Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1942 — Page 13

FRIDAY, AUG. 7, 1942

et ‘Hoosier Vagabond

SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN IRELAND, Aug. ~ 1—Crap-shooting is flourishing in this A. E. F. just as it did in the last war. Craps, blackjack and poker are all popular, but mainly craps. Some of the tales ne Waging are absolutely incredible. When I heard of one soldier winning 60 pounds ($240) I thought that was pretty hot. But as I go from camp to camp the stories get bigger and/ bigger. The latest, and probably the record winning for all Ir land, is a haul of $5500 made one night by one soldier. ~ Ome reason the boys play for such big stakes is that the English money hardly seems like real money to them. A pound note is worth $4, yet most of them treat it ‘as though it were a dollar bill. iY catch Myself doing the same thing, Usually when & soldier makes a big haul he cables about half of it home. But there are others whose folks don’t know their sons indulge in this awful pastime, so they don’t dare to send money home because rr couldn't explain where they got it. So they just “have to keep it, and it will probably all be gone again in a few days. As in all armies, the soldiers are usually either filthy rich or dead broke. Borrowing and lending go on constantly. : : Seven boys were sitting in their bunks around my cot the other night and we got to counting up how they stood on pay day. Four of them owed anywhere from 6 to 20 pounds. The three others had + similar amounts coming to them.

The Law of Self-Survival

7 ARMY LIFE ON foreign soil quickly teaches a sense of self-survival. You learn to forage. Trading « becomes an essential part of life. You become like a packrat, storing up things. And from your store- ' house you trade things you don’t want for things you do want, . In: the weekly ration at the post exchange every man always takes everything he’s entitled to, whether he wants it or not. Then those who don’t smoke will trade their cigarets for beer, and those who don’t drink trade their beer for candy, and so on. I have one friend who especially likes his beer.

| He has definite trading commitments with half a

- dozen men in his company. The agreement is just like a contract. He takes their entire beer supply,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

> YOU HAPPEN to be in a golf foursome with Glenn Warren of the Hotel Harrison, never take

your eye off your ball. It seems that Glenn brought back from Florida a ‘bag of trick golf balls, While playing in the r A. C. tourney Wednesday at the Country Club, he managed to substitute one of the trick balls for the ball a fellow player had teed up. When the player hit it, the trick ball flew to pieces like a smashed egg. Quite a startling effect, we hear. . . . A motorist thought he was “seeing things” the other day when he drove past Spencer's Drive-In at Fall Creek and Millersville road and saw three saddled horses hitched there, in between the autos. Prob- " ably just another sign of things to come. ven George Sass, we hear, has spent a week of his vacation up in Michigan flat on his back. - As we- get it, he wassplaying shuffleboard up at the lake and threw his hip out of place. It's happened several times. in recent mouths=probably the result of an old Boer .war injury.

Military Miscellany a

SEEN ENTERING the Hotel Warren and sitting down at the same luncheon table one day this week were an army captain, a lieutenanc and a private. This is probably the only country in the world where that’s likely to happen: . .. If you haven't a middle name when you enter the navy, you'll have one soon. It’s a navy custom to write out names in full, and when a sailor hasn't a middle, name, they write his name thusly: John (None) Smith. And you'd be surprised how many sailors have (None) for a middle name, , , . Hugh McGowan has received a navy Washington WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. — Stripped of wishful thinking, the best realistic ‘size-ups that I can get around here run both good and bad, about as follows: RUSSIA: Information beyond press dispatches is rather meager, Those best informed rather expect Russia to dig in behind the Volga. Whether Russia has strength for a real counter-attack is the biggest unknown quantity. If so, Hitler may suffer heavily toward winter; if not, then he gets Caucasus oil, cuts Russia not only out of oil but out of important food resources, and comes close to isolating her from. allied® supplies. Jumping . to conclusions either way is not recommended yet. INDIA: Trouble is feared. Under Gandhi's leadership the congress Party has given the British virtually an ultimatum to get out of India. London is adamant and for a showdown. Gandhi may call for a " general strike and civil disobedience, in which case an attempt to suppress this by force probably would be made. Japan has been preparing to take advantage of such a situation. Some expect an attempt to move in during any of that may

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« occur, Japan might gain much for frelatively little effort. Gandhi's threat is suspiciously timed with the approaching end of the monsoon season, . . & .

It's Too Quiet in Egypt

EGYPT: Allied opportunity mdy slip away rapidly, as Rommel is being resupplied for a new push toward Alexandria. Some restiveness exists here because opportunity is not being seized while it still

lasts. . . PEACE OFFENSIVE: Both American and British

My Day

" WASHINGTON, Thursday.—Yesterday afternoon, “with ‘the rain falling intermittently and gray skies, the queen of the Netherlands came to Washington. It was an unpublicized visit, so even had the weather

' been kind, there would have been no opportunity for crowds to gather in the streets. However, the queen was cheered several times along the way to the ‘White House. ; The president had arranged to drive the queen around the circle in {front ‘of the capitol, so she could get an idea of the buildings. « Then we proceeded slowly between the lines of marines and soldiers with bands playing at intervals ball the way down the avenue. The queen bowed and smiled at the .. ‘soldiers Standing at attention,

which he throws in a chocolate bar as a bonus.

There are soldiers who don’t drink or smoke of like candy. So they really go into the merchandise They hold their stores off the market till the camp has pretty well used up its week’s ration. Then they offer the stuff at a higher price. At one camp these guys are getting 30 cents for beer that

business.

cost them 10.

In the average man’s dufficbag you could find stored away for future use or trading such things| as chewing gum, candy bars, extra soap, cans of fruit juice, cornflakes, sandwich spread, bottles of catsup, nabisco wafers, pocket knives, flashlight batteries and

lighter fluid. And- Nobody Is Weakening

AT MOST OF THE camps life is on such a day-to-day basis that the boys don’t attempt to set up homey touches about them. They left their trunks and lockers ‘behind in the States. All they own here

is kept in two blue duffiebags with drawstrings. They have nothing flat on which to lay clean clothes, and the stuff in the duffiebags is consequently immediate-

ly wrinkled.

Every camp is prepared to clear out, without leavThey literally leave nothing. Every box and scrap and

ing a trace behind, on three hours’ notice.

doodad must be destroyed.

Most of the soldiers, and lots of the officers too, sleep not.on regular army cots, but on the same kind of folding canvas cots you buy in sporting goods stores

for a camping trip.

They have neither mattress nor sheets. There is a brown comforter to lie on, and the men pile plenty I've slept on these cots many

of blankets on top. nights, and they are thoroughly comfortable. The men of course don’t have ‘pajamas. in their underwear. long, heavy, winter underwear. bed with their socks on.

Their rifles are stuck in the crossed legs of the cot underneath. Now and then you see a 45 automatic sticking out from underneath the head of a sleeping

soldier.

Now and then a rat goes exploring along the sill. Now and then a mouse i to chewing on the , duffiebag. It's a great life if you don’t weaken. And nobody over here is giving any special thought of weak-

ening.

commission as lieutenant (j. g.) and reports. at Boston Ralph Roberis of Keeling & Co. has reported at the Great Lakes as an ensign. . .. Roy Stack, bell captain at the Columbia club the last couple of years, has enlisted in the navy as an apprentice seaman. He'll answer bells there, too—nautical

Monday. . .

bells, | The Name Was Right, Anyway

WE ALL GOT a chuckle out of Time's fancy story about that recent downtown traffic accident and Roy W. Howard. It reminded us of the story akout the orator who told about. the man in Cleveland who had made $1,000,000 out of a gold mine. It turned cut that the man he was talking about lived in San Francisco, that it was oil stock instead of gold and instead of making $1,000,0000, he'd lost it. Asked about “Oh, well, I

it, the orator waved suavely and said: was approximately correct.” Same technique in Time.

Around the Town

COL. H. WEIR COOK who was an ace in world war I and now is active again in the air corps, dropped

in here for a brief visit with the boys the other day.

. The National Furniture Co. has an unusual display of military items in its windows. Included is a Thompson sub-machine gun which the war department requires the store to remove from the window each evening. Theyre afraid saboteurs might steal it. , . . A fisherman wrote to the state conservation department and asked them for: information: on “how to make a fishing worm bed and a cricket bed . + . One of these days the custodians over at the court house ought to run their lawnmower over the sidewalk. Nice crop of grass they're rearing

for myself.”

By Ernie Pyle|

and pays 5 cents above the cost for each can, sedition

They sleep Ninety per cent of them wear Most of them go to

AGAINST ST BORER

Early Refuse Ft From. State AAA Poll Back Plan of Compulsory Control.’

Early returns from a statewide AAA poll on corn borer damage indicated today that Indiana farmers favor a program of compulsory contyol of the insect that is critically damaging one of this area’s principal crops.

At Lafayette Frank Wallace, state entomologist, and L. M. Vogler,

ferring with Purdue university entomologists on control measures. It was one of a series of meetings on borer damage in Indiana, Which is nearing a disaster state. The AAA poll was started last

inclusion of control measures in the agency’s 1943 program.

Three Plans Studied

AAA control, however, would have to be on a voluntary basis, for a state law is necessary before compulsory steps could be taken to stamp out the borer, which is becoming a more serious threat to Hoosier corn each year. At present, the AAA is consider-

They are: 1. Trap crops. By this method,

planted early, in an effort to at-

planting of the regular crop, the “trap” would be plowed under,

Crop Early This Year

2. Late planting of corn. Corn in Indiana is about two weeks or more “earlier” than usual, which is given

before.

field. Early results from the AAA poll came from St. Joseph, Adams, Allen, Pulaski, Floyd, Ripley, White, Hancock and Carroll counties.

those counties follow: Harold Fulmer, St. Joseph Coun-

next year’s crop.” Much Worse This Year ,

L. A. Braun, Adams County— “Getting worse every year.

eliminate the borer.” .

previous year.”

Mr. Tack estimated the extent of damage on his farm at 10 per cent of his crop. Walde Huddleston,

“danger lies ahead for the cornbelt if this infestation is taken in the light of ‘Oh, just another bug to c¢ontend with.” Roscoe W, Laswell, Ripley county

on the Washington street side. Looks like Herbert| Hope that something can be

Hoover's ‘threat is Anally coming true. \

By Raymond Clapper

quarters suspect Hitler will make ‘an effort to get peace within a few weeks, presenting a plausible offer in a genuine attempt to end the war before his for-two-edged First, Hitler would be the heavy gainer Second, if such an offer were rejected, as it would be, he would be in a better position to face his own ‘people for another winter of war which would involve the heaviest

turnes turn. Such a move would have purpose. by making peace at his high tide.

kind of bombing of Germany,

JAPAN: The enemy has suffered considerable attuwition in the Pacific, in losses of aircraft carriers, destroyers and much merchant shipping, posWhile the attrition is helpful and our naval and air strength meantime gains steadily, any real turn’ in the Pacific war prob-

sibly 20 or 35 per cent.

ably is some time away, ‘although certain to come.

Time Is Ali-important

THE CHIEF PURPOSE such’ a picture can serve is to emphasize what all informed persons here believe, namely that we have a hard war to fight

and that no miracle is in prospect.

done to stop this pest. Would be

.|glad to help in any way I can.”

Reports Losses Low

Earl D. Johnson, White county— “Loss will be of low percentage on account of strong growth corn has made this season.” William Martindale, Hancock Some pegple are not interested. Rigid cont necessary. Sowing wheat in corn must be stopped. If something is not done, we will have to quit growing corn and that puts us out of business.” Ben Been, Carroll county ( Sécretary of Agriculture Wickard’'s home county)—“A federal law should be passed and inforced by state and local AAA committees. Farmers not

control measures should not be perfrom their farm. These measures

can be seeded in the corn in the fall of 1942.” A Floyd county farmer who didn’t sign his name replied: “So far as I know we do not have the corn

Indiana AAA chairman, were con-|.

week preparaory to the possible |

ing three possible types of control

one or two acres of corn would be

tract borers to this area before the regular crop is planted. Following

as one of the reasons that conditions are worse this year than ever

3. Destruction of all stalks in the

Statements made by farmers in

ty—“Believe that some control action should be taken to safeguard

Time soon coming when something will have to be done to counteract or Harper Coughanour, Allen Coun- | ty—“The corn borer infestation is much worse his year than any

Adolph Tack, Pulaski County —

county AAA chairman, said that

county—“Something should be done.

complying with effective corn borer mitted fo market any products .| should be adopted before any wheat

"somewhat of an ordeal to face about 30 women, but

We have the resources, the production, the armed manpower either in being or in sight," when taken in conjunction with allied strength, to make ivictory mathematically certain provided it can be brought to bear in time, before our allies are knocked out —that' is, before Russia is rendered helpless or Britain is destroyed as an allied base. Just because victory can be figured mathematically doesn’t mean it is certain. Time has become allimportant, 3 This” appraisal can be no news to the axis, but in our own country we are apt to get out of focus by emphasizing good news while ignoring less pleasant facts. We have the essentials for victory, but we are not likely to make the most effective use of them if we mistakenly think the job is going to be easy..

By Eleanor Roosevelt I

on the little seat in the car in front of the president |!

and tried not to block the view of my two companions. I think I know what the aides to important people must feel like. ‘They are always trying to obliterate themselves, and yet at the same time they must

remember to be sufficiently responsive so that if the|. pk

principals are busy talking, the people on the sidewalk will have one welcoming look.

On reaching the White House, we stood under the]

awning while photographs were being taken. Then

we went into the diplomatic room to present the|(X: members of the cabinet and the members of the]

foreign affairs committee of the senate and house.

‘Then the queen was allowed a little peace and] |

quiet until we met again for dinner at 8 o'clock. To people unaccustomed to: meeting newspaper correspondents in different countries, it must seem

I think the queen enjoyed her press conference this

borer in Floyd county. Thank

0. K. VINCENNES UNIT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U. P.).— Rep.» Gerald W. Landis (R. Ind.) said today that the national hous-| ing agency has authorized a program for construction of 75 defense! housing units in the: Vincennes . Fifty units will be at Vincennes and the other 25 at nearby Lawrenceville, Ill.

HOLD EVERYTHING

morning. She is a gracious, friendly person and I! think everyone who meets her responds to these

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~ By RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug, T. — Even _ the men closest to him in his organization didn’t know that Henry J. Kaiser was going to rewrite the speech he was: delivering in his Oregon shipyard last month and insert & plan for converting his yards to construction of cargo ‘airplanes. They found out when the phones began to ring in their Oakland, Richmond and Berkeley homes and offices. Thay didn’t have any details, and their chief woukin’t aecept their telephone calls to him—apparently afraid they would bawl him out for talking too much and too soon. They had known, of course, that he was thinking along these lines; that he had 60 engineerresearchers at work en all sorts of exciting plans for the future. But they had no idea he was ready to go. They were inclined to be stern with him.

for anything—and to a great extent they are. For in the last 10 years, and particularly in the ‘last three, Mr. Kaiser has leaped from one new major project to another so fast that his general staff no longer dares to guess what it will be working on a week later. ~ Not that there. are any ohibrnis tionists in that general staff. On the rare occasions - when Mr. Kaiser admits discouragemerit, they egg him on. They've caught their breath, now, on the cargo planes, and are as red hot to go as the chief is. A task force is in Washington with Mr. Kaiser, helping him convert that startling idea’ of a few weeks back into immediate reality.

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Now He Plays the Tune

‘MR. KAISER used to slip into Washington without fanfare, and have a hard time getting appointments with the general officials he wanted to see. He was months getting to Jesse Jones the first. time and convincing him that government money ought to be loaned for’ a Kaiser magnesium plant. = Last week it was. a different story when he came to Washington. Two senate committees waited their turn to hear Lim talk. Officials in the executive branch responded encouragingly to his plans. Reporters demanded press conferences. There was an obvious tendency to believe that Henry J. Kaiser could accomplish whatever he said he could accomplish, and an equally obvious relief that such a man was at work on daring and audicious blueprints for victory.

One “Treason for the change is, of course. the long list of nearmiracles that Kaiser has, “passed”; Boulder dam two years under . schedule; Bonneville dam when they said it couldn't be done; Grand Coulee dam; sand and

They should have been prepared

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Henry J. Kaiser Says It Can Be Done and Lol It Is Done: {Cargo Plane Sponsor Has Run of Capital These Days.

to get more out of them than they “knew they had, and to give un= stinted credit and praise when:

' they have done the impossible

simply because he expected them to. ° » » 8

Relies on His ‘Boys’ :

HE. IS the sparkplug of his organization, but he doesn’t try to do everything himself. His “boys,” and by that he means more than his two sons, have been trained in his tradition. Mr. Kaiser has time, himself, to stand off and think about the future. He thinks we’re going to “take to the air.” We're going to do it with planes made of new light metals, he says, and he’s getting ready to provide some of those

metals. He is sure they'll win the

. Henry J. Baise: o + ¢ his ‘colleagues should have been prepared,

gravel for Shasta dam delivered _on ‘a 10-mile conveyor belt that moves steadily. and easily across mountains and rivers; cement for Shasta on a scale no other cement maker in the country dared, when Mr. Kaiser hadn't even one cement plant, and at the‘ lowest price ever offered; and finally ships for the war, hurtling together like magic, at a rate that has shamed every other shipyard in the country. #8 2 =»

He Comes to Give

ANOTHER reason for the change probably lies in Mr. Kaiser’s attitude toward Washington officialdom. He doesn’t come ‘here begging, with a tin cup in his hand. He comes wanting to give instead of to get. He sees the men charged with responsibility for winning the war

as men desperately in need of

help, and he offers them help.. He doesn’t even ask favors on tools and materials to do the job he proposes. He finds oe or himself,

When Le's told that all available chromium, for instance, has

been allotted for the next ‘year and a half, he sends out engineers to locate chrome deposits for a ferro-chromium plant of his own. He equipped his’ shipyards with, built-over tools; and .when they can’t furnish him with enough’ steel he starts building a steel”

plate mill on the West coast near his yards. and then adds a struc-. ‘tural steel mill when a shortage develops there, meanwhile improvising structures for his ships with new welding tricks. “You can’t be licked on anything you: start out to do if you have the will to do it,” Mr. Kaiser says.. He says it. many times, in different ways, and under different circumstances. It is his basic philosophy, and one of the things that set him apart trom otker men, ¢

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Has Plenty of Bounce

STILL. ANOTHER reason why ° Mr. Kaiser gets respectful atten- . tion, today lies in his own personality. . He is 60, heavily built, almost bald, but he has the eager, lively enthusiasm of § youngster. He bounces in his chair from sheer energy. . His eyes shine as he talks of

things. that can be done. and of .

the new world that can be built - with light metals, but the gleam “is:met-a visionary gleam. He has - ‘the eharts, the blueprints, the detailed estimates right under his arm to back ‘up everything he. says. He doesn’t bludgeon his wi ahead: he. speaks quietly, and is modest. about what he has done. He knows how to surround himself with: eager, competent young men, to give them Pesponsibiiy

_ war and give us a new civilization afterward. : It’s just a few years ago that Mr, Kaiser was simply a general construction man, with a sand and gravel business on the side, For the most part Le built roads. He had no engineering education. He started in the construction business as a young man because the father of the girl he wanted to marry gave him an ultimatum involving a quick departure from the photographic business in the summer resort section of New York and advised a future in the northwest. He ‘met the terms of the ultimatum and got the girl

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Always in a Hurry

FROM THE start he looked for ways to do things faster than other people were doing them be- . cause speed mean profits. His first notable experiment was ine -stallation of rubber tires on wheelbarrows. It got more work done faster. From that he went on to demand from others, or to build for himself, bigger and more efficient machines for every sort of job he undertook. He has the biggest concrete mixers, the biggest shovels, the highest powered tractors, the most powerful ship cranes that have ever been in industry, all as the result of his endless insistence that they could and should be built. In a sense he’s the epitome of America’s machine and mass pro~ ductien age; his mind the latest and currently the most sensational of many American minds that have rejected old ways of doing things and have revolutionized whole economies by a small - change here, a short cut there, ssa dream, and that “will to, do” that can’t be licked, / “He is -alréady “planning “Much bigger cargo. planes than the Mars, even before he has received official permission fo ‘try mass production of this 70-ton air ship, and to build them he. is planning water assembly lines the like of which no one has ever seen. “Give me 40 more years,” he says, “and I can really begin to -have fun.”

SCHOOL BUSSES GET NEW ORDERS

0DT Establishes a SixPoint Program: of Conservation.

‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U. P.).— The office of defense transportation today ordered reorganization of all school bus services under a six-point program designed to save tires and’ equipment. The plan was fecommended by the national council of chief state scheal officers and will “eliminate duplications, less than capacity loads, and unnecessary = frips” wherever possible. Approximately 4,000,000 school children whe ride daily in 93,000 school - busses will be affected.

Restricts Orders

ODT Director Joseph B. Eastman also ordered returned all applications for new equipment pow on file with the allocations sectiort Qf the ODT motor transport division. Hereafter, applications must be channeled through various state school directors “who will determine if the request is justified under the council’s program.” The program requires schools: 1. To provide transportation only

| for pupils who otherwise must walk:

more than two miles, except for physically handicapped children and in citcumstances of “exireme ‘I danger . or physical hardships.”

Bans Some Areas :

2. Not to transport pupils living in areas served by,public carriers. 3.- To use’ school busses only in

| carrying pupils to and from school.

4. To stagger opening and cios-

{ing hours so that busses cam &crve {two or more schools on ‘one irip.|™ ] stand Int | busses where safety conditions are

5. To permit pupils te

suitable. 6. To reduce the number of bus stops. © .. The program also calls upon school boards “to ‘co-operate in arranging for the use of school busses for the transportation of war workers. wherever needed.”

ee REUNION 1S AT FRANKLIN _ The Drybread-Wheatley family reunion will be held Sunday at Pioneer . park, Franklin, Ind. It

{will be the 24th annusl- outing. |.

The family officers are, president, Farr;

SEATTL Aug. 7 (U. P.) —Pal-

he wouldn't hire the government as a reporter “because it does a bad job of reporting the biggest story in history.” Speaking on the “Town Meeting of the Air”. program, Mr, Hoyt said: “As an editor I wouldn’t hire the gavernment as a reporter because it ‘does a bad job of reporting the biggest story ' in history * to * the people through the pages of the American press. And I wouldn't hire the government as a news service because its stories are too often unreliable and incomplete. . “The government has repeatedly failed to .report unfavorable war news. Often the first word of disaster has come from enemy broad-

authenticate potentially - dangerous propaganda—and more important it has reflected directly on the reliability -of our. own Sovernment's reports.” He pointed at Jap Yendings on the ‘Aleutians as an example of the “strangest handling of any major incident of the present war.” “Certainly,” Mr. Hoyt said, “the method ‘of reporting the occupation of the Aleutian - islands .ill-condi-

“SAN FRANCI300, Aug. 7 (U. P.),

faced cross-examination before his naval court-martial today, having denied that he solicited gifts from the young officers whose commis. sioning he had facilitated. = ‘$25 pair of cuff links were put in, iS -overcoat pocket, without his knowledge, while he was visiting the pazents ‘of Ensign Irving Cummings Jr., he said. by : Ensign: Lawrence Stromberg He returned. them to Cummings and Stromberg. "He was asked about the testimony of Patricia’ Bouchard, Stanford university co-ed, who said she had heard Aroff ask the newly commissioned ensigns for gifts. - “That. whole aversation was in a jovial, mood, ” he said, “and I had - for

a Dy a radio address that|.

casts which in turn have helped to

—Lieut. Comm. Maurice N. Aroff|fro

A $40’ pair’ was sent to, his’ hotel while he was. away, he. continued.

Charges Government With omplete' War Reports

tioned .the minds of the American public for the serious potentialities such as an occupation might hold, Gardner Cowles Jr:, publisher of The Des. Moines Register’ and Tribune, newly appointed assistant director for domestic operations of ithe office of war information, supported the goverriment side of the

from Washington. Admitting the government had not ‘satisfied the public demand .for jwar news, Mr. Cowles said the OWI had done’ mich in the last three | weeks to remedy the situation by giving’ newspapers more informa- . (tion. ‘Arthur E, Simon, Seattle attorney representing the average citizen in the discussion, said the people were dissatisfied = with ..what the press had given them and didn't know whether to. blame the press or the government.

“We expect the truth, nothing less, as soon as its publication can

|be. had without injury to our mili-

‘tary. effort,” Mr. Simon said. - “We deem it the duty of the government to make the facts available, to the press, subject only to limitation of not'aiding the enemy. We deem it the duty of the press to get, and to furnish us with those facts.”

Tony ; M artin's Friend Denies Intent’ to Ask for Gifts

_| take-off,

leged to have received as a gift Tony Martin, the radio singer,

the navy as a chief specialist at a time his draft board was pressing to induct him into the army, he asserted that he ‘had intended from the very beginning to pay for it. A copy of a letter Aroff had written ' Nat Goldstone, Martin's Hollywood agent, was produced. It stated’ that Aroff intended using Martin's automobile until he could arrange to turn it-in on a new machine, at which time ‘he would pay Martin its trade-in value less $200 Aroff said he had spent for telephone calls in facilitating Martin’s enlistment,

WHEAT SENT TO TURKEY ANKARA, Turkey, Aug. 6 (U. P).

{—The United States has sent Tur-

key 15,000 tons*of wheat in Ameri-

can vessels Juing 4 the ust 4 5H day

debate in an answering address!

af Martin had been accepted. by |

BALCHEN HELPS IN RESCUE OF 15

Sets Up ‘Greenland Salvage Co.” After Bringing

Fliers to Safety.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U. P) A business directory wouldn’t cone tain ‘the name of the “Greenland

Salvage Co.” but 15 army fliers will :

testify that it is a going concern. The “company” was jokingly ine corporated by. its two. stockholders —Lieut. Col. Bernt Balchen, famed trans-Atlantic .and Arctic flier, and Lieut. Aram Y. Parunak of Wars rington, Fla, skipper of a navy patrol: flying boat—after they had rescued 13 men from a damaged flying fortress and two crewmen from an army: patrol. plane. The rescue missions: were formed in Greenland. The first operation came a month ago, when Balchen and Parunak received word that the flying forte - ress had been forced down in a barren streich of ice and snow sure rounded by déep crevasses.

Find Artificial Lake For a week Parunak made survey flights over the stranded men and then discovered an artificial lake caused by water filling a depression on the icecap. ' The lake was only ' 1.8 miles long, barely enough for a

pers

Parunak picked up Balchen and a rescue party and landed on the lake. Balchen led the stranded men to the plane two days later and the rescue was completed in two trips of the navy plane. The next day, the lake had disappeared. : Two weeks later an army patrol plane was forced down on the edge of the ice cap and the pilot, Col Robert: W. C. Wimsatt, was badly injured. : Balchén Promoted Again Balchen and Parunak went on ‘the job, lendirig on a real lake this time despite the danger : drifting icebergs. Balchen took & party including a doctor, to the twe' men and brought them back to plane. The war: department 6 Balchen, who flew over the