Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1942 — Page 9

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"WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19, 1942

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SOMEWHERE w NORTHERN IRELAND, Aug. pi Gen. Russell P. Hartle, who commands all our troops in Northern Ireland, is universally liked. en have never ‘heard him mentioned except in such as “He's a swell guy.” The. general has a big

nose and a big grin. He is friend- .

ly, and he says what he. thinks. He's okay. either ‘in the field or + at a dinner party, When you falk with him at his office he has previously arranged his work so that - he seems to have: all the time in the world to chat. .* Gen. Hartle has a new dog. friend bought it for him in Dublin. It’s one of these ‘square-nosed Irish dogs called a Kerry Blue, ‘and its coat is actually sort of . blue. The dog is named Scrappy, Which iheidenthlly is the general's .own nickname. Scrappy sits in on all military conferences. It’s

finny to watch him.’ He cocks his head and listens

in. turn to ‘each speaker. ‘Often he is very nonplussing, for when the general “dks a question of one of his high-ranking officers Scrappy looks intently at the officer as though-to say, “All ‘right, stupid, what are you gonna answer to that one”? 3

N eed Toughening Up?

"TY HAVE NOW traveled about 500 miles over Northerm Ireland in peeps and jeeps and British army cars. Riding .around the country in jeeps is good athletic ‘training. As one of the boys who travels constantly in peeps says, “I've got a caulifiower rear.” All the road signs in Northern Ireland have been Ptaken down, of course. So you get about the country by asking the way. There's one trick you soon learn. You ask only for the next town ahead. Never ask

beyond the next town, ‘or you'll get such contused directions you'll never get anywhere, That's the first thing. every new driver in the motor corps has to learn over here. ; x » =

RECENTLY WE HAD three days of sunshine and

‘warmth. - For three whole. days it didn’t rain and

I didn’t need ‘a topcoat. You should have seen what it did to the American troops. They simply expanded. Everybody was in a good mood. Life seemed interesting again. Officers and men all wanted to get olit of camp and get to town and have some fun. Maybe it's. a good thing the weather is ousy most ‘of the time.

Shorty Long's a Major Now

NEIGHBORHOOD ' PERSONALS—Eugene Long,|

known as Shorty Long, a one-time school teacher

and clothing-store owner in Wendell Willkie’s home|

town, Elwood, Ind. has just been promoted from captain to major, and you should see him grinning all over. . . . The other day I mét Capt. Porter Grace,

who used to be in the chamber of commerce at Mem-|

phis. He lives in an old castle. As soon as we met

he disappeared for a few minutes and came back]:

with a letter from his wife, Eleanor, which said The Memphis Press-Scimitar reported me in Ireland and for him to keep an eye out for me. . . . Sergt. Bill Seegar of Council Bluffs, Iowa, has kept a diary since ng inte the army. Every night he writes a whole page.’ The night I stayed at his camp he put me in his diary and then had me autograph it. Fame comes once to every man, even if he has to chase it clear to darkest Ireland in order to catch if. ... The other afternoon while I was writing in my hotel room a pigeon flew in the open window and circled the room a couple of times, during which he paid his compliments to my hat, lying on the bed. Then he flew away again, What was I saying about fame?

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

SS LARRY ADLER, the harmonica virtuoso with Blue Barron's orchesira, drops us a note anent that tire screeching incident Sunday. We think his letter is pretty much to the point, s0 here it is: “When you eriticized the naval station wagons for skidding around § the corners yesterday, your point was ‘well taken. 1 was a passenger and the sound of rubber on maca- - dam (asphalt, Larry) hit me right in: the’ conscience.’ * “Buf; ‘you weep for its effect on sel-sacrificing’ pedestrians who left their cars at home to save rubber. Well, I have traveled the country from coast to coast and

have yet to see so much pleasure diving | per se as right here in Indianapolis. “Every night when I leave the theater I see cars full of kids careening around the Circle, skidding to 8 stop at red lights, trying to make a lightning getaway on the green, doing cute maneuvers in order to impress a girl walking along the street. © % “Somewhere in all this grousing thers is a moral, Probably this: The average individual is reluctant to "make a voluntary sacrifice; he must be ordered to ; do so. The word ‘please’ is an anachronism in times of emergency. + “Very ‘well, then, you were absolutely right in your Stitcism, Am I in mine? -

EMMETT BELZER of the phoill’ Somitpany cas,

Herb Trees at the gas company about 9:45 a. m. yesterday and asked: “Are you in distress over there?” “Why?” inquired Herb. “Well, your flag is flying Upside down.” ‘Herb looked, and sure enough it was. NI developed that a new janitor hired ‘by the farm bureau, which owns the building, got in a hurry and accidentally hoisted the distress signal. . . . Our idea

of the modern day martyr is the person with a phone:

Washington

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. —Shortage of raw materials for war production are appearing so rapidly now that Donald ‘Nelson is placed against the hardest test of his career as, chairman of: the WPB. ? He has returned from a much needed rest. How effectively he deals with this emergency during the next few weeks probably will determine whether there is to be a reorganization, Production facilities have outrun raw materials so quickly that, although plant shut-downs are not serious yet, they may soon “become: $0. 3

The first task Mr. Nelson hadwhen he’ took over with his unprecedented powers last winter was plant conversion to war produc-

tion. That conversion was pushed hard and fast. But if these plants are forced to stand

fdle for lack of materials, public sentiment will demand somebody's head and Mr. Nelson's is the most

obvious “one. In fact, a campaign already is well along to shift a good deal of control to Gen. Somervell, Sinet of the army services of supply. I find it difficult to subscribe to all of the criticism ected at Mr. Nelson, although undoubtedly some

of the blame must go there. One criticism is that he .

int. He has been here throughout most of the defense program, knows: his way around Washington, knows the production situation and its history as intimately as any man in Washington.

His. Method Hasn't Worked

" "A MORE JUSTIFIED criticism of Mr. Nelson, it geoms to me, ia that he is not aggressive enough in exercising his large powers. There are two ways of operating in Washington. One: + is Leon" Henderson's hammer-and-tongs technique. Get’ in first snd slug the hell out of the other ow, "The other method is to try. to persuade your way slong, on ‘the assumption that everybody will be rea~

Vy Day

; Sony a production man. ' I'don’t ‘see much in that

HYDE. PARK, Tuesday—Mary Winslow, in the’ ‘Téasons ‘why unity could and should exist. me in Washington the other day to tell

‘ihe co-ordinator of inter-American affairs, see her. trip to. Mexico, which she had under- » invitation of a group of Mexican Wothen’ s

They ld a mass meeting of ‘women-and Miss Winslow showed : me some of the handbills used at ‘it. ‘They seemed striking in their : make-up and extremely concise in the way in which they expressed the reasons for women to {ake an active part in the war situation. The first handbill simply. stated:

number similar to that of a busy business phone. For instance, there's Frances E. Meyers, 61 Caven st., whose number is’ Ri. 9251, They must get a lot of calls by mistake. The other day one of our friends accidentally rang that number and asked for the state highway department. Someone at that number patiently explained: “This is Ri. 9251. For the highway department, ‘call Ri. 9521.” We're afraid we'd grumble a bit.

Take the Lid: off

IN CASE ANY OF YOU were wondering, that

- man. standing outside the Bankers Trust barber shop

Monday afternoon with a barber's apron around his neck and talking to a passer-by was none other than Evans Woollen, the banker and school board president. He paid no attention to the curious stares he got. . .. While the county council was hearing the commissioners’ request for funds to remove. the court house dome, George Sadlier, democratic president of the council, was overheard remarking about the commissioners’ Republican president: “The reason Bill Ayres wants to remove the court house dome is to keep

‘his campaign promise. He told the voters he'd blow

the top off the court house.”

Helps Pay Self

HELPING REFURBISH the Murat theater is Rush Livengood, a painter whose hobby’ is chicken raising at his home near Lebanon. He takes his hobby’s by-product—eggs—to the Murat where Karl Friedrichs,

recorder of the Shrine, sells them for him to people

in the building. A" youth employed in washing woodwork there wanted some eggs the other day but didn’t have the money. Mr. Friedrichs advised him to go scare up the money. He did—from the first person he met. It happened ‘to be none other than Mr. Livengood, who thus furnished the money to buy his own eggs. . . «» Yeoman Bob McConnell of the local navy recruiting: office and formerly with WISH has written a song, “We, Too, Shall Love Again.” Blue Bar-|. ron is going to introduce it in a coast-to-coast broadcast tonight. ‘Nice break for Bob.

By Raymond Clapper

sonable and unprejudiced and will work solely for the end sought by all. Washington doesn’t happen to

‘operate entirely that way.

Prejudices, personalities, appetite for power and set ways of .doing things cross up anyone who tries to work solely on the assumption that everyone is going to be reasonable. Mr. Nelson doesn’t seem to have succeeded too well with his quiet, co-operative procedure. Although it is his natural method, as an unselfish, unassuming, highminded human being, Mr. Nelson may not be able to

get the best results by confining himself to that - method.

Raw Materials Biggest Job

" HE KNOWS RAW materials are his biggest job. Yet ‘'WPB has been slow in the two main lines of activity necessary to make the best use of raw materials. First are inventories. WPB should know where all scarce materials ‘are. It must know what plants are

stocked up with materials beyond their immediate re-

quirements. That requires close inventory check. It is a difficult thing to do even with a large foree of agents. But it is necessary to do it.and WPB hasn't moved as fast as the need required. Second is the allocation of materials, to see that no more flows. to a given producer than he needs to

keep going on his schedule. At first the government

tried to do that through priorities, but without much success because everyone was ‘signing priority forms. Back in the days of SPAB the weakness of that method was recognized and an attempt was made to change to the method of allocating material, actually doling it out instead of authorizing a lot of manufacturers to make a grab for it. But WPB has not pushed. that changeover fast enough. These are all complex matters and many extenuating circumstances go into them. - But it seems to be generally recognized around here that harder drive from the top at WPB would break up some of the| jams, and that such harder drive is essential if the magnificent war production plant now in existence is not to stand partially idle for lack of raw materials.

By. Eleanor Roosevelt

simplest arith most direct 1 manner, Bok: only unity, but]

Today I have a-letter from a woman, ‘which tells] me of ‘a local political situation. In the primaries of her party, she quife evidently suspects one céndidate of being pro-Nasi, and urges me to investigate the circumstances’ of her ‘particular locality, : ~ I donot think it is possible for anyone, not even the leaders of & political organization, really to know in detail the exact: ituation in every locality. = That is why we hc ld primaries, so’ that the people who live in the locality may have the opportunity to

_ choose the best man as they see him and know him. ay aed from party organizations ed

b «your country calls you,” and

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ByEm ie Pyle

JAPS JAB AGAIN AT NEW GUINEA

Striking Power Dammed by U. S. Blow at Solomons

Loosed Westward.

By GEORGE WELLER

AN ADVANCE BASE, Satria Pacific, Aug. 19.—Replying to her Solomons setback, Japan is once mote taking up the cudgels' in New Guinea.

‘Gen, Douglas MacArthur’s..éom-~ A mand used the “diversion -of'*the| JF Japanese force to the Solomons in|

defense against Vice Admiral Rob-}-ert L. Ghormley to make oblierat-|. ing raids upon Japanese defenses in| Salamauo, Lae and even distant] Rabaul. So now the Japanese, having possibly conceded. the Americans. at least temporary consolidation of their Solomons position, are renewing their blows in New Guinea.

Fight by Land and Air

The interdependence of the’ two zones upon the Japanese side is evident. Our gains in our eastern area, officially known as the south Pacific, result in the .damming of forces: which exert themselves against our western area, officially ‘called - the southwest Pacific-com-mand. Japanese efforts are marked by the renewal of both land and air operations, offensive in the sense of ‘local : tactics, whether or not actually part of a planned Japanese counter-offensive. : The Japs again are attacking the allied airdrome which lies within the dusty 30-mile periphery of Port Moresby.

Raid to Murder Sleep.

This airdrome is located less than 10 miles from the battered, windowless villas upon .the. hills surrounding Moresby bay. The Japs have evidently decided that Port Moresby'will continue to cheat them by its able dispersal of the most powerful elements. They bomb in retaliation. against}

being bombed; while their small<}:

scale raids. are principally intended to murder sleep. rather. than men.

Patrol Battles Continue

Upon the other side of the range, where the prize is. Kokoda airdrome| © ard the domination of the pass beneath ‘the hulking 14,000-foot Mt.

Victoria, the battle between patrols| :

continues. The airdromeé was not ‘used by either side for nmiore than

a month. d be unwise for either side

to place too much significance upon

this ‘airdrome, which is tucked against a precipitous 6000-foot| mountain wall rising to the pass. Being 880 yards long, its use is restricted in good weather to fighters and transport planes, and it is

impossible. that it should be used}

4s Salamaua and Lae have been in the: ‘past, as intermediary refueling fields for bombers prior to or after

raids ‘against Port Moresby.

USING 4000 TONS OF

SCRAP. RUBBER A DAY |

JasmneTon Aug. 19 (U. P.

isolated Dutch Groups | Timor Continue to Harass ‘Japs.

Dutch guerrilla units isolated t¢ ‘the Japanese landings in- Tin (| ‘early thi€ year are living “in sty dn almost ‘inaccessible mount: fastnesses while harrying the :: vaders, an authoritative: source b. United Press.’ : Sparking allied Fesisieh : throughout: Timor, the source sa! the guerrillas swoop down from i! mountains “in ‘hit-and-run ‘rai : harassing J a p communicatic - damaging installations, . and: .¢: ting ‘up Jap patrols with tael tested by: Dutch and- native tro: Jong’ before “they became invol! : in the far eastern struggle. Get ‘Staple Diet

At their bases the guerrilla trot live on ‘a staple diet-of buffalo m -

_|and rice with ample fruit and ve, -

tables. ‘One! bfficer, a dentist ‘v repays : native: fidelity by treat :. their teeth, recovered ‘his books a recent expedition. and -establis! a; “hospital in the ‘middie of impenetrable: ‘mountain, where | tients relax: ‘to the. strains - of phonograph playing Gilbert a1 ‘Sullivan .operettas..

group recovered" 1 belo! ings, inchiding sorely needed clo ing. One of the officers astonis! natives on returning to the base | | appearing in slitk dress unifo!: ‘complete ‘with re and swag stick. ;

-- NUNS Sr FTOMAINE HUNTINGTON, ‘Aug. 19 (U. I!

‘contaminated by ‘ptomaine Wi believed today ‘tobe the’ cause the illness of 10 nuns who Ww: stricken. on a W: ‘railroad Pi senger train yesterday.

HOLD EVERYTHING

E GUERRILLA! LIVE AN STi

MELBOURNE, Aug. 19 (U.P). -

On a: similar’ raid (one guerr | ;

~Sandwiches believed to have bi

| 1. The answer to the question, “what is tomorrow?” is: “Tomorrow = - is the cireus.” Arriving among the first will be: this sad-eyed member q

of the “Ballet of Elephants.”

"2. Felix Adler is one of the 100 clowns’ ‘with the Ningling Biothers. Vv and Barnum and Bailey show’ “which will give’ matinee and evening performances at the circus grounds on ‘Southeastern ave. : :3.' This comely equestrienne is ‘Estelle’ Butler, “who can ride and

smile simultaneously. :

4. And this is Pug Ugly, alias, Mr. Gargantua The Great, . who J

#ill be present with his lovely 450-pound wife. 5. Five-year-old Carla Wallenda' is the daughter of. Carl and Helene: Wallenda, billed by. the modest Gardner Wilson, Ringling’s. sublicify x Has, as the greatest of all Ligh wire ‘troupes. :

Slass Tumbler Won’ ; Sharpen Your Precious Razor Blades).

By. ‘Science Service NEW YORK, Aug. 19. ~The od stunt” of sharpening a razor blade

Ps rubbing . it. on the inside of & ‘ass tumbler three-quarters full of!

ater has been given another lease

a life by some stories circulated in ie east. But don’t be misled. This iethod does -not Sharpen ia ‘T82Z0F lade. Many people believe: that the edge ! a safety razor is saw. toothed and iat these saw teeth are bent over 7-use. This, too, is not so. 3 %5 If you examine a razor blade with ie naked eye or with a pocket magifying glass’ you could easily .connce yourself that it has a saw wothed edge. Even magnifications oto 200 or 300 diameters seem to wtify this viewpoint. But the saw eth thus seen are not at the cutng edge of the razor blade; they stually appear approximately 1/500 ¢ an inch in from the cutting edge an. are the ‘result of ‘coarse . ‘grind-

hen’ the . finely ‘honed: cutting ige is magnified to 3000 diameters shows a continuous. wavy or scal-| ped edge with mounds and ‘ deressions ‘which are not. at all regu-| x. At. this ‘magnification a safety] izor blade would appear to. be, 438| et long, 219 feet wide and more 1202 feet thick at the center. The

stock (that Bs riot fleiibie). rubbing it on the inside of a glass may flat-

ten ‘down a “few ‘of the turned over]:

edges. But this treatment does not perform a sharpening or strapping operation. - thus flattened perform no cutting function. On. the other, hand, when flexible blades are pressed: against the sides of a glass the edges ‘do not come ‘in: contact with the glass at all, even under very slight pressure. "The “harder the blade . is pressed the greater is. the “distance between the cutting edge and the glass itself. © . Neither can: a’ razor be. stropped on the palm of the hand, as so many people ‘believe,’ unless a gritty substance, such -as cardorundum, is first applied to the .palm. :

Keep Blade Lubricated

* So, if, you want’ to conserve: ~your| at

‘razor blade and get more. shaves per blade than you are now able to ‘obtain, and you.do.nét want to go to the irouble of actually stropping the blade, apply. a. thin layer of vaseline

The "parts of the blade|

sue New Orders in Hopes of Halting Those Who Flee’ Reich,

“By PAUL GHALI'

L%, 1042 The Indian Ghieten Dally News, Ine.

BERN Aug, 19.—The concern of ‘the reich’s ‘authorities at the stead-

ily: mounting. number of foreign workers. ‘and ‘war _ prisoners fleeing

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taken to prevent. their escape. - 4 According to. the Swiss press a a barrier has been erected is German-Swiss _ frontier, - ding with “this precautionary measure ‘comes the néws of a Nazi decree forbidding’ ‘the keeping ‘of firearms and other weapons in - week-end villas : and :hunting lodges and’ in all unoccupied. buildings. aa Escaping prisoners, it seems, | have been makiiig ‘use ‘of pilfered’ weapons in these Tosalities to’ prevent, recapture...

VETERINARIANS TO PEAK - Indianapolis veterinarians - will : serve on committees ‘of the Ameri-~ san Veterinary . Medical association Jits ‘national convention in Chicago. Aug. 24 to 27. They . Dr. W. 8. Gochenour, 410 BE. ‘st. and “Dr. J. ‘Li: -Azhy, Tndiana state veterinarian. !

or oil’to the cutting edge after you) ¥ re

‘have finished shaving. Better yet,

cover the cutting edge with the}

greased paper in which the azor ‘blade was wrapped originally. This

.can be done by. folding the paper|}4

over ' the blade without removing}®

the blade from the razor) = Also, remember that your razor

| remains: in the bathroom closet or 850) oe 30 30 minutes dy. During hours and 50 minutes daily. During,

| this period rust tends to form. Rust| tity. b of has a disastrous effect on. the finely inds