Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1942 — Page 15

“ THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1942

‘SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

~ LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland, July 30.—TI've been meaning to tell you of my reception here in

Derry. Maj. Dugan of the marine corps happened to i. be standing at the door of the officers’ house when "my taxi drove up. He grabbed my typewriter and took me 'back to a small extra room with a cot, and said that was my room. Then he asked me up to his room for a chat before dinner. Pretty soon Comm, Edward - R. Sperry and Lieut, Col. Lucian Burnham drifted in and sat on the bed. Comm, Sperry is executive officer of the naval base. Col. Burnham is in command of the marines. I got out my war correspondent’s credentials and showed them, just to keep the record straight, After a while dinner was ready, and we all went downstairs to the dining room. We chatted a few minutes before dinner, Several other navy and marine officers were there, and I was introduced all around. Finally I came to one pleasant-looking officer with glasses and a mustache, who was introduced as Lieut. Comm. Phillips. Then Maj. Dugan said, “We've been waiting to see what would happen when you two got together.” Yes, of course, we were schoolmates at Indiana universities 20 years ago. I might have known it.

These Hoosiers Stick Together!

JOHN REED PHILLIPS is from Michigan City. He was a doctor in France in the last war, and has been in the naval reserve several years. He was fcalled up for active duty a few months before we got into the war.

By Ernie Pyle

You've never seen a guy in your life like this Dr. Phillips. My little room was perfectly all right, but he insisted that I take over his own room instead. When I said no, he just picked up my bags and carried them upstairs. Since then he has been sleeping in a bare room while I have the luxury of his very homey, . gas-heated room upstairs. I wear his sweaters, smoke his cigarets and even read his mail. He has toted me around in his car, introduced me to everybody, taken me to parties and on sightseeing tours, and finally loaded me down with luxuries ranging from cartons of American cigarets to a jar of sandwich spread and a souvenir shillelagh. Praise be for ‘Dr. Phillips!

On Your Way, Pyle!

THERE ARE NINE officers in this house, and they're all grand people. Maj. Dugan drops in frequently for a beforedinner chat or midnight coffee. His name is James but we call him Red.. He's tall and slim and carrottopped, and looks more like the marines’ famous: bulldog than it does itself. He is from Quincy, Mass. He owns a buton factory, and has a wife and children. Red Dugan used to play professional baseball, and he does leather tooling as a hobby. He has his tools with him now, and makes belts, wristbands and other beautiful things. He's always laughing, yet he loves to fight. He'll fight anybody, at the drop of a hat. Another officer with whom I have found a lot in common is Comm. Jesse Sulsser, from Denver; He has been with radio sfation KOA or years, as a technical expert. That's how’ things turn out wien they're perfect. If I didn’t have work to do I think I'd just stay here for the duration and let Dr. Phillips and the navy support me in the manner to which I am becomins accustomed.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

HOW TO FISH in comfort was exemplified the other day by a couple of fishermen near the College ave. bridge over the White river, The boys sat on folding chairs in knee deep water—out where it was

ool. . For convenience, they had their bait and tackle—and probably a bottle of beer, or two—on a little wooden platform beside them. And the onerous task .of holding their fishing poles was avoided by the use of a couple of forked sticks. It really looked like solid comfort. . . . Virgil Martin, the Community Fund director, is attending a C-F conference at Lake Geneva. . . . Bess Bigane, a longtime 11th ward Democratic leader, has been relieved of her job as the ward’s vice chairman, we hear. It might have something to do with the fact she’s a clerk in the office of Sheriff Al Feeney.

Lost—One Raincoat

OUR PROFILE of J. I. Holcomb last Saturday recalled to Carl Dorich, the Chamber of Commerce research director, his early days as a golf caddy at Meridian Hills. Mr. Holcomb was Carl's first caddy‘ing customer. Carl remembers that J. I. tipped him two bits, besides the 75-cent fee, and even recalls Mr. Holcomb’s score. Maybe we shouldn’t tell it, , but it was a neat 112.,.. A soldier who hitchhiked ‘home from Ft. Knox last Saturday and left his raincoat in a motorist’s car would like to get in touch with the motorist. “He was a nice man and if he knew my address, I'm sure he would send me the coat,” writes the soldier—Pvt. Ernest H. Marsh. The

' think it is.

address, Mr. Motorist, is Co. 5 T. G., A. F. S,, Ft. Knox, Ky.

Keys on Shortage List

ADD KEYS TO YOUR LIST of war casualties. Because of a shortage of certain types of key blanks, most of the key duplicators are having to ration the number of keys they will sell to a customer. . . . Friday will mark: the belated start of summer vacation for about 2100 young folks who have been attending the summer classes in the public schools. Some of them have been making up back subjects—others getting credits ahead so they can graduate earlier. They'll have just five weeks and two days of vacation as the schools reopen Sept. 8. . . . We don’t know whether Inside’s item a while back about leg makeup rubbing off on sailors’ white trousers had anything to do with it, but we understand the cadettes now are required to wear real stockings.

The Military Scene

THIS ARMY LIFE isn't the cinch some people For instance, there’s Capt. Egbert Driscoll, on leave as cashier of the Indianapolis Life Insurance Co., who has been assigned to the mess squadron at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. He lives in St. Louis and in order to be on duty at 4:45 a. m., has to roll out of bed at 3:30 a. m. . . . Among the newer commissioned officers. are Bill Florea, Ayres’ controller and store manager, who is to report in Boston Aug. 10 as a lieutenant (s. g.), and George Hoster, of W. Jim Roberts, Inc., reporting at Miami Beach Saturday as an air corps captain. . .. The navy recruiters are looking for any Speedway mechanics (not already gobbled up by defense plants) and others thoroughly familiar with high speed motors for service on the navy’s P-T boats.

Raymond Clapper is on vacation. He

will return the early part of August.

Fight to Death!

WASHINGTON, July 30.—It is now clear that the battle of the Caucasus will be a fight to the death between the Nazis and the Russians with no quarter asked, no quarter given. The object of both sides is not merely to defeat, but to destroy, the opposing forces. Hitler knows that this summer must be decisive if he is to win, and it will not be decisive as long

.as the Russian armies remain in.

action, a On their side, the Russians are out to kill. They are driven by a : gort of blind fury against the invaders, who have shown no mercy even to the very young, the innocent or the aged. All this may sound cruel, and maybe it is. But this is not the first clash between Russian and German soldiers. The massacre of the czar’s troops in the Masurian lakes in 1914 was carried out on the direct order of Gen. Paul von Hindenburg, in command there. “We had not merely to win a victory over Samsonov,” Hindenburg himself admitted. “We had to annihilate him.” (Samsonov and Rennenkampf commanded the Russian armies opposed to Hindenburg and Ludendorff.) “If this first blow were not final, the danger for our homeland: would become a lingering disease.”

The Massacre of ’1}

THUS THE MAN who was later to be shoved aside as a weakling by the “real” superman, Adolf Hitler, set his trap. Knowing every: inch of the treacherous marshes around the lake country, Hindenburg enticed Samsonov to advance. Whereupon, the German troops formed a circle around the doomed ‘Russians, drew the ring tighter and tighter,

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—~I am really beginning to think that my column has some value as a distributor of information. I am rather overwhelmed over the various items which have come to me in the last few days, and the requests that I discuss them in my column. Gradually I shall pick out the more interesting inquiries and statements which come in, and shall try to mention them here. We had the unusual pleasure of having the president and the vice president with us yesterday, instead of their remaining in the executive office, In the afternoon I saw two members of my family off for New York City. Miss Jane Seaver brought her fiance, Ensign James Russell, to ‘dine, and the first of Mr. Hopkins’ family to arrive, David, joined us. #4 - After those pleasant interludes, I worked on my ‘mal most of the day.

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Same:

A lady who acts as a chaperone at dances given for service men in a southern city, wrote to ask what

By Wm. Philip Simms)

and gradually forced them into the bottomless muck. Said Hindenburg in his memoirs: “Our ring of fire around the Russians, crowded closely together and swaying this way and that, became closer and narrower with every hour that passed. .. .” A German soldier who took" part in the massacre is quoted in “Source Records of the Givens War” as

« saying:

“It was frightful, heartrending, as these masses of human beings were driven to destruction. Above the thunder of the cannon could be heard the heartrending cries of the Russians. But there was no ‘mercy. As I have heard, five men and one officer on our side went mad. . . . But most of my comrades joked as the unarmed and helpless Russians shrieked for mercy while they were being suffocated in the swamps and shot down. The order was: ‘Close up and at it harder!’ ”

Don’t Expect a Lull

IT IS NOT DIFFICULT to imagine something similar going ‘on right now along the Don as the Germans and the Russians once again clash in a battle of life or death. Only this time, most likely, both sides are playing the same game. Military theorists now expect a lull in the battle for the Caucasus. The more practical, however, do not. Instead, they look for the Germans to employ what, in the first world war, were called “leapfrog” tactics. That is, as fast as one army corps or group becomes exhausted, a relief contingent “leapfrogs” over it and carries on while the exhausted unit drops back for a spell in rest billets. That is what the Nazis are expected to do—if they can. If they cannot, it will be a good sign. It will show that they are beginning to tire. Then, if ever, would be the moment for the Russian army to coun-ter-attack—if the reported reserves are there to do it—and drive the invaders back.

By Eleanor Roosevelt!

when wearing long evening dresses. It will be almost impossible to transport these young ladies by car, yet the dances really give more pleasure when the girls are in evening dress. I can see no reason why anyone should not travel by streetcar or bus. \ In the days of my youth, before we became accustomed to taxis and automobiles, not only young girls, but elderly dowagers as well, traveled in “stages” and streetcars to evening parties. I see no reason why women who have evening dresses should not wear them to the dances, no matter what the method of transportation may be. Incidentally, when the day comes when we do not all have evening dresess, that should not. keep young ‘women away either. What they wear is going to be secondary as difficulties multiply on the civilian home front. The National Nursing Council for War Service wrote that the army and navy are asking for 3000 graduate nurses-a month. This means that 55,000 new students must start training courses this year, and as many retired nurses as possible must come

Williams, San Antonio, look on as

NEW RATIONING BOARD OPENED

Fourth Unit to Sele West Side Residents; Office at 2623 W. Michigan.

The fourth rationing board in Marion county, to serve west side residents, was opened today at 2623 W. Michigan st. Other boards in operation include the headquarters at the World War memorial; 819 E. 63d st, serving the northern district and 5436 E. Washington st. serving the eastern district.

The chairman for the western district board is O. C. Litzelman, 3455 W. Vermont st., and the members include George W. Usher, 2614 W. Washington st.; Willidm J. Castleman, 9 S. Lyndhurst drive, and Ernest Danner, 2625 W. Michigan st.

Secretary Named

William B. Haigerty, R. R. 1, New Augusta, is executive secretary. The board will serve territory bounded as follows: From White river west and southwest along the center of the Pennsylvania tracks to the west county line; north ‘along the west county line to 38th st.; east along the center of 38th st. to White river and south along White river to the Pennsylvania tracks. The headquarters will be open from 9 a. m. until noon and from 1p. m to 4p m

Navy to Get the ‘Golden Spike’

Rensselaer, Ind., load their twin-engined bomber for a nigh

PROMONTORY, Utah, July 30 (U. P.).~The navy needs the steel, so today 50 men in overalls are ripping up the historic “golden spike” stretch of track that joined" together the nation’s first transcontinental railroad in

1869. Seventy-three years ago it was a race between two railroads and their construction crews to see which could reach Promontory Point first... The crews lived in camp trains, because thers were no towns. Today a camp train accompanied the wrecking crew in its race to move the tracks to navy yards: The ‘towns along the 116 miles of track have long been ghost villages. The stretch of rail, which connects Corrine and Lucin, Utah, was superseded by a cut-off built about 30 years ago, and has been maintained orly as & standby,

ASTRONOMER TO SPEAK:

Troy G. Thurston, amateur astronomer, will address the Indianapolis Astronomical society at 7:30 p. m. Sunday at the 72d st.-Crooked creek observatory. In case in‘clement weather Soveiope by Sunthe wil be held

the target, he swings open the bomb bay | over iad clouds on a practice run at an

Here is a typical night scene on the flying line at the world’s largest bombardier college at Midland, Tex. Left to right, F. JE. Wilson, of Wi: satland, Wyo., and Joe C.

Corporals H. P. Woods nd W. C.

inission,

Heat and dust ig smoke screen and with Nazis at El Alamein.

Davis, both of

In neat rows, a load of 100-pound practice bomb racks inside a fortress. Note the huge b open. In the distance, a loaded plane takes off,

bs is ready for the | b bay doors swung

From “Down Under,” comes this picture showing the survivors of an Australias transport that drifted onto a reef and heeled over during a heavy two-day attack by, Jap bombers on Port Moresby. Still wearing the clothes in which théy were rescued,

the men give the “thumbs up” sign in this bomb shelter.

the greatest handicaps to troops in the Egyptian theater.

Under: cover of a

WE CAME 0 TO LICK HITLER

Negro Troops in Impatient for Ord¢r Attack Nazis.

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FORCES IN . NORTEEHR IRE-|. LAND, July 30 (U. P.).~The Negro|

troops in northren 'Irelaiil impatiently wait for the order that will send them lunging at if: enemy. “We're over here to lic. Hitler,” summed up Pvt. Manuel; Diaz of New Orleans. i Lieut. Robert J. Lehmai: lumbus, O., one of the u officers, said the Negro t pare favorably with any ti: United States has seni over here. The commanding colonel greed. The officers are please: vith the cordiality of the Irish tow:rd their men. { : Cook ‘Most Populi’

The people of this locality have|

arranged a number of e: tertainments for the troops. Cue church held a special service, 'wiich the soldiers took over with 2 number of fervent sermons and 1ienty of down south spirituals. i Negro troops here com? from throughout the Unite: States. Sergt. Moses Sturdivent (’ Jacksonville, Fla. is typical :f their noncoms. He says he hes | out after my boys.” The most popular msn camp is Pvt. Liouis Porter ton. He's the cook.

“Hey, that's no depth bomb— it's the garbage pail!”

STATE BUREAU TIRES OF DOING COUNTY JOB

The state bureau of weights and measures has served notice on Marion county commissioners that it is tired of doing county work for them. The bureau sent a formal notice to the commissioners insisting that they appoint a county inspector of

weights and measures as provided by law. The county has had no weights and measures inspector for several years, leaving the state bureau to

| handle all complaints on violations.

William T. Ayres, president of

GREW REFUSES

NOMURA TALK

American Ambassador Won’t ‘Confer’ With Jap Envoy to U. S.

ABOARD LINER GRIPSHOLM AT SEA (By pilot boat to Laurenco Marques, July 28 (Delayed) (U. P.). —United States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew refused a request of Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan’s am)assador to Washington, for a ccnference while the two diplomats were in Lourenco Marques during the exchange of Japanese and American | nationals, it was disclosed today. During the wait in the Portuguese East African port for the sailing of the nationals to their respective countries, Admiral Nomura, acting informally, sent word that he would like to “confer” with Grew. Mr. Grew promptly declined the request. It was not disclosed what subject Nomura wanted to take up with the American diplomat. On one occasion Grew and Nomura passed. each other during the formalities of the exchange. Mr. Grew merely tipped his; hat and continued on without pausing.

SPONSOR FISH FRY IN WAYNE

A fish fry to raise funds for new fire fighting equipment in Wayne township will be held tomorrow and Saturday at 5.p. m. at the Mars Hill school. The event is mies

=|by the township's No. 8 volunteer]

‘easter. Mediterranean . June

RED CROSS SHIP SUNK BY AXIS.

Italians Torpedo Greek Grain Vessel; Only

One Man Saved.

HAIFA, Palestine, July 30 (U. P.). —A lone survivor .of the Swedish Red Cross ship Stureborg, sunk by an Italian torpedo plane in the 9 despite its plain marking, described today how he helplessly watched nine men die in a small lifeboat.

The last to ‘die: was the Sturee borg’s captain, whose body was, cast overboard by the lone survivor, 39e year-old Antonio Amaral from Miue zela, Portugal, when the lifeboat was within sight of land. Sh The captain prayed over the dys. ing and dead—one died each day during the last nine days adrift— = and then asked Amaral to pray foe him. Another Portuguese sailor, Alfredo Martines, drank salt watée and died screaming through swole len lips. . Four gallons of water, rationed a. soup ‘spoonful to. each man each : day, and a few tins.of corn beef and beans were all that was aboard the lifeboat.

Still Partially Deaf

Amaral staggered ashore neag Gaza, asked “What day is this?” and when told by two Arabs that it was June 29 said it was the firs§ that he realized he had been adrift 19 days. He spent 11 days in a Gaza hospital and still was weak and partially deaf and blind when he told his story today. There were 21 men aboard th Stureborg when it was torpedoed after delivering a cargo of Red Cross flour to Piraeus, the port of Athens. The ship was returning to Haifa and was attacked by the Italian planes 170 miles from its destination. : A Swiss Red Cross delegate went down iia the ship. :

VOLUNTEERS FORM PHILADELPHIA GUARD:

—Plans for formation of a vol teer regiment of the United States coast guard; the first of its kind in the nation, to protect Philadelphia’ vital waterfront properties and v sels, has been announced by the captain of the Port of Philadelphia, Eugene A. Coffin. : The plan calls for establishment of ga special coast guard sch which Capt. Coffin said may be # parent from which ‘will sprin

other schools and regiments

every -United States port. 5 Last April, Secretary of Na

Frank Knox, after a tour of Philadelphia waterfront, dese: its defenses and protection ags enemy action as unsatisfactory

The plans provide for 152 ¢

missioned - and non-comn officers and approximately men. While on duty they will the authority: of embers ft gt: guard