Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1942 — Page 1

6000 TEACHERS

Aa Session Opens Thursday; Obligations of Draft| §

Bill in Capital Prevents Address by Gen. Hershey;

Stoddard on Program.

Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey today notified Indiana , teachers that the final stages of the draft bill in Washington would prevent his speaking at. their state association

convention here.

Gen. Hershey was to have been ny principal speaker :

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at the 89th annual session Thursday and Friday.

Nevertheless, Indianapolis was “prettyin

to entertain the 16,000 Hoosier teachers on their annual

. visit. Hotels, churches and other meeting places were ready for their = business meeting.

Stoddard on Program

And. joining the reception, committee are the retail stores, restaurants, theaters and the Indianapolis hockey team, who are adequately prepared to make the teachers’ leisure time enjoyable. At the first general session at 7:30 pp. m. Thursday in Cadle Tabernacle . will be the inaugural address of Miss Sara C. Ewing of Indianapolis, incoming president; a talk, “Education for a Free America” by Dr. A. J. Stoddard of Philadelphia and the presentation of the Past President award. : The various departmental meet- © ings w ill occupy Thursday daytime with some of them beginning at 9 a.m, } At 10 p. m. Thursday there will be a general reception and ball at the state house ifi honor of the association officers and state officials.

Business Session at 9 a. m.

The association’s business session will be at 9 a. m. Friday in Cadle tabernacle. Reports will be made by O. H. Greist, chairman of the necrology committee; Mr. Wyatt, managing editor of the Indiana Teacher; Joe C. Rice, treasurer; R. E, Hood; chairman of the resolutions committees; Elbert E. Day,

chairman of the executive committee; H. B. legislative co grave, committee; Loren H. Russell, chairman of the auditing committee and Clyde Parker, chairman of the departments committee. Friday afternoon’s general session will featyre a talk, “Mysterious India,” by

ittee; E..B. Har-

nd a musical concert by| atfield, baritone.

at War” is. Topie

scher, authority on Asia tly returned from the

| speak on “Asia at War”

ion at 7:30 p. m. Friday

abernacle. iana State Choral Pesti-

Elkhart, association president, will be in charge. | District: meetings will be at 1:30 p. m. ursday at the following places: District 1, Claypool palm room; 2, Tomlinson hall; 3, G. C. Murphy auditorium; 4, Claypool clubroom; 5 and 6, Cadle tabernacle; 7, War Memorial auditorium; 8, Y. M. C. A. auditorium; 9, Y. W. C. A. auditorium; 10, Cadle; 11, Claypool assembly room, and 12, Cadle. One of the first to announce his candidacy for president-elect is Morris McCarty, superintendent of the Lafayette schools and vice

president of the association.

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of honor are:

Thomas . W. Doig, assistant managing director. of the Credit Union National associatioh of Madison, Wis., will be the principal speaker at the dinner meet.ing of the Central Indiana chapter of credit unions tomorrow, night at the Central Christian church, 202° E. Walnut st.

ADMIRAL TO BE ‘HERE NAY NAVY. DAY

Personnel Chief to Speak During Luncheon;

Parade Planned.

Highlighting Indiana’s Navy Day activities, next Tuesday, will be address by Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, chief of navy personnel. He will come from Washington to address 500 civic leaders, heads of patriotic societies and officers of the army, navy and marine corps at a luncheon in the Columbia club. He also will swear in a group of Indiana navy recruits on the steps of Monument circle. during the afternoon. A torchlight parade will be a feature of the night's festivities. The Indianapolis celebration is

one of many to be given in 50 county seat cities during the day.

21 To Be Honored

C. Walter McCarty, managing editor of The Indianapolis News, will act as master of ceremonies at the luncheon which is sponsored jointly by the Navy league of the United States and the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. Twentyone army, navy, marine, state and civic officials will be honer guests, according to Frank McCarthy and Jack -Reich, who are in charge of arrangements. Naval officers who will be seated at the speakers’ table with Rear Admiral Jacobs include Capt. G. P. Kraker, officer-in-charge at the naval ordnance plant here; Comm. R. H. G. Mathews, officer-in-charge of navy recruiting for the Indiana area; Lieut. Comm. L. PF. Brozo, commander of the third naval reserve area and commanding officer of the school for radiomen at the naval armory; Lieut. Comm. S. B. Smith, resident inspector of naval material; Lieut. H. C. Sigtenhorst, commanding officer of the training school for signalmen at Butler university, and Licut. Neil C. RusseR, officer-in-charge of the, office of naval reserve officer procurement here.

Invite - Army Officers

Army officers who will be guests Maj. Gen. Frank W. Milburn, commanding officer of the 83d division, Camp Atterbury; Brig. Gen. Fred S. Borum, commanding officer, Stout field; Col. F. D. Lynch, commanding officer, army air force storage depot at the fairgrounds, and Col. Martin Ray, Capt. Ralph

rine corps recruiting for the Indiana area, will represent the marines at the speakers table. Other guests ‘of honor will include Governor Schricker; Mayor Sullivan; L. T. Dwyer, state Navy Day chairman; Homer E. Capehart, Marion county Navy Day chairman; Roane Waring, national commander of the American Legion; Robert T. Merrill, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Eugene Pulliam, state war bond chairman, and Mr. McCarty.

Pupils Submit Essays

Tickets for the luncheon are on sale at the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Dwyer indicated that response in this year’s Navy. Day es- | say contest conducted throughout all public, parochial and private high schools in Indiana had’ far exceeded original expectations. Prizes of $100, $50 and $25 war bonds will go to the boys and girls submitting the three best essays. They will be invited to attend the luncheon.

BUTLER’S BLACKOUT KING, QUEEN NAMED

Miss Jackie Blomberg, junior, and William Witt, sophomore, are Butler university's Blackout King and Queen. The student body yesterday voted on the ideal “ed” and “coed” to be caught within a blackout. Miss | Blomberg and Mr. Witt will be crowned tomorrow night at an allschool mixer in Jordan hall. The election was sponsored by the Collegian, student newspaper, in aceordance withthe four-point program set forth by, the studentfaculty war council, one of which provided for air drills and protection.

queen, while coeds selected the king. This contest had the novel feature of no restrictions as to the number of times that a persen could vote, but the voter had to sign the ‘ballots.

CLUB TO SEE MARINE FILM ‘Moving pictures of ‘the marine

corps. will” be: shown by Sergt. Charles Mendenhall Somorrow

E. Boulton, officer-in-charge of ma- |

Only male students voted for the|

Fortress ‘Crews Eager to Shoot as Well as Drop Bombs.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United -Press Foreign Editor “A- U. S. BOMBER BASE IN BRITAIN, Oct. 20.—American youths aboard flying fortresses would like to upset the rules of aerial warfare and launch a bomber offensive against the luftwaffe’s fighters. The fortress is a proud ship sleek, bullet-shaped, with a high tail curving gracefully like that of a defiant, disdainful thoroughbred, But it packs the vicious kick of a mule’ And the boys who fly. them are as eager to get at Nazi fighters as they lare to unload bombs on.axis targets. At this airdrome on. the rolling British countryside I have found that the young men in the American ground force have changed their goals in life since the fortresses began operating over 'Europe.

Wants to Do Bombing

There’s Sergt. Robert M. Dilling .|from Altoona, Pa. for instance. He’s a farmboy turned nursemaid to fortresses, and he heads a ground crew especially charged with. maintenance of the squadron leader’s plane. “Everybody used to have the idea they wanted to be a pilot,” Dilling explained. “But not me. I want to get my hands on those guns and get Jerty in the sights. That's my idea of doing something—Ilet somebody else do the piloting. I want to get a:shot at Jerry.” The fortresses’ performance has changed many ideas about aerial warfare, and may bring about important further changes. “One of our big headaches,” an air force officer said, “is keeping the boys from going out of the way to get a shot at Jerry. Even so, they're not so illogical, We're just as anxious to knock out enemy fighters as we are to hit bomb targets. Sometimes I wish more of them would challenge the fortresses.”

Exceed Expectations

Officials emphasize that fortress formations are not impregnable to dttack and that losses must be expected to increase as the range of

.|operations is extended. But they

are- gratified by a better-than-ex-pected performance so far. The fortress fighting power comes from gunnery and tight, disciplined formation flying. A fortress pilot must be a precisionist to maintain mutual protective fire and still permit space for many guns to fire in any direction while flying: toward the target and returning home. If a Focke-Wulf 190 attacks a formation of fortresses there might be as many as 60 guns trained on it at 1000 yards compared with the Nazi’s four cannon and two machine guns, The Nazi flier wants to get as close as possible,- and against a British plane he probably would

yards. But against a fortress formation an enemy comes into range at 1000 yards and might encounter fatal fire at 800.

CIVIL WAR CANNON BALL PUT INTO SCRAP

When Capt. Jesse Willis Keithley and his son, Jesse Willis Keithley, returned from Civil war duty, they | brought with them a cannon. ball

as a souvenir. Today, Capt. Keithley’s great, great grandsons, Mac and Fritz Keithley, contributed it to make ammunition for World War II. The boys,. pupils at Lowell school, had permission of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W, W, Keithley, S. Emerson ave. to rummage in the attic for scrap to contribute to the school’s scrap pile. The cannon ball was among other mementos which they discovered belonged to their great-great-grand-father and great grandfather who marched with Gen. Sherman to the sea. A hand grenade from world war I was another item uncovered and added to the scrap pile. The boys are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Keithley of Hunter rd.

ATTERBURY ACQUIRES 3500 ACRES OF LAND

COLUMBUS, Ind., Oct. 20 (U. P.). —Acquisition of approximately 3500 acres of scenic Brown county land for the expansion of Camp Atterbury was announced today by Joseph W. Springer, camp project manager. Addition of the Brown county land, which will be ‘used to enlarge artillery ranges, will increase camp acreage to 40,200 acres. The acquisition, Springer said, has been approved by army officials at Washington.

PASTOR TO ADDRESS REPUBLICAN CLUB

The Rev. F. S. Reed, pastor of St. John’s Baptist church, will speak at 8 p. m. tomorow before the Republicans in the second ward. The rally will be in the home of George W. Boxley. Wilbur Brant, a candidate for the legislature, will discuss state issues and county candidates will be in-

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Dakar ense,

(The following dispatch from the United Press special correspondent at Dakar is the first to clear the strict censorship at that strategic Vichy French base on the west coast of Africa.)

By GEORGES MANUEL United Press Staff Correspondent

DAKAR, French West Africa, Oct.

20. (U. P.).—Increases in the land

garrison and arrival of heavy fleet reinforcements have swelled . the white populace of this strategic West African base from 15,000 to 50,000. : for The base has been placed on constant alert and women and children are being evacuated by air, land and sea as rapidly as transport facilities become available. A semi-blackout is in effect each night and the city is practically overflowing ‘with hundreds of soldiers, sailors and airmen. In another two weeks it will be spring in Dakar ang the heavy winter rains will be over. A serious housing shortage has keen caused by the huge population

(increase. Dakar’s white residents

are concentrated on a curved finger

of land, extending into the Atlantic

and only 12 miles long. ~ Gov. Pierre Boisson, French high commissioner, issued his order for evacuation of women and children because of the manner in which civilians clogged the roads during the German invasion of France. Husbands ‘and fathers, naturally, aren't anxious for evacuation through the blockaded seas. They're also worried by prospects of hunger and a hard winter in France. ‘Here: there's at least plenty to eat. The only things restricted ‘are

| textiles and automobiles. As. a ‘mat-

ter of fact there is more than enough to eat—and that’s one of Dakar’s big problems. The greatest difficulty here is in transportation. There is no gasoline and only a few tires, and there is nothing to replace material that wears out. For a while, engineers made a gasoline substitute out of palm and peanut oil. Tons had been piled up to await shipment to France when

the. war ends--while France goes'

hungry for table oils. and dirty for lack of soap. :

gummed up motors and had to be abandoned. . Trucks are now being fitted with charcoal burners, but there isn’t much charcoal. Dufing the past year, when Boisson returnéd from Vichy, he called in colonial administrators and planters and relayed to them an appeal from Marshal Petain to help feed France through the critical armistice period. The planters produced, a heavy

lem. . Huge piles of cotton, hides, peanuts, cocoanuts, dried fish and meats, coffee, cocoa and vegetable oils were left to rot because they could not be taken to market. Dakar’s problem involves two risks—first, that the planters may lose fortunes in rotting stocks; second, that the natives who are naturally lazy will reduce their efforts because they lack the incentive- of such manufactures as bright cloths, alarm clocks, mirrors and combs.

But it takes less energy to farm

But the rich ersatz fuel only;

harvest but it created a grave prob-

a little plot than a big plantation. Since the natives cannot buy anything in return for their labor they are inclined “to ‘revert to primitive methods and work only énough soil to feed their families and pay taxes,

STEEL EXECUTIVE TO ADDRESS CLUB

G. L. Rathel, vice president of the Continental Steel Corp., Kokomo,

will speak at the luncheon of the |}

Co-Operative club tomorrow in the Columbia club. His topic will be “Thinking Things Over.” Mr. Rathel has been active in the | nation’s effort to cope with the steel | shortage. Some of his experiences in connection with the scrap collec tion drives will be related atthe | luncheon.

SCHRICKER ON PROGRAM FT. WAYNE, Oct. 20 (U.P.).— Governor Henry Schricker will head : a fourth district Democratic rally here tonight... He will be principal speaker at the rally, at which cone gressional candidate Sam Cleland also will speak.

Your Awnines

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Now!

should come down

Get oul yaw ladder —or borrow

your neighbor’s— and take your awnings

down right now.

every one of them.

7 Take your awnings down no later ~ than November 1.

& Be sure they are thoroughly dry; brush well to remove all dirt.

Suggestions to Help SAVE YOUR AWNINGS

3 Fold canvas carefully and wrap securely in paper, with all ropes

attached.

& Store in a dry, clean place.

IMPORTANT DETAILS

(R) Remove bolts holding lower rods, er arms, to building.

(B) Pull awning up and remove screw eyes, If used, .. otherwise loosen thumb nut In head rod clamps, which will then let awning come free from building.

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Maybe there's a "handy-man” In your vicinity — or a neighbor's school boy could help you. And, perhaps, too, a neighbor has the ladder you'll need — or you have the ladder he'll need.

(D) Save all screws, bolts and miscellaneous hardware. They may be very difficult to replace next Spring.

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.. and let's all torn in oun "enap”

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We're sorry we can’t do this for you—as we have for more than 40 years. But, right now we are making haversacks for Uncle Sam’s fighting men—. making. them well and making them fast. There’s no time to be lost. This job takes everything we’ve got—and we’rc giving it everything we’ve got. This, of course, is what you would want us to do.

We have extended ourselves i in every way we know how. We may have to find “new ways. We've even had to put up tents to shelter some of these new operations.

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