Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1942 — Page 19

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“WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN ALGERIA “This is the story of two army photographers —soldiers who fight with cameras instead of guns. They are in the signal corps, and their purpose is twofold—to get newsreels for showing in the theaters back home, and ‘to make a perma~ ‘nent pictorial record of the war. There are many of these men, both in the army: and the navy, : _ scattered in our: forces throughout the world. Already they have done some historic, work. Many of them will die behind their cameras before it is all over. On the morning of Nov. 8 Sergt. Norman Harrington 6 and Pvt. Ned Modica stood in the darkness on the hurricane deck of a troopship lying off the coast of Algeria. They were entranced by the scenes their cameras were recording—the fantastic searching of tracer bullets along the shore, the fiery splash of colored flares in the sky, the laying of smoke screens by our armored speed boats. Then, just at dawn, their ship moved in close to shore. As it. dropped anchor, a French mortar shell came looping over.

They Think Only of Home

THEIR TENSION was broken by a voice on the ship’s loudspeaker calling their numbers. They grabbed kits and jumped into their assault boats. The great and mysterious adventure for which they had trained and waited was at hand. What were they Winking about? They were too .

busy to think very ‘much about anything, but such thoughts as they had time for were-of their families back home. It's always that way.

The two photographers tumbled out of the steel-| i

sided assault barge and landed waist-deep in “the Mediterranean. Holding their cameras high . over their heads, they waded ashore. They dumped their bags and extra film, waded back, and began grinding away at the hordes of soldiers landing behind them. By that act they became the first army newsreel men to go into action on this side of the ocean, The water was cold, but they didn’t feel it.

“We're Proud of What We've Done”

“HONESTLY, YOU'RE hardly aware of anything around you,” Ned Modica says. “You're so consumed with what you're doing that you don’t know anything that’s happening outside the radius of your lens.” They worked for 15 minutes, waist~-deep 'in the water and then ran up ‘and down the beach getting shots of the troops dashing ashore. They filmed their first blood when they found some navy medical men tending a wounded French soldier lying on the beach. The soldier still wore his red fez, and it will stand out in the technicolor film when you see it. Harrington joined the army last May 11. Modica joined May 14. The two met a few weeks later at a camp in Arkansas. By September they were in England together. In early November they were wading through the Mediterranean. “We're a good team. There are supposed to be eight of us, with a car and two drivers and an officer in charge, but in wartime things get lost and mixed up, so there’s just Norman and me left)” -

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

WE'VE BEEN BAWLED out by a north side grocer for telling housewives just to put their kitchen grease in the garbage can, since the “save grease” campaign being conducted nationally doesn’t apply here, The campaign, we explained, is for cities not having gari bage reduction plants. Indianapolis happens to be one of the six cities in the country having such plants. This grocer wrote us that he’s been “educating” his customers to take their grease to him and that he pays them 4 cents ‘a pound “which Mrs. Housewife can use to buy war stamps.” We're told he sells the grease for 5 cents. . We checked with Don Bloodgood, who runs the city’s $700,000 garbage plant. This plant cooks all garbage and extracts every ounce of grease. The grease is sold to brokers, who in turn sell it to soap factories. These factories extract the glycerine which they sell to explosives factories. (Glycerine is a by-product of soap making). It costs money to run the plant—$93,000 last year —but: the plant pays its way from the sale of byproducts. Right now it’s getting 6.65 cents a pound for its grease. The plant's income last year was $113,000. That's a net profit of $20,000—equal to four-tenths of a cent jn the tax rate. If too many housewives start selling thelr grease to ‘grocers, says Mr. Bloodgood, the garbage plant may have to lay in a supply of red ink and be supby taxes. +The’ other cities Having garbage reduction plants aré Washington, D. C., which has a small one; Syracuse and Rochester, N. Y., arid Reading, Pa.

Just Camping GEORGE A. KUHN, president of the Chamber of COMMERCE, is living under “camping out” conditions.. George is one of those folks with a comparatively large house, a small family (his son is in the army) and a house heating oil allowance cut almost in half. To make his oil allowance last the winter out, he has shut off his whole upstairs with beaverboard, turned his living room into a combined living

Washingt WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—~The. most important political question before the country is whether the United States will co-operate with other nations to

establish some security against the anarchy that has

produced two world wars within one generation. That issue deserves priority over all domestic issues because it is the one that has to be settled one way or the other as this war ends. You can fight out the New Deal

from Walter Greenough who sald he would demand

room—bedroom; his library into a wardrobe, and has a bathtub in his kitchen. At least, that’s the report we get from others. i. , Harry Calkins, secretary to the mayor-elect, was due back on the job today after being ill at home with a cold since Sunday. He thinks he got it going out on the front porch in his bathrobe Sunday morning.to look at the snow. . .

By Ernie Pyle

The Service club, comprised of veterans of the other war, has 53 of its 179 members under arms in the current. conflict.

Yep, Even the Governor i

DID YOU EVER go to a restaurant and order something to eat, and then discover you didn’t have enough money? Well, so has Governor Schricker. Uncle Henry went up to the Press club for lunch yesterday and found he had only 7 cents and a key in his pocket. He said he had given Mrs. Schricker all his money for a shopping trip and. he had forgotten to replenish his wallet. He borrowed a dollar

a 10-cent war savings stamp as interest. , , , Rue Alexander, who has been secretary of state something more than a week by now, is causing some other state house executives to grumble because he has been arriving at the office so early—often by 8 a. m. “Makes us look bad,” the othefs complain. As we said, he hasn't been in office long.

Seven-Passenger Coupe GAS RATIONING officials were mystified the other day when a woman, seeking gasoline, reported she was hauling seven people to work in her car.

It's a coupe: The board refused the request—pending submission of an explanation of how she could carry so many. .'., One man who had been notified his request for a B card had been granted, went to the board and asked that his request be canceled as he had changed.-jobs and no longer needed extra gas. Boy, page Diogenes!. . . . Pvt. Amos E. Albritton, who used to be with the Barrett Insurance Agency, is at the Aberdeen proving grounds, in Maryland, for his basic training. . , for president, or else that faded campaign poster in the window of a rooming house in the 400 block, N. Delaware, is a hangover from the last campaign. We aren't too sure.

By Raymond Clapper

The new chairman, Harrison Spangler, is quoted as saying after he was elected that the United States

. Wendell Willkie still is running|

would have to play its part in making a lasting peace, and that it might be necessary to maintain an inter-| national police force.

IV—Egyptian Desert Action THERE MAY BE WORSE places in the world to fight than the western desert of Egypt but I can’t conceive of any, nor can any British soldier. It is the never-never land, the place God forgot. It’s the place where man may sit down and realize for the first time how kind nature has been to other parts of the world. It is sizzling sun and blistering sand, gravel and cur bushes, and there are

few palm trees.

There is only the awful lonesomeness.

It makes you think your world of family and friends

has forgotten you. And yet, for me, the desert was the most vigorous and most, thrilling place I have ever. been. It seemed to. command from one’s deepest reservoirs every ounce of resistance and determination. You may die, but before you do, you know that in this battle of one man against nature, you ‘will not go down without fighting until the last ounce of strength has been wrung out of your hones, your blood, your tissues and your brains. Something always happens ‘in the desert

that rims the -

M ed iterranean in Asia and Africa, and goes beyond the Sa- : ‘hara. If the Cecil Brown ©nemy, is not active, nature is. If shells or bombs are not dropping, then the asphyxiating Khamsin is blowing. It was a combination of both that first morning. ¢ I was with Capt. Sean Fielding and a Yorkshire batman, also serving as chauffeur, when we reached the advance point of the British forces facing Sollum at the Egyptian-Libyan frontier. ” ”

” Reach ‘No Man’s Land’

THIS ADVANCE position was on the main road and was held.

by units of the Central India Horse, a famous Indian regiment now mechanized. A wrecked steam roller, originally used by the Italians, stood on the road, and a row 'of empty five-gallon petrol. cans across the road marked it as a barrier beyond which lay no-man’s land and Halfaya pass. As we reached this barrier I took one look through binoculars: and saw the tiny figures of the Germans and Italians moving about the , hillsides of Halfaya pass, building

‘WAR TOUGHENS MEN

MENTALLY’--MRS. R.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (U. P)).

—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt told | American mothers last night that their Sons in the armed forces over-

seas “are learning to be’ the best

But the party is bitterly divided. Isolationist in- United States citizens possible: be-

fluence is so strong that political writers who attended

jcause they are learming abou! the

the meeting said that except for the fight made bY world as a whole.”

Wendell Willkie, the isolationist candidate for na-| tional chairman would have been elected.

“Out of this war will come men

{toughened physically and mentally

» It may be difficult to know just what the party and knowing what they want in would do with its power if it won the, 1944 election. | 'the future,” she said in a radio ad-

concrete fortifications, Then the shells started screaming. We rushed off’ the road \and tore through heavy sand studded with tiny shrub-covered hillocks. We. found Col. George, and he welcomed us with: “You have come just in time to see a bit of action.” It was a small action, actually. . A German patrol consisting of one tank and two armored cars had moved out from Halfaya pass. into ‘the British area, and the British were attempting to shoot up that patrol with 25-pounder

‘guns. Col. George signaled to us

to go with him. As we made our

way through the sand he re- .

marked: “Rather a. pity to shoot up this fellow. It will discourage

-him from coming back.”

We had been out of water; so I asked Col. George if they had any supply there. He said: “Not at the moment, but we are expecting some.” The thud of the 25-pounders sounded' inside the desert dugout like a man punched in the stomach, Oomp ah-h-h, Oomp ah-h-h, Oocomp ah-h-h. Each blast sent trickles of sand coursing down the sides of the comfhunications ‘post at the edge of no-man’s land. The walls were braced and bulwarked with oil cans. Sagging, overhead was sanddaubed canvas. ‘It was stiflingly hot. The flies ate at us voraciously. An Indian soldier was at' the radio telephone. He passed messages over- to the colonel. Sometimes he called out the information to save time.: “Enemy tanks. moving southwest, sir. Range high, sir. They're adjusting range to 1200 yards, sir. Fire signal just given, sir.” 2 & = :

Enemy Missed Mark

“DIRECT HIT, eh?” snorted the colonel, cynically. A pause. The Indian said: “No sir, the range was still too high.” I took off my steel helmet and watched a tiny stream.of sand coming from a wall and racing to meet the soft sand on the floor. It ran out like one of the hour

Marian Wins in Tiff With D. A.R.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (U. P.).— Marian Anderson, Negro contralto, will sing in the Daughters of the American Revolution’s constjtution hall in. Washington on Jan. 7 for the benefit of the United China Relief, her manager, 8S. Hurok announced today, The engagement ends a long dispute between ‘the singer and the D. A. R. over the question of segregation .of the races at the concert.

“The British were attempting to shoot wp that ‘patrol with 25-pounder guns.”

glasses you find in the five and ten cent stores to boil eggs by. Only this was faster. The colonel was sweating like a melting man in a steam bath. The rivulets meandered down his clean-shaven, coppery face, leaving glistening tracks between lanes of sand dust. His grdy-

flecked hair was matted to his

head and his lips were dry, and ridged with cracks. So were’ those of the captain with him, and those of the lance corporal who stood there at semi-attention. The Indian seemed to be all right. Earphones clamped over: his glistén- » ing black hair, his jet eyes alive and alert, he looked repugnantly cool and comfortable. - The sand-caked blanket across the front of the dugout parted and then closed.

HOLD EVERYTHING

The Yorkshireman saluted jerkily. “Here's the water, 502.” He handed over a flat, whitepainted container. The captain took the can and poured some of the water into a small bottle he took out of his

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‘Shriveled With Thirst"

HE HELD the bottle up to the , light, peered at it for about a minute, not moving his hand. Then he smelled the water for a half-minute, wrinkling. his nose. He took a sip, only a sip. “This, I would say,” the captdin remarked, “is Bugbuq water, But frankly it puzzles me. The body

is that of Siwa water, and it smells

WELFARE DIRECTOR GETS NATIONAL POST

Mrs. John A. MacDonald, a member of the board of directors of the Indianapolis Family Welfare society,

has been named to the board of the Family Welfare Association - of America. HL The national group includes 225 public and private family. agencies throughout the United States and Canada. Mrs. MacDonald has been a member of the family welfare board since

like Sidi Barrani water. . taste, that’s Bugbuq.” The captain took another sip, grimaced 'slightly,” then took a longer sip and drew. his‘ mouth away. from the bottle. He smacked his lips’ the way a man does when a ripe old’ Burgundy hits . bottom. “Sir,” he said, “I stake my reputation. The, sparkle isn’t what it ‘should ‘be. Too many ‘of this and that floating around, But - the taste. Dash it all, sir,. very definitely Bugbuq water.” ° I said to myself: “This is'fan- ' tastic, German armored. cars are running: around out there about a thousand yards away. These people are chasing them with artillery fire. We're down 'in this dugout suffocating with heat and shriveled with thirst, And that captain stands up there and talks

But the

. about water in his Oxford accent

as though he were dressed in white tie and tails discussing | vintage wines in a Mayfair salon'” I didn’t give a hang what kind of water. it was. It was water, ~and we drank it, taking the warm stufl out’ of our chipped,: enamel ‘cups, : rolling it over lips and tongue. I closed my eyes to avoid ‘the sight and smell

TOMORROW~—Bombed ont of bed in the middle of the night as the Germans strafe British positions,

(Copyright, 1942, by Random rere Inc., distributed by United Featu Syndicate, Ine.)

FLIER TO SEE HIS _ A LONG LOST MOTHER | |

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Dec. 18 (U. P.)—Pvt. John E. Lonch, 33, Medford, Ore., was en route to Hame mond, Ind, today to meet his

mother, whom he has not seen for g/

28 years. Lonch learned her wheerabouts after he was transferred from Gardner Field, Cal, to Atlantic City on Dec. 1. 3 He came to America in 1014 from’ Jugoslavia with his mother. They were separated shortly thereaftee when he and his brother, Andrew, were placed in an orphanage at Des

issue any time in any election. But the United States must go into co-operation with other nations during this period, or not at all. ; It is never too late to vote one way or the other on. domestic ' questions. You put prohibition in now and take it out tomorrow. But when you break -off from other nations as we did in 1919, you can’t go back and undo the damage. Anarchy sets in quickly and the making of the next world war begins at once, For that reason, the position of a man or a party on this question of foreign relations seems to me to be the controlling test in the next election—whatever his views on domestic matters may be. The Roosevelt administration is committed to cooperation with other nations.” Whether the president runs again or not, the Democratic party will be committed to follow through. It could take no other

course,

G. 0. P. Is Bitterly Divided

WHERE THE REPUBLICAN party will stand is uncertain. The meeting of the Republican national committee this week produced no convincing evidence either way. A resolution was adopted referring back to previous resolutions; as a kind of roundabout way of hinting that'the party was not isolationist.

My Day

WASHINGTON, ‘Wednesday.—~I have Just received from the prime minister of the republic of Poland, who is visiting in this country, a message trans-

1929 She also is a member of the Community fund board and active in the Junior League and other civic organizations. ~The board of the local welfare society will have a luncheon at 12:15 p. m. tomorrow in the Columbia club. - Miss, Elizabeth Good, a staff member in charge of homemakers’ programs, will report on a conference on homemaker programs hel recently in New York.

THIS CURIOUS WORLD

In 1920 the party was divided. dress. “But unless they also know Many leading figures of the Republican party how to go about getting ‘it and were strong champions of the League of Nations. | how to really analyze the world Just before the election they issued a public appeal situation, they will not be of much saying the surest way to go into a league was to use to us as ciiizens.”

elect Harding. | That appeal was signed by such -figures as Wil-' 'KEND ALL APPOINTED PATRONAGE CHIEF

liam Howard Taft, Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes, Herbert Hoover and Nicholas Murray Butler, As! soon as the election returns were in, Hardiig announced that the league was dead, and it was—and | Rep, John A. Kendall of Danville all other forms of co-operation with other nations. has been named chairman of the patronage committee of the coming session of the legislature by Speak-er-elect Hobart Creighton.

They Want to Kick Willkie in Pants Other members of the committee,

NOT TAFT, not Hughes, not Hoover, not any of the pro-league figures in the party, but a group of insiders who controlled Harding, planned that the sen-| Whose chief task is to select the ate’s rejection of the league should stand, although |Stenographers and other employees they kept their hole card down until after election.|for the 61-day . session, are Reps. That was a standard political maneuver, It is|Bert B. Mayhill of Delphi; W. O. practiced in both parties. Hughes of Ft.-Wayne; Kenneth F. Perhaps public opinion will be determined against] Blackwell of Franklin and Ben Herr going back into the kind of war-breeding interna-|of Lebanon. tional anarchy that we have had. Perhaps the Re-|~ x publican party will be driven by public opinion to take| . FUNNY BUSINESS the position Willkie has insisted upon. } But judging by performance thus iar there is ‘a ‘s = strong desire among many of tine Republican leaders| to give Willkie a big kick in the pants and go the other way. That's about all I can make out of it up to now.

The D. A. R. finally agreed not to segregate Negroes at concert but stipulated that the engagement should ‘not be binding on the D. A. R. as a precedent for

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ADD WAR oat LABORATORY CATS

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age today. John Clauss, a livestock LONDON, Dec. 10 (U.P.).—Amer-

dealer, reported .a serious scarciyt of cats, which are needed in New York laboratories for testing digitalis, a heart stimulant used in the ican sympathizers with Croatian pro-Nazi térrorists called Ustashi were accused by the Jugoslavian government in exile today with at-

armed forces, The cats are not injured ‘in the tempting to discredit Gen. Draja| |i Mikhailovitch, leader of huge

tests. He said farmers used to raise them, but have stopped since the, guerrilla forces fighting the axis in occupied Jugoslavia

A Jugoslav spokesman denied emphatically “any ‘suggestion inspired | by enemy propoganda of Mikhailo- || vitch’s alleged collaboration with the " “The Jugoslav government in| London possesses absolute written | proof that the. Ustashi, acting under German orders, is simpling |; to discredit Mikhailovitch, especially through the Ustashi’'s sympathizers in America,” he charged. ! Latest information from Jugo1] | slavia, the spokesman sald, shows that an overwhelming majority of

Moines, Towa. Army air force authorities granted Lonch a 15-day furlough.

. DEATH IN TAFT FAMILY

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (U, P.).Mrs. Julia Walbridge Smith Taf, wife of Henry W, Taft, brother of the late President William Howard Taft, died yesterday in her home ‘here. - She was 84.

“Aad I thought I'd get away from that sort of thing when I joined the army”

By William Ferguson

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

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by the consciousness that,the struggle which we are carrying on will decide the existence of freedom, and no one can remain out of it. Polish women ‘have,

mitted from a secret radio station in Poland during the month of September and received fn London. It reads, in part, as follows:

“We send’ you in the name of :

the Polish women, sincere thanks -for the imposing protest which you organized on the 30th of July against the German atrocities on the ‘Polish women, . . . enduring awful tithes here in Poland. We still deplore the loss of our dead in September, 1939, and already the shadows of thousands tormented to death in con‘centration camps in Oswiecim, Ravenbruck, Oranienburg and other places hover around us. ~ “But beyond the pain that stabs us, beyond the longing After the. ens we are dominatpy

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therefore, all joined the ranks of subterranean struggling Poland, and together with our husband, fathers, brothers and sons we will fight to the end with them. We are preépated either to win or perish.”

“would have cost anyone discovered his life. the reply to London was most dangerous and 10

efforts were made before it was finally transmitted.| These women, who are keeping alive the faith in|

freedom, in spite of such daily horrors as we can hardly conceive of here, are going to have a right to

representation when the machinery for, peace is built| | .

in the future. In the last peace conference women had no such voice. to a voice and they should be sure to prepare in ad-

In the coming one, women will have a right |

vance so that their influencé will be of the greatest|

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GIRL, 19, REPORTS BEATING BY YOUTH

A 19-year-old girl reported to

was badly beaten | by an assailant as she was walking home from a movie in the 1200 block, | | Laurel st., last night. ‘She said that a youth who had