Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1942 — Page 11

ND N, Nov. 3.—There is to be strict fuel econin Britain this winter. Coal won’t be rationed, Jit will amount to the same thing, for coal will be hard to get. Jgoyernment; has a campaign on now, telling people how ‘to cut down on their fuel. An elaborate system of “targets”—or goals for the people to shoot at—has been worked out and widely published. Your “target” is determined by the size of your house, the size of your family, and the section of England you live in. . The north and middle have a more liberal “target” than the south. home in the south as an example. Say it is a family of three, liv- : ing in a four-room house. Well, “target” for four rooms is 80 units for the winter; “unit being 50 pounds of coal. In addition to this, each member of the family

ie gets 15 personal units. Thus our family has a total ~~ Of 125 units; or 6350 pounds of coal—about three tons. + Could you. get through the winter on three tons of 5 coal? {SBuming up the furniture is considered cheat-

ing) Three Buckets for the Week THERE ARE SIMILAR “targets” for electricity, gas

: ‘and hot water. For instance, you're not to run more than five inches of water in the bathtub. At Bucking--

ham Palace they've painted black lines around the tub, 3 five inches from the bottom.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

HOCKEY FANS are griping about the parking facilities out at the Coliseum. Since the army air

] ". «force took over the fair grounds, hockey parking has

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been restricted to the space at the southeast corner

of the grounds. There's ample parking space, apparently, but only two exits. And what a jam there is when everybody tries to get out at once. It’s hard to tell which is worse—the crashing of fenders or the. cursing Jf drivers. Hey, Dick Miller—how about asking Uncle Sam for a couple more gates? , . . Speaking of gates, the north gate to the Butler bowl, which was torn out for the army war show, is being rebuilt. This time, they're making it larger. The old gate was only 12 feet wide. The new one will be 16 feet wide, - and quite a bit higher, large enough to take ‘most any load in the future without having to tear it out. Incidentally, the playing field in the bowl wasn't damaged as badly by the war show tanks and trucks as had been anti¢ipated. There's still quite a bit of

sod left on it.

How to Save Oil FORREST B. KELLOGG, the builder, has been

reading ads on the various devices and materials

guaranteed to reduce the consumption of oil in house

} heating. The other night, he tells friends, he sat

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3 Sow vila a pencil and began figuring. He wound up by: figuring how to cut oil heating consumption . something like 264 per cent. At that rate, it would " keep him busy draining the oil tank to keep it from overflowing. . . . One of our agents reports seeing a @ Woman buy 60 cans of soup at the Stop & Shop market, 56th and Illinois, Getting: ready for soup rationing, we guess. .. , James P, Tretton, general manager of the street railway, has been appointed program

. ¢hairman for the transit section of the National

.. Safety council. . his family, tells us he has just coined, from personal

.. One of our friends, who has five in

experience, a new simile: As self-conscious as a man

Washington

~~ WASHINGTON, Nov, 3.—There is the most vigorous objection in the army to the senate version of the 18-year-old draft bill, which would require a year of military training before 18-and-19-year-old

f selectees could be sent to combat duty outside of the

, United States: Hope still exists that the house and senate conferees will elimin-. ate the one-year condition adopted by the senate and that the measure will go to the White House without that restriction. In fact, “study of the way this restriction would work out has led some in the army to feel that it would be better not to have any legislation than a measure imposing the year’s restriction. They would . rather take a chance on getting the younger men by enlistment. __ Objections are based on military grounds. One

Lie t made is that it would be a harmful burden

the army to be compelled to hold 800,000, or

: Sh number would be inducted, in this coun-

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try for a year. They would pre-empt equipment and

: training space and be immobilized for a longer period

than neeessary. * Testimony of army officers: while the legislation , was being considered brought out some of the de‘tailed objections.

+ Bight Months of Waste?

Gen. Somervell, chief of the services of supply, said men could be trained in four months to handle - motorized equipment, Yet under the senate bill

5 teen-age draftees could not be used to drive supplies

* to a, combat area for a year. Mechanics can be trained in fdur months to join bomber crews, but ‘would have to remain here another eight months to comply with the one-year requirement. Also it would be Ampossitle to train men aliroad inh combat

areas. © Purthermore, some divisions can be rapidly filled

very much enlarged, show up everything on the ground. It is really ‘appalling to see what one big bomb can do and certainly a well organized Yaid with skilled people in planes can leave a city practically in ruins. Once the fires start, it must become an inferno, wherein even trained defense workers can hardly do anything to decrease the

ge. President Benes and Foreign Minister Masaryk of Czechoslovakia came to call at 10 o'clock and then our ambassador, ' Mr. ‘took me fo call on her majesty, Queen Wil4 ‘was very pleasant to see her again and ularly touched by her willingness to come to save my time. | ted the British Red Cross and saw

By Ernie Pyle

No central heating in hotels was allowed before Nov. 1 this year.

Actually, I imagine the troops will keep warmer than most of us civilians this winter, although they won't be roasted out of their barracks, I assure you. The British army is on a coal-rationing system, and some of our troops who have moved into British camps are following the same scale. That scale was 20 pounds of coal a man per week in summer time. That was just enough to cover cooking and waterheating. In winter it is raised to 56 pounds a man. In other words, each man will have 36 pounds of coal a week for heat.’ That's about three bucketfuls, if my childhood memories of coal buckets are correct.

Just This and That

I'VE RUN ONTO any number of soldiers who have American silver dollars and half dollars with them, and intend to carry them throughout the war just for luck. . . . Here in London, the Queensland (Australia) government has had a big window-display of all sizes and shades of beautiful South Sea coral, ever since the Coral sea battle. . . . In the army the letters “M. P.” stands for military police. In England the same letters stands for “member of parliament.” It is sometimes confusing. . . . The controversy over the “jeep” still goes on. In northern Ireland all our troops call it a. “peep,” but in England our soldiers call it a “jeep.” Whatever you call it, it rides just as hard. . At a crossroads town in southern England the other day I saw a sign saying “Berlin—819% “miles. ’”

Let's take a small

carrying a 25-pound sack of sugar down the street on}

the last redemption day for ration stamp 8.

Around the Town

BILL SCHLOSS, president of Morris plan, is the very proud father of twin sons, born Saturday. . . . Last June, Joe Staab, one of The Times’ printers, lost his wallet while fishing near New Ross, Ind. Last week—five months later—he received the wallet back in the mail, with its contents intact. It had been found by Junior Evans of New Ross. Joe says, “Thanks, Junior.” . , . Lieut. (jg) Harry Harlan, formerly in the accounting department at Allison’s, has been home on leave from Boston. .. . Seen on Kentucky ave. west of West. st.:. A C-V beer truck driver get out of his truck and pick up the pieces of a broken bottle in the street. It might have been a beer bottle. . Daily street scene: Army privates, singly and in small grqups, looking appraisingly at the displays of officers’ uniforms and equipment in Block’s and Strauss’ windows. Prompt as the Marines THERE HAS BEEN a lot of griping recently about civic luncheons that extend far into the afternoon. Sympathizing with the gripers, Evan Walker, general chairman for the luncheon celebration Nov. 10 of the U. S. marines’ 167th birthday, promises that the luncheon will end promptly at 1:30 p. m., ready or not. The Junior C. of C. and the Mercator club are sponsoring the celebration. . . , The Allison plant, with more than 2000 of its men fighting with every service on every front, has adopted a policy of providing jobs for the families of these men. R. G. Kremer, personnel director, says the plant will provide work for all members of its servicemen’'s immediate families who wish to work and are able to comply with the employment regulations, It’s a nice gesture. . . . R. G. Thompson of Ditto Sales reports driving over to the Wabash river ordnance plant, thence to Terre Haute and back to Indianapolis, all the way at 35 miles an hour, and with only two cars passing him in all that distance. Both happened to be from Missouri and were heading home. He said that driving 35, he averaged 28 miles an hour,

By Raymond Clapper,

put into these outfits immediately. Otherwise in some cases, divisions might have to be held in this country longer to comply with the one-year limitation. It might nol be possible to bring them up to full strength without drawing on the younger selectees. Those are some of the considerations that army officers see against the one-year restriction as it will affect the building of the army and rapid preparation of it for service abroad. The one-year restriction was passed in the senate by 38 fo 31, showing that opinion was fairly closely divided.

Speed Now More Pressing

THE WHOLE QUESTION of lowering the draft

-age aroused a gocd deal of opposition and it was

only in response to the strcng appeal of the president and of army and navy officers that congress took action on the eve of election. Some members may be willing to revise their opinion now, in response to the objections raised against the one-year restriction, especially if the army makes its case on the practical difficulties that are raised. The movement of forces overseas is bound to expand as chipping facilities increase during the next few months, and the army wants to be in a position to send outfits which wil] include younger men. Any strings at all will hamper the organization of forces for overseas service at a most critical time, army officers say. . As they sce it, the war will require everything we can put into it. The question of speed becomes more pressing each month and it is felt that a year's delay. interferes too much at the very time when it is important that the army be free to move as ready, without being subject to delays imposed by law. Whatever the army's plans may be, it is evident that 1943 is regarded as a year of action and fast-moving development of our part in the war in several fronts. - That undoubtedly accounts for the unusual anxiety over this restriction with regard to using the younger men.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

of things which must- supplement whatever the men! |f

are given to eat. Food packages are not sent to special men, but in sufficient numbers so enough packages can be sent to each prison camp for all the men. I lunched with the American press and enjoyed seeing some familiar faces. Finally, I drove to the home of the Duchess of Kent and made the acquaintance of the president’s godchild. Back in London, I had a chat with Sir Arthur and Lady Murray. Then at 8 o'clock; I went to see some of the centers open for service men and women. . I saw dormitories below the ground where, during the blitz, people had slept every night and where some girls sleep when beds are not obtainable in other places. I also visited the Y. W. C. A. center run for service girls only,~where a hundred or more can be accommodated over the week-end. Bed and breakfast costs two shillings, which is about 40 cents, and a fair meal can be had for a little over a shilling. Lastly, we went to the Hans Crescent American Red Cross club for service men, where a Halloween dance was in full swing. As I came out, a boy on the steps asked me if I had liked Magnolia gardens in Charleston, S. C. An-

other, wo iiveq ot far from Atlanta, Ga., said,| Mrs; like

In 1946, the aviation world was buzzing with talk of the American

“flying cannon,” the Bell Airacobra.

Here it is, powered by Allison’s.

Behind the Allison -motor, long hours of exacting toil are spent making every one of the 7000 parts scien

tifically true. Here a worker

When Allison’s started hiring men by the 100-a-day, the average age of the worker there was 22—like this

young fellow here.

Award Honoring Contribution To U.S. War Effort to Climax 3 Years of Rapid Expansion

By FREMONT POWER EARLY IN THE WINTER of 1939 the ground was

brown with cornfields and frost-struck orchards.

Here’

and there were a few haphazard buildings.

It was a quiet, calm sight and America slept on in the

sweet dream of peace.

Today on that ground huge, windowless buildings stand and inside a feverish, exacting work goes on, work

that makes each day one nearer to victory for free

peoples. The trade name is Allison's, a division of General Motors. The product is the liquid-cooled “in-a-line” motor that powers such stinging fighting planes as the Curtiss P-40, Tomahawk, Bell Airacobra, Lockheed Interceptor (P-38), the North American Apache and Mustang and. the Curtiss P-40D Kittyhawk,

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A Great Role in History

IN THREE CLIMACTIC years, Allisonr’s built plants that cover acres, employ thousands and daily play a great role in histo

ry. Allison’s had not slept. For excellency ‘in quality and quantity of production, Allison's

next Thursday will receive the army-navy “E,” America’s way of recognizing the “man behind the man behind the gun.” At 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon, the huge, whirling machines of Allison’s will be shut down and the workers assembled in front of the main plant to see the ceremony. Col. Alonzo M. Drake, district supervisor of the central procurement district, will present the army-navy pennant.

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War Worker at 95

ON BEHALF of Allison’s thousands, 95-year-old Mike Mennebroker, of 3208 W. 16th st., will step forward and receive the “E” pin from Lieut. Comm. L. F. Brozo, commandant of the naval armory here.

FUNNY BUSINESS

THE Ww WORLDS 6 IA Ry, MEST BER m,

Today Allison’s is competently manned.

Mike Mennebroker joined Allison’s when he was 70 and it was a small laboratory-machine shop owned by the late sportsman, James A. Allison. Mike is now a- bearing department worker, a living refutation that age has no place in the war. In 1916 James A. Allison built a small machine shop to make racing motors. Allison was “one of the boys” with such promoters as Carl Fisher and such daredevils as Eddie Rickenbacker. During world war I the company helped with. the making of the famous old Liberty engines. After the war thousands of the Liberties were sent to Allison's for overhauling.

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Shot Into Big Time

DURING THIS PERIOD the shop foreman, Norman Gilman, now retired and living in Brownsburg, Ind., dreamed of a

‘NOT NUTS, SUSPECT SHOUTS IN COURT

" CHICAGO, Nov. 3 (U. P.).—Two psychiatrists today examined Irwin Kadens, 33, army deserter who shouted in court yesterday that he was ‘not nuts” when he conducted a two-month tour of crime through the Middle West. After yesterday's stormy courtroom session in’ which ‘Kadens protested against almost every step of the proceedings, * Judge John A. Sbarbaro of Cook county criminal court appointed Drs. Vladimer G. Urse and John J. Madden to ex-

|amine the defendant and continued

the trial until tomorrow. Although Kadens, a former postal clerk, has admitted “about 75” crimes, including robberies, attacks on women and the kidnaping of a Detroit couple, he was placed on trial first on a charge of attempting to rob a currency exchange. Kadens upset .the judicial calm of the courtroom by demanding that he be-tried for a more serious offense. The army - desertion or kidnaping. charges against him carry a maximum. penalty of death. “I object to this trial,” he shouted. “There are two charges against me carrying a death penalty. What the hell is everyone playing ground for?»

] RIPPLE 0. E. S. TO MEET ‘Brothers’ night will be observed

‘at a. meeting of Broad Ripple chap-

ter 315, O. E. S.;at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Broad Ripple Masonic temple,

163d and Bellefontaine Sts. Mrs. Lucy

turns out a propeller shaft,

All powered by Allison (top to bottom), BeH Airacobra P-39, Lockheed Lightning P-38 and Curtiss Tomahawk P-40,

liquid- -cooled motor that would kick up 1000 horsepower. Specifically, he was seeking smaller frontal area, hetter distribution of fuel regardless of the position of the plane and closer temperature control. He never abandoned the dream and in 1929 General Motors became convinced that Gilman had something. They bought the plant, made Gilman president-in-charge and started pouring the huge finances and research facilities of the corporation into the perfection of an .air-cooled aircraft motor. In 1939 Allison's was ready for big-time. production. The first set of buildings was completed in December of that year. In May of 1940 full production was under way.

AND NOW, as Allison’s receives the army-navy “E,” the

firm branches out into a great new building. Tooling machines are being moved into a single building at Tibbs ave. and Raymond sts. This will be the big No. 6 plant. In size, it will equal all the floor space now utilized by Allison's, making the all-over picture of Allison's here a bigger op= eration than Henry Ford’s vaunte ed Willow Run bomber plant. For the “E” ceremony several dignitaries will be on hand—Gov= ernor Schricker, George A. Kuhn, president’ of the Ihdianapolis chamber ‘of commerce; William T. Miller, president of United Aircraft Engine Workers, Inc, and F. C. Kroeger, Allison's gene eral manager. Also invited is Jimmy Doo- . little, the curse of Tokyo. He's accepted, pending on what the president might have for him to do between now and then. Gen. Doolittle has plenty tio do. 5

Attention, Girls—Low Heels Are the War-Time Vogue

CHICAGO, Nov. 3 (U. P.).—Milady is coming down to earth. Low heels, the stepchild of the feminine shoe wardrobe, have pushed their more elegant competitor, high heels, right out of fashion and today outnumber high- heels four to one. This was evident at the natiunal shoe fair which opened here yesterday, filling to capacity three of Chicago's biggest hotels. More than 8000 buyers viewed the 806 exhibits of shoes sponsored jointly by the National Boot and Shoe Manufacturers and the National Shoe Retailer associations. The reason for the tremendous popularity of low heels, obviously, is the fact that Mrs. America has been left afoot by rubber-shortage transportation difficulties. She will walk to work in the war plants and she will walk to her war committee meetings. But. shelving of “high heels for after-working-hours functions. will work no hardships. The new lowheeled models are a far cry from the “sensible” shoes of yesterday. Today’s models are smartly cut, with stitching, perforations or combination of materials for feminine effects. And they're comfortable! The scuffed-up brown and white saddle oxford. Long standard wear for the college and high:school miss, is out. The government has banned two-toned shoes which also mean the nemesis ‘of the popular spectator pump. Where leather soles are used, shoes are available in only six colors: three shades of brown, black,

white and navy blue. Two-1oned effects instead are: ved bj

Rubber heels and soles are out, Only heels of 25 per cent rubber are . permissable. Taking their place are substitutes of rope an‘ cork which are a boon to play shoes. Where leather soles are not used, all types and combinations of color are pere missable. ; As far as men are concerned

they'll stillgo on wearing shoes,

mostly interesting ones by woman's standard... They won't wear brown. and white or black and white ones, All white, instead, willl predominate the summer market. The military mode has influenced men’s shoes, many models appearing with plain toes and straps instead of ties. °

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