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* SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN IRELAND, Aug. 13.~The' army camps over here don't have post ex-
changes. open all the time as at home. Instead, things are rationed out and the exchange is open once a ' passed
> Mew, and then just long. enough to dish out the : stuff to the men. The rationing varies slightly at the various camps, but here. is the allotment for one week at one certain camp I visited: Five cans of beer, five packs of cigarets, three English chocolate bars, one ‘pack of chewing gum, one box of Nabisco wafers, two cans of Florida grapefruit juice. : Sometimes you get canned fruit Juice instead of candy. Sometimes you get. only three or four cans of beer a week instead of five. You
get. other things such as razors, writing.
~ fiashlight bulbs, but you have to order | 8. week or more ahead of time. ‘this stuff of course has to be paid for. The prices are Jlow—cigarets 6 cents a pack, and beer 10 cents a can. - The supplies of razor blades and pipe tobacco have run out temporarily. . Little. shortages like that are occurring all the time, but the next convoy fixes _ everything.
The Case of St. Patrick—
THE OTHER ‘DAY my peep driver and I were going through the {own of Downpatrick so we decided to look at St. Patrick's grave. We asked a fellow on a street corner and he said it was three ‘miles out of town on the Belfast road. We drove about
J three miles, and then stopped a young man on ‘a
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“He said, “Oh no. It’s just on the edge of town, by the war memorials. You've come way past.’ - So we. turned around and drove ‘back to the memorial. There we asked again. “Why, it's up at the cathedral,” ” the third man said. “It isn't here at all.”
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
A SMALL GROUP of. busthessmen was talking at lunch the other day and the conversation drifted around to telephones and ho they help or disrupt
a busy day. Jim Rogan, the ‘banker, had just been in Chicago and needed to see four or five men in an afternoon before taking the train for home. | Each man he saw was interrupted by phone calls. ‘Finally, in desperation, Jim resorted to “the phone himself in getting to| the last man on his list, and he got’ the information he wanted. Dudley Gallahue, the insurance man, had a different story. He had found the telephone a real time saver both for him and the other fellow. It enabled him to get his message through ‘in a minimum of time, he said. Finally it was agreed that no one had the complete answer, but that while the telephone is a time' saver for the husy businessman, yet the b. b. m. ought, in . fairness to the man sitting in front .of his desk, to
ask his secretary to withhold all calls while he is en~ _
gaged in an important conference.
Boy, Page the Warden
THE CE , at the Robgrés Park Methodist church received a ‘box of books from an. anonymous donor the other day. In: the group of:
: books were four stamped on cover ang inside pages
with: “Illinois State Penitentiary.” Jordan, the Indianepolis Water Co. secretary, can’t
+ . Frank C.
x get away from his product even on vacation.’ He's
resting up at the Edgewater Beach hotel, Chicago. .
Leslie Ayres, the architect, wants to know ‘why the street railway people don’t put up some permanent
: “Car stop” signs—wooden -ones on posts—instead of
painting them on heavily traveled pavements where the tires soon wear them away. Offers the-idea free,
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 13—So many things are
. wrong with -war production that many people think the whole business is' a complete failure, which I believe is ® mistaken view.
We. a no profit out of covering up failure. Humiliation is the punishment which hangs over the head of every official who boots his chance. There are plenty of them. The first place that you - can get
admission of these failures is the WPB itself. Everyone at WPB knows factories are closing down for lack of materials. They know . more shutdowns will occur. Donald _ Nelson and his men know this is their biggest problem. After six months of existence, WPB still
has not effective control over in- a
i ventorfes, Officials know large stocks of materials are stacked up in many plants for future use. The physical task of discovering ' them and releasing - them for immediate use is simply an enormous one—just about second to what the attempt to
ent field agents are being used. Likewise the flow of materials needs tighter
* control, Nobody in the WPB doubts the need of it. -We're Doing the Impossible
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"BY THE TIME these difficulties are licked new ones . will have appeared. When you set out to change the whole industrial life of the country in such a short time new troubles sprout as fast as the old ones are whacked down. It is Henry Ford
i retooling away from his model T all over again and
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As OWI said the other day, we Have done pretty
£ well, but not well enough. We are producing goods : at. three times the rate of last November.
Our
My Day
NEW YORK CITY, Wednesday.—I have a most
"delightful letter from Jan Struther, in which she in-
£ closes a copy of the inscription which is on the statue £ ofthe pioneer woman, which stands on the Salupus
£ of “the Texas State college for women, at Denton, Tex.
It reads: “Marking a trail in the pathless wilderness, pressing forward with unswerving courage, she met each untried situation with a ‘resourcefulness equal to the needs: With a glad heart she brought to her frontier family her x id’s cultural heritage: With delicate spiritual sensitiveness she illuminated the dullness of routine and the loneliness of isolation with beauty and with life abundant: And with all she lived with a cas- * ual unawareness of her value to Buch was the pioneer woman, the unsung
‘where.
announces a “Blue Pate” as a noon special. .
He was almost the. first. Irishman I'd met ‘with a
- twinkle in lus eye.
“You mean-he's buried a" the big cathedral we 2" 1 asked: “Indeed he is,” said the. ristman, ‘grinning. least that’s what we
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So. we drove to the cathedral, and there sure|
enough we found St; Pe -of them. fi There are 26: different. places mn Ulster that claim to hold St. Patrick’s bones. But the cathedral at Downpatrick’ seems Yo be a nose or two ahead right now. The grave 5% one: of may in. a cemetery alongside the old cathedral It has a’ “huge ‘flat rock lying over it, bigger: than”a. table, with the word “Patrick” carved on it. There you have all the) ‘known. facts in the case of St. Patrick's grave, : :
Fooie on the History!
eave, or at least one
SOME OF THE American camps here are centered I around old houses, some of which ‘had ‘been occupied Tight up to the time the’ ‘army, rented them. Usually|
the headquarters are set up in ‘these old houses, and
officers occupy the’ ‘rooms ‘while the enlisted men are quartered in Nissen: huts’ a little. distance away. Ab every house you visit ‘the American officers start giving you its history. In this house a beautiful damel was murdered. In that one every bedroom has a private kennel so the guests .can keep their racing greyhounds right with them. In another the peacocks keep you awake all night.
Actually, in visiting the camps of - Northern Ire-|
land I've got as sick of going through old houses: as I used to get going through old cathedrals in the Latin countries. - There’s not an ounce of comfort in one of them. T've heard a dozen officers say, “I wouldn't trade the whole damn thing for my bungalow in Tulsa.” That's my sentiment, too.
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too. . . . Ifyou wonder what doctors talk about among themselves, here's an idea, clipped from a column of therapeutic hints by Dr. R. A. Solomon in the Indianapolis Medical Society Bulletin: “Atabrine is apparently specific for giardiasis, gentian violet medicinal is the most satisfactory drug for oryuriasis and strongly loidiasis, while caprokol is the preparation of choice in ascariasis.” Yes, sir, we think so too.
An Qbject Lesson
rh COLLAPSE of that. ‘warehouse here Monday night has resulted in a hasty checkup of the condition and loading of -cther warehouses here and elseA large grocery chain is sending its various warehouse foremen. pictures: of the local disaster as an object lesson on the evils of overloading. . .. Some of the sailor boys at ‘thé naval armory have been heard grumbling because “we have to pay 15 cents for cigarets out here but the soldiers get them for 13 cents at the fort.” : Personally, we don’t know. . . . Today's best tip to motorists: If you value your tires; drive carefully across the cartracks on Capitol at 21st st. A lot of other’ Places around town, too, for that matter.
Around the Town :
WALTER GREENOUGH is back home after vacationing at Lake Leflanau, up ifi Michigan, * He says he fled home to" avoid: X Mike Fansler's ne | seatch. Waller's probably just ing out W. Washington : st. often are startled when they go past the Washington Coal Co., there at the
Belt railroad, and notice the lifelike ‘dummy horse
“pulling” a real wagonload of real coal. The wagon, we hear, is the one they. started in business with. The “Horse” isn’t. . . . We're told that a sign-in the window of the Light cafeteria, 1531 N. Pennsylvania, + « The Columbia club has a brand spanking new flag, which looks pretty nice. Mallory’s Ford building is about due for one,
By Raymond Clapper
production of combat planes has failen behind schedule but month before last we made more of them than any other nation. When President Roosevelt asked for 60,000 planes this year, most of the aviation industry said it was impossible. But they set out to do the impossible and will .produce ‘nearly what was asked, for, We may beat the fantastic goal set for shipping. Never have ships been built as fast as in America today. We should about make the schedule in tanks.)
Despair Won't Help at All
NOTHING HAS EVER BEEN seen to match the
industrial job that America is doing in the short|
time that has elapsed. One editor, weary of wholesale hysterical griping, writes this observation: “To be sure, starting from scratch all too recently io do a preparedness job which the great, great majority were too damned comfortable to undertake, there have been many mistakes, much bad judgment and too much political monkeydoodle ‘business. But to my humble mind a remarkable start has been made on a colossal job.’ All too many have: become too accustomed to Uncle Sam in a Santa Claus rolc. Let him turn Simon Legree and let us like it.” My own gripe is that the whole government has not been tough enough. Donald Nelson and his men have not been ruthless enough. All of us wish the war job could be done perfectly. That certainly would be swell. But every one of us knows that it won't be perfect ever. We will never know all the answers before the mistakes hit us in the face. The need, now particularly when the war in Europe is going against us and when the ¢hances of the war lengthening are growing every day, is for balanced judgment of what we are doing, We can’ do ourselves harm by going into a ‘tailspin of despair on the false assumption that we are not doing sy k kind of a ob at all,
By Eleanor Roosevell|
brought to her frontier amily her homeland’s’ cil y tural heritage.’ Seok “It always seems to me that what the frontier]
woman | to do in space, the present day woman has got to do in time: everything that was good and worthy of
in the pre-war World, and manage to Weave it into] world}
the texture of the simpler and more . sheand der chilres; WHL have: $5 biulia up; in. fhe uture.” | That seems to me an idea quite f think about. I want to ‘to it scription which I like best: “And with all she lived, with casual unawareness of her value to civilization.” : There we have the secret which should be driven,
home to every woman. In countless homes: this}.
country today, there are women who are “ce save! ‘of the great accomplishments which eirs. 4 They will be recognized by history, but taal
forget thems heats the? do thes daily jos
To me one old house is: enough.|
i Suprettie ‘court Judge
That is, she has to preservej,
‘Copyright, 1942, by The
as one was to learn two days’ later, we were striking at -
But our target was still secret and none of ‘the pilots gave us a clue.
The headlight beams of the bomb trucks poked through rolling clouds’ of dust: as the first planes arrived and departed. The, Sut control men still slept for their hour was not yet. In the darkness a: dusty jeep came up and men . jumped out and ofhers jumped : in and drove * away. ' There Mr. Weller = wags a shady light in “Sloppy Joe's” where there was luke-warm coffee "for us to sip as we had crackers and cheese with the pilots. The bombers, with their propellers at. rest and their great bodies made more massive by the darkness, stood there waiting. for their crews with {he curious nimbleness of great machines when man is absent. Then we saw the first truck loaded with swaying men come out.
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Dawn Over New Guinea
THE DAWN came up over the New Guinea hills, The patrol wagon-style truck, which saves. the men ga ' long weary walk through the ever-rolling ' dust clouds along the take-off run; appeared at the end of the field and began dropping men. The now slender waning moon was also fading and the first rim of the sun was lifting above the horizon. The. was the moment hot x 5 : the dg)
response to the o alors ead the various groups. Yh One went about Hing 1 ts get some: names of those about to launch themselves into the infinite. Names are things which brihg ene quickly down ‘fo earth. ‘They put one’ instantly in the United States which: somehow is more real than the presence of all these boys in the southwest Pacific.
. sharp silhouette along the rim of the surrounding hills. Men were going out to nteet the most maneuverable high-altitude plane of the war and going over the sea a - distance so long that it denied them fighter protection. In other
The palms now stood out in..
Times and 8 ‘Chicago ‘Yoaily News, Jie ”
AN Dv ANORD: HD OPERATIONAL BASE IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 13.—Ther unforgetable about. this heaviest. rai ing under the stars in a dus ‘covere
~The, was something Sins pon Rabaul. Sleep-
"the southeastern Solomons: :¢ more der he
through to Japan ’s- biggest eastern | base in’ the Pacific. =." a wal
| Meeting the Crews
and they told you who was aboard. The comnmnder was Lieut. F. F. ‘Wesch of Roselle, 'N. J. and his - ; co-pilot, bombardier: and navigator’ were Lieuts. A. L. McMullan of “Akron, -O., F. G.: .Sickinger of “Columbus, O., and -B. E, Anderson
of Fayette, ‘Utah. Most of the en-
listed men on this type of bomber are sergeants-and aboard this big new bomber were A. J. Kennedy of PRiladelphia, G. J. Clarey of Raleigh, N. C., D. J. Raher of Indiana, Pa. H. A. Shomo of Merchantville, N. J; E. M. Rosebarten of Philadelphia. : One motor far down the line sputtered and one saw that it would ‘be impossible to meet them all: It was a matter of running to the next. plane just as the first prop began to throw dust. : Here with yellow swim jackets on, in some cases simply furred fly- - ing jackets, were Lieuts. Arthur Fletcher of .Washington, D. C.; © Albert. Progar of Springdale, state uncertain, and Emmanuel Snitkin of Newark, N. J., and the crew including Oren Hawkins of : Union, 8. C., Regis Weinfurther of Pittsburgh, Kenneth House of Santa Cruz, : Cal, “E. B. Malinay ‘of Uniontown, Pa., Donald Kerns: of Bethany; Mo. 4% on
The Longest Wait nn
‘ONE BIG BOMBER al¥eady was - whirring: at the ,runway’s end ‘with the last ‘member of the crew dd, It Was piloted
Wood, of ctmright, Okla, and the - bombardier was Lieut.” R. ‘Burleson of - Hamilton, Ala. and in this plane, to whose. crew. one had no chance of a last goodby, were Sergts. Rex Matson of Evansville, Ind. and Drew Otell of Los Angeles’ along with A. A. Liimatanien of Marquette, Mich. D. W. Brown of Childers, Tex. and C. M. Czechowski of Chicago. When. the bombers left, their motors making them look like a scale of miles placed against the sky, there began the longest wait in the world. They were not in- . formed until they left and only’ afterward did their destination become mown to us. They were
oy in {he YOU WALKED up to oné ‘plane’ mds op
Lor ant
“He “nak
1 distance so long that It denied Them fighter. protection, the ‘bombers Were once more §
upen wifie”
£ machine guns . . « td Would atiempt: fo Blast their way through fo Japan's biggest eastern base
I the runway of Vunafield near. Rabaul — sms ih if possible beyond imme inf repair. How important tha : ishing was we still were not 4 2 : Whi might
to am kann
a raid is in progress you ; well not ask intelligence tions how things are goiey ladle out silence in full=deep, rich, calm siThey are thinking of the ‘a whole. But you cannot
ing. buclie lencsy raid : help ple.
Bl ar palm is still warm with air :
ndclasp. ”
‘Bor sers Are Out’
TH SUN gets high and higher. Chee: 1 bomber crews, shuffling borat carriages here and there, move about stolidly under the hes tropical heat, their skins potec ‘2d white with the everdri‘: (dust. The man in the ron helmet in the control tee drowses back in his chair ali! nally removes the steel for a 1 helmet. The day slowly wa: on. More officers arrive at idd.. Only generals wear 8. Almost everyone is gged and in shorts. ’ bombers are out,” nt: laconically. ? they say and sit down. ri you Hear the first motor. oming over the mountains. an count’ the motors—tour. + the plane moves overhead her propellers are invisible 2 should; be. I can see one:~
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base you
on Japs at work,” says. ck drivers. —e around the field and : she has squared away and 2 toward the runway, comes. over and another. brings its separate spasm of t the return.'. They begin g in, riding proudly in the ¢ dust,’ down the runway.
'V 19s Are Clipped '
" |B DOOR first open is that if e plane piloted by a lieu-
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+t colonel from Texas, hand- -
ii and seemingly too young to ! colonel with a fresh smiling « and White teeth.
aking of the crews as peo-
“Their wings have been severly hit by a Jap navy zero’s shellfire
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Woods of Sunivary, Pa., P Bu
but the zero has paid for it with _
its life. It was Lieut. F. A, Nor-
wood, of Miami, Fla, who shot
him down. Lieut, Norwood | is a dark complexioned southern boy, handsome and lively. His hands are small and his body too and, still trembling with excitement, he is saying: “I saw him coming. down with all his guns talking and he came right!into mine.” He holds up his hands shaking ‘as with the gun’s motion, . “Keep a-comin’, I says, and long’s you keep a-comin’ I'll keep a-shootin’. And just when he passes under us he does a belly roll. That's when I got him.” There is Capt. J. E. Dougherty of Minneapolis, who is quietly elated; and Lieut. Paul Nunlist of Cincinnati and Bozeman, Mont. and R. D. Copley of Qil City, Pa But upon the floor there is.one good comrade, who must be nameless, who fired his gun until the : end and now will fight no more. Here is another plane coming in, What happened begins to assume form. “Boy, I'd like to sock anybody who says : anything against’ our bombing after this,” says one officer. “I never saw a better bombing anywhere. We laid three, absolutely perfect ‘ strings down that concrete runway, one to the right, one to the left and one in the middle.”
Enemy Toll Mounts
THE NEAREST plane is snorting to a stop. It is commanded by Lieut. Curtis Boldridge of Aldero, Okla., with Lieut. Hiram
Messmore of Lincoln, Neb. and =
John A. Crockett of: Stephens, Ark, to help him out. There are Stanley Jackhola of Minneapolis,
- Victor Lorber of Syracuse, Vernon
Elder of Zajunta, Colo, Henry
_ Buller of Billings, Mont., and J.
W. Hanns of South Bend. .. Everywhere are crews which have shot down ‘at least one Jap. Now we have two, thtee, five. ‘Here come more and more men clapping “each other upon the ‘back. They are. from the ship piloted by: Lieut. V. L. Snyder of Chester, nl, with ‘Lieut. M. C.
E. D. Shafer of Greene, Ia. a “There must have been 20 zeros
and then, using the flier’s indi= cation for where he saw them, “r saw- two cong in at 11 o'clock, three over at 2 o'clock and two coming up at 6 o'clock, with a whole bunch coming down from 12 o'clock.”
One-Fails to Return
SWINGING around to ' the ground man’s orders, waved from a jeep, was the ‘bomber operated by Lieut. Charles H. Giddings of Mundy, Tex., Charles A. Olson of Salt Lake City, Cecil C. Melz ‘of Bainbridge, Ind; with a crew consisting of ‘Peter ‘M. Vassilie of St. Paul, Everett F. Perkins of Wadsworth, O;, Virgil ‘DeVoss of Danville, IIL, Roy Bouse of De Mo., Lloyd Whipp of Placent Cal, and Ralph Martin of Wis= consin Rapids, Wis. And although, according to of
City, with Lieuts. JoBes L... crow, of Waco, Tex; P. R. button. of ‘Laurel, Miss. and Don=~ ald Miller of Greenville, Tex. and working the ‘gadgets were Sergt. Elvin Moncrief of Cleveland, Is ‘A, Johnson of Smithfield, N. C., D. E. Crabree of Arcadia, Kan, G. L. Ross of Carlinville, TIL. and David J. Thomas of Ardmore, Okla. : What these bombers did was fo carry out a perfect run over the _tempestuously * defended Rabaul airdrome, thus bringing to the lowest possible amount Japanese land-based aid to their forces. in the Solomons. ' From three mine utes before the bombers were over their target they were under ate tack by hordes of zeros, ie
‘COUNTRY BOYS BEST AIRMEN’
Yank Flier Who Has Made 44 Trips Against Japs Lauds Ex-Farmers.
Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times e Chicago Daily News, Inc.
IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 13.—With intensified action in the
air as American bombers carry the fight in New Guinea to Jap. bases, there are increasing numbers - of American : crewmen with widening experience gained in many *missions. One of them is William Prince, s slight, dark young radioman who takes his turn as gunner when required and who has been upon no less than 44 missions already this {year. af Sore Kelsey Is His Hero
Prince said he thought country boys made the best, the nerviest, and the coolest airmen. is “My favorite is Capt. Clyde B ‘Kelsey of Marlow, Okla,” he said.
“|“He’s a big, lanky: farm boy and
T've flown with him ever since I {fought in Java. I would fy, anys where with Kelsey.”
to} Borneo
Wie line im 4h Inf :
dropping excursions to Lae, Sala-| the maua and Rabaul often encourtter-
ing numerous zeros,
“The only way to handle Tap Zero planes is to throw such a heavy)
newspapers—in guiding puplie opinhere tomorrow at the annual meet-
sociation in the Hotel Lincoln. The principal address of the oneday session will be delivered by Byron - Price, a native Hoosier ‘and
heads the U. S. office of censorship in ‘Washington.
in his address, Free Speech. 2
400. Are Expected
“Duty of Lawyers and Organizations” will be the topic. of Carl Wilde, Indianapolis, president, of the association.
of public opinion that will further
prior to the noon adjournment and Mr, will ‘speak -at the luncheon at 13:15.
“the convention, 10 asm. ier ‘Committees to. Report . Except for Mr. Wilde's talk,
ion during the war will be outlined|
graduate ' of Wabash college, who
The duty. of the lawyers and the nation’s press and radio will be outlined by Mr. Price: | “Censorship ang} i
Lawyers’
Te ions bo tage to act 1} .| as “a- balance wheel” in the pub-| i: lic’s discussion of the war and its| | problems and to support the kind] :
the united nations’ victory in the|co! | war, Mr. Wilde said today. ‘Mr. ‘Wilde’s address’ is scheduled|
Some 400 lawyers are expected at 2) which, gpenss; ca a
Byron Price and Sarl Wilde to Address : State Bar Association Here Tomorrow]
Responsibility of lawyers — and} | | Indiana judges’ association. ing of the Indiana State Bar. as-| i
Cnt wilde .:
5, will De delivered ‘during the 1oon session by Chiéf Justice { W. Roli of the supreme
and Judge A. "J. Stevenson,|
| Association Should Be During the ‘| field, Evansville;
1 Afternoon committee reports will}, ‘|be given by thé following: Young| “The . | lawyers’ section, Charles G. Bom-
| Homer Elliott, Martinsville;
court. .Judge Dan Pyle of South| Bend will extend greetings from the
A roundtable discussion of “What the Policy of the Indiana State Bar
War” will be led by Frank H. HatCarl M. Gray, Petersburg, and Charles: G. Bomberger, Hammond.
Installation Also Set
. Officers will be installed following| X the election at the afternoon ses-
WARN BRITISH
NOT TO LET |
Lessening..- of ~ Danger Loosening Some Tones;
t, 1942, by The EPL
berger, Hammond; canons of ethics,| 2
.integration of ‘the bar, Henry M. Dowl-
| ing, ‘Indianapolis; committee to col-|’
lect information on Journal, James
R. Newkirk, Pt Wayne; committee 4
to prepare bill: to amend Indiana rules against perpetuities, Verne G.
Cawley, Elkhart; judicial selection] -
and ‘tenure, Louden L. Bomberger, Hammond; Dill of rights, Arthur L. Gilliom, -
Indianapolis. Advisability of sections, Clarence]
ago a stranger was hardly al obiain he a of a railroad