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LONDON, Sept. 10.—After an absence of a year and # half, I expected to find the food situation in Britain much tighter than when I left. But actually, Britain seems to be eating as well as it was early in 1941. : The only difference I can sense is an almost complete lack of eggs. Choices are limited, but they give you huge portons of what you do select. Your average meal consists of soup, an entree of chicken, fish, roast beef or lamb, scads of potatoes and cabbage or spinach, and a dessert of berries or pudding. : It isn’t any lack of food; but & the sameness of it, that sort of gets you. I'm eating more than I have in years, yet my stomach always ‘has a sort of unsatisfied : feeling. Most of my friends over here have gained weight in the past year on their rationed diet. They attribute this to two things: 1. They have to eat more starches and fattening substitutes, and have little fruit. 2. Here in wartime you hate to send anything back uneaten and wasted, and consequently you stuff yoursélf fuller than you would ordinarily.

Hoh, No Brussels Sprouts IT's EVEN HAVING its effect on me. The other night I stepped onto a penny weighing machine, and a little card popped out saying “eight stone and six.” Translated for you, that’s 118 pounds, which makes me practically obese.

England is full of jokes about its rationing restrictions and the sameness of. its diet.

ELMER TAFLINGER, the artist, has just learned how to use a watch as a substitute for a compass, and now he's busy educating all his frierids. Nothing to it, says Elmer. All you do is hold your watch with the face up, then aim the hour hand in the direction the sun happens to be. Then, halfway between the hour hand and the .12 o'clock mark on. your watch is due south. Sounds silly, but it works. Bet Elmer learned it from a boy scout. , , . Sergt. J. E. (Jay) O’Brien, eur former sports writer,. is back in town on furlough from Ft. Dix, N. J. He's to be transferred to Miami Beach for air corps officers training. Jay says. that old phoney about the woman on the streetcar, or bus, getting slapped (remember?) still is ‘making the rounds in the east. Just last week a man told him he personally knew “a fellow who was on the streetcar and saw it.” That Gatling Gun - WE TOLD you Tuesday that the Gatling' Gun club’s Gatling gun is one of the original ones “built by Dr. Gatling back in civil war days.” A fellow who ought to know seys we're all wet—that it was one of the type used in the Spanish-American war. The gun, he tells us, was obtained from the Springfield armory, and was shipped: to London in 1905. for use by that famous vaudeville troupe—The Boys in Blue. The troupe was comprised of 17 Indianapolis young men, members of Capt. Jake Fox's original Hoosier zouaves.. The. boys { ‘before all, or most, of , incliding old Kaiser Bill—then the crown prince. They had two captains. Fred Kepner of the Link-Belt was captain of infan-

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quick change and Artillery Capt. Charley Ehlers took over. After trouping three years, the boys returned

Washington

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—It would be most unfortunate for the war effort if congress and President Roosevelt fell into another bitter controversy like the one over the supreme court. No good and much harm would result. Naturally many members of congress feel that Mr. Roosevelt is pointing a pistol at them—to use the frequent description on Capitol Hill—and it is natural that they should resént it. Yet what do we need most? An argument over who has what power? Or action to hold the war economy under control? What do we need most, an argument over constitutional powers, or a drastic tax bill? Speeches? Or control over food prices? What can be gained by an argument as to who is wrong, who started it, who didn’t’ do what he should have done? : People want this war fought hard and efficiently ~ to the earliest possible victory. The sweep of public

support behind Kaiser arises from that sentiment. : The complaint at the sluggish bureaucracy here

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Complaint at congress arises from it. People know we are in a fight for our lves—that it is either us or the axis. Our instinct for survival is aroused. It is the most elemental instinet of an individual and a nation.

If the Showdown Comes

IN SUCH A TIME there is little patience with argument. Words become secondary. Theories of government become secondary. Results take precedence. ‘ A Guessing as an observer, I believe that if a showdown came between a ccngress that was not acting and a president who wanted to act, the majority sentiment of the country would back the president

: who wanted to act. I would certainly want to take

my stand on that side.

| My Day .

As you've no doubt heard, the English go in heavily ior boiled potatoes. You finally get so the mere sight of a boiled potato enrages you. The English apparently feel the same Way, and yet they just keep on boiling them. Reee}iv the magazine Punch had the following quip: ¥ “There are 101 ways, of cooking potatoes, says a chef. The 102d way is to fry them a golden brown and garnish with a large filet steak!” Oddly enough, the hated Brussels sprout has not reared its ugly head a single .time since I arrived. Apparently they are saving them all to torture us with this winter.

It Will Happen to You, Too

YES, ENGLAND STILL has plenty to eat, and the bombing lull has let a little relaxation into life, and yet living has steadily grown more complicated for Londoners. My British friends say that one who lives in hotels as-I do wouldn't notice it so much, but that the average Englishman must ponder every little movement in his life. They've grown to save every scrap of paper, every plece of string, to be on a constant alert against waste of the tiniest sort. Before buying a bite of food or a stitch of clothing you think and weigh and dole out your slim reservoir of coupons with the greatest reluctance. It’s hard to buy a comb, or cufflinks, or a hundred little things which don’t necessarily keep body and soul together but which seem important. The same undoubtedly applies to all nations which have warred for three years, and will finally happen to us in America. Then maybe we lifelong stringsavers will come into our own.

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

home and contributed their equipment to the Gatling Gun club.

Around the Town

RUSSELL FLETCHER, The Times’ rotund artist, goes to the navy, probably next week, as a chird class petty officer. The medical examiner told him he was “a little overweight, but it's well distributed — all over.” ,.. Yesterday was a big day in the life of the Gas company. It was the seventh anniversary of the company as a city-owned utility. Nobody bothered to provide a birthday cake. . . . The boys at the Press club are fooling around with the idea of having a gridiron dinner following the election. . . . Ensign James Gregory (Rough Notes Co.) is back in town this week, his red hair contrasting nicely with his navy blue uniform. He s being transferred to Norfolk. . « « The Century building ras a feminine elevator operator. She’s auburn-tressed.

Socks His Own Nose

THE FIRST CASUALTY of the new school year

© was Kenneth Walker, formerly with the I. A. C. and

«ow a public. schools physical education supervisor. Ken was down in the stockroom. of the school board offices unlacing some old volley balls. The rubber hladders were old and were to be turned cver to the scrap rubber campaign. A stubborn lace finally gave way and before he could stop his arm, he had cut a deep gash on the outside of his nose with the lacing needle and, at the same time, caused a. nosebleed by punching his own nose with his own fist. Losi a lot of blood that might better have gone to the Red Cross blood bank. . . . Ray Millholland, the fiction writer. is back from Washington where he served asa

“consultant first with the OEM and then with the

WPB. It seems that some clerk in another department found a rule prohibiting the paying of consultants for more than a certain number of days a year. So that gave Ray an excuse to come back home and get back to his bread and butter writing,

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But to allow such an issue to develop would be a grave disservice to our form of government. Only by a gross’ lack of self-restraint and by distorted judgment could congress allow such an issue to arise. This reminds me of the situation in which the press of the country is placed by the war. We agree to a voluntary censorship. We agree not to print certain information that might be of value to the enemy. But the constitution guarantees freedom of the press. Suppose the newspapers tried to take cover under that guarantee to print military information that might help the enemy. We would have the constitution on our side. But how long do you think the people of the country would tolerate such a thing? Constitution or no constitution a way would be found to stop it mighty quick and the country would approve.

The Same Goes for Congress

NEWSPAPERS KNOW that it: would jeopardize American lives and aid in bringing about our own defeat to exercise their full constitutional rights. It doesn’t make Sense and every newspaper man knows it. So we agree to the voluntary censorship. ~~ There is a better chance of retaining freedom of the press in that way than in trying to stand on constitutional rights that have no reality in the

midst of a war because they menace our national]

survival. The same goes for :congress. Dictators in Europe sprouted out of the decayed ruins of parliamentary governments that had lost the capacity to act. Political parties and factions stood upon their constitutional rights until they had wrecked their countries. Thus far we have been more practical. Theorists and doctrinaires will try to whip up an issue between congress and the president. Some practical politicians will try to do i: for political reasons. Realists will stick to the main fact, which is that the war must be won, and they won't allow that vital purpose to be frustrated by legalistic arguments,

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

‘| nounced today.

Local Owner Says 2 Way Bird Unlikely

By FREMONT POWER = ALWAYS ON the hunt for new things with which to beat the axis, the government is now looking for two-way homing pigeons— * in other words, pigeons that not only will fly home ‘but also away from home to a certain destination. The two-way pigeon, of course, is only a possibility, and a dim ° one at that, if you ask Sam Karabell, one of the state's leading pigeon racers and father of the late municipal judge, Charles

. Karabell.

Naturally, if someone produces the two-way pigeon, it will come as quite a godsend, but just how to train one presents the Problem.

at home in a garage loft at 2245 & N. Delaware st., fly one way and at that they are very good. Ey Mr. Karabell started raising racing pigeons more than 45 years ago in Philadelphia and now he has 200, 300, 500 and 600-mile winners. ° 8 2 ” One Lost by 13 Seconds

In fact the season just past was a great one for Mr. Karabell and

Mr. Karabell’s ‘Pigeons, who are §

When the army wants to use Sam Karabell's pigeons to send messages; they'll he ready. Meantime, KEEP out. S i

his birds.© A summary of the Monumental Racing Pigeon club’s young bird season shows that the Karabell fliers won. all the races but one and losing that by only 13 seconds. The races started from Paris, Ill; Effingham, Ill; Highland, I. and Rolla, Mo. The Rolla-to-Indianapolis race is a 328-mile competition, measuring from Mr. Karabell’s loft, and his bird made the distance at an average speed of 764.54 yards a minute, including any unscheduled stops for drinks of water. Other members of the Monumental club are S. J. Gatto, with a loft at 3514 E. Michigan st.; Abe - Glanzman, 4036 Madison ave.; - Clifford Nordloh, 2909 Meredith ave.; Robert Pidgeon, 1121 W. 34th st. A. G. Rottet, 1609 Cottage ave.; PF. J. Sauterteig, 1221 W. 36th st., club racing Secretary, and Mr. Karabell. When the. members decide to have a race, all the entrants put their birds in one cage, some en= tering as many as seven or eight; and they're shipped by express to the starting point. Attached to the cage is food

. and water, and also an envelope

with some money in it for whoever may take over the care and feeding of the birds. ° The baggage master at the starting point releases the birds, jotting down the time on a card

600 IN WAVES | WILL BE AT I. I,

Gets Largest Contingent Of Trainees; Rules - of Enlisting Given. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (U. P). —Indiana university will train 600

WAVES of the first 1600, more than any other school, the navy an-

. Six hundred women will take a four months’ course as yeomen at I, U. The University of Wisconsin will give a radio course to 500 and Oklahoma A. and M. will train an-

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which also is sent with the cage. The birds then head for home, according to their own ideas.

Four Eyelids at

Pigeons have four eyelids, according to leading pigeon authorities, and they may fly with two or three of these closed, according to weather conditions and speed. They use the fourth lid for sleeping, through the other three.

When Mr. Karabell’s birds retun home, they waddle tiredly through a wire gate that rings a

buzzer in the house. Out rushes Mr. Karabell, pulls

the leg band off the hird and

sticks it in a sealed clock, thus recording the time when the racer ‘arrived home. Since the clock is sealed, there

is ‘no chance for mopkey-busi-

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Such a timepiece may cost as 4

much as $50 or more, although Mr. Karabell gets along nicely with an $18 one. There ‘probably would be no way: of telling for sure, but Mr. Karabell thinks that the secret of his racing success is in the diet

.which he gives the birds about:

three days before they race. This, however, is a secret and

By LELAND STOWE

t, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times ‘The Chicago. Daily News, Inc.

MOSCOW, Sept. 10.—The greatest

1 battle of the Russo-German war is raging closer and closer to Stalin-

grad.

In the narrow waistline between

the Don and Volga rivers, the Germans have divisions, maybe more. Nazi high command. is ramroding approximately - 400,000, possibly 500,000,- of its toughest shock troops along the grooves designed to yield control of the lower Volga.

rammed at least 30 Thus the

Day after day, for over a month

as they can see

other 500.

them by mail, the navy said. Must Be Over 20

write. to the navy officer procure-

Application blanks will be sent tomorrow to ‘applicants requesting

Women wishing to enlist should

ment at the nearest district naval headquarters and state their age, education, marital , status and, if married, occupation of the husband and ages of children. Candidates must be over 20 and

now, nearly 1,000,000 men on both sides have been locked in terrific conflict in the Stalingrad area. This is by all odds the largest sustained battle in the three years of the second world war. It is concentrated into such a small area that it is difficult to see how “many more divisions can be into it. But

‘what does Stalingrad mean?

Stalingrad means. infinitely more

Jan Tobruk mean; io Liye and

Stalingrad threatens to

meth mush mors o the European

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under 36, have no children under 18, be of good repute in their community, meet physical qualifications and be high- school graduates or business school graduates with equivalent of high school education.

eb acral cannot fail to be the most decisive, in long-term. consequence, of any battle ‘this. war nas yet seen. “Russia's s Mississippl

minimum weight is 95 pounds. . Frog in the Rid star (Soviet

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army organ) ‘the other day, Ilya | Ehrenburg. said said, “Stalingrad, this is|Soviet the Volga. Who can tell what the

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this as fate and not spen nd undue

time grieving over the lost ones." Clubs, however, co-operate’ in’ returning lost birds and Mr. Sau. terteig, racing secretary here, has a loft for “prisoner birds” He can tell from the leg band hab

. club the bird is from, and «he catches one, he writes “club of the incident and more than likely the homing pigeon

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gets home on somebody. else's

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Homing pigeons were used in the. :

last war for messenger service,

prize birds, 8 600-mile race winner.

bird made the trip from Tulsa, Okla., in 13 hours 35 minutes. He “Mrs. Karabell’'s Champion.”

Mr. "Karabell takes care not to divulge it Although he often sends seve

The Volga Flows in Every Russidn Heart And May Mean a Lot to Allies, Says Stowe

cuts ‘through Russia and through the heart of every Russian.” I wonder who can possibly tell what Stalingrad and the Volga mean fo every man, woman and child in the English-speaking democratic countries? At any rate, the Volga means to Russia what the Mississippi means to the United States—and immeasurably more because, America has two oceanic coastlines. .

As for Stalingrad? Tomorrow

Stalingrad may conceivably mean to]

the American people what the battle of Yorktown and the siege of Vicksburg mean to Americans today—in that sense, or in a sense precisely the reverse. . ¢

One Front Strategy How can this be possible? - Be-

cause the whole strategy of Hitler's

war against Britain and the United States, quite as much as his war against the Soviet Union, has reached its climax at

Hitler wants to cripple Russia and

push back the Russians so far toward Asia that he can fight the British and Americans alone next year. From Austria and Czechoslovakia through Norway, Flanders, Jugoslavia and Greece, the Nazis have always fought their opponents alone, or only on one. front, so that

the entirety of Germany's offensive] force could be thrown against it.

~ For nearly 15 months now Hitler has concentrated the formidable

Dower uf his arisles sgainst the) Soviet Union

eral birds out for a race, not all get back. One gathers that a pigeon racer simply must accept

and capture Stalingrad before a second front was created in the west. He has smashed through. There is still no second front.

Hitler Needed Time Now, if the Germans capture this

British and American armies will be compelled to fight just as much alone in the west next year as the Russians have fought alone in the east all this summer. All Hitler needed was time. He can still fight with his own chosen ‘tactics, according to his own devilishly successful time table. Stalingrad means all of this to every English-speaking citizen , in the world who cherishes free government and the possibility of living ‘the rest of his days as a free man. Even so, and for whatever reasons, the record stands that we in Britain and America have not

Sized little finger to save Stalingrad. Now only the Russians can die, and dying, do what they can. Moscow Next?

What does Stalingrad mean to us? /It may wean an autumn offensive

key city of the lower Volga, the|

lifted so much as a respectably|..

and Mr. Karabell’s are registered - with the signal corps for shvic in this one. Theyye fos Wo-way birds, howe .But in all of Mr. Karabell’s ex perience with them, he still doesn’t know exactly what makes. them come home. : “Nobody can figure it out,” Mr. Karabell. “It’s just that’s all.” For one thing, homing pigeons don’t care to associate with coms . mon pigeons and thus they ‘lose no time along the way.

NATIVE OF CITY GETS COMMAND

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Brig. Gen. Walter Smith Is

Named to High Post In Europe. - Brig. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith

native of Indianapolis, today a member of the United States

staff to Lieut. Gen. Dwight hower, commander of the can forces in Great: Britain.

Gen. Smith was born in [n

Volga ‘to Russia? There is Ho such vivet in Burope. The Volga

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At noon today, a young lady came to see me about 10 stags wa to dvs throw

the program to teach senior high school students| something about aviation. 1 have already mentioned it in my column. She tells me the program is open to both boys and girls, and all- but four states are putting it into their public schools. In New York state, the legislature is granting a sum of money to cover the cost of the necessary equipment. An anonymous letter came to me the ofber day,

WASHINGTON, Wednesday. —At 12:30 yesterday

4 ea a is opening. Maj. and Mrs. PEermis Roosevelt. have .given their home, “Mohannes,” in Oyster Bay, to the commities for the duration of the

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: Alaska, and their sons are either ‘in the service or working for the government, she had to hand over the keys herself. It was a very nice ceremony, ‘and I saw a num-