industries to be dealt with is thus correspondingly increased, The

Home Defense Bulletin

From Marion county and Indianapolis offices of civilian defense, world war memorial, 431 N. Meridian st.

Every square foot of Marion county and Indianapolis is a part of some CD district. Trained wardens and workers are in charge of the district, which includes your home and business. You should make it a point to find out who the wardens

well as domestic

‘Japanese

Donald Gerdon, who, as chairman

Canada Enlists Everyone In Fight On

of the wartime prices and control

board, is generalissimo of Canada’s war on inflation.

number of wage and salary earners is correspondingly greater, and the entire job of adtinistration grows to sizable dimensions, There are about 1100 persons employed, or serving as volunteers without pay, in the wartime prices and control board organization throughout Canada. The central office is in Ottawa under the direction of Donald Gordon, as chairman.

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Teach Inflation Peril GORDON IS a huge Scotsman in his early forties, who is built like a couple of old-time fullbacks. He was deputy governor of the

Bank of Canada, but was detached from this job to take on the direction of the battle against inflation. His huge frame will take a lot of punishment and Mr. Gordon is tireless in his efforts, encouraging his staff, making speeches selling the control plan, and getting co-operation. He wants everybody in Canada to understand the dangers and the results of inflation, and to this end an extensive educational campaign has been carried on through the newspapers and on

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TEACH BURMESE

T0 BURN TOWNS

Profiteering Spreads In Embattled Country.

By DARRELL BERRIGAN United Press Staff Correspondent

LASHIO, Burma, April 9.—(De-

Arm Traitors;

the radio, selling the price and wage ceiling program, The women of the country have been particularly urged to be their own price-ceiling auditors. They

have been asked to make their own lists of ceiling prices of commodities which they may be likely to purchase, and then to see that they do not pay more. That this approach has had results was illustrated recently in Toronto when a woman shopper came to the trade board headquarters to report excitedly that one of the largest department stores had raised its price on a certain counter article from 6 cents to 9 cents. She said she knew because she saw the 6-cent sign yesterday whereas today it was nine.

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Sign Reversed

AN INVESTIGATOR was sent to the store. It developed, however, that the price sign had merely been knocked to tne floor during the course of the day, and whoever restored it set it upsidedown, thus making the 6 a 9, and the ceiling was saved. After Mr. Gordon, as chairman, who operates under the minister of finance, there comes adminis-

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trators of commodities, adminis trators® of trades and services, controllers for various industries, businesses and products, and 13 regional offices, scattered through the country. As many problems as possible are handled on a regional basis through the 13 districts, but if they are not settled there they pass on to the headquarters. Operating as a central organization to the entire set-up, how= ever, is the important Commodity Price Stabilization Corp., responsible directly to the minister of finance. This is the organization through which examinations are made and subsidies are paid after they have been authorized by the trade board. Of the administrators, controllers, co-ordinators, etc., scores are volunteers, drafted as representative men in their industries, trades or businesses to aid in sete ting up the ceiling system. The central offices now occupy an entire six-story building in Ottawa, but the equipment is closer to that of a factory than a fancy government establishment. Plain pine desks and uncovered floors prevail throughout, and the atmosphere is that of a workshop.

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War Labor Board Aids

WORKING CLOSELY with the wartime prices and trade board is the war labor board, headed by Humphrey Mitchell, who is also minister of labor. On this board are five representatives of labor and five representatives of mane agement or industry. At their first meeting, however, they were told by Mr. Mitchell, who is an: old labor man, that the first thing for all of them to do was forget that they represented anything or anybody except the Dominion. There was plenty of difficulty in first establishing the price and wage ceiling, particularly the price, owing to the fact that despite the “basic period” named, merchants or others were able to show that tney had made com-" mitments for the future at new price levels beyond their control, which made it impossible for them to sell under the ceiling except at heavy loss. In such cases what is termed. “the squeeze” was applied. The manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer were gotten together and cards, as to costs, were put on the table. Then a certain portion of the increased cost was squeezed back from the retailer to the wholesaler and from the wholesaler to the manufacturer, each assuming a share of the necessary reduction called for by the ceiling. If the amount of loss involved was too great then the Commodity Prices Stabilization Corp. stepped in with a subsidy payment so'that . . tne ceiling might be maintained.

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Attacks on 3 More Ships

BY UNITED PRESS Forty-seven men were dead or missing today in the newest submarine attacks off the American Atlantic coast to be announced by the navy, but only one of the three vessels shelled or torpedoed was sunk, Thirty survivors arrived at an eastern Canadian port and revealed the torpedoing and sinking of a A

merchantman, said he was on the bridge when a shell struck the ship above the waterline. It was the first warning that a submarine was attacking, and so many more shells crashed into the boat, he said, that he believed she was doomed - and ordere the crew to leave. When daylight came, however, he saw she was still floating, and the survivors went back aboard. Capt. Girardeau praised Melvin

fourth allied vessel yesterday. boatload of seamen was missing. The three attacks revealed by the navy last night and yesterday were: The shelling of a medium-sized united nations merchantman. Two were known dead; seven were missing; 25, including four wounded,

layed) —Burmese traitors have been armed with rifles and Lewis guns and taught by the Japanese to raid and burn viilages and attack refugees, military men told me today.

The Burmese who turned against the British and aided the Japanese

are in your district, and get in touch with them to learn just what you are supposed to do in any emergency. This is a big job of organized effort and we expect your co-operation. Remember—every member of

visers are resolved that the concessions must go.| There is a considerable demand that the step be taken now, as has been proposed by the American naval diplomat, Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, although, of course, in view of the present situation | away next month from the rugged such a move would have little practical effect for the hills around Chungking, capital of moment. {the Chinese government, the Jap- | anese, however busy they are on

China will never submit to a resumption of the foreign controls that were exercised over her affairs for so many decades before the war. She will insist on a full place in the community of nanations. This does not mean any lack of

killed in the first air raid by Japan three years ago, is preparing for the “bombing season.” : When the heavy gray fog rolls

Cannon of Quincy, Mass., first assistant engineer, and Joseph Saunders, third assistant engineer, as being largely responsible for the 25 survivors getting away alive. Cannon and Saunders were forward when the shelling started, and

loyalty to the allied cause. It signifies, rather, a climax in the slow rise of China as a modern, free nation.

A Fully Free Nation

|other fronts,

probably will come

‘back with their bombing planes.

CERTAINLY CHINA is preparing for the day when she will rule her own economic destiny. The

But this spring the city is prepared.

Fear Gas Attacks

this organization is working to help you—we expect you to help them.

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by leading them down secret jyngle trails and escorting them to the rear of the British lines on their infiltration moves, of the Thakin party. Under the

were members

were saved. The fifth naval district announced in Norfolk, Va., that the crew, after abandoning the ship, returned when the shelling stopped and brought the vessel into

they raced along the deck, ignoring whizzing shell splinters; tumbled down companionways to the engine room and shut off the engines. '

Chungking government is extending its control over the economic life of China to include state monepolies of salt, iron, steel and sugar. It is also adding matches, and probably other things, to the list of stat:-controlled commodities. It is looking toward the construction of an economically strong government. Although the textile industry is old and large in both China and India, neither country makes machinery for its textile factories. They have to import it. Both countries are determined to change this situation; to industrialize, in order to achieve a more rounded economy. It is also realized now that defense will be impossible in the future without a heavy industry inside the country. If China and India had possessed substantial heavy industries, they could now be supplying themselves instead of depending on inadequate shipping from Britain and America. China’s present formidable difficulties in obtain-| ing supplies have only strengthened her determination to reshape her economy and her industry hereafter, and to insist on the status of a fully free nation. .

Chinese leaders emphasize specifically that they cannot submit any longer to extraterritoriality—the right of foreign powers to operate their own courts in China—or to treaty-port concessions, or to foreign control of customs. Beginning with the so-called opium war between China and England in the early 1840s, which ended in the cession of Hong Kong to Britain and the opening 6f a number of Chinese ports to foreign trade, the great powers of the occident progressively fastened their hold on China.

There are 280 public raid shelters and 1600 private dugouts, and day and night new shelters are being blasted out of the solid rock. But they aren’t enough to shelter more than 330,000 people, so the authorities are about to enforce evacuation orders. The population of Chungking proper is estimated at 430,000 and 170,000 more live in the outskirts. Chinese fear the possibility of gas attacks, and since there is a complete lack of gas masks, provision is being made to provide fresh air for the shelters. Koo-tsing, father of the Chungking mayor, has installed 10,000 barrels of compressed {air in them and each barrel will supply 100 persons with sufficient oxygen for one hour. Wind boxes will be used to blow the stale air out of the tunnels. Exodus Is Hastened An emergency power plant is housed in one shelter. It can supply power for hospitals, police, fire and government offices. The enforced evacuation of thousands started March 15. Polite visited homes from then to March 31 to “persuade” non-essential residents to leave. Since then they have been “urging and hastening” departures. After April 15 they will demand that non-essential residents leave and those who refuse will be imprisoned.

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If they had not, the churning propellors might have cut the sure vivors to pieces when they lowered the lifeboats. Saunders and C:nnon were saved.

® WARQUIZ

1—-What sort of game is this American soldier playing?

an East coast port. The attack occurred April 2. The torpedoing and sinking of a small American freighter off the Atlantic coast on April 3. Thirtyseven of the 53 crew members and passengers aboard were missing.| Sixteen survivors were rescued by a naval patrol boat after they had been in lifeboats five days and brought to Cape May, N. J. The torpedoing of a medium-sized American merchantship early Monday, Matthew Hehnen, 29, a seaman of Philadelphia, was missing, but the arival of two American warships put the submarine to flight, and the tanker, a gaping hole in her side, was limping toward an American port. Including the sinking revealed at the Eastern Canadian port, at least 121 allied vessels have been sent to the bottom from Canada to the Caribbean since mid-January, and the dead and missing total some 1224, Capt. Frank C. Girardeau, master of the medium-sized united nations

SPAIN REPRESENTS U. S. MADRID, April 11 (U. P.).— Spain is now representing American interests in Germany, Italy and Japan and also the interests of the axis partners in the United States, it was announced today. There are |the theory that they probably would 47 countries whose reciprocal inter- [turn against the Japanese as they ests are now handled by Spanish have the British, they don’t trust diplomatic and consular function-|them very far and many reportedly aries. have been executed.

supervision of the invaders they have been organized into a “freedom army.” The Japanese have established some of the Thakin leaders as local dictators in areas from which the British have retired, but going on

Claim Has Been Strengthened

THE UNITED STATES was a party to this process, insofar at least as extraterritoriality was concerned. although the record ef our relations with China is much cleaner than is the case with some of the other powers. In any event, the Chinese say that the concessions wrested from them in the 19th century must now be given up. China has been to some degree in the same fix as India, except that India has been dominated by Brit-

My Day

HAMPTON, Va. Friday.—I want to tell you about the Girl Scout pageant held in Constitutional Hall Wednesday night. It was an amateur entertainment and made one feel proud of these young Americans and his very charming wife came to see me. We had who presented each of their war projects. They a talk with the help of my cousin, Mrs. Warren Robshowed how they tried to make ¢ bins, since I do not yet know enough Spanish to make their contributions by caring for myself intelligible. and entertaining small children. Paraguayan winters, they tell me, are about as by learning to cook and garden, to cold as our springs. The ambassador and his wife help at home, ete. will not mind Washnigton summers, for they are acPerhaps, the part of their work customed to some damp heat. I was interested to which interests me most is their learn that they also have a program of school lunches international friendship program in Paraguay, but their problems of providing food PLAN MUSIC FESTIVAL The scene in their pageant of a <eem to be much simpler thun ours, for bananas and] A music festival depicting four western hemisphere street showec nate by themselves are apparently a complete meal. |different themes will be given by all the arts and crafts of our We were not able to fly to Norfolk, Va., as we had |the pupils of school 43, Capitol ave. neighbors ta the south of us, and 'xpected iast evening, and, therefore, motored to/and 40th st. at 7:30 p. m. Wednesit was really charmingly done. tichmond where we spent the night. We arose early day and Thursday. After we -left this entertain his morning so as to be in Hampton in time for the] The first and second grade songs ment, we drove around the Lincoln Memorial. I was norning meeting of the Rosenwald fund trustees. |will deal with occupations, the third much gratified at the appreciation Mr. and Mrs. John My sister-in-law, Mrs. Dorothy Roosevelt, and her|and fourth with recreation, « the Golden showed as they stood looking up at the light- three daughters are able to be with me. We hope to fifth and sixth with religion, and ing of the statue. At night it is almost more impres- go on to Williamsburg after they have had a chance|the seventh and eight with pasive, I think, than in the day, and it gives me to see Hampton and ; :

HOLD EVERYTHING

By Eleanor Roosevelt

pleasure to take anyone to see it when I think they will really enjoy it. Yesterday afternoon the ambassador of Paraguay

LITVINOV CALLS FOR ATTACK ON GERMANS PHILADELPHIA, April 14 (U. P.).—Maxim Litvinov, Russian ambassador to the United States, called upon the united nations again last night to attack the Germans and make them scatter their forces, saying the main field of battle was the Russian front, and would remain there. Litvinov, speaking before the American Academy of Political and Social Science, said the final defeat of Hitler and his satellites requires the combined efforts of Russia and Britain, with “some supplementary aid from the United territory and on up into Alaska. States.” He said nothing less than|; 3—Admiral Leahy, ambassador te absSite. defeat of the ais Would) x - Admiral .

2—America proposes to have 8 Burma road of its own for the movement of troops and supplies to important bases. Do you know its location? : 3—President Roosevelt has twice gone to the ranks of retired navy officers to make diplomats of them. Name them.

Answers 1—The soldier is not playing. He is operating a portable field radie station. : \ 2—In conjunction with Canada, the United States proposes to build a highway north through Canadian

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