Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1942 — Page 9

= Hoosier Vagabond

SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN IRELAND, Aug. 22.1 have written a lot about what the American troops in Northern Ireland do during their time off but very little about what they do all day long when

they're hard at work. So I'll try to give you an idea

of the daily routine. of one infantry outfit I've been visiting. They're up. at 5:45, and they stand reveille at 6 o'clock. Their mess hall was built for 2006 men but is feeding 800, so they have to eat in two crowded sittings. This throws the second group sc late

that they have to eat fast in order-

to get through in time to join in the day’s work. Two days each week. this outfit starts at 7 in the morning on a 20-mile march. Usually it sticks to the road, instead of cutting across fields, ‘as they don’t want to ruin any Irish crops. It takes about seven hours for the 20-mile march, resting’ 10 minutes every hour. At noon a truck loaded with sandwiches and coffee finds the men and feeds them. On days when they're not marching they .have 30 to 90 minutes of close-order drill, a military lecture, a run through an obstacle course and some field maneuvers, these last frequently at night.

Yes, They're in Good Shape

- ANYHOW, THE BOYS are not’ grumbling at the hard training they have to go through. If they were allowed to draw up their own training schedule, I believe they'd make it about twice as hard for themselves. 2 : For these boys kriow that, sooner or later, they're 4 going into battle. They know that the most rigidly

By Ernie | Pyle

trained troops will “have She best chance of coming

. through alive.

. They want to. live to see America once more, and consequently they want tougher training. They want something that will make them physically fit as iron and keep them that way. ese 20-miles-a-

. day marches, they say, are duck soup.

There’ is no question that our soldiers are in tremendously better physical trim than they were before they entered the army.: Most of them have gained weight, but have now worked it down to a firm. hardness.

Somebody Ought to Start It

A FRIEND IN America writes to ask what songs the American troops are singing over here, and whether “Johnny Doughboy” is not among the most

popular. As far as I can tell, the most popular four songs

‘are, in this order, “Deep .in the Heart of Texas,”

“Chattanooga Choochoo,” *‘Boogie-woogie,” and “Bless Em All,” with “Deep in the Heart of Texas” far in the lead. When the boys disembark from transports they march off to the tune of “Jersey Bounce.” “Bless 'Em All” is a British song, about a year old, which so far as I know isn’t being sung in America. That’s a shame, too, for it’s a dandy. It’s about a

. troopship just leaving Bombay, bringing weary troops

home to Blighty. The words have a Kipling lil. One of the swing lines is, “You'll get no promotion this side of the ocean,” and American soldiers—and officers, too—laugh and poi at themselves when they sing that line. - I don’t know why it is that some of the better English songs don’t seem to reach our side of the Atlantic. Maybe it’s because of copyright complications, or something, but I'm going to send home a copy of “Bless 'Em All” and see whether somebody won't start it.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

* PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Albert George Feeney, oyr bachelor sheriff, welfare board member, all-

Cd American center at Notre Dame in 1913, one of the

greatest basketball backguards of all time, former furniture dealer, world war I veteran, enthusiastic fishe n, and one of the town’s most colorful men. Al Feeney might have been one

of the most powerful figures in.

Indiana, or even in Washington, by now, if he hadn’t been so thin skinned, so fiery-tempered, so uncompromising in any stand he takes and so frank in speaking his mind. He had.his chance back in 1933 when the Paul V. McNutt star was in its ascendancy. Al was one of Paul's right hand men. His titles included state safety director, state police chief, fire marshal, one-man boxing commissioner, and a lot of others. But he wouldn’t stand for politics in the police force—wouldn't compromise—and McNutt ousted him. ‘ ¢ At the half century mark, Al still has a marvelous physique—keeps in the pink of condition. A sixfooter, he weighs 210 pounds—all bone and muscle when he's watching his diet. He has a thick, unruly thatch of white hair that reminds you of Judge Landis; a small gray mustache, so unobtrusive you scarcely notice 'it; a pinkish complexion, resonant voice, chuckly laugh and a ready smile.

Oh How He Worries

HE'S A PERPETUAL worrier—especially over details. Moody, he’s often down in-the dumps. And his friends ‘say he’s the .most unpredictable man in town. ‘They don’t know what he’s going to do next, probably because he doesn’t know, either. He takes a long time to make up his mind; then you can't swerve him. An example is the recent Democratic mayoralty race. He kept the politicians in a stew for a long time over whether or not he’d run. He wasn't sure, himself, until the last minute. Al was born near Military park, attended Manual, played pro football during his high school days, was

Washington

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—Some will maliciously distort the meaning of James A. Farley’s clear-cut victory ‘over President Roosevelt in the showdown as to which should name the Democratic candidate for New York. Axis propagandists undoubtedly will try to use this incident abroad to suggest that America’s war president has been repudiated by his own party in his own state, the largest in the union. They will try to show that a large Irish influence was against the president. They will ignore the Kennedys, the Sullivans, the Ahearns, the McCarthys and all the other Irish delegates in. Tammany who stood by Mr. Roosevelt. They will ignore the Jewish delegates in Queens who stood with Mr. Farley against Mr. Roosevelt. The axis propagandists will ignore the fact that this was a “family political fight in good oldfashioned American style—I mean the style that isn’t permitted any more in Germany. Hitler would never ‘understand this. It is too American for him to appre- - ciate.

Hitler Wouldn't Understand!

OF COURSE MR. FARLEY will take pains to see that the meaning of the fight is cleared up quickly. He will have his candidate out riding the president's coattails’ from now until election day. A vote for Democratic candidate Bennett will be a vote for President Roosevelt, a vote ‘to uphold the hand of the president. That will be the campaign theme. Before the ballot was taken in the Democratic state convention, Mr. Farley, chatting with friends, said this was all a good, thing for democracy, Later,

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday—Some of our guests at Hyde Park spent a good part of the afternoon yesterday in the president’s library, while I went through { boxes, trunks and cedar chests at the big house. I : found some old paisley shawls which, I am sure, have % . been stored away for several generations, One quilted petticoat must. have been worn in my

a great-grandmother’s generation.

It seemed impossible that any-

one could ‘have worn anything so

young. wom Ae ai will say “tnank heaven” I do not have

a team mate of Knute Rockne at Notre Dame. After graduation, he played pro basketball with the Canton and Em-Roe teams, helped Rockne as a line coach; served in world war I as a first lieutenant, coached several highly successful Cathedral high school teams and ran his-father’s furniture business. Then he got into politics.

Always a Teetotaler

HIS GREATEST HOBBY is fishing. He'll fish anytime, any place, but his favorite spots are in the White river or a gravel pit. He seldom goes any farther afield to fish than Lake Shafer or Tippecanoe. The back seat of his car usually Is loaded down with tackle. He lives with his mother, to whom he is devoted. He’s a teetotaler<never did drink or smoke. He has no time for dirty stories. If one is told in his presence, he’ll blush (actually) and smile apologetically. Then he’s likely to remark: “Sort of off color, wasn’t it!” For relaxation he goes to the movies several times

- a week, prefers comedies; reads a lot in the evenings,

particularly detective, western and sports magazines. He likes baseball games, seldom misses a hockey match.

The Boys Called: Him Tubby

HE HAS A REAL interest in young people, and for the last six years or so he, a bachelor, has been making speeches all over the state on the problems of juvenile délinquency and how to meet them. Right now he’s discussing a curfew rule for kids. He doesn’t like salads, but he frequently eats them at lunch to cut down his weight. Then he gorges for dinner and spoils it all. He's always been pretty husky. In fact, as a boy his nickname was Tubby. Along about that time, too, he took piano lessons, much against his will. He can still pound out an old-timer or two—with one finger. Al doesn’t: like to wear vests. In the winter he prefers a slipover sweater. He hates to wear a hat, sometimes takes one with him but just carries it in his hand. And he wears a wool undershirt even in the summer. Says it keeps him cool. Ask him. He'll even show it to you!

By Raymond Clapper

when he appeared as the victor before the corivention, he said the action of the convention was evidence that we are living in a democracy that is worth fighting for. Hitler' wouldn't understand that. Here were more than one thousand delegates. More than half of them long ago had promised Mr. Farley to vote for his candidate for governor. Then Mr. Roosevelt decided he would like some one else nominated and he tried to persuade the delegates to change their minds. They refused to break their promises to Mr. Farley. The natibnal administration insisted upon a roil-call which put every delegate on the spot. Mr. Roosevelt has much to offer them. Mr. Farley has little to offer. But their faithfulness to a promise caused them to vote for Mr. Benentt,

A Lesson for the President

BEYOND THE SPECIFIC pledges which Mr. Farley had in his favor was the usual resentment against White House interference in state elections. It was resented during the senatorial purge in 1938, it was

- resented when Woodrow Wilson tried it in his time,

and it has been resented here this week as it always is resented. Presidents probably never will learn that the average man, in his great respect for the office, his acceptance of ‘he large power of the office, his support of the chief executive in foreign policy, is at the same time most jealous of his own right to name and elect state and local candidates of his own choosing. Because he gives up so much to the presidential office, he is all the more tenacious of his own little area of sovereignty as a free American. That is how the voters could ignore Mr. Roosevelt'’s wishes in the purge campaign in 1938 and stiil

v

‘re-elect him two years later with enormous majori-

tes.

By Eleanor Rodseceh

In a letter to the director of NYA in Kansas, they tell their own story: “Dear Miss Laughlin: We are the radio girls writing back to let you : know how we are liking our jobs and how we are getting along. We five girls are living together and getting along just fine. Our apartment is on the third floor and we have a big living room, a small kitchen’ and : dinette, bedroom, bathrm and two closets. We are very comfortably settled and like it swell... We take turns doing the cooking, two for wa weeks, and two for: the“neXt two weeks. -

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NAZIS" VICTIMS PLEDGED RIGHT T0 TRY HITLER

* Harder to Escape Than - Kaiser Did in 1918.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS . Scripps-Howard Foreizn Editor > WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. —While| the allies failed to. “hang - the kaiser” after the last war, as they had threatened, Adolf Hitler and his axis partners may not be so lucky. Not only do Hitler, Mussolini and the heads of the Japanese government face the ibility of execution after this war, but the doom of those guilty of shooting hostages in France, Belgium, Holland, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia,

now seems fairly certain. At least President Roosevelt has issued an official warning to that effect. “Hang the kaiser” was a favorite slogan in 1918. David Lloyd George won a postwar election in England ‘largely on .a platform of making those who started the war pay for their crime. But it did not work out that way. First of all, Kaiser Wilhelm II made his escape to Holland. And though Germany was forced to admit her war guilt and agree to the trial of her emperor and other culprits by an international high|court, the allies did not. see it. through.. . Courts Lacked Jurisdiction

In January, 1920, Great Britain, France and Italy asked the Netherlands government to surrender the kaiser for trial. ‘The charges were “moral” offenses such as the violation of Belgian neutrality, the use of poison gas and unrestricted submarine warfare. The Dutch refused to comply. No “existing in< ternational court” had jurisdiction, they said, nor was Holland willing to “betray the faith of those who have confided themselves to her free institutions.” Today, by one of those ironical twists of history, it is Holland that is taking the lead in asking that something be done to curb the Germar. terrorists. Queen Wilhel-] mina and her government, who lived up to the highest conception of international justice in 1920, are now in exile while at home Nazi invaders are cold-bloodedly executing innocent Dutch hostages. Neutral Nations Are Fewer

After this war is over it will probably be more difficult for the guilty to escape punishment than it was after the last. ‘As the president indicated at his. press conference yesterday, the united nations will not seek to hale the accused before any such “high court of international justice,” but will simply try them before the established courts of the lands where the crimes took place. The procedure, he intimated, might be similar to that which recently sent six Nazi spies to the electric chair here. © Moreover, this time the culprits will not find sanctuary in a_neutral country so easy. The kaiser merely had to journey a few miles before crossing over into Holland. Today, neutral countries are few nd far between. The Japanese would have to travel 5000 or 6000 miles or more to reach. doubtfully neutral territory. Hitle. and his entourage, however, might - flee to Sweden or Switzerland—providing these two stay in the neutral column. Spain or Por--tugal, though neutral as of today, would not be so convenient because France intervenes. And, later on, it might not be safe to cross France, even by plane. In the western hemisphere there ore only Argentina and Chile, and Chile may soon drop out. And that, with Turkey, about exhausts the list.

The Charge Is Murder

ut escape to a neutral land ould not necessarily spell safety. The charges brought against - axis offenders, unlike those for which the Kaiser was wanted, will probably not be labeled “moral.” More likely they will be for murder and extradition will ‘be demanded on that basis. If that happened, extradition would be difficult to refuse. In the case of the kaiser, Holland was on pretty high ground. It was true that “no existing .international

ly, the charges against him were

political, rather than criminal. And| ||

democracies are traditionally op-

refugees. But when this war is over," Dutch courts—for example—will obviously have jurisdiction over murders com-

crimes. Moreover it is doubtful that

neutral countries would want to refuse to could.

LEBANON GRANTED ~ UTILITY RESTRAINER

LEBANON, Ind., Aug. 22 (U. P). —A temporary restraining. order { Public. Service Co. of Indiana from interfering with] the city of Lebanon in distributing | ‘electric power were issued - yesterday by Judge Ernest R. Stewart. Judge Stewart's order restrains

¢| Ais. Leaders to Find: It| |

Poland and .other occupied areas|-

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the were Miss Martha Halliday, auditor of the city sanitation department; Miss Frances Kearby of the

court” had jurisdiction and, second- |:

posed to handing over political I

any of the few—if any—remaining| = oB-operate even if they

: Sen. George Reverses H

Stand; ‘Harvest’ of Dollars Asked.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (U. ». —The $6,200,0.00,000 house-app! : war revenue \pill today | appeared

{come not used for

Chairman Walter 1X. Ga.) of the senate Snance ‘tee, which ‘begins shapi lation on Monday, jolf conference’ yesterday

| statement that he is |

“Part of Indianapolis’ contribution to the fat and grease salvage campaign—a tank car holding 60,000 pounds of waste fats reclaimed from city garbage pails—was reported yesterday to Mrs. Ruth S. Everson (left), Washington, assistant to the director of women’s activities in the conservation division of the war

production board.

With her on her tour of inspection were (left to right) Miss Martha Halliday, auditor of the city sanitation department; Mrs. Rudolph Grosskopf, co-chairman of the mayor's committee on salvage of fats; Mrs. George Jaqua, chairman of the woman’s division of the state defense council and head of the _ Women’s vision of [fue state salvage council, and Mrs. C. R. Gutermuth, county salvage chairman.

50,000 POUNDS

READY FOR WPB|

National Officials ‘Well Pleased’ With Salvage

Drive Here.

Washington “checked up” yesterday on the progress Indianapolis women are making in the salvage program and was “very much pleased.” Mrs. Ruth S. Everson, Washington, assistant to the director of women’s activities in the conservation division of the war production board, stopped. here during a tour of the country and expressed approval of the results she found. She and Mrs. Mary Brewster White, to whom she is assistant, have been inspecting women’s work] in the salvage campaigns in various communities. Visit Reduction Plant Following a conference yesterday morning in the office of Dudley

Smith, state salvage director, a trip

was made to the city reduction plant where a tank car containing 60,000 pounds of reclaimed waste fats from the city’s garbage pails was . awaiting shipment. “We are particularly interested,” Mrs. Everson said, “in intensifying women’s part in the salvage picture, particularly tin can and fat collections in which women will have to do the entire job, since it is from the kitchens that this salvage material comes.” She pointed out that the 60,000-

pound shipment would make enough glycerine to fire 240,000 37-mm. anti-aircraft shells.

Local Leaders Attend At the conference yesterday with Washington representatives

office of civilian defense; Mrs.

Lowell Fisher, county chairman for tin can salvage; Mrs. C. R. Gutermuth, county : salvage chairman; Mrs. Rudolph Grosskopf, co-chair-

man of the mayor’s committee on fat and grease salvage, and Mrs. George Jaqua, Winchester, chairman of the women’s division of the state defense council and head of the women’s division of the state salvage council.

Private fo Get $180 Per Month

Percy Dewey Potter, 42-year-old Negro, had the distinction today of being probably the highest paid private in the United States army. Potter as the father of 12 children will receive pay and dependency allotment totaling $180 a month. His last job was as a WPA laborer at $52.80 a month. He enlisted in the first world war when he was 18.

DRAFT AGE CUT LACKS BACKING

New Hershey Plea Falls On Deaf . Ears. in Congress Now.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (U. P). —Congressional action on a plea by

Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey for legislation to draft youths of 18 ang 19 apparently will be delayed until late fall. £anbers of the senate military affairs committee evidenced a watch-and-wait attitude today toward Gen. Hershey's latest request. - Senator Elbert D. Thomas (D. Utah), high ranking committee member, cautioned that “you can't deplete your reserves,” and warned that unnecessary haste in drafting younger men might leave the army with an insufficient manpower pool in a year or two.

» All Single Men by Jan. 1

Gen. Hershey yesterday reiterated his frequently repeated statement that the United States has never fought a war without calling on boys of 18 and 19. He recommended amendment of the draft law which provides for registrdtion of the 18 and 19-year-olds, but exempts them from military service. To emphasize seriousness of the developing manpower shortage, he advised all single men of draft age without serious physical defects to wind up their personal affairs and prepare for induction before Christmas. Married men with dependent wives, he said, will be inducted in

large numbers by November.

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NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (U. P)— |

PATRIOTS FIRED BY DIEPPE RAID!

New Outbreaks Reported In Holland and

Norway.

LONDON, Aug. 22 (U. P)—A new surge of patriot activities in German-occupied western Europe was reported today as the result of the allied raid on Dieppe, and Vichy France took stern new repressive measures to discourage patriots from aiding the allies in their next. attack: A big explosion occurred yesterday in Henrik Ibsen st. in Oslo, Norway, near a Quisling police station, British sources reported. Twenty arnied Belgian patriots overpowered guards at a mine near Marcinelle, seized 25 cases of dynamite and 3109 detonaters and threw them: t6 the bottom of the shaft where they exploded. All escaped. Two Belgian patriots were killed by the Nais: for “endangering German occupation forces.” Dutch’ Boys Plague Nazis In Holland, Netherlands authorities reported, Boy Scout “Cubs”

organized by a secret woman leader,

started a campaign of derision against German: occupational troons. In groups of’ thzee and four, the Netherlands news agency reported, they run into the streets before parading German troops and imitate the Nazi goose step until street crowds burst ino laughter and the troops lose step. \ The boys also are stealing swastika flags from Nazi automobiles and bicycles. \

Vichy Adds a Death Penaly

The Vichy government yesterday prescribed the death sentence \for all persons who use radio transmitters “for anti-national purposes,” and life imprisonment’ for all who secrete such transmitters. Its new repression was taken in fear that patriots. will broadcast information. from secret stations to the allies. -A time limit is to be set by which all transmitters must be surrendered.

British Thank Dieppe Public:

British stations last night broadcast a message to the French people conveying the thanks of the imperial general staff for their cooperation in the Dieppe attack. “At 6:15 Wednesday morning we asked the population of the Dieppe area to avoid all action which might endanger their own security,” the

‘| messag> said.

“Today after the Dieppe affair we are eager to congratulate the French people on. the scrupulous way in ‘which our advice was followed.’ “By the side of the heavy losses of fighting troops on both sides| there have been unfortunately a number of casualties among: the French people. We desire to pay homage to these Frenchmen who lost their lives as well as to our own men.

heavier’ taxes on income are necese sary “if we are serious about pays i for the war and checking inflation.” Emphasizing that the time to “harvest” dollars is here, he called for a system of savings to be super= imposed on present taxes and those contained in the house bill which would dig more deeply into the pockets of individual taxpayers.

' May Take Half of Income

He did not estimate the amo his proposal would raise, but he said that i§ would fall soméwhere between the additional $4,000,000,000

| the house bill would yield from ine

come taxes and the $12,000,000,000 the “most conservative” administrae tion economists believe to be neces sary. Additional income levies of $12,000,000,000 would boost "annual collections to - $16,500,000,000—o0r more than half the total earnings actually subject to taxation. Senator George's statement was almost a complete reversal of views he expressed only a few days eare

house bill was as steep as it was possible to go. “Credit” in Bonds His suggested program was con. ‘sidered a modified

savings” plan, an innovation in American tax

most serious objection to compul sory savings—that it would ‘work

current payments on homes, autos mobiles, life insurance or other ¢ tractual debts.

have such ‘obligations would . hold : their “credit” as a non-negotiable bond, redeemable at a future date.

Relief For Corporations?

Senator George also saw the need for tax relief for corporations, dee claring the 90 per cent excess profits and 45 per cent normal taxes proposed in the house bill were “too high” without some form of Poste war refund. Income tax collections now total about $4,600,000,000. The house bill

between the two. Senator George thought the come mittee may approve some adaptation of the “pay-as-you-go” proposal of Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the New York federal reserve bank, which would start current, rathep than year-behind, collection of indie vidual income taxes next year. :

DEATH ‘CAR DRIVER SURRENDERS PERMIT;

with killed three and Ee a ; and Washington sts., has voluntarily surrendered his driver's license the request of Judge Mahlon Le of the state driver’s license enfo; ment division. . Lee was\ released Thursday $20,000 bond, in Criminal court v he 1s under indictment on chs of mansiaug and reckless [JOLT cide in connechion with the accident: ¢ and perjury in’ connection with application. for drivers license,

AUXILIARY TO MEET

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follow. Mrs. Ora Love is\ pr sid HOLD EVERYTHING

" 13 OHIOANS INJURED _IN AUTO CRASH HERE

Three Ravenna, O, persons were | injured, two seriously, early. today, ‘|when an automobile crashed into ‘|the side of the one in which they

were riding at Noble and E. Wash-

“compulsory /