Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1942 — Page 15

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Ernie Pyle has been in poor health for some weeks, and has fnally been compelled to take a rest. This will be his last on-the-spot column for a while.

CLOVIS, N. M., April 16.—Some time ago Wp in Oregon, I think it was) I mentioned how hotels seem to have a national conspiracy to start painting the halls as soon as I move in. Paint gives me a headache, and I wish they'd paint while I'm somewhere else. One result of that item was a dirty letter from a painter saying that my complaints were subversive, and no doubt would throw 15,000 painters in New York out of work

But that fellow overestimated my strength. Instead of discharging their painters since then, hotels seem to have doubled their painting programs. It's got so now I can hardly get through a ~ hotel lobby for the falling paint. Literally, half a dozen times since that Oregon column, painters have started splashing outside my door as soon as I moved in. The latest one was here in Clovis. I registered one evening. The room had a connecting door to the adjoining room. I couldnt get the lock on my side to work, so just put a chair against it.

Out the Window We Do Go

EARLY NEXT MORNING I was propped up in bed smoking a cigaret, when that door opened and the chair was pushed back and a woman stuck her head in, then quickly withdrew it To make sure that she got me straight as a Sir Galahad, I called out, “I tried to lock that deor last night, but it won't lock.” And she replied, “Oh, thats all right. I'm the housekeeper. We're just cleaning out this other room. Were going to start painting in here in a few min. utes.” I threw my cigaret away, tock one last deep

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

DR. FRANK S. C. WICKS picked up a paper the other day and read about some man in another city sticking with the same barber 22 years. “Shucks— that's nothing,” commented Dr. Wicks. And it isn't, either, for Dr. Wicks has patronized the same barber 2714 years. Hes Harry Moore, presently barbering in the Tower shop in the Roosevelt building. “He started cutting my hair when it was thick and dark brown, and I've folloked him from shop to shop down through the years,” Dr. Wicks said. “Why? Oh, just because hes always good humored and cuts my hair the way I want it.” Good enough reasons. Frank Samuel, the Iegion's national adjutant, has purchased a bicvele and is riding it to reduce his waistline. He pedaled about 15 miles Sunday. We'll bet he had a pair of sore calves Monday.

Props for the Big Show

THEY RE SHOWING an assembled Curtiss-Wright rpiane propeller in Ayres’ window, and you may not believe ft, but among the most interested spectators are Curtiss-Wright employees. Honest! You see, hundreds working at the plant assemble small groups of the more than 600 parts in the props, but they never see th: completed job. You dont just wander around from department to department in war plants these days. Some spectators inquire if the blades are hard rubber. They do look like it, but they're not— they are about the hardest metal you can find, and they are painted black to prevent the revolving blades from attracting enemy attention by reflecting sunlight or anti-afreraft spotlights at night. The tips are painted yellow for ancther reason. Revolving, they

From Indi CALCUTTA, April 16 Although this ft a judgment based on a relatively short time spent in India. I feel that it is a matter for deep regret that Nehru has rejected the British proposal, leaving the mission of Sir Stafford Cripps a failure. The blow falls alike on the people of India and on the united nations. The Indians are not ready to defend India against the Japanese, who are now hitting at their coast. Nehru himself told me that India would be unable to defend herself owing to past British policy. Her only equipment for defense is British and American. If Indians were to enlist by the millions there would be no major weapons available for them except those furnished by the two major allies. Despite Nehru's call to his countrymen to defend India, the failure of the Cripps mission is likely to have & contrary effect among the Indians, as the collapse of the negotiations leaves them still at odds with the British. Many of them feel more strongly about past grievances than about the present menace.

Affects U. S. in Whole Area

THE EFFECT ON the united nations is also likely to be adverse. It leaves the British and Americans in the position of trying to deferd India while thee is an unbridgeable political guif between the British and the Indians. Furthermore, some of the news. papers—and even Nehru, inh his statement—take a resentful tone toward the American effort to help. Most of the military people with whom I have talked believe that the breakdown of the negotiations means that Japan will move with more determination

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Wednesday —With all the world news that there is to read. with things of real importance happening, things which may mean that the people of the United States have much to worry about in the near future. with only one country in the world giving the united nations cause for congratulation, with that country and all the others asking us that we use our man and woman power to the best possible advantage and give our selves to work really worth while, certain things seemed to me a little ludicrous vesterday. When I am in New York City, except for official functions, I feel that IT am an unofficial person leading a private life. As Mrs Roosevelt, not as the president's moving out of two houses which had been a number of years by the members of

to a very simple apartment, which I hope whenever we happen to be in New York

By Ernie Pyle

breath of fresh air, and jumped out the seventh-fioor window. I'm writing this column on the way down.

Pay Up, Westbrook!

IT IS WITH pleasure that I am able to report today that Mr. Westbrook Pegler lost. You remember the bet we had—whether or not the soldier hitchhiker I lent the 10 bucks to would send it back. Peg bet I'd never see it again; I bet I would. The $10 has just arrived, from the young soldier’s father. Tt was accompanied by one of the nicest letters anybody ever received. After getting the letter, I wouldn't have minded if he had forgotten the $10. ‘ Now that it is paid, I can tell the soldier's name, It is Pvt. Robert Henderson, and his father is R. F. Henderson, of 5248 E. 13th &t, Dallas, Tex He said in his fetter that his son arrived 48 hours after leaving his camp in California, was married the next evening, and immediately started back for California. Better luck next time, Peg. It wasn't a fair bet anyway. The law of averages was against you.

Turn Over, Ernie

WHEN I WROTE recently about Major Bateson, the gardening man in Long Beach, there was a paragraph quoting him as believing we may run short of insecticides before the war is over. Several letters have come in saying the Major fs all wrong about us facing either a vegetable-seed shortage or an insecticide shortage. There's no way right now for me to check officially on the situa tion, but maybe later I can. In the meantime, a lady reader from Pueblo, Colo, sends in her solution for the insecticide shortage, if one comes. She says her recipe has stood by her for years, and she’s had no bug trouble yet on her flcwers or vegetables. She says she simply boils one 5-cent sack of Bull Durham tobacco in a gallon of water, lets it stand for one day, and then sprays it on her plants. Re. sult—nmo bugs. And here I've been smoking Bull Durham for 20 years.

create a yellow “ring” at the top of the propeller, serving as a warning to mechanics and others not to walk into the whirling propeller.

That's a Fighting Word

FOR SOME TIME now Creath Smiley of the state health board staff has been receiving mail addressed to “Miss” Creath Smiley, and it's been annoying him no end. The letters came from Jesse Irwin of the office of defense health and welfare service, in Washington. Smiley replied to the letters for a while without complaining. Then one day recently he wrote a letter with a note attached saying, in effect: “Dear Miss Irwin—T am a mister—not a miss.” Back came a reply promising to correct the mistake and asking the same courtesy from Smiley. It was signed, “Mr. Jesse Irwin.”

Brown County's Ablaze

RED BUD TREES and service (sarvis) berry bushes are in full bloom down in Brown county and | will remain in bloom probably another week or two, the conservation department reports. Every year hundreds journey down to see the brilliant colors with the hills as a background. . . By the way, Mare Waggener of the conservation department takes us to task for inferring the other day that the state parks would lose their popularity this summer because of the tire shortage. The department is looking for a good year this year, since most people still have serviceable tires—and continue to use them. They expect to get the vacationists that ordinarily would travel to Glacier, Yosemite, Yellowstone and other distant parks. . The department finally has found a way to get rid of the 70 loads of sand it used in its exhibit at the recent Sportsman's show. Riley hospital is taking it for playgrounds.

By Raymond Clapper

than ever in order to take advantage of the split and bag India. Nehru's rejection of the Cripps compromise opens the door for the biggest fifth-column job of World War IT. The situation creates a serious problem. | particularly for the American effort in both India and China. India lies athwart the route to China. If the Japanese are allowed to cut off China, the Chinese will have difficulty in continuing their resistance. The American forces in China and Burma will be isolated. Not only are American lives involved, the whole future of the American effort in this area is involved.

Efforts Apparently Misunderstood

AMERICANS HAVE long been sympathetic with India’s aspirations for self-government. Washington encouraged the British to try for an adjustment, but its efforts apparently have been misunderstood. They are regarded by some Indisns—including Nehru hime self —as interference in a family quarrel.

It would be unfortunate if we took that too seri« ously, however. As I pointed out in my recent ais patches from Allahabad, even such an intelligent leader as Nehru seems to be unable to shake off his bitterness over the past. When I talked with Nehru at Allahabad, he reminded me that Indians, when beaten by the police during independence demonstrations, have schooled themselves in nonresistence. He said they of'en wanted to strike back, bux knew thai rigid co-opera-tion was more effective. He pointed out that Gandhi opposed the usé of force in resisting the Japanese, proposing to rely only on non-submission and non-<co-operation. But he added that the all-India congress as a whole “ig not inclined to accept non-violence as a means of dealing with an external aggressor

By Eleanor Roosevelt

would think that it woutd be something to which people would be fairly well accustomed. With all the interest shown, however, no one found out that Mrs. Rooseveit's belongings were moved entirely by two private packers and movers. A navy friend, who is being transferred from one station to another, sent in a trunk to be housed until he gets settled. Another friend loaned Mrs. Roosevelt a car, and all this was headline, front page news. The luncheon held yesterday for the Russian relief was one of the most successful and inspiring gatherings I have attended in a long time. The Wal« dorf-Astoria ballroom was filled, and the women's die vision of the Russian war relief must have felt that they had accomplished a remarkable piece of organs ization. : Groups of every kind attended. Miss Virginia Gildersieeve presided with skill and eloquence. As

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BONDS SPURRED BY 6. M. DRIVE

All-Out Way to Enlist Full Employee Backing.

An “all-out” campaign to enlist full employee co-operation in a war bond sales drive was launched today in General Motors’ 87 war productiion plants.

Faallies and special ceremonies

were scheduled in all the corpora

tion's plants and offices to bring

the slogan “Save and Serve for Victory.” Allison's warplane engine factory here is a part of the General Motors organization.

Advantages Cited

“Investment in savings bonds.” ©. B. Wilson, G. M. president, said

marked advantages: “1. It will provide much<needed money for the government. “2 Will encourage systematic

benefit when the readjustment from wartime to peacetime economy takes place, and “3. Will cut down available pur< chasing power for the diminishing supply of consumer goods, thereby helping to prevent rising living costs.”

Award Banners

Bach department in the plants and offices securing 100 per cent co<operation were to receive Gene eral Motors red<white<and-blue banners. The U. 8 treasury department will award a blue treasury flag to all plants obtaining 90 per cent participation

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4 BEN DAVIS PUPILS IN LATIN CONTEST

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind, April 16. Four Ben Davis high school pupils will compete with 83 other high gchool pupils from all parts of me diana in the Latin contest finals at Indiana University Saturday. The con are winners of

district contests.

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in announcing the drive, “has three

Wonder-Working Sulfa Family Used to Combat Disease in War or Peace

This is the first of three articles describing the miracle of sul-

WHEREVER THE armed forces of the United States

the far islands of the Pacific,

bases in Alaska, Greenland, or the Caribbean, or any other spot on the globe—every medical advance of recent years goes along to protect them. Chief among these safeguards

Their importance cannot be overestimated, for the records of all the nation’s past wars reveal that epidemics

and infections have proved more costly than enemy bullets,

In the Spanish-American war seven of our men died from disease for every one killed by a bullet. In the first world war the United States lost 50,000 men in battle and 58,000 from disease.

But the sulfanamide drugs not only will be calied on to deal with contagions but also to guard against infection of battle wounds. They have already proved speectacularly their worth in this regard, first for the British at Dunkirk, later for our own forces after the Pear! Harbor disaster. Civilians as well as men in uniform are profiting from the use of these new drugs. With our attention riveted on the battle front, we almost lose § sight of the } tremendous vietories being won against disease. pI Death and Ci disease are suf- Mr. Diets fering their major defeats of the 20th century at the hands of the gulfanamide drugs. Great as have been other medical victories since 1000, they are being topped by the miraculous success of these new wohder<Working drugs.

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Five in General Use

THERE ARE five of them now in general use, although laboratories and research institutions have more than 2000 other varia tions under test, The five sulfanilamide, sulfapyridine, sulfathiozole, sulfadiazine and sulfaguani« dine. Physicians give the drugs by

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mouth of shoot them into the blood stream with hypodermie needles. Surgeons sprinkle crys tals of them in wounds and surgical incisions. Most recently they have been made into a paste for the treatment of skin diseases.

So completely are these drugs revolutionizing the treatment of disease that some authorities think the practice of medicine will soon be divided into two parts—against those diseases that can be cured with the sulfa drugs and against those that cannot. Hundreds of thousands of peo« ple living in the United States to= day owe their lives to these mi« raculous drugs which pulled them through illnesses that would have been fatal only a few short vears ago. An even larger number re« covered quickly and easily from ailments that previously would have meant long months in the hospital, perhaps even difficult and serious surgical operations.

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Pneumonia Conquered

HEADING THE LIST of tri umphs is the conquest of pneumonia. If the new drugs had no other use, this vietory in itself would be one of the greatest in medical history. Another victory that will have immense effect upon the future health of the nation is the eonquest of gonorrhea, Experts of the U. S. Public Health Service expect that this disease will be eradicated within the next 10 years by use of the sulfa drugs. The first triumph of sulfanila< mide was over certain forms of the streptococcus germ, Only a few years ago when the bacteriologist turned his microscope upon a euiture taken from the throat of a sick child, from an infected ear, from an inflamed wound of any kind, and saw these deadly germs glistening under the lens like tiny strings of beads,

By EARL RICHERT

Since the draft started in Novems« ber, 1040, there have been 10 Marion county residents classified as cone sefentious objectors

Altogether in the state there have been 375 men placed in the cone seientious objectors class by the local draft boards after the board members convinced themselves by | investigation of the individual cases | that the men were sincerely opposed | to military service. Most of the conscientious objectors {in Indiana are members of the his-

before more than 220000 workers Orie peace churches, Mennonite,

Church of the Brethren and Friends, according to Capt. Robert 'W. Platte of the classification division of the state selective service,

| Few Lack Church Status

There are a number, however, who {belong to other churches and: there {are a few who, while they do not [have a religious background, have

jeonvineed their draft boards by

375 Hoosiers and 10 From Marion County Classified as Conscientious Objectors

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SAFEGUARDING TROOPS—Records of the nation’s past wars show that epidemics and infections have proved more costly than enemy bullets. But wherever the forces of the U, 8, go in this war sulfanamide drugs-=miracles of modern medical sclence—=will be among their chief safeguard.

he steeled himself against an ale most hopeless situation, ‘Today he merely signifies that the use of some sulfa drug is indicated.

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Foe of ‘Strep’ Diseases

AMONG “STREP” diseases that can be treated successfully with these drugs are scarlet fever, childbed fever, severe sore throat, erysipelas, and the streptococcus forms of pneumonia, meningitis,

mastoid infection, peritonitis and septicemia. Childbed fever is an infection

attacking mothers at the time of childbirth. Erysipelas, an acute spreading infection of the skin, is sometimes called “St. Anthony's fire” because of its fiery appearance, Meningitis is an infection of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord; peritonitis, an inflame mation of the lining of the ab-

dominal cavity; septicemia, another name for blood poisoning. The sulfa drugs are now being used successfully for all forms of pneumonia, most of which are due to various strains of the pneumococcus germ, Likewise they are used for various forms of meningitis, peritonitis and septicemia due to germs other than the streptococcus.

TOMORROW: Derivatives of sulfanilamide.

their past records that they are opposed to military service. In this latter group are found chiefly students and school teachers. Too, there have been a large number of Hoosiers who objected to combatant service but were willing to do nen<combatant duty such as serving in the medical or engineers corps. These men were taken into the army as 1<A men and there has been no record kept of their number, Capt. Platte said.

Non-combatants Needed

The army needs men for none combatant duty and is glad to get them, the captain added. Very little friction has resulted in the state between the draft boards and persons claiming deferment as conscientious objectors. Church officials have co-operated closely with draft boards on the matter and most of the “phonies” have been quickly placed in Class 1A. When a draft board overrules the

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claim of a man to be classified as a conscientious objector, the man may appeal to the district appeal board,

Probed by FBI

There a department of justice agent investigates thoroughly the background of the man and makes a recommendation to the appeal board. The appeal board does not have to follow the recommendation but it usually does. When a man is classified as a conscientious objector by his local draft board, a report is sent to state draft headquarters and in turn sent to national headquarters in Washington, There the report is turned over to the National Service Board for Religious Objectors, a group set up by all churches to handle the conscientious objectors.

Three Camps in State

The service board will decide whether the individual should be sent to one of the three Indiana camps for conscientious objectors at Merom, Lagro and Bluffton or to a camp outside the state. At the camps, located mostly in old COC barracks, the conscientious objectors work under the direction

|of various governmental agencies,

on soil conservation projects ingone place, forestry projects in another,

eto. The conscientious objectors or

their churches have to pay all maintenance costs.

FIRE ESCAPE CRASHES, WOMAN HURT IN FALL

A woman worker who had been standing on a fire escape during a rest period at a factory was injured critically late yesterday as escape collapsed. Maude Gollinish, 44, of 61 S. Sherman drive, received a skull fracture when she fell to the sidewalk 30 feet below. The accident occurred at the plant of the Lewis Meier Co, 1002 Central ave, garment manufacturers. She was taken to Methodist hospital.

G. 0. P. CLUB PLANS PARTY

‘The Wayne Township G. O. P. ub, Ino, will give a card party

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40 BANDS DUE AT RALLY HERE

More Cities Agree to Cooperate in ‘Vitalize For War’ Fete.

In line with the president's suggestion of more martial music, more than 40 bands will participate in the “Vitalize for War” rally here May 3, at which Mayor LaGuardia is to speak. William H. Lacey, Indiana de= partment commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said that “lete ters are pouring in daily from may=ors of cities and officers of posts announcing plans for taking part.

Added to the general civilian com= mittee membership today were Mayor Samuel J. Bufkin, New Castle; John Van Ness, Valparaiso; Jack Dolan, Hartford City postmaster; Col. Irwin Bauman, Lafayette; Mayor A, B. Taylor, Vincennes; Leo A. Simon, Vincennes; Don P. Care penter, Brazil civilian defense chairman; Lester Nixton, Petersburg; Howard DeWeese, Kokomo; T. B Culley, Evansville; Robert Lee Brokenburr, Indianapolis, and Dr, Thomas L. Cooksey, Crawfordsville mayor. WwW. H. Chadwick, state V. F. W. adjutant, and Clay Ryman and Roy Sprinkle of Indianapelis are touring the state co-ordinating plans.

e WAR QUIZ

1—This insignia with its crossed sword and battle ax would seem to indicate the wearer is the Lord High Executioner, but what is he? 2—American Douglas bombers, ipiloted by Brit(ish, battered an enemy airfleld |at Martuba. Is {it in Java, Sumatra, Libya or Australia? 3—There is more news about the country of the Malagash. What country is it?

Answers

1—Insignia indicates wearer is in inspector general's department of

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