Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1942 — Page 9
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Editor's Note: Ernie Pyle is in poor health and is taking a rest. Meanwhile, The Times, following readers’ desires, is reprinting some of Ernie’s better-known columns,
JUNEAU, Alaska, July 1, 1937.—I've seen glaciers before now. In fact, I've actually been on top of one. But I can't seem to leave glaciers alone. Like snakes, they have a horrible attraction for me, and if I had a glacier around the house I'd probably go pet it every morning. So it was only natural that here in Juneau, being only 18 miles from the famous Mendenhall Glacier, I should go out for a look at it. Mendenhall is famous for two reasons—it is a “dead” glacier, which means it is growing smaller instead of bigger, and it is, I believe, the second or third biggest glacier in the world that you can drive right up to in an automobile. Clarence Wise, the manager of our hotel, drove us out in his sedan. With us went Carlyn Dewey of Arlington, Va, a young man who works for the government. He is up here for the summer paying the bills for a bunch of WPA artists who are painting Alaska, it being well known that artists don’t know anything about money or figures.
That First Startling Glimpse
MR. DEWEY. before this trip, had never been west of St. Louis. So maybe you think he hasn't been seeing sights! He sort of goes into a faint when he thinks about the beauties of the “Inside Passage.” And every brook and weed and patch of snow in Alaska is something God made especially to surprise and delight Mr. Dewey. We came in sight of Mendenhall about three miles
away. We rounded a bend and there it was, far up the valley, a vast fan-shaped expanse of dull whiteness. That first glimpse was startling, and it gave you a sense of the awful power of the thing. A glacier, for those of you who don’t know, is the accumulation of centuries of ice and snow in
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a valley between two mountains. It’s hard to judge | distance on these things, but I'd say offhand that’ the front of Mendenhall is some three miles across,
and it goes back narrower, like a cone) front face must be at least 100 feet high.
Couldn't Help but Be Moved
WELL, WE PARKED the car at the end of the road, about half a mile from the glacier front, and then walked over a trail built by the Forest Service. It was a raw day to begin with, and as we: neared the glacier we got colder and colder. Mr. Dewey was becoming very excited as we drew nearer, | but all my enthusiasm was being spent trying to] keep from congealing inside my sheepskin coat. Finally, about an eighth of a mile from the] glacier face. the trail stopped. Mr. Wise and I| stopped too. But Mr. Dewey didn't. Without a word he jumped over the bank and went rocketing downhill amidst boulders and ravines and gravel over his shoetops. He jumped from one level spot to another like a mountain goat; he went down and down and down; and he never stopped or looked back until he was right down there at the bottom, actually feeling the glacier. Mr. Wise and I thought he had gone wild on us. He stayed down there about 15 minutes, putting his hands in the cold water of the streams that flow from the glacier; throwing rocks at the icy cliffs; standing and just looking. I have never seen anybody so carried away by a consciousness of the majesty of nature. You couldn't help being moved by his emotion.
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TRAFFIC DEATHS
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
IF OUR ARMY and navy fliers keep on smashing the enemy's air fleet, St. Catherine's Catholic church is going to have quite a stack of war bonds. Several months ago the parish asked members to contribute voluntarily 1 cent for each enemy plane downed. The number posted in the church on Sundays has varied from 33 to as high as 109. They've only been doing it 15 weeks and they've got 15 of the $100 bonds alreadyv—one a week. Better ivok out, Mr. Tojo. . . . Two policemen in a police car were going east on Maryland st. the other day and turned left onto Delaware. They made one of those old-fashioned turns— pulling ~lear across the intersection before swinging left. Just then a motorcycle cop came slong. ordered them to the curb and gave the two cops a bawling out vou could hear half a block. You should have seen the grins on the faces of the spectators.
How About It, Uncle Sam?
MRS. J. LOUIS MOORE, 501 National ave, (R. R. 4 Box 27) has a 4-year-old son who wonders what's the matter with Uncle Sam. The youngster heard a talk on the rubber shortage, became interested and pestered his mother to send Uncle Sam three of his little rubber Christmas toys. She was thrilled at his thoughtfulness, and in order to pacify him wrapped up the toys and mailed them to Washington for him March 6. He went along to be sure they were mailed. In the package was a letter he dictated himself. It's been more than a month now and he hasn't had a reply from Washington. Mrs. Moore is beginning to think she’s going to have to mail him a card herself to save his faith.
Golly, How We Sing!
A NEW OFFICIAL quartet has made its bow at the statehouse. It includes Atty. Gen. George Beam-
From Egypt
CAIRO, April 20.—Both here and in India the most hopeful expectations are being aroused by the visit of Gen. George C. Marshall, the American chief of staff, in London. The reason is that every military man I have met believes the war can be won only by attacking Germany and Japan.at the source, not through back-door campaigns. All the activity in India and China is viewed by almost everyone as a holding operation at most, not as a potentially decisive campaign. I have repeatedly suggested the enormous difficulties of transporting supplies. These are growing more acute daily. Even while I was in China the threat to the fragile lifeline into that outpost of resistance increased, requiring some readjustments which make the lire more tortuous even than before. It is vital that this line be held. But beyond that evervone is looking to a new western front and an attack on Japsn from the Pacific as the best hope of victory. The prevailing view is that Russia should be assisted in knocking out Germany, after which all the strength of the united nations could be thrown against Japan, which is now so far extended that she would crumble under direct blows as rapidly as she has advanced during the last few months.
A Significant Development
I HAVE BEEN out to the end of the line at Chungking and seen the difficulties at first hand. When such questions arise as whether to take a crate of propeliors or a bale of banknotes into China, the impossibility of moving in large quantities of heavy supplies becomes obvious. There is haggling over every pound of airplane-carrying capacity. Even over
My Day
NEW YORK CITY, Sunday—After lunch on Friday, I flew up with Secretary Morgenthau and dined with the Secretary and Mrs. Morgenthau at their home in Beacon. Then I spent the night at Hyde Park. So many things were coming to life—lilies of the valley, bulbs of various kinds and lilac bushes. I longed to stay and watch them grow. but that was not possible, so Saturday morning bright and early I left by train for New York City. There were a great many girls from the Bennett junior college on the train. Three of them came to tell me that thev were freshmen, but had taken special courses during the year which they thought would help them during the summer to do some useful work. On every side they were meeting with discouragement. People told them that unless they had a degree. they would not be acceptable. for instance, in a Subsbey school, ‘of ‘ii & ‘day nursery, jor in some
or. assistant Jim Northam, Ray Smith. the governor's executive secretary, and Howard Batman, public service commission counselor. They were guests at the governor's mansion the other evening and the governor indulged in his favorite pastime of playing church music. The boys sang, and were so impressed with their own voices they decided right then and there they were a quartet. . . . Secretary bf State Jim Tucker will observe his 34th birthday Tuesday. Since he was going to Reelsfoot lake for the week-end, the] office staff gave him his birthday present in advance. | It was a fine fishing rod and a lot of other equip-!' ment designed to warm a fisherman's heart.
Complaint Department SOME OF THE BOYS working out at Allison's
IN GITY REACH 26
I. P. & L. Employee Dies of Injuries; Six Killed in State Over Week-End.
Indianapolis’ traffic death toll stood at 26 today, one more than a year ago. Russell William Feldman, 37, of 318 Congress ave., died yesterday
| morning at City hospital of injuries
received when struck by a track-
less trolley Friday in the 3000 block |
of Northwestern ave.
Mr. Feldman was an employee of |
the Indianapolis Power & Light
Co. and a newspaper carrier.
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and other defense plants having 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. was carrying two bundles of papers | shifts wish the county clerk's office would adjust its on a bicycle when he was struck by |
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can get down in time to get a marriage license is to! lay off work. That cuts down war production. If the office stayed open until 5 or 5:30, the boys could make it. . . . Louise Hein. public stenographer, writes that she thought “stenographers were the only peo-
ple who made mistakes,” but that now she knows wife, Esther: three sons, Richard | She calls our attention to our reference to p, Jack R. and Fred; a daughter. “the Tower barber shop in the Roosevelt building” in Dorothy Patricia; his parents, Mr. | She asks if we didn't mean the ang Mrs. William Feldman, all of |
better.
an item Thursday Circle Tower. Well, maybe we did. We just aren't saying. . . . And while we're on the subject of corre-| spondence, the Hotel Riley employees would like the: public to know that thev. also, are sporting those “I save for Uncle Sam” buttons. We hereby officially; admit that some other hotels probably have them, too.
Weal, Fry Mah Hide!
THE SUNBATHING season has started at the I. A. C. On the roof Friday were Henry Severin, Mark Archer, J. Frank Holmes, Jack Carroll, Lowell Stormont, Henry Drake and T. B. Rogers. They weren't the first up, though. J A. McGowan beat them—last month.
By Raymond Clapper
the Burma road a third to a half of the tonnage is used to carry fuel so that the remainder of the cargo can be moved. You must consider that it takes a ton of material a month to sustain a soldier. The haul from America to ports in the middle east or India is 12,000 miles, against 3000 across the Atlantic. One ship crossing the north Atlantic therefore carries three or four times as much cargo in a year’s time as if it were running to the Indian ocean. The shortage of shipping makes that economy factor of the greatest importance. Usually military men regard their own area as the most important and insist on everything for it.
man was injured early Friday morning and Mr, Noe said he did not see the victim because of darkness. Mr. Feldman is survived by his
Indianapolis; three sisters, Mrs.
Dorothy McGuire and Mrs. Eliza- |
beth Shook, both of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Mabel Belles, of Portland, Ore. A native of Indianapolis. he was a member of the North Side Chureh of God. 30th and Annette sts., and was scoutmaster of the chureh’s troop 52. 5
State Victims Listed
Six were killed in the state over the week-end. They were: MRS. JEANETTE HUTTON, 24, 1125 W. 29th st. COLENE HUTTON, Hutton's daughter. MARJORIE HUTTON, 4 also Mrs. Hutten’s daughter. MICHAEL CLARK, 5 of near Noblesville, half-brother of Mrs. Hutton. BETTY BERG, Ind. FRED MILLER, 21, of Worthington, Ind.
2, Mrs.
19, of Lowell,
Mrs. Hutton, her daughter and, Draft Board 11, which includes est by far, it is one of the best liked. half-brother were killed last night | Wayne township, has completed its |
in a crossing accident seven miles northwest of Noblesville. The car in which they were riding, driven by Mrs. Hutton’s hus-
You see, the clerk's office is open also from’ trolley driven by Lawrence Noe, 8 to 4. and the only way some of the defense workers 41 of 3618 Rockville road. Mr. Feld- |
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| By Ernie Pyle Principal Ammerman to Be Honored for 19 Years at Broad Ripple
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1. Not a class . ous meeting, 2. K. V. Ammerman,
3. Interest in his pupils knows no bounds.
USE SCHOOLS TO REGISTER 45-65
Capt. Platte of Draft Board To Announce Details for Monday’s Listing.
Next ' Monday's registration of Hoosiers between the ages of 45 and 65 will be held mostly in school buildings, Capt. Robert W. Platte, in charge of registration for state selective service headquarters. announced today. Capt. Platte said that a complete list of places to register in the 15 {local board areas would be an- | nounced by mid-week.
plans for the occupational registration and today announced the foli lowing list of places where men can | register: Wayne township trustee's
Therefore it is significant that the practically band, Ralph, who was seriously in- Office, 3234 W. Washington st; unanimous judgment out here and further east is jured was struck by a northbound | School 50, Bellevieu place and Ohio
that the main effort must eventually be made against
Germany and against the Japanese mainland from Marjorie Hutton died this morn- Ville School where | Speedway school; Clermont school; tion and gives the pupils freedom sign in the navy, has a war on his
the Pacific side.
The One Big Basic Fact
I HAVE SEEN enough of the difficulties in getting limited suprlies out here to appreciate why there should be no undue hopes of an enormous campaign east of Suez. The allies’ shortage of anti-aircraft guns has been discovered by the Japanese, who operate in the air at will except when they run into the American volunteer group. The job is one both of military action and propaganda—io win the confidence and support of the native populations. Everyone prays that Russia will continue pounding Germany, for in spite of feverish activity and big talk the basic fact is recognized by all—that we are being given time thanks to the Russian resistance. That is the plain, cold fact which stands out above everything I have heard and seen of the war east of Suez. That is not the note on which I should like to end these dispatches from abroad, but I believe it is the truth.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
Monon train.
ing at Methodist hospital. her father was reported in “serious condition.”
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Motorcycle Skids
Miss Berg was killed in a motor-
rst.; Washington high school; Flack1, Lafayette road;
| Fleming Garden school 14. 4200 W. National road; Ben Davis high
By TIM
Polk county folks once had a novel way of showing approval or dis-
approval of their school master.
If his services were satisfactory at the end of the school year all |the parents for miles around would gather on the school house lawn
| for a basket dinner.
If he was a failure, no one appeared on the last day and he knew
| he was “through.” | At the end of Karl Ammerman’s ' first teaching year the basket dinner was a record breaker. On Friday Indianapolis intends |to hold an even bigger and better “basket dinner” in the Broad Ripple high school cafeteria for Principal K. V. Ammerman, the Karl of 30 years ago. This one will be called an Appreciation Dinner.
A Friendly School
And the name is well chosen for the parents of Broad Ripple pupils, | past and present, are grateful for
tm Revival of Old Custom Marks! Appreciation Dinner April. 24
TIPPETT
said his only hobby is “work.” If he isn't in a conference down town, or visiting a class or in the cafeteria, he can usually be found attacking the huge stacks of reports and correspondence on his desk. \ The cafeteria'is a favorite haunt for Mr. Ammerman. He spends almost three hours a day there talking with the pupils and getting better acquainted. Seldom can you point out a youngster whose name and most immediate problem isn't well known to him.
| Mr. Ammerman’s contribution to | this Indianapolis high school in the | past 18 years. Not one of the larg-
Walk down its long corridors and | ask almost any passing pupil what|
On top of thet he “o, k.s” the menu and, if the budget can stand it, the school has a chicken dinner for a dime a plate. It happened! just the other day. | At the Appreciation Dinner,
WILSON SHOCKS HIS CONFRERES
They Don’t Agree With His Forthright Answer to C. I. 0. Leader.
By DANIEL M, KIDNEY Times Special Writer . WASHINGTON, April 20.—When Ralph Gates, Indiana state Repube= lican chairman, suggested to Sene ator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.) that the Hoosier G. O. P. congrese sional delegation hold a ‘‘get-to= gether” weekly, he had in mind an increase in harmony during this campaign year. But when the first of this series came off here at a luncheon are ranged by Senator Willis in a prie vate dining room of the senate restaurant, the harmony fell some= what short of 100 per cent. For Rep. Earl Wilson of the ninth district showed up with a letter he had composed to send to the Indiana C. I. O. and he got no support for his idea whatever,
Receive Frisbie Letter
It seeins that all the congressmen had received a questionnaire from Walter Frisbie, secretary-treasurer of the Indiana State Industrial Council (C. I. O.), asking details on their stand for the Smith bill to amend the Wagner labor act and all such matters to which the C. I, O. is opposed.’ Freshman Congressman “Curfew” Wilson sat right down and wrote what he thought was a swell answer. He told Mr. Frishie that he was for labor, because he is hime self a working man, and that at present he doesn’t favor any labor law changes. However, he added that his posi« tion would be based on whatever he thought would be best for most of the people in his district at any given time. That while he isn’t governed by any bad “capitalist” in his voting on such measures, he didn’t intend to take dictation from the C. I. O. or any other group either—much as he would like the support of their members. Such a forthright declaration
he or she thinks of Broad Ripple Which starts at 6:30 p. m,, the honor shocked some of the other congress-
{high. The answer | “Everyone is so friendly here.”
is generally: guest will be there dressed in one! men.
of his favorite colors—blue or gray. |
They pleaded with him not to answer Mr. Frisbie at all—which
Mr. Ammerman has transformed With him will be Mrs. Ammerman| was the tactic they had decided to rules into policies and believes that and perhaps his daughter, Mrs. J. take.
a school has no room for punish-| ment. He has gone against tradi-
{in and out of classes. None of his pupils fears him. Instead they seek
O. Harris, who lives in Marcy Vil-| lage. However, son John, an en-|
hands. , B. RH
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school; Wayne post 64, 6566 W. Na- | him out—speak to him as though|Ripple High Schoo! to Incianapolis
tional road; Mars Hill high school. and the Anna Segar memorial { building, Rhodius Park.
he were one of their family—wave! | “hello” and “coodby” as casuaily as though he were a classmate and
cycle accident a half-mile east of | Meanwhile, Draft Board 9 listed not the principal.
Lowell on Road 2. Police reported she was riding with Robert Teisseder, 23, of Lowell, when the motorcycle skidded and collided with another driven by Don Habellin. 23, also of Lowell. = = 2 Mr. Miller died in the Linton, Ind., hospital after a headon ecollision yesterday north of Switz City on Road 67. Five others were injured in the crash: Charles Pickard, 20, of Worthington, Ind., driver of one of the cars; William Hulett, 15, also of Worthington; Marion Noel, 30, of
‘Bloomfield, driver of the second car;
Mrs. Marjorie Snoody, 24, of Bloomfield, and Mrs. Daisy Stevens, 21, of Bloomfield.
recreation program for young children. { This seems to me rather foolish, for the best training in the world is practical experience. Every defense com:nunity must be conscious of the fact that it is going to find it imperative to start both nursery schoois, day nurseries, and recreation projects for children. Since more women will be taken into industry, it will. mean that more children must be taken care of by someone in the community during the working
Cycle and Car Collide
Alfred Thompson, 19, of 1117 Oliver ave, was reported in a fair condition at city hospital today following a motorcycle accident yesterday at Morris and Lee sts. He received a broken jaw and head inJuries. The motorcycle which he was
hours. No woman will do a good day's work if she thinks of her child as crying at home. We can not have enough trained people in the country to do all that is needed, and girls who want | to volunteer after one vear in college. should certainly find some opportunity open to them. At noon in New York City, I visited the Knoedler galleries to see a beautiful collection of Flemish resny. | tive paintings, which is being shown for the bene-! fit of the Belgian relief. Then I visited the naval hospital because, at last, the doctors have discovered what has been Franklin, Jr, from regaining his strength.
driving collided with a car driven by Delmar Bueschar, 20, of rural route 4. box 7135. Mr. Thompson's wife, Christine. and Jahn Beck, 20, of rural route 4, box 4, received minor injuries. =» 2 = Samuel H. Meisenheimer, 44, 1116 N. Capitol ave, was treated at City hospital for head injuries received when he was struck by a hit<run driver while walking at McLean BL Sed Illinois st. yesterday mornA ses Rs oR £ &
| the names of 11 registrants with | whom it’ has been unable to comi municate at their last known ad‘dresses and asked that anyone having any knowledge of their whereabouts communicate with the local board office. The 11 persons are Ellis Merrell Barnes, Estel Lee Brickens, Raymond Leland Castle, Ralph Clyde Conrad, Charles Russell Dowden, Francis Peter Marion, Royce Ross, Fred Albert Schiomer, James Ernest Seigman, Arthur Raymond Smock and Donald Dillingham Walker.
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HOLD EVERYTHING
| Favors Positive Outlook
| Mr. Ammerman is tall, thin and ‘sure in his movements, He talks
rapidly but his words are so concise that his speech seems almost | slow. :
Me has an abundance of ideas about education and human relationships and puts them into practice. Some of his beliefs are, and we quote him directly: “Have a positive outlook on life. . » . Take what you have and make {the best use of it. , , . Don’t have |rules, have policies. . . . You first {have to work yourself into something before you can work your {way out of it. . . . The real compen'sations in life do not come in pay envelopes.” Builds Up Pupils | To share the responsibilities and ‘needs of society is his definition of | | democracy. | Broad Ripple pupils are “builtup” by Mr. Ammerman and not “knocked down.” He explains this by pointing out that in judging a | boy or girl, the average person lists | the things that are wrong with the individual instead of the things that {are assets. “It is the same thing when a | teacher marks a pupil's examihation paper,” he said. “They say ‘Jimmy, was wrong on the first question, on the third question and he also | missed the last one.’ Now, what they | should say is ‘Jimmy got the second ‘question right, and the fourth and the fifth questions, too’.”
when a friend asks a favor he has
little time for a hobby. A
| marketing quota referendum com-
but to the pupils of the school and to their principal the four letters! stand for—Broader, Richer, Human | Service. |
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WHEAT PROTESTERS
ON AAA COMMITTEES
Officials of the AAA reported today that farmers. opposing the wheat marketing quotas will be included on quota referendum committees for the May 2 meeting. Alva O. Bitner, Rushville, said a meeting of opponents of the program April 21 would fight for recognition of the opposition group on referendum boards. “Plans have been underway for several weeks to appoint farmers who are opposed to AAA wheat marketing quotas in each of the stale’s wheat producing counties to serve as members of the wheat
mittees,” officials said. “If at all possible,” they added, “the referendum committee will be composed of one farmer opposed to the quota program, one who favors it, and one other farmer.”
6 FURNAS DRIVERS GET CERTIFICATES
Six drivers for the Furnas Ice Cream Co. here have been awamded
certificates for driving nine years
without an accident. The drivers are Claude Lucas, 806 Manhattan st.; William D. Pickard, 478 Concord ave., Joseph Greer, 3231 N.
) | Illinois st.: James A. Roberts, 970/ Jap port, and Since Principal Ammerman is one N. Gray st.; Floyd M. MecDaniel,| naval , could be of those persons who can't say “no” [2378 Adams st, and Earl E. Shep-| for bo
herd, 238 W. Looust. at,
Wilson Stands Pat
But right after the meeting, Mr, Wilson still appeared determined to take his stand and rise or fall on it, He had no Republican organiza« tion support in the primaries two years ago, but has no opposition now. He declined to attend the organ ization meeting in Indianapolis last week, just as he had declined to ride on the Willkie train during the 1940 campaign. “You see it’s this way,” he exe plained. “I can make more votes by being back talking to the folks in the ninth district than I can in the Claypool hotel, or even on a Willkie train.”
WAR QUIZ
1 Sometimes you see former sole diers wearing this medal attached to a rainbow ribbon. What does it betoken? 2. Why were the Japs so anxfous to occupy Siangshan, a port on the China Sea? 3. U Paw Tun has succeeded U Saw as premier. Sound like names in a comic opera, but they are the real thing in what country?
Answers 1. Victory medal, World War I. 2. Siangshan, only 550 miles across the sea from: Nagasaki, great sebo, important used as a bass irs if in allied hands.
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