Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1942 — Page 9

= : Never Any Letup Here

BUT THERE. ARE ‘other: wonderful things that

urs, ‘England doesn’t have—dehydrated onions, and arange|

and lemon. crystals for cold drinks. -And’ there are thousands of boxes of’ the army’s

“““D-Ration.” which are ‘merely concentrated. and pow-

- erful chocolate bars.

lls of copper wire, and thousands of feld ‘and secret: radio equipment.” Chemcial gas decontamination apparatus and. ‘SO on.

sss chicken reach to the ceiling. a vast army and all its equipment

OF THE WEEK: Evan Mark Ferree,

president, a member of the national

prnors of the Better Business Bureaus, unty devotee, Indiana university’s loudest ‘and a chap we happen to know quite well since he is the business manager of this newspaper. Mark Ferree (he’s tried for years to drop the Evan) is only 37, a husky, good looking six footer who weighs about 180. He is a pleasant, even tempered, good humored Hoosier with a simple, unassuming manner and a decided Hoosier twang. He has a rapid fire laugh and an ever-present sense of humor. And he is somewhat self-conscious about the thinning strands of his light brown hair which he careover his scalp. He has an odd habit of shoulders as it wo make his coat collar

tally shy man, he sometimes looks

he has a cabin.. He has built some tool shed at the cabin, and delights

FANCIES himself as one of the great s of the country. No matter who he always laughs it. off as an accident.

‘and ‘keeps running accounts with getting into such odd figures. as: I owe you $3.86 now, don’t I?” boy in his native Marion, Ind., Mark proud of his accomplishment in being 8. An older sister’s daughter was born before Mark. He ‘used to take the for rides in a wagon pulled by his pet ~He worked on the Marion Chronicle i or, went to I. U. and quit after his

shington

IGTON. ‘Oct. 31.—When so much puble ) “official news out of Washington exists who want to stay on an even keel helpful to read beyond the text of the . good example, although not the only - “one, of course, is the New York Times Washington dispatch on Guadalcanal in the Oct, 29 issue, There, as you will find in the first paragraph, the navy announces by communique that Japanese losses

“in troops and equipment in the -

‘ground fighting have been very heavy as compared fo our own. |. That was the language of -the © navy communique the night of +: Oct. 28. But read on into the third para-

graph, There, the reader is told

Skesthan Supplemented the cuminunique 2g against optimism that might be enuly by its contents, Further down, the that news writers at the navy departcautioned against drawing the inferJapanese

had sustained heavy losses; as 2 might indicate. Our own’ losses in

g have been light. So the announce‘the Japanese had lost a comparatively large Soldiers does not, mean that their casualties High figures.

i New York Times correspondent, was trying to keep the reader from

by the communique. Indeed, the navy. paper controversy. It is a conflict of view between),

the supplementary note of cau8s a reader went beyond the communigue, bly misleading picture. the caution, that the ‘news 8 Wasn't as

The work of unloading, sorting, and reloading goes

on here seven days a week. Trains are. shunted onto

switches that run. alongside the great sheds, some of |

them actually into the sheds.

Watching some of the ‘Negroes at work, you might :

suspect that you were ina Savannah ‘warehouse, except for the uniformed work clothes, In lulls while}:

‘trains are switching the men lie asleep on sacks ori

boxes, their hats ove¥ their eyes. ‘The Negroes sing as they work—when’ the newsreel camermen come around ask them to—but they! don’t sing much otherwise.

“There is never any letup here, for this is a tinnel}”

wheére movement must never be clogged. You: get an idea of both the immensity and the urgency of our part in the war when you camp for. a while at a general depot. ;

sophomore year for n reporting job on the Boaeille

Courier, followed by the Miami Herald. He took an advertising sales job on the Washington News in the midst of the depression, ‘came here: as business manager of The Times in 1937. : A hard worker, he has an intensive interest in community affairs and has been one of Rotary’s most effective men in service activities. :

Hates to Fire Furnace

HE'S QUITE FOND of steak and fried chicken, not to mention green salads. By nature, he’s a hearty eater, but he’s usually dieting. When he feels the need of exercise, he .goes to the I. A. C. for a steam “bath.

county, he nearly kills himself _ working on his 30 acres—and loves it. He enjoys. horse racing and ‘is fairly lucky at

picking winners on a hit and miss basis. He doesn’t].

like to dance, cares nothing: about cards, has played bridge about three limes and probably "still doesn’t know the king from the ace, He gets a kick out of driving his car, ahd is a good, steady driver. His current pet. peeve is the way some motorists go racing around him when he's driving 35. He fairly froths at the mouth; toots at them, then blushes sheepishly when they slow down.

Everlasting Optimist ; :

‘A DOG LOVER, he has three pets—two schnauzers|™ ~~ and ‘Cork, an Irish terrier. He's smoked Luckies for years, is crazy about Gershwin tunes. Last Summer he bought a phonograph‘and ‘a big stack of Gers tunes and oy them to the cottage. He: reads in bed every night, sometimes for hours. He’s never liked the movies, falls asleep whenever he attends. He goes to hockey games but enjoys basketball better—football best. : And no number of setbacks will convince him the

“days of Indiana university football glory are not just

around the corner. He goes to every game, sits there squirming, shouting, groaning, suffering the torments of the damned. And if I. U. doesn’t win another game pretty soon, all of us are afraid he’s going to die.

By Raymond Clapper

ficial communique to reports of action. It avoids as much as possible editorializing or drawing conclusions. Possibly: also there was hesitation about putting into the official communique, which goes all over the ‘world, an official statement that might sound pessimistic and might seem to be forecasting a hint of defeat. So a navy official gives the newspaper correspondents an unofficial sizeun so that they can convey a better-balanced over-all picture. Newspaper reporters are constantly making every effort to get out an accurate sizeup. Sometimes it is uphill work.

It’s Not the Papers’ Fault

- INSTANCE; when the Solomons action be- , Gen, MacArthur described it as a “navy show.”

At home, he’s annoyed at the idea of} ‘having to fire the furnace. But down in Brown

years manufacturing

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1972 Models 1 to Be |

Motor in Rear,

Is “Forecast;

High Octane Gas to Be Used § ee

_. By Science. Service A PREVIEW of what ‘the automobile of 30 years in | the future will look like is given by a forecast by Dr. T. A. | Boyd, head of the General Motors research laboratories: fuel department, presented to the Society of Automotive Engineers through its technical journal. Motor car man‘ufacturers are too busy producing tanks, airplanes and “engines for war to plan what kinds of autos we will have after the war; but this dream of the future gives some

hints as to what may come. The place is the U. S. A, of 1972; Dr.-Boyd speaking: The first thing recalled as we look back to 1942 is that there

really was no ‘automobile industry .

then. ‘The great assembly lines, many of them, had been torn out and the space was given over to making engines of destruction. Those troublous times: finally came to an ‘end, though. And, when the war did: end, much of the knowledge: gained during its progress was found useful, just as “the ' developments in" nifrocellulose ‘and. in solvents: for it, made during the world war of the previous generation, helped fo make practical .the synthetic finishes . which began to be used+in the early 1920s. :

zs 8 2 ree AS WE LOOK back. at the 1942 model car with our ‘1972 eyes, we

HUNTING TRIP

are amazed at how heavy it was. Cars then weighed 3500 to 4500 pounds—and that 4000 pounds of metal, rubber and glass were often occupied by only one person. One of the main reasons why the cars back in 1942 were so

.heavy was that, to give the kind

of performance desired, the engine had to be such a big one. - There was much talk about put-

fing the engines in the rear. But,

as a matter of fact, the engine had to be in front because, for one thing, it was so heavy that, if jput in the rear, the car could not be handled properly at high speeds. Also, much of the heat ‘of the fuel had to be taken out through the radiator then that, unless: the radiator was up in front to get the benefit of natural

+ draft, the power Tequired to drive .

the cooling fan was prohibitive. As muchas a third of the heat

ACCIDENT FATAL]

C. B. Coombs, Manufacturer, Killed by Gun: Blast In Brown County.

Carl B. Coombs, who operated a machine shop in the rear of his home, 2455 S. State ave: for 25 automotive parts, was killed yesterday at his summer - ‘home in Brown county when a shotgun was accidentally discharged. Mr. Coombs died before aid could arrive after his. wife, Mrs. Dora A. Coombs, who made the trip with her husband, had summoned help} froma neighbor. The accident happened as Mr, Coombs was starting on a hunting trip. He had placed his ‘shotgun in the ‘rear of the car stock first when it struck an. obstruction on the floor of the car. The gun was discharged and the load struck Mr. Coombs in the stomach. Mr. Coombs was 54 and had lived in Indianapolis 40 years. Active in religious work for many years, he was widely known in church cir-

a Secretary Stimson says the ‘campaign was the[cles and was a member “of the result of plans agreed to by the joint army-navy chiefs|Christian church. of staff, and was “not purely a naval decision.” Two| He organized the Coombs Bible weeks ago Rep. Costello of California said the navy|college, 3911 E. Washington st., and

“had tried to make a grandstand play and had not|at one time served as its’ president.

called on the army help early enough. i Each of those assértions—at the time it was made —was news. Secretary Stimson, Gen. MacArthur and Rep. Costello, a Democratic member of the house military affairs committee, are in positions that entitle

- them fo speak on ‘this subject. Newspapers must re-

port what they say, The result is confusing. But that is not the fault of the newspapers. >

He was a native of Clark county. Besides his wife, he is survived by: two sons, Henry M. and. Carl B.| Coombs Jr. and a brother, Otis M. Coombs. ‘The Rev. Lester Groseclose, sise| terville, W. Va., a lifelong friend of |

| Mr. Coombs, will officiate at funeral

You find the same conflict in other news. Gen.|services which will be held at 2

Hershey :says compulsory manpower: legislation is not necessary. Chairman McNutt of the manpower com‘mission says it is necessary. That is not a news-

‘Much of such conflict cannot be. avoided, naturally. But the responsibility for it goes to the officials, ‘not

io the newspapers: which ars the tarasis of anipin

i ‘around here ust now.

boy did in one of those planes.

." Then we drove

p. m. Monday in the Home. Burial will be in. Washington park. 2

FUNNY: BUSINESS

cars then was called

The 1972 car is shown (upper left) as visualized by an artist. Motorists such. as thiose. milly ch ging down the streets of the nation’s sapital in 1906 in a Model N Ford (upper right), could little imagine

the advances to be made by automotive “engineers. It all started back in

the 18th century. The 1770 model

(lower right) is thought to be the first steam carriage ever built. Builé by authority of the French war minister ‘with military purposes In mind, it ay be considered the forerunner of the modern motorized

military force:

of the fuel was wasted through the cooling system.

& ” ” & Rust Big Problem VERY LITTLE aluminum or other light metal was used in cars then, for as yet no one had found how to produce, aluminum and magnesium cheaply: enough, Contrary to conditions at present—that is, in 1972—rusting of fenders and bodies was a serious problem, particularly in regions where salt was spread on - the streets and the roads to mélt snow or to lay the dust. The: glass in the windows of “safety” glass; but, by comparison with the altogether non-shattering, nonsplintering glass of 1972, it was really not very safe. : The cars people drove in 1942

gave less than 20 miles per gallon

of gasoline—usually only 12~to 18. At that rate, strange as it seems to us in 1972, only 10 per cent of

Article XVII

By LELAND STOWE Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis. Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

WITH THE RED. ARMY ON THE RZHEV FRONT.

In every sector of the front you find young Russian girls.

in uniform. They are usually between the ages of 18 and 24. They are husky, athletic young women. They are proud of ‘their posts with thé Red army and they seem - to thrive on the rugged outdoor life and on hard work and ‘danger. They have complexions which are unsurpassed anywhere in the world. They devote themselves to their jobs with intense seriousness and great capability, yet they love laughter and they radiate good cheer. ‘When you drive out of Mgscow, you first meet these girls standing guard on the main highways. Some do sentry duty with rifles. ‘Others direct all traffic. They

stand very erect and cut

trim figures as they snap

their red flag back under the arm and sweep their yellow flag forward in the “go-ahead signal. Then they come smartly to a salute as your car passes.

‘means one more man. in active

the front, there are

headquarters, 1 saw Red ~-army girls who were living in earth

the commissary. stores of vari

ous army units. Uniformed girls

prepare and serve meals in almost; all the officers’ nesses. Of course, there are nurses and girl stretch-

© er bearers, even in many of the

front lines. There also are whole detachments of telegraphers and

. telephone operators, many of them - working in exposed front sector Every one of these Russian girls . positions. ; eth

¥ x =

= Living in Caves:

RIDING UP to -one advanced

‘what below

the heat of the gasoline was being converted into push for the car. So, in spite of the low cost of gasoline per gallon then—it cost less than 20 cents; and six cents of that was tax—the owner of a

‘car during its lifetime or period of service paid out as much for

gasoline and oil as the car itself cost. in’ the first place. ;

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Good Gas Expensive THE GASOLINE on which cars were being run in 1942 was some75 octane number. Already, then, to be sure, they knew something about the value

- of higher octane gasolines, such

as that we have now in 1972; and gasolines” of fairly high octane numbers—100 and even more— were . being made in limited amounts for use in aviation en-

gines. But in 1942 it cost twice as much to make 100-octane gaso-

Tamara—this pretty, shy and unspoiled, . dark-haired girl — was her roommate. Katja and Tamara were graduated together. Wasn't it pretty terrible here last winter? “Oh, no,” says Sergt. Katja. “We

all had our Valinki and army °

overcoats,” . (Valinki are those

marvelously : warm Russian felt

boots which the German soldiers

. envy. so.much.)

Have you been home since the war began?

line as fo. produce the 75-octane gasoline used in cars. Not at all understood either, back there in 1942, was the im=portant subject of just how gaso-. dine burns in the engine to produce power, Another rone of the problems we are glad has been solved ! was how -to get about at night without glaring other travelers off. the road. In those days, they relied almost altogether upon headlights carried on the car itself.’ But thé trouble was that they could not make those headlights bright enough to. see the road ‘properly without causing discom-... fort ‘and annoyance to the drivers » of other cars on the road. . Another of the changes; made since 1942 which has done much to banish peril from the streets was to set up the effective means that we have today of teaching people how to drive cars and of keeping those who cannot drive safely from getting: behind ‘the steering wheel.

do, they will do with ‘devotion and enthusiasm, Around Moscow and many other Russian _ cjties, Red army. girls man anti-aircraft batteries and fire their guns with as great ac curacy as the men. They, too, will be at their posts day and night through the fierce .arctic winter In truth, it is almost impossible fo portray the tremendous part which Russian women are playing ac tively in fighting the war against the nazi invader. Tens of millions of them labor in factories, on

“We had five days leave in Sep-

tember,” Dusja says. “That was

the first time in one year. We

saw our families and we went to

a movie”

I suppose life was more fun in Moscow? But Tamara hastens, very earn= estly, to correct my false impres-

sion.

“Oh, no. We like it much better here, The work is more. interest-

: ing and, besides, we have movies

here, too. Sometimes, we even have artists: from Moscow, who come

' out to entertain the soldiers. We have everything you could want.”

Sergt. Katja, who said: : Lee - Tell American Girls “TELL YOUR American girls to cone and join us in fighting

the war.” . ‘When we reached ‘Gen. Dmitri

formed: and. continus to perform,

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