Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1942 — Page 11

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} SOMEWHERE, IN NORTHERN IRELAND, Aug. - 18.—The sky of sorthefu Ireland is not like the sky around, say, San Antonio. The sky of northern Irepland is usually full of water. 5 As a result, getting each new batch of American pilots checked out in Spitfires is a rather slow process. You fly when the weather permits, and you never can tell 10 minutes ahead of time whether it will permit. The fliers over here have a saying which goes, “If you can see the hills it's going to rain. If you: can't see the hills it's raining.”

The American fighter pilots

who are over here training under the RAF fly practically around the clock—between showers. Their flying-field headquarters, living quarters, lounging and eating quarters are all at different places. That's the way everything is over here—dispersed, so a raid can’t get everything at once. Consequently they have to travel around a lot during the day. The training program goes ori on one side of a big field, while on the other side a full force of active and experienced RAF fighters sas; in readiness to protect -them, just in case. When American pilots are on flying duty they do their: loafing in a brick building alongside the field, called a dispersal hut. It has a concrete floor, a coal stove, deep eusy chairs along the wall, and a.wooden table in the center with long benches on each side. The pilotsi sit at the table and play cards, or lounge in thé chairs and read, until it’s their turn to fly.

‘Look Older Than They Are

ON WARM DAYS they stand in groups outside to watch fellow pilots getting their first thrills in a Spitfire. I happeped to be at the dispersal hut the first day mail arrived from home. They were like a bunch of _ 5-year-olds on Christmas morning. Within 30 sectonds there wasn’t a sound in the room. Everybody was deep in his letters. One young lieutenant, when he was finished, took all four of his letters and put them in the stove with

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

SOMETHING MUST have gone wrong with the air conditioning system at Loew's Sunday evening.

One of our agents who was in the balcony reports that along about 10: 30 p. m., it got so cold that the audience almost forgot the picture. A couple of youthful comics stood up and flapped their arms against their sides to stir up circulation; one young woman was heard saying: “Feel my nose; it’s cold as ice,” while here and there young couples uncomplaining snuggled up to keep warm. . . » It never rains but it pours, it seems. Sometime ago, J. Russell Townsend Jr. applied for an army ~ commission and about the same time he applied to the navy. Yesterday he reported at Washington as a naval lieutenant (junior grade). Also yesteiday, there arived at his office a telegram from the army instructing him to report at Ft, Harrison to take a physical examination for his ‘ army commission.

‘on, See the C-Note

THERE'S. AN INTERESTING exhibit of counterfeit bills in the Morris Plan bank window. Quite often there’s a. crowd of spectators in front of it. Almost invariably the crowd stares over at the right hand . side looking at the $100 bill—not at the $5 or $10 bills. First time many of them ever saw a C-note. . . . Bill Book, who runs things up at the C. of C,, is just about the busiest man in. town, and he can’t get away from business even by leaving town. For instance, over the week-end he went to Camp Atterbury for the ceremonies, and right in the midst of everything, he was called to the phone. It was one of his local constituents wanting a favor. . . . We're told it was quite a sight, down at Atterbury, to see Henry Ostrom,

Washington

~ WASHINGTON, Atg. 18.—The first anniversary of the Atlantic Charter should have been an important - morale event, but it was muffed under the turbulent news from India. The noble words give off just now a slightly hollow ring against the noisé of riots in the Gandhi campaign for immediate independence. These ‘noble words will continue to have a hollow ring until some way is found to square the position of the united nations in the East with our professions of belief in a free world. President Roosevelt notes the anniversary of the Atlantic Charter by sending a message to Winston Churchill, reminding him that in the fight for the great ideals of a free world we fight &houlder to shoulder: But at the same time we have ‘to order American forces in India not to fight shoulder to shoulder with the British against the Gandhi troublemakers. American troops are ordered to stick to the business of prosecuting the war, which in that area is defined in the order as having thé primary aim of giving aid to:China. | The confusion and embarrassament are obvious. -wThey will continue until the relations between Britain and India are readjusted. The Atlantic Charter has ‘ heen interpreted by President Roosevelt to apply throughout the world.

It’s Our Business, ‘Too

UNTIL LONDON decided to send Cripps to Delhi, there was some question whether Churchill considered _ the principles of the Atlantic Charter as applying to India. After-the Cripps mission failed, no further atgrempt was made to reach a solution and Gandhi ree

My Day

© NEW YORK Y, Monday.—I reached New York City yesterday afternoon, and Mrs. Stanley Backman ‘came to tea and ught me a gift which will be a : rather large addition to the collection of donkeys on the Presienye ‘desk. This one was made in Manila by the British war relief and presented there to Mrs. Backman. She brought it back on an army transport - way across the Pacific and wrote me ahoue it a short time ago. | I was waiting for a friend in the lobby of a hotel last night, when three young people came up to me and launched forth into ous questions about the war. Dne young girl said she had a brother somewhere in the Pacific : ~~ and a second one also in the ie. The other two young people were at present involved in the war situation; but I felt

for reassurance.

‘By Ernie Pyle

a disgusted look. Ha girl’ back home had found somebody :lse. All the pilots in these new fighter, groups are second lieutenants. ,They look older than they really are. Most of them have been flying about a year. They come from all over America. Some of them are

already: veterans of bad training crackups back home, |:

and have brought scars with them. ; The main thing they're running into over here is the lack of excitement in their spare: time. It's several miles to the nearest town, and after they get there they find life very dull.. They all crave female companionship, as they say, but that commodity is scarce.

War Is No Respecter

THE PILOTS AND ground officers of the new fighter force are quartered in buildings formerly occupied by WAAFs, who have now moved to another

field. * Most of the pilots’ are in small single rooms, a] §

few in double rooms. They have good beds and comfortable furniture. Already each Rilot has made his room a miniature home by. putting up pictures of his girl or parents and throwing college stuff around. The enlisted men of the fighter group—mechanics and other technicians—live nearby in nissen huts.

They live better than most enlisted men in the army. |

Their huts are light and clean and uncrowded. They, too, like and admire the.RAF pilots. The RAF has tea twice a day, at 11 ‘and 4:30, and about half an hour ahead of time the American pilots start looking at their watches and getting ready to leap into the trucks that take them from the airdrome to the officers’ club. There they are served tea and cakes from a long

table by RAF mess attendants. They take their tea-|

cups and sit four and six in a group around ecard tables all over the big lounge hall, drinking their tea, chatting and laughing. The blue uniforms of the RAF are intermingled with the brown of America. They're all nearing their great adventure, and they're anxious to get to the front. These men of the air are a high-class lot, but war is no respecter of class. I couldn’t help wondering] . as they sat there in that big room, drinking tea and laughing and talking, what they would be like a year from now—how many scarred faces, how.many m dangling from chests, how many empty chairs.

Harvey Bradley and George Kuhn riding one of the tiny peeps with their knees sticking up in the air

We Shouldn't Tell This

VIRGIL MARTIN, the 35-year-old Community Fund chief, is taking a ribbing from his friends about his “26-year-old daughter.” It seems Virgil loaned his car to his secretary, Ruth Hicks, the other day. She went to'the. parking lot and got the car, paying the parking bill for the day .explaining she'd bring the car back later in the day. She did return the car later and told Virgil he needn't pay the bill. But he forgot and tendered the attendant a half dollar that evening. Returning the money, the attendant said: “Your daughter paid for it.” Virgil’s still pink faced when someone grins and hollers: “Hi, pop.” . Back in June we told you about William J. Schumacher who, with his band, is likely to turn up most anywhere in town. Well, he and the boys are going to turn up at Garfield park for a concert at 8 p. m. Sunday. Ought to be pretty good too, what with Frankie Parrish as soloist.

Those Screeching Tires

OUR ITEM ABOUT the navy station wagons and their police motorcycle escort racing around the circle Sunday brought us a call from Dirk. Courtenay, who handles orchestra leader Blue Barron’s press relations. Yep, says Dirk, the station wagons were making their tires screech, but it was all in a good cause. Riding in the cars were members of the orchestra. They'd been out at Butler giving the navy boys there an hour’s program followed by a half hour broadcast from the fieldhouse under sponsorship of the War Manpower Board. Their schedule gave them just 22 minutes from the close of the broadcast to race out of the fieldhouse, climb in the cars, get down to the circle and onto the Circle stage. They made it only with seconds to spare. -

By Raymond Clapper

newed his effort to obtain independence by sabotage

_and blackmail.

The present subject status of India, the failure to arrange something that more approaches a free status, is inconsistent with the aims professed in the Atlantic Charter. Gandhi's present-treachery is one thing. The neglect of the problem itself is something else.

Americans are in one sense intruding on a private affair between Britain and India when they concern themselves with the matter. But in another sense it is a matter that affects all of the united nations. The fact that American troops are in India suggests that His Coury does have’some kind of interest in the matter.

We Can't Afford Not to Try

MILITARY SECURITY requires that the British put down this rebellious challenge, and.it is difficult to see how anyone on the side of the united nations could wish Gandhi's attempt to be successful. Neither is it easy to see how anyone who wants our side to win can be blind to the necessity of getting our cause on a firmer footing in the East. We are branded there as imperialists, fighting to regain the right to exploit the rich, backward, colonial lands of the ‘East. Native populations everywhere except in the Philippines and Free China have remained indifferent or become hostile to our side. There is still nothing more -than the noble words of the Atlantic ‘Charter to convince them .otherwise. Nobody has renounced anything out in the East. The necessity of a better relationship between the democratic powers and the peoples of the East would seem to point to the desirability of dealing with this task as soon as order has been restored in India. It may be more difficult now-than it was last spring when Cripps tried it. But we can afford to try. ¢ Indeed, we can’t afford not to try.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

would have something to say about the world which would remain. Last night I finished Elizabeth Gou “A Castle on the Hill.”

e’s ' book: Reading a novel is some-

thing in the nature of deliberately joking a o ieay,

‘and doing something that has nothing to do with one’s obligations. I like Miss Goudge’s ‘writings, and this book puts before one more vividly perhaps than I have read lately, the changes that are coming about in the mind. and hearts of the people of Great Britain.

The boy in the book has lived in the traditions of]

his family. He loves the beauty of his environment and is sensitive to his surroundings, as well as to the

qualities of the people with whom he comes in con-{ “tact. The hero learns how to reconcile his standards and|

a BRITISH PLANES

VS. U. S. SHIPS

No [Issue ‘Taken Here of London Superiority Claims.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18: (U. P.) — No one here appeared ready today to take issue. with the suggestion made in London oyer the week-end that British four-motored bombei's are superior machines for the particular function for which they were designed—dropping the maximum weight of bombs on Germany in night raids. Nor was anyone inclined to make any apologies for the qualities and performance of America’s two foremost heavy bombers—the Boeing B-17 flying fortress ‘and the Consolidated B-24 liberator—fast, longrange bombers capable of high precision daylight bombing. =~ Say Lancaster Is Best

_ The British have four new heavyhauling bombers—the four-motored Lancasters, Halifaxes' and Stirlings and the twin-motored Manchesters. Last week the British publicized the Lancaster as the biggest and fastest heavy. bomber in the world, carrying eight tons of bombs for a maxmum range of 3000 miles at over 300 miles an hour. Armament was given as ten .303 caliber machineguns mounted in four power-driven turrets. . The Halifax carries five tons of bombs at 300 miles an hour. The Stirling is defended by eight .303 caliber machine guns. United States bombers were developed with the idea that they would have to be used among other things for long-range operations in the Pacific,” where distances are great. The flying fortress has proved itself, notably in the Far East where B-17 bombers g¢have ‘repeatedly dropped bombs on distant targets and returned after fighting off enemy fighter opposition without the aid of escort.

B-24 Successful The B-24 has been used success: fully as a heavy bomber in North Africa and the Mediterranean, among other things bombing two

TItalian battleships. It has also been,

used as a long-range bomber over the Atlantic. The early flying fortresses which the British received were not so heavily armed as the present version—not sufficiently, the British felt, to engage enemy fighter planes which in several instances. attacked them at 30,000 feet and over. - However, armament, and perfofmance have been stepped up so that American experts say the British are not entitled to claim superior speed or armament for their heavy bombers. The latest published . figures on the flying fortress show a range of over 3000 miles, speed of over 300 miles an hour, carrying capacity of three tons and ceiling ‘of around 35,000- feet and has ten .50 caliber machineguns, two ferward, two aft, two on top in a turret, two-beneath in a turret and one on either side.

HOLD, EVERYTHING

his world with humanity as a whole, because of his | is

work in the horrers of the London blitz. The whole change in values touching the hearts

of people 00 TKI ae Sune = wiper, =

a Iosugut aut y. in this story.

This is an-artist’s conception of the first wave “hitting the beach” in the Solomons. Naval artillery ba out, tie first line of enemy defense. A great swarm |

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Robert J. Casey, world ¢: er and foreign corresponder: The Chicago Daily News an

mons. In this little: article, titled “So You're in the mons,” he tells it to the ma;

Now that the soldiery is to Australia” and the like you.

guidebook to the Solomons.

on a golf course on a canni: land? How can you equip y

tells you that he’s strictly on being . a marine these day:

formation about these strangt is being presented herewith. SOCIAL CUSTOMS: The;

You needn’t worry about tht esses at any local canteens. won’t be there. If you shout

which seems likely—her, nati!

her and send you pieces of I: souvenirs.

The Barter System

for many things such as bananas, and carved wood: tem poles and canoe prows °: lainous appearance. If you want the- local produce yo: keep the tobacco. PEOPLE:. The people are

and not too bright. They trick of ‘enlarging - their ear so they can carry little knots bacco or similar stuff in the

their nostrils which gives a st: ly exotic and pleasing effect cover. their hides, in some

MUNCIE CHEVROLI

BACK IN PRODUCT

MUNCIE, Ind. Aug. 18 (U Workers at the Muncie-Ch:! plant of General Motors Cor

one-day walkout which ti: government orders :- for

Details of the settlement not announced:immediately.

Sunday night.75 men refuse¢ through a 200-man picke : thrown about the shops by Automobilz (C.I1. 0). The plant manuf . luminum forgings for aircraf According to- U. A, W. (

alleged contract violations company. They said worke

{been deprived of seniority

since Feb. 7 and that (

sufficient work to the Muncis

P| to keep them at peak produc | Under novmal conditions th: ©

employs around 1500 workers

only about 500 employes hav: workin £5

Marines, He

Life A-

Indianapolis Times, herewitt : gests a new guide-book on habits and customs in the : :

given “guides to Britain,” ‘i:

to notice the absence of a s: :

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to understand a chief wh: | diet? It must be very comp! :

that’s why this compendium : f

have very little to do with {1 long as ‘other edibles are avi! !

an eye on any of the local 1:

atives and boy friends will 11 .

FINANCE: You can trade {! 3

nesians, dark skinned, kinky |

Sometimes they stick bones tli

turned to their jobs today aii « all-night conference between pany and union officials, en! :

Work at the plant stopped Workers of A:

the strike was called becai: : Motors had failed to

recent’ weeks, it. was und:

STATE MECHANICS MEET TOMOR

~The 51st annual convent :

U. S. marines ve has knocked heavy bombers

defense line.

and fighter planes ¢

pmes in from the sea to smash the enemy’ s secondary

In the five minutes, until the friendly planes came over,

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tribes at least, with. symmetrical scars, much more ornate than civilized tattooing. AMUSEMENTS: They have some very fine ceremonial dances at which they cover themselves with blue dye just to lend an ethereal touch. They look like nothing else on earth. They also used to have banquets. Those were the days.

Finally Get Dressed CLOTHING: Before the arrival

late 80s, these poor people didn’t know much about clothes. Now, thanks to much advice and the fine examples of some of their children who attended schools in the coast villages most of the better class inlanders go .about fully dressed. Since the war shey have cut the cuffs and lapels off the G-strings. LANGUAGE: And this is where you really get the information. Before the last war the German in-

-{fluence was strong throughout Pa-

pua and it was the German. trader,

Yirather than the quiet missionary

turbance,” said H. Oliver West,

| A household. maid charge of

and educator who spread the Eng-

| lish language through these num-

erous islands. At least it passed for English. If it isn’t English what is it? : : Nazis Faced Problem. ‘It’ was obvious to the Germans when ‘they began to branch out from Rabaul that they would have to have some means of communication with the natives. They had seen the commerce between whites and orientals in China and they had been impressed by the simplic-

.-|ity of pidgin English as a language.

They may have made some at-

| tempts to develop a similar palaver

based on their own tongue€. But pidgin ‘German just didn’t seem to be

3.| logical. So they evolved that lovely

language which you now ‘hear all through Papua, a German laboratory pidgin English spoken with a

of the Melanesian mission in the is benighted |®

German, accent. The results are

Flying Fortress Is Just a Cupid

SEATTLE, Aug. 18 (U. P), — Boeing Aircraft Co., makers of the deadly flying fortress, plans to segregate women production workers because of the time lost when male employees pause to glance at them. “Women do rather well in war _production, but they cause a dis-

* executive vice president of the company. ° “Many are here for other than a serious purpose.” West said that Boeing hopes to solve the “disturbance” by segregating. women in sub-assembly work, where woman’s dexterity is superior to man’s, and where they will be -free of “all but working interest.” West said that women also create a safety problem, because of their long hair and jewelry. The ‘company discourages both, he smd,

SET HEARING DATE FOR CLAUDE WORLEY

Claude M. Worley, former chief of police, will be heard Thursday ir municipal court 4 on charges of keeping a gambling house.

sts., were discharged yesterday on charges of visiting

_City police ‘said Worley was not present Ww! the raid took place

la week ago. He was arrested on ail

warrant several days later. 5

| SLEEPING ‘CHILD KILLED | EL PASO, Tex., ex., Aus la. P)—| 1 today {1

Fourteen men caught in a raid} lon a room above a tavern oper- | ated by-Worley at 16th and Illinois

wonderful as for instance the first two lines of the Lord’s prayer: “Papa me: belong, topside Speak good along him...” Which, of course anybody would recognize as “our Father who art in heaven , . . hallowed be thy name...” i In the native dialects there is no such thing as “X” and the closest equivalent you get in conversation is “ikis” “akis and okis,” thus a box “bokis” an ax is “akis.” For that reason you are not surprised to find out that a grand piano is “bokis belong teeth. You hit him he cry.”

Strange, Strange Words

In Melanesian and in other tongues of the Pacific the verb to eat is “kai-kai.” Wood is “di-wai.” Which prepares. you for the definition of a cross-cut saw: ° “Akis belong claws. You puch him he go. You pull him he come. Bimeby him kaikai diwai.” A sausage is “bananna ‘belong beullamacow.” A steam roller is “schooner belong bush.” And that’s about all you need to know about the language. CULTURAL UPLIFT: There is no recent. report other than that contained in the navy communigues. But -one recalls ‘an effort a few years ago to imbibe the natives with a love for ‘literature and the arts. A missionary arrived in Malaita with a magic lantern and he showed to an enthusiastic group the adventure of one $goldilocks” and the three bears. The natives who had never” Seen bears got the idea at once. These were certainly superior creatures. And when “goldiloc got away in the last slide, they howled not with satisfaction but with rage. ; : The marines ought to have a nice time in that neighborhood.

GARDENERS URGED TO JOIN’ HARVEST SHOW

Amateur gardeners are being urged to participate in the Victory Garden Harvest show to be held at the Coliseum Sept. 26 and 27. The event will be sponsored by the Indianapolis district of the Garden Club of Indiana, which includes garden organizations in 15 counties.:

to be held throughout the nation to boost interest: in victory gardening and to: raise funds for army and navy relief funds.

To committee. Vice chairmen

the advisory group, include Mesdames Walter P. Morton, Edward C. Grande, ‘Louis Wolf and R. C. Swartz. Frank Wallace and Frank L. Luebking ‘also will serve as vice chairmen. : Named to the finance committee were Joseph Van Briggle, Clarence R. Greene, Alex Tuschinsky, Goethe Link and R, E. Carmichael. The advisory committee will meet again at 2 p. m. Monday in the Indiana National bank.

BANDITS THREATEN CLERK AND GRAB $71}

The show here Ww one of many

Faro armed bandits obtained $71

rr | xrwams TO HEAR OVERLEY TonerioNierley, jean of he Butistly

the first wave of marines had to get ashore—and they did.

HOPE TO AVOID MEAT RATIONING

OPA Sonideting 3-Point

Plan to Solve Problem ~ Of Distribution. | , WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (U. P.); —The office of price administration is considering a three-point Pros

gram to solve the meat distribution problem and prevent regional nica

. s fo Ne sumer rationing, it was learned to=

day. Officials said the plan could not be put into cperation unless the agriculture department reverses its opposition to placing of ceiling prices on livestock.

Urge ‘Livestock Control

The program, still highly tentas. tive, would include: 1. Strict control os “on the hoat™ livestock’ prices. “Processed “meat - prices already are’ controlled. 2. Federal ° allocation of meat products on a nation-wide basis. 3. General “readjustment” of cone , sumer prices, ironing out present regional inequalities, - but retaining the present overall level. . Wilbur La Roe Jr., counsel for the ‘|emergency conférence of meat pack ers, charged that the government's failure to impose ceilings on live« stock prices is as much responsible for meat shortages as are growing demands of the armed forces and the lend-lease. program. © He noted that Price Adininistras tor Leon Henderson has asked Sece retary ‘of Agriculture Claude Ry Wickard to apprave livestock price ceilings but that the latter has not »| yet done so.’

Rationing Debated

As OPA officials ‘worked out - de= tails of ‘their program, members of the -agriculture department’s foods réquirements- .committee - scheduled a meeting today to consider ane - other plan to regulate the distribue tion of meat supplies. Agriculture officials also were hopeful that cone sumer rationing could be avoided. But speaking in Chicago yeserday, Roy ‘F." Hendrickson, administrator

lof the agricultural marketing ad< ministration, warned of the “probe “ability” of rationing and said there

would be a possible shortage of 3,000,000,000 pounds of meat “in ree lation to the quantity of meat cise vilian consumers would buy at ceile ing prices.” - Ci 3 Other officials said some 11,000. 000,000 pounds would be - sold to civilians out of a record-high supe ply of 21,700,000,000 pounds of na stock ralsed for market this year.

What You Bug ith WAR BONDS

An army motor trailer 100ks much like ‘any . other automobile trailer which may be seen on the high ways or in the touvist’s camps. The

ing hospitals, dental ‘clinics and testing laboratories. ; ;

Get Your Mone,

shortages without resorting to cone

army’s trailers are used as travel= . :