Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1942 — Page 2
hg uation :
b - James W. Hurlbut, combat cor- : RIA the Jatine ou nthe;
Se os oals Soo isl
story of & night patrol which t in the Solomons. There were officers and 21 enlisted men
te the main center of enemy
In the dead of night they proGeeded in a small boat to a remote on Guadalcanal. They. estab- | ‘a beachhead, and then forward le the jungle to
of the ‘men returned to the i. One of them was badly
Other members of the patrol engaged in bitter hand-to-hand struggles with enemy outposts. Badly ‘outnumbered, they fought their way back to their comrades.
Dig Fox-Holes in Sand
“Soon their beachhead was surpunded and the Japanese opened uw with machine guns on the left order was given to dig in. w canteen cups and helmets the men dug fox-holes in the sand. ey sent.volley after volley into darkness, and cries of many enemy wounded were heard. ' Slowly the marine patrol was becut to pieces. Sergt. Charles C. Amdt of Okolona, Miss, was sent
gone 200 yards when he was shooting it out with the en-
badly cut from crawling over reefs, got through: safely. But DP could not be sent in time to the gallant men who stayed fight it out on that lonely, bultorn beach.
Swims in Field Shoes
Arndt told how he’got his man before taking to the water. He
- Workers i in East Mion, n ’
- Agree. do Let WPB 4
Settle Dispute. | i
P.)—Several thousand workers re-|
turn to their jobs in the sprawling} Western Cartridge Co. plant today,| ding a strike which has paralysed
“A operations ‘at the important muni-|
GAY GALLS FOR . $. SOLIDARITY
Opens Tomorrow. With 517 Attending.
(Continued from Page One)
church as their first “official” act in the . convention which closes Thursday. As early as yesterday convention officials arrived in Indianapolis and delegates were registering throughout today. It was estimated that 3500 would attend. Headquarters Listed
Convention headquarters were set up as follows: , Grand Army of the Republic— Claypool hotel. National Woman's Relief Corps— Claypool hotel. Ladies of the: Grand Army of the Republic—Hotel Lincoln. Daughtersqof Union Veterans of the Civil War—Hotel Severin. Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans—Hotél Severin. The G. A. R. commander in éhief challenged politics. and. stamped strikes in war industry as unpatriotic” during an interview in his suite at the Clayuool hotel. “There should be no political affiliations during the war,” he contended. “We should all be as one.” Calling Americans to ‘stand together,” he said: - “Abraham _Lincoln’s plea for solidarity in the Civil war is just as necessary to our victory in this war.”
Enlisted at 13
The: commander, who volunteered in the Civil war two months. prior to his 14th birthday, supported the plan to induct youths of the 18-19 age bracket, He said boys as young as 10 fought in “his” war, He insisted the younger men
“| and the boys were the best fighters:
nd, knocked: down one Jap with a well-placed shot. The other “ran Off like a scared rabbit” ‘Arndt Stole a rowboat from a small Jap samp nearby and got in safely.
8 to swim around. Figuring that ‘action was called for, he took s ‘waterproof-wrapped iron ration bar out of his pocket, unit and began sauntering along the beach, chewing the chocolate. ‘Nothing happened. He walked for two, three minutes and then fed behind him. The Jap. was i prowling in the bushes looking
2 the the other members of the paWho stayed behind only one
He’ ‘said Shey Were Sandice dg for alertness. - 4 “It’s like an old adage, ” he quoted:
“Young men for war, old men: for
counsel.” He agreed with objectors to the|
“It’s a shame to put any man in war—war is hell!” he said, i“
Opposed to ‘Mercy’
He criticized any proposal of “mercy” for the united nations’ enemies. “If we had reduced Berlin to the scorch of the earth in the last war, we never would have had world war
‘I1,” he said.
He recommended a “scorched earth” policy “against Berlin,
“Let's do a thorough job this time —if we don't it will be only a few years until these enemies Stars it all over again.”
Fifth Held in City
While election of officers will bel.
delayed until the final session of the veterans’ group, one man was reported today to have filed for the office of commander-in-chief. He is John 8. Dumser of Oakland, Cal. He served as patriotic instructor of the G. A. R. in 1933. This year's encampment is the fifth national convention held in In-
dianapolis. The others were in 1876,
1903, 1920 and 1921. * The encampment parade, in which the aged veterans will ride in cars “and some will walk,” is scheduled
4| for Wednesday. The G. A. R. group
will start at 10 a. m. from the war memorial on Michigan street and will move as follows: East on Michigan to Pennsylvania, south to Market; West to the Circle, to North Meridian, north fo the War
a Permayivanis 10 Washe
| Market, east to the Circle, to North
Meridian; north to the War memo-
{rial
It is trgditional for the G. A RB
}to have only the Sons of Union
| tions factory since. Wednesday. | "The walkout ended with an agrees i ment between the company and the|
A. F. of L. chemical workers union fo place disputed issues before the war labor board. A company spokes man said maintenance crews had
J kept the plant ready for immediate
resumption and that operations ere Sxpected a be In ull Swing?
rary rary settlement formu.
at a union mass}
meeting last night after the strikers had been threatened with a gov-
ernment “crack-down” and ordered]
back to work by President William
Green of the American Federation| in
of Labor. : Walkout Spreads
| The strike began Tuesday when
1600 ‘employees of the smokeless powder division left their jobs de-
manding reinstatement of Francis
Bunzy, president of the local: The| Will
walkout spread to other departments. Robert Fleming, 'wiLB mediation official who attended the settlement
.j conferences, . said the agreement | provided:
Employees of the smokeless powder division will work under terms of an expired contract which has been extended 30 days; Bunzy will return to work pending a decision] on his status; the WLB will con-| sider union demands for a 29-cent increase in the present basic wage scale of 46 cents an hour and for reinstatement of “a number” of workers allegedly ' dismissed for union activity.
Green Blames Company
The union had rejected or ignored} three. WLB earlier requests to end the strike. The WLB will Rkegin con-
sidering the case Sept. 21.
Mr. Green. ordered the strikers Back to work yesterday and threatened to revoke the union charter if they refused. He charged the company’s ‘arbi trary anti-union tactics” had ca the strike, but said the eased in ‘munitions output could: not be tolerated.
PITTSBURGH, Pa Pa., Sept. 12 (U, P.)—A deadlocked dispute involving 30,000 employees of the Jones é& Laughlin steel ®rporation was destined for settlement by the war labor board today. The. United Steel Workers of
America; (C. I.,0,) announced last
ht that .n iations for a 5%. Sight. (hat mogitia retro-
wage increase, active ‘fo last. Feb. 15, and other
benefits granted: in the WLB’s “little steel” : decision, had’ collapsed after several weeks.
INGLES HEADS LOCAL GOP SPEAKER BUREAU
James W. Ingles, Indianapolis attorney long active in local RePublican politics, was appointed chairman of the county G. O. P. speakers’ bureau today by County Chairman Henry E. Ostrom. Mr. Ingles was district chairman of the Young Republicans organization in 1936 and was secretary
‘uncollected unless 3t 18 in,
' OPA's “fair rent” | directors haven't been
Also featured will be tour a h John Powers’ models from New, : York city, Florence Pritchett,
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MARTIN. MATILO, (CARPENTER, DEAD
Martin E. Matillo, a ‘carpenter, died ylesterday - morning ‘in St. port. * fie | Frnacis hospital after a nine week’s|” ~~ © Sh fllnessc. He was 72. Wap of Unrest Noted Mr. Matillo was born at Sardis; Apparently "the French -, have}: Ky., Aug. 11, 1870 and had. lived|agreed on two German observers. in Indiahapolis two years. He was|As soon as the news reached French a member of the Moose and of théj West Africa it provoked a wave of United Brethren church. unrest among French officials whose Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Prin-|tendencies are: far from Giri 13 years, who died ‘Th nie B. Matillo; a daughter, Mrs.|man. | mills tare i oo Havel McDonald of Greenwood, and| Another typleal. example; of (F Francis - hospi two sons, Emery aMtillo of Detroit,|France’s vain efforts. to resist the|be held at p. my Monday. He lived Mich, and Harry aMtillo of In- occupying authorities is afforded by|at 1269 Naomi st. and was 36. dianapolis. the German demand for merchant A native of Mt Auburn, Mr. Services will be held at 1 p. m.[shipping. Ten days ago the Nazis who. wes tay i nthe Harry M. Moore peace chapel |asked for 200,000 tons of Prench|: Brown, secre reas urer and burial will be in Washingtoh|shipping—a third‘ of France's re-|of Ladies Garment Workers’ union, Park. maining fleet. No. 277, had lived in Indianapolis | ———————— Laval's first. answer was & bluntlays pri one year of his life. POSTPONE REUNION refusal, but finally, under undis-| “War conditions” have caused in-|closed German threats, he modified] definite postponement of the Wood- his attitude. Instead of 200,000 tons(J: Stuck Brown; a son, Earl E. Elmore family reunion scheduled{of French shipping, Laval offered|Brown Jr. his mother, Mrs. Jessie for tomorrow at Clayton. The fam-
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Soon, alter three-month delay. 8 2 o
armistice. The. Nol 2 Dati mission gave its approval, but insisted that German observers should go to Dakar to supervise the use of the material sent to the African
SERVICES MONDAY FOR EARL E. BROWN
Services for Earl E. Brown, a garment cutter at Real Silk hosiery
Chicago. are enrolled. Officers are: Presi-(at the outbreak of war. Thus, at The services will be held at the Sent, M. L. ayn, vice|jeast legally, ¢he armistice conven-/J, C. Wilson funeral home. The president, Harry Indianap-|y Was nok Vielatad an the’ French| Rev. R. Hi. Ben pastor of St. olis, -and secretary-treasurer Mrs. on . ting, :
.fereasingly clear that the only sur-
orary. Well, you get the idea by this time. It just goes on and on. In my day, one said “What da ya know?” in the casual manner. Recently it was “What's cooking?” But that, too, is fast growing passe. To be really “on the beam" : one says: “What's tickin’?” “You're cooking with gas” meaning you are right, still is in good standing and “I know what's codkin’ on the front burner,” meaning hep to the situation, is | still out of the colloquial class. S$ ®&.8 ; Instead of using plain English ‘when ‘one: wants ‘10. say “Come here,” the smart words to use are “Drape the limber body.” A dance is a “rat race” in 1942. A “Joe” asks a “Margie” (another name for a pretty girl) to. “Come
. on snake, lpt's go crawl.” She may
accept or “give him the brushoff.” “Go dig it” means, to go do
“drapes the body” or “drapes the
Queen and Her Dreamboaf ‘Relax at the Drugstore
(Continued from Page. One) No candidate for a scholastic hon- may wi
on worm, let's go squirm” or “Come
something. j To dress or buy a new dress; one
viving brake on French cancessions to the Germans lies in maintenance “jof + diplomatie. relations with the United States. Even more than] - year, the French people now Jack to America as thiols oRl¥ friend
MAIL CENSORSHIP "OFFICE IS MOVED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 . 2).
Jap air cannon. Tact ar 0 rs a 1 we gon, Sot Gs Why sue planes can fake scores of. hils, come back fying. :
efforts are starting ‘ta crack up in areas where appointed to enforce the orders. Landlords are defying rent ‘committees, evicting tenants who protest rent increases. iS=f ~~ OPA has directors in 135 out of | limited by inadequate appropriations and “administrative practicality” : meaning “we got more work than we can do.”
ich Se as moons ust is the a “word. i, wi ya to for their own cokes. If the ZERIT OHINESE 60 HN serious! 8 8 2 “on an oviony ante imei IAS JAPS SEIZE fl 0 ‘orders: more than & “coke,” it is | -often: taken for extravagance and | CHUNGKING, Bet. 12 00. § affection, 1 is well understood [pore , than: 100,000, that one coke can be sipped a i. vm on img and Manshurts® sre facing conversation. ~~ tion, the Central Daily There is even a technique to today. : eating the cracked ice in the
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corpse.” Anything that is “super | Di ¥| duper” is a “wing ding.” And the
some kind of compromise on bill: Wisest heads here admit bil
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396 defense rental areas, says it is
: it : hen) Greatest, unknown factor in midwest Sléctions is the ©. 1.0. Reto station troops and planes at Da-| publican congressmen, after a month ‘at home, still don’t know how the apparently are| rank and file in war industries will vote, though union leaders generalexageraten, aithough the ruth. is} 13 urge a democratic Yate to support president. i
iE alookings 1s. Drowing. “Stockings are costly, usually run at first wearing, women say. i
! Nook for high-pressure drive to pass legislation net session cancelling poll-tax requirements for all voters in Jeacral slegliane.. Passage of the soldier voting bill opened the! way, )
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You may be riding/on soy beans, some day, . Baruch’ report says “noropol,” from soy-bean oil, is “interesting” though tests sos far don’t show whether 5 can be used for tires:
‘as a substitute for rubber,
"Tire Torfurers
Will Get V-Sign i
CHICAGO, Sept. 12 (U. P).— The- National Safety council brought forth a suggestion today for squelching tire torturers—the
boys who barrei‘along at 50.0r:60, | squeal ‘around’ cortiers’ “and ‘stop:
like a bucking brane. : “Give ’em the V signal, three shorts and a long on your horn,” the council advised conservation
minded motorists. “Even the most
reckless should catch on.”
Politicians haven't grasped major. patil aspect of new bill—that Fighter ’| 1t will create a huge, powerful taxpayer bloc, te ee = income= tax payers have numbered three to seven mil.
“1 {none and the allies lost he
losses are explained by - ‘ that allied air forces enterprising and” more active ¢ the enemy's, ; . The Price of a Good Job
Whereas enemy planes stayed up: we high, allied fighters were ‘assigned to do a good deal of ground strafing, ‘which: is bound to be costly business. Allied bombers, more over, were much more active than the enemy's Jombers ever were ii: that week. :
During the enemy's push, there: were days more favorable to the”
allies than to the axis: Sept. 3, the" enemy lost 18 planes, the allies 10. on
A Yo. or y the benefit of ground forces, in con junction with their necessities and 2. That the allies now are willing to face the cost which close e ground support. involves. iu
KIWANIANS TO GOLF The Kiwanis club will hold the last ‘golf tournament. of . the. fea~ son at the Highland Golf and Country club Thursday, followed. by ‘a dinner 'in the evening. Non-golfers are invited to ajténd the dinner,
FOR YoUR CON VENIENCE FAIRWAY Y FURNITURE