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x LONDON. Oct. 6.~Lately I've been tagging. along on some of the sight-seeing tours the American troops on leave take around London, It would be fun. to do every day. One day we did the houses of parliament. There were four soldiers and Wo sailors in the bunch. «+ The party was in charge of Lady Colfax. A When we got to parliament one of the members took charge, and toured us for about half an hour. It was the first time any of the boys had seen either a “lady” or a member of parliament, and they were impressed. The .mem-: ber whp showed us about was Osbert eake, who is also undersecretary for the home office. He « is a tall, dignified pleasant man who looks and talks exactly like an Englishman. He took us first to a doorway where we could look into the. house of commons. Or rather into

what is left "of it, and there’s practically nothing

left of it. Only the walls stand. Itsis roofless. The seats and the galleries are all gone. Mr. Peake, in. his British way, said, “This is the house of commons. We usually kept it in good condition, but the Germans have slightly altered it. Haw Haw Haw!” . Later one of the soldiers said to me, “Imagine Us being so good-natured about it if that happened * at home.” Then he requoted Mr. Peake and said, #¢ . the Germans have slightly altered it. Haw Haw Haw! I” The British ‘all laugh alike, don’t they?” You could tell the soldier was pleased and JAmpressed with Mr. Peake.

. Educating the British

THE BOYS DIDN'T talk much, but when they did say something it’ was good. We were walking through the lang hall between the two houses. On the walls are immense old paintings of historic scenes. One of them js the Battle of Trafalgar, showing the Melee of battle pn board Nelson's ship.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

+ THE NEW VICTORY speed limit of 35 miles an

- hour is receiving a remarkable response, judging from

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reports. Not everyone has slowed down to 35 yet, but the cheaters are so few as to stand out like sore thumbs, and even they have slowed some. Our Shelby- ,« Ville agent reports that on his trips -. between here and there the last few days, everybody. has stayed in line, driving not 35 but nearer 30. Another of our: corps of agents reports that the Victory honk— beep, beep, beep, beeececeeeep—is

catching on. When an Indianap- *

olis & Southeastern bus speeded up to 40 miles an hour tp pass a ‘ .slow driving car, the motorist * tootec three shorts and a long. Everybody on the bus except the : “driver laughed. He just started driving slower. .-. . We thought our pet peeve--rough driving parking lot attendants—had been eliminated by the rubber tire situation, but we're starting to get Complaints again. It surely can’t be that the parking lot jockeys are ‘too rushed these days! °

Felling Off the Sergeant

M. S. CHURCHMAN, appropriately enough, is pres- + ident of the board of trustees of a church—All Souls . Unitarian. ... James, ‘Soot the. Democratic nominee - for sheriff, is distributing unique candidate cards. They are “owl service” time tables for various carlines. What won’t candidates think of next? ... Sign i on the rear of a plumber’s truck: “Peter Pate, Never . » Overheard as two buck privates walked past “So I says, ‘Sarge, I just don’t give a

the Claypool: « « « The firemen

: damn, and that's the way it is, see’?”

* at engine house 13 used to raise the flag every morning and lower it each evening religiously, even taking

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—In the noisy, bickering way that is characteristic of democracy, perhaps we have turned the corner into the main road. President Roosevelt's action in bringing practically everything we use under price control, and in blocking increases in rents, wages and ', salaries, puts the entire population under the bridle of the war. This is the end of life as usual in America for the duration. We have had a high standard of living in America. It was the envy of the rest of the world. But we know now that we cannot fight this war on that standard of living. . Long . before the war. began 1937 in Europe I saw queues in cities I ‘visited. Lines of people waited in front of vegetable stands in Moscow. In Berlin my wife went shopping with a friend and they found an amazed crowd of housewives standing around a produce’ dealer’s little stock of eggs—the first that had been on sale in months. Children in Berlin were at that time gathering up toothpaste tubes and metal scrap on Saturdays. They were ‘already at war on the home front. People

A : shivered in. their homes in the winter months,

Nobody Is a Free Agent Now

FOR A LONG TIME Donald Nelson and Leon Henderson have been warning us that the standard “of living in this country would go down to 1932 levels before the war was over. It will not be easy in this country unless we readjust ourselves mentally to the fact: that during the war we are not living in a land of plenty but in a land of shortage. ‘Work must have a new incentive—not personal

gain but winning the war,

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~My Day

SEATTLE, -Wash., Monday. —I did not leave space . to tell you yesterday that last Friday, in San Francisco, I also visited the army hospital. -There are new * buildings there, too, but on the whole, it gives one less . feeling. of hurried change than most of the other hospitals. It is evident everywhere that an effort is being made to ‘use all the new scientific knowledge which can contribute to the . better care of the men in service.

I would surmise, however, that

{e. Bye not “giving our draftees & sufficiently careful psychiatric exmation | ‘before they ‘are. taken

.a free agent now.

writers:

Ralph E. Boulton, chief marine corps recruiter here,

Europe was pulling in its belt. In . _

a as well as abroad, and everyone was a little edgy

her appeal on help for Russia. This is natural, since

* that these young people

- Sailor Bob Kannon stopped’ and said, “Look, they had women on battleships in those days.” t Mr. Peake came back and {ooked for himself, and sure enough there were women aboard, helping tend the wounded sailors. “You've got a good eye,” said Mr. Peake, “I've seen that picture a thousand times’ and I never noticed the women in it before.” And Sailor Kannon said wistfully, “I wish they had women on American warships!”

Our last visit was to the little chapel deep under

the house of lords. It is used now only for state weddings. and christenings. The christening urn is a huge bronze thing, bigger than a kettle-drum, set up on a pedestal about waist-high. ‘It. is intricately and beautifully done in filigree and mosaic and every other kind of craftwork you can imagine. “One of the boys looked at it a long time and finally said, “Quite a gadget!”

Just You Wait, Ernest

WHEN THE TOUR was over Lady Colfax said she had to keep an appointment, so the boys all thanked her for going with us, and she got in a cab. When she had gone one of the boys said, “Was she a real lady?” When assured that she was, he said, quite sincerely, bothering to show us ayound.” I had expected American troops to be cynical and maybe ‘even a little contemptuous of British lords and ladies. But when they actually come face to face with one they seem quite awed and pleased. These. sightseeing tours are really a wonderful thing for the troops. I know country boys who have' never even been to their own state capital, but who have hit London at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and by 6 could tell you all about Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London, and Richard the Lion Hearted's| bronze horse, which still stands just outside parlia- | ment with a shell-hole blown through his behind. Yes, these mass ocean tours being conducted by Uncle Sam these days are certainly educational. But I won't consider the thing as complete success until some Cockney sells London Bridge to a soldiertourist. Or vice-versa.

it down when a light shower started. Now they con't even put it up anymore. What's the matter, boys?

Tenth in 10 Years : Yi

THE SWEET YOUNG secretary to one of the Curtiss-Wright execulives was married last Easter. Now she measures her .anniversaries thusly: “We'll celebrate our 10th anniversary when our war bonds mature.” . . . The town of Rushville pays due recognition’ to “the increase in bicycling resulting from the tire shortage. A recent visitor to the town reports seeing nice white, official looking bicycle racks on the various downtown corners. And they had a lot of bikes in them, too. . #. Note to anonymous letter Remember the paper shortage and don’t waste paper by sending unsigned notes to us. We'll leave your name out if you ask us to, but we just toss the anonymous ones in the waste basket. See?

One-Legged Antelope GEORGE V. HORTON, formerly of The Times’ advertising staff and now with the Scripps-Howard national advertising department, is about to take unto himself a bride. The ceremony’s at Milford, Del., next Saturday, and theyll live in Evanston. The bride is Miss Barbara Marshall of Milford. .. , Liebert I. (Bud) Mossler has turned his Mossler Insurance Agency over to his assistants and enlisted in the VOC. . . . Capt.

flew to New York over the week-end to speak on the “We, the People” program which his brother, Milo Boulton, produces and announces. . . . One of our agents vouches for the fact that a one-legged inmate of the Indiana state farm, who hobbled around on crutches and was assigned fo pick up waste paper, joined the antelopes last week. In other words, he escaped. And the last report we get Is that he’s still at large.

By Raymond Clapper

James F. Byrnes, as director of economic stabilization, are about as broad as he and President Roosevelt want to make them. That these powers will be used with consideration and reasonableness so far as is possible in justice to war needs ‘is guaranteed by the personality of Justice Byrnes and his long experience in public life, Americans don’t like to be pushed around. It Jimmy Byrnes showed one quality above all others when he was in the senate, it was his ability to do what had to be done and make people like it, This administration will have to be hard in much that it does.

would bawl you out while he ‘was pulling your tooth. He'd get it out all right, but he wouldnt also paste you in the jaw just for the hell of it.

Yes, We've Come a Long Way

WHEN YOU LOOK back a year, and remember that we were still debating whether the. automobile industry should be converted to war work, you can see how far we have come. The last two weeks have been raucous ones in Washington. . . Everybody has been. snapping at everybody else, and President Roosevelt did his best when he got back to add to the irritation. It was ‘a hard period because we were taking a big and ‘fateful step. We ‘were deciding that it had to be all-out war at home

while the decision was being made. Yet we reached a most important milestone. When you look back only a month and remember

that we were still waiting for the Baruch report to. tell us that ‘automobile ‘driving would have to be cur-|" tailed throughout the country, you can see that even

in the last few weeks we-have progressed.

Our war machine is building up. The big job is|

to feed it, to keep enough coal shoveled on. That means shortages, queues, and, for many, less to live on, But it means earlier victory. :

By Eleanor Roosevelt|

closer relations between the various consuls stationed in San Francisco and the students who come from so many South American and Far Eastern’ countries. The flight upon Saturday to Seattle was pleasant and it was a great joy to see Mrs. Dan Honeyman at the airport dn Portland. A little later, my daughter and son-in-law came to the airport. Saturday evening we went out to the state university here, where a meeting was being held for the united nations team, representing the international student assembly held in Washington early in September, I thought all the young people spoke very well. They emphasized the value of a united nations program, not only to win the war, but to build stronger . foundations for peace in the future. i Lieut. Luidmila Pavlichenko, the Russian girl sniper, attracts the most attention because she presents something unusual to us. In her speech she centers

at the present time Russia is so hard pressed and we = witnessed - such an extraordinarily heroic deense of

“Imagine a woman like her|

RALLIES LISTED

But Justice Byrnes is not the kind of fellow who| .

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BY DEMOCRATS

Party’s - Ward, Township Vice Chairmen Named By Mrs. Coleman.

An extensive series of Democratic rallies is scheduled throughout the county for the remainder of the week. Democratic candidates for city and county offices will attend. Meetings will be held in the precincts. of the fifth ward tonight, first ward and Lawrence township tomorrow, 10th ward Thursday ‘and in the 19th ward and Wayne township Friday. Meanwhile, Mrs: Kathryn Coleman, county vice chairman, has announced the names of ward and towuship vice chairinen: Mrs. Susan Mund, ward one; Mrs. Myrtle Wahl, ward two; Mrs, Loretta McDonald, ward three; Mis. Helen Mannix, ward four; Mrs. Mary E. Brown, - ward five; Mrs. Mary Shackleford, ward six; Mrs. John Donnelly, assisted by Miss Marie Hanson, ward seven. Mrs. Bessie Meyers, ward eight; Mrs, E. L. Jackson, ward nine; Mrs. Mary Seay, ward 10; Mrs, Elizabeth Spencer and Mrs. Josephine Woods, ward 11; Mrs. Susan Knox, ward 12; Mrs. Agnes McCammon, ward 13; Mrs, Martha Claus, ward 14; Mrs. Martin H. Walpole and Miss Dorothy Gauss, ward 15; Mrs. Margaret Greene, ward ‘16; Mrs. Hazel Green, ward 17; Mrs. Margaret O'Connor, ward 18; Mrs. Minnie McGrew, ward 19, Mrs. Ada Crider, ward 20. Mrs. Opal Sigler, ward 21; Mrs. Eleanor Wiles, ward 22; Mrs. Daisy Cochran and Mrs. Clara Gill, ward 23; Miss Mary Connor, ward 24; Mrs. Kathryn Wakelam, center township, = outside; Mrs. Harry Weist, Decatur township; Mrs. Elsie Schilling, Franklin: Mrs. Gertrude Brinner, Lawrence; Mrs. Gertrude Memmer, Perry; Mrs. Alice Snyder, Pike; Ms, Helen Miller, Warren; Mrs. Modessa Parr, Washington, and Mrs. Lester Miller, Wayne.

HOLD EVERYTHING

“I wonder if one of them is

Gable.”

By "ROBERT P. MARTIN United Press Staff Correspondent SOMEWHERE IN EASTERN INDIA, Oct. 6.—The full story of the’ tragic retreat of valiant Chinese forces who struggled for three months: and four days across razorbacked mountains from Burma and through one of the world’s densest jungles, was revealed today. Gen. Liao Yaoh-siang, who led $he “backward march” of his straggling. units wheh the : Japanese ‘swept Up the Burma road snd overran the entire territory, told the story ‘at headquarters ‘waere his men are being reequipped and trained. by Americans in preparation ‘for a counter , invasion of Burma. . In the retreat, ‘the small Chinese band lost. 1000 soldiers -and several young girls, political anc. morale

1 hope h p will be given by us in the Way that our military authorities think wise, but I also hope, the Soviets will carry away

with them ‘as a result of and Ameriouns & sense the Duteh, sense

workers who committed: suicide only 24 hours from India’s ‘border begable EY could, no longer. endure

By Ernie Pyle Gas Station Casualiies High’ Though Rationing Is Yet to Come

1. Filling station operators have made the best of a bad situation.

Thomas Drive-in Market” on E. New York st. 2. “No Sale” is as tough on the filling station man as on any other merchant,” says Edgar Durlinger

at 30th and Meridian.

3. This station at 21st and Capitel went into the ice business.

WAR SHOW HEAD SPEAKER TODAY

Local Civic Leaders Hear Maj. Hart, Originator

Of Demonstration.

Maj. Charles Spencer Hart, originator of the army war show which will be presented Oct. 18 to 22 at the Butler stadium, was to address civic and industrial leaders sponsoring the presentation at a luncheon today in the Indianapolis Athletic - club. ; Maj. Hart, who also represents the war department, was to give the history of the show, tell of its tour thus far and describe plans. for

_|its engagement here.

Other speakers were to be Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and C. Harvey Bradley, county civilian defense director. George A. Kuhn, chairman of the local show committee, was to preside. The army show is a 100-minute demonstration of the manner in

|| which each branch of the army fl | operates under combat conditions.

The “cast” will include 2000 task

3. | force men.

Included in the demonstrations

'| will be one by the signal corps, the \|chemical warfare .{ “walkie-talkies” and flame throwers. || Equipment to be shown includes

service, the

planes, tanks, big howitzers, tank

destroyers, jeeps and peeps.

Maj. Hart is a former exalted

|ruler of the Elks and has spoken

here before. During world war I,

he was associated with George Creel as officer in charge of war ex-

positions. He is a publisher and public © relations’ executive and makes his home in Bronxville, N.Y.

3 Months and 4 Days T

ward from Mandalay to. India. His

retreat to the east-had’ been cut off

when ' the Japanese annihilated a division that had been frying to cut ; Léshio and thereby save Burma road,

the

Other Chinese forces operating east of the {Mandalay-Myitkyina area managed ‘to retreat into China ‘but’ with' extremely heavy

casualties. Liap led his men northward glong the ' same - route and then swung west. Pitched battles were fought along the way, -and Liao’s forces suffered heavily. Finally he reached the Chindwin river and moved north into India. The Chinese almost starved. Their food problems were solved toward the last by American army air transports, which dropped food —250 tons of it, Gen. Liao said.

“The moonsoon seasons’ caused all our difficulty,” he said. “It began eining Simost: at the moment we our equipment

and started

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They didn’t go out of business because the owners thought rationing was imminent. Instead, the selfrationing of Hoosier motorists since the freezing of tires drove them to the wall. _Use Less Gasoline In February, two months after Pearl Harbor, Indiana motorists used 1,250,000 gallons of gasoline less than they used in February, 1941. In March, the total was 4,500,000 less than the previous March, April was down 7,500,000 gallons; May, 8,500,000; June, 2,500,000, and July, 11,000,000., Included in the totals was huge increases by truck and bus companies which meant that the loss to the little filling station operator depending on passenger car trade was even greater.

Seme May Do Better So gasoline rationing will not make a lot of difference to the filling station man. Of course, many more will go out of business, but many of them were just about ready to, anyway. And the ones who can make the grade—those who are .on locations which defense workers pass on their way to and from work—except to do better than they have for several months. The majority of filling station operators are skilled mechanics, and as they have closed their businesses war industries have snapped them up.

“We cut our way through solid jungle and other high mountains and down into great valleys. For seven days we saw nothing but solid jungle without flatland or cleared areas. . “We walked 20 days without seeing any natives. Later we learned that one stretch the natives cover in one day took us 15, becayse we had no guides. “The rains were worst. Creeks overflowed with water and soon became raging rivers. We built

bridges, but the waters rising during the night would destroy them while half our units had not yet crossed. . “Once a small rivulet within a few. hours became a river 200 meters (about 650 feet) wide and we had to build a new bridge.”

Gen. Liao said' his men built bamboo huts with banana leaf roofs and bamboo floors, but they

wet clothes and in: the morning,

were ‘little protection against the}

driving raihs. The men slept in|“Except those who died of malaria.”

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This station is now the “Harry

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Many Owners Close Doors

To Take Jobs in Defense

By WILLIAM CRABB Pity not the filling station man, for he knows exactly what he doeth. True, he is an economic casualty of gasoline rationing. He is a casualty before the fact, because with gasoline rationing still a month away, between 10 and 20 per cent of the 1000 Marion county stations in business before the war have fallen by the wayside. At least 90 have expired in the last three months. *

Most operators lease their stations from the companies. The companies own most of the stations—the buildings, pumps and lift. # But the operators own the rest of their equipment. The operator

of a “super-station” may have as|

much as $1500 tied up. A smaller operator may have around $500 invested. Much of their equipment they can sell, but they all stand to lose something. But as they lose their stations, many. of them get as much income from their defense jobs—with shorter hours and fewer headaches!

CHEMISTS TO HEAR AUTHORITY ON X-RAY

Dr. George L. Clark, x-ray authority of the University of Illinois, will address the Indiana section of the American chemical society at its first monthly meeting of the season next Saturday at Franklin college. Dr. Clark’s subject will be “Wartime Testing and Research with X-Rays and the Electron Microscope.” The electron microscope: is one of the new implements of the physicist, permitting useful mags nifications as great as 100,000 diameters, which is at least 50 times more than that gained by using

KAISER BUILDS YARD IN 64 DAYS

61 Days Later He Launches First New Type ‘Tank Landing’ Ship.

RICHMOND, Cal., Oct. 6 (U, P.). —The Henry J. Kaiser enterprises have completed. another “can’t be done” project by constructing a shipyard in 64 days and launching the first vessel, a new type “tank landipg ship,” 61 days later, it was

disclosed today. The new vessel weighs 3500 tons and may be used either as a military craft or cargo ship. Other details were not revealed. The construction was undertaken in addition to Kaiser's Meord-breaking Liberty ship program. Kaiser said the first of the new ships was launched Sunday from a giant sled which was towed to the water's edge and tipped until the ship slid off.

Bdilt Our Cranes. -

“When we started to fill the government contract ta.build these new ships,” Kaiser said, “the experts told us we couldn't get cranes which we needed for the new plant, for two years. “So we pieced together cranes. of our own. Our engineers designed them. We used some pieces of scrap metal from old ships that had been built here, some girders from @ Grand Coulee dam trestle, and some old oil derricks from southern California. We built the cranes in two months.” The new vessels, Kaiser said, are being built “all over California.” Sections are being constructed -in numerous small shops as far south as Los Angeles and shipped to the Richmond yard for final essembly.

SCHOOL COMMITTEE TO HEAR CANDIDATES

Ward leaders of the citizens’ school committee will hold their second meeting tonight in the northeast community center, 3306 E. 30th ¢ st, Speeches. will be made by the committee’s five candidates for the school board. They are Mrs. Eldo I. Wagner, Dr. Harry G. Mayer, Howard S.

light.

“Great jungle leeches fastened themselves on the men,” the general continued. “We were without medicine and wounds became huge abscesses. “The ants kept us from ‘Sleeping at night and we were always short of foodstuffs. Piles of bones littered our track, picked clean. They would always be picked clean by vermin within 24 hours.” The supreme hardship for the Chinese soldiers, he said, was the lack of rice. ' Instead of their na-

five diet, the Chinese lived on ba-

nana roots. “The jungle scored many small victories,” Liao said, “but the Chinese are born to forebear all difficulties. If the human being has a strong desire for life, he can undergo any hardship. Those who didn’t reach India didn’t have such a ‘strong, desire. They just laid

down: and died because that was|

the easier way out.” An American officer interposed:

Fifty per cent of the men had ma-

Young, Edgar A. Perkins and Clarence Farrington.

COLONEL TO SPEAK ON LAWS AND WAR

Laws as they apply to the various phases of the army will be outlined by Col. John M. Weir before the Indianapolis Bar association at its regular dinner meeting tomorrow night at the Columbia club. Col. Weir, who is a member of the staff of the judge advocate general’s department of the army, was one of the officers who participated in the recent trial nf Nazi saboteurs in Washington.

rough Tungles—Chimese. Force Saved

imost of them have recovered. Liao reached India Aug. 4, “with nine out of 10 of my men barefoot and ragged.” He said the rearguard which fought the Japanese during the retreat reached India in mid-August. A few.unifs still are in northern Burma, where they are supplied by air, and some are being treated at a field hospital operating . just inside Burma. The only hardship evaded in the long jungle march was bombing, Liao said. “That was because the Japs couldn’t find us,” he added. Liao, a graduate of the French . military academy of St. Cyr, said his men were eager to go home— but only by way of Burma. : “This desire will become a fact in the future” he said, “because Gen, Stilwell is determined to reopen the Burma route.” : Lieut: Gen. Joseph Stilwell, American ‘commander in China, Burma and India, has established a School In a converted prisoners’