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{| SATURDAY, APRIL 25

1942

| Editor's Note: Ernie Pyle is in poor health and | taking a rest. Meanwhile, The Times, following

own columns.

| DAWSON, Yukon Territory, July 17, 1937—It was 1:30 at night when the steamboat gave its tnree asts and the engines stopped. 1 dashed out of my bin and there was Dawson—the Dawson of Robert W. Service, aid the Klondike, and the sourdoughs, the Dawson of the greatest gold stampede in our history—there it was, just ahead. The light was good. We could see the whole city plainly—the sea of old gray houses, the big mounted police barracks on one end, the big hospital on the other, the mile-long waterfront of dead old Dawson stretched between them. It was chilly, and I wore my heavy coat ashore. We walked for several blocks. We passed store 1 buildings by the score. Many have fallen, or been torn down. Through the vacant lots uu can see the backs of others. That is where you see best what has happened to iwson. The backs of buildings are intricate heaps junk, old piled lumber, old boilers, old engines, old beds, old things Simply left by the thousands who went away.

12s ‘the Real ‘Ghost Town’

'1 HAVE BEEN IN a Jl od many so-called “ghost: “to ns. 4 Tombstone in Arizona and some of the min-

ing | camps of Colorado, and oil-boom towns of Texas, 9. ‘a

the ancient ruins of Mexico—but the only one which has actually made me feel it is really a ‘ghost hi n” is Dawson.

For it is so big. Surprisingly bis. It must be more than a mile long and half a mile wide, entirely filling

Ir side Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

FILE OF THE WEEK: Mary Arnold Meyers, wh career has’ actually been the career of the ‘Marion County Tuberculosis association. Her life has “been devdted te reducing -the death rate from

tu reulosis and there is no way to estimate the # number of lives she hag” saved Mary Meyers is a girl somewhere in her fifties. Girl is the right word. She is alert, dynamic, on the move all the time. She is about 5 feet 6, weighs maybe 135, has blue eyes and blond hair that is just starting to gray. (She was a perfect blond). She talks rapidly ‘and emphatically, makes rapid de= cisions, and inspires her colleagues to action, action, action. 0 She is a neat doodler, sits at ary Meyers the telephone tracing letters. She 1 people, remembers them long afterward, even th she has met only casually. Despite her generally serious disposition, she has a .grand sense of and she is a great story teller. d like the true woman she is, she is particularly

interested in growing things—flowers, trees, shrubs—

and her friends can count on her to supply them with flowers for transplanting. She keeps a bouquet on

~ herl|desk and is as pleased as punch when someone

‘brings her a posey.

Har Job Is’ Horie

VARY MEYERS was born _in Ironton, O., came

here as a young woman to study nursing at the old J In 13, when the TB association was formed, Miss

Eastman’ nurses’ training school:

‘Me ors became its executive secretary and she’s been iding light ever since. Her job is her life.

is one of raising funds through the Christmas Seal campaign and spending it through the year in a Ith building and life saving program. This program includes the dissemination of literature, the spo g of tuberculin tests in schools and colleges

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y ASHINGTON, April 25—Returning after some weel abroad I sense a deep change in America, as

_ if a new spirit had taken hold of the country. Every-

‘I have observed since landing confirms that - For the first time I get the feeling that we are really in the war, all-out in spirit as well as in action. Bickering, doubts and questions, our national conflict of soul, seem to ‘have been replaced by action. / The first newspaper I saw was devoted almost entirely to reporting war activity rather than argu- . ment about the war. People are busy with specific jobs and are concerned with getting them done. From friends out in the country I hear that they are no longer interested in talk but in winning the ° quickly as possible. Their boys are already

war,

"out on firing lines and some are among the lost and

captured. For them there can be no more argument, only victory.- Criticism is not of broad policies but of delays and obstacles to the war effort. Sacrifices ‘seem to be accepted with relief rather than comThey give us a part in the war. Drastic tax

being encouraged from home to go as far as they can. I haye seen many indications that production is gaining risingly and is piling up for want of ships and planes to carry ‘it.

G. 0. P. Stand One Indication

: T MOST SPECTACULAR indication of change is the action of the Republican national committee at

@ Chicago a few days ago. Not only was there a full

indo ent of the war effort, which was to have

ly Day

: GTON, Friday.—The president and I were delighted to welcome the Princess Juliana and | Bernhard of the Netherlands, again to the White House. They came in the late afternoon with . Mr. ind Mrs. Van Tets. Mr. John Gunther joined us on the White House porch for tea. In a: busy day, it was a pleasant break which my husband rarely enjoys. We had a few guests for dinner and then enjoyed a short concert given by an a cappella choir from Monongahela high school in Morgantown, W. Va. Congressman Jennings Randolph asked me to let them sing here while they were on tour in this part of the country. I confess that I had not expected to find them a very good it they turned out to be excellent and gave us very delightful three-quarters of an hour. rd, the president took Princess Juliana ce Bernhard up to his study for a talk. Some rest: of us who are interested in the internaal stu EE ok ore leadership

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ders’ desires, is reprinting some of Ernie's better-

-is putting in a big addition. The two or three drug

By Ernie Pyle

the valley—the Yukon and Klondike rivers framing two sides of it, the mountain ridge the other two sides. Once it; filled the valley thickly. It still fills it, but thinly. The skelton is still here. I don’t suppose a fourth of the houses are occupied. It is a town now of less than a thousand, rattling around in the shell of a city of 30,000. The 29,000 others are those who went away—they are the ghosts. 1 suppose it was the combination of the night chill the weirdness of twilight at midnight, and the realization that here at last was I, walking the old boardwalks of such a fabulous city—but whatever it was, it gave me a sense of regret so acute I could almost feel it hurt.

It’s: the Town for Pyle THEY'RE STILL TAKING gold out of the Klondike. A few dredges are working, not many miles up the creeks. And tnere are scores of “snipers’—lone individuals working over old ground, some of them taking out as much as $15,000 a year. The new claim stakes mark a new rush—yep, last week some school kids were poking around and found a little gold, so they all rushed in and staked claims.

Dawson just won't die completely dead. Business is good, for a little town. The N-C store

and notion stores do a good business. There is a movie, and a fine hospital, and the prospectors and snipers still bring in their pokes of dust from the creeks. It was only last year that Dawson finally gave in and came down to little things like nickels and dimes. Before that you couldn't buy anything for less than | a quarter. | But the old-timers don't like it. The drug store man says an old-timer won't take change less than a quarter. He'll just leave it on the counter or go out and throw it in the street, That's the kind of stuff I like.

and the care of frail children at the Julia Jameson Nutrition Camp at Bridgeport. ‘Testimony enough of the work she has done is the fact that the tuberculosis death rate in the city and county has decreased from 224 per 100,000 population in 1914, to 55.7 last! year.

Almost a Poet, Tho

SHE HAS A great interest in her home (623 E. 53d st.)., likes to cook (she's good, too), and is particular about her meals. Sauerkraut is one of her favorites, She doesn’t care much for card gaies, goes to the movies only three or four times a year, likes professional works (and some fiction) as her reading diet, and’ enjoys Fibber McGee and Molly on the radio. She is not only a prolific letter writer, but an expert one. One friend, who had an eye ailment, was in. Shanghai years ago and asked a foreign correspondent to read Mary's letter to her. It was a description of a trip to Brown county. "Half way through, the correspondent looked up, and said: “Say, this is real poetry!”

She Keeps in the Background

MISS MEYERS keeps a constant watch on people in frail health. At camp, she keeps looking after homesick kids and finds interests for them. In town, she looks out for elderly women in convalescent homes and takes them under her wing. During the summer, she goes te camp every day and one of her biggest thrills is| seeing a frail child, pick up a couple of pounds. She is always going the rounds, talking about this youngster and that. She has no use for people who take committee assignments and who do not fulfill their duties. She is a real enthusiast about her. work, has enlisted hundreds of citizens and many clubs to an interest in her work. She likes to remain cpmpletely in the background of TB activities as far as the public is concerned and is fivass piiive someone forward for the credit. And she pfobably will be shocked at all this.

ESTIMATE 1943 WAR SPENDING AT 70 BILLIONS

That's 14 Billion Billion Increase Over Original Forecast; Wait FDR Message.

—A $14,000,000,000 increase in forecasted war spending for the fiscal year beginning July 1 today provided further incentive for President Roosevelt's forthcoming program to halt inflation. Mr. Roosevelt was busily at work on the me:s:ages to congress and the nation he will deliver here next week outlining his plans for controlling inflation—or, as he prefers to put it, further increases in the cost of living. His program reportedly embraces more taxation, wage and rent con-

"WASHINGTON, April 25 (U. P).|

trols, over-all price ceilings and, possibly, further credit curbs. | Budget Director Harold Smith |

prepared the way for the messages 4

yesterday with the disclosure that war spending in the 1943 fiscal year will reach $70,000,000,000.

$2000 Per Family

That will be equal to $2000 for each American family or $526 for each man, woman and child in the nation. The increase in the $56,000,000,000 originally planned necessarily means further curtailment of civilian pro-

further depletion of purchasable goods. It is this excess of buying power over commodities on hand that causes the kind of inflation—or rising living costs—that the nation now is facing. Mr. Smith's astronomical figures were presented soon after Mr. Roosevelt told a press conference that his 1942-43 war production program is progressing extremely well although some termed it “fantastic” when it was initiated in| January.

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SECOND SECTION

Spring Brires Butler Students Outdoors for Study

Fuller takes her English lesson

1. When it's springtime on the campus of Butler university, Barbara

outdoors and perhaps reflects om

Shakespeare’s words, “sermons in stones, books in the running brooks

and good in everything.”

2. Jean Pickett, a senior, and Bill Howard, a sophomore, give their own interpretation of higher education by perching themselves on what might be one of the seven pillars of wisdom.

3. Boy meets girl on a bicycle

built for two. That, in brief, is the

meaning of co-education at this season of the year when a young man’s fancy is supposed to turn away from thoughts of trigonometry and principles of political economy. Left to right: Boris Dimancheff, sophemore; Miss Pickett, junior; Miss Fuller, junior; Harlan Pfaff, senior, and

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MNUTT SECTION

The program, calling for 185,000] war planes, 120,000 tanks, 55,000 anti-aircraft guns and 18,000,000 deadweight tons of merchant shipping is behind schedule in one category only—shipping. Mr. Smith gave some idea of what the new spending program will mean to the average family when he observed that approximately $50,000,000,000 of the national income will be left for civilian use. Such a sum, he said, will provide “more of the necessities of life than | during the depression but less than | during the past year.” A concise picture will be given by the president in his message to congress on Monday. He then will report to the nation in a “fireside chat,” probably Monday night. The budget - bureau's estimate were presented by Mr. Smith without any comment on taxes. But the immediate question before congress was how much of the additional spending the president would

By Raymond Clapper

been expected, but the party leaders abandoned their isolationist position so completely as to recognize America’s obligation to co-operate with other nations in establishing a iree world after the war. That declaration went against. the convictions of some of the Republican leaders and was not so much evidence that a new light had dawned as that public septiment had dictated a new stand. Abroad one is always conscious of the scale and drive which Americans put into anything they are fully resolved to do. In construction of airfields miracles are being worked. Asphalt machines move along laying runway strips a mile an hour. Fuel pumps enable planes to be gassed in 20 minutes instead of an. hour by hand filling. Railroad tracks are being laid five miles a day. Any number of projects are being finished in half the scheduled time. Maintenance, repair and salvage are carried on with speed and efficiency new | to some parts of the world.

It’s Distinctly American

THAT ENERGY and mechanical skill ‘and the large-scale imagination behind them are distinctly American. They show up abroad as well as at home. I never have had any doubt about what America could do. Now it seems to me that the will to do it has been mustered and is exerting its full force. If that is so. if there has been the deep change in America that I sense on returning, the outcome of the war cannot be in serious doubt. 1 believe we have now fully determined to do the job, and if so it will be done. As shipping loosens up the results will show. Germany has beeh unable to knock out Russia and EngAand. That stalemate is bound to dissolve in favor of the united nations as additional force is thrown in by an aroused America. i"

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Institute, which is to be held in North Carolina this;

summer. It ought to be a very interesting few Weeks for the young people. Because of an appointment which I made long ago, I have to leave our guests this afternoon‘to speak at the Y. W. C. A. in New York city to 'a group of industrial girls. Tomorrow I have promised to go to Sarah Lawrence college for lunch -:and a panel discussion in the afternoon. Inthe evening I am to meet with the students of the New York school of social work at the close of their day’s session. ‘The juvenile delinquency problem in New York city has caused real concern among the social workars. who feel there should be no cutting down in trained workers dealing with young people. In the big cities like New York and Chicago, there should be recognition also of the work done by qualified and trained Negro peoplé, because they are much needed to help the young people in their districts. I was happy to see that Mrs. Charlotte E. Anderson, wife of a Negro practicing physician. in Harlem,

had been elected last week to the board of trustees of |

the Community Service society in New York city.

offset by taxation over and above the $9,600,000,000 he proposed in his sudget.

Extend Rent Control

Price Administrator Leon Henderson has estimated that the American people this year will have $21,000,000,000 more dollars to spend than there are purchaseable commodities — that is, commodities which the people want. The office of price administration, it was learned, is planning to extend rent control to several hundred cities in the near future as a check against increased living costs to supplement the anticipated general ceiling of commodity prices.

WPA GROUP ALLOWED TO PURCHASE BONDS

WASHINGTON, April 25 (U. P.).! —WPA workers have been author- | ized to spend their wages for war | bonds and stamps, it was disclosed | today. WPA headquarters said this had been authorized in a special letter to state directors from Assistant Commissioner Malcolm J. Miller. Mr. - Miller acted after learning tha! a Chicago enrollee had been discharged because he had purchased two $37.50 bonds.

TEACHERS VOTED RAISE ELWOOD, Ind. April 25 (U. PJ). —The Elwood school board last | night voted a 17 per cent wage increase to Elwood school teaghers and agreed to try to put the raise into effect in September.

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OF BILL FOUGHT

Sponsor Sous Ary and Navy Opposes Extras for

Service Men’s Kin. By DANIEL M. KIDNEY

Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, April 25.—Fed- served as alumni adviser for the | of Lambda Chi| McNutt faces a fight over’his part| Alpha for nine years. He has also

eral Security Administrator Paul V.|

iof the ni family dependency bill | for the arin. services which was | introduced the senate and house! this week. \ For Rep. Andrew Edmiston (D. W.Va.), who put the bill into the house hopper, has declared that he only favors Title 1, which is the family allowances to be handled by the secretaries of war and navy, and is opposed to Title 2 which gives Mr. McNutt both the power and the gre to augmenf these service payents. “The war department didn’t want Title 2,” Rep. Edmiston explained. “But Mr. McNutt got it approved by Budget Director Harold. Smith. So I told Mr. McNutt we would let him 'testify about the need for it, although I am opposed to it myself.” Under Title 1, the allotment from the soldier, sailor, marine or coast guardsmen would be $20 a month for a single dependent and an additional $5 for others.

Allowances Specified

Allowances to be.paid by the government are then specified as follows: Wife $20; wife and one child $30, and $10 per month for each additional child; one child but no wife $15; two children $25, plus $10 for each additional child, and $20 to a divorced wife receiving alimony.

All these are considered Class Al

dependents. There also is Class B {with $15 for one parent; $25 for (two, and $5 for each grandchild, brether, sister and additional parent. There is a $50 per month ceiling on Class B allowances.

In Title 2, which is the McNutt

section, the powers and purse are wide open. It is launched in the following language: “For the purpose of providing financial assistance to the needy dependents of enlisted men there is

{ hereby authorized to be appropri- | ated for the fiscal year ending June

30, 1942, and for each fiscal year thereafter, a sum sufficient to carry out the purpose of this title.”

Purpose Is Explained The purpose of Title 2, it then is explained, is to augment any of the war and navy payments until the federal security administrator des the total sum is sufficient vide a “reasonable subsistwi THe federal security administrator is empowered to make all the

rules governing such allowances, se- | lect the families and persons to get |

them (within the limit of their being dependents of a service man) and use any agency he designates to distribute these funds. Federal security atinistration, welfare workers are of the opin-!

‘| ion that. the social security board |

or the public health service, both

of which are under Mr. McNutt's'

jurisdiction, might be chosen.

FARMER GORED TO DEATH

ANDERSON, Ind, April 25 (U.!| P.).— Frank Riggs,

Albert Neil Firestone, an actor, has enlisted in the naval reserve and

(is now in training as a storekeeper,

third cléss, at Great Lakes.

Prior to his enlistment in the navy, Mr. Firestone was employed by { the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. A graduate of Butler university, he was | named © ‘best actor” in 1928 in a national play contest held at the Good-

{man theater in Chicago. He has nad 15 years experience in | the Indianapolis Civic theater and Butler chapter neon president of its Indiana alumni

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Son in Australia Mrs. John Keating, 2540 N. Dela-

son, Pvt. Francis Keating, has landed “somewhere in Australia.” The letter informed her he was in “good health.” | Pvt. Keating is in the tank division and formerly was stationed at Ft. Knox, Ky. He was inducted into the army at Harrison a year ago. A graduate of Cathedral grade school and Cathedral high school, Pvt. Keating was assigned to Pine Camp, N. Y., before he was sent to Australia. The letter was the first word Mrs. Keating had received | from her son since Jan. 19.

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George Tobin Hyde, son of Mrs. Callie Hyde, Apt. 30, is an apprentice seaman in submarine service witn the U.' S. navy. Mr. Hyde is “somewhere in the south west Pacific.” " mother

him this week saying that he AFT was well. Enlisting in| || George Hyde the navy soon ‘after the Pearl Harbor attack, Mr. Hyde was sent to the Great Lakes naval training station. - He was later assigned to Pearl Harbor. A graduate of School 33, he at(tended Technical high scnool and | was employed by the Link-Belt Co. at the time of his enlistment. = = ”n Robert E. Althoff, 1203 E. Kelly st., and Charles M. Baer, 939 Mills ave.; enlisted in the army air corps | Thursday.

Both men have been placed on

furlough until such time as they are called to report for training. ” = » Harold 8S. Asbell, stationed at Camp Roberts, Cal, has been promoted to the rank of corporal. His | hore address is 814 Fletcher ave.

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Passes Cadet Test

John E. Mills, son of Mr. and Mrs.

army since last June, has passed | (his examination for air cadet training. He is stationed at Oklahoma

ware st. has received word that her |

and was a construction worker

1475 Roosevelt ave.

a letter from |

John Mills, 414 Terrace ave. in the

! he was employed at the Tempest | Products Co. = »

Wallace A: Burnell 1600 Naomi st. is on duty “somewhere” with the navy. His last station was at Norfolk, Va. He joined the navy before Christmas. He's a Tecn graduate

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W. A. Burnell

| before his enlistment.

Several parties have been planned

end. Tonight there is a dance at the Athenaeum sponsored by. the Service club and tomorrow night there is another at the Severin roof, courtesy of the Service club. Music is to be furnished by two WPA orchestras ‘in co-operation ‘ith Musicians’ 'local 3. / #® = 2 -

Here on Furlough

| Pvt. Jack Feist, 38th signal corps, bi spending his furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Feist, 4711 Park ave. until Friday. Stationed at Camp Shelby, Miss.,

He will be home

{ Pvt. Feist has been in the service |

for a year. He is a graduat. of Cathedral high school and attended Purdue university, |

< BUTLER FETE SET BY PHI KAPPA PHI

| Twelve Butler university ceriors selected from the upper 10 per cent (of their class, will be initiated into | Phi Kappi Phi, national scholastic | organization, on May 7. The group includes Jean M. Hackerd, Mark Holeman, Mary Ann Lookabill, Mary Marott, Dorothy LaVone

Ostermeyer, Herbert Joseph Reese, William Bradley Reid Jr, Helen Ruegamer, Dwight Schuster, Robert Stump, Donald Brunow Vanderbilt, all of Indianapolis, and James Geil Van Buren, Pine Village. Those chosen during the fall semester will be initiated and feted ‘also at the banquet. This group consists of Eloise Christman, Magnolia DeHart, Maribelle Katherine Foster, Menka Guleff, Alice Adelia Hite, Betty Jane Lupton, Dolly May Mitchell, Richard Whitely Norton, Ellen O’Drain, Helen Lucile Pannak, Robert Carlton Pittenger, Virginia Louise Poe, Elinor Randall, Catherine Wagle, James Baxter Weaver and Mary C. Wiley.

CHOIR TO BE HEARD ON RADIO NETWORK

A student choir composed of more than 1000 voices from Catholic | girls’ high school academies will |sing the first nation-wide broadcast |

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85 - year - - old | City and is doing military police | of Elmer Andrew Steffen’s arrangefarmer, died yesterday from in- work. He was formerly stationed ment of “Missa BEucharistica”

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juries suffered when he was gored/at Will Rogers Memorial Field, |8:15 a. m. Monday on the Columbia

by a bull. The widow and 13 childTen survive.

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for men in uniform for this week-

CAROLE'S PLEA ON BROADCAST

‘Recording Made at Rally Here in January Will Aid Bond Drive.

The late Carole Lombards plea to Hoosiers to buy war bonds, made during the state-wide rally here last January, will be heard once again tonight on Indiana radio stations to herald the opening of the Mac-

| Arthur week campaign in the state.

| The campaign is for the sale of war | bonds. Miss Lombard’s voice was trane scribed Jan. 15 when she appeared here in Cadle tabernacle and the transcription has not been played before. The broadcast will be carried

by radio stations WFBM, WIRE and WIBC in Indianapolis} WAOV in Vincennes and WKMO in Kokomo. WISH, Indianapolis, will transcribe the broadcast and present it at 8:30 o'clock tonight. Replaces War ‘Show Through government |the program will take the place of the regular “This Is War” show, the four-network series. All other

a condensed transcribed version of {the special program tonight to. an{nounce the beginning of MacArthur | week. During the broadcast here on the i combined facilities of the Indiane ‘apolis stations, Booth Tarkington's “Two Choices,” written especially for the program, will be dramatized by Harold Arnholter and R. Kirby Whyte, directed by C. Norman Green. A new song, written by Hoagy | Carmichael will be sung by the | Murat Chanters, conducted by Arne fold Spencer, the Three Cheers of WISH, and Charles Jones of WIBC. Music for the song, Bond,” will be played by members of the Musicians’ Local 3, who are jlenating their services. Pi An address by Governor Henry PF, Schricker will highlight the 30 minute program. Among the musicians who will | take part are Dick Pierce and his | orchestra, Walter Reuleux, Harry | Bason and Dessa Byrd. Four announcers from Indianapolis stations

| will participate. They are Sydney | Mason, Bill Frost, Bert Julian and

Joe Pierson. Plan and production have been supervised by Don Menke, Harry Skornia, Ted Nicholas, Jack Ports and Felix Adams,

WAR QUIZ

1. These crossed pistols may rge mind you of old dueling days, but they are merely insignia of some hard-boiled individuals in the Army, Do you | know ] them? 2. Free French forces recently attacked a n d captured points in Fezzan. Is that in the East Indies, Burnia, Lie va or Morocco? 3. What do our sailors mean by a “sea-going. bell-hop”?

Answers ]

1. Army military police wear the insignia. 2. Feazan is in Libya. 3. Marines are called *“

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