Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1942 — Page 7

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Hoosier Vagabond

Editor's Note: Ernie Pyle has been in poor health for some time and has finally been forced to take a rest. In the meantime, acceding to readers’ desires, The Times is reprinting some of Ernie’s best columns.

BUTTE, Mont., Sept. 14, 1939. —Frank Erickson is an unusual fellow. He won't take relief. He won't even take a state pension, to which he is entitled. He

is blind. But he insists on making his own way. He does it by running a newspaper and magazine stand on a Butte street corner. I don't know just how old he is. I would have guessed him in his 30s. But he went through school at Boulder, and when I asked him when he graduated, he said it was between 1914 and 1916, he didn’t remember. So he must be around 45. “I would have guessed you to be much younger than that,” I said. “Well,” he said, “I don’t have anything to worry about, like other people. I guess that’s what makes me look younger.” We were sitting at a table, having a cup of coffee. Of course he could not see the astonishment on my face. Nothing to worry about! Frank has been blind since he was nine months old. He doesn't remember ever seeing anything, of course. His blindness was caused my measles.

Corner Is His Whole Life

FRIENDS TELL ME that in some cases it is possible to restore sight lost because of measles. So some of the businessmen in Butte made up a pot a few years ago to send Frank to San Francisco to the famous eye clinic there, for an operation. But he wouldn't go. Not because he wouldn't like to see, but because he won't accept charity. Believe it or not.

By Ernie Pyle

Frank lives alone in a room not far from his newsstand. He works very long hours. He is usually down around 10 in the morning, and he doesn’t go home until midnight or after. The corner is really his whole life. The only thing he does at home is listen to “talking books,”—bocks transcribed through speaking voice

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onto phonograph records. Since he doesn’t get in till so lave, he's afraid his phonograpn will disturb the other roomers. So he uses earphones. And the phones, clamped so tightly, hurt his ears. The result is, he doesn’t “read” a great deal.

Operates the Honor System

In college at Boulder he learned to play the piano, to typewrite, to tune pianos. But he never did any piano tuning, for he didn’t like it. They say he

could play beautifully, but he has no piano now. His typewriter is in storage.

When Frank goes home at night, he leaves all his papers and magazines right out on the stand, so

customers can help themselves. The honor system. You wouldn't think anybody would steal from a blind man. But some do. There's at least one “slug” a day in Frank’s coin box. Frank doesn’t have any intimate friends. “My school chums seem to have all died or left,” he said. But there are two meh in Butte who are mighty good to him. One is Ross McGrew, wno does all kinds of nice little things for him. The other is Jack Lloyd, who runs a bar and cocktail room a couple of doors from Frank's corner. Lloyd keeps Frank's money in his safe, kind of advises him on business, keeps his books for him. Frank knows scores of people just by their voices. He can tell the names of most magazines, just by feeling them. He says he is very nervous. He says he gets mad at customers now and then, and flies off the handle when he doesn't mean to. He doesn’t pity himself, but things irritate him. They would

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Owen Joseph Bush, one of the greatest of Indianapolis’ great baseball players, who now is president of his hometown baseball club. At 53, Ownie Bush still is a sturdy, bantylegged d all sports, a chain talker, a dog lover and a confirmed bachelor. Truth is he never had a steady girl friend in his whole life. Indianapolis’ gain of a baseball executive just happens to be New York’s loss because it was only by a whisker that Ownie Bush did not become manager of the Yankees instead of Joe McCarthy. The Yanks offered the job to Bush before they even talked to McCarthy. A great many men wouldn't have taken an extra breath before saying yes, but Ownie Bush already had told the White Sox he thought he'd go with them. He kept his word. That's the kind of a guy Ownie Bush is.

Works Hard at Anything

ORDINARILY HE'S jovial as can be, but don't think he doesn't have a temper. And his vitriolic tongue is a powerful weapon. In fact, he’s probably been run out of more ball games for umpire-baiting than most any other baseball notable. Ownie fights hard at anything he does; once admitted that he's the kind of a guy that even sucks hard on an all-day sucker. His boyhood friends swear by him. Although he’s well-to-do now as the result of the wise investment of his baseball earnings, he’s been able to stand prosperity. He still lives on the near East side, not far from where he was reared, and never is happier than when he’s playing cards, or just talking, with his old cronies. A product of our East side sandlots, he became one of the best defensive shortstops of all times. He

From Egypt

CAIRO, April 18.—After spending a month east of Suez I return to Cairo wanting to say some things which, frankly, I don’t know how to say. No one can go through such an experience and

return feeling quite the same as when he left. Perhaps it will be some little time before the mass of information and judgments that I gathered from scores of key people in India and China will shake down into firm conclusions. Above all, however, I return with the feeling that the united nations have failed thus far to make clear their purposes and aims in Asia. I think the reason is that our cause is not clear to ourselves. It is not enough to beat Japan in Asia. The point is, to defeat Japan for what purpose? Our failure to answer that question clearly is having a strongly adverse effect on the war in Asia. We are short of supplies in Asia, but even shorter of purposes that will rally the native populations. The result is that in Malaya and Burma, and now in Indie, the people are more indifferent to the allied cause than they should be, considering what they have at stake. We have failed to convince them of what really is at stake for them. Before we can do justice to ourselves in Asia the united nations must, I think, make a clear and convincing statement of why we are fighting there and what the shape of things will be after the victory.

Giving Japs Extra Divisions

UNTIL THAT HAS been done, the vast masses of the people wont be throwing in their full weight. Japanese propaganda has been playing skilfully on the native hatred of western imperialism. It is fantastic that the Japs should be regarded

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday. —VYesterday afternoon, the United China Relief committee of the District of CoJumbia held its first meeting in the White House to inaugurate their money-raising campaign. This campaign is being conducted all over the country at the present time. I was so glad to be able to have a meeting here, for the relief job needed in China at the present time seems to be so vital to their whole war effort that I feel we are aiding the war in helping to lighten the burdens of the civilian population. It is inveresting to me that the two nations whose men are fighting with the greatest courage, vigor and success, are China and Russia. In both of these countries, at the same time, there is going forward a concerted development of programs designed tc benefit the everyday life of the people as a whole. It would seem to indicate that the men feel that at nome there is no lessening in the determination to make their government responsive to their

needs. Something is being done in Boston which I wish

Ownie Bush

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holds a record probably no one else ever achieved— that of playing with or managing ball clubs in both major leagues—Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds—and three A, A. clubs—Minneapolis, Louisville and Indianapolis. He was the sparkplug of the Tigers’ infield for 14 years.

Golf? Not So Good

OWNIE—HE'S better known in the other towns as Donie or Donnie—likes to hunt and fish, and go camping. He's been better than a fair bowler in his days on the alleys, is enthusiastic over boxing and rootball, likes pool and billiards. His biggest disappointment in sports is golf. He's never had a lesson, and he can’t understand why his score should range from 82 to maybe 104. He likes children, always has one or two with whom he plays catch and tells tall tales with a baseball flavor. He carries a pocketpiece about the size of a dollar and frequently flips it into the air and plays catch with himself. You never can tell when he gets a new suit, as they all look alike. He never wears anything except plain black or blue suits—no stripes. Goes in for white shirts, dark gray hats and always a black tie. He hates new shoes; gets his brother-in-law to break them in for him.

He Likes to Eat

A BIG EATER, he goes in for anything substantial. Among his favorites are pot roast, gravy and noodles. He never goes to the movies, but will go to stage shows, and prefers comedies. He has known quite a few celebrities of the amusement world—Will Rogers, Joe Cook, Olsen and Johnson, Lum and Abner, and many others. He's almost never without a dog, doesn’t care for pedigreed dogs but prefers to pick up some mongrel that has been kicked around by the world, and give it a good home. Yep! That's the kind of guy Ownie Bush is.

By Raymond Clapper

as liberators, yet we are letting them get away with it. Our propaganda job is yet to be done. But it can’t be done until our own minds are clear as to what the war in Asia is all about, what the status of the native populations is to be after the war, whether to return to previous conditions or to move into a new stage with more self-government. A clear and effective statement of the united nations’ purposes would be convincing propaganda for the winning of confidence in Asia, which seems to me to be one of the most important weapons of the war in the east. Until we do that, we are as good as giving Japan extra divisions. It was so in Malaya and Burma, and it looks as if it might soon be so in India.

It Is a Challenge

IN EUROPE the case of the allies is clear. There the axis has conquered free peoples. The situation is totally different in Asia, where only the Chinese have been free—and there you see the difference. The Chinese are fighting for themselves. Elsewhere the natives see nothing to fight for except a continuation of the irksome conditions of the past. So the more ignorant and unthinking of the people see it only as a question of which set of outsiders is to be over them. As to the ultimate night of the united nations, as far as physical strength goes, there can be no \uestion. Japan can never match the allies in a long war. But victory in Asia involves more than a matter of arms. The victory cannot be won by arms alone, so long as we hand the Japanese their propaganda weapon. Sir Stafford Cripps made an effort to overcome this situation in India. The fact that he failed was largely due to the bitterness and suspicion generated from the past. The failure of Cripps’ mission cannot be the end. It is, rather, a challenge to the united nations to redouble their efforts for a new deal in Asia that will rally millions to help actively on our side.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Forbes and Governor Saltonstall have organized all the war relief societies into one united nations relief. The nine major war relief organizations are participating—United China Relief, Polish Relief, Free French, Bundles for Britain, Netherlands War Relief, Greek War Relief, the English Speaking Union, Brit-ish-American Ambulance Corps and Russian War Relief. They are making one concerted drive for funds to aid the people of all these nations. There is a representative of each nation on the executive committee. It seems to me that action of this kind on a national basis would enormously simplify for all of us our contribution to the general effort. Everyone of us wants to be a part of the American expression of generosity to those who are suffering more than we sre, but sometimes the multitude of demands makes it difficult. One drive for one fund would simplify matters. It was nice to find our daughter-in-law, Ruth, here for a snort visit. She flew up from Texas partly for business, but has given us much pleasure. She tells me that our granddaughter, Chandler, has undertaken to watch over the rounding up of the cattle on the ranch since her father is away. At the age of 8,

and

she stays in saddle all day until they actually,

men in the first world war are

Gas gangrene, peritonitis, tetanus or lockjaw, among the chief sources of in-

‘past. As Capt. Stephenson points out, lockjaw has been conquered by the use of tetanus toxoid

as a preventive vaccine. The other complications are being conquered by the sulfanilamide drugs. Surgeons sprinkle sulfanilamide in wounds today much as a small boy might sprinkle sugar on his cereal. In the first

world war complications due to infections in abdominal wounds ran to about 80 er per cent ayy Mr. Dietz caused a tremendous mortality. Capt. Stephenson points out that there was no gas gangrene and no tetanus among men wounded at Pearl Harbor. Every man with an abdominal wound who reached the operating

SEES HIS MATES

| | Peritonitis, fection in war wounds in the|lining of the abdominal cavity, creates havoc in civilian as well as military life. !

Use of Sulphanilamides Lessens Infection Peril Following War Wounds

(This is the last of three articles on the miracle of the sulfanamide drugs.)

THE SULFANILAMIDE drugs have revolutionized war| surgery. Complications that were the dread of the medical

disappearing in this war.

These facts are pointed out by Capt. C. S. Stephenson, who heads the division of preventive medicine of the navy’s bureau of medicine and surgery.

were |

other infecton

no peritonitis or an

” a

Less Peritonitis

difficult problems facing the medical profession has been acute appendicitis—not because of the difficulty of removing an appendix, which is one of the easiest of all

burst before the operation, spill its infection into the abdominal cavity and cause peritonitis. Today. thanks to sulfanilamide peritonitis has lost its terror. Sulfadiazine also is finding use both in military and civilian life as a treatment for burns. It was rumored recently at the Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore that spraying sulfadiazine on burns is one of the most effective treatments yet devised. Reports made public by the navy

Sons in Service, Paper Suspends

BLOWN INTO AIR

Norwegian Sailor Says] Second Torpedo Struck Sinking Boat.

NEW ORLEANS, April 18 (U. P).| —A tall Norwegian second mate! said today he had seen a group of! shipmates in a lifeboat blown 150] feet in the air when a second tor-| pedo struck their foundering vessel | about noon March 7 some place in| the Carribbean. His story was re-| leased through the eighth naval district here. His ship was a medium-sized British merchant vessel. Only six of the 51 crewmen came here. Ten were killed in the explosion and two died later of burns. The first mate had a leg amputated. Six| others remained in a British West Indies hospital.

Men Not Identified

The men could not be identified, the Navy said, lest reprisals be taken against kinsmen. The second mate said that the submarine attacked without warning. The first torpedo hit the stern between the mess room and the bath. “We saw the torpedo coming and tried to turn the ship to miss it,” he said. “But it was too close and got us. The captain ordered us to the lifeboats. “The captain’s and my boat put off on the starboard side. We were 200 or 300 yards astern and two boats were still near the ship. Those two boats were commanded by the chief mate and the third mate. “The torpedo went under the first of the two boats and struck the ship beside it.” There was a terrific explosion, “maybe two explosions,” he said. “I never saw anything like it. People blew 150 feet in the air— men and rations and pieces of steel and wool.” Boat Shattered The second boat near the ship was shattered, but none of its occupants was killed. “Men came up in the debris covered with oil,” the second mate

said. The captain’s lifeboat picked up all the men who were in the second boat. Some, including the third mate, were transferred to another of three lifeboats which escaped. The first torpedo and the second struck five minutes apart, the second mate said. Twenty were in the second mate's boat and only four knew how to row. They began pulling for shore against a strong current. For 16 hours they rowed, and finally reached the British West Indies near St. Vincent. The other two boats came in later.

TIPSY FLIER FINED $300 IN U. S. COURT

‘Bverett C. Winnings, world war flier, was fined $300 and costs by

court yesterday. Witnesses testified that the pilot took off with a passenger in a borrowed plane, stunted within a few yards of the ground, snagged a power line, pancaked and wound up in a backyard with the plane resting against a house. He was alleged to have done this while “under the influence of in-

Judge Robert Baltzell in federal

TRENTON, N. J, April 18 (U,

P.) —Thomas F. Waldron, pub- |

lisher of the Trenton News, a weekly newspaper, said today his

May 15 until after the war, because Uncle Sam has taken or will take his five sons as well as other key men on the paper.

[the battle of Lexington, the opening| The Facts Are . . . | battle of the American revolution.

details, Publisher Waldron said he plans to offer his services to any branch of the service that will use him.

TWO BUS LINES T0 BE COMBINED

Lexington - Prospect and Beech Grove-S. Emerson Merge Tomorrow.

Effective tomorrow, the Lexing-ton-Prospect feeder bus line and the Beech Grove-S. Emerson motor coach line will be combined into a single through service to the monument circle, Indianapolis Railways’ officials announced today. The combined lines will be known as the Lexington motor coach line, with trips terminating at Prospect st. and Southeastern ave. and at

Emerson ave. and Raymond st.

The new combined routes will be as follows: From the circle, south on Meridian st. to South st., east to Fletcher ave. east to Noble st. south to Lexington ave. east to Villa ave. south to Woodlawn ave., east to Keystone ave., south to Prospect st. east to Southeastern ave. southeast to Minnesota st., east to Emerson ave., north to Prospect st. where the busses will turn around and go south on Emerson ave. to Raymond st., the end of the line. Returning busses will go north on Emerson ave. to Southeastern ave., and northwest on Southeastern ave.,

table alive is still alive. There was | infection. of the

FOR DECADES one of the most

operations, but because of danger that the infected appendix might

| sulfadiazine.

| absorbed | stream.

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Drugs sent by air. Last year, to stem an epidemic of bubonic plague in China, sulfa drugs were rushed from San Francisco by plane.

after Pearl Harbor indicated that burns were common among the wounded and were treated successfully with sulfa derivatives. The experience at Johns Hopkins hospital indicated that no preliminary washing or cleansing is necessary when burns are treated with The stuff can be ‘sprayed directly on the burns.

| Amazingly enough, it relieves the

pain as well, frequently making use of narcotics unnecessary. Another derivative which may prove exceedingly important in the present war is sulfaguanidine. This variation of sulfanilamide differs from the others in that it is not rapidly by the blood When administered by

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| Commemorate Battle of | Lexington.

SHAKE TALKS TO

mouth, it stays largely in the in-

testinal tract. n

Dysentery Curbed

FOR THIS REASON, it is particularly useful in the treatment of bacillary dysentery, which has constituted a serious danger in all wars of the past. When Napoleon retreated from Moscow it was not merely the cold and exposure that decimated his armies but typhus and bacillary dysentery as well. Last summer more than 300,000 tablets of sulfaguanidine were sent from San Francisco for the use of the Chinese armies to check an epidemic of bacillary dysentery. They had been requested by Dr. Robert K. S. Lim, director of the medical relief corps of the Chinese Red Cross, who had just read of the new

Today's Rumor |

This Times series is designed to

S. A. R. TONIGHT

of Revolution to |

The Indiana Society of the Sons |

will com-

Curtis G. Shake, chief justice of the Indiana supreme court, who is vice president of the S. A. R., will be principal speaker. At a recent meeting, the Society |

adopted the following points as a war program: “If labor insists on increased | wages, the boys of the armed serv-' ices should receive increased compensation, “That war production managers corporations should be criticized for exorbitant profits. “That firms hesitating to convert to war production should be publicized. “That citizens be urged voluntarily to deny themselves non-essentials. “That there be constant demands for strict economy, and fewer employees in all government departments that do not promote the active and rapid progress of an offensive warfare. “That all members of the society be pledged to active participation in all avenues of national defense. “That party politics be subordinated to efforts toward winning the war.”

500 IN MUSIC CONTEST

Three Marion county schools, Decatur Central, Speedway and New Augusta, were (0 compete in the fourth district music contest at Danville today. More than 500 band pupils will participate in the contest sponsored under the auspices of Central Normal college.

HOLD EVERYTHING

toxicating liquor and without a license.” :

“Mom writes she’s glad I'm in th-> navy--sailors are always so

neat

help you. If you hear a rumor don’t pass it on. Call us or write us and we'll check it for you. If it’s true. we'll tell vou so. If not, we'll give you the facts.

The Gossip Is . . .

That air raid wardens here have been ordered to

get ready for a “suicide” bombing - raid, coming from the West Coast

within the next six weeks.

That wardens have been given no such instructions. And that’s from Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, county civilian defense director.

NEED HELPERS IN BOND DRIVE

Mrs. Arnholter Appeals for

Volunteers to Make Calls From House-to-House.

An urgent appeal for volunteers to canvass Indianapolis and Marion county during “MacArthur Week” was issued today by Mrs. H. H. Arnholter, drive chairman. Approximately 6000 canvassers are needed to handle the house-to-house coverage for war bond pledges and to explain the meaning of civilian defense, Mrs. Arnholter said, and at present volunteering is far behind this number. She added: “No volunteer will be asked to go out of his block to make the canvass. It is a time when all can show their patriotism by aiding in this effort. It is vitally important that bonds are pledged so that our armed forces will have war implements with which to fight and protect themselves. “It is also urgent that we bring the meaning of defense into every home. Persons in the city and county will have a better picture of the organization and some idea of how they can help in the defense

setup. These are the two functions] of the

‘MacArthur Week’ April 27 through May 2.” Persons wishing to volunteer as canvassers during “MacArthur Week” are asked to call MA-2541, county civilian defense headquar-

drive

development in an American medical journal. In December, word came from Dr. Lim that another sulfa drug, sulfathiozole, was being tried as a remedy for bubonic plague, which had broken out in Hunan province. The drug, sent to China by the American bureau for medical aid to China, was rushed by plane to Changtze in that province. Among most recent developments in the sulfa drugs has been an ointment made from sulfathiozole (for the treatment of skin diseases such as acne, impetigo, infected eczema, etc. This ointment will also find its use in tne war, since an increase in such conditions as impetigo was reported recently in London. ;

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BLUE DEFENDS COURT POLICIES

‘Evidence Lacking in Cases

Marked Unapproved, He Claims.

Prosecutor Sherwood Blue today

{said the affidavits which his office

has refused to approve for trials were cases in which investigation had showed the evidence was not sufficient for conviction. His statement followed disclosure yesterday that more than 200 “unapproved” affidavits have been shelved in the municipal court “dead” files, leaving defendants free without trials. Judge John Niblack, of Municipal court 4, has clashed with deputy prosecutors several times over unapproved affidavits.

Says Cases Prejudged

He said Mr. Blue's new procedure was removing cases from the files before the court had a chance to judge them. “The prosecutor is prejudging the cases by this practice, Judge Nib-

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lack said. “In the future, if arresting officers and witnesses appear in court and insist there is

|sufficient evidence for conviction, I

will order trials held even if affidavits are not approved.’ Prosecutor Blue insisted that one of his sworn duties as prosecutor is to protect citizens from unfair or illegal prosecution. “Putting defendants on trial without sufficient evidence to warrant a hearing is persecution and that is what I'm determined not to do,” Mr. Blue said. Policy is Innovation The policy of withholding affidavits, started by the prosecutor two months ago, is a new procedure in police court cases. Ever since municipal courts were created, affidavits were approved and sent to court in all cases regardless of their merits. The bad arrests then were weeded out in court trials.

BAND TO HAVE PARTY The Kitchen Band, Women of the Moose, will sponsor a card party at Mae's Restaurant, 848 Massachusetts ave. this evening.

WAR QUIZ

1, This pretty leaf on the uniform of-a navy man looks as if it might indicate somebody having duWho

ters.

FIRE ESCAPE PLUNGE FATAL TO WOMAN

Injuries received in a 20-foot fall from a fire escape at the Lewis Meier & Co., overall manufacturers, 1002 Central ave., resulted in the death of Mrs. Maude Gollnisch, 46, of 61 8S. Sherman drive, today at Methodist hospital. Mrs. Gollnisch fell last Wednesday when part of the fire escape gave way. She had stepped onto it during a rest period at the company where she is employed.

TRUCK DRIVER HURT Albert L. Gum, 30, of 2020 St. Joe st., was injured early today when his truck-trailer crashed into the rear

nations are

to grow guayule.

of another tractor-trailer on State Road 67 at 46th st. He was sent

‘in the Pa

ties in forestry or botany. wears it? : 2. In Ameriican army “slan-

guage,’ what is an “appleknocker”?

3. Deprived by the war of an important raw material, some

studying means

What will this plant supply?

Answers

1. The leaf insignia indicates what sailors call a “tooth carpenter.” In other words, he is the ship’s dental officer. 2. Apple-knocker is a farm hand infantry. es a :

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