Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1942 — Page 11

TUESDAY, NOV. 10, 1942

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. AN AMERICAN AIRDROME IN ENGLAND, Nov. 10.—The men who fight our wars in the air have always seemed, somehow, more glorious than those who fight in the mud. But in the new phase of aerial warfare now : beginning—the era of the giant

battleship of the air—the lone, ,

gay-hearted, swashbuckling hero of the sky is likely to become more and more rare. In this graver and more gigantic business of fighting in the air, as it is today, the individual gives -way to a team. And as in anything else, it’s teamwork that wins. When ohe of our great flying fortresses takes off for German territory, it has 10 human beings ‘ inside it, and every one of them is vital. Whey are e all trained and placed to help each

other; none could get back alive without the protec- .

tion of the others. Every bomber field, instead of having a couple of dozen exalted pilots, has hundreds of men who go the same route every time there’s a mission over enemy territory. Fighting -in the air has become a mass thing.

. It's Teamwork That Counts

AFTER MONTHS OF action a few men may stand out above the crowd for their leadership or their courage, but on the whole the stories that will be spun will. be stories of whole crews, rather than ‘stories of individual men. As it is today, even planes fight as teams. Our bombers go to France in great formations, following their leader. Running in a pack is their protection. Gunners tell me that over France, when enemy

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

TWO MOTORISTS who live across the street from each other out on Cornelius ave. and who haven’t been on speaking terms for a couple of months had a most embarrassing experience Sunday afternoon. Almost simultaneously they climbed in their cars, in their respective driveways, and started backing out. The two cars met out in the middle of the street, with a loud crash. The drivers got out, mumbled as each inspected the damage to his own car, then pulled back into his own driveway. . We don’t know what happened after that... . Two couples who visited. Eaton’s on Maple road Sunday and took along their lively sons, aged 5 and 10, also ran into a bit of embarrassment. The two youngsters had a fine time, playing tag, etc. In the next booth was a young couple, the man wearing a second lieutenant’s uniform. During a lull in the racket made by the youngsters, the lieutenant was heard to ask the young lady: “Now, would you still like to have one?” Her answer was inaudible,

Same Old Henry

STILL SMILING over the election results, GOP Chairman Henry Ostrom has sent letters to his precinct committeemen praising them for their successef#0Tts, but advising them: “Let’s not get the swell . That will only get us into trouble.” He adds: glection did not:change Henry. He is the same, jipd. Really tired.” . . Seen on 38th st. Sunday, heading east: A horse-drawn buggy with a man, woman and child in the seat, and a boy in back with his legs dangling over the back end. He was reading one of those Superman comic books. . . . Circuit courtroom was jammed yesterday with people seeking birth certificates. Contributing to the jam were the two witnesses each applicant was required to bring with him. One applicant, calling attention to the inconvenience caused not only to the applicant but also to the two witnesses when they are required to hang around the courtroom an hour or two—or longer—

Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—I find it helps to think - of this African business, not in terms of territory, but in terms of springboards and lines of force. What we are after in Africa is not just a lot of desert real estate. What is Egypt? Aside from the : Nile valley and some long-staple cotton, Egypt: is nothing but a waste of sand, some interesting pyramids and the sphinx. If you are fighting for square miles of desert, there are better real estate bargains to be had. What good are the French colonies? They can’t even supply themselves. We have been sending’ them food and oil. The fight isn’t about who is to own a stretch of desert. It is to : determine who holds Suez, who holds Alexandria, who has ‘the transportation routes and the jumping-off places, the springboards from which to strike at Italy, Greece and any other place onthe soft side of the axis, reaching. always toward Germany. . . 5 . ‘We are out to clear jhe editerranean so it can be used by; our side as aaghort-cut railroad track, a water traek, from where We are to where we want to send our 1 mei, planes, tagkEfnd ammunition.

We. Need the Aif Bases

‘WromvER HOLDS § Son and; the protecting land around it controls” the traffic (over the Middle ‘Edist: britige which connects three continents, the shortest. by «from Europe to! the so@ith door of Russia, ‘to a aid China, to the rich oil:of. Iraq and Iran, and to: to "Tarkey's chrome; which'see: mist | have for making i! high-alloy steels;

M 7, Day

LONDON, England, Monday. —After spending SatBh at a country house, whose mistress runs “the -¥

Fo tiie ganvices for her, coun{ry, we! left hos rs ‘Liverpool. At Warburton, they showed us" twoef |

amusing Fd over fireplaces, the rooms of which will presently be dismantled. We drove through the old walled town of Chester and lunched with Lord Derby at the Hotel Adelphi in Liverpool. Immediately after lunch, we started out to our army to see some of our activities here. We also looked over some ships, which are like those ‘Mr. Kaiser turns out so rapidly in the United States. Later in the day, someone told me he had gone over the ship with a critical eye for some defects he was sure he ‘would find, but he failed to discover anything serious. This seems to be a case where speed does not prevent production on a quality basis. Finally, the army handed us over to the British navy and we went down to the reviewing stand of the WRENS to see them parade. They do this very sarvy Then we Jeturned to the headquarters of

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Jniform flag and hang it out of the window of the

Camp Wheeler, Ga., in a few days.

‘By Ernie Pyle

planes appear, you can see the great planes swing closer and closer .together. | This vast teamwork is what stops the enemy; the combined firepower of all these planes is hard to survive. Bomber men say that when an enemy fighter is zipping past, you can See the tracers from scores of guns, shooting out from the planes like streams from a fire hose, all following him in unison as he travels along. That's one reason it’s so difficult to credit the actual gunner who brings down a ship, for a dozen may have hit him at the same instant. So in our aerial warfare from now on, if my guess is right, you won’t hear much ‘of modern-day Richtofens, Foncks, Lukes and Rickenbackers.

Just Plain Scared Stiff

WE ARE APT TO think of airmen as men with out fear, just traveling in their communion with? death and scornful of their fate. But they aren’ that way—not many of them. Flying men are scared, just as you and I are. The. flight surgeon’s job today is as much psychologist | 3 as it is surgeon. He must sense the “anxiety neurosis” |} in his men and deal with it. high-toned term for being just plain scared stiff. The most critical time in a fighting airman’s

“Anxiety neurosis” is a'§

The U. S. Marines—167 Years Old Today

career comes in the last few days before his first'®

mission over enemy territory. Then, for the first time, the full realization of the spot he’s in hits him! in the heart. The flight surgeons are not contemptuous of the man with “anxiety neurosis,” but they devote a lot of time to avoiding and curing it. When a man shows these signs to extremity, he is taken off flying duty for a while. And if it appears he can’t be restored, he’s transferred to ground duty. Usually the first flight solves all this. Once a man gets his feet wet, he’s all right. But not always.

suggested an improvement. Why not, he asked, put things on a schedule: basis, assigning one group for 9:30 a. m., another for 10, another for 10:30, etc.? Or would that be too much of a concession to mere taxpayers?

Tired of Being Hushed

SIX-YEAR-OLD Roberta Marlowe, 2421 Pierson st., thinks it would be a good idea if defense workers who sleep in the daytime would get some sort of a

room in which they are sleeping. One of her neighbors—a night defense worker—varies his sleeping hours, and even changes from back to front bedroom. Roberta, who has been taught to be quiet as possible when a defense worker is asleep, complains that under the circumstances, she has to be quiet all day—not knowing when and where! the neighbor is sleeping— and that’s a lot to ask-o6f any 6-year-old. Sounds like Roberta has a good idea. , . . Mrs. Virginia Lowe, 2415 Massachusetts ave., has some pansies.still blooming in the front yard. Evidently they've been fooled by the recent balmy, spring-like weather, ., . . Overheard at the Butler-Toledo football game Saturday: “Get your program here, folks. Tells the names and salaries - of all the players.” It brought a lot of snickers. .

Military News

DR LACEY SHULER, ‘the orthopedist, is wearing an army uniform with a major’s oak leaf on the shoulders. He's due to leave for Washington soon. . Three locals ‘have been accepted out of about 40 recent applicants for volunteer officers’ ¢orps training. They are Gregg Klein, field promotion manager for the Indiana branch office of Schenley distillers; Herman Browning, for 20 years a.clerk in the main postoffice (he’s had the special war bond window recently), and Rolland V. Brinkman 6f International Harvester’s engineering staff. They répert for duty Nov. 19... .. Charles (Chuck) Bailey, who was a copyboy when he left The Times for the army a few months ago, has returned home a second lieutenant. He’s due back at

“To the shores of Tripoli,” the United States marines are heading today again as they did in the early 1800's. Today the marine corps celebrates its 167th birthday. Here marines, training at their New River, N. C., base, rush from a landing boat and

rush through the surf toward the “enemy.”

W. VIRGINIA ENDS

ONE-MAN RULE

Miners Fail to Give Him

‘|Copyright, ‘1942, by The Indianapolis Times

Usual Solid Vote, State Happy.

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer CHARLESTON, W. Va., Nov. 10.—

Something big happened in West Virginia last Tuesday. The ‘“unbeatable” politico-labor voting machine of Governor Matthew M. Neely was beaten, and decisively. With a whoop, this state returned suddenly and surprisingly from onheman domination to the two-party system.

In other states there may be

claims that the election results turned on wartime inconveniences and hardships. ure here to an extent worth recording. Here, as elsewhere, uneasiness over the conduct of the war may have switched some votes.

These did not fig-

But this national skepticism was

subordinated in West Virginia to something much closer home—the question whether it was possible to unseat the powerful Neely machine,’ entrenched in the voting strength of the United Mine Workers and other organized groups, including| the state employees.

Everyone Astonished The public won (to the astonish-

ment of all concerned), with the result that Chapman Revercomb, a Charleston lawyer, has a majority approaching 50,000 votes to say that} Governor Neely will not return to the United States senate. :

It is easy to find in conversations

-| carpenters,

By Raymond Clapper

Alexandria is a harbor base, equipped to take care of the warships necessary to protect Suez and the

with citizens a vast satisfaction over this result. ‘It may be found even among men and women who voted for Mr. Neely. It is no exaggeration to say that among West Virginians in general there is a happy feeling that their commonwealth. has returned to the sisterhood of states in

waters that lead to it. Suez has been useless of late because we have not been able to keep enemy airplanes far enough away. We must knock the enemy out of Crete and curselves strike -on into the Balkans. Suez also has not been useful because we have not been able:to keep the western end of the Mediterranean open—the westérn part of the water track.. So we must get air bases along the western shore of the Mediterranean. That is one reason. we have gone after French North African points. .

We're Moving in on the Agis

which public affairs are controlled by the general run of citizens and not by organized groups, labor and otherwise,

Many Miners Didn’t Vote Mr. Neely’s vote, a little over 200,-

000, indicates that something went wrong with the potential vote- of|® more than 110,000 members of the United Mine Workers and their families.

The returns show that

ONCE WE ARE firmly established along the North African coast from Casablanca to Suez, and once we have enough air and naval force on-hand to maintain our domination, then we wil have the initiative. We can then strike across at southern Europe at any point and at such time as we ‘choose. will call the play.As I pointed out yesterday in a. piece which really should be part of this one, Europe is tightly fenced around the north. Our best bet there fori the present is heavy air attack. Germany’s- air strength is weakening. Her gasoline cannot be adeéuiate to supply air operations of the size we plan for ourselves. That we are coming into control over the axis is It is important that our facilities for airplanes and gasoline to England expand rapidly so that we can work a pincers this” ‘winter against the axis--by air. over Europe and by a variety of blows from ‘the Mediterranean and North Africa. * With Russia also strikirig from the East, the iron i wp will begin to be felt in Germany by spring.

Then we, not Hitler,

the big coal counties went for Mr. Neely, but by much less than if the miners had voted solidly for their announced friend. The Republicans

not vote, and that among ‘those who did vote were. a considerable number for the Republican candidate. The Neely cause was hurt by the various quarrels in which his personal friend, John L. Lewis, chieftain of the Mine Workers, brooding there in Washington, is engaged. Mr. Lewis is anti-Roosevelt, because of certain favors he did not receive from the White House. He is now

John L. demanded. In this C. I. O. Mine Workers not only Mr. Murray, . but also Van Bittner, who in prei vious years has been the U. M.. W.

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say that many of the miners did|-

quarrel Mr. Lewis kicked out of the i

political generalissimo in West Vir-| i

the most delightful and The nav

-spent the night at one of the WRENS’ headquarters,

By Elearior Roosevelt trem

Admiral Sir Percy Noble.z, ; He will. soon come to the United States, much to, the’ regref of everyone here, I am: sure he will have a warm, welcome with us. Liha bas people in ‘WRENS, but the WRENs far outnumber them. We

and after I had done my broadcast, I went back to

the big recreation hall, where the personnel put on a |

really excellent show. ,I discovered that many of the songs must be the same for all of us. “Just a Song at Twilight” was sung by two young sisters and “A Bicycle Built for Two” carried me back to the days of my childhood. I talked to a number of girls after the entertainment, and found their occupations ranged from cook and steward and transport driver, to plotters, coders and radio experts. Last evening I could feel the excitement in everyone I spoke to, which the landing of American troops in Northern Africa had created. Everywhere there was a feeling of “now we are fighting togéther.” ‘It seemed to add to the people’s courage and was reflected in group after group. - The dockers along the Liverpool docks and streets cheered more lustily, I thought. One woman said,

“God bless your men, may this be the beginning of % i . h h Py SS i I ak

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! ws, Inc. ‘SOMEWHERE IN.NEW GUINEA, Nov. 6 (Delayed)—They call him “Wheat” now in New. Guinea. - The first time Jap bombers came over, somebody. yelled: “There goes the flag. Better grab for cover.” “Shucks, I don’t pay any more attention to bombs than a panful of wheat cakes,” responded Joseph Fraser, of Hinesville, Ga., contemptuously. Then the sound of crackling tissue paper, that characterizes Jap bombs, was heard in the air. As the first one lit nearby, Joe changed his mind and dove for shelter. Next time the bombers came over Fraser yelled, “Lookout boys, here comes wheats.” And that’s why Joe's “Wheat”

(This is one of a series of articles on the Aleutians.)

By B. J. McQUAID

and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. KODIAK, ' Alaska, Oct. 6.—(Delayed by Censor)—Keep your eye on the Sea Bees. Already, at advanced American bases, they are revolutionizing naval concepts of skilled labor effictency on war construction jobs. Sea Bees is the popular designation for members of naval construction battalions. Considerable numbers. of Bees have been at Dutch Harbor since shortly after the Jap attacks there in June. Their phenomenal accomplishments at Dutch Harbor are already an ‘Alaska legend. In the:last month, Sea Bees have also. moved: into our new Andreanof outposts in. the Aleutians and are now engaged in building up the new bases. °° : A few days ago, several hundred of them moved into the big base here at Kodiak and went to work side by side with the civilian workers employed here by Siems-Drake of Puget sound, the private contractors who “hold the navy costplus, fixed-bill contracts at many of our developing bases in the Pacific Har north. = Sea Bees do everything that other construction workers do. They are mechanics, machinists,

preparing for duty overseas.

electricians, welders, boiler men, plumbers, and on through the entire list of the skilled trades.. In addition, they are fighting men,

drilled to perfection in modern fine'

arts of self-defense against air, land and sea attack. Wresting a position from enemy hands is, in its primary phase, an operation for other kinds of troops, but -once a point is on the way to being taken the Sea Bees don't delay. They move in under fire, help hold the position, and at the same time they begin building it up for the protection of themselves and other forces. In this, and in other respects, they are naval counterparts of the army's combat engineers..At Dutch Harbor, some civilian workers were. jittery after the bomb raids—which is normal enough—and a few “wanted out” at the first opportunity. Sea Bees, moving in as a fully disciplined, excellently indoctrinated force, prepared and even eager for anything the enemy could throw at them, served as a potent tonic for the restoration of morale. At Kodiak, Sea Bees are in an area which has not yet been bonfbed or otherwise attacked, though éalways subject to such a possibility. Their presence here is explained merely as necessary augmentation of the construction force in a time

RUML SEES PERIL IN TAXES OWED U, S.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10 (U. P.). —Terming the debt which people owe for income taxes a national danger, Dr. Beardsley Ruml, author of the pay-as-you-go income tax plan, said today that few people realize how much money they owe the -government. “Nothing can be gained by arguing that people ought to have saved

{the tax on last year’s income out of

last year’s insome,” he said. “The fact is that they did not do it and now they cannot do it. The present system’ is a bad system for all of us and it should and can be corrected,” Dr. Ruml told a luncheon forum of the Philadelphia. Chamber of Commerce and he board of trade. ' . Dr. Ruml said that ner his plan a taxpayer would avoid the prospect of paying taxes on income from a previous year -at a.time when he may be unemployed or not have-a comparable * income.

BI. 119 HINDUS’ BURN TO DEATH CALCUTTA, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—At

least 119 “Hindus ‘were reported

buined to death and about 20 others injured fatally Sunday when fire broke out in a building: where they were celebrating a festival honoring the, goddess of light... 0

THIS CURIOUS. WORLD

also anti-C. I. O. because of Philip| fi Murray’s refusal to do just what |i

Fe B.F. GOODRICH CoO. MADE A PAIR OF MILITARY HEELS FOR GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR FROM A SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD LIECE OF RUBBER se AN OLD RAILROAD SHOCK ABSORBER. TURNED IN DURING THE SCRAP DRIVE BY A GOODRICH EMPLOYEE.

Sea Bees at Advanced American Bases Revise Concepts of War Construction

and place where the scarcity of available labor had became an acute problem. It is emphasized they are here to augment, not to replace, the civilians. Unofficially, some of the navy personnel here has been heard to complain during the last three or four months of the slowness of the local job. In the same quarters, an opinion is now expressed that since the arrival of Sea Bees, a decided stepup in the tempo of the project is observable. But ranking officers of the Sea Bees themselves deny this assertion and credit the civilians with having done a fine and efficient piece of work. Sea Bees are naval personnel— enlisted men and officers drawn mostly from reserve ranks—and they draw naval rates of pay. Thus it is common to see civilian and Sea Bees working shoulder to shoulder on the same jobs for fantastically different rates of monetary compensation. The outstanding thing about the Sea Bee is his fierce and unquenchable morale. His weapon, most of the time, may be pick and shovel or welder’s torch, but he knows himself to be fighting his country’s battle just as much as the leatherneck who storms a Jap-infested island with the first wave of assault troops. That is his quite sufficient

compensation.

Doctors Urge Restriction On Sugar As Aid to Health

By Science Service CHICAGO, Nov. 10.—Sugar rationing should, in the interest of national health, proceed to the point of greater restrictions on the use

of sugar for candy and soft drinks, in the opinion of the American Medical Association’s Council on Foods. This opinion and reasons for it will appear in a report in .the forthcoming issue of the association’s Journal. The sugar we use today, whether from cane, beets or. corn, is practically -a chemically pure product. It furnishes calories but no vitamins or minerals to the diet. And modern nutritionists know that man cannot live by calories alone. In fact, he cannot even make fullest use of sugar and other carbohydrate calories without certain of the B vitamins. The more he dilutes the amount. of these vitamins with calories from pure sugar, the worse off he is nutritionally. The suggestion of enriching sugar with vitamins, as flour has been enriched, has not met with favor, the A. M. A. council points out. Use of sugar to make highly nourishing

foods like milk and whey more

By William Ferguson

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appetizing, however, is to be encouraged. When sugar is consumed, it would be well, the council advises, to take it in the form of such mixtures as cakes containing milk and eggs, in malted milk and chocolate flavored skim milk drinks, and in candies containing appreciable

amounts of powdered milk and nuts. Care should be taken to keep children from eating candy which spoils’ the appetite for other more nourishing foods and from, substituting sweetened carbonated beverages for milk, ) Industrial workers who eat candy or take such beverages for between meal snacks are endangering their health because such eating may lesson by 159% the amount of more nourishing food they should be eating. Between-meal eating is useful for relieving fatigue and increasing productivity but it should contribute to and not detract from the total daily nourishment.

Prehistoric Girl Played Tennis?

By Science Service ABILENE, Tex. Nov. M.—Did * prehistoric American girls play tennis? Or was it lacrosse? Two female figures, painted on - the walls of a cave near the town of Moran, in Stephens county, Texas, raise the interesting question of what kind of sports attracted young women in days of unknown antiquity. As described by Cyrus N. Ray of this city, in a report to Science, “One skirted figure is carrying a long-handled racquetlike object high above the head in ‘the right hand. Another skirted figure shows the.arms extended and a ball in the air beneath the left one.” These two drawings are among nine, including both male and female figures, painted on the cave walls. One of the other skirted individuals is shown whirling, as if in a dance. All drawings are a little more than half life size. * Over part of the wall there is a transparent sheet of stalagmitic (lime) - deposit about as thick as a knife-blade. - It must have been formed some time ago, for the cave is now. completely dry and there are no springs or’ seeps in the neighborhood.

SWINDLER GETS YEAR

NEW ‘YORK, Nov. 10 (U. P..— Ben Roth, 57, who pleaded guilty in

federal court today to a charge of

defrauding a Dayton, O., priest in

|a scheme involving a fake oil pipe

line from LaSalle county, Texas, to Philadelphia, Pa., was sentenced to

serve a year id a day i toderal]

In this photo a light tank hits the water as empty troop carrying boats scurry out of the way after landing marines. The tanks will support the infantry. These are scenes being duplicated all over the world these days. At New River, 20,000 marines ary

ANTI-SUB RAF AMERICANIZED

Pilots of Many Allies Live At U. S. Quarters; Unified With Our Navy.

By NAT A. BARROWS

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

SOMEWHERE IN THE CARIBBEAN, Nov. 10—Except for pay pure poses, the Caribbean anti-submae rine unit of the royal air force is co-ordinated and unified with the United States navy to a degree hitherto unattained by Anglo= ° American liaison officials. : Here under the hot tropical skies on one of the important shipping lanes to South America and the west coast of Africa, battle-trained pilots and crews of the RAF, most of them barely out of their teens are flying American-built airplanes, living in American-built barracks, eating American food and taking operational orders from American naval officers. Their bomber planes are serviced by U. S. navy mechanics and guard ed by U. S. sailors. Live At U. S. Field

They eat and live with navy and army bomber pilots at an airfield operated by the U. S. army. They buy extra supplies at the army post exchange. Only through their pay checks from the British air mine istry do these Englishmen, Canae dians, Australians, South Africans and fighting-Frenchmen retain die rect contact with the RAF coastal command. At the same time, a detachment of U. S. navy bomber pilots is now somewhere with the RAF coastal command serving entirely as an RAF unit except for pay checks from Washington. This exchange is intended fo give the United States the benefit of RAF experi= ence in fighting submarines and in knocking out enemy convoys and naval bases. : The RAF Caribbean unit, neaded

by Wing Comm. James R. Lege

gate, flew its own American-built,-Lockheed-Hudson bomber planes across “the Atlantic when assigned to this new duty several months ago. German and Italian submarines, prowling West Indian waters on the ‘hunt for convoys, have known deadly attack when these white-painted Hudsons have smashed at them from the Caribe bean sky. " Young Pilot Decorated

One RAF bomber plane come mander, Pilot Officer John P. Ricke ards, 24-year-old Australian, has been awarded his empire’s distine guished flying cross for gallantry and skill during engagements with the enemy in the English channel * and Caribbean. Rickards was cruising at 5000 feet when he spotted a German Us’ boat, fully surfaced. The sub made no attempt to submerge, indicating that the height and white paint of the RAF aircraft had out-tricked him. : Only when Rickards ended a long dive and began firing his machine guns at the conning tower did the U-boat try to get under water. It was a few seconds too late for the Germans.

HOLD EVERYTHING