Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1942 — Page 13

OFFICIAL DIES)

Boyd W. Templeton Was Stricken at Desk;: Here ~ Since Boyhood.

+ Stricken at his desk last week, od W. Templeton, ‘manager of the

, {real estate, rentals and insurance

“department of the Indiana Trust| ‘Co., died of a heart ailment last!

“night in Methodist hospital. Mr. Templeton was admitted to “the hospital shortly after he was taken home from work last Thurs«day, He lived at 2958 Washington ‘blvd.-and was 66, He held the Indiana Trust Co. ‘Position the past 25 years and spe.cialized as a real estate appraiser. His first 20 years in the real estate business was with the J. G. MeCullough Co. here. Here Since Childhood

_ A native of Delphi, Mr. ‘Templefon came to Indianapolis when a child. . He was a member of the Central Christian church, where he was g past deacon, and Pentalpha Blue lodge, F. & A. M., the Scottish Rite, York Rite, the Shrine, Oll Fellows, Sahdra Grotto and the Knights of , Pythias. Surviving are his wife, Adele, and . ;.+® sister, Mrs. Theodore Craven. {s : Puneral services will be at 2p.m. Sonera) in the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. The Rev. W. A. -Shullenberger, pastor of the Cenral Christian church, will be in hares. Burial will be in Crown

- Pallbearers will be Morse Bowen, Frank Symmes, Albert Frankel, {» William A. Brennan, Jack Guyant and Robert McKechnie,

Lions Fathered . War Song Writer

* CLEVELAND, Nov. 3 (U. P.).— , A few members of the New Rochelle, N, Y., Lions club can . claim indirect credit for America’s newest war song classic, “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammuni= tion.” For it came to light today that Frank Loesser, who authored the tune, started his musical career * writing ditties for members of the ~ New Rochelle Lions club while he was a reporter covering their - meetings. 3 The members were supposed to ° write funny poems and: songs * about each other and the less * imaginative ones persuaded the “reporter to “ghost-write” their efforts. Loesser’s ditties were such & success that he decided if he was good enough for the New Rochelle Lions club, he was good enough for Tin Pan alley.

GIRLY SHOW GETS POLICE SUMMONS

‘NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (U.P.).— Broadway today awaited the city’s next move against “carriage-trade” burlesque houses. * Police yesterday served summons on three men connected with the show “Wine, Women and Song,” charging that it violated the penal * law prohibiting indecency on the stage. The show features Margie Hart, burlesque strip-teaser, and comedian Jimmy Savo and was produced by Lee Shubert. The move was the first against 8 show playing a so-calléd legitimate house since Mae West, motion picture star, and members of the ‘ cast of “Pleasure Man” were ar- * ? ested in 1928,

“DRAFTING OF WOMEN HELD UNNECESSARY

© PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 3 (U. P.). “Lieut. Gen. William S. Knudsen, ‘“who' has completed a tour of 550 * war plants in 36 states, believed to‘‘day that immediate drafting of “ women for war industry was un“necessary. “Wait until all the women who ¢ are entering plants by the thou- = sands daily quit volunteering,” he ‘j8aid. “There’ll be time then to t them.”

- DOWN TWO NAZI PLANES LONDON, Nov. 3 (U.P.).—Two -of a group of four German fighter planes which attacked the southwest British coast today were shot 4 .down by British fighters.

€ANCELS PRESS PARLEY ++ WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. (U.P.).— - ‘The White House today cancelled President Roosevelt’s regular Tues-

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Feminine member of U. S. army signal corps installs radio in tank, Woman meteorologist, lower left, follows ascent of free balloon released by girl signal corps member, lower right. Balloon carries weather recording instruments. (Photos from special U. §. army signal corps issue, Radio News magazine.)

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3 (U. P.). —Officers and crewmen told today how the -destroyer O’Brien, trapped between two torpedoes in the battle of the Solomons, took one and sank without loss of a single life. Lieut, Comm. Thomas Burrowes, Keyport, N. J.,, who commanded the O’Brien, said the crew’s escape was “clearly a miracle.” “It was just one of those ome-in-a-million things,” said Burrowes, “and - was helped along by some swell work on the part of the men.” Burrowes and more than 200 officers and men of the O’Brien are here awaiting orders. They have requested that the crew be assigned intact to a new vessel. The O’Brien was in a task force with the United States carrier Wasp and other vessels on Sept. 15 when Japanese‘ submarines attacked with torpedoes. The Wasp was hit, and later sank. “We could see the Wasp burning fiercely,” . said Burrowes. “We weren't particularly worried abbut

| torpedoes because the subs are usu-

ally after bigger game than destroyers. “But suddenly. we saw two torpedoes streaking toward us. We couldn't dodge them both. If we speeded up we would get one and if we slowed down we would get the other. We cleared one and took the other forward. It was a terrific explosion. oo “So much water was thrown up that an American plane reported the O’Brien had been hit and ‘disappeared in 30 seconds, probably ‘with everybody lost.” Other vessels, however, could see that the O'Brien was still afloat and making headway. Some thought she had taken the torpedo deliberately to save larger vessels. Burrowes said this was not true. “We don’t do that,” he said. is a very dangerous practice.” He said he notified the engine

“It

room crew to keep the engines go-

All on the O'Brien Escape; 'Miracle,” Says Commander

ing. They did and the ‘ship was never out of control until she began to break up the last time. “Nobody got excited,” said Chief Water Tender Albert Bobowiecsz, Ludlow, Mass. “We were all sort of punch drunk but we kept everything .in the water room the same as it had been for two years. “That is the trick of saving a situation like that. Of course a little cussing helps a hell of a lot too.” Seaman Dan Burke of Boston went alone to the spot where the torpedo hit and at great personal risk closed water-tight doors and controlled the fire. His act brought a promotion to coxswain. After. traveling a “considerable distance” Burrowes said, the O’Brien began to break up and he gave the order to abandon ship. The men went over the sides to rafts and were picked up by other vessels.

PROHIBITION RETURN FOUGHT BY HOTELS

NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (U.P.).—Hotel owners today enlisted the aid of 250,000 hotel and restaurant workers throughout the country in a drive to combat the return of prohibition. The American Hotel association announced that the full membership of the hotel and restaurant employees international alliance and bartenders international league of America (A. F. of L.) had joined its fight.

BRITISH SAILOR EXECUTED

LONDON, Nov. 3 (U, P.).—Duncan Alexander Scott-Ford, 21, a British sailor, was executed at Wandsworth prison today because he sold information concerning the British merchant marine to the Germans. He was the third British subject to be hanged for treason during the war. Four Germans, two Dutchmen, a Swiss and a Belgian also have been

executed.

NAVIGATION 1S NOW SIMPLIFIED

Author of New Guide Says He Can Make Experts In 6 Weeks. By. GEORGE WELLER

d The Chicago Daily News, Inc. SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Nov. 3.—You, too, can be a celestial navigator. So ‘can the boy who flings your newspaper upon "the porch. So can your grandmother. You may not be able to join the navy but you can learn enough in six weeks, according to Lieut. William ‘J. Catlett, to navigate the navy’s biggest Mars flying boat from San Diego to Karachi. The navy is not contemplating enlisting grandmothers or newsboys as their navigators. But if he had to, Catlett could make them instructors of celestial navigation in 12 weeks. “All anyone needs to become a celestial navigator by the new simplified navy methods is the equivalent of a fifth or sixth-grade education,” Catlett, who. comes from Beverly Hills, Cal., told your correspondent today. “Anyone who can add, subtract and interpolate can become an air navigator in six weeks’ stu

Here’s How It Works

By “interpolate,” Catlett explained that he meant to find the midpoint between two figures upon a chart, as between zero and 10 would be 5. Catlett’s book, “Air Navigation Streamlined,” prepared while he was a member of the Asiatic fleet, is now coming off the governmental presses in the United States for delivery to air officers, cadets and enlisted men. This handbook supersedes earlier methods whereby celestial navigation was attacked from the point of view of mathematical and astronbmical theory. Neither trigonometry nor astronomy are necessary by the new method. “‘Air Navigation Streamlined’ is based entirely and throughout on practical, oftentimes mechanical, thumb rules. Thumb rules are at first substituted for ‘know how.’ After practice and use they should be so thoroughly assimilated as to be no longer considered thumb rules but mechanical thought processes,” states Catlett.

Some Old Standbys Used

Catlett’s method uses some old standbys such as the stock phrase, “could dead men vote twice?” to make the pupil remember the words, “compass deviation magnetic variation true.” But among its advantages is that only four pages are devoted to definitions normally imparted by many months of theoretical training, “In terms of logistics and manpower, Catlett’s method is important because, by shortening the time of training necessary for celestial navigators, it makes it possible for many more navigators to be trained, thus insuring that aircraft will not come off the factory assembly lines faster than air navigators come from the educational hoppers.

FARMER IS HELD IN 5 FAMILY DEATHS

CHATSWORTH, Ga. Nov. 3.— (U. P).—Mark Pulliam, a farmer, who told police “I thought as much of my family as any man” was held for questioning today in connection with the “torch death” of his wife and five children. Sheriff John W. Morrison arrested Pullfam near Dalton, Ga. yesterday, after Mrs. Pulliam, 39, and five of their children ranging in age from three to 11, were found dead in the charred ruins of their farm home near here. I

U. S. BUILDS TOUGH ARMY, SOONG SAYS

CHUNGKING, Nov. 3.—(U.P.).— Foreign Minister T. V. Soong at his first press conference since he arrived in Chungking from the United States said today that “America has built up a huge army, a tough army—an unbeatable army.” He said the United States were throwing tremendous energy into the war effort, particularly in production, which was “on a scale

BUTLER U.

T0 REGISTRAR

Topic Tomorrow at First Conference. The duties of a college registrar

| during wartime will be discussed at the opening conference session ‘lof the Association of Indiana Col= |lege and University Registrars toe

|morrow morning at Butler.

The first English city to feel the might of the German Luftwaffe since the Battle of Britain was Can-

.terbury, attacked by 50 Nazi bombers, of which 13 were shot down. Soldiers and firemen set about clear-

ing away the rable as soon as the all-clear sounded.

PROHIBITION IS

Many Candidates Running On Dry Platform for High Offices.

NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (U. P.).— Prohibition gets a new, test of its political strength in today’s elections. Eight candidates for governor, seven aspirants for senate seats, and 26 candidates for the house, are running on a dry platform. Their chances did not appear

bright, but if they poll a ‘sizable vole the drys will feel that they are making headway toward another prohibition amendment. Some indication of a revitalized dry strength was given in the senate when the 18 and 19-year-old draft bill are under consideration. Senator Josh Lee (D. Okla.) offered an amendment to prohibit the sale of liquor near military camps. It was sent to the military affairs committee for study. } The administration avoided a direct vote because leaders felt that it probably would be adopted. Dry strength reached a peak during and immediately after the last war.

CANADIAN OFFICIAL PRAISES AUSTRALIA

SYDNEY, Nov. 3.—(U. P.).—L. M. Cosgrave, Canadian trade commissioner, in a speech before the royal empire society today praised Australia’s achievements .in the war and said her navy’s exploits had stimulated . Canadian enlistment to a rate of 3000 monthly. “I am embarrassed when I think what Australia has done,” Cosgrave said. “In actual sacrifices or loss, Canada has hardly been touched. “Our only regret in Canada is that our lads are not fighting alongside the Australians. It has not been our fault. But we are beside the Americans in Alaska and will be with them when they come down toward the Aleutians.”

GIVE SHOPPERS PRIORITY LONDON, Nov. 3 (U. P.), — The complaints of women war workers in suburban Wembley that their jobs and household duties did not allow them time to stand in line to buy groceries were answered by the chamber of commerce today with promises of shopping priority.

NAVY SHARES BUILDING WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (U.P.).— Secretary of Navy Frank Knox announced today that the navy department will share the war department’s $70,000,000 Pentagon building now being completed across

never dreamed of by anybody.”

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—If our soldiers in the- South Pacific are finding the cheerful, fuzzy haired natives hospitable and courteous, this is partly because the black man has now grown accustomed to the strange, stingy habits of the white man. In the old days, if a soldier had refused to give away his rifle; machete or.any gadget which: attracted the fancy of a native, hej was apt to be regarded as a shiftless fellow, with no social standing: For prestige in those ‘islands depended—and still- does, to a large extent—not on how much you could accumulate but how much you could give away. The prominent men in the community, the chiefs, were those- who gave the most valuable presents— the finest woven mats, the most pungent scented cocoanut oil, the biggest turtles. Any citizen was entitled . to:ask for, and receive, anything he wanted from : his large clan -of- blood- relatives. This kept the slow-tempoed tropical islanders hopping. It. was -hard. enough to wrest food for themselves and their immediate families, and to save up enough for the innumerable feasts celebrating. weddings, pregnancy, birth ahd all the other festive oc= casions. To keep up his social position, a Melanesian had to give away mych more than that.

ISSUE AT POLLS|

Gets Promotion In Air Corps

Robert C. Swindler, bombardier and navigator in the army air corps, has been promoted from second * to first : g lieutenant, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Swindler, 4401 Central ave, have learned. Lieut. Swindler is 22 and graduated from Butler wuniversity in 1941. He hag been in the service about a year, receiving his wings at Midland, Tex.

Lieut. Swindler

Telegraph Briefs

RAILWAY MAKES GUNS

MELBOURNE, Nov. 3.—(U. P.).— The Victorian railways department, which controls the state railroads, has been engaged in production of munitions since the outbreak of war, it was revealed today

FIREMAN IS KILLED

LANCASTER, Pa., Nov. 3 (U.P). —PFireman Marlin B. Frey, Millerstown, Pa., was killed today when a Pennsylvania railroad freight train struck a rock slide near here and the locomotive and 14 oil*¥laden tank cars left the track and caught fire.

PANAMA CELEBRATES

PANAMA CITY, Nov. 3 (U. P.).— Panama celebrated the 39th anniversary of its independence today, with parades, mass-meetings and sports events in a wartime atmosphere. }

SPAATZ CONFERS WITH KING

LONDON, Nov. 3. (U.P.).—MajGen. Carl Spaatz; commander of United States air forces in the European theater, conferred with King George today at. Buckingham palace.

KILL GERMAN CREW

LONDON, Nov. 3 (U. P.) —Netherlands patriots recently killed the crew of a German transport plane which made a forced landing near Alkmaar, about 20 miles north of Amsterdam, the Netherlands news agency Aneta reported today.

PLANE USES CORK TIRES:

LISBON, Nov. 3 (U. P.).—Successful use of cork tires for airplane landing gear was claimed today after a trial flight authorized by the military aviation command. The plane took off and landed normally -on the tires invented by

the Potomac from Washington.

industry (that is, industry for oneself and immediate family) on this communal system. Then the British administrators, in good natured concern over the feast system which periodically- cleaned. the host out of all his food, succeeded pretty well in undermining this system of values. In the “famine isles” of Fiji and New Hebrides, for instance, the groom’s family used to be economically exhausted for months after a big wedding. Also from worthy motives, the British distributed rice during hurricanes and subsequent famines. As a result, the delicate economic balance: was upset. The intensively competitive system of giving and receiving had worked out pretty evenly in the long run. But when their gift-giving prestige was questioned, the authority of the big men, the chiefs, also was undermined. ‘In Fiji the natives no longer worked so hard; their incentive had been takén away. They began to solicit more than they gave, and to solicit from any newcomer, rather than just blood relatives. Western prosperity came to the islands with the cocoanut oil boom after the last ‘war, and the traders’ “storebought” goods began to seem much more dangerous than home made mats. But the great depression hit Fiji in 1931, and since then the suddenly ‘ deprived natives have largely gone back to their neglected

Adalberto Teles Monteiro.

Whites Changed Lives of Pacific Natives; Custom of Giving Is Replaced by Thrift

metal axes, cloth, soap and cooking pots from the western world, however. They learned from missionaries that soap was better form than their sandlewood oil and fine, pungent scents. Meanwhile, about 65 years ago the British had imported Indian labor to cultivate the neglected sugar fields, and the fast multiplying Indians have ail but crowded the Fijian off his isles. Another unfortunate result of the white man in thessouth Pacific has been the disease he invariably carries with him. While the natives had suffered from stomach complaints, dysentery, colds and skin diseases of various malignant sorts, the white man brought syphilis, tuberculosis and what we lightly call “children’s diseases.” The worst epidemic’ Fiji ever had was a bout of measles in 1875, the year after Great Britain annexed the islands. This wiped out onethird of the population, and aged Fijians still tell of the tragic mass burials on their islands. The white man has generally succeeded, however, in stamping out cannibalism, particularly in the

New Guinea head hunters went on the warpath last year, when the British withdrew before the Jap advance, and there may be ‘more outbreaks. But everything considered, anthropologists usually agree that the white man has taken more

First the missionaries tried to|gardens,- their woodwork, batkcloth{from the Pacific isles than he has andland. canoes.’ still depend onl nis ; fl

Fijis and New Caledonia, although]

PLANT LEADERS

WILL ORGANIZE

Interchange of Methods in War Industries Among The Objectives.

The training directors of various Indianapolis war plants are forming a club and will hold a meeting at 6:30 o'clock tonight at the Canary cottage. The organization’s aim will be to urther the interchange of ideas, experiences, methods, information and other matters of mutual interest concerning industrial training and to develop and to extend the application of right thinking and progressive methods in industrial training work. Tonight’s meeting will be devoted to the framing of a constitu ~1. Officers and the plants A h which they are affiliated incl James Brock, P. R. Mallory Co., president; Lewis Moore, Lukas-Har-old Corp., vice president; John MecConnell, Eli Lilly Co., treasurer, and L. E. Goodrich, U. S. Rubber Co., secretary. Directors of various activities include: William M. Calvin, International Harvester, research and development; W. W. Thies, Bridgeport Brass, program; Bruce M. Traube, RCA, publicity; G. E. Woods, Curtis-Wright, information, and John Blankenship, Kingan’s, membership.

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diana State Teachers college will

11 a. m. will be led by a panel composed of Clarence L. Murray,

J. Kunter, DePauw university; Charles Harrell, Indiana university;

lege, and Ralph B. Stone, Purdue university. Dr. Ross to Speak

Luncheon at 12:15 o'clock in the

of C. R. Maxam, Butler registrar and director of admissions, and Dr.

speak. Following the business session at 1:30, Fred J. Hull, director of teacher placement for the Indiana state

will speak on Indiana’s wartime program for teacher education. Subjects to be discussed during the one-day conference include; College physical education courses, the accelerated program of study and the progress institutions are making in their teacher training for the new program of secondary teachers.

U.S. ‘Promoted’ To 2d Rate Class

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (U. P.). —The office of war information reported today that Japanese propagandists finally have promoted the United States’ navy from fourth rate to second rate.

OWI said that after the Coral sea. battle, the Japanese short wave broadcast announced that “America is now reduced to a fourth rate naval power. The Pacific fleet is annihilated.” Later, after the first battle of the Solomons, Radio Tokyo said: “Anglo-American naval force has been reduced to a third rate naval power.” Now, the Japs are broadcasting this statement .for external consumption: “Again the Japanese navy has proved its great superiority over the American navy which must now be considered a second rate power.” - OWI’'S comment: “From fourth, to third, to second rate in a few

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