Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1942 — Page 15

Y. MAY 7. 1942

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Edifor's Note: Ernie Pyle is in poor health and is taking a rest. Mw a Jie, folowing readers’ desires, is reprinting some of Ernie's better known columns. :

EDINBURGH, Pebrusry, 1941,—Traveling through fhe countryside of Great Britain these days is hardly an undiluted pleasure. The had points of traveling include: Crowded trains and delayed schedules, if you're going by rail; snowy roads, unmarked highways and a shortage of gasoline, if you're driving; packed hotels, few taxis, and, worst of all, hotels that are unheated despite the fact that the north of England is nearer to the Arctic Circle than Newfoundland is. §i On the other hand, there are good points: Warm trains, good food, pleasant companions, beautiful snow-covered scenery, and the fact that people will always help if you ask them. Bad as the drawbacks sound, you do get where you're going, and with surprising speed and eomfort. There is actually more rail traffic now than in peacetime, but of eourse this increase is in freight trains. Passenger service has been cut down, but not as much as I had thought. There are 30 pastrains daily from London to Scotland. The trains are terrifically long and they are always packed.

No Restrictions on Travel

THERE ARE NO restrictions on travel in England. You don’t have to get special permission or anything of that sort. You just get on a train and go. I've never had to show my multitudinous special papers since the day I got them. When I register at 8 hotel I have to put down my

By Ernie Pyle

nationality, my pessport number, where I've just come from and where I'm going. The English do too, except that instead of & passport number they put down their national registration number. The better trains carry restaurant cars st dinner time. The diners are nicer than ours at home, with deep easy chairs. They bring yoy soup, lamb, boiled potatoes, cabbage, capped fruit and coffee for about 85 cents. Eating is pleasant on an English train. Por a stranger like me, it is hard to know when you get tu where you're going. You almest never see a pconduetor or a porter. Only occassionally do they call out a station, and the names have been taken off most of the stations in order not to give pointers to the Germans if the invasion comes. At night, of course, the trpin windows are blacked out so yoy can’t see the station you're coming into, anyway.

The Pyle System

I'VE WORKED OUT gg scheme of cnvordiopping until I spot’ somebody whe is going where I'm going, and then when he starts putting on his coat to get off I start putting on mine, Some people know the railroad by heart. The other night, on the way from London to York, our train slowed down and we sll thought we were coming into York, “Wait a minute,” said » man in our compartment. “I'll tell you in 8 minute He sat listening as the train crept forward. Suddenly we could tell: we were crossing a bridge. “No, this is not York,” the man said. “This is Selby. ” Prom the time we left London, four hours earlier, he had never leoked up from his book, byt just from the sound of the wheels he knew exactly where we were. . That's what living in the blackout does to your senses.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE LONG AND dreary count they're putting on at Tomlinson hall all stems back te the fact that we, have no permanent election system like they have in a lot of other big cities. The folks they hired to count the ballots just didn’t know what it was all about and most of them had to be taught by the supervisors and election board officials just what to do. Long tables of people sat around for mere than an hour Tuesday night twiddling their thumbs while boys stacked up the ballot boxes in the halls. What tabulations there were in the newspapers yesterday aftérnoon were the result of work by the newspaper hoys since there were no tabulators at work until noon. “Then it became clear that the precinct committeemen had to be certified by tonight, so everything stopped on the city ballots and the heat was put on to get the county ballots out of the way. Now it ~ shapes up that nmybe they'll get through late Friday night or early Saturday morning. Brother, if you ran a business that way you'd 2 broke before the first week was out.

And Sugar Rationing, Too

WE'VE RUN INTO a few complaints about how long it took to get a sugar ration book but we've discovered it’s not anywhere near as bad as the .Tom- * linson hall fiasco. At least, the school people registered 87,429 on Monday and another 93,000 Tuesday. : + The real trouble dates hack to the OPA instructions to rationing boards that it would take about five minutzs to handle each application. The rationing boards were doubtful but decided OPA ought to know what it was talking about. But anyway, the ~ schools have found out you can’t get name, address, age, weight, height, color of hair, name of person applying, etc., etc., and get a book filled out in less than 10 minutes. And that’s breakneck speed, they say.

Washington

WASHINGTON, May 7~When the India congress y decided over the week-end to refuse to offer orcible resistance to the Japanese invasion that now to be on the way, the full force of what Pandit ehru said to me in Allahabad came back. At the time it seemed disturbing enough, but I was inclined to discount it a little as bargaining talk on the eve of the Cripps negotiations. Nehru’s line didn't look good, as Isuggested in dispatches at the time, yet I thought possibly that when the showdown came the congress leaders would rise to the occasion. They have not.

Nehru was obsessed with past

trouble with the British. He said the bad history of that relationship must be remembered, and that the effects of it could not be overcome by one stroke overnight. His words were prophetic, for Cripps could not overcome it and the present menace . of Japanese invasion is not overcoming it. It is not that Nehru is pro-Japanese—nor Gandhi either—even though the effect of their actions now is the same as if they were pro-Japanese, Nehru said that the congress party had condemned fascism years ago when the British were playing with it—the con- - gress party condemned fascism in Ethiopia and Spain and denounced Hitler's seizure of Czechoslovakia.

The Real Elements of It

TWO ELEMENTS ENTER into the present decision not to present armed resistance to Japan. One is the intense anti-British feeling. By reflex action it tends to welcome any event that will shake the British hold on India. That feeling is so. strong that it causes people to minimize the Japanese menace. They don’t know the story of Korea and the brutalities practiced in China, except as atrocity stories which they are inclined to discount. When you have

My Day

GTON, Wednesday—Due to the fact that the paidemt of Peru's Diane vas Seiased in Fabs. he probably will not arrive here until tomorrow, so the household has been very busy switching all of Thursday's engagements to Wednesday and vieeversa.

The dinner for the president of Peru, given by my husband for the - officials of the

: I go today to 8 luncheon given . for the delegates to this congress, The afternon is very full of appointments to see various people : who are trying to de something ; useful at present, but who for one reason or another find themselves faced with dif.

I am very much troubled by the fst that fn the ; Administration

Paternity Problems

‘MAYBE IT'S a bit personal, but we can’t resist telling you about Robert W. Emerick and his great ordeal. Bob—he’s the General Motors public relations director for Indiana—became the very proud father of a nine-pound son last Priday. When he took Mrs. Emerick to the hospital, Bob was assured he wasn’t needed there. They told him to go home and get some sieep and promised to phone him. Well, he couldn’t get to sleep, just rolled and tossed. Finally he decided his phone was- out of order. And he didn't rest until he had called the phone company and had them phone him back to test the line. (P. 8. The youngsters name is Robert William Emerick Jr.) . . . You probably figured it out for yourself, but just in case you didn’t, we'll tell you—that black and white paint being used liberally around the downtown district is in preparation for possible blackouts, In time, all downtown intersection curbing will be painted with alternate black and white stripes. The same color motif is being used on traffic signals, They'll continue using yellow paint for directional guidance on pavements.

Around the Town

IF THE SERVICE at your favorite restaurant isn’t as good as it used to be, or the new waitress spills the soup on you, don’t get mad; just remember the war. Better paying ‘defense jobs are robbing the restaurants of their more experienced help, and the “help wanted” signs in front are becoming almost a permanent fixture. . . . It’s a fine erop of dandelion seeds they've raised in the north end of the World War memorial plaza. They ought to have a humper crop next year. . . . Lewis Carter of the Arthur Murray dance studios reports that a large percentage of the studio’s students nowadays are soldiers or prospective draftees. They want to learn to dance for fear they'll be lett out of things when they get to camp, he says. . . . Dr. John G. Benson, Methodist hospital superintendent, has been in Houston, Tex. to deliver the commencement acldress for the Houston Methodist hospital nursing class.

By Raymond Clapper

been in prison for generations, I suppose you are not much interested in the kind of fellow who throws a rope to you over the wall. ‘The second element is the embedded doctrine of peaceful resistance, which Gandhi has made the core of his resistance to British rule, Nehru was careful to explain that peaceful resistance is not the same as passive resistance. Peaceful resistance, as he explains it, is active resistance but not with the use of force. For instance, to use his illustration, if the Japanese invaders should demand food, the Hindus would refuse to give it to them. They might be shot for it and undoubtedly would be willing to be shot. They have refused to obey British orders when it meant beating or imprisonment.

How Strange a Misreading!

NEHRU SAYS MILITARY resistance is futile for 8 weak country like India. He makes the point that, if you are a weak country and attempt military resistance, when the resistance is overeome that is the end of the struggle, whereas with peaceful resistance there is never any final showdown and end to it. That sounded like hair-splitting to me. It smacks of rationalization. But it is typical of the metaphysical twistings that dominate Hindu thinking and determine Hindu conduct in face of a crisis. But how strange a misreading of recent history it is! Did not the British pursue a pelicy of peaceful|ing resistance to Hitler in the days before Poland was attacked? Did not we try peaceful resistance to Japan. The Dutch tried peaceful resistance in refusing to sell Japan as much oil as she demanded. The Chinese found out long ago that peaceful resistance only invited more aggression. Every day of this war demonstrates the futility of anything except superior force in dealing with the axis aggressors. But the Hindus won't learn it until too late. And in the end they will be saved only because the united nations will bring enough force to bear to crush Japan.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

No sid is beiig fiver 16 Young people, going to,

eoliege or to high school. The high school gid is Jess necessary at this time, since more and more people aré now employed and can give their children the tiitle that is needed to make 9 hizh school education possible. To have college aid Elven up, however, seems to me rather tragic. I had hoped that this part of NYA was just the beginning of a real democratization of education in this eounptry, Young people who bave received NYA assistance in college have nearly always stood among the first 10 of their class, - © All over the country, the vast Eajortly of gs

sovle just Mrzauge ‘they csunot pay for it. It fs a shortsighted mote snd a Present. economy Whish Whi cost us dear in the futtire.

LITTLE LIBYA TOUGHENS UP U.S. FIGHTERS

Desert Troops Train Where It’s 130 in Shade—and

No Shade.

By CHARLES R, MOORE United Press Stat Correspondent DESERT CENTER, Cal, May 7.— ‘Tanned, dirt-straked, weary soldiers of the U. S. armored forces rolled back into eamp today at the end of their first comprehensive operation in “Little Libya,” the army’s newest and largest training center. The operation covered 76 our| miles, The operations force, commanded by Maj, Gen. George 8. Patton Jr., was not permitted to use either of the two highways passing the almost uninhabited region. Every vehicle pushed its way through country not even marked by cattle trails. “Naval War” on Land

Gen. Patton said he believed the area provided the most difficult terrain in the coynfry., Reconnaissance troops preceded the tanks and .self-propelled tank

‘|destroyer 75's guarded the columns

on the flanks, Artillery ‘followed the tanks and supply and service trueks brought up the rear. The tank destroyers are among the army’s newest weapons, They are fast, ready to fire at & moment’s notiee, and they are used in place of anti-tank guns towed by other vehicles. The tank operations, like those in countries where the desert forces may be sent, resembled naval warfare. Groups of tanks cruised like squadrons of ships Not Too Exhausting

Rough-riding crews drove their tiny “peeps,” three-man vehicles which have proved indispensable in desert fighting, with an abandon which would have wrecked most automobiles. Heavy supply and ‘service trucks carried out their assignments well despite the lack of a roadbed. Officers and men foynd the maneuvers strenuous and" dirty but not too exhausting.

130 in Shade—No Shade

Headquarters for the new training is near Desert Center, a village 158 miles from Los Angeles, midway between Indio and Blythe, Cal. The area extends from Yuma, Ariz., 200 miles north to Searchlight, Nev. with its varying width ranging up to 100 miles. The first army unit arrived over a month ago and more than 10,000 I men-+How many “Hiore- is en army secret—already have ‘entered the camp. The training area is the only one in the nation where men and machines are tested under desert fighting conditions. Temperatures in the summer months will elimb to 130: in the shade—and there’s little shade.

800 STILL ON STRIKE AT SIX CLAY PLANTS

BRAZIL, Ind, May 7 (U. P.).— Eight hundred workers from six clay plants continued a strike today after their employers failed to sign a new wage agreement with the United Brick and Clay Workers union, A seventh company, the Arkatex Ceramic Corp, signed a new contract yesterday, granting the b-cent hourly wage increase the union has demanded, A contract approved by state and federal labor officials provides for appointment of a fact-finding committee to study costs of living and to determine whether workers are entitled to an increase in pay.

$5000 FIRE SWEEPS

Fire of unknown origin, last night caused more than $5000 damage to the D, W. Mikesell Products Co. plant, 16 N. Ritter ave. A neighborplumbing shop was also dami at an estimated $150 loss. The roof of the cement block structure was destroyed and the interior and machinery badly damaged before firemen, fighting for more than two hours, brought the fire under eontrol. Seven fire companies under the command of Roscoe A. MsKinney, assistant fire chief, and Harry K. Keppel, battalion chief, answered the alarm, The Mikesell company manufac tures potato chips and similar products, :

HOLD EVERYTHING

MIKESELL CO. PLANT:

Meet the “kite” balloon, little brother of Britain’s famous bar. rage balloons. Kite balloons are smaller, and are flown from ships passing through coastal areas endangered by France-based Nazi

bombers. The kites are credited

* with downing at least six enemy gircraft and with saving more than 200 ships. When a convey is protected by the balloons, dive-

bombing and mast-high attacks .

become very hazardous. Above,

a convoy steams along under an

“umbrella” of kite balloons. Photo at right shows kite balloons snugly stored in a depot barge.

Non - Essential

May Get Only Two Gallons Weekly.

WASHINGTON, May 7 (U. Pm The office of price administration today added new restrictions to sales of gesoline in preparation for the

%| East coast rationing system which

% | may allot some non-essential motors

HOPES BRIGHTEN ON STATE ROADS

Hadden Finds Outlook Is Better Than He Expected

For Building, Repairs.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May T7.—Brighter prospects for both highway construction and maintenance in In-

diana were reported here today by| Chairman Samuel C. Hadden of the state highway commission. Mr. Hadden is one of eight state officials appointed by Gov. Henry L. Schricker to attend the federalstate conference on war restrictions which terminates today. Haying listened and agreed with Commissioner Thomas H. MacDonald of the public roads administration on the necessity for free movement of truck trafic through the states, Mr. Hadden held private conferences which he expects will result in more action on Indiana roads, he said. i

Cannot Designate Them

“I cannot name the highways which will receive particular attention at this time,” Mr. Hadden declared. “But the outlook is far better than I had believed it would be. We will be able to both build and maintain our highways under the military restrictions, because we are able to show that they are performing a distinct wartime seryice and are of the utmost ‘hecessity.” Others attending the meeting in the commerce department, which was called by President Roosevelt, are Lieut. Gov. Charles M. Dawson; Atty. Gen. George N. Beamer; Thomas R. Hutson, commissioner of labor; Eichorn of the public service commission; Secretary Hewit Carpenter of the commission on« interstate co-operation, and Carl ,Hedges, manager of the Indianapolis dairymen’s co-operative. Secretary of State James M. Tucker was absent.

Listen to McNutt

The Hoosier delegation was on hand yesterday to hear former Gov. Paul V. McNutt explain his latest job of manpower commission chairman. While agreeing with the lifting of nearly all state restrictions in wartime, the state will not agree to exempting war contractors from the

gross income tax, the attorney gen-|-

eral predicted. That is expected to be asked at the final session this afternoon by Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somerville, chief of the army service of supply.

WAGE PACT PREDICTED

CHICAGO, May 7 (U. P.)~—War production board officials predicted! today that labor, management and government representatives would agree by tomorrow on shipyard wage scales in line with President Roosevelt's wishes that labor forego

- | wage increases due under peacetime

pacts.

Chairman Frederick F.|

Recount Sought At New Albany NEW ALBANY, Ind, May 17 (U. P).—New Albany, most “mayor-conseious” city in Indiane with a succession of four incumbents since the death of Noble F. Mitchell in January, was at it again today. Demands for a recount in the Democratic mayoralty nomination race were raised after Michael C. Thornton emerged with a lead of eight votes over the organizationsponsored candidate, Michael M. Boland. Faultily printed ballots caused confused voters to vote for the wrong eandidate was the complaint.

LAYMAN ROLE IN SOCIETY IS TOLD

Must Leaven Whole Social Order, Grand Rapids Mah

Tells Episcopalians.

The work of the Christian laymen in secular society is that of leavening the whole social order, the Rev. Ralph Higgins, rector of St. Mark’s church, Grand Rapids, Mich., said here today. He addressed the third-day session of the 50th congress of the Episcopal church at the Columbia club. The congress ends tomorrow. “There is no justification whatever,” he said, “for the common view that the Christian should be by one set of principles in dealing with church groups and an entirely different, even antagonistic, set in dealing with secular community. groups,” : Church Is Community In discussing the laity in community life, the Rev. Mr. Higgins said that one of the prime reasons for the church’s “less than complete efficiency” springs from a widespread failure to appreciate what the church is and the proper relationship of the Christian to his chureh and community. “The church is itself a community and the most distinctive feature of the churchman is that, un~ like the non-churchman, he jis a citizen of two communities,” the Rev. Mr, Higgins said. He psserted that ghurch membership imposes community obligations within the ehurch itself. Expressions of Faith “Public worship, prayers, charity and all the other marks of objective Christian allegiance are social or community expressions of the faith,” he explained. “They bear the same relationship to the com-

‘|munjty of the Kingdom as public

utilities, industrial organizations, and cultural patterns bear to the’ secular order.” The Rev. Mr. Higgins said that the real purpose of personal observance of the church’s objective ways is not simply to make the church strong, but to infuse the secular

60-TON TANKS 10 BE PRODUGED

Baldwin Locomotive to Roll Out New Line of War

Monsters Soon.

PHILADELPHIA, May 7 (U. P.). —New, 60-ton heavy tenks soon will be rolling off the assembly line at the Baldwin locomotive works to widen the stream of weapons pouring from America’s war industries. These monsters, among the biggest tanks ever used, will be turned out on the same assembly line basis which has increased the plant's production of M-3 (medium) tanks by

“leaps and bounds,” as G. H. ioe.

bel, Baldwin's manager of sales, put it. Mr. Froebel’s report was corrober-

ists as little as two gallons a week, In an 18-page instruction bookleg sent to more than 250,000 rationing

{suthorities, the OPA sei the weekly

quets of gasoline for “non-essential” i motorists at from two to six’ ‘gallons, and banned for the duration of the war the sale of fuel for automobile and motorboat racing. The two to six gallon range is fixed arbitrarily and may be revisi upward or downward, depending on the supplies available when ratione

ist who runs out of gas will just have to let his car stay on the high= way or have it towed in, the OPA ruled, Motorists will be - divided inte three classes for rationing purposes, The “non-essential” group will ree ceive “A” cards entitling each indie vidual to seven uniis of which may vary between fwo i six gallons, probably something less than five. “B” cards will be issued to motor. ists who can convince the rationing boards they need more than the basic amounts to get to work or perform necessary functions. But even those who live many miles from their office or factory will not get “B” cards if they can ride buses or streetcars. “B” cards will entitle from to 11, 15 or 19 basie units, depending on ‘need.

Supply Doctors, Nurses “X" ecards will go to doctors

nurses and others who need unlim= ited amounts of fuel for emergency

ated by Maj. A. J. Seiler of the use

Philadelphia ordnance district, who said that by the end of 1942, Baldwin will be producing 10 times as many tanks as were expected a year ago, when it delivered its first M-3 to the army,

Production Tripled

“Last month, Baldwin's produection was three-and-a-half times what it wes when the first tenk came off the line,” Maj. Seiler said. “Production will go up another three times before the end of the year.” Baldwin produced the first 60-ton tank in the United States. It has been tested and proved, and will be the model for mass production. The production at the Baldwin works is slgnincapt, because it is one of the major tank producers in the country. It was one of the first war plants opened to newspapermen, who will inspect more than 30 factories throughout the nation in a tour sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers.

New Model Due

Moreover, Baldwin soon will be making a new model medium tank, the M-4, an improvement over the M-3. It will be the same size, about 29 tons, but it will have increased firepower, a lower silhouette, a wider angle of fire and rv obliguity~that is, the tank is designed so that its armored surfaces will be at angles to enemy fire, intsead of perpendicular to it. “When we switch over from the

M-3 to the M-4, there won't be a drop in production,” Mr. Froebe] said. “New models will be integrated ' between old.” He said all reports indicated that the performance of American tanks was highly satisfactory.

WINCHESTER WOMAN FACES MURDER TRIAL

WINCHESTER, Ind, May 7 (U. P.).—Mrs. Lucy Weese, 60, charged with the back-yard feuding death of a neighbor, Mrs, Martha Laisure,

129, will go to trial on second degree

murder charges June 22 in Randoiph circuit court. Mrs. Weese pleaded not guilty April 8. Trial date was set yesterday.

X-Ray Hints Quints for Soldier's Wife; War Takes Second Place i in English Village

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Motorists with “B” ca can ged only a “reasonable” amount, determined by the dealer, who has to conserve a supply which will be cut to 50 per cent of normal on May 16. No ration cards will be required by civilian defense automobiles or boats, if the area “is under martial law or under enemy attack or imme diate threat of sttack, or (if the vehicle or boat) is actually engaged in a civilian defense Praiacd or drill.”

KIGHTLINGER CHOSEN NEW BAR SECRETARY

Thee new secretary of the Indis anapolis Bar association is Erle A. Kightlinger, who was appointed by the executive committee last to. fll the vacancy eaused by the ! resignation of John K. Rickles who has joined the army. Principal speaker at the meeting was Luther M. Roberts, Louisville

courts and smell clients in order hold the respect and confidence the public. He said 80 per cent of the law suits in the nation are tried im Inferior courts for amounts avers:

PEDEN TO START IN LAW POST MAY 15

Jesse W, Peden will begin his new duties as assistant city attorney May 15. He was appointed to that post yesterday by Mayor Sullivan = recommendation of Fdward

resigned to enter the army. Mr. Peden has beer active im Democratic politics several : and was pauper attorney in crim court for five years, He also se! two years as deputy prosecutor.

WAR BONDS

WHEN THE TANKS roll, your money invested in war rolls with them right through enemy lines. The mediuin size monsters cost more than $70.0 apiece, equipped for action. must have them, They sre battering rams of our army.