Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1942 — Page 9

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. DUBLIN, ‘Sept. 1.—There is an old saying in Ireohgmaten Sv Jonathan Swift back around 1720: g British, except their coal.” You still ‘it chalked on walls and sidewalks occasionally.

t Tight now the Irish would be mighty glad to

have some British coal to burn. . There is a grave shortage of fuel

in Ireland. It. is due to two : thing — Wales isn't producing

enough coal now to spare much for Ireland, and so many Irish workers have gone to take jobs in Britain that there aren't enough peat-cutters left in the country. . Peat, as you may know, is simply decayed vegetable matter — grass and weeds and shrubs — that has lain in bogs for many centuries. If it lay long enough it juld eventually become coal. The Irish have burned beat for centuries, but there is still a large supply eft. They say that at the highest rate of consumpdon there is enough for another 120 years. In the country, peat is burned almost exclusively. And sevof Ireland's newer industrial plants use peat.

ts Pretty Thin Going

IN: IRELAND you never hear or see the word at.” Over here they call it turf. Ireland is also great horse-racing country, you know, and the raceis also known as “the turf.” There are numerstate betting houses in Ireland, with “Turf Comsioner” painted on the window. It sometimes juseés confusion. They tell of one old lady who went into. a betting place and tried to buy a ton of “turf.”

The turt is cut in the’ spring and stacked up along-

nside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

CA : NIESSE, owner of the Vogue theater, es these days when his friends call him “cricket.” y long story. It seems the Niesse’s were at their je ‘last week-end and along toward midnight, the chirping of a cricket annoyed Carl. The next day he started searching for it. Along about 4 p. m. he traced it under the bathtub. Digging under there, he found the cricket on top of a tin can. Looking inside 'it, he discovered an old wallet containing $319 in yellowed bills. Carl thought it must have belonged to the former owner of the cottage, now deceased. That night, he threw a party for some of his friends, spending $15 or $20, and gave the rest to his wife to buy war "bonds. The next morning, ‘according to his friends, he walked into the kitchen ‘and found the cook mourning. She said she'd been . saving money for years—was afraid of banks so she had been keeping it under the bathtub and checking “it every morning. . “And when I looked this morning, * Mr. Niesse, it ‘was gonei” Carl not only had to give his find—he also had to make up the party money.

's Your Dog Missing!

A SMALL BLACK and brown dog, short-haired and in some respects resembling a dachshund, was run down on Haverford ave. near 59th yesterday afternoon by some motorists (we can't call them men) who, ‘re told, deliberately drove out of their way to hit 1 and then didn’t stop. The dog’s leg was broken. f he’s yours, you can find him at Dr. Redmon’s, 1422 “Capitol, where a couple of dog lovers took him. There was consternation in the Christian Men ildérs class Sunday when, with several army boys guests, the orchestra began playing “Anchors, jweigh,” which includes in its refrain: “Sink the army, sing the army.” Sort of out of place, eh what?

ashington

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—Now ‘the war goes into ‘fourth year and: the fight for freedom is a long ¥ from being won. It is a long way from being 1 on the military front, and further from being on, the political front: We are tipped off that the Solomon Islands action, which seems to be going our way, is still a minor affair and does not approach anything decisive. Egypt is held precariously and anxiety is deep. Russia is suffering severe wounds and much of her offensive’ power probably is gone for a long time. Only in the mounting strength of England is found the seed of really strong hope. Perhaps ultimate victory is planting its roots for later blossoming. In the long run, if the

hp to do. Wars are won by military action, But itimes the military action is decided not alone 8 organized armies that are fighting. If the le of Burma had been as eager to help our "as they were to help the Japanese, we prob.would not have taken such a beating. Our seriously hampered by hostile natives. The were materially assisted by them.

the India. Situation

{ THE SAME danger exists in India. The popular leaders of India are in jail. The y is sullen. Disorders may be dying down, is not reasonable to think that force will win people of India, It may make them respect the 3 government, a. alone will not win the enthusiastic loyalty s millions. It will be difficult to maintain resistance in India without the support population. The country is too big, there is uch Sppartuniy for fifth column help and

PARK, Monday.—Yesterday affernoon I the annual Roosevelt Home club party, which scheduled for Saturday afternoon but had LOI] ed. spite of the change of time, it was well attended. We all listened to a recording made by the war department of the last message sent from the fortress of Corregidor. The moth-

er of the boy who sent it was in.

the audience and she came to the rostrum to say a few words. . She has heard nothing from her boy and the best she can hope is that he is a prisoner and can vive under whatever conditions to ‘which he is subjected. ' Very

simply, she said shc had attended for three years.

these gath prayed that we

ret A ee SW women fliers, everyone of whom is anxious to|

“Carl Kuprion residence, 5716 Kingsley dr., they found

By Ernie Pyle

“side the hog to dry. It dries all summer, and is ready to burn in the fall. They cut it in slightly wedgeshaped pieces, about a foot long. Before the war you could get turf for $6.50 a ton; but now it $14. And there will be no more coal at all} for the average man. Trains are suffering also from the fuel shortage. ‘The northern trains between Dublin and Belfast seem to get along all right, but the southern {eains are badly delayed. They say it is taking as as 21 hours to make the 120-mile trip. from Limerick to Dublin. The locomotives simply run out of fuel and have to stand for hours getting up a new head of steam, produced. by burning.crates and boxes or anything the fireman can lay hands on.

“Poteen” Must Be Potent .

THERE ARE OCCASIONAL local shortages of stout and ale, but there is plenty of whisky in Ire-|. land, and it is all reasonably priced. Incidentally, Irish whisky is not made from potatoes, as many Americans think. It is made.of barley. But there is an Irish drink made of potatoes, which the boys have been telling me about. It is illegal, is made in the country, and is a sort of super white-mule. It is called “poteen,” is clear like gin, and is so powerful that they say frequently a man can just barely get the cork back in the bottle before passing out: .-Poteen also has the facility, like champagne, only more so, of making the drinker tipsy all over again if he drinks water the next morning. They say that with one good hefty slug of poteen and two gallons of water a man can stay dead to the world for a week. Happy days!

. ..Bobbette Dietz of the state welfare department is toying with the idea of joining the WAVES.

On the War Front

THE LATEST RUMOR around fown is that as soon as Clark Gable gets through with his army training at Miami Beach, he probably will be transferred to Stout field where the air commandos have headquargers. Don't ‘say weé didn’t tip you off, girls. « + « Bill Engler of The Times’ advertising department has received a telegram addressed to Capt. William Bruce Engler. That's right. He reports to the air corps . training school at Miami Beach Sept. 16. . Lieut. Francis Brosnan was seen at the Columbia club the other night in his new navy blues. . . . Also back on leave: Navy Lieut. Scott Waldon and Pvt. Max Stultz, both- formerly of the News. . . . The \fishing must be good over in northern Ireland. Mrs. S. R. White received a letter from her son, Technician S. R. White Jr. of the army who reported he and seven other soldiers of his outfit fished about an hour in a lake over ‘there and caught 336 fish. Some catch!

She. Already Knew.

AIR RAID WARDENS W. D. Porter and David V. Rawlings were making the rounds one night last week explaining to people in the neighborhood what to do in case of a blackout. When they got to the

themselves doing the listening. A guest of the Kuprions was Mrs. Ray Waltman who with her husband, a navy chief petty officer, was at Pearl Harbor during the Jap attack. She gave the wardens a first hand account of the real for sure Jlackouts they had there—after the attack. . . . We “pulled a boner in yesterday's column and gave Harry Reid, the street railway magnate, quite a laugh. We said he had scored a par 70 at Highland the other day, whereas, ‘tis reported, he’s never played a game of golf in his life. His hobby is horseback riding. The neat 70 was scored by son Harry Reid Jr.—the Reid of the Reid & Severin advertising firm. Oh, well; it makes another story.

By Raymond Clapper

That situation is a source of deep anxiety in Washington. Not much is said about it. officials cannot discuss it. For in the first instance it is a matter between Britain and India. It is their colonial problem, and intrusion from Washington would be resented in London as we would resent similar intrusion on us. Yet American forces are in India. We are one ‘of the united nations and as such we are identified in the minds of people in India with what happens there. We are committed to the Atlantic Charter principles. They suggest that wé are not fighting to protect the British empire. We are fighting to destroy the axis, which we consider a danger to us as a nation. But in so doing we do not wish to fight merely to restore imperialism in Asia, even as a byproduct. At least nobody in this country has taken such a position.

Something Is Coming Up

SOMETHING LIKE THE foregoing suggests possible reasons why Americans presume to discuss a matter so far away in miles and one which primarily

concerns the British .government. One would feel even more presumptuous were it not that in England many people, and some of the most distinguished leaders, newspapers and periodicals, indicate they are not happy about the government's handling of India. I think it is fair to say that there is deep hope here that London will find it possible before many weeks have passed to reopen the question of India. I find no disposition among officials to justify Gandhi for pulling his civil disobedience at this dangerous time when the effect of it can only be to encourage Japan and weaken the allies in defending India. Yet, disapproving as: influential persons here are of Gandhi's actions, it is felt that an issue exists which will not be closed even after the present disturbance is put down by force. That is why it is hoped that the time soon will be considered appropriate for new inquiry into this difficult and complex issue.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

exercised because our women pilots are not being utilized in the war effort. The C. A, A. says that women are psychologically not fitted to, be pilots, but I see pictures every now and then of women who are teaching men to fly, We know that in England, where the need is great, women are ferrying planes and freeing innumerable men for combat service. It seems to me that in the civil air patrol and in our own ferry command, women, if they can pass the tests imposed upon our men, should have an equal ‘opportunity for non-combat service. I always believe that when people are needed, they will eventually be I believe in this case, if the war goes on long enough, and women are patient, opportunity will come|

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a tus le ik 1 Ule YASH woe Towa) be patient. As my correspondent says: “I think it is time you women spoke up for yourselves and undertook a campaign to see that our

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BE GRIMMEST,

Is Likely 2d Front, Writer’ Reports.

Because of the increasing importance of the European theater of conflict, the United Press has sent Joe Alex Morris, its foreign editor, on temporary assignment to London. He has been deveting ‘his time te a first-hand study eof the problems facing the united nations. Im this dispatch, he assesses the chances for allied vietory and reports on America’s rele in the coming second fromt.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editer

LONDON, Sept. 1.~This fourth

attack.

front. How soon that second front will come in Europe cannot be esti-

tors where the axis might be engaged in major battles. those is Africa. Offensive strenth from America now is pumping into the scattered battlefronts of the world. It is felt against the enemy spearhead on the sweltering beaches of the Solomons. It is massing on the

It is striking by the skies over western Europe and it ‘is bolstering the Red army with machines before Stalingrad. A Meager Beginning But we have made only the meagerest beginnings. A second front success is up to America probably to an extent far greater than we realize at home. This may well prove the grimmest year of the war. It would be foolish to suggest that the tide of conflict is going to turn suddenly. toward us or that the lessons of Dieppe point to anything except how tough the going will be. Because this a front-line capital and because its people are front-line people it may be possible to assay

vantage point of the British Isles.

with a losing war. They are not war weary. But the fury that marked their stand against the blitz as well as the inspiration that speeded up the factories in order to aid Russia has now died down.

Inspiration Lacking

They lack inspiration for the moment; something that will inspire that still unwritten war song for which London has waited for three years. Experienced ‘American = observers touring Britain have remarked] that the people are stale—like a fighter who hasn't had a fight for too long. Any American trainer knows the answer to that—get into the ring and fight. That's what must be done, probably with an American general in command, sometime during the next 12 months. As the party of the first part in the democracies’ contract to liquidate the axis, the British have had enough of defensive warfare. Bread and macaroni in Britain today are brown instead of white. The once green and idle fields are yellow with grain. Crowds wait in line for busses and prices—except for necessities—have soared. It’s going to get really tough. The bloody ' sacrifices of the coming year won't all be made on distant fronts. The allies closest to Berlin must steel themselves to pay the price in what they know is goinng to be a long costly job. The British are impatient to get on with it.

African Front Seen

Naturally, the leaders are not telling Berlin where and how—but possibly there's some significance in that fact that at the moment public agitation for an immediate invasion of Europe is less strident. There are other battlegrounds than Europe, of course. And in recent days attention has been turned to Africa where the armies of Lieut. Gen. Harold Alexander and Marshal Erwin Rommel seem almost ready for another round of the grueling desert war. Should Alexander win that battle and start the axis back to the west for the third time since the African. fighting started there is some belief that the time might be ripe for a grand allied attack which would be designed to clear the axis out of Africa. : On the highways and byways of Britain today American uniforms are seen in increasing numbers. The Americans are excellently equipped. They are laying down the groundwork for a vast armed force. But there is a distorted idea in Britain as well as in America regarding the forces available for various tasks.

: Warn Against Optimism _

voys give the man in the street the impression of enormous troop movements. The same thing was created by the first announcements of the Americans in action in Dieppe. As a matter of fact the flow American forces is somewhat than had been expected

but

WORRIS THINKS

Arica, Rather Than Europe, |

year of war begins today for the} united nations with the accent on}

It’ is the year for the second |

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hot Egyptian desert at El Alamein.|

the stern anniversary from the|$ The British frankly are fed up|:

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JAPS GIVEN 20

FOOD SHIP PLAN

Welles - Proposes Nippon Boat. Meet American “Vessel at African Port.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (U. PY The United States, seeking to overcome Japan's objections to an earlier plan for shipping supplies to prisoners of war under supervision. of the International Red Cross, has offered Japan an alternative pro-

‘The United States, in a note by Undersecretary of State ‘Sumner Welles transmitted to the Japanese government through Swiss authorities, proposed that the supplies be relayed in American and Japanese Red ‘Cross ships meeting at Portuguese East Africa. ' The state department released the message sent to Japan which revealed that the Japanese government had refused safe passage for the neutral motorship Kanangoora which was chartered by the Red Cross: and which is now ready to sail from San Francisco.

Japanese State Views

Japan replied to the first proposal by stating that it did not object to shipments of supplies for prisoners on vessels which exchange Japanese and. United States nationals at Portuguese East Africa. . Mr. Welles replied that the motorship Gripsholm engaged in exchanging nationals does not have sufficient cargo room to transport the amount of supplies which it desired to send. He proposed, therefore, that the Japanese agree to let the Kanangoora proceed to Portuguese East Africa where. the Japanese should send a Red Cross ship to receive the supplies and transport them to the prisoners. ;

{PLAN HARVEST SHOW

Florists will discuss their participation in the victory garden harvest show at 8 p. m. Friday at the| Indiana Flower Growers, 309 N. Capitol ave. The harvest show will be. held Sept. 26 and 27. at. the Coliseum.

Indianapolis shoppers “peek behind the curtain” at the war-time Christmas surprises in local toy departments. Dolls and story books have caught the fancy of Evelyn Verburg, 1450 College ave., in the top photo. Barbara Clendening, 1024 S. Sheffield ave, marvels at the ingenuity of manufacturers in: providing woeden toys to replace much-needed metals (those boxes at her back indicate the huge stores

of toys already here).

Mary Fields, 3742 N. Oxford st., holds a deco-

rative American flag to herald the military and patriotic motif of the

approaching Christmas. :

Dad Can't Have New Train:

Playthings Made of Wood

By ARTHUR WRIGHT.

Dad will have to be content with last year’s electric train .

. other-

wise Santa Claus is going to provide a full stocking in this ¥ war year. Although Christmas is 98 shopping days away, and temperatures still attain sweltering heights (some days!), a tour of local stores reveals warehouses already piled high with toys which Santa will deliver. The toy managers are not alone in their farsighted outlook toward

the yuletide- « o « they admit that parents—and ‘grandparents, too — began ‘their “holiday shopping : here a month ago. And the demand for dolis- and other “stable” toys is steadily increasing at record pace. Merchants Issue Warning Which prompted a warning from Indianapolis merchants: There's little need to rush the market—for at least 80 per cent of the items available prior to Pearl Harbor and priorities will be on the shelves when the normal

Christmas buying season opens at]

Thanksgiving time. That ingenuity of American toy manufacturers—which had its birth when the supply from Germany was: shut off ‘in the first world war —has developed wooden: toys to replace. the now restricted metal items. Prior fo 1917, there were few toy manufacturers in the U. S. Practically all of the mechanical playthings came from Germany and the others were shipped in from Czechoslovakia and other countries. When the first world war threatened an “empty” Christmas for American kiddies, large-scale production began on this side. With a. decade of experience, the toy manufacturers here face the first Christmas of the second world. war with the situation “well in hand.”

Wooden Velocipedes They've created wooden velocipedes to replace the tricycles, kiddy-cars, scooters and like vehicles ... . even to wooden wheels. There's an all-wood wagon, its only metal the few bolts and screws to hold it together. "Plastics, a recent development in this country, have been used largely in place of metals for the floor and table toys. The manufacturers were told months ago by the WPB that

|not ‘more than 5 per cent metal

could be used in any toy, enough to bolt it together, after June 31. The innovations for 1942 Christmas. toys are definitely toward the war trend, of the items. designed to educate the child to

national defense.

. CAIRO, Sept. 1 (. P)—Sergt. orman

Spthotliies. ats mos} eager to off-|q

E. Stiffler, ‘a gunner from|

= Navigator Forces Breath Into Unconscious Gunner|

to help him but was too weak. crewmen pulled Holt to a

Atr Alrrald-wirden kit provides a papier-mache ‘steel helmet,” port forms for recording enemy operations and citizens’ co-operation in “blackouts,” an imitation gas mask, first aid kit, and other duplicates of equipment needed by fullfledged wardens. A blackout kit provides harmless chemically treated cutouts to mark house numbers, light switches : in homes and other “landmarks” which “glow” in the dark.

Cardboard Jeeps

A new use of the old cardboard cutout idea allows the child to erect miniature army jeeps, tanks and other. vehicles of war. ° And the boys will find duplicates of airplanes, trucks and all the front line fighting units being manned by fathers and brothers in defense of their nation. They lack many of the details of the original, for toys would serve as valuable models for the enemy. And most of them will be of wood to save the metal for “the real thing.” Costume uniforms still include the ever-present cowboy and Indian outfits, but the larger shipping crates contain soldier and sailor suits—and this year they've added a marine uniform. "The Military Theme This common acceptance of. the military theme is new. For in other years, parents, manufacturers and stores, too, have shied as far as possible from war toys. At least one local: store until this year refused to advertise military toys, although’ they were in stock for the persistent youngster. - : There’ll be dishes for Mary's dolls; there'll be ‘all those cooking utensils of some material or other; there’ll be those balls, baseball bats and “regular guy” toys—and there’ll| . even be lights for that Christmas tree . . . maybe not as many as in

other years, but then we must mn practice “blackouts” anyway in our

program of preparedness. ' So, Billy and Mary, you have a big job to do. this Christmas—to be conservative in your demands to provide your “big brother” with enough metals and equipment to

carry him back to your Christmas

tree another year. That's why Santa asks this year; When you send in your Christmas toy list—be sure to include your

iz CONTEST on

ZIONIST PROGRAM| |

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3 senate Committee Hints If ]

May 0. K. Bill Topping House Figure. WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (U. P),

for increasing the war tax burden on individual incomes without dise rupting the efforts of Americans to save for the future-or pay off debts, freasury's proposal to incluag : ay a “spendings™

the ‘committee, “this (spendings tax) plan would call for pushing the regular income tax as high ag it could go without -imposing exe cessive hardships on “debtors, and then using the spendings tax te get the rest of the income tax money that was needed.”

further light on the administrae tion's stand on the tax situation.

equivocally in opposition to the Ruml ' “pay-as-you-go” system of

2—It would not, in fact, put taxe

would “forgive” a year's tax liability, with the greatest benefit going to persons with the biggest income. Big Borrowings Needed Mr. Morgenthau, in a message te the American Bankers associationg said more than half of 1942 nations al income must be devoted solely to war purposes, and forecast tha$

| Americans face more drastic cone

trol of consumer spending, extene sion of rationing and other ‘new we |Sacrifices,” Even if: the $12,000,000.000 bond sales cam and cone gress passes an “adequate’ tax bill, he ny the treasury will have:to borrow in utterly unprecedented amounts from other sources, said. Mr. Ruml is scheduled to re to the senate committee to exp his plan again, although the mittee voted once to reject it.

OPEN STOUT FIELD RECRUITING STATION

Enlistment for mechanics electricians will be conducted d at Stout field for the troop c¢ command in addition to the cruiting on Monument circle, cials announced today. ;

will be done from 9 a.'m. to.4'p The troop carrier command n aircraft and automobile mechs electricians and skilled and se skilled technicians.

3 JUDGES NAMED FOR PET PARA

Judges for the pet parade to held tomorrow evening at Rivers Amusement park will be J Wilfred Bradshaw of Marion count juvenile court; Mrs. William KH Hodgson of the Ladies’ « Juvenile Detention Home, and F. Stout, veterinarian. Many entries have been rece! It will begin at § p. m. and p: will be awarded. All entries r

BURNS ory SETS casH

WASHINGTON, “Sept: % Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind)

City has Soproral, The Taide wih bs by the public housing tion the senator said.