Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1942 — Page 9

MONDAY, OCT. 5, 1942

Hoosier Vagabond

LONDON, Oct. 5.—Sergt. Dave Breger, | who is probably this war's outstanding soldier-cartoonist with his pathetic little “Private Breger, ? is a fiend for work. During his early days in the army, a year and a half ago, he was doing about 15 cartoons a week, on top of his gruelling 12-hours-a-day army routine. That was in Louisiana. Working conditions could hardly have been worse. All his work had to be done at night. He didn’t dare keep the boys in his tent awake all night, so he worked in the kitchen after the cooks had cleaned up. He even had to carry on his cartooning while on maneuvers. He did all his work then in the back end of a truck, ‘with the tail-light extension hanging over his shoulder, and his face covered with mosquito netting. About a year ago Breger was transferred to the army's morale section right in New York City. It Was a drastic change from life in camp. He lived at home, and it was almost like going to the office every morning in civilian life. But all good things come to an end, and about three months ago Breger found himself on a convoy headed for England. Life magazine has been trying for more than a year to do a picture spread on Breger, but he doesn’t stay put long enough. They've got all set on him twice, and he was suddenly moved away.

Some of His Art Tricks

HERE IN LONDON Breger lives and works in a private room at the Washington club. He is the only soldier permitted by the Red Cross to live permanently at one of its clubs. He is going’ to do a mural of “Private Breger” on

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

A MAN WALKED into the military uniforms section of a downtown clothing store. A store official and a clerk stepped up and greeted him. His face . was familiar to both of+them, so familiar, in fact, they didn’t have the nerve to ask his name. He ordered a complete naval officer's outfit, which runs into quite a bit of money, said he’d be back to get the outfit in a few days. They let him go without asking his name, marking them for “Mister X.” Even when he came and picked up the clothing, charging it, they didn’t have the nerve to ask his name—felt sure it would come to them soon. It didn’t. Several days ‘ later, the store . official dropped the paper he was reading and hurried to the office and turned in the name. He'd just seen the man’s picture in the paper. It was Dr, Daniel Sommer Robinson, former president of Butler and now a navy lieutenant commander in the chaplain’s corps. :

Horse Hair Research

SEVENTH GRADE pupils at the James E. Roberts school are going in for some down-to-earth seientific research. Several days ago, one of them brought in the story that a black horsehair, placed in a bottle of water, will turn into a snake, in time. Well, there was just one way.to find out whether it is theory or fact, so one.of the pupils scoured farms in Franklin township until he found g handful. Now, some of us who never got around to finding out for ourselves when we were kids soon will have a verified gnswer. . . . Friends report that Austin Clifford, former Indianapolis lawyer, who has been itching for months to get back into uniform, finally has made it. He’s serving as a captain in an anti-aircraft battery in the east. He was an officer in world war I, and for several years has been practicing in Chicago. + « «

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5—Maybe one way to get rid of some of this cenfusion that emanates from Washington would be. to tell more hard facts. For instance Admiral Land, chairman of the

maritime commission, has some facts to tell. In September, 93 ships were delivered— more than three a day, They added up to 1,009,800 deadweight tons. The numberof ships built last month approached the total production for all of last year. In August, 68 ships were built. In July, 71 were delivered. * That’s the way it is going. It - looks as if the country will build the 8,000,000 tons of shipping that President Roosevelt asked for this year. If enough steel can be provided, Admiral’ Land is convinced .we can double that next year and deliver the 16,000,000 tons’ of ships asked for by the president, Yards and ways sufficient to’ dosthat are now in operation. Winning! this ‘war “depend: transportation that this ‘Progress in building ships is one of the most ‘encouraging sighs in the whole war program. ‘We are sufficiently: advanced in other parts of the program to keep: ahedd-of ship capacity. Opening ‘of the second" front, the stepping up of operations wherever ‘the High command may decide to do so, will depend on ships.” Success of the ship-

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gram is the’ best I th I 3 bullding pro best guarantee a ur. 1 ‘the’ maritime commission: is ‘doing. It is getting out

force will in time- be felf against the enemy.

Here's ‘How it Comes About

endian ROOS would have’ even oss reason for ill-tempered outBursts about the press if reports as good as the Siifimiding. Pigutes could be . given out frequently.’ :

and I have not told you as yet of what I did last Friday. At 10 o'clock, Admiral Wood and Capt. Clifton of the U, s. hospital on Mare island, came for he and we went at once to the new and comparatively small hospital on Treasure island, where some of the boys wounded in the Maikin island raid are being treated. It was heart-stirring to see those boys who had been close to my own boy. I have a curious feeling in visiting these hospitals © that the boys are not strangers,

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.sparkle-lines above the general’s stars.

| By Ernie Pyle

the wall of the big lounge for them, and Bruce Bairnsfather is going to do an “Old Bill” on the opposite wall, The two cartoonists—No. 1 of the last war and No. 1 of this war—have never met, but they will soon. ‘ There are little tricks to Breger’s cartooning which you may not have noticed. He always makes officers bigger than privates, And he always makes officers’ jaws jutting and privates’ jaws rounded. That's to show “authority” and “obedience,” he says. A sergeant’s stripes show up easily in a drawing, but officers’ insignia don’t. So Breger puts little lines above, the shoulder-bars to make them appear to shine. ‘Recently he did a retouching job on a| painting of Gen. Eisenhower, for an officer-friend, and he says he could hardly resist putting little

They Go Through Censorship

ONCE IN A WHILE Breger gets stuck on his actual drawing. He has drawn “Private Breger’s” face a thousand times, yet the other day he couldn’t get it to look like “Private Breger” at all. He had to draw it over and over for 20 minutes before he finally got it, After Breger finishes his cartoons, he has photostatic copies made. He sends one set to Gen. Eisenhower, leaves another set with the army’s public relations office, and sends three sets to New York by different routes, to be sure at least one set gets there. His cartoons have to go through censorship, the same as newspaper copy, but that doesn’t bother him, Breger is rather excited about his approaching fatherhood. He happened to be on a broadcast back

to the States the night he got the cable from his| &

wife, and he wanted to let her know he'd got the word, but couldn’t come right out and say it. So at the end he said, “Be sure and drink lots of milk from now on.” He's been getting letters ever since from friends wanting to know what he meant.

In the same battery with him is another local attorney, Warrack Wallace.

Helsinki’s a Problem

O. R. BREEDEN, retifed Pennsylvania railroad engineer, has a pet pig, named Helsinki, that’s getting to be quite a problem. Mr, Breeden, who has a couple of acres at 9655 E. Washington st. got Helsinki last spring and intended to butcher him this winter. But he raised the piglet on a bottle, even kept him in the basement for a week or so during severe winter last spring, and that darned little pig just adopted the family, Just the other day, Mrs. Breeden heard a knocking at the front dgor: She investigated, and there was Helsinki who had. gotten out of his’ pen, Put back in his pen, Helsinki was out and: knocking on the front door again im less time than it takes to tell it. Now the Breedens have a pet pig on their hands and no pork chops. They just couldn’t eat Helsinki,

Shades of Salomey! Jimmy's Proud, Too

1. William F. Kandler pours a shovelful of apples into the cidgr press at the J. K. Lilly orchard, 7200 College ave.

2. This is where the pressure is straightens the burlap around the

3. Oh, boy, cider!

put on the apples. John Newdidate boxes containing the sliced apples.

A long-time customer of Ernest Fischer's,

Mrs. R. O. Pflumm, 1141 E. 80th st., gets a gallon. Mrs. Plumm has

been buying cider for years from orchard,

Mr. Fischer, manager of the Lilly

Lilly Farm Alfons Will Tam | ~ Out-7000 Gallons This Fall |

By HAMLIN WELLING Hey, folks, step right up and get your apple cider. The season’s booming in this, the climactic month, as far as the juice of the apple is concerned. It is now that the.apples are at their best, the

juice at the rarest and the people's cider thirst at its peak.

The apples are pretty Juicy this year because of all the rain we've

WE TOLD YOU a week or so ago about how proud Col. Arthur W. Hetrington was of an autographed photo of Generalissimo Chiang. Kai-shek. Now, we find little Jimmy’ Ruffin, the town’s No, 1 autograph collector, is just as proud, because .he has an autographed photd.of the Chinese leader, too. And, he also has one of Mme, Chiang: Jimmy, who is J2] and lives at 1621 Montcalm stizshas been an invalid] several years. - His mother started him on the autograph hobby as a medns of keeping him from becoming lonely. By now, he has more than 1000 autographs and more than 100. autographed photos, in-. cluding such personages as President and-Mrs. Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, General Marshall and Dorothy Lamour. Jimmy is greatly improked now, and is able to go to the Fresh Air Schoo), ‘although he’s still under a doctor’s care.

Democrats Hope President

cider. this season.

FOR GIVES WEAK AID TO BENNETT

.Persuades Labor Party - To Quit Race;

"By LYLE C. WILSON ro) United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—Presi-

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By Raymond direct

dent Roosevelt will have to go considerably beyond his week-end an-

nouncement that he would vote for ‘| John Bennett for governor of ‘New ‘York if the full force of White

‘long ago, in fact, the newspapers. were being criti-

When an assistant secretary of the navy makes a speech saying we are losing the war, it is printed. When the army chief of supply makes a rough speech, it is printed. When Donald Nelson says we fell 14 per cent below August: expectations in war production, that is printed. When columnists and commentators talk to officials, all of whom say the rubber shortage requires a nation-wide restriction of automobile driving, they write about that and urge that it be done. They urge that the confusion and delay in’ the rubber program be corrected. When responsible officials | say that war factories are in danger of slowing down for lack of materials, columnists and commentators call attention to that.

Democracy—a Noisy Family

DONALD NELSON calls in the newspapers of the country and asks their help in collecting scrap metal, so that steel production will not be curtailed. The press does what it can to. call attention ‘to that, When there was hestitation about converting the automobile industry to war work, columnists and commentators called attention to that and to the danger of continuing to chew up precious materials in manufacture of automobiles. At times that sort of thing may seem like nagging Congress feels that the press has nagged it because there has been so much comment supporting” President Roosevelt in his attempt to control inflation. “But you.haven't seen any press nagging of the job’

the ships, Newspape.s, if I know anything about them, are ready to. cheer whenever they get a chance. ' Not so

cized for overplaying optimistic: news. : So it goes ‘in a democracy : which is, -as J. B. Priealy po: said, like a nolsy family,

House influence is to be effective in his home state.

Mr. Bennett's backers expected—

at least hoped—that Mr. Roosevelt would prevent an American Labor party bolt from their gubernatorial |. nominee, off the bolt, there was some ground for hope that he might persuade the A. L. P. to withdraw their candidate, Dean Alfance.

When he failed to’ head

Unless he does move in that di-

rection, perhaps with a plea’ to the A. L. P. rank and file: tc support Mr: ‘have small claim for a share in any success Bennet may have on election day, Nov. 3.

Bennett, the presicent will

Thomas BE. Dewey, the racket

buster, is the Republican nominee.

_ Statement Unenthusiastio a Mr. Roosevelt backed ' Senator

James M. Mead for the Democratic nomination. Mr. Bennett was the candidate of James A, Farley.

Mr. Roosevelt's statement was

something short of enthusisstic. Explaining that there had been numerous inquiries, the president said:

“Of the three men in the race for

governorship of New York, I shall cast my ballot for John Bennett because T believe that he is thé best qualified.

“I trust that every voter, not only

in New York state, but throughout the country, regardless of party affiliations, will register, and on Nov.| 3,. exercise the right of the ballot.

; : ; This is one of the essential privileges’

By Elesiior Roosevelt

thy: with. which some E the. treatments carn now’ ‘bel given, is controlled be better.

the battles of the Coral sea, the Solomon islands and Midway. One marine parachutist, Pfc. Lopacinski, was ashore for two days and killed 36 Japs singlehanded, but was wounded by a bomb blast. ire I think the men themselves recognize that every| man in the outfit is equally important, runs the same

risks, and by doing his job well, whatever it is, makes| |

the more spectacular achievements possible. Sometimes I wish that the medals of honor could really

be distributed to the whole personnel. The case. is:

rare where one man without, the support ofthe ‘rest of his ouith 4 | do the outstanding job.

ought ‘the wards were particularly bright and The spirit of the men is the thing which me most, yerywhets thete Is 3 sulle and if

the ‘anger |

I saw men who have been through Pearl coon 1

navy hospital at Oakland, Wil

and’ duties of our democratic way : of life for which we are now fight-

HOLD EVERYTHING

had. That's the way they're finding it out at the J. K. Lilly orchard, 7200 College ave., where there are 40 acres of apple trees.

The manager there is Ernest Fischer, a maestro at the cider press for y past: 25. years. He has charge tof a brews0f eight men who will gather some 8000 bushels of apples and turn out about 7000 gallons of

Press 3000 Bushels

Not. that it takes 8000 bushels to that much: .cider—for it doesn’t.. They'll use only about 3000 bushels of apples ‘for the 7000 gallons. The other apples will be sold, or will be cooked into apple butter later on. Right now, Mr. Fischer. is turning out only about :600 gallohs of cider a week but later on the squeeze will be put on the apples for 1000 or more , gallons a week. The season after October, gradually subsides until | by Christmas there's not much left but memories.

Keep Old Customerss

Right now Mr. Fischer's customers are beginning their trips to the “cider bar” at ‘the orchard and will continue to .pour in throughout the season. He greets many of them as old friends—for some of them have been going there for their cider for more than 20 years. He remembers some of his present day customers as children who were babes-in-arms when. their “parents carried them in while ‘they bought cider. The process of igitlng cider, of course, is just the old squeeze play. Briefly, the story is'that. the apples are put in: a. press and, they give théir . all, when the pressie is put on. |, Out ‘at’ the Lilly orchard, thie ugh, they really have ‘mass. bro tion of cider. ‘Truck loads of “apples are picked and put in a big bin. From there they are shoveled into the loading ‘bin. of ‘the cider press. As they travel up an automatic conveyor, the apples are washed by many sprays of water. Reaching the top of the press, thie apples are slashed into small pieces by whirling knives. Pressure Goes On

In small pieces, the -apples then are dropped into, square ‘bbxes having cloth tops and bottoms and when about five of the boxes are {piled on tép of each ‘other, a pressure plate .descends, in the: middle, squéezing out ‘the juice. . And ther#’s your tider. 1

w—— | ‘At Lins. however, that’s nat the 1 | last ste . | Juice is piped to a 500-gallon tank ‘|in- a refrigerator that keeps it at

'|34 to 38 degrees Fahrenheit.

< From the press, the

At that temperature, cider can be kept sweet for two weeks or more. Here's a secret. Mr. Fischer confided that the way to make good cider is to use three or four kinds of apples. Good luck if you try it.

FIRST AIDERS MEET AT CHURCH TONIGHT

First aiders of civilian = defense district "39 will hold their regular meeting tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. in the University Park Christian church, 20th and Kenwood.

Miss Marie D Antien 2 Mufisiered

nurse and ; he Vincent's: hospital x

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War Chasing 'Joe College’

Spirit From the Campus

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (U. P.) — Joe College and Betty Coed, typified by racoon coats and rah-rah spirit, have about disappeared from the American campus under the pressure of the war. Officials of the office of education anid the war manpower commission believe the free and easy college life has become a war casualty.

Not only are many former men students now in the armed service but other phases of the war effort have affected campus life. Those men still left are taking military drill, physical education, and engineering and other technical training to fit them for the armed service or war industry jobs. More and more women are enrolling for courses once thought to be almost strictly for males. The loss of enrollment has hurt many small colleges, also hit by rising cost of operations and loss of trained faculty members to the armed services, industry or government. Some small colleges, officials believe, soon may have to close. Enrollment in some cases has dropped as much as 30 per cent. Since the college year went on a 12month basis many students - who worked during the summer to obtain tuition have had to drop out. And many others who depend on national youth administration

THIS CU RIOUS WORLD

A NEW SPECIES OF ELEPHANT WAS DISCOVERED IN NEW YORK CIry.”

WAS FOUND TO BE A 7/RUE L/GMYz.. A TYPE UNTIL. THEN UNKNOWN.

checks for a college career have had to quit. Also, men in the army no longer can help brothers pay tui-

tion. The army and navy enlisted reserves, in which many students enrolled to take offiders’ training while continuing their college work, can call the students to duty at any time. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson has announced that army reservists can expect to be called at the end of the first semester after they reach 21, Thousands of others would go if the draft is lowered to take in 18 and 19-year-olds. The office of education has a $5,000,000 ' fund - to. make loans to students in engineering, physics, chemistry and medicine, providing they agree to work for the duration in jobs selected by the manpower commission, The loan program was designed to permit students to graduate, but many receiving loans are in the enlisted reserves and subject to immediate call. Dr. Earl J. McGarth of the WMC said many women are now going into fields of study, such as engineering and medicine, formerly dominated by men. In June, 1942, only 12 women received engineering

degrees, he said, and industries and

professions have begged for more.

—By William Eergusod

JACKIE PELL, Saverrals, Georphr.

{LINKS WAR AIMS

T0 TAYLOR TRIP

Swiss Reporter Believes Pope’s Opinion Sought On Allied Objective.

By PAUL GHALI Copyright. a he reg Times " BERN, Oct. 5—~—An interesting answer to the riddle of Myron C, Taylor's trip to Rome which, for the past fortnight, has been puze zling ‘the most astute European ob=

servers, is contained in Rome dis patches in today’s Swiss press. . | According to Vatican News today, the main object of President Roose= velt’s special envoy’s mission was to obtain the Pope’s opinion on the united nations’ plans for the new world organization. The usually well-informed Rome correspondent of Die Tat, quoting the “most reliable Vatican sources; suggests that the United States and England have now come to the cone clusion that the Atlantic charter is too vague for world public opinion, These sources, according to the cor« respondent, believe that the allies are preparing a new declaration concerning war aims and Europe's reconstruction to which Russia eventually might subscribe. A Basler Nachrichten dispatch hints that the declaration may possibly be contained in a speech by President Roosevelt. The Pcpe’s attitude toward allied post-war plans is not known, ace cording to both correspondents, but. it is presumed that he was extreme ly noncommittal.

Hoare’s Speech Recalled ’

This latest answer to the Taylor | riddle has roused considerable: ine terest among observers here who up

to now have turned deaf ears to the many wild rumors circulating. Ob servers are inclined to link the trip with Sir Samuel Hoare’s Chelsea speech last month in which Brite ain’s ambassador to Madrid state ed that Europe was not sufficiently enlightened about allied peace aims, Sir Samuel, it is stressed here, espe«. ° cially interested in Europe's reace tion to allied peace aims, has been studying them from his" Mading observatory. As for Italy, Mr. Taylor's “trip. has once more afforded proof of the

| extreme subtlety of fascist diploe.

macy. Mr. Taylor reportedly was shown the greatest. consideration by. fascist authorities and grante ed every facility to contact allied neutral diplomats. Now, however, the Italian press seeks to undere mine the mission. Mr. Taylor, it was widely reports ed, expressed to the pope thé unas nimity of the American nation, ine cluding Catholics, behind the war