Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1942 — Page 13

$i oo 3 signs and railway station signs were taken down. The “road signs are still down, but some railway stations yhave put their names back up, so you can at least $i keep track of where you are. But the signs are very small ones and could be quickly destroyed if the Germans came. : There aren't nearly enough porters at the railway stations, and haven't been since the war started. Today about half the porters at the London stations are women. The only ones I've seen were tough-looking babes who always had cigarets in their mouths. ~ Also, on the London busses a . good ‘many conductors are now women. They are usually fairly good-looking. They wear pants and gray knee-length smocks. Londoners find them more pleasant and patient than the men conductors. : The government has recently advised the public not to carry its gas masks, in order to conserve the rubber. Always before the government had harped * away at the public—with very little effect, I might add—to carry its masks constantly. This new order is a complete reversal. ok Personally, I'm all set in case anything happens. The marine corps gave me a brand-new gas mask, and the army gave me a tin hat. All I need now is a fife and drum. :

Leave It to Pyle

A FEW MONTHS back it was very difficult to buy cigarets in London. You could get only a few at a time, and often none at all. In addition, the average Mprice of English cigarets has gone up to 40 cents a pack.

Vagabond _

- LONDON, Sept. 9—When France fell anid England German invasion at any moment, allroad

The shortage snd high price together: caused

mine estimates that 25 per cent of the smokers in

Britain have stopped for the duration. As a result!

* the stores once more. have plenty of cigarets. Most Americans can’t stand English cigarets. In Ireland the army had plenty of American cigarets, but in England the supply hasn't been so plentiful. Up until recently a war correspondent or government employee couldn't get American cigarets at-all, and the army people only a few. : But now an army post exchange has been opened and we can get five packs of cigarets and two chocolate bars a ‘week. Five packs aren’t enough for me, but there are lots of soldiers who don’t smoke at all, you know, and old Self-Preservation Ernest is learning the ways of the world, so don’t worry about me.

Minnesota to the Rescue

. THIS YEAR'S HARVEST is one of the biggest England has ever had. Before the war, Enland raised only 40 per cent of her own foodstuffs. All the rest was imported. Last year she had upped it to 60 per cent. And this year I understand she is producing 70 per cent of all her own food requirements, The farm labor shortage was so acute this year that home guardsmen and regular soldiers went into the fields to help. They say 150,000 British soldiers worked in the fields last month. i And I know of one case where a big farm, equipped with brand-new tractors arid combines, sent out a frantic call for American soldiers with experience on this certain type. i ; The request arrived at American army headquarfers in England, was relayed to northern Ireland by telephone, a quick search among our troops was made, and by next afternoon three Minnesota farm boys in the uniform of the United States army were busy running combines on an English farm.

thousands of people to quit smoking. One friend of|

is on in London today for a united nations’ smash st Germany

centration of air striking power ever hurled at one nation.

today—a belief backed by the most recent statements of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill—that the date has| § now been fixed for the opening ot| & the : Hitler. offensive, I have found in Britain emphatic determination to turn against Hitler at the quickest possible which he once terrorized Europe— air power and air power in a concentrated striking form such as will put the luftwaffe’s biggest performances in the shade.

British Public Is Ready, Even Anxious, to ‘Dish It Out’ to Axis. By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign Editor LONDON, Sep 9—The heat

.through the greatest con-

In many places it was believed second front against Adolf Whatever the date of the land

moment the weapon with

Time Seems Favorable Now

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

There is an urgent desire in many

IT WASN'T SO LONG AGO that most youngsters’ ; ambition was to grow up and own, or at least ride, a fire truck. Then it was an airplane. Now it’s something else. A small boy on a bus was overheard explaining how he was saving his money and buying war stamps. “And when I get my book full,” he chirped, “I'm going to buy a jeep.” . .. The Indianapolis Medical Society bulletin lists 142 of its doctor members in the armed forces as of Sept. 1. And the list still is growing, . . . A reporter phoned the office of a certain draft board chairman the other day to get some information about his board. Before the chairman’s secretary would call him, though, she made the reporter tell her how things were going in Board 14. “That's where my husband is registered,” she explained.

Wrong Number

LOUIS LOWE, who divides his time between directing his own orchestra, practicing law and managing a finance company, has been having telephone trouble. He's tired of people calling up and wanting to know “what time the next show starts.” His : phone number is BR. 2028. The Vogue theater number is BR. 2828. . . . It’s getting so that little acts of courtesy by street railway operators hardly rank as news any more, because of their frequency... Anyway, Harold Roeder thinks trackless trolley operator 330 ~—Richard Newlin—deserves praise for the consideration he showed his passengers on N. Pennsylvania. Monday during the heavy rain. Instead of just stopat intersections, the operator tried to let pas-

Ww ashington

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—In judging domestic matters such as the cost-of-living proposals of Presi‘dent Roosevelt, three home-made rules are sufficient. First, anybody who is able to live comfortably dur- ., Ing this war, and who comes out of it with himself : and his family unharmed, is just " plain lucky and has nothing to gripe about. Second, uncontrolled prices and wages will cause serious and unnecessary trouble in the avers age home; we cannot afford to allow farm lobbyists and labor

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leaders to take advantage of war

conditions to bleed the country. - ' ‘Third, ruthless taxation is necessary as part of this control; when you are drafting men’s lives, there is no need to flinch in tak-

ing money away from people.

In his request to congress, Mr. Roosevelt was mod-

erate. He asked that the indefensible exemption of certain farm products from price control be knocked out. . That parity price juggling which was put over by farm lobbyists, especially by O'Neal of the Farm Bureau Federation and his wrecking crew, was an instance of blackjacking. They got away with it because congressmen and senators were afraid of being beaten for re-election.

Time to Show Some Steel

IN ASKING THAT congress enact tax legislation quickly, Mr. Roosevelt was only asking that the job which began last March be finished up. Congress has been six months on.tax legislation and the bill is not before the senate yet. : y all the tenderness? Why is a bankbook any

more sacred than a man's life? Congress got the

draft law through. Sure—it was simpler. It was just a question of faking a man off to war. ; "When you monkey with a man’s bankbook, then you have to be careful not fo hurt his feelings. Any-

body who expects to come through this war rich is

My Day

| WASHINGTON, Tuesday —This morning T am In a mood when I wish that I could only see one side

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gentleman told me that he found it very difficult, because he could often see two sides to every question. : ., ' Tt is certainly much more convenient to be a crusader and close your mind to everything but your : own point of view. In the sad “tale I am going ‘to tell you today, I would like to’ have only one point of view, though I know that there is another.

A lady writes me that she has a thoroughbred six-months-old scottie dog she has trained and ¥ brought up from puppyhood. She “is the wife of an officer and is trying to find a place to lay her ded Washington, so that she can be

sengers off in front of their homes.

don’t get him in trouble for violating the rules.)

quarters that this weapon be turned against Germany quickly because of belief that the present opportunity is most favorable for an all-

(Gosh, hope we

GAS WITH 150

,Gray residence, 414 E. 17th st, is growing like a

No Time for Play

FRANCES KEARBY, head of the local civilian defense auxiliary, got quite flustered the other day when she met Lady Dill, wife of the British field marshal. Miss Kearby was wearing her new OCD uniform for the first time, and when Lady Dill saw her, she saluted smartly. Uncertain what to do, Miss Kearby just reached out and shook hands. ... You don’t win army-navy E awards by sitting around talking to admirals and .newspapermen. At least, that’s the theory held by Peter Lambertus, president of the American Bearing Corp. His company rer ceived the coveted award yesterday and a press conference was arranged. Mr. Lambertus stood around a few minutes and answered questions of newspapermen and Rear Admiral William C. Watts. And then he walked out. “I'm not getting out any bearings sitting here,” he apologized.

Around the Town

THE PET PEEVE of Ed McGrail, Legion national publicity officer who reports at Miami Beach Sunday as an air corps captain, is to hear someone refer to a bugler “blowing taps.” He always interrupts: “You don’t blow taps—you sound taps.” . . . Frank A. White, the once hefty editor of the Hoosier Legionnaire, is threatening us with a libel suit. We said he’d reduced from 220 to 190. He says he’s down to 180. “Every dog,” he growls, “has his day.” Hm-m-m! Threatening us, ‘eh? ... .. That. pile. of cleaned. and; flattened tin cans on the front lawn of the Paul mushroom. Must weigh 400 pounds by now. It's; getting so hardly anybody passes it without tossing a few cans on the pile,

By Raymond Clapper

kidding himself and shouldn’t be taken seriously— certainly not by congress. ; Mr. Roosevelt is not calling for legislation on wages. He promises to attend to wage stabilization himself. He-hasfi’t shown much steel about this yet. In fact Mr. Roosevelt has during recent months neglected domestic affairs to a considerable extent. He has been wrapped up in the business of high strategy, and domestic affairs have drifted. He isn’t expected to settle every question himself. But he can take five minutes on the telephone to put some iron in the war labor board without sacrificing other pressing public business. :

Crux in a Few Simple Facts

IN ALL THESE matters there will be quarreling over details. That is where those who are determined to obstruct action will get in their work. They won't

out air attack. Such an attack would require a tremendous concentration of allied air strength— but 1t is noted that the big RAF night attacks already exceed the|. biggest the Germans ever made on Britain. : This belief is coupled with a feeling that we must win the war by bringing a halt to dispersal of our effort and by striking the axis in the heart with all the weapons— including land forces—which can be mustered. I am confident after talking with numerous American and other soldiers, as well as officials, that the spirit not only of the armed forces but. of the British people is most strongly behind the idea of aggressive warfare aimed at Berlin, even if the speed of the offensive necessarily increases its costliness.

Desire to Dish It Out

The greatest change I have seen in Britain since my last visit a year and a half ago at the tail end of

“that two men will be able to lift

OCTANE LIKELY

Houses With Stainless Steel Roofs After War Are Also Predicted.

By Science Service

postwar automobile will burn gasoline of 150 octane rating, and it will never be necessary for the filling station attendant to put more water in the radiator because the cooling system will be permanently sealed. When you get home from your ride, youll put the car in a garage with plastic-and-plywood walls and a stainless steel roof. Your house will be built of the same materials, strong yet so:light

the whole wall of a room as they put it up. Not Just Dreams * - These are items from a vision

BUFFALO, N. Yo Sept. 9~The 3

Ernest: Shoemaker crosses his fingers (above) and demonstrates how he reaches the top of local flag= poles. The photo on the right (from his album) shows Mr. Shoemaker perched on what he says is the highest steel smokestack erected in this vicinity—130 feet—at the Midwest Machinery Co. in 1919.

Steeplejack Still at Job After Miraculous Escapes

By ARTHUR WRIGHT Disaster threatens every working

the blitz when the average Briton was glorying in his ability to take it, it out” on a major scale. :

fly is a question which can be decided only by the highest military men and statesmen.

limits—to take their word for it. But their eagerness to act is with-

size that long range policies, while doubtless already settled by London and Washington at the urging of Moscow, might yet be changed due

front, including the threat to the offensive power of the Red force and American fortress raids --50 . far not up to. expectations. : situation is less disastrous than might have been feared and is now

the battle for Egypt.

Whether the time is ripe militar

The people are willing — within

out question. These days empha-|

to: - 1. The gravity of the Russian

2. Success of the current royal air the 1000-plane 3. Disclosure that the shipping

improving. : 4. Success in the first phase of

Russia's Strength Fading

Cas > vp i ty

come out and say they are for inflation. Never. They will pump themselves purple in the face about how they are against inflation and then they will slip into a closed committee room and try to prevent action being taken to check the cost of living, The crux of the case lies in a few simple facts. Annual wage and salary disbursements have increased

from 43.7 billion dollars in 1939 to

estimated for this year. That is an increase of 71 per

cent in mass spending power. The 75 billion dollars of wages

year is more than our total national income in any single year of the 1930s. Wages and salaries have been rising more than a billion dollars a month. Goods on which to spend this money are running short. Many are no longer manufactured. With the pressure of this enormous day cash, prices will be bid up through the roof unthe surplus mon is .scooped up through heavy taxation and forced ey

less they are controlled and unless

vestment in war bonds. You have only to read the news

fronts to know this is a hard war—over there. It is still a soft war at home. It will still be a pretty soft

war at home if what Mr, Roosevelt

As a matter of fact, the Russian crisis has almost reached the point where the offensive power of the Red army will be sapped for along time to come. Hopes for a Soviet winter offensive have faded.- The Russians have damaged - Hitler's legions but the decisive blow, it is clear, must be struck from the west. Axis offensives in the Middle East or through the Caucasus might be a long step toward a Hitler victory—but the allies cannot win merely by clearing north Africa. They must invade Europe. Many are arguing that the time is ripe for an all-out; steady air assault on Germany. Proponents of| this theory believe Mt might end the war. This may be an exaggeration, but a series of nightly 1000-plane attacks on Europe coupled with expanded day attacks would quickly

75 billion dollars

and salaries this

flow of pay-

from the fighting

bated points. It is argued that the time is here —and is even passing—for a most favorable test at a moment when

asks now is done.

provide a practical test of the de-| |

By Eleanor Roosevelt

getting rid of him, or see in vain of 3 question. The other night a very important live. . king for a place to

and the choice seems to be between

It ill becomes anyone who lives in the house wi Fala and knows what a joy, a really an pet dog can be, even to consider the real estate owner’s point of view for a second. But I do know that if you are running a crowded development and

“always have a well-trained and well-behaved dog, bi i everybody is not as considerate or as Sopa pt : fae

Those of us who love dogs know that our greatest| country. To have a}

joy with them is usually in the little dog in the city is : alone, it is surely very

on whom you can rely, who will never question your|

moods, nor your actions, but adoringly and lick your hand whenever you give a chance, : : : ; I can only su

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Hitler's strength is perforce tied up

Plan Raid Show For Middlewest

air raid precautions, will o grounds in New

nat|

of the future presented before the

here, in @

$4000 Is Found in Laundry Package

LEXINGTON, Ky. Sept. 9 (U.

P.) —Mrs. James Woodward, Lexington, reported to work at a lo=

‘cal’ laundry for the first time

and she learned that honesty is the best policy. Inspecting her first package, Mrs. Woodward discovered $4000 in . currency. She was “liberally” rewarded by the loser. ,

THIS CURIOUS WORLD

an addr cal Charles M. A. Stine, vice president of E. I. de Pont de‘Nemours & Co. They aren't just dreams, he explained; the things actually exist now, at least on an experimental basis, but are at present absorbed into the war effort. : Other new accomplishments in scientific technology were listed by Dr. Stine, glass that is unbreakable, glass that will float, wood that won't burn, shoes that contain no leather, window screens without| wire, machinery bears not made of metal. Post-victory production of consumer’s goods will reach heights undreamed of in prewar days, the speaker predicted. We have built an immense industry that turns out. ‘more light metal in a year than was formerly produced in a decade, with corresponding volumes in such things as special steels, plastics and synthetic fabrics.

day by Ernest Shoemaker. “But this 145-pound uid Indianapolis steeplejack insists he'll totter at the peak of Indiana's highest structures —“rain or shine”—as long as his luck holds out. : : “I grew up with danger,” he sald yesterday at his home, 213 E. Henry st. “My dad was a steeplejack 30 years--until he fell to his deat from the top of a 120-foot smokestack at the U. S. Rubber ' Co. plant.” Ernest, a 21-year-old “rookie” out of world war I back there in 1921, escaped a similar fate by dangling on the scaffold ropes. They were inside the rubber company stack preparing to cut the rivets to dismantle the structure. The elder Shoemaker stepped too close to the edge of the swinging scaffold. : “I Saw Dad’s Body” “I saw dad's body land with a sickening thud on the damper 90 feet below as ‘I held a death grip on the ropes.” : Lo True to the code of the steeple jack, Ernest “laid off three days for funeral”—then returned to finish the job. Scared? “Accidents are all in a day's work,” insists Mr. Shoemaker, now 45 years of age and father of two

afraid, I'd quit!” And he’s had many a br death that would convert you, you —and ‘'me—to less hazardous occupations. a

~ There were two “bad falls” with-

£

riod and sent Mr. Shoemaker plum-

married daughters. “If I ever got a brush with

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in three months, a year before the elder Shoemaker was killed. Called to the Weber Milk Co. at Shelby. and Cruft sts. young Shoemaker was shown a 40-foot stee stack, its top bent over by a spring “We know you can't climb up there in this storm, but our draft is shut off—what can we do?” a company representative asked the young steeplejack. \ “Who can’t climb up where?” And with the wind still howling and the rain beating into his face, he went up the outside of the stack.

“Down I Went”

He had cut through a portion of the damaged upper section when the “ping” of breaking steel pounded his eardrums. Voices from below shouted a warning. “Down I went, smokestack and all!” x : Mr. Shoemaker insisted “a little cut on the hand” was the most serious casualty. : “It’s not how far or how hard you come down—it’s how you land that counts,” was his advice to wouldbe steeplejacks. The most “exciting” accident came within that three-month pemeting through a network of hightension power lines. Fell Through Wires He was 85 feet up, on. top of a

COLLECT SCRAP AT SPEEDWAY

Funds Will Be Used fon

<~Air-raid” and Fire

Equipment.

' ‘Speedway City began its first scrap collection campaign today. Floyd Farley is director of the community's civilian: defense organ< ization. : : Funds from the sale will be used to buy air-raid precaution and firee fighting equipment for the come vital defense industries, plans have been outlined for the purchase of highly specialized equipment which will include two fully-equipped fires be purchased for roping off sections of the town in the event of actual 1s for the drive call for all

0. KS ABSENCES ON * JEWISH HOLIDAYS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (U. P.. ~—War Production Chief Donald M,

-| Nelson announced today that i