Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1942 — Page 9

Hoosier Vagabond

ie IN ENGLAND, Oct. 26.—This ‘new army officers’ school over here is scheduled so rigidly that I couldn’t move in with the soldiers as at other camps without disrupting their routine, so I've been ‘88 a guest at the colonel’s house. However, I did want to have more than a passing chat with some of them. So Col, Layman said for me to choose any I wanted and he would ask them over to his house that evening, and excuse them from their study period.

So I picked out three names at -

random, and the colonel sent word for the three men to be at his house between 8 and 8:15, which of course is after blackout. They arrived full of wonderment over why they were being called to the commandant’s home. And they practically glistened, they were so clean. ‘ You should have seen us shining the heels of our shoes before we came over,” one of them said after the colonel had introduced us and left. “The colonel is cranky about the heels of your shoes.” : And another one said, “They told us to be here between 8 and 8:15, so we timed ourselves to get here at exactly 8:07%. You don’t dare be late or make mistakes here, you know.” :

Almost Made “Our Gang”

| THESE THREE future officers were Robert W. Erkert, from Toledo, O.; Irving Ward Lemaux Jr.,

By Ernie Pyle

played the fat boy in “Our Gang” comedies. He

weighed 125 pounds when he was 8 years old, and

seemed a natural for the part. His mother took him to Hollywood, but they couldn't afford to stay long enough to get him In. When he was 14 he weighed 225, Bob’s record weight was. 290, just before he sailed for England. But the sea trip cut it some, and now the hard work in school is slicing it off him. He has logt 42 ‘pounds since leaving America.

“Like All Gieat Hoosiers”

‘BOB HURD is short and black-haired and you can see the westerner in his still-tanned face. , He, too, has been in the army for five years, I asked him how he happened torenlist. He said, “Well, we just had ‘a tough winter, so I went in the army.” He is 28. For the last few years he has: been driver and orderly for Maj. Gen. Lee. The general personally picked Hurd for officers’ school, If he doesn’t make the grade there'll be one fhad general in England. Lemaux is a fellow-Hoosier. Like all great Hoosiers (ahem) he is getting fairly bald, even though he’s only 27. He is married and his wife is staying with his parents’ in Indianapolis. His father is president of the Security Trust Co. there. Lemaux is of French extraction but says he can’t speak French. He went to Brown university at Providence, R. I, and then worked for the Indianapolis Brush & Broom Manufacturing Co., at the corner of Brush and Broom stfs., and that’s no gag. Lemaux has been in the army only seven months. He says he has never worked so hard as in the past

No Telling How Soon You Can Replace Your Vacuum Cleaner: | So Take Good. Care of lt—Here Are Important Suggestions

By JOSEPH H KRAUS : Science Service Writer

Did you ever stop to think of how little your vacuum cleaner is used? Much less than an ordinary household fan, but the vacuum cleaner contains a husky motor designed for a long life. Nevertheless, there are several things which should be checked to keep your cleaner at peak efficiency. Actually, a vacuum cleaner is nothing more than a modi-

fied electric fan, but. instead of blowing air around a room

the vacuum cleaner blows the dust-laden air into a bag. The air must come from somewhere. In the Cleaner its entrance is through the “suction” nozzle.

In general, runs quietly and the fan revolves there is nothing the matter ‘with the vacuum

cleaner. “But, then, why doesn't it clean| as well as it did when it was new?” you will say. No vacuum cleaner. can clean well if back pressure is great enough to prevent air from coming through the nozzle. This simple experiment will demonstrate what

if the motor

stator casing. fan, Examine the fan and see whethes threads or tangled in the blades. If so, remove them. + : At the same time scrape the dirt and dust loose from the inside of the casting and around the fan blades. Then replace the parts.

Might Try Washing It

You can also try to wash ‘the bag. Sometimes, however, a wash=

This will expose the

lint have become ens:

from Indianapolis, and Robert B. Hurd, from Eagle Point, Ore, Erkert is 23, and has been in the army five years. He joined right after high school because he’d always liked the idea of a military career. Erker is distinguished for once haying almost

month, He, too, has lost weight. “But you know,” he says, “I feel better than I've ever felt in my life.” And they do 'love it. These three, and all the others of the first class of 50. They love it because they've .got a chance in a million, a chance none of them ever dreamed of getting.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

¥ KV. AMMERMAN who limped around Ripple H.S.' All of! which shows how one conscientious motorist last week with one foot in an athletic sock instead of can influence others. a shoe, is back wearing two shoes again, but still mes. When his teachers asked how he had hurt A Boy and a Girl oot, Principal Ammerman rather e assed pal 3 Sather gmbare ly A BLIND MAN stood on the corner of New York

explained he had been helping out : . with communion services at Cadle 20d New Jersey, tapping his cane vigorously—and tabernacle and dropped the bottle Vainly—for assistance in crossing the street. When of sacramental wine on his foot. 1° pedestrians came to his aid, an auto (license When folks began ribbing him 132,013) with three youths in it stopped. One of the about it, he changed the story— boys got out, politely helped the blind man across the merely said he had “dropped a street, then returned to the car which meanwhile had weight on it.” . . . Willie Levy, pulled around the corner out of the way. . . . A boy the “mayor of S. Illinois st,” whose’ and girl, each about 18, stood on Maryland st., just office is his newsstand on the back of Colonial furniture. The girl’ had her head northeast corner of Maryland arid ° snuggled against his ‘shotilder. . -He was reading aloud. Illinois, has just heard from hig Irom an official looking document: - One of our agents ® brother, Abe, who used to help who happened to be passing sneaked ‘a look “at fhe . with the newsstand. Abe's in Ice- Paper. It was a marriage license. . . Je Dwight land, getting along fine. . . . We hear that Capt. Peterson saw an army plane passing overhead. “Look, | George Cunningham, who has been seriously ill in an Johnny,” he said to his young son, “there goes a P-40.” air corps hospital at Miami Beach; is somewhat im- ~ NO, dad,” said Johnny pityingly, ‘that’s a P-39.” And

proved. He's the former Claypool hotel manager. we'll bet is was a P-39, too. Then, it will be necessary to re- thumb and the fore-finger of each

’g hat? No Taxes? No, Clark 8 Not Here Ww 2 Lr IE SE move the entire motor by loosen-|hand stretch very carefully and inWERE SORRY, girls, but it looks as though the ANY GYPSY authorities among you readers? If ling the screws which hold it to-‘thelcrease the length of the spring by rumor that “Clark Gable now is stationed at Stout/ so you might help us out in answering one of : our - —— t—— ——— field” is still just a rumor. We stirred up quite a feminine readers. She’waiits us to explain all about to-do out there when we p! check up. Some: gypsies. “Are: they. citizens of the U. 8.” she asks.| of the boys, would like to meet him, too. - But we have “Do they pay taxes? Has the U. S. any control” over| i on the authority of no less than Lieut. Col. Reed them? Can they be drafted? Did they ever work for. Landis that Clark’s NOT there, and hasn't even had g living?” Well, - just offering. a curbstone opinion, ; time to finish his air: corps. trai at Miami Beach. some are and: some. ar 't citizens. Those born’ nl But we'll keep watching. . . . Robert Trump, gross: U. S. become Bitizess. heyprobably don’t-stay long, cl income tax department auditor, was driving back enough in ong spo to pay; faxes, other than auto|” from Connersville the other day, not paying much license. Those that are citizens: can be drafted.” But Ni attention to the speedometer. He had to slow down as to whether: they ever worked for a living; well ’ when he came up behind another car. Looking at his’ have to pass on that one. . The encyclopedia isn't véry/ speedometer, he saw he and the other car then were helpful. It reports. their origin is obscure, that they | going just 35. A couple of minutes later he saw, in spent two centuries—14th. to : +16th~emigrating ‘from his ‘Tear mirror, several other cars lining up behind India; that in” France they're: known as Bohemians; him. Soon, there were nine, and they all proceeded . in “northern Europe as Tartars,: shbeny, Egyptians from the heater, make two. loops the rest of the way to Indianapolis at 35 miles an hour. and even as heathens” and hook them around a small

i! Te ’ oo fi a 8 i \ : brass screw and nut. Tighten the . | ; * | ; & a ol " & ’ oy nut; then draw the wire tight by W ashington By Raymond Clapper | - WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Whenever anyone dis-

H ‘rewingling completely. B AROUND of kinks, “NAILTO Wire on a heater which has seen been provided. ‘Perhaps So, yet that very explanation i cusses the question of censorship and the withholding gives some information: fo the Japs. There was -a| of news in wartime, he is on delicate ground. He may three-months delay in anhouneing the loss of the air-

is meant. Why Vacuum Doesn’t Work Remove the bag from the vacuum cleaner and put your palm tightly over the opening to which ‘the bag is attached, or stuff it with a wad of paper. Now turn on the motor and you will discover that the vacuum cleaner does not work at all. In effect, that is what is wrong with many cleaners. The bag doesn’t function properly. The vacuum cleaner bag is designed to collect dirt, yet air must be permitted to pass freely through the fabric. If the cloth of the bag has become so clogged with dirt and dust that air will not pass freely through the meshes, the cleaner labors and dots not operate efficiently. Give It a Good Beating Thus, if the motor runs but the vacuum cleaner ‘is sluggish, take the bag ‘off, turn ‘it inside out and pin it on a wash line. Then give the bag a good beating with a stick. | carefully and the brush will come * If ‘this treatment does not- restore out. the cleaner to full efficiency, re-|. Observe the curvature on the face move the plate on the bottbm, of the|of the brush very carefully because vacuum cleaner. This is usually|you should replace it in exactly the done with a screw-driver. : Some [same ‘position as it was when you vacuum cleaners, however, do not|removed it. have a plate. Holding the spring between the

ing operation: will make the bag less porous. However, little harm can be done by washing the bag at this stage because it is probably no good anyway and should be replaced. Maybe .your vacuum : cleaner needs-a new set of brushes. Unless you can get just exactly the right size it is bedter to take your cleaner to a repairman. Occasionally, additional life can be had from the brushes now in the machine merely by increasing the tension of the spring which pushes these brushes against the commutator of the motor.

Adjust Brush Springs »

All that sounds technical. But if you will. refer to the:diagrami you will see a screw (there is one on either side of the motor) under which a brush is located. Remove this screw and a small spring ‘will jump out: a*short distance. Pull on this spring very

Mrs. Virgil Kiiuop, 6602 E. Washington st., is going to make sure liar vacuum cleaner runs for the duration. Here she inspects the fan to see if threads or lint are slowing down its’ efficiency. Oil is one of the life-lines of world war II on the home front as well as on the battle front. To keep her Toachme, running smoothly, Mrs. Knoop oils the motor.

about one-half inch. This will give an increased tension. On some vacuum ‘cleaners the brush and screw are connected by a wire and the whole assembly comes out in ons piece. Nevertheless, the operation remains the same, . Repairing a Heater

Aside from replacing a cord or fixing a switch this is the extent of the repairs which the average person should attempt to make on a vacuum cleaner. If the motor sparks or gets unduly hot take this valuable bit of electrical ‘equipment to the repair shop. No telling when such articles will be manufactured again; so whenever ‘possible put them in the hands of a professional repairman. Many homes have at least one electric heater around which doesn’t ‘work properly because a heating unit is burned out or the wires are loose. It is often possible to -repair these heaters at home when a repairman cannot be obtained. - Let's put your heater in readiness for temoving the cold chill from rooms in which you have turned off heat to conserve fuel. If the resistance wire is broken it can sometimes be repaired by the method illustrated at 4.

Diagram Shows How Remove a complete turn of wire

REMOVE

EXPOSE FAN) Ly ORN 6ac & CLEAN IDE . Sor > If the cleaner fails to pick up the dirt as well gs before, it may be peo 7 the bag needs a thorough cleaning. Shake the dirt out of it well, ad« vises Mrs. Knoop. And if it still seems sluggish perhaps the pores in the bag are filled.. One way to take care of that is to turn the bag

inside out and beat it.

might as well tinker with it. Do not remove more than a few In the case of the heater shown|inches of wire from the heating at 5, if the wire is loose carefully|unit. To do would increase the uncouple one end, wind around ajamount of current consumed, ine thick nail and connect the wire to|crease the heat, and shorten the the socket again. . life of the heater.

FIX BREAK a REWIND. .

3 WIND y Be careful

TIGHTEN : sqme use breaks easily. But the fd es heater is no good as it is so you find himself unwittingly asking for the disclosure of craft carrier Yorktown. ‘information that would aid the enemy. On the ques- | tion. of what will aid the enemy, civilians must give the benefit of the doubt to the military. Yet in doing this it is assumed that the military will always have in mind that there is public anxiety about the war and that the people ought to know at all times how the war

is going, so far as that can be

done without aiding the enemy. Incidents of news withheld ‘have in some cases aroused doubts as to whether as much news has been given out as would have been possible. The speech of Elmer Davis, director of OWI, jn Montreal recently was interpreted widely as an incomplaint. | TR it emphasized rather pointedly his congratulations to the Ganadisn Sovermnont os os prompt Canadian casualties in e Dieppe raid. Fhe — p talked around Washing-

inted Jn some respects -at the withholding of BT

Look at: the. Reoitd] ;

WITHOUT. DOUET, Me. Davis came to Washington determined to cafry out his assignment to tell the American people as nigh abotit the war as could. be safely dorie.. It ‘becomes more clear’ around®here that! he has been frustrated: at-fimes-in‘that purpose. f One of the most disturbing; incidents was the longdelayed release by the navy of the news: of the loss of three cruisers in the islands. landing last”

August. GE Australia, ‘lost a cruiser in the sate "engagement and announeed it 10 days later. : We waited more than two months fo ‘announce ours. Meantime the. Japanese ‘radio * broadcast similar, although. .exag= gerated claims: | our navy explained that the news of the logmes had to be withheld until replavsmente: had

LONDON, Ehgland, Er Afir dinner. last evening, we were shown a very fine film, “In Which We Serve,” which I hope will soon be released in the

United States. It is acted and produced by Noel ~ Coward and is ‘the life story of a ship of the royal | navy. In great part.it is the story’ of Lord Louis Mountbatten’s own ship. Seen here, surrounded by peo‘ple who are so conscious of the’ ‘truth of every detail and must ‘be so emotionally responsive to the suffering, it was an extraordinary experience. I wondered how some of those present could bear to sit through it and was grateful for Gen. Smuts’ strong, quiet presence beside me. : i Somehow, it was strange to our son, Elliott, for the first time in many The room was full of dinner guests and it + dinner and the movie lay behind

Sueen retired, that we seitle ;

If these delays are essential from a’ military point of view, then more ought fo be done to reassure the country on that point and- to make it clear that news is not withheld ‘for policy reasons beyond strictly military ones. The present handling only encourages rumors that other news is held back.

Is It the People’s War? ee

DURING THE RECENT ‘Guadalcanal campaign, communiques have: cited minor successes, the bringing down of enemy aircraft and such, but without balancing them to indicate the: gravity of the situation as a whole. - The casual newspaper - reader who goes no farther than the headline-or the first paragraph or two lays down his paper with an impression that all is well, when the opposite may be the case. This would seem to make. it all the more. advisable|. that the. navy include. in_ its communique a guiding sizeup of the real situation, . That would transfer the]. burden of writing in cautioning tipoffs. ° The. reporiers speculation ‘would be’ ‘transferred to. an offiial basis. The latest holding back. of news comes from the army in connection with the Doolittle raid on Tokyo| last April. We did not announce that some American fliers were held ‘by. the Japanese until Tokyo revealed it a few days ago. “Yet the ‘United Press quotes the mother of one:of the fliers. as having been notified. by ‘the war department last August that word had come ‘from the International Red that Her son was'a| Japanese prisoner. The news Is ‘released - Just now. after Tokyo breaks : it. : “There was ho news in that to be withheld from ; ‘the enemy. It. was withheld ‘only from the American}: people, who have been as’ ‘much interested ‘in the}: Tokyo raid as in any one thing we have’ ‘done: -in“this}: war. Some of our .officials call’this a People’s: war. 18) would, help it we also considered | ‘this. an “Amerioin/ People’s Ss war.

: . wis 4

E Eleanor Roaseoelr br

meso oy mu He hopes I shall have an opportunity to see him and his unit and many of the other things which have| impressed him. Miss Thompson and I had a quiet breakfast this morning before an open. fire in my sitting room. Then we read the papers, which have fewer pages here and, therefore, are .not so voluminous fo go through, but still give one all the essential news. I have also made the discovery that my little portable radio works extremely well in this part of the} world. At 10:45, we left to attend. the press contererice at the United States embassy, and I must say it was a formidable gathering I faced. It reminded me far more of the president’s press conference at home than my small gatherings of: ladies. In it were represented the empire, British and United States press. The most amusing question asked me was by one of our own press people in’ uniform. ‘He wanted to} know whether we are likely to pass a prohibition law again in the United States, He did not say i, but I felt implications that, perhaps, the the boys would resent something of the the kind happening while they were

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Russian Army's Newspapers o on Whee

Article Xi SEs

By LELAND. STOWE

: Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News, ‘Ine.

WITH THE RED ARMY ON THE RZHEV FRONT. —It looked like any other peasant’s log cabin. until we

stepped inside.

Outside is-was. just another cabin in an-

other Russian village, squatting on the broad praitie only about eight miles from the front: lines. We stepped through the door. ‘and. of all: ‘things we -found ourselves in a newspaper’ cortiposing room—the. only newspaper composing room. I have ‘ever: yet, encountered that actually went to the. Wars. - it Five husky, rosey-cheeked: ‘Russian’ girls. were wibusy

“setting type as we walked: in. - The top’ headlines: an

d¢ half

- of. the: front-page were already lying : in the form, The -makeup man had his next" edition completely sketched out.

Within a couple of hours *

the “Son of the Father. -

-land,” which is. one of the. Red army’s scores of. front-| zone newspapers, would be

going to press. It is a. two-page tabloid and

"publishes about 8000 copies daily |

* —always in active fighting sec-

a big: ‘truck was standing parked against; the’ side’ of ‘the barn, well

: ‘camouflaged under the naked limb

of a: tree. -- Editor Nosov opened the back door of the trucking van

i and pointed ‘inside.

There sat. a bright and: shiny baby press, about three feet high

and three feet wide. The motor which opérates the press was installed to one side. 2 2

A Woman ‘Pressman’

SO HERE was the newspaper plant which publishes on wheels—

any newspaper plant which rambles up and down the Rzhev front or the Briansk front or any front, it may be assigned to, and as tidy a little daily publishing setup as any reporter or member of a typesetters’ union would care to see. | \ Standing guard beside the press was its’ operator, Alexandra Stagkina, ‘who previous to the war worked as a . typographer in Igarvsk for six years. Alexandra's

* husband joined the army the first

day of the invasion. “I have had no news of him

- for more: than a year,” she said.

"“I think he is dead.” Back in the cabin’s composing “room the five girl typesetters ‘worked with swiftly flying fingers.

A Moscow. gir] typesetter, slender

FUNNY BUSINESS

‘ tors and frequently inside or | 1°

under German artillery fire.

: This was my introduction to’ |

what is undoubtedly the: world’s: : riskiest publishing: venture.”

or regiments which. come out two or three times weekly. : All these: news and. moralebuilding publications live with the

troops and travel with the troops |

wherever they are fighting. 8 2 2

Press in a Truek BUT IF I was surprised by the

log cabin composing. room of this

division daily, I was more aston‘ished by its press room. The edi-

tor of the “Son of the Father: | land” is Regimental Commissar | 2

Mihail Nosov, who was .a Kiev Zewspapeman before the war be-

8 This 1s really something but where is your press?” I asked. Editor Nosov led me out through

a aan.

The Red army has et bits ! ber. of : a Aabloids, some: for -F 5. iii ores pub :

7 7

7) 9 y

tion. “This life is more interesting because we change all the time. I can't remember how many headquarters we've had.” » ” FJ

A Dangerous Life

EDITOR NOSOV pointed: to a -

buxom brunet from Voronezh, the

21-year-old Nastia. “That girl can -

work. 18 hours a day without getting tired.” “Tell her it’s too bad I'm married,” I said. At that, all the girls burst into peals of laughter, Nastia first of all. Like all Russian girls’ they looked amazingly strong and healthy. ’ In the cabin next door, Regimental Commissar Nosov has his © editorial room. It has a big map of Russia on the wall and one typewriter, but Editor Nosov has several staff reporters. One of them, Grigori Verhkovsky, was So badly wounded gathering news in

front . lines that .he spent five.

months in a hospital. j I was beginning to grasp the remarkable morale-bu uilding power of - these Red army front-zone

I saw copies of many of ‘them such as “Red Army Pravda” which is published somewhere along the central front and. “Forward

pears on the Kalinin front. 2 8 2.

‘Always Being. Bombed®

small town weekly or daily. . "Editor Nosov’s “Son_ of the Fatherland” has run off its edition of 8000 copies or more in farmyards, in ravines, in pine forests, or in roofless “garages” dug -deeply into the open prairie, just a few miles back of ‘the front lines.

much?” I asked. Nosov laughed. “We always are being bombed.”

2 » =

| Understand Morale

When I pressed Nosov to tell about _his four-wheeled news-

s Are Printed at the Fronk

and blond,. smiled at- my ques-

“Well, dnce we were completely

. cut off by the Germans along with :

some -of our Red army units. Everybody. dropped his newspaper

- work and took. up rifles. Oh, yes

—tHe girls, too. We joined the soldiers and fought for 10 days. Then our unit fought its way out. We saved everything. We didn’t even lose a stick of type.” Better than any army in the world, the Red army understands the importance of fighting sol-. diers’ morale and more intelligently than any army in the world, I believe, it has a system designed to nourish and maintain that morale.

newspapers and news sheets. Later.

Admiring New Bill Turns Duck's Eyes

PEEKSKILL, N. Y., Oct. 26 U. P.)—A plastic bill has made & Madllard duck in Chauncey M., Depew memorial park cross-eyed, The duck lost part of his bill in a battle with a snapping turtle. Dr, Robert Poritsky, a dentist, made him a new one of plastic and wired it on. It worked well enough, but when Dr. Poritzky

"called yesterday to see his patient,

he was cross-eyed. Dr. Poritzky * thought he had been looking at his new bill too much.

Against the Enemy” which ap-

THESE RED ARMY newspapers - are. as ‘personal and; focal as a.

“Have you been bombed very

| papers. narrowest escape, ‘he re .

HOLD EVERYTHING