Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1942 — Page 11

It Was Beyond All Words

* Hoosier Vagabond

Editer’s ‘Note: Ernie Pyle is in poor liealth and is taking» rest. Meanwhile, The Times, following

- reader's desires, is reprinting some of Brailes ears : mown columns. . tire city was burning down. ‘They say the final death toll was a little over 500. It seems almost impossible| -

COVENTRY, Webruacy; 1041 nOOVehilEy represents

: Yen American ahd to most Englishmen, too, the allout one-night blitz at its worst. Many other cities _-have heen blitzed since. then, but Coventry remains

-the No, 1 example in our minds. The Coventry blitz occurred on the night of Nov. 14, 1940. ; Ly --I have read a great deal about it; and have seen many pictures of it. Further, I have seen so much hideous damage in London that you could no longer call me an amateur at viewing wreckage. Yet when we drove into Coventry = I was horrified. | We walked and drove around Coventry for three hours. And late in the afternoon I realized that I had been saying to myself nlf: ont 160d, saying it over and over again like a chant: “My God, this is awful!”

THE CENTER of Coventry is in ruins, All of the hotels are gone. A big newspaper office is a jumble

By Ernie Pyle|

RETAIL TRADE

Nobody has been able to put that; night of Coven- -

try’s into: words. The ‘noise was fiendish. It seemed that the en-

that the loss-of- life should have been no more than that. For Coventry is a city of a quarter of a million people. That means that only one out of 500 was killed. Scores of bodies were. unidentified. The only way the death of some of the people was known was from the fact that their families never saw them again. I feel certain that they will still be finding bodies in

Coventry long after the war is over, when the final] -

removal of tumbled debris is undertaken,

How Coventry Came to Life DAYLIGHT FOUND COVENTRY in a daze. 1]

have friends in Birmingham who were here by dawn.|_.

As they drove into town they found people leaving the city by any means at hand. My friends say the look of horror in the faces of these people .was something they can never forget. Everyone was stunned. What brought people out of this, and back to life again, was two things. One was the visit of the king, who came on the second morning. He came unan-

' nounced, and only a few people were around when he

arrived, but the word spread quickly. And somehow the realization that the king was there among them startled the people out of their stupor and they were actually able to cheer.

Some Goods Cost More at Wholesale Than They Can:

Sell For, Is Claim.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, May 4. — Trade|

association officials representing

thousands of retail stores, report-|

ing on the first week's reaction to the - government's sweeping priceceiling order, today found a crosssection view about as follows: Unless there is prompt action to help merchants meet the lag between ‘wholesale and. retail prices— that is, to offset the fact that some merchandise now costs more at

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of wilted. Ppressés ‘and ‘liriotype rhachines, with twisted ‘steel | girders sagging among them. There are mot many public eating places left. You can stand on ‘what used to be a main corner in downtown Coventry,

The second thing was the prodding into. action by wholesale than the March retail city leaders. An emergency council was immediately|jevels under which it must be sold formed. A local “Churchill,” a man who had never —rkiog capital of many stores held office, just walked into the breach and started|.ouid

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and in three directions see nothing but waste. You can walk down what was a street but now you walk in ankle-deep mud. You would barely ‘recogrize it as a street. On.each side tractors and cranes and men with blowtorches are untangling and hauling away twisted: Eines: and mingled: rubble.

orders flying while others stood by helpless. - And it was this getting people into action again— even ‘though the action was merely throwing btickbats from one pile onto another—that jerked their spirits back into circulation and started the stream of life Rowing once again in Coventry.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

A MONTH ‘OR SO ago Governor Schricker issued a proclamation calling upon all us motorists to save valuable rubber by holding down our speed to 45 miles an hour. Most everyone, including one of our agents, was properly impressed. Two weeks ago this agent of ours started on a vacation trip. He just got back with the following story: He was driving north of Westfield on Road 31 about 3:30 or 4 p. m., April 18. There was quite a string of cars, all keeping in line and traveling under 45. A horn tooted and around .came a car at a clip “well above 60.” It was driven by a uniformed state: policeman. The license number was star 1. In the rear seat sat a gentleman wearing one of those famous white

felt hats. Yep, it was none other than our governor,

Shame on you, Henry!

Yo Yo? No! No!.

THE PRINCIPAL of one of our grade schools recently . issued . instructions to her teachers to discourage pupils from bringing Yo-Yo's to school. She also suggested that the teachers advise pupils not to buy Yo-Yo’s for several reasons. Among the reasons were that “they're silly, dangerous, may have been made th Jaban and stamped ‘Made. in U. S. A’ And besides, she said, the money spent on them could be spent: better for war stamps. . , . Fritz Ehling, Power & Light Co. supervisor, has been showing his friends the mosquito bite lumps on his bald head. Got. them while trying to cut the grass the other evening, he reported.

Washington

WASHINGTON, May 4.—Again it is worth while asking whether we as. American citizens are going to think eur problems through realistically. «That is not suggesting a mere academic pastime.

President Roosevelt watered down his anti-inflation program because he was not sure that the American public was ready to go as far as some of his advisers felt he ought to go. He refrained from advocating compulsory savings although important New Dealers around him urged it strongly and are convinced we all have to come to it. . He refrained from advocating a

sales tax, ‘ although here again |

some of*his most trusted advisers are convinced there must be one. - No doubt it will be called a “war consumption tax” when it comes as it certainly will. It 18 & good bet that Mr. Roosevelt knows, these measures: will have to be taken but prefers to allow time for public sentiment to develop. If the president thought public sentiment were ready now to support him he probably would go ahead with the more drastic recommendations, ‘But in this delicate business of steering a whole people through the rough measures required by total

‘war, you can’t blame the president for not wanting °

to strain his leadership beyond the point where the country is ready to back him up.

Reversing the Field

5 WHEN YOUR ECONOMY is dead and you are trying fo revive mass consumption, you need to do certain things. When your economy is overstimulated as it is now and you are trying to reduce civilian to make-room for war production, then

oly different ‘and opposite measures are called for.

| My Day

HYDE PARK. Sunday. Yesterday in New York . City started bright and early, for at 9:15 I was due at 120 E. 86th st. to meet with a group of Girl Scouts. The owner of an empty store has donated its use to Jam a and. i hey are busy gathering salvage of many kinds. Where they can make use“ful articles, they “are setting up work tables and doing so. The “other things they are turning over to the proper salvage agencies. They gave me a charming May basket, which one of the little girls kindly offered to take down to my apartment, since I could

A Ten Percenter

A MacARTHUR week war bond solicitor’s husband reports that she covered a whole block out in Irvington and in that block found only one case of a family subscribing as much as 10 per cent of its salary for war bonds. It happened to be a family where the husband was a naturalized citizen and the wife a registered enemy alien. She was born in Germany; hated Hitler and all he stands for, but hasn't been in this country long enough to become a naturalized citizen like her husband... . . Whenever one of the soldiers out at F't. Harrison starts griping about something (a soldier’s prerogative) he is likely to be handed one of those black bordered cards being cire culated out there. The cards read: “Your trials and tribulations have broken my heart. They are unique. I have never heard of anything like them before, As proof of my deepest sympathy, I give you this card which entitles you to one hour of condolence from the closest chaplain.”

The Worst Is Yet to Come

IF YOU THINK the busses and streetcars are

‘crowded now, just wait until six months or a year

from now. For example: A survey conducted at the

- Stewart-Warner plant. among 551 of its employees

revealed 119 now riding streetcars and busses; 214 driving their own cars and carrying 193 others as passengers. Of the drivers, 149 expect their cars or tires to be worn out within the next year, forcing them and. an estimated- 135 of - their passengers to depend on public transportation, The net result is that Indianapolis Railways must figure how to carry four times as many workers to that one plant as it is carrying today. The same situation prevails at other plants here. It's something to think about, Maybe they can put double decks on the busses, or add open trailers like the old summer streetcars.

By Raymond Clapper

This is why some important New Dealers who fought ‘the sales tax for years because it would depress consumption are for it now because we need to depress consumption. Right now some $28,000,000,000 additional is going into wages and salaries—

190 per cent of it going to low-income groups.

At the same time the production of goods for family use is going down and down. The. excess money if allowed to float around would only result in people bidding up prices against each cther. Not even the barriers of price control could hold the appetite in check -any more than federal prohibition agents were able to stop people from drinking. The .New Dealers who have been right most of

the time over the last 10 years are now rapidly re-|-

versing their positions because conditions are reversed. :

Now It’s a Necessity THE FACT THAT ‘the National Association of

‘Manufacturers and other business groups favored a

sales tax at a time when I would only have further depressed consumption is no reason for New Dealers Sbposing it now when they want to depress consumpion The classic popular argument against the sales tax is that it bears more heavily on the poor than on the rich. That is its effect without the slightest doubt. The sales tax won't soak the rich. As a substitute for-“income taxes, which it was during the depression, it is a fraud. But now ‘we get the rich through the income tax. They pay far more heavily than the poor, proportionately—a third to a half of their incomes while millions are exempt from income tax. That is: half of the job and the rates are going up. sore more, a: they should. The other half of the job is to get at the expanding ‘buying power now going into the lower income groups. 2

"By Eleanor Roosevelt

Tha &. did a. vecoring .7or the te afin ris. dren’s bureau and reached home in time to have a few guests for lunch. Late in the afternoon, Miss Thompson and I reached Hyde Park by train. I see by the paper this morning that shortly we| are not going to be allowed to indulge ourselves by

having comfortable accommodaties on the train, such

as private rooms at night and lounge cars in the daytime.

I shall certainly miss the private rooms at night,"

but I imagine that I can adjust quite easily. As far

ward widespread rationing, especially in foodstuffs, if the war lasts

long. Huge Clerical Job

“There is an early need for interpretation of some of its orders, especially: those relating to fixing of prices on new goods not handled

The huge clerical job of recordchecking to get provable March prices on thousands of items Has some retailers talking of the “human impossibility” of complete enforcement. Increased manufacturers’ costs are already evident in many lines, and this probably will demand more certain holding down of wage levels than may come from war Iabor board wage-stabilization efforts. . While some of these points are on the critical side, most trade group officials commehd the OPA staff for undertaking honestly and ably-one of the most difficult administrative tasks ever blueprinted.

Fears Chaotic Condition

Admitting price-freezing difficulties, both from the standpoint of OPA ‘and of business, one official representing thousands of stores said: . “This program has got to work and we've got to make it work. If it fails, it will be a chaotic time for all. The speculative market would run wild if the price ceilings Should break: through.” Numerous problems are ' arising which business men say will need OPA action at once. In straw hats, for example, there was no retail market in March. How are they to be priced? Today's prices are higher than those of last vear, and to go back to the last 1941 prices would mean those of pre-labor day: closing-out sales. Or will normal markup be allowed, as under the Canadian plan?

The Canning Problem

Probably the first industry-wide squeeze—and first big OPA headache—will come in canned goods packing. The new 1942 pack is just beginning, and costs are claimed to be considerably higher than for the 1941 pack on which March prices were based. = Huge quantities of canned goods are being set aside for the army and navy, and government policy has been to encourage all possible canning. Increased wages and freight| costs, however, are factors in higher costs, and if these were not taken into account it is believed the result might be to discourage, rather than encourage, the volume of canning. “If OPA is wise,” on trade association representative said, “it will concentrate enforcement on the important items. Why regulate gcaviar? If it went to $100 an ounce nobody would go hungry.”

Gregg Roundup Is Next Sunday

YESTERDAY'S ° DRENCHING weather forced postponement of the 1ndiana saddle horse roundup on the Gregg farms, until next Sunday. Officials of the Western Riders Association of Indiana: and the Lion club, who are sponsoring the affair for war relief, said ticket sales continue at Richman’s

Clothes, 22 E. Washington st.; IL. Strauss & Co., and Sears Roebuck.

be wiped out in 90 to 128

{amily of three persons: Multiply three by two (the number of pounds

HOLD EVERYTHING

as the daytime goes, I have always found the coach| |

not quite see how I could manage -

At 10 o'clock, I faced an au-

gt 10 otlock, 1 faced an au

ege students at the Ethical Oulture society. It was

of a series of lectures during which these

had sopsicred: the obligations of dex : i a veas time to tun io Holland House to see Hendrik Willem Van Loon’s original . grawings for the new edition on of Erasmus’ Folly.” . ord Shem, but Mat

ing to put away various things which we had sent up from New York to the cottage. Now, in a few

fainuies. X 5m. Sin vier fo (he big house to wake ay. the various things

| The country is unbelievably lovey. All the fruit| vlossoms are out and the dogwood is beginning to + bloom. The {foliage still has >

beginning on the unpacking of which I have sent up there.

the bright ‘green spring and the fairylike feathery look ir have before. their leaves are completely out.

us’ book: “The

OPA-Form No. R-301

IF NONE. WRITE NONE

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IST BOOKS ISSUED S AFTERNOON

You Can’t Buy an Ounce of Sugar Without Stamps; Only Men in Armed Forces and Institutions Need Not Sign Up This Week.

At 12:30 today, the Indianapolis grade schools opened their doors to the thousands of housewives and family members for the sugar rationing registration. Here is the schedule of applying for ration books .as| announced for the city and county registration.

Families and individuals with last names beginning with the letters “A” through “D” were to register today. “E” through “J” tomorrow, ‘“K” through “P” Wednesday. “Q” through “Z” Thursday. Study Sample Blanks

Here's what to do: Look over the samples of the registration blanks printed on this page. When you register, you will [have fo fill out a similar ‘ blank for yourself and one for each member of your family. To speed the registration job, shorten the time you may have to wait and. get you out of the school as quickly as possible, The Indianapolis Times suggests that you fill out the sample applications printed in today’s paper. Fill out everything below the line reading name, address and description of the person to whom the book is to be issued. 1 Then take the blanks with you when you go to register and give them to the registrar to copy. Registration will be held at the same times (12:30 p. m. to 8 p. m. today, tomorrow and Wednesday. On Thursday, registration will be, conducted all day, from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. You'll receive your ration books at the time of your registration and sugar can be purchased beginning at 12:01 a. m. tomorrow. Each person is permitted to have; two pounds of sugar in his possession on registration day. For each of the next four pounds that you own, one stamp will be deducted from the ration book. If you have more than six pounds, you will not receive a war ration book but, nevertheless, you should register,

“Typical Example Given Here’s a typical example of a

allowed each person). That gives you six pounds, the total amount of sugar the family is allowed to have on registration day. However, suppose the family has 15 pounds of sugar on nand. In that case, subtract the allowable amount (six

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ily - has nine pounds more than it is permitted to have.

war ration book but they should}: register just the same.

file an application except those who are members of the armed services. Others excluded are those who are confined permanently to public or private institutions. If the confinement is temporary, the person may file an application or have ¢ne filed by a member of the family.

istration regulations, means a group of two or more persons living together in the same house and re-

riage or adoption.

over may register for all the members. If a person is under 18 and is not a member of a family but. is self-supporting he may register for himself. If he is under 18 andi not self-supporting, a guardian or responsible adult must register for him, :

a family afd is away from home on registration day, he may apply for a war ration book wherever he may be. Should he be a family member and be away from home he should not apply for a book on the road. Some member of his family should apply for him at home.

away at college, he shoud register in the town he is living and members of the family at home should not include him when registering. However, if he is under 18, his parents or legal guardian must file an application for him.

four days set and receive a war ration book, you will not be permitted to buy even an ounce of sugar. Go to the grade school nearest pounds) from 15 pounds. The result|your residence, if possible, to regis nine pounds, Therefore this fam- ister.

Hore Are Some Answers To Consumers’ Questions

. your refurn-home.

So, nine stamps (one for each ex-

cess pound of sugar) will be re-| moved from three war ration books | - of the family, or three stamps will|- } be removed from each of the Thre : books in the family.

If the total amount

of sugar owned by the family gives each| ‘person more than six pounds, nobody in the family would get: a

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Family Defined °° Every person in the county should

A family, as defined by the reg-

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Any member of ‘he family 18 or:

Go to Nearest School If a person is not a member of

If a person is 18 or more and is

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have your registration transferred to your local rationing board on

QUESTION: I eat most of my Heals ot 2 Testa l ed do with my war ration book?

ANSWER: Any person who eats

PARADE PROVES

8000 Take Part Part as Other Thousands Watch; Stay on

patriotic fervor.

{dianapolis welcomed the Yanks back from “over there” went off as scheduled yesterday, drawing crowds estimated from 60,000 to 125,000. It| was sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars as a. “Vitalize for War” celebration.

of bands, soldiers, foreign representations ‘and defense workers.

American society sported a placard reading: still resisting the tyranny of the invaders.”

moved slowly down Meridian st.

ning side,” LaGuardia of New York, the prin- 5 cipal speaker in the War Memorial auditorium.

by its industries and what it can 1 produce. group of nations which can produce the most.”

that we are not going to the peace! conference this Sime

i come, we must not rely upon their collapse. We must work hard| {and become increasingly strong.” -

schedule,

,| Havre,

PATRIOTIC URGE

Job, La Guardia Asks. Rain couldn’t drench Indiana's

The biggest war parade since In-

‘More than 8000 took part—scores

A float entered by the Greek“The intrepid Greeks are

Work Hard, LaGuardia Asks It evoked recurring cheers as it

“Thank God, we're on the winsaid Mayor Fiorello H.

“A nation’s strength is measured The victor will be that Mayor ‘LaGuardia declared that “we should make it plain right now

well Wie

Home Defense Bulletin

From Marion county and Indianapolis offices of civilian defense World War memorial. 431 N. Meridian st. War today is different! Since air raids spread the horrors | and destruction of bombs to our homes, this new organization for civilian defense is necessary to protect YOUR home and business. The organization in Marion county } and Indianapolis is based on | the practical experience of other cities stormed by air attacks. YOU can help the enemy by interfering with the efficiency of this organization by not working with it: and for it in YOUR home!

DENY REHEARING N

REGISTRATION SUIT

The Indiana supreme court today denied a petition for a rehearing in a case testing the validity of the new ‘ 1941 - registration voter's law

which the court held unconst, itll

tional several wecks ago,

The law which was to affect the

seven largest counties in the state

provided for the creation of a bis

party chairman and appointed | the circuit court judge.

The high court held that

party. chairman had no legal in the governmental set-up, TI high court reversed the Jasper cir= cuit court ruling in the suit w Was Sled Hy 3 number oft BY

a blow-up in Germany and tev |

State Ahead of Schedule

In opening the meeting, Gov-| ernor Sehtricker said that Indiana

was ahead of its war production|

Others on the platform included, ReD. Jackson, state civilian defense

director; Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyn-|-

dall, county defense director; Homer E., Capehart, parade grand marshal; Robert T. Merrill of Mort., senior vice-com-meander in chief of the V. F, W,,

Louis Ludlow; Clarence A.|.

and William H. Lacey, Indiana V.|

F. W. department commander.

On’ the. official welcoming com-|

mittee for Mayor LaGuardia were

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