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THURSDAY, NOV. 5, i942 |

‘SECOND SECTION

W Tt : : So Hoosier Vagabond DENHAM, England, Nov. 5.—More than a year ago Leslie Howard, broadcasting one of his moving mesSages to America, stood before the microphone and said something like this: “I'am no glamour boy. I am no matinee idol and I don’t speak as one. The naval officer standing here beside me is

taller than I am—and he is my son.”

Leslie Howard is 49. He could

be a glamour boy, even now, if he chose to be. For he literally does. not look over 35. His face is not lined and he is nearly as thin as I am. He has charm and poise. But glamoring is not in his character. His pleasures come from the fertility of his mind, not from : : tinsel and show. ‘His real interest in life is in devising and creating’ ‘through the screen. That's the reason he is gradually changing from the role of actor to that of producer and director. Leslie’s son is Lieut. Ronald Howard. He is somewhere in the Indian ocean or South African waters, but they don’t hear from him often. His daughter is 17, is named Leslie Ruth .after her two parents, and was married in May to a Canadian—Maj. Robert Dale*Harris.

. They All Call Him ‘Leslie’

I SPENT a whole day with Howard at his studio, and his method of working is a violent contrast to

‘some of the contortions that go on in Hollywood. He is never the least excited, and his directions are in such a low voice you can hardly hear him. His speech is just as you know it from the screen—exact, and soft. In this present picture, the cast is practically all girls. When they do something exceptionally well he tells them so; when they bungle something it is often funny and he gets tickled instead of {getting mad.

By Ernie Pyle

I noticed that between scenes the girl starlets who wanted to thrash out a scene would take his arm and walk along with him as they talked. All the players call him Leslie, and he directs “everybody by first names. They say the union workmen will do more for him than anybody else. He eats lunch in the same crowded dining room with the other players. He uses a 35-cent utility lighter. He has a habit of rather scrunching his shoulders and leaning forward and frowning when he is thinking hard. His assistant says he. has a beautiful vagueness about time.

She’s a Story in Herself

SHE SAYS he isn’t thoughtless, but he’ll suddenly have an idea and sit down and start figuring on it, completely lost to everything else in the world. She both mothers him and Simon Legrees him to get him successfully through the day. Howard still wears his famous pre-war sports clothes and sweaters. His ties are knitted ones, and his shoes are fuzzy, thick-soled ones of the Hollywood variety. Leslie’s assistant is a story herself. Her name is Violette Cunnington. She is a French girl who showed up in Hollywood five years ago, and Leslie hired her to look after him. She wears dark blue slacks and sweater and a bright red coat, is pretty as can be, still talks with a French accent, and has a mind like a tracer bullet. She herds her boss around and looks after a million details and literally helps him think. Her father was an Englishman living in Paris, and her mother a Frenchwoman. They are both still in Paris; in fact, her father, being English, is interned. She sends them heavy clothes for winter, and thinks they aren’t getting along too badly. She loves America beyond words, and can hardly wait to get back. Leslie is hoping to go to America again before many months. | He was supposed to go more than a year age, but things keep coming .up endlessly and he doesn't get away.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaun

EDWARD BRUCK read our item Tuesday about night was Toney E. Flack, the county’s No. 1 dis‘only two motorists passing R. G. Thompson while he gruntled Democrat. . The election reportedly paid was driving 35 miles an hour from here to Terre big dividends to Otto ‘Ray. The hoys say he cleaned bet 5 6! Haute and back. Mr. Bruck says he drove to Terre up between $ 000 and § 000—betting on Republican

candidates. Haute last Sunday and “had 22 cars pass me going . over and 35 coming back, while I J ust Use Scotch T ape

was driving 35. Some were going A PROSPECTIVE mother hearing of the impendbetter than 60.” . . . Marion coun- ing diaper shortage got panicky and rushed downty’s wild-life is getting to be quite town yesterday to lay in a supply, if possible. She a problem for Power & Light Co. found all the diapers she wanted but went “all over linemen. Twice recently, linemen town” and couldn’t find the right sized safety pins. have had to climb high tension “But what'll I do?” she finally asked a salesman. “I steel towers to interfere with the don’t know madam,” he replied, “unless you use gamboling of playful raccoons. scotch tape.” ... In the face of increasing business, Each time it was right on the the street railway is having real difficulty in finding edge of the city, once southeast, operators to replace those going to war and defense _ the other time southwest. . . . Bill plants. Up to now they've been able to find replaceBook of the C. of C. is confined ments, but the situation now is becoming acute. In to his home with a severe cold. world war I days it got so acute that the utility just He's hoarser than Willkie ever was. . . . Harold Bre- had to miss some of its schedules—no one to run dell, the lawyer, now with the American Bar associa- the cars. ‘ § tion in Washington. as a liaison with government ,._. ’ . Jim Deery’s Prediction

bureaus, has been back home visiting a few days. 3 . ; . JIM DEERY, our esteemed city controller (until ’ E lection Post Mortems next Tamang 7 sends us ‘an election “prediction” THE PHONE RANG. It was Congressman Louis which we didn't get in time to print before today. Ludlow. “Say,” he began, “I used to be a newspaper- Dated 2:30 p. m. Tuesday, it read: “I predict (1) the man myself. Do you suppose there might be an open- election of Roy White as justice of the peace in ing over there for an old hand?” Replied Managing Washington township; and (2) Michael H. Lutz as Editor Norman, Isaacs: “You don’t need a newspaper constable in Washington township. Both are Demojob, Louis. Yeu're in? ‘Louis forgot all about jour- crats and neither have opposition. This is unusual ° nalism after that. ... One nice thing about the way as Washington township is overwhelmingly Repubthe election turned out—Republicans getting sizable lican. I therefore nominate White for governor in majorities—there’ll be few if any recounts. .,. Ralph 1944. He is a graduate of Illinois university. Any Gates, G. O. P. state chairman, lost his voice early Democrat who can be elected unanimously to any election night. He was down to a whisper. When office in Washington township must have a popular County Chairman Henry Ostrom walked into state appeal.” . .., Overheard after the election: “Well, it headquarters, Gates stepped up and gave him a bear didn't go to suit me, but anyway, it proves there's hug, with a whispered: “Henry, you old -so and so, no ‘Ja’ vote in America. We can thresh out our own you came through.” .’. . Very much in evidence at -Hifficulties ‘among ourselves, then present a united Republican county headquarters throughout fedidn_prom to our enemies, »

Washington By Raymond Clapper

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—The election of Thomas on his behalf that is always necessary no matter how E. Dewey as, governor of New York will start a wave a candidate appears not to be running for the job. of talk for him as the Republican presidential candi- He would not allow large sums of money to be date in 1944. Indeed, there has been considerable raised to-finance a preconvention campaign, talk already. When he accepted the, Republican The statement either means what it seems to nomination for governor at Syra- mean, or it is a piece of tricky double-talk like the cuse. on Aug. 24, Dewey had unfortunate statement about the second front in 1942. something to say about his future. You remember that when Soviet foreign commissar “For my part,” he said, “let me Molotov was in Washington in May, a joint comsay right now that I shall devote munique was issued saying that “complete underthe next four years exclusively to standing was reached with regard to the urgent

‘the service of the people of New tasks of creating a second front in Europe in 1942.|

York state.” That language may have been intended to fool Thus Dewey himself has given Hitler, but it was so slippery that it has created us the basis of judging his good bad feeling between Russia and her allies. Double faith. The ‘Syracuse pledge reads talk usually bounces back with quarrelsome echoes. like an airtight promise to stick to the job as governor for the next Maybe It's Unfair to Him four years. Dewey says he will - devote the next four years “exclusively to the service IF THERE IS a hole in Dewey's language throygh which he could slip out and run for president in

of New York state.” He says “exclusively.” He could hardly devote 1944, then he is too slippery with words .to inspire

himself for four years exclusively to the service of any confidence in the oversigned. the people of New York and still run for president Time and Dewey's own actions will tell how ear, fter next. If he became president, of course genuine Dewey's words were. The prevalent belief d have to devote himself to serving not only among politicians is that Dewey will find some.way the ic of New York state but the people of all to get around his words and grab the presidential other states, whose interests might not always be nomination if he can get it. That is how cynical those of the people of New York state. He could not People in the political world are about it. exclusively serve his own state while serving: as All ‘of that may be unfair to Dewey. If it is, he president of all states. doubtless. will find a way to make it clear that he

is to be taken at his word and that his statement Is It Tricky Double-Talk?

which seemed to renounce his chances at the presi- . * dency next time meant what it seemed to mean. THERE ARE THREE little words—"for my part”— Public men often have indulged in tricky words. that Dewey might interpret as giving him an out if In fact when a fellow who wants to be president the Republican party nominated aim without any has no originality, he begins his fight for the nomieffort on his part. nation by saying he is not a candidate. That means But if in his own mind he was pledging himself his hat is in the ring. without mental reservation, as they say, to serve his It is going to be interesting to see what Dewey own state exclusively for the next four years, he does about his Syracuse pledge when the campaign Would not permit his friends to do the kind of work to nominate Dewey for president begins to roll.

My Day

By Eleanor Roosevelt

LONDON, England, Wednesday.—On Monday the food for the children. Two little twins presented

night, Mrs. Leonard Elmhirst and Ambassador Wi- Pe Wil A190, ie aul ue boukmes bo raid ment is only gradually nant dined with us. I was happy my son Elliott able to get the women to leave their aa in these could come up again for the night. We had a very day nurseries. The numbers are increasing steadily, pleasant evening. I had to sign some mail Tuesday but for a time there was a great suspicion on the part : morning before breakfast, so the of the mothers, who thought their-children were gopapers received a rather cursory ing to be taken away from their influence and prereading, for we had to leave the ferred to leave the child with a neighbor. Now there apartment at 9 o'clock. are no longer such neighbors. An isolation’ ward : Our first visit was to one of the exists in every nursery, where children having colds : day nurseries run by the govern- are kept. If any sign of a rash appears, they are sent ment. Here there were about to the contagious ward in a hospital. This. obviates . 60 children whose mothers are in- the necessity of keeping a child who is ill, at home, dustrially employed. They are except during the night period, if it is well enough brought in every morning between to go home. 7:30 and 8:30 o'clock. The women The second nursery we visited was another type have to go to work, because, in a conducted by the women’s voluntary services. For majority of the cases, their hus- two days, it accepts children who are going to be pands are in the services and evacuated from the city to the country. They get

Shey need the money ‘and, incidentally, the govern- - bathed, their hair is Washed and they are ouoitoc IF

Bonds and Taxes to Toke. 30 Per Cont of Pay: Everyone Will Have to Budget His Expenses

By ROSEMARY ‘REDDING LET'S FACE IT. A lot of us are going to have to work out a new scale of living. We're go“ing to have to keep our living expenses within about

70 per cent of our income. The other 30 per cent is going to go for war bonds, a victory tax, income and other taxes. Yes, that’s right. There is another kind of rationing looming on the horizon. This time it is a rationing of dollars. It will be voluntary, of course, but this business of budgeting . . . of setting aside a certain sum for taxes, etc., each week ... . seems to be the easiest way out. A lot of people already are figuring on just that. Miss Frances Preston, home economist for the Institute of Family Service in Cleveland, has seen it happening in a number of midwestern cities recently. She's

leading a study course here this ° ‘week at the state conference on

social work in the Claypool hotel. “People who never before considered budgeting are beginning it now,” she says.

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Must Save Weekly

A CHECKUP among my own friends bears out her statement. They figure that the surest way to have money for taxes is to set aside a stipulated amount every week of the year. When one reads the tables on the new levies against incomes it’s enough to jolt you into some kind of an organized plan—figures such as $153.40 on an income of $1500 for a single person; $186 on a $2500 income for a married couple; $158.80 on a $3000 income for a man, wife and two children, and $507 on a $5000 income for a family of four. It isn’t easy for a single person to put aside $2.97 a week, for the

tive would be to move — which isn’t an easy thing to do these days. ' So, it appears the budgeter

will have to lop the dollars off

somewhere else. Small economies are not glamorous but they do add up to savings. Much of the job is going to fall to the housewife. Today she must stop every small as well as

large leak. ‘Take the matter of

Miss Frances Preston, center, explains the new ~bidgeting problems. to’ Mrs. :Mary Ellen. George, right, and Mrs. Claude A. Davis, Corydon.

young" couple’ to lay aside $3.48, the $3000 man to put away $2.97 and the $5000 family to take out $9.95. © But putting that much away each week is a lot smaller goal to shoot at than one shot at the entire amount. Thirty per cent taken out right at the start seems like an awfully lot. But Miss Preston says: that a lot of budget experts are using that figure. They get it this way: 10 per cent for war bonds, 5 per cent for victory tax and 14 or 15 per cent for income and other taxes.

" New England saying:

How to Retrench

WHEN YOU SIT DOWN to do your figuring, she suggests that you figure the 30 per cent first and then use the 70 per cent as the basis for the living expense

..side of the ledger.

That means retrenching. How? Well, Miss Preston's advice can be summed up pretty well in that old “Bat it up, wear it out and make it do.” Because incomes and the size of families vary it is difficult to stipulate just how much of the

- points out.

70 per cent remaining. should go for various items, Miss Preston

The general headings are savings, shelter, food, operating expenses, clothing and miscellaneous. They are the ones from which more money for taxes; war bonds, etc., must come. Shelter is perhaps the most immovable item. Theoretically, rent should not exceed 25 per cent of the income after .the taxes and war bonds have been deducted. Rent ceilings have been set as to what is fair. The only alterna-

household equipment for example.

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Save on Food : “TAKE BETTER CARE of it

-and do without replacements,”

advises the counsellor.

Savings, though small, can be made in such items as gas, electricity, telephone and even small items like soap and the cleaning powders used in the bathroom and kitchen. As for food, Miss Preston is pretty definite in her belief that it is a woman’s place to stay at home and see that savings are made along that line. Less can be spent for food if a woman puts in time on its preparation. Then there is the matter of clothing. Magde-overs will become stylish, ' Miss Preston points out. This is one item on the budget which definitely can be clipped, she feels. As for the classification sometimes called miscellaneous, some« times advancement, it is the one which will bear the brunt. Some of the items are already being: cut out for us. Priority rat and gas rationing mean that money that formerly went for the car’s operation can be moved ovet to the tax envelope. Luxuries in the advancement class can be weighed, probably will have to be, more thoroughly in order to raise that 30 per cent. The business of budgeting is an individual problem. Granted it won’t be easy. But as Miss Preston puts it: “The important point is to make

. a start.”

ment needs their ‘work. : with whatever clothes they need. - There are also erything

cared for dur-

Nazis Split Over Strategy Shift

By UNITED PRESS The secret Gustave Siegfried Eins radio station, possibly a clever blind for German propaganda, today reiterated that the German high command was preparing to execute a new plan for an all-out offensive in the Mediterrangan zong at the expense of the Russian campaign, but was meeting strong opposition from Field Marshals Wilhelm Reinhart von Rundstedt and Albert Kesselring.

German troops already have been switched from. Russia to France and Italy and planes have been transferred to North Africa, the station said. It added that Gen. Zeitzler, an SS (elite guard) officer, who, according to the station, has become chief of staff of the high command, was disposing his troops in Russia to take up defensive lines. He allegedly intends to halt the German offensive in the Caucasus behind the town of Nalchik so that the bulk of the Nazi forces can be thrown in the North African battle.

REGISTRARS GIVEN WAR ASSIGNMENTS

Five major services are expected of the college registrar's office during wartime, Dean J, Earl Grinnell of Indiana State Teachers’ college, stressed in a talk today at the fourth annual meeting of Indiana Collegiate Registrars on the Butler university campus. They include record service, certificates for members of the reserves and armed forces, letters, transcripts and grade reports. A luncheon followed the morning session. Dr. M. O. Ross, Butler president, spoke. J. Fred Hull, director of teacher training ‘for the state department of ‘public instruction, was to be the afternoon speaker. Election of officers wil conlclude the sessions.

TO QUARANTINE WOMEN

WASHING'TON, Nov. 5 (U. P.) — President Roosevelt has approved expenditure of $687,000. for eight quarantine hospitals to be built in six states to care for women with venereal diseases, Brig. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, federal works administrator, announced today.

HOLD EVERYTHING

simply but well arranged, The * volunteers who take them fo their destinations in the

MIMIC LEAVES BAFFLE JAPS

They Bode Ill for Sons of Nippon, According to Old Superstition.

AN ALASKAN NAVAL BASE, Oct. 3—(Delayed by ' Censor.)— Further details on those imitation leaves which American navy PBY planes have been dropping on the Japs at Kiska now become available. Perhaps, in a way, it was an effective stunt, after all. As ‘you might expect, somebody in Washington cooked up the idea, and prepared the imitation leaves, which were forwarded here for delivery by the pilots. The leaves are supposed to be “Kiri” leaves, native to the Japanese islands. An old and potent Jap superstition is said to exist to the effect that when such leaves fall in profusion, before their season, it bodes ill for all sons of Nippon, particularly in a military way. They're Superstitious

The leaves had Japanese characters on them, reminding the Japs

of the superstition and promising]:

that American bombs would soon rain down on Kiska in far greater quantity than the Kiri leaves.

At the time the leaves were being |. dropped, we were establishing our}: big new. airbase in the Andreanofs,|: around 250 miles way. Soon, sure |:

enough, the bombs did start falling, just as advertised. The Japs are still in Kiska, despite bombs and Kiri‘ leaves, but there’s a universal feeling that they can’t hang on there long, unless they deliberately decide to sacrifice 20 to 50 per cent of the

shipping they send in to supply the

place. Maybe that leaf stunt was a kind of cute trick, at that.

U. S. SEAMAN GIVEN MEDAL FOR HEROISM

LIVERPOOL, England, Nov. 5 (U.|§

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (U. P..—

‘The treasury today was looking for

ways to dispose of a collection of jewelry, coins, gold fillings from teeth and other odds and ends donated by patriotic Americans since Pearl Harbor. The treasury also disclosed that cash contributions tg the war effort now . have Passed the $3,000,000 mark. Expert appraisers have set a “dealer’s value” of $1800 on, the collection of odds and ends which ranged all the way from a dia-mond-studded .* platinum bracelet valued at $1250 to gold fillings from teeth,. quoted at 50 cents and’ up. These . gifts were accompanied by various requests which added up to

For Sale—Gold Fillings. Coins And Twin Wedding Rings

“use em to beat Hitler and Tojo.” The collection included two silver cups ‘won in tennis matches in Japan by their New Jersey donor who asked that they be melted into bullets for return to Tokyo. An Illinois man sent in a medal won in 1908. at the University of Tokyo which "he wanted sent back as bullet. German iron crosses and German belt buckles brought back by returning Yanks after world war I also were contributed with similar requests. - The jewelry included twin wedding rings. which a New York man asked be placed in the “Beat Hitler Fund.” The ‘appraiser said they were worth $15 “for the gold.”

P.).—The silver medal of the Liver-|&8

pool shipwreck and humane society has been awarded to Jason Easley, gunner in the United States navy for saving the life of an American Negro seaman on Oct. 1, it was announced today. The seaman fell off a dock at night. A “British fireman dived in after him, but, needed help also. Easley then dived 30 feet off his ship in the darkness, swam toward the men and helped rescue them. The British fireman also was awarded: a medal.

REFUSES. TO "CONCEDE

: LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5.(U. P.).— Rep. Leland M. Ford (R. Cal) re-

§| fuses today to concede he had been 4|defeated by. Lieut, Will Rogers Jr, of | Democrat and son of the late cow-

boy-humorist, pending a canvass of

ijthe vote. With only eight pre-

cincts unreported, Rogers. led 60,172 to 50,685.

0. E. S. TO > HoLD a

- Irvington chapter 364, O. E. 8. will hold a dinner meeting at 6:30

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Compensation

When ' ‘Elmer F, Pokies: reached into the mailbox of his home at 339 N. East st. he found two letters. addressed to him. : | One ‘contained a government compensation.check for injuries he had received .in world wer I. ‘The. other was. from dratt board eight ‘ordering him to r eport -for the army ‘Monday at_ the motor armory. $d “ Mr. ‘Pohlman was . rather stag-

"| gered by the coincidence at first, | waiting ‘orders to report for duty.

but he laughed about it today.

me with three gold service chevrons - the last war to. go dno this

Called to Colors Again

Elmer F. Pohiman . .. .. iohermmant; pension and’ sduction order in the same mail. .

Order Come in Same Mail

My sécond . class, and says he

“It will .be funny. for a guy like|:

Check, New

medical discharge from service in world war I.’ 3 Pia the navy. during the last war, ~Pohlman- served as an elec-

saw plenty of .action. He was discharged Feb. 6, 1919. : "After Pearl Harbor, he attempted to enlist “both ‘in ‘the army and navy—four times in each—but he was turned: ‘down ‘each time. He has. a ‘son who has been accepted for ‘service as an engineer with the U..S. merchant marine and is now

Just past 45, Mr. Pohlman says he will be glad to get back into the fotaD again. : x

“If I'm - not pt

DUTGH ESCORT OIL CONVOYS

Experts in | West Indies are Collaborating to Speed

Output.

WITH AN OIL CONVOY IN THE, CARIBBEAN, Nov. 5 (U.P.)—Dutch and Americans are collaborating in

the Curacao and Aruba areas as a single unit under Rear Admiral Arthur G. Robinson in the fight to assure oil for the war machine of the united nations.

From aboard this Dutch escort boat, speeding through Caribbean waters, I can see both. the extent and the effectiveness of this collaboration against Nazi submarines. Not only are the escort units a combination of Dutch and United States boats, but most of the tankers and freighters in the convoy are Dutch and United States ships together with a number of Venezuelan and Panamanian vessels.

Biggest In the World

The Venezuelan oil aboard the tankers is headed for the refineries on the Dutch West Indian islands of Aruba and Curacao — one of which is the biggest in the world —where United States and Dutch infantry forces are guarding the establishments of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and the Royal Dutch Shell Co. - Netherlands and United States engineers are pooling their technie cal knowledge to speed up war production. The Netherlands is active in this conflict, despite the Nazi occupation of Holland, and is helping to. combat German submarines in the waters of the American continent. Admiral Robinson has a mixed staff of Dufch and United States officers. His chief of staff, for example, is Baron Von Asbeck, commander of allsthe Netherlands forces in the area.

HAUPTMANN TRIAL WITNESS ENLISTS

NEW YORE, Nov. 5 (U. P).-< Sam Streppone, 45, a defense wits. ness in the Bruno Richard Hauptmann trial, has 10 children and a wife, but enlisted. He explained today that continual thinking about one of his children had made him enlist. That one is his son, John, 22, captured by the Japanese on Bataan.

172 MORE SLAVS SLAIN BY GERMANS

LONDON, Nov. 5 (U. P.).—Jugo-: slav official circles said today that the Germans shot 172 hostages at Maribor during October, in addition to 150 slain at Cluj Sept. 15 in reprisal for blowing up a military railway and interfering with shipments: of supplies to Field Marshal Rom-~ mel in Egypt. . They estimated that by the end of August, 2500 hostages had been shot in Slovenia.

PICKETS REFUSE CAKE LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5 (U. P).—