Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1942 — Page 9

[ wepNEsDAY, AUG. 12, 1942

Hoosier Vagabond

SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN IRELAND, Aug.

12. —It seems as if this just keeps on being a small | up a cot for himself in the guardroom. Just before

world after all. I The other day I walked into the mapmaking room of a certain army headquarters/fn a certain old castle : in a certain” part of Ireland. There two officers and four sergeants were working over bare wooden tables. A coal fire was going in the grate. - I had a talk with one of the officers, but all the time I kept thinking I had seen one of the sergeants somewhere before. When I had finished talking he came up and introduced himself. He was Sergt. Robert Clark, a former rewrite man on the Akron Times-Press, and that was where I thet him ‘several years ago. Clark had studied art,* so they put him in the mapmaking section. Several other artists are in it too, and in their spare time ‘they have been painting murals to decorate the bare ‘walls of the castle. Clark also is keeping a sketch book of incidents in army life. .About once a week he dashes off a cartoon. I'm taking some of them to London with me, and we’ll see what happens.

Making a Good Soldier, Too

oh HAVE SEEN ANOTHER friend over here too. “He. is Sergt. Charles DePriest, who worked for Standard Oil in Washington for many years. When he a me he started grinning and broke out that old ‘North Carolina cotton-patch accent. You couldn't ‘mistake it if you heard it in Zanzibar. : “I never thought they'd make a soldier out of me,” Charles said later, “but I guess they finally have.”

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

4+ SOME TIME AGO, Mrs. Easley Blackwood con--tributed a dollar to a society sending garden seeds to A English families. She has just received a letter, dated July 20, from an Englishwoman, Miss Mary ‘Woolley, acknowledging the gift. Her address is 12 Grange ave., Auckland Park, near Bishop Auckland, County ' Durham, England. The seeds purchased with Mrs. Blackwood’s dollar, Miss Woolley said, had been’ distributed to various families and those already planted were doing fine. There's scarcely a family there, she added, without a garden of some sort—many using front lawns. She said she and her neighbors were grateful for recipes received from America, but some of them, “alas, called for. onfons—more precious than pearls; and some of ‘them call for evaporated milk, which would take our ‘points (rationing points).” The letter concludes with ‘the thought that: “I don’t think-we ever will be able ‘to go back to'the old wasteful days. It has taken this

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upheaval to show us that we don’t miss some things

‘at all that we used to call essential.” Cheerio, Miss Woolley,

Let's Have an Alarm

‘SOME WAG has doctored up the air raid instruce tions card on the eighth floor of the Circle Tower (riear A. L. Trester’s office) with a pencil so it reads: “When the air raid siren sounds, turn out the lights —and grab a blond” , . . Edward J. Moore, personnel director for the local OPA office, had his mind made up he wis going to ‘name his first ‘ born, : 1 “Mickie.” It arrived the other day,. out in Des .Moines—a girl. That was all right with Mr. Moore. “He just named her Kathryne Michel Moore, and ‘calls her “Mickie.” . , . Our award for yesterday's : deed goes to the driver of the car with Indiana “Heense 34,152. Driving downtown yesterday morning, bo .he‘saw a blind broom salesman standing on the curb “out around 29th and (Capitol. Stopping his car, the

Washington

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—This head-bashing ‘news from India upsets the plan I had to write .some purple words this week about the Atlantic Charter and the four freedoms. Elmer Davis sent all of us some. handy material to make the rewrite job easy. He suggested this was a good time, to stress the four freedoms and what the Atlantic Charter means tothe man in the street. That was before the streets of Bombay and Allahabad and D2lhi came so - riotously ‘into the.news. Mr. Davis suggested this would he “a good time to dispel any idea that may still - exist that the Atlantic Charter does not apply to the eastern nations as well”. ‘He added, in. the offhand ‘manner that was natural enough before Gandhi started to go through with this business, that “of course the At- . .lantic Charter is world-wide in scope.” <.. But I don’t laugh over that. Mr. Davis/was {00 late with too little, as the British have been in India “these last few years, and as the western nations’have ‘heen generally in their dealing with the old East. The : | tragic price is now being paid. Axis propagandistse aare exploiting this bloodshed in India for their own plirposes, as is to be expected. Many sincerely loyal citizens in the united nations must be honestly dis- _ turbed, For the most part they probably will remain silent or will temper their expressions lest they do : ‘damage to our cause,

They Missed the True Reality

IN INDIA LAST March and April I could sense the ‘gathering storm. I felt a depressing weakness in the position of the united nations in the East, and wrote ‘a good deal about it. It was evident in conversation with Nehru, the more balanced and more strongly anti-axis of the congress party leaders, that the “Ofter. of post-war dominion status had come from ‘London probably too late. : = 1 felt deeply that the united nations had not made “their ease clear east of Suez. In Europe we were obviously fighting to liberate a continent from the

My Day

‘ ‘HYDE PARK, Tuesday—Between showers yestergay all ‘of us had a little exercise and a swim. I ‘woke this morning to a sky of clouds, which made > wonder if the sun would ever burn through. It has, and the birds are hopping around and drying themselves. A beautiful scarlet one flew right by my porch bed this morning. - ane: we are. oing 10 have blue skies all day and a warm sun to lie in for a while.

I happened to see g§ doctor

friend of mine in Poughkeepsie yesterday afternoon and he asked : me if I didn’t feel that I wanted to ‘go away and leave things I have been doing. I told him that life was viried enough + at home and that I could get’ ana still ‘be busy, and that with three the house just-now we certainly are gay. me fri Seattle about a dif-

“after she served her drinks, she noticed the guests

‘should be.

days.

all the ‘We are learning that industrial efficiency and well |

And they've made a good one. He gave me his bunk for the night ‘and rustled

bedtime he went foraging and came back with some cornflakes, a whole pan of sugar and a steak sandwich. If anybody is going to get along in this army. I'll put a shilling on DePriest.

One night recently I joined a group of sergeants

on their way uptown. We wound up in a little tea shop, where it turned out the boys congregate every night. It was just a hole’ in the wall down. a side |street, run by a skinny little old mother and her two daughters. And it was Higrally a tea shop. Not a drop of liquor.

Plain Old Hoosier Applesauce

WE WENT THROUGH a small hallway, through a tiny low-ceilipged room, and finally back to another room. Here a {gfice fire was going. There wasn't a window in the place. About a dozen American soldiers were lounging on a sofa and chairs and on the floor, all drinking tea and eating sandwiches. They say they don’t like tea, and they get plenty to eat at camp, but they enjoy bandying blarney back and forth with the two girls and their mother. The banter is just plain old Hoosier applesauce.

The girls pretend each. soldier is their favorite, ;

and that theyre giving him a little extra sugar or something. The boys iay it on thick. They accuse Susie of winking at somebody else, and so on. it’s the same kind of kidding our neighbors used to in duige in on Sunday Jicnics, One of the boys said, “It’s pretty simple, and they're making a pile of dough off us, but actually it’s the only place in town where we can sit down and feel at home and have the old ‘blarney handed to us. So we like it.” .

driver got out, helped the blind man across the street, got back in his car and Sontintieg on downtown,

How Not to Make Em

By Ernie Pyle|

IT WAS HOT the other night and guests dropped | §

in on an Indianapolis high school domestic science teacher.

thing ‘to refresh the guests. You know, the kind you make out of ice cream and root beer. Well,

weren't overly enthusiastic about them. After the company left she went to the kitchen and discovered

she’d accidentally made them out of ice-cream and|

real beér, Ugh! , . . Indianapolis’ Frederic Winter has been doing a good job with his Brown county players: this summer. Their scheduled performance of “Petticoat Fever” got rained out last Friday, but it’s been rescheduled for this coming Friday—barring more rain. . . . From Ft. Francis E. Warren, Wyo., the mailman brings us an army publicity release addressed to “Indianapolis Sun” Gosh, they must have picked up an old mailing list. The Sun became The Times way back when—'14 to be exact. . . . Capt.. Lowell K. Stormont is back in town visiting friends. He's being transferred from Chanute field to Texas.

Some Items We “Swiped”

FROM THE KIWANIS publication we learn that Irwin Bertermann has been “traveling up and down the coast” of California, enjoys the flowers and scenery. . . . Carl (Paul) Farrar is “just loafing” at Harbor Springs, Mich. . , . Arthur O. Pittenger has reported at Miami Beach as an air corps officer. ,:. Umpire “Harry @eisel is recuperating at his home, 5782 N. Delaware, from his récént injuries. . . . Capt. Jack Harding is ‘stationed at Tampa, Fla. . .. Gordon W. Barker and Clem ©. Voorhis are éelebrating birthdays Friday, while William C. Hall and Jack H. Rhoades are doing the same Saturday... . Phil Lutz has moved to 3433 Central ave., apt. 9," . ‘Myron | Yorger is vacationing at Wawasee. . . . How's that for “stealing” a : column! Thanks, Bob Oblinger.

By Raymond Clapper

Nazi oppressor. But in Asia the native populations were inclined to regard the western nations as the oppressor. Freedom was for the white folks in Europe, not for the dark-skinned races east of Suez. Practically nothing was done to dispel that, nothing to convince those populations “that whatever the wrongs of the past, the only hope of freedom lay in united nations victory. Henry Wallace, Sumner Welles and some others spoke out about it. ‘They knew that the moral case of the allies in Asia vas weak and they wanted something done about it. But they got the horse laugh from the so-called realists, who were sp intent upon being hard-boiled realists that they missed the true reality—which' is Gandhi wrecking India, wrecking the main base of the united nations in the East, inviting a Japanese invasion, the cutting off of Chinta and the spread of Japanese power west across the Indian ocean to join

hands .with Germany and slice the allied world]

across ‘its middle,

“Why Talk About War Aims?”

“WHY TALK ABOUT war aims ‘until we have won the war?” Doesn't this bloody, paralyzing business in India today prove the need of war aims that will win the confidence and loyalty of peoples whose help is essenti Perhaps it SR late now to check the bloodshed in ‘India, the akdown thai has begun there may run its course in spite of anything that can be done. Still it is not too late. It is not too late to try to repairathe damage for the Middle East. 1t is not too late ever to get ourselves straight with the world. So long as the impression remains-—and with the grounds for suspicion that support it—-that when the war is won the western nations will ¢limb up on the backs of the East again and feed off the old meal-ticket—that long we will be let down in the face of our enemies as we hive been throughout the colonial East, except in the Philippines. The. fact .that Gandhi is stabbing us in the back does no! relieve us of ‘correcting the situation which has. invited such treachery. Our intentions with regard to the post-war world are very real weapons in this war. Up to now they are weapons. that have been used against us instead of by us. ay

By Eleanor Roosevelt]

of everyday life and somehow or other must be coped with. They/teach us that we have to find a solution to every situation and make the best of it, no matter if it isn’t a perfect one. : In find that the people who have the most difficult time in life ‘are the -perfectionists who never learn to get along as well as they can, but keep worrying because Shings ‘are not as perfect as they

“The news front: the Solomon islands, Russie," {and India makes us all very anxious these days,

One headline says that Secretary Knox tells us|

we must face more Valley Forges before we win the war. Russia is facing a good many of ‘them these

‘thought out’ and planned equipment, ‘with long years of trai g cannot ‘be met by anything which is im in a short time.

sure. But

She decided a “black cow” was just-the!

TWO ATTERBURY

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Training Infantrymen | means a’ accompanying pict

camp Saturday morning.

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of this.

MEN: ADVANGED

Sergts. Schorr, Palmer Win ‘Appointments as. Warrant Officers.

Times “Special CAMP ATTERBURY, Aug. 12— Two technical sergeants.here have been appointed warrant officers

command, Ft. Hayes, O.. They are: ‘Sergt. Ed Schorr Jr. of Columbus, 0O., who is attached to the intelligence and public relations : office| and Sergt. George J. Palmer of oni-1 8 licothe, O., who is attached to the finance department, xi They are two of a small group who successfully passed-the warrant officer’ graminations held Fesently at Ft. Harrison, Sergt. Schorr was employed as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch when he entered the service with the 37th ‘division, Ohio national guard. He was in training at Camp Shelby, Miss., attached”to the division in nce and public relations office for a year and ‘then transferred to Ft. Hayes, 0, and 5 later to Ft. Knox, Ky, before ‘being sent here. . Sergt. Palmer entisted in. June, 1941, and was assigned - td the bombardier section, Bowman field, Louisville, Ky. for basic training.

nance section “July 6

WOMEN QUITTING. 08S

State smbloynieh division

for other: marital Seasons | eligible for mem ployment sation benefits. :

(Junior grade) by the fifth service.

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transferred to the post. finance office 4 at Ft. Harrison last September and} was assigned to Camp Atterbury fa- :

"LOSE COMPENSATION |

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Tot more than teaching: thins how

to shoot a rifle, as these men at Camp’ Atterbury demonstrate in the tures. They're members of the 83d infantry division, the. illustrious outfit which will be reactivated in ‘ceremonies at the ;

A few of the things an infantryman: -doess

! 1. A wiotoregéle-riding” staft sergeant of the 83d reconnaissance troop twists his vehicle into a skid about 10 feet from the photographer.

2. Using his. motorcycle as protection ‘against enemy bullets, the sergeant flops himself ‘on the ground dnd quickly’ gels, behind the

3. In bayonet practice, the infantryman learns the very adineinie of hand-to-hand hattle—how' to put the “other man” out of the war and come out uninjured himself. The fellow at left takes a long. lung--ing stab at a dummy foe, while the other soldier approaches, figuring how to “strike home” without becoming entangled with the dummy’ ]

4, It’s to the soldier's awn advantage. to keep in the: peak’ of condition. One way to do it is tumbling over barriers like this: ome. = ° Taking a rolling spill on hard ground 1 means nothing after a few weeks

5. Stepping high though’ perhaps not so handsome are these men of the 83d, going through a maze: obstacle. No: ‘matter what the obstacle, the idea is to zot there and pet there ek, ©

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Sam Gives Life. For Extra Shots

MELBOURNE, Aug. 12 (vu. P). —Ralph. Sam,# a full-blooded Ameriean Indian, gave his life to get a few extra shots at a Japanese plane, ‘the Melbourne Herald reported ‘today. Sam; a gunner in an American ‘bomber, had one of his hands shot

‘away during a recent raid on Jap-

aneseé positions. Unable to handle ithe machine : guns, Sam :ig‘niored ‘his ‘wound and used his one hand to fire a revolver at a Japa- . nese 'zefo plane. But before the : pilot. could fly back: to the’ base, Sam lost so: much blood that he died a few days lager.

SAYS ENEMY AGENTS

ATLANTA; Ga, ‘Avg. 12°C: PD. ~Ceol. Lindley. W.. Camp, commanding ‘officer of ; the Georgia state guard; today’ made public a general

alert against racial disturbances throughout the state.

influences” were attempting, to added: the “same : condition exists! and|in -Alabama, South Parcs and other. southern states.” » x

HOLD" EVERYTHING r

STIR RACIAL HATE:

order: placing the. guard on. the|™"

‘Camp said: “Suspected subversive ; cause race trouble in’ Georgia and

MISES RUIN

NAZI PLANTS -

Chief Says German dustry Will Face Destruction.

14 AGO, Aug. 12 (U. P.).—Air

farshal Sir ‘Charles Portal, Britain's air: staff, predicted iagaZine article today that ‘and ’ American bomber

) Ds/soon ‘will be able to “de-

i) Inqusiry and = power of| Add | and ‘several ‘other leading airmen’ ‘wrote: articles for a royal air force issue of Fly-

azine published here. ‘They } second front already had

ened by an: Anglo-American. nsive ;which the declining power cannot ‘defeat. time is not very far . off]: ritish and American bomber | ns in England ° will be able to}: the industry ‘and power of iy ab a rate which, outstrips Portal wrote.

Urges More Alroratt #

iced a demand from leaders AF divisions for more air-

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arshal Sir Arthur TT, Harris, ‘ihe RAP-pomuer command, Aiietioa’s paré'in the bomb “Unted States army air vill: soon ‘base an ever if-

number of heavy bombard- |

u1adrons on British airfields.

Kurrasch, Police Veteran, a ~ Ends 23 Years of Service

Patrolinan William, Kurrasch wound up 23 years of police work today to “take a little rest.” ’ “The 49-year-old officer, 18 years with the detective division, was to serve hi$§ final day with the Indi-

‘anapolis police department today in

the juvenile aid division, where he

has been working. the last year.

Patrclman Kurraseh who lives at} 31090 E. Michigan st, has had his share of the thrills’ that go with a policeman’s life. But the one inci-. dent that stands out in’ the minds| of those who know him, occurred

: [ just seven years ago next month.

It was Patrolman Kurrasch, then a detective, who, with his. partner, Ralph Bader, captured a 26-year-

old gunman if & North side home| x

a few hours after he had terrorized citizens living in the Southern part ‘of Marion ‘county. 3

livery boy was shot, ‘and killed dur [ing a filling station ‘holdup at 46th

‘land Tilinofs sts. back in 1935. Two

men wanted for questioning in’ the ‘murder were cornered by .palice- in a cornfield near Valley Mills. “One of the men, Fred Klize, held up a farmer who was driving along in. a car with a young ‘baby a ; then shot his partner because wouldn't go with him, _ police said, After using’ the ‘baby for ‘a shield when state ‘police stopped L dhe, caty

New Jersey’, st., where’ he was Sure prised by police. He is now. serving

of eine the. work. of Kurphisch ‘and Bader on that case stands out

“The: incident, started when a ges}

lin the st’ of. tees’ record by

INSISTS MIDWEST

' NEW YORK, Aug. 12 WU. P)—

MUST RATION GAS, [ai

Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia last ||

night reiterated that gasoline and| TT 3 —

oil rationing in the Midwest is essential to

‘barrels a day. £

“In » letter to Paul Scott Mowre, : editor, of the ‘Chicago Daily News, | r-| Lia Guardia in effect answered “yes” ] +0. Mowrer’s question, “Are you sure | t gas and oil rationing: in the} ] help :

avert “widespread ill- |" health, discomfort, and interference! to production of ‘war materials”. in| 4 the East this winter and asked the}. Midwest to make available 20000 2