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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 betterknown columns.

STEAMBOATIN' DOWN THE YUKON, July 16. 1837—The Lady Known as Lou hasn't put in her appearance yet. But this evening, coming down the Yukon into Dawson, I sat on the deck of this little river steamboat and heard the story of Klondike Kate—from her own lips.

The Lady Known as Lou was fiction. But Klondike Kate is real. She came to the North in 1900 to perform in the dance halls of the

new Eldorado. She came down through White Horse rapids dressed as a boy. She is a genuine sourdough. But Klondike Kate is no crude nugget—isn’t today and never was, despite that nickname. She is tall and straight and stately. Almost regal. Her table steward tells me she has the finest manners, and is the most considerate, of anyone at his table. He says her manner is like that of a queen. Even when she’s rolling a cigaret. In 1800 her name was Kate Rothrock. She was young and beautiful and good. Everybody in the Klondike, even today, knows the story of Klondike Kate and her man. They lived in Dawson three vears during the boom days—Kate dancing, her man tending bar, working in stores, finally going into a little business.

You'd Recognize the Name

YOU WOULD KNOW the name of the man if I told you. He became rich and famous, known throughout the United States. And it was Klondike Kate who staked him. It was Kate who shelled out her

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

WHO SAYS women are sissies? During the ParentTeacher convention, one of the sessions in the Claypool's eighth floor auditorium was interrupted by the aerobatics of a bat. A few of the several hundred women present screamed, but not the retiring president, Mrs. James L. Murray. She and a couple of other women grabbed brooms and other weapons and went on safari A wellaimed swat by Mrs, Murray iaid out the intruder, and the meeting was resumed slmost as though nothing had happened. A proud mother was telling her seatmate on a Broad Ripple bus about a cablegram she had received from her son who had just landed in Australia. The part of the cablegram she particularly liked was: “The war is in the bag, Mom. MacArthur and I are now in Australia.”

Arm Bending Exercise PITY THE PLIGHT of a brand-new commissioned officer with tender biceps, such as First Lieut. Jimmy Carvin, former advertising manager of the Power & Light Co. Jimmy writes back from Santa Ana, Cal, that he hardly could raise his right arm when he got there. Every time he turned around. en route, there were half a dozen privates saluting, and he had to return each salute. The worst was at Chicago while he was waiting to change trains. A whole trainload of privates filed past, and he had to salute every darned one of them. He wasn't used to raising his arm so high, so often. and affer the 1000th salute he was about ready to go back to writing advertising. . Day before yesterday we told you about R. G. Thompson helping out a girl who needed a dollar to finish out her railroad fare Madison, Wis., and who promised to mail back e money but failed to do so. Well, he got a note yesterday from the girl. She said the debt had slipped her mind but she read our item. She offered apologies, plus a doilar bill. That's us—Indianapolis’ best collection agency.

Washington

WASHINGTON. April 24—So far as I can size It up, those who believe that the united nations must aim the first knockout offensive at Germany and clean up Japan afterward have the better of the argument. Not that Germany is enemy No. 1 and Japan something less sinister. We make no choice between them. Both will have to be smashed. The only argument is over the detail - of how you are going to do it. Adding up the substance of many discussions during nearly two months in the Near and Far East, I find the net about as follows: First, the united nations have insufficient navy and shipping to carry on decisive campaigns simultaneously against both Germany and Japan. Used in tne North Atlantic, ships do three times the work possible over the much longer distances to Asia. Second, as our strength grows. which it is doing rapidly, we will do better not to spread it out too thinly everywhere but instead hold and harass the enemy in one area while concentrating for a knockout in the other. Third, suppose that, while concentrating against Japan now, we permitted Germany to knock Russia out. England would immediately be in the gravest danger. With Germany wirner in the west, with Russia and Britain out of the war, where would we be? We would be concentrating everything in the Atlantic to protect the western hemisphere against a dominant Germany. We would have less to spare for attack on Japan than we have now.

Let’s Keep on Going

FOURTH, WITH Germany beaten. then America, Britain and Russia would be released from Europe and the Atlantic. We could grind Japan down to

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday.—We had a pleasant trip from New York yesterday by air. but toward the end it was & little bumpy. Yesterday afternoon I saw a number of people and in the evening the Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Morgenthau dined with me. The president had a council <f war with some important gentlemen. This morning has been busy. An old friend of mine, Mrs. Grenville Emmet, came to breakfast. She has been here this winter and, unfortunately, I have seen her very rarely. Afterward, we walked together as far as the hairdressers. I was so late I had to hurry them in order to get through in time to reach American university for their chapel period at 11:15. I liked the service and, after my talk, we went across to the dining room, where they were having a luncheon for United China relief. The program preceded the actual luncheon and I had an opportunity to speak a few words for the drive which is now going on in Washington and to hear Liu Chieh give an excellent address.

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By Ernie Pyle

poke for him, because she loved him, to give him| his big chance “outside.” And he took it, and made good, and then he threw her down. She dian't cry or squeal. She went to work like a man. She stayed in the show business until a knee injury put her out of professional dancing for good. And then she took in washings. And finally she homesteaded a place back in Oregon, and proved up on it. She traded that for a house in Bend. And that one for another. She built herself a beautiful garden, and a fireplace with rocks all of different kinds. Somehow she could never learn to hate him, Even in later years, when she went to him appealingly and was turned away, even that didn’t teach her how to hate him. She stayed in love, and the years passed to 10, and to 20, and to 30—and still she couldn’t hate him.

Unbelievably Like Fiction DURING ALL THAT time she never went back to Dawson. The Klondike was far, far behind her. And then a funny thing happened. She got a letter. It was from a prospector, somewhere up on one of the Yukon tributaries. He had seen her name in the paper. They corresponded. And finally Johnny Matson, prospector, went all the way from the Yukon frontier down into Oregon to see Kate Rothrock. And they were married. It was one of those unbelievably fictional things. Johnny Matson had fallen in love with Kate Rothrock when she was a Dawson dance hall girl. But he was a rough, backward man, and she was taken anyhow, so he said nothing. And then she disappeared: to where, he didn't know. He stayed on in the hills, panning a little gold. Not much; just a little. Through all these years he has lived out on the creek, alone. And then he found her. | Kate Rothrock still lives in Bend most of the year. But every summer, on the first Yukon boat, she comes north all the way to Dawson to see “her Johnny.”

Here and There HOMER CAPEHART is en route to New York on business. He recently completed conversion of his Packard Electric Co. plant from the production of juke boxes to tank components. Quite a change. . . . Fermor Cannon is scheduled for a talk at the U. S. Chamber of Commerce convention which starts Monday in Chicago. A lot of Hoosiers will attend. . . . George Saas found himself locked cut of the house when he went home Wednesday evening. His wife was out of town and he had given his key to the colored maid who had left, leaving the key inside the house and all the doors locked. George tried prying the putty out of one of the windows. Finally he gave up and threw a trowel through the glass, then crawled into the house. He's trying to get the window pane replaced before Mrs. S. gets home. . . . Posies to the driver of Indianapolis Power & Light Co. truck No. 80 for his courteous driving. We saw him making a left turn onto S. West st. at Morris about 1:15 p. m. yesterday. And we liked the way he just sat and waited, without a bit of horn blowing or other signs of impatience, while a pokey pedestrian waddled slowly across the intersection.

Mystery Is Solved

1IOMA BORNHORST, 610 Oakland ave., stepped into Steele's shoe repair shop on Pennsylvania st. last Saturday, opened her purse and removed a $5 bill from. her billfold. A minute later she looked for the billfoid to place change from the $5 bill in 1t, hut the billfold was nowhere to be found. She searched In vein. Several days later a woman phoned, said she had kicked something as she went out the door of the shoe repair shop and when she got outside found it was a billfold. She was in too much of a hurry to look for the owner right then, but wanted to return it. She did. . , . When you hear the MacArthur week broadcast Saturday evening, listen to the way Governor Schricker pronounces the word gestapo. His speech was transcribed and by a slip

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of the tongue he pronounced it something like guest-a-po. with the accent on the guest. They decided it wasn't worth making a new transcription, |

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. April 24

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It was a proud moment for Lewis P. Sottong when Lieut. Gen.

his job in the Allison plant when

the general made a recent tour of inspection there.

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The V for victory sign is more than a symbol for campaign managers in each department of Chevrolet Commercial Body division of General Motors Corp. The division is one of the very first of the G. M. plants to achieve a 100 per cent total subscription of workers for war bonds. Holding the banner are Earl Green (left) and Harold Arthur (right). Kneeling (left to right) are Fred Cornwell, Ted Dilts, Clarence Gilbert, John Devney, William Taylor, Charles A. Roy, Frank Alexander, Clarence Lyons, William Camp-

Approximately 2500 workers

Ernest Owen, an employee of

ocal Defense Workers Go All-Out for Victory

the P. R. Mallory & Co., Inc., was

the first worker at the plant to win in the first series of contests in

the war production drive there. P.

company is shown presenting a war savings bond to Mr. Owen.

R. Mallory (right), president of the The

joint labor-management campaign, which is also being conducted in other Indianapolis war industries, has been requested of all manufacturing plants producing war materials by WPB chief Donald Nelson.

a Bell Airacobra dove and barrel rolled four times over the plant,

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he Allison Engine Spells

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>ngines have destroyed more than {200 Japanese aircraft in Burma and China without the loss of a pilot or airplane due to engine failure.

| That was the cheering news con- [to be distributed to members of the!

n Burma, China

Facilities Within Reach of Planes powered with Allison |hit the defense plants just like any Ickes and OPA Dis

other place. More than 200 teams are expected to take part in the 24hour all-Allison bowling tournament slated May 12 at Pritchett’s. |Top prize will be $250 in war bonds

(U. P.).—Judge Curtis G. Shake, on tained in a cable received here at|Winning team,

122d birthday yesterday, told par-

By Raymond Clapper ices of the annual foundation

hamburger meat in short order. Fifth, that does not mean sacrificing China or India. It does not diminish the need for holding the lines open but on the other hand is the surest way of rescuing them from their danger,

Recent bombing of Japan is comforting to us and probably disconcerting to Japan. Yet it will not be possible to knock Japan out by bombing raids, but only when we can close in around the Japanese mainland with superior air and naval forces and supporting troops to follow. Our opportunity to attack Germany is open, thanks to Russia. It will last only so long as Russia lasts. Only the continued resistance of Russia saves us from having to fight a defensive war in the Atlantic to save Britain from going under and the west - ern hemisphere from direct attack.

Crack Germany First

FOR US TO ATTEMPT a Pacific offensive against Japan with Germany triumphant in Europe and ready to take over the Atlantic would be suicide. Instead we would then have to give up to Japan and brace ourselves in the Atlantic. This plan for winning the war requires that Britain abandon her defensive complex and prepare to use the enormous arms and military forces in the British Isles for attack instead of holding them immobilized in fear of invasion. There has been much public demand in Britain for such offensive action. The need for it is felt among some important Americans. It also means hard decisions for our own government because we could not send Gen. MacArthur, or the Middle East or the Far East, as much fighting strength as they all want. Yet in recent weeks I have found many American army officers in Africa and Asia convinced that vietory would be made more certain and time would be saved by a ruthless decision to crack Germany first, between the pincers of Russia and Anglo-American force on the west.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

I was quite overcome at the presentation of an honorary membership in Pi Delta Epsilon, a collegiate journalist fraternity. With my membership went a small gold pin, which I shall feel much honored in wearing. After tiris, I went to a lunch given by the ladies of the 75th congress. This year they are giving the money they raise annually for work with the children in the District of Columbia. They feel that there is need for day nurseries and nursery schools, and since the WPA is obliged to curtail so many of its activities, the community will have to take on more of this type of work. I have a letter in the mail which has touched me very much. It comes from a woman who says: “Mothers of soldiers who lost their lives fighting for the U. S. A. are honored and enjoy privileges, but nobody mentions those valiant boys on tankers; struck by torpedoes, who give their lives by burning to death. My only son and support was one of the victims of a ‘rattle-snake’ A 9, 1942, on the Atlantic coast. He was a descendant of a former, governor of Pennsylvania. We do indeed honor those boys who are doing work which is just as important and just as dangerous as that of those in the armed forces.

day program that I. U.s facilities are now within the reach of every citizen of the state.

“It touches every Hoosier home

and represents that which is best in Indiana,” Judge Shake said.

Reveals Peace Hopes

The assertion represented a ful-

fillment of a dream for Herman B Wells, president of the university, who said upon taking office that he would culture to every Hoosier crossroads.”

“bring Indiana university

Judge Shake, a graduate of In-

diana, said the university was pro- | viding training that would make de- | Puilding the Allison engine with mocracy work,

“We cannot survive a war like the present’ every suceeding genera-

tion.” he said. “If this war is not | amazing under the most gruelling, the last, then it will be the next to! the last. because another one would mean the collapse of civilization.”

Col. Shoemaker Honored Sigma Delta Chi, national profes-

sional journalistic fraternity, made

three awards at the exercises, presenting the traditional brown derby to the “best liked” faculty member —Col. Raymond L. Shoemaker of

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the department of military science. !

Dr. H. T. Briscoe, dean of faculties, was given the leather medal for the greatest contribution to the university and Robert Gates of Columbia City received thes key chain award as the outstanding senior man,

HOLD EVERYTHING

4 ji of the Allison shift was re-

the end of the week,

the occasion of Indiana university's the Allison plant from Col. C. D.

Chennault, commander of the

| Eighty-one Allison men have re- effect 10,000,000 east coast motorists, | was the subject of much confusion

| ceived awards from the suggestion

of Curtiss-Wright assembled yesterday afternoon in the area back of the plant officially to launch their war production drive for victory. As an impetus to inspire all

-out production,

GAS RATIONING VIEWS DIFFER

pute | Estimate of 21/, Gallons | Per Week.

WASHINGTON, April 24 (U. P.). |—The gasoline rationing system to

Ee : ; ; ‘today. { American volunteer group operating |COmmittee in connection with a y

{in those places. Dated April 8 and sent from Kunming, China, the cable was addressed to Otto Kreusser, director of service and training at the Allison plant. It read:

“Greetings to Allison engine plant workers from the commanding officer and fighter pilots and ground maintenance crew of the American | volunteer group operating in China and Burma. Our pilots flying Curtiss P-40 pursuit airplanes equipped with Allison liquid engines have been extremely successful in their flight operations against the invading Japanese air force. “You men and women of Allison have done an outstanding job in

|plan which encourages the sub‘mission of suggestions on the part of employees for improving the productivity of the individual’s job jor for bettering working conditions. {- . . Play starts Sunday for Allison’s baseball team league.

{through AllisoNews, plant publica(tion, to share their cars and double {up to and from work. . . . Arlo |Harris, Dept. 317, is considered one (of the best horseshoe pitchers in {the country. He and his brother {have been national doubles champs.

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Honor RCA Men

The RCA Manufacturing Co. has

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Two government agencies are disputing an original estimate of 21; to five gallons weekly for “non-es-sential” driving, and have almost three weeks to straighten it out. While there was still no clear-

in the Municipal|Cut picture of how much gasoline . . . Several hundred riders Would be doled out when the pro-! and drivers have been matched up gram goes into operation May 15,

| there were protests from many an-

| gles on the low estimate made by a ‘spokesman of the office of price administration. ; Fears Resorts’ Ruin { Millard H. Davis, representing New England's half-million dollar resort industry, said the limitation would mean ruin for the business, and similar protests came from |southern Maryland resort owners.

| The railroads, already overtaxed,

such fine precision and careful|T®2SOn to be proud of five of its offered little hope of being able to

workmanship with the result that the performance of these |cooled engines has been absolutely

wartime fighting conditions.

“You men and wemen of Allison are fighting with us too in the daily performance of your duties and we

gines with the same excellent quality of workmanship and materials

standing performance of these en'gines in their dogfights with the enemy over the rice paddies and jungles of Burma and China in which we have destroyed over 200 Japanese planes in the air and on the ground without to our knowledge losing a pilot or airplane due to engine failure.

will keep ‘em flying. Let's go America.” Very sincerely yours, Col. C. 'D. Chennault.

Bond Sales Pushed

They're saying out at Allison's ‘that when it comes to dances, the Allison patrol service can give the best of them lessons. That party they had recently at the Southern Mansion was really a party.

| ported downtown Monday night for {the late closifig of the downtown | stores. . . . Only two more per cent ‘to go and Allison employees will have 100 per cent participation buy(ing war bonds through payroll deductions. They've already got 98 | per cent subscribed and the 100

| per cent mark is expected to be!

i reached within a week

Cecil Stephens of Franklin has 10 children. That, he says, is 10 reasons for buying war bonds. . . . Val Horvath is on the mend. He's expected back from the hospital by

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“You keep producing em and we!

| workers who are employed in the

| Eastside plant. These five, Ralph Anderson, Robert Schlegel, Stewart Tongret, Ange-

line Wiegand and Gerald Utterback, | were the first group to win the

the plant during the current “Beat the Promise” campaign, The three-stripe award is the

| RCA. A one-stripe merit decoration |is given to the team of employ lin government production which is (voted the best during the month, and sp on. The equipment testers received ina awards for the work during

the present three-month campaign | which ends April 30.

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‘Solve Horn Problem

Theater managers who have been worrying about replacing those horns used in motion picture sound reproduction can ease their minds. The boys at the RCA have come up with’ a wooden horn which they say is just as efficient. The new high frequency horn developed will allow the metals that were previously used to be released for war production, Previously used horns contained terne-plate, brass and tin solder and were part wood. The new ones brought out by RCA engineers have no metal at all.

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The International Machine Tool |bloyee who really puts his heart \into his work. In fact, the employee, William Everett Evans, likes his work so much that he has written a poem about it. The title is “My Daily Grind for Uncle Sam,” a verse about work at the plant

Corp., 1124 W. 21st st., has an em-!

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'help. “We just don’t have the roll-

liquid | equipment testing division at the ing stock.” a spokesman said.

There were these four reports here on the gasoline rationing situation: 1. The OPA spokesman still insisted that the 2! to five gallon [limit would be the one adopted. 2. Price Administrator Leon Hen-

feel confident that you will continue coveted three-stripe merit decora-|derson said ‘the estimate probably to turn out in an ever increasing tion given for the best general work [was “too low” and that quantity Allison liquid cooled en-|'D

weekly quotas would depend entirely on supplies on hand May 15. 3. Petroleum Co-ordinator Harold

which have made possible the out- highest that can be obtained at L. Ickes said there was “no jus-

cation” for the original estimates, nd that it was unwise to specu!late on the probable quotas because ‘they. would depend on supply. | 4. One of Mr. Ickes’ aids said the (quota probably would be nearer to 25 gallons monthly—still more than 50 per cent under the average consumption of gasoline last year, but very little more than the OPA's top guess of five gallons weekly. Sinkings Cut Supply The temporary card-rationing system was devised because war agencies said they would flatly refuse to risk lives of American seamen “so someone will have gasoline to go to a bridge party or a ball game.” The loss of coastwise tankers to axis submarines and the dispersal of tankers to war services brought about the fuel shortage, despite a 33 per cent cut in gasoline sales already imposed on the District of Columbia and 17 seaboard states affected in the rationing order. There was no reaction so far from gasoline dealers, but Mr. Ickes seemed to favor raising price ceilings to help meet the threat of decreased revenue, :

CHINESE ENVOY TO TALK SOUTH BEND, April 24 (U. P.). —Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese ambassador to the United States, will speak here tomorrow in the interests of the

Shirley 14, Gets Ring From Dad

| HOLLYWOOD, April 24 (U. P), | —Shirley Temple celebrated her | 14th birthday yesterday and rei ceived her first diamond ring. | The young actress, a freshman | at Westlake school for girls, was | given a small souvenir diamond ring by her father, George Temple. | Earlier, at a “preview” birth- | day pariy, Miss Temple was host to 24 Latin American children, | from families of Central and South American consuls. | “I'm beginning to get grown up,” said Miss Temple at the party. No longer a baby star, Miss Temple made a “comeback” in | the last year with two pictures and her present radio program, Her blond curls are darker now, more nearly golden chestnut, which she said she prefers.

PROGRAM ENLARGED

IN SUMMER SCHOOL

Summer school programs in both thigh schools and .grade schools will ‘be expanded here this year to meet increased enrollment demands due ‘to war conditions, officials ane ‘nounced today. By attending summer classes, many pupils will be able to complete {a four-year high school course in {three or three and a half years, ace [cording to William A. Hacker, who will be in charge of the vacation | courses. Summer classes in all seven high schools will start June 15 and cone tinue until July 31. Vacation | classes for grade school pupils who | need extra work in some subjects (will be held at School 2 at 700 N. | Delaware st. during the same period {in June and July. A fee of $5 per subject will be erates.

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o WAR QUIZ

1. This insignia is worn on the collar of certain service men. Globe surmounted by eagle seems to indie cate they fly high. Does it indie cate aviators? 2. Acertain monarch named {Peter bought a bomb, kissed it and said that he hoped it would hit his wartime enemy in the capital of the country from which he is an exile. try? 3. The army has accepted an ofe fer of 200 dogs. For carrying mese sages through the lines, for firs aid or for guarding property?

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1. Insignia is worn by U. 8. mae rines on their collars. 2. King Peter is ruler of Jugoe slavia. ; 3. Dogs are to guard army prope

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