Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1942 — Page 19

y q 30 i R Mb $4 y : '-. LONDON, Oct. 9—~The one thing that American fr00ps over here want—as they do everywhere else in the world—is news from home. Nothing can take the Place ‘of letters, but next to letters they miss the newspaper news from their home states. pr . While in Ireland I wrote that ‘when I got to London I was going to suggest that the Stars and Stripes carry a full page every week of second-string news from home. Now I find they have already thought of that, and are doing it in a mild form. But there isn’t enough of it, and it isn’t sufficiently newsy. , The editors say they’d like to carry mote such. news but can't get it. So, being an arranger at A heart, I've solved the whole problem. Here's how: Bombers cross the Atlantic ocean nearly every night. International airport here in Britain frequently has the New York Times before it has the London Times of the same day. . So—why not decide on 10 papers from all over America, have them air-mailed daily to New York

or Washington, loaded onto a bomber, and delivered:

here next day? Then one man on the Stars and Stripes could cull through, and if he eouldn’t get a whole weekly page of exactly what the boys want, he ought to be court-martialed. See? i Nice, juicy, unsought advice is my contribution to the war effort. :

Paper Is Self-Supporting

THE STARS AND STRIPES is printed by a commercial printing firm near Leicester Square, and has its editorial offices there. But as the circulation grows it will have .to be printed with bigger equipment, and the London Times is going to handle it at cost. The paper is already self-supporting, and putting money in the bank. Right now it could even pay the army salaries of its staff and still be making a profit.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE LATEST ISSUE of the Indianapolis Medical society’s bulletin lists 160 of our local doctors now in the armed forces. And several gore have gone since the list was compiled. . . . Out at Butler, the Collegian #8 conducting an election to settle a most weighty fl matter. Only the coeds are balloting. The object is to determine “the man with whom I would most like to be caught in a blackout.” Sure hope WE get elected. «+ + After getting scorched the other day, we ‘hate to mention the subject of flags again, but can’t ignore the fact the firemen at engine house 13, across the street from us, are displaying their flag again, Nice and clean, too. Cleaner, in fact, than ours—now up on : out roof." . . Our agent who spotfed the sign on the back of a plumbers truck—the one mentioned the other day—miissed it.a trifle. Truck was traveling too fast. Instead of “Peter” Pate, fhe sign read: “Porter Pate—Never Late.” We wonder

if it’s true.

Who? Just a Judge . ANYONE WONDERING what happened to the Books: contributed during the Victory Book campaign may be interested in a telegram received by Tom Hutchinson at the Mbrary. It’s from John M. Connor, New York, and reads: “Extremely urgent send "800 good fiction;¥200 good non-fActionitp Chaplain Walter . ‘Hendricks, 21st Marines, Néw River, N. C. Men in isolated region. If motor trucks can't handle, send by mail” The books probably got there today. They're theing carried free by the Carolina Express CO. . . . upreme Court. Judge H. Nathan Swaim stepped mstairs and walked into the state attorney genéral’s office. He asked & young lady at one of the desks if “Mr, Harrison is in?” “What's your name please?” she asked, The judge blushed as he told her. . . . Bill Book spent part of the last week-end chopping wood at his home south of town. He felt

Washingt “WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—What strange reading McKinley and his gold-standard generation would have found in the newspapers this week. WPB has de¢ided to close all of the larger gold mines of the country, Note the reason for that action. It would ; have made no sense whatever a few years ago. WPB is shutting down on gold mining because the miners are more valuable at other work, Un : We need copper, not gold. We need zinc, lead, nickel and manganese! They will buy us what we need. They will buy us airplane engines, electric wiring for ‘bombers, armor plate for our tanks and high-alloy steel for our gun bar- ; rels. We don’t need gold now ex“RnR: , cept for filling teeth. We have 22 billion dollars’ worth on hagd, which should be enough to last through the war. So we finally do the sensible thing. We stop wasting the labor qf miners who have been digging needless gold and we put them to digging metals that we need. . This is the prosaic end to something that has been: second only to love in the hunger of the huA man race. ‘The struggle for gold has saturated history and the fable throughout the age of man, from Midas to the Klondike, from the quest of the golden fleece to Cecil Rhodes. :

- What Are Riches, Anyway?

\ ' + GOLD HAS BEEN the obsession of human dreams, the common medium of exchange, the yardstick of civilization, down to the time when the Roosevelt _ administration tried to control all prices by nwanipulating the purchase price of gold. ek "© We were slow to see that gold had lost its place in the scheme of things. After the last world war, some of our penetrating thinkers recognized that production of useful things, capacity to make useful things, was what counted. That was pointed out in

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figures as Heywood Broun, Alexander Woollcott, F. P.

Yesterday he was hardly able to move. We haven't

. with so little—and asa result they almost took the

‘By Ernie Py

In ‘the last war the Stars and Stripes turned

3,500,000 francs into the treasury when it stopped|

publication. This war's Stars and Stripes began with

only $2000, and hopes at the end of the war to turn|.

in a bigger profit than the old one. And speaking of contrasts in the two wars—in the| last one, the edifor of Stars and Stripes was put in jail for 15 days once for writing something a general didn’t like. Maj. E. M. Llewellyn, the present editor, thinks of that frequently. ; . v

It's-a Tough Job i MAJ. LLEWELLYN is from Tacoma, Wash, is 37,

and has two boys of 6 and 11 at home. He is an|.

‘advertising. man by profession. newspaperman’ but Llewellyn isn’f Llewellyn. travels the British Isles a great deal, setting up news and circulation agencies at new camps, and trying to find out just what the boys want

His father was &

to read. He spends about four days a week in London, |

and three days on the road. He has visited several hundred American camps since the paper started. Besides the officers, the London staff consists: of Sergt. Ben Price, from the Des Moines Register and Tribune; Sergt. Bud Hutton, formerly of the World~ Telegram in New York; Sergt. G. K. Hodenfleld, of Iowa City, former United Press and Register and Tribune employee; Sergt. Dick Wingert, the cartoonist of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Pvt. Mark Senigo, a bright young man from the Columbia school of journalism. ; Out of last war’s Stars and Stripes came such

A. ‘Harold Ross and so on. Probably nothing like that will happen in this war, as the policy is to play down individuals and play up the paper as a whole. In truth, I don’t believe it's a great deal of fun working on the Stars and Stripes in this war. The boys, are in the position of being half soldier and half newspaperman, and nobody knows exactly where they stand, least of all themselves. But they're doing a nice job the hard way, and I admire them.

pretty proud of the way he was able to swing the axe. That night he went bowling. Monday he was a little sore. He was sorer Tuesday and went to an osteopath.

had any reports yet today.

Yep, Even at 35

WALKING BACK to his office from the War memorial, Governor Schricker was in the middle’ of the intersection of Meridian and Vermont when a smotorist swung around the corner at a rapid clip and passed within inches of the governor. “Gosh, they can get you even at 35,” he muttered. . . . Addressing the Marion County Tavern Owners’ association yesterday ‘at Tomlinson hall, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer, prefaced his talk with: “I'm happy to meet you gentlemen professionally. I've met some of you socially.” . . , Incidentally, one of our gadabout friends reports that the clubs are tightening up their observance of liquor enforcement rules. One of the better clubs had a row with one of its best patrons on Sunday because the club wouldn't serve him setups for the liquor he had brought along. Must be an election coming up—or something. We'd Look the Other Way HOW AND WHEN to salute usually is one of the biggest problems faced by our “business and professional men when they are given military commissions direct from civilian life. Take W. E, (Bill) Kuhn, the Chevrolet dealer, as an example. All dolled up in his brand new. uniform as a major, and with his arms loaded with bundles, he stepped out of Strauss’. Just outside the door he. came face to face with a lieutenant colonel. What to do? Bill finally decided} he had to salute, so he fumbled with his bundles until he got his right arm free. Then he made a stagger at a salute, and right in the midst of it, dropped all his bundles. S’tough, this army life. . . . Among the spectators at the recent world series was Ed Bingham, who never has gotten over his interest in sports since he was sports editor of The News right after the turn of the century.

By Raymond Clapper

MacKinder was alarmed that English people were saying Germany had been so impoverished by the war that she would be harmless for a hundred years. MacKinder, in his widely ignored “Democratic Ideals and Reality,” said such people were mistaken as to the real nature of riches and poverty in the industrial age. He said productive power, not dead wealth, was what counted. : Hitler had no gold. But he built factories. Those were his riches. He had no money. But he put people to work making planes and tanks. You are wealthy if you have the things needed and poor if you don’t have them, no matter what other goods

you possess. i We Must Break Loose

BRITAIN THOUGHT she was wealthy because she had the riches of India. But she was poor, poverty-stricken, at Munich because she had money in the bank, but no airplanes. Hitler had no money in the bank, but he had planes. We haven't used gold except in a sentimental way for a long time. We don’t even use it as a yardstick of price. Gold reserves have no relation to prices nog Farm parity? That is nothing but an attempt to measure prices by what a farmer’s crops will net him in clothing, fuel, farm implements and other things he needs. Parity is a way of arriving at a price for farm products based on the amount of goods the farmer could get for his crops back in so-called normal years. That is an attempt at realistic economics. Shifting gold miners to copper mines is another attempt at realistic economics. We must break away from dead language, dead phrases, dead rules, and apply this same kind of gold-mining realism to military strategy, to foreign policy and to postwar world relationships. ‘That's the way the Germans have been able to do so. much

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whole ball of wax away from the slow-witted democ-

Fallen trees on the Butler obstacle course prove no obstacle for Marion Gilbert Cohen jumps a five-foot Coach Sears, on the fence, demonstrates. for Joe Ecktman, Vern Batten, Raphael Galerman and Arthur Chartrand (left to right).

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EFFECT OF UMW S0LT" IN DOUBT

Say Observers.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U, P.).— Well-informed sources today doubted that withdrawal of the United Mine workers from the C. I. O. would, ‘in itself, lead to the achievement of organic unity between the C. IL O. and the A. F. of L.. Unity conferences are to begin here late in November. John L. Lewis, president of the mine workers, said he was ready to take part in them, but a responsible C. I. O. official said an invitation probably would not be extended to him. Lewis, who set up the C. I. O. seven years ago, headed its peace committee until last year when he made a “surprise” proposal that harmony talks be revived between C. 1. O. and A. F. of L. Philip Murray, who succeeded -Lewis as head of the C. I. O., denounced the move as “another Pearl Harbor stab in the back.” Murray took over direction of peace’ plans and since then Lewis has’ been far in the background.

Make Sincere Effort

.The A, F. of L.-C. 1..0. peace committees are expected to make a sincere attempt to agree -on what appear to be very difficult problems.

Jurisdictional issues and the fate of |.

C. I. O. unions now well established in mass production industries stand as the tallest barriers to organic unity. Officials directing the war effort hope for a final settlement of the seven-year internal labor war. Privately, many of them believe that the best that will come from the deliberations will be the establishment of some machinery to solve quickly jurisdictional disputes or to prevent such conflicts from arising for the duration.

“Too Early for Analysis

It was considered too early yet to analyze the effect of Lewis’ withdrawal from the C. I. O. upon government policies involving labor. Lewis is not now on important government boards or committees associated with the war effort. On the other hand, Murray and A, F. of L. President William Green have been appointed to President Roosevelt's new economic stabilization policy board and have served as the president’s chief labor advisers since Pearl Harbor. Opinion differed whether the hard-fisted mine boss would seek to return to the A. F. of L. which he bolted to start the rival C. I O. or whether powerful ruling cliques of the federation would permit him to come back.

‘Terms’ Are Not Known

Green said in’ Toronto, where the A. F. of L. is in session, that he is ready to “do business” with Lewis. He did not say on what terms, however. Also definitely in the foreground is the concern of some A. F. of L. leaders about the A. F. of L. official lineup which would ' result from Lewis’ re-entry. Lewis undoubtedly would like to re-establish power over a larger part of the labor movement—power which diminished when he opposed President Roosevelt's pre-war international policies and then guessed on Wendell L. Willkie's election in 1940.

HOLD EVERYTHING

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Vern Batten, William Griffin and Arthur Chartrand (left to right) finish the 12-foot hand and knee crawl If they appear tired, it's because they’ve already crossed a 12-foot ditch and rocketed over a board hurdle.

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UNIONS CLAIM HIGHEST PEAK

Membership of 12,000,000 Is New Organized Laber Record.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U. P.).— Organized labor today claimed a membership in excess of 12,000,000— the largest in the history of the American trades union movement. Available claims by union leaders showed this approximate picture: American Federation of Labor— 5,600,000. . Congress of Industrial Org tions—=6,000,000. Railway brotherhoods — 1,000,000. (Some also are ‘affiliated with the A.F. of L) : " Independent unions-—300,000. * Employed——52,400,000. : Unorganized—39,500,000. The foregoing figures - included the United Mine Workers’ 500,000 members in the C, I. O. total, as the C. I. O. still counts them pending action by its November convention.

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR NURSES TO BE GIVEN

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U.-P.).— Scholarships for 20,000 student nurses will be available through local women’s clubs, Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, president of the general federation of women's clubs, announced here. : The federation hopes to help in relieving the ' shortage of . nurses. Individual clubs, district and state federations will offer scholarships of $500 and $250 to prospective

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Set Up on

College commandos, future American men of Mars, are daily driving themselves over a 600-yard obstacle course recently constructed on the Butler university grounds. Following a government request that the university extend the two= year physical education program: to four, school officials, in conjunction with Ray Sears, track coach, evolved the plan for an obstacle course. Patterned after, the army air forces’ courses, it is laid out along Sunset blvd. east of the collége of religion. : Conquer 10 Obstacles

With 10 obstacles “to surmount, the men must run approximately 200 yards before they come to the first hurdle, placed at the bottom

of a steep decline to make the jump more difficult.

Then it’s another drive of 50 yards up the hill to mount a six-and-one-

How Every Little Bit Helps

In Drive to

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U. P.).— To emphasize the importance of piling victory scrap plies high, the war production board today released the following statistics at the request of the national newspaper scrap metal committee on how salvaged material can be sent to war: ¢ The copper in an old kettle will suppy 84 rounds of ammunition. The lead in an old car battery is sufficient to make three threeinch anti-aircraft shells. Scrap iron and steel in one old bucket is ‘enough to manufacture three bayonets. : The aluminum in one broken

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half-foot fence, followed by 30 feet of simulated barbed wire laid out in criss-cross fashion. As Coach Sears noted, “That's a fine high-stepping exercise.” + A<12-foot ditch filled with water and ‘crossed by a six-inch” plank must be negotiated, then a board hurdle, another water ditch, a 12foot hand and knee crawl, a series of fallen trees, a barrel and then up a hill and over another six-and-a-half-foot fence.

Dash Uphill to Finish

That ends the obstacle course except’ for another 100-yard uphill dash to the finish line. And Coach Sears, former Olympic runner, has set up an achieyement time of 2:30 for the course. Running easily, the coach covered the grounds in 2:15, with the best student time to date 2:40. : It’s ,.a powerful lot: of work and the collegians are going to be at it until the snow flies this winter.

Scrap the Axis

down washing machine can be converted into 21 four-pound incendiary bombs. Ten pounds of waste fats will yield a pound of glycerine which may be used as the base for 2% pounds of nitroglycerine. . . WPB officials said that waste paper ‘need not 'be salvaged ‘for the time being” because such a large supply was built up after appeals to Americans to save their waste paper. :

AUXILIARY TO MEET The regular luncheon meeting of the Madden Nottingham auxiliary, 348, will be held at the post home, 1130 W. 30th st, next Tuesday.

Mother Here Cheered By Son's Letter

Written During Lull in Solomon's Battle

Another letter from Guadalcanal has come to Indianapolis and cheered a mother’s heart. On Sept. 8, ‘Charles W. Paris, a marine, found one small sheet of

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‘PHYLLIS’ MOWS

DOWN THE NAZIS

Story of How Yanks Met

Pride of Luftwaffe to

Berlin’s Sorrow.

By CLINTON B. CONGER United Press Slat Correspondent

LONDON, Q¢t. 9.—The crew of one of the first’ flying fortresses

to meet the pride of the Luft-

waffe, the Focke-Wulf 190, in mass

combat told today how they downed 13 of the enemy planes without a single loss. These were the bombers which demolished the Potez aircraft fac tory at Meaulte, France, last Friday. The German fighter squddron jumped them and for 20 minutes attacked the fortresses from every angle. They filled the big American planes with machine gun and cannon holes but they . couldn’t bring them down. 2 Crewmen Wounded Eight members of the crew of “Phyllis,” one of the bombers, were brought to London today to tell their story. They revealed for the first time that the last three planes in their formation were responsible for downing all: 13 of the German planes—a remarkable average. of four and one-third German fighters apiece on a single flight.

Two of the plane's crew were un-

able to come «London. . They were wounded in the German attack, Their plane was credited with downing two Focke-Wulfs and probably shooting down a third, “The enemy fighters attacked almost continuously until we were one-third of the way back across the channel en route; home,” one of the crew members said. . “The action lasted 20° minutes or more.” °

16 Holes in One Plane

First \ Lieut. Charles J. Paine of Waycross, Ga., the 27-year-old pilot, said that he counted 16 ‘holes in

his plane from the Focke-Wulf’s

20 mm. cannon shells and he ‘estimated that there were 300 other

1 holes from machine gun bullets and

flak fragments. Crew members credited Lieut.

'Paine’s skillful emergency crash ‘landing on a British field near the

coast with saving the life of the seriously injured top gunner. He was bleeding profusely and might have died had Lieut. Paine attempted. to fly all the way to his base

“We landed on two motors doing 140 miles an hour without even & bump—we hardly knew we were down,” Co-pilot Lieut. R. H. Long of Sweetwater, Tex., said.

O. E. S. CHAPTER TO MEET

‘Indianapolis :chapter, Order ‘of Eastern Star, will have a .stated meeting at 8 p. m. Tuesday in the = temple, 1522 'W. Morris st. Miss Nita Suffridge is worthy matron and Edward Lehmann is worthy patron.

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