Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1942 — Page 9
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‘BELFAST, Aug. 26—~The .Anglo-Norman—or “British—invasion of Ireland came in 1169 A. D. The Irish really asked for it. One of their many native kings, finding himself Whipped, ed to England and begged the aid of King Henry II. ‘A force of knights and archers was sent over. ‘King Henry came himself in 1171 with - around 10,000 troops. The invasion was’ successful, but it didn’t subdue. King Henry left the next year. The minute he left ‘the Irish revolted. And the followers of Henry had left behind themselves turned to plundering. King Henry probably could have conquered Ireland if he had “stuck to the job longer, but he Er : didn’t. It took 400 years to conquer Ireland. Most of my slight knowledge of Irish history comes from a book by P. W. Joyce called “A Concise History of Ireland.” It is the most extensive tale of prolnged fighting I have ever read. From the time of Christ right up till now there has been fighting in Ireland. Joyce details all the important fights right from the beginning. Finally you become bored with the Irish slaughtering each other. Then, after the British invasion, the fighting continued, but the Irish were on both sides and you can’t tell bal the ume who was fighting whom. '
Short-Sighted Rule
IF ENGLAND HAD ever put a sufficiently song Jorce into Ireland, and had conducted a sincere government, I believe, the Irish people would have comed it, for they were poverty-ridden and rave aged by the continuous fighting among their own chiefs, and they wanted protection. But England's attitude for centuries was that the Irish were enemies, instead of subjects to be cared
for. She forbade use of the Irish language, refused them the protection of English law, saddled them , with oppressions, treated them as serfs, bled them, and slaughtered them for rising up. A point-by-point history of the 400 years following the invasion is actually uninteresting and largely confusing, so I'll skip over it. It went through, time after time, this same ecycle—rebellion by the Irish, defeat by the British, confiscation of lands, .and planting them for the benefit of British owners, either on hand or absentee in England. For the first 400 years, England considered Ireland a colony, and the King of England held the title of Lord of Ireland. But King Henry VIII, in 1541, made himself King of Ireland, and thus Ireland became part of the United Kingdom. ‘ Around 1560 the British began in earnest to force Ireland to become Protestant. She never succeeded, although there were times in the next 300 yéars when Irish Protestants were running Ireland and a Catholic was a broken, hunted man.
An “Invasion Spot” 400 Years Ago!
I'VE BEEN ESPECIALLY interested in one paragraph of this history of old Ireland. Remember, the year is about 1550. . The author says:
“Ireland was then, as it has always been, the weak
"point of the Empire in case of invasion from abroad
. +. the best plan to provide against this danger would have been to govern the people so as to attach them to the Empire and make them ready to rise in its defense. : “But the government took the other course; they governed the people by force and kept them down to prevent them giving aid to an invader . .. the consequence was that any invader, no matter from what quarter, would have been welcomed and aided.” All this does not exactly apply today, but I think it interesting to find that Ireland was considered an inyasion spot for England as far back as 400 years ago.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowel Nussbaum
J. MACK ELY, vice president of the Auto Equipment Co., is pretty mueh put out with his family. Downright ungrateful, he. says. When son, John, and daughter, Pat, were graduated from Shortridge, at different times) papa Ely dutifully sat through the graduation exercises. But when papa Ely, himself, was . graduated last week as an air warden, do you think any of the family showed up to admire his prowess? No, nary.a one. And .that’s why he swears he isn’t going to attend the graduation of youngest daughter, Katie, now a senior at Shortridge. Personally, we don’t blame him. , .. Charley
Ettinger, our county clerk, says he must have received at least a dozen' phone calls Monday from people wanting to know whether Charles Soltau, the €x-bund member, held as a draft evader was a Democrat or Republican. Charley, a Democrat, says he looked up the primary voting records of the man, “and of course he was a Republican.”
Bag and Baggage
CAPT. CLIFF BERGERE, the famous race driver and Hollywood stunt man, has been transferred from the army air corps training school at Miami to Wright field,’ Dayton, He reported there yesterday after a brief visit at the Allison plant. En route from
rida, he was thrown off the plane dt Louisville
-make room: for Somieone” ‘with higher - priority. Sorta hard on the ego... .. When Allison gets its new plant finished here, probably some time this fall, the company will have more floor space than Ford's gigantic Willow Run plant. ‘Struth. ... Lieut. _ (sg) Bon Dragstrem is home from Washington on a dew days furlough. He has been assigned to the bureau of ships since leaving his engineering job at ~ the Power & Light Co. . , . Pvi. Bob Noble, former assistant manager of- the I. A. C., is home on furlough from Florida. He's eating Hoosier fried chicken most
Washington
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—The administration still is trying to break it gently. that there’s a war on. “One illustration of this is the delay in moving to draft men of 18 and 19. The army wants it urgently, but neither in the administration nor in congress is there any disposition to raise the issue before election. As a result Gen. Hershey, head of the selective service system, turns on some heat by warning that married men, some with dependents, will have to be taken into the army .early this winter. Younger men are preferred, but unless the age limit is lowered the supply -will soon be exhausted. Another illustration is the delay in dealing with rubber and - gasoline. - Every informed official knows that we cannot go on indefinitely with the freewheeling that continues in most of the country out- ~ gide of the rationed area in the East. Deputy Petroleum Co-ordinator Davies géntly advises motorists in some 20 western states that they ould prepare to get along with a little less gasoine than formerly. : Your house is burning down—you ought to throw & quart of water on it. That is Washington's atti- - tude. Nobody's feelings must be hurt. Nobody must be annoyed about the war except the men who have to go out and be killed to win it.
‘Getting the Facts—Now!
RESTRICTION OF automobile driving everywhere was needed months ago to save rubber. No action was taken. Washington waited eighf months after Pearl Harbor to put Bernard M. Baruch and his committee to work finidng out what might be done. . ‘We had not even taken the trouble to find out what Russia had done in manufacture of synthetics. * There isn’t any argument about the necessity of saving rubber but the question has been booted so long that now, before the Baruch committee dares to make its
My Day
| WASHINGTON, Tuesday. —Even at this season in ‘Washington, one has a few visitors from out.of town, Yesterday afternoon, Senora de Samoza, wife of the
president of Nicaragua, and her daughter, and Senora -" ‘Hena-de. Bayle, wife of the Nidrasian min- , _ ister, came to pay me a call "Senora dé Samoza brought me two examples of work dane by peopie ‘in different parts of her country, ~The needlework of the women, ‘represenitéd by lace and. sabroig % ery on some handkerchiefs, really, ‘exquisite. The gold a work, done by people living near the coast, is also a work of art. She ‘me she obtained this - lovely gold filigree necklace when 5 ed ceremonies in con‘nection ‘with the road being built 1 States tin Mexico and Central
every meal—Says that’s the one thing he dogs get enough of in the army. He’s pretty tanned, has lost a little weight and maybe a little hair.
Fisherman's Luck
THERE'S A SMALL colony of Indianapolis people at Miller's park on Elk lake in northern Michigan The men count themselves pretty good fishermen. They've been quite proud of strings of perch and rock bass, occasionally black bass. until two of the women, Hazel Howe and Florence Jones, of Tech high school came in the other evening with a couple of big ones —each 19 inches long and the two weighing more than 10 pounds. Since then, Chet Camp and Jim
Peeling, of the Butler faculty, have lost their interest| . “Curious” wants to know what. a}
in fishing. . . certain Columbia club bellboy was doing one day last week heading for the club from the direction of Meridian st. carrying a half pint milk bottle full of coffee. It’s got us baffled, too. . . . Elevator operator
Lynn Surface at the Circle Tower sometimes amuses}:
passengers, downward bound, by singing out; “Fourth floor, third floor, second floor, INDIANAPOLIS.”
Get a Horse!
ONE OF OUR AGENTS in the Riverside park sector swears that a fire truck from Station 24, at
.19th and Dexter, ran out of gas at 29th and Harding}
Monday while en route to a garage fire. You can expect more of thai when we get gas rationing here. . And were told there's ag sign in front of the Meridian Street Methodist churéh reading: “Oh Lord our strength in:@ges past; our hope in’ years to come no services during August.” . American Airlines notes: The boys. thirew a baseball party at the ball park last night for Warren Pyne, agent at the airport, who has been transferred to Chicago for specialized training. . . . Al Kipfer, A. A. station manager at the airport, is giving a party for ‘all A. A. employees Saturday afternoon at the Bridgeport nutrition camp. . And Frank Bodwell, A. A. traffic manager, is among the town's leading hay fever sufferers. Heck, who isn’t these days? .
By Raymond Clapper
recommendation, it must prepare a series of fact-sus-tained arguments to answer all of the confusing doubts that have arised during the long delay. Meantime the shortage of fuel oil in the East is forcing such a heavy diversion. of tank cars tq the East that some middle-western states will be unable to obtain as much gasoline as formerly. That is the reason for the polite warning now that they may have to drive a little less than formerly, Much sterner restriction than that is called for by the rubber shortage, but it is the old case of not worrying about tomorrow if there are four tires on the car today.
Yes, the Public Is Bendy. J
RUSSIA IS REELING under relentless Nazi blows. Canadians and other allied troops reeled under the tough Nazi resistance at Dieppe. Washington knows that the signs point to a long war, perhaps continuing for years. But Washington isn’t acting with a firm hand. Indecision here is felt by the public, and every-
body clings to the comfortable hope that it won't!
be as bad as it looks. Yet in places where initiative has been taken, excellent results have been obtained. In Nebraska, the Omaha World-Herald conducted its own campaign for scrap metal and rubber. Collections through that newspaper's columns amounted to 95 pounds per capita for the whole state. The editor says that by the end of the second week of the drive the state had all the appearances of a Billy Sunday revival. It provided men, women and children with the first real opportunity to exert themselves in a united undertaking in’ which they felt they were contributing ‘something to the war, Rivalry between two western counties ‘become so ‘heated that each accused the other of picking up Scrap across the county line. ; Says the editor: “It illustrated what people will do if they know definitely what is wanted. It also supplied that missing something which in the last war - was provided by bands, parades and farewell banquets. »
By Shear Reeve:
ferent people—what a fascinating trip following that road will be! Last night we had a few. guests at dinner and afterwards the president firmly told us that he had to go to work, ‘but someone had provided what they prophesied would be an exciting film ealled: “The Big Shot,” so he agreed to stay with us, for a little while, It was not as much of a mystery story as he had hoped, and when it was over he sighed and: said: “Well, now I shall have to work a little later than I intended to do,” and went off into his study. As a matter of fact, the film is really intended to show the difficulties which confront a man with a prison record. Once a man has a mark against him, very few people will give him a chance. The “big shot” in the film, himself recognizes he would not be so keen to employ a criminal if he were doing the employing. - He redeenis himself in the end by being unwilling to let an innocent boy suffer in his place.
: To me, the most important polo} Bip wut was
the fact that in all this underworl usually
By Ernie Pyle 1
Likes to Cut Corners, Use.
Simple Plans
(This. is the second of a series tof articles on Henry J. Kaiser, whose - proposal to mass-produce giant cargo airplanes is still yery much alive.)
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—A few days ago an emergency developed at the new steel plant at Fontana, Cal, which Henry J.
cle man, is building to sup‘ply steel for shipbuilding and other enterprises along “the coast, his own and others. Fontant needed a couple of boilers and couldn't get them, what with priorities and all. A call was put in to Washing-
. ton, to Chad Calhoun, one of Mr.
Kaiser's representatives here. He went to WPB with his problem. He was insistent. He started a search. Finally they: located a couple of second-hand boilers at Commonwealth Edison in Chicago. Mr. Calhoun immediately put two men on a plane to Chicago to get the boilers and have them shipped to Fontana. ; This sort of
thing happens
eration of the far-flung Kaiser enterprises. It is symbolic of the resourcefulness - of ‘the
; " builder and of Mr. Stokes the spirit he has instilled in his associates and staff—to cut corners, never - to take “no” as an answer, to go
t directly to the problem in hand,
to seek constantly for simpler, . easier, and cheaper ways to do big things. Incidentally, Mr. Calhoun, who knows a great deal about what goes on in WPB and the other defense agencies, says the discovery of these boilers is ploat * of what can be done; "that { are great quantities of all dope. of useful things for the war program hidden away here and there, second-hand tools . and machines not being utilized, stuff on which orders were canceled. WPB’s lack of adequate information on this floating stock is one of its glaring failures.
KAISER ANNOYS AIRCRAFT MEN
Southern California Plant Chiefs Say They Can
Build Cargo Planes.
By RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26.—The aircraft industry—or at least that portion of it which is in southern
the cargo planes the United States will need, and thinks it can build them faster than Henry J. Kaiser if the government will make the materials available. . Individually and collectively, members of the industry are annoyed by the wave of enthusiasm over Mr, Kaiser's proposals which is sweeping the country. They ‘deny that they fear him as a competitor; they promise to welcome him to airplane production if he has something to. contribute. But these statements are made with a marked lack of enthusiasm.
Builders Defend Work Talks with officials of most of the large southern California companies within the last few days produced these typical statements: Harry Woodhead, president of the Consolidated Aircraft Corp.: “Ameri~ ca’s aircraft industry, on the principle of first things first, is speeding production of proven airplanes for combat and for cargo. We are building today’s’ airplanes* to carry today’s freight and fight today’s war, while our engineers press development of tomorrow's airplanes. | We know, as do the army and navy, that today’s freight cannot be carried with the promised airplanes of tomorrow.” ‘A. M. Rochlen, head of the industrial and public relations division of Douglas: not be entirely presented by Kaiser.
‘We're building cargo. planes while|
he is talking about it.” ‘Robert: Gross, president of Lockheed: “I believe existing producers
need. We are not concerned about Kaiser as a competitor. I believe he can contribute something.” These men all point out that three companies are now producing cargo planes and a fourth will be in pro-
- Kaiser, Pacific coast mira-
daily in the op-
60 - year - old
- innovations,
California—thinks ‘it can build alll
can build all the cargo planes wel
From the works of Henry v.
Kaiser: the Shasta Dam in Cali
fornia, so. big that the human figures in this picture are virtually
indistinguishable.
This large floating stock 1s one
of the elements cited by Mr. Kaiser when he insists he can’ find the necessary materials to build “a fleet of huge cargo-’ carrying planes. : ” ” »
He Leads, Others Follow
HE PROPOSES to build these planes ‘at existing shipyards.
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barrows with rubber tires and ball -bearings. Other contractors thought he had suddenly gone whacky, fixing up wheelbarrows that way. But his men were doing twice as much work. It paid. So ' the . others copied: Henry Kaiser, as they have been doing since.)
After ‘a careful survey by his
engineering staff, he says his own shipyards -are 70 per cent equipped now for a changeover to production of the air freighters so sorely needed to cope with the submarine menace. He is the living apostle of the impossible. Among other enterprises, Mr. Kaiser now owns the biggest. cement plant in the world, He started big, by underbidding the cement. trust, getting the contract to supply 6,000,000 barrels ‘of cement for Shasta dam in California, and buliding his plant in six months. Then he proceeded to expand his business by doing ‘things in a different way. For example, he wondered why you couldn’t pump cement directly ‘onto boats for shipping, ; -instead of loading ‘it in sacks, | Then he proceeded to do it. 3 “It-takes six days to load a boat with. sacks,” ‘he said. “A boat cal -hours.” Just another ‘Kaiser tariovation, (One of the earliest of those back in his days: long ago as a sand and gravel
‘be loaded by pumping in 24
: San RE k HE BEGAN to grab off for‘eign business in cement with his new method of loading. He supplied cement for defenses at Pearl Harbor, Guam and Wake before the United States entered the war. Luckily he had the equivalent of 320,000 sacks stored in Hawail when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor. Repairs were quickly made. Without that cement the wreckage would have remained for a long time. He devised a new wrinkle when he was building the piers for the San Prancisco-Oakland bridge, incidentally one of his most difficult jobs because of the heavy tides. : : He had special barges made in
which - the concrete was towed ; alongside the caisson. There were conveyor belts beneath the‘ bins:
~The current was switched on, and the concrete mix was dumped, in a steady stream, right into the forms. Baulder . dam . was the first really mammoth job in which Mr. Kaiser participated, his initial proiem Shere being to ‘organize
contractor, was to equip wheel-
Also from the works of Mr. Kaiser: the San Francisco-Oakland - bridge, held up by cables locked in concrete piers of Rajser worke
manship.
the so-called ~~ Six Companies which built that monster pile of concrete which dams. the Colorado. Nobody before had ever gat that many contractors together on a ‘single job, and he ‘was told it would be impossible. Many engineering problems were raised. » » »
The wil to Work
MR: KAISER recalls vividly one scene “during that dramatic fight with nature. He stood in
\ the gorge one day with a friend from New York. They looked up -
at men hanging down by ropes chipping away at the walls. “We "had to cut four feet off those walls, a million cubic feet of rock. “My friend didn’t say anything for a few minutes. Then he turned to me and quoted a line —from scripture, I think. The. way I remember it was, ‘For the peaple had a will to work.’ ” There was a light in his brown eyes as. he told this incident, holding his arm up in a gesture as he described the tiny human atoms grappling with the mighty forces of nature. Occasionally ‘Mr. Kaiser catches his breath and -holds it, indecisively, at the boldness and daring of his own ideas, or those of some of his associates who have learned to match his own imagination. Occasionally ‘he has to be given a push by his “boys,” as he “calls. the youngsters who work devotedly for him, includ-
ing his sons Edgar and Henry In 2 8 J ‘I’m Not Chicken’ ONE OF THE Kaiser legends is that 10-mile conveyor belt right up over a mountain to deliver sand and gravel to the concrete plant at Shasta dam. 3 It was a mile and s half from : the quarry to the Southern Pacific Railroad, which ran to the dam site. He tried to get the railroad ‘to build a spur for that mile and a half. They wouldn't © do it, and suggested ‘a conveyor ‘belt for that. distance. For the
rest of the distance, the road quoted a rate of 27 cents a ton to move the sand and gravel. “Then one of my: boys said: to me, ‘Why don’t you just build & conveyor belt the whole distance across the mountain?’ I didn't want to do that. Then he said, ‘Are you chicken?’ ' Well, I
"didn’t like that. So I said, ‘We'll
build it. I'm not chicken.’” * He dispatched men ‘to: the Goodyear Rubber -Co., at Akron to; “see if they could’ “construct ‘a: belt of that size. Goodyear came through. The conveyor - ‘belt and: .its installation “cost = $1,500,000. But it was worth it. - Over it the material was delivered at 18 cents a ton, compared with. the 27 cents asked by the railroad. i
NEXT: Henry ney. Kaisér. started life as a photographers Assistant, 4
Kentucky Sergeant Is Great White Hero To the San Blas Indian Tribe of Panama
By NAT A. BARROWS
Copyrighy; 1942, by The Indianapolis Times d The Chicago- Daily News, Inc.
A CANAL ZONE FRONT, Aug. 19. (By Clipper).—The one white man who can stay ‘overnight at the main village of the San Blas
Indians of Panama is. a United States army sergeant from Louisville, Ky., Harry H. Steele Jr, only outsider ever taken into the mysterious inner circles of the tribe and given powers of leadership. It reads like a piece of tropical fiction in the best tradition of Lee Christmas and Guy Molony, but Sergt, Steele is actually the assistant chief of .the San Blas islands, off the Caribbean coast toward Colombia. . He sits in on the tribal chicha' parties, or legislative' congresses, and “he sol-
emnly gives advice on foreign pol- y
icy to Chief Nele Kantule, leader of all the San Blas tribes. Not only that, he is president of the community sales societies
in ‘which groups of 20 or 30 In-
dians conduct stores, using cocoanuts as: exchange. - The 28-year-old sergeant was formally inducted into the tribe early: this year after six months
~ of isolated duty in the San Blas >» country. He already had learned
to speak the unwritten San Blas dialect’ and in every way had demonstrated. the army’s faith in placing him on such a ‘delicate mission. “One day, when I was at the island of the white sand,” Sergt. Steele related, “a runner: summoned me to Chief Kentule at the headhouse on another island. When I got there, a congress was in session, and it was ‘for me. They mgde me assistant chief and had a big ceremony with dancing and a water” bath christening.’ “They gave me the title of
Nele, which means doctor in San -
Blas, something like a Ph. D.,'1 guess. “I sit in on ‘the congress meetings and when they have a problem concerning the outside world
they ask me about if. Once Chief Kantule asked me what .to do if the Japs should come to the is-
lands, and I said I'd lead them. :
: But the story got garbled when it reached the: government at Pansama -City,-and the story spread that I was planning to:lead the San Blas tribes in a revolution, We all had a good laugh when it finally got straightened out. “And with my duties as assistant ‘chief goes the right to stay overnight at the main village. . The ‘San - Blas,’ you- know, have never permitted white men to do that. They remember those Spanish conquistadores all ‘too well.” Sergt. Steele’s prestige with the San Blas Indians did not suffer when he made the transcontinent- . al crossing’ of the’ terrible Darien jungle in:a U. S. army expedition led by . Lieut. Ray Riseden, searching for lost: aviators. He had only proved again, they said, with: pride, that he was worthy of being. thelr assistant chief. :
DETROIT A. F. OF L. T0 FOREGO PARADE
DETROIT, Aug. 26 (U. P).— American Federation of ' Labor members in Detroit are going to forego their ‘annual Labor day
HOLD. EVERYTHING
pazade: in the interests of increased i:
war production and helping -over-{ 4
worked farmers.
Frank X. Martel, president of the Detroit and Wayne county federa-
tion of labor, said A. F. of L.
members, - instead of ‘parading,
would either work in factories ‘or
offer their services wo She farmers) : “The cargo picture has} 2 :
BUILDING IN ory
SLASHED BY HALF
Building ‘activities in Indianapolis this year have been cut nearly in half, a report of George Popp, city
building commissioner, revealed to-|,
day.
600,000, compared to $11,100,000. during the same period a year ago. Mr. Popp. told the “safety: board
A | that weekly records show increas| finely. Jover. spplications 1 for build-
ast week they. totaled only $101, 000, compared to $227,000 for the same ‘week a year ago. The slump! was attributed to priority restricoe i Yniaing exept. toe wat
$ industry needs.
REBEKAHS PLAN PARTY A garden card. party for Odd Fel-
The value of buildings. erected 4 [from Jan. 1 to Aug.'22 totaled $6,-|4
MARINES CALL THEM RAIDERS
Trained Like Commandos
But Corps Doesn't _ Like ‘That Name.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 @. PJ. —The marine corps today: disclosed formation of special “raider bate talions” and said one of these bate talions carried out the Aug. 17 ate tack on Makin island. “Such a unit also may have spearheaded the Solomon islands offensive. = ° . Organization of the raiders, their equipment and methods of traine ing “have been closely guardéd secrets. They operate much: like the British commandos, though marine corps does not like Wat 0 name. Maj. Janies ‘Roosevelt, son of he president and second in command inthe raid on the Makin islands,
{is a member: of ‘one of these com='
a and self-sufficient striking.
Sis Speed, Striking Power i The battalions, the marine corps ' '|said, added - swiftness and striking .|power to amphibious warfare coma parable to parachute. troop operas tions “land - battles. They are heavily armed for ‘close-range com~
sels. hich. ‘have the speed. i maneuverability of a destroyer. *
lows, Rebekahs and their friends| Me! will be held.tomorrow night at the |PCKEQ home. of Mis: Hane Ward, 602 N.jaoupi