Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1942 — Page 10

MONDAY, AUG. 17, 1942

f—_— He ‘Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie Pyle gol i

and spak up the reactions of a group of Americans ! ‘who have been here only a short time. That’s what

“You've never seen anything like it in your life,” one of the pilots told me. “Talk about efficiency, the R. A. F. has got it. Everything was so perfectly planned there was never a second’s delay from the

I did recently with a bunch of American fighter pilots. Airmea, as you know, are of a 4 different stripe from the average soldier. Their responses are not always the same as those of ordinary troopers. But here, mainly, are the first week’s reactions of these young fighter pilots: 1. Irish weather is lousy. 2. The girls can't compare with those at home. | 3. The Spitfires are wonderful airplanes. 4 The R. A. 'F. is the most

marvelous institution evér devised. 5. The British custom of stopping for tea should be made compulscry in America. 6. And in common with every doughboy, the fliers are already wondering if they can’t get 10 days’ leave sometime and go home by Clipper.

They're Sold on the R. A. F.

. THE NAVY AND air forces always seem to live better than the other services, and that is true of the new fliers over here. These fighter pilots are actually living better than they did at home, thanks to the . AF. When they arrived the R. A. ‘F. met them at the boat. Enlisted men of the R. A. F. acted as porters and took care of all their baggage. Buses were waiting to take them to a train. R. A. F, officers went along as hosts and friends. It was almost as though tit were a conducted: tour. When they got to camp it was 2 o'clock of a cold morning but a hot meal was waiting. Every American officer found his quarters already assigned, and his name already on the door. The R. A. F. hadn't overlooked a thing.

‘Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum,

‘IT’S FUNNY Low hard some people will strive to save a nickel when the same energy and ingenuity, properly applied, might earn them a dollar or so.. Take coin telephenes, for instance. The phone company’s collectors find all sorts of objects in thé phones’ coin ‘boxes. . Among the objects they occasionally find are pennies which have been dipped in glue and then in salt or sugar to make them larger. Some times they find the head of a key, filed down until it approximates the shape and size of a nickel. Once in a while

someone tries tying -a string to a coin with the idea of pulling it back ‘up after they've made their call. It doesn’t work. - Now and .then a petty larcenist will stuff a handkerchief in the coin return slot, then return an hour or so later and get the nickels that failed to be. returned on other people's . incompleted calls. Sometimes they get caught, too. Animals and insects provide the phone men with other headaches. Squirrels, for instance, cause short circuits by sharpening their teeth on the lead sheath of a phone cable. Rats will eat the insulation off wiring in storerooms and basements, which also causes short circuits. - And even the lowly cockroach isn’t guiltless. He can put a pay phone out of order by crawling into. the coin chute. It's a tough life, eh on : What's the Bwrry?y« = - SIRENS SHRIEKED as two police motorcycles paced a speeding procession south on Meridian and onto Monument circle about 2:15 p. m. yesterday. The procession was comprised of several U. ‘S. navy X station wagons loaded with young men and women, end with band instruments sticking out the windows. To keep up with the racing police escort, the station wagon drivers had to circle the cirle so fast that their skidding tires‘ (smell that rubber?) almost ouishrieked the sirens. It all looked pretty silly, to say the least, to pedestrians leaving . their cars at home to save rubber, , , . Pedestrians at the inter-

Washingt WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—1f Henry J. Kaiser can build ‘these cargo planes at all, he can build them a whole lot faster if Washington will uncross its fingers and give him whole-hearted help. Instead of doing that, Washington gives him the brushoff. Nobody had. the nerve . to tell old man Kaiser to go back to building ships, which he does faster th anybody else. No, they gave a mealy runaround. They told him in effect: “If you insist on building cargvu planes, go ahead and see how far you get. But don’t expect any help from us.” If this cargo-plane idea has anything to it, Washington needs to put the same heart into it that old man Kaiser has. I mean the same kind of. extra grunt that has enabled him to go ‘into the shipbuilding business cold and beat the record. He didn’t do that alone. He did it by having the co-operation of many people. He had engineering help, help in getting materials, help of all kiuds. These are not one-man jobs. Old man Kaiser has that rare pressure of enthusiasm that enables him to produce extra results. But he must have the support and co-operation of many others to do it. ‘Here, in what a friend of mine calis this arsenal of bureaucracy, they stand around with folded arms, eyeing old man Kaiser as if he were some kind of menace instead of a possible builder of admit ttedly needed cargo planes. They ought to welcome him.

What a Piece of Business

. WASHINGTON GOES on the assumption that there is not an ounce of materials left to be squeezed out of a 10=biflion-dellar-a-year war program. They

; WASHINGTON, Sunday. —Friday was spent large1y ‘in. doing mail and. seeing people. = Miss Barbara Ward, foreign editor of “The Economist” in England, who has come over here for a few months, spent an hour with some of us. I think it was a most profitable hour, because it showed us that in many ways it is: hard in this country to get a complete picture .of what is happening in other countries. The censor has written me a very stern letter about my remarks on the weather, and so

from now on I shall not tell you whether it rains or whether the

sn shines where I happen to be. n talking with Mrs. Florence

es of the WPA yesterday, I : learned one thing which pleased very f much. Aon the WPA projects which have closed down is Braille project.

However they ‘have found hundreds of canteen

Si wa Tar Dh dented ‘and bent, but under ‘machinery

friendliness between our two nations will help beat Germany, it certainly is flowering to the fullest be-

-fense production effort, hasn't WPB the facilities yet

time we stepped onto the dock until we were settled and ready to fly. And they're that way about: everything.” The Americans point out how the R. A. F. builds its airdromes and its living quarters and how it cares for its planes, and they say, “Boy, could we learn a few lessons at home by copying the R. A. F!”

Who's Got the Button?

MOST OF OUR BOYS are accustomed to tricycle landing gears, with a nose-wheel in front and when you add that the Spitfire’s wheels are closer together than ours, so they must be landed more meticulously, you can get the idea that your first landing in a Spitfire is no pushover. As a, result, the boys make some pretty bad landings. - They have even scratched up a few Spitfires in

their first week, and you never saw anybody feel worse

about anything. But the R. A. F. further endears itself to them by

saying, “Oh well, you must expect that with a plane|

entirely new to you. We'd do the same thing if we tried checking out your fast fighters.” The other day I saw an American lieutenant walk up to an R. A. F. officer, take out a knife, and cut a button off the officer's tunic. ginning of a little international incident, until I was told what it was all about. It seems it’s the custom

for war-time fliers of different nationalities to ex-|

change buttons. I have met one R. A. F. pilot who has only one R. A. F. button left on his jacket. Each of the others is trom an airforce uniform of a different country.

And that’s the way it goes over here now. If

tween these all-important groups of allied airmen.

section of S. Capitol and Kentucky aves. were bombarded with soot this morning. They couldn’t tell from whence it came. Probably just a reminder of things to come next winter.

Try Whispering, Bosun

EARLY RISERS as far south as 42d st. hear the orders bellowed during the 6 a. m. naval calisthenics at the Butler field house. Theyre heard also by some nearer residents who hadn't intended to awaken that early. ... . State draft headquarters received a letter the other day asking them to “please send me an application form for a. conscientious. objector and a vegetarian. They took care of the first half of the request. , ., A guy who prefers to be known as “just a dumb west sider” wishes he were bright enough to understand why the street railway removed a ‘“perfectly good metal car stop marker” on a pole at the Miley ave. stop and substituted a painted one on the pavement a-few feet past the corner. The result, he says, is confusion. Neither passengers nor streetcar operators know where the car should stop, says our; complainant.

Sick Before or After?

THAT SUPREME COURT ruling a while back upholding deed provisions barring sale of liquor in Irvington isn’t air tight, by any means. At least one drug store out there sells liquor after having the

purchaser sign. a blank stating that the liquor “will be used only ‘for either sacrameéntal, medicinal or

mechanical purposes, and for no other purposes.” Oh, yeah? . ., The induction of a group of navy recruits was being broadcast Thursday. The microphone was passed around to several men while a “master of ceermonies” interviewed them for the radio audience. It wasn’t until 12 minutes had passed ‘that they learned something had happened and they weren't on the air at all. . . . Remember way back when General MacArthur's picture: graced every window around town? We just happened ‘to think of it when we happened to notice one in a residence window. Ah, fleeting fame,

By Raymond Clapper

tell Kaiser to go out and rummage around the industrial junkyards of the country and see if he can find any machine tools, any critical materials that are not needed in the war effort. What a piece of business for Washington! What are all those thousands of people doing around Washington? The WPB is jammed with technical men of all kinds. The services of any expert in the nation are at the call of Donald Nelson. With all those. thousands of employees, after two years of de-

for telling old man Kaiser where he can go and find machines and materials? These, people haven't ‘been sitting around sharpening lead pencils for two years. They know. plenty. They could get in there with old man Kaiser and pitch if théy wanted to. They don’t want to!

It’s Just Too Much Trouble

IF THEY DON'T think there is something in this idea of Kaiser's why don’t they come out and say so? Why don’t they saw it off? I suspect they don’t dare to, for the reason that they know in their hearts that something could be done. But it is just too much trouble. It means some arguments. It means some tearing up of neatly typed production schedules and doing a lot of planning all over again. So they pass the buck to the old man, send him off with love and kisses to hustle on his own. If old man Kaiser makes good, then after the cargo planes come rolling out 30,000 government press agents will tell you what a wonderful job the government is doing. On the other hand, if he falls down on his face

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ARES

ENEMIES INFEST

Former Diplomats: Use Forged Passports and Bribe Money.

By NAT A. BARROWS

and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

of close observation in a dozen Latin American countries have given your correspondent certain definite conclusions about the highly organized activities of axis agents and undercover supporters seeking to destroy the United States’ prestige and hamper the allied war effort. The situation varies country by country but the general over-all system of axis operation follows much the same pattern. ‘ 1. Berlin maintains full control of the axis machine in Latin-Amer-ica by the presence of S. S. (elite guard) and Gestapo inspectors.

Falange Is Active

2. The Spanish Falange, _masquerading as a social group, continues its insidious attacks upon the United States as part of the Franco scheme to re-establish Spain's control over former Spanish colonies. Meanwhile, the Falangistas, often aidéd by fascist sympathizers among the clergy, pass along Nazi inspzctors and assist couriers bringing the latest high command orders. 3. Travel control edicts, directed against axis nationals in non-bellig-erent republics, are severely eflective on paper but the Gestapo inspectors, as well as their couriers and blacklisted merchants, merely resort to properly organized papers obtained by the bribery of little men in the government, or simply go around control posts by muleback or boat.

Coding Is Big Business 4. As diplomatic representatives of German, Japanese and Italian interests, the various. Spanish legations do a whopping big business in coded communications... The conclusion is obvious.

it will be no skin off anybody’s nose around here, and they'll be able to prove it with that rubber-stamp letter.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

pital. ~ This poem expressed the thoughts of every soldier whose loved ones neglect to mail that necessary letter. This poem is our humble effort to tell the people of the U.S. how we soldiers actually feel about our mail. If you can use this poem in any way to

help the soldiers, we heartily give our consent. Sin-|

cerely yours, “Corporal . . . and Private First Class .

« Here's the poem:

- A SOLDIER'S LAMENT What's the matter? Out of ink, Or is your pen on the blink? All T want is one nice line, To let me know that you are fine. It sure is nice to get a line From someone that's so divine. A letter a day in such a way, * Will‘'put the spirits into play. ‘From an old friend, a letter is dear, - I hope I am making myself clear. A letter from you I pine, Send one when you have time. The darkness of eve draws near, i: So I must close now with tears. Remember me while we're apart, an x truly with all my heart.

| States and the allies in every way.

{~The 113th annual session o {of ‘the United Brethern in

Fully trained in all the aspects of espionage and equipped with an excellent Latin American background the inspectors rarely stay more than iwo or’ three days in any given city. Of the 40-odd, estimated to be operating in South America now, some are former diplomats or aitaches once accredited to the Spanish-speaking countries. They enter openly at Buenos Aires on German passports, then transfer to Spanish These inspectors investigate loeal axis acfivities in each area, pay off informers and potential saboteurs, instruct -lesser ‘leaders and generally supervise the widespread attempt to undermine the United

Part of their jab includes supervision of Latin American units of] the German submarine intelligence, which the high command. operates as a. separate and distines organi. tion.

' BISHOP DENNIS PRESIDES ‘HUNTINGBURG Aug. 17 (U, P.).

Indiana Conference of the © urch|

LATIN-AMERICA

BOGOTA, Aug. 17—Eight months}

NAZIS REVEAL

Outline Four Steps Program to Dominate

Conquered. ‘By DAVID M. NICHOL

and The Chicago Daily News, Int. LONDON, Aug. 17—Four lev | of. administration are contemplat by the Nazis ‘“‘grossraum,” or sphere of domin :

the war, according to a significe analysis in the recent issue of ti: Berlin - periodical, Politik.

passing attention because the a thor Heydrich’s deputy and presumab Himmler’s No. 1 aide. Embraces Asia, Africa

Best defines the * grossdraum including not only Europe: but lar;

portions of Africa and Western As : Ne:

The .. inhabitants: of ‘the grossraum gre - divided betwe: those racially, politically and ide : logically. dcceptable and those cor

Best solves this Heydrich fashion, declaring:

“Historical experience proves th : | the extermination and expulsion

alien peoples does not contrave :

the laws of nature ‘providing. it i

carried out completely. RX The Four Levels

The levels of administration tu Best described are: © 1. Allied—in which the ally, " sumably Italy, retains its ov government, ‘agreeing = complet: with the general policy prescrib by the fuehrungsvolk—Nazis. T: ampassador in the allied: capital the “connection between these tv: 2. Supervisory—for second-cl: powers such ‘as Hungary, Ruman and. presumably. France, in whi each "department of these gover

ments is dependent upon. the er

POST-WARPLA'

in. the Europe : |

tion they plan to create if they w

Zeitschrift Fu:

The analysis deserves more th: is Werner Best, Reinha |

successor as Gestapo Chief Heinri | |

prising ‘alien or foreign grou; | in tradition: |

CLA New ‘Zealander chats with the British crew of an Aamerioan General G vith Nazis. Note shell fragment holes in armor.

nt tank after a asl

2. Unflinching in the face of German shell-fire, Russian Cossack horsemen race inte the attack with heir horse-drawn machine gun carriages. :

tricken vessel off the coast.

3. Patrol planes from the Banana river paval air — in Florida sighted and photographed this.

4. This German supply truck stalled on the desert in the El Albion area with its dead driver nat ut of the cab after shrapnel struck it.

These men will be ‘used to guard bridgeheads. 6 Equipped with body boats and paddles -these Soviet sappers set out to reconnoiter a‘ river: crossing

n Russia’s western front. Their

job is to. destroy.

ed Red army reserves—tank destroy ers—march toward the front to: victory or death,

©‘ %.°A pair-of U. S. army fighter planes swoop down over a heavily-armed PT boat: during: maneuvers: taged some ten miles from the Pacific entrance to Panama canal, ; Lh

By PAUL MANNING : "Timtes Special Writer

LONDON, - Aug. 17.—Two bombs

ve dropped on ‘this city during |e ‘past year—yet; two thousand ople continue’ living underground. ‘Some say frankly: “My nerve’s

ne.” Others, who have had homes deoyed, dango dftord new furnl-

Vary of New Blitzes, 2000 Londoners Stay in Subways |

Square; ‘but don’t expect to like’ it. They have such funny people.”

Another habitue of the Strand]

Station shelter, Mrs. Clark, ' ex-

plained that her youngster, Tom,|{’ ;

“has been sleeping down here since he was two months old—a . real sheller; baby.” : ' Ome ancient charwoman said:

“We've got real fond. of this bit of f

platform. ‘We've slept here twa

years and have seen a bit of life, | I.can tell you. When we move to|]

Trafalgar Square soon T hope our new neighbors won't be ;

“|HOLD EVERYTHING