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ware THE AMERICAN FORCES IN ALGERIA. '==I’s. a terrific task to organize a shipful of troops. It ‘was not until our England-Africa convoy had been - - nearly a week that everything got running : . an air force colonel was appointed com- ; manding officer of troops on board. An orderly-room was set up, aids were selected, deck officers appointed, and ship’s regulations mimeographed and distributed. “The troops were warned about

smoking or using flashlights on

deck at night, and against throwing cigarets or orange peels overboard . It seems a sub commander can spot a convoy ,hours after it has passed, by such floating debris. The warnnig didn’t seem to " "+ make much impression at first. Soldiers threw stuff overboard, and one night a nurse came on! with a brilliant” flashlight guiding her. An officer ‘near me screamed at her. He yelled so udly and so viciously that I thought at first he was it in fun. He bellowed: “Put out that light, you blankety blank-blank! aven't you got any sense at all?” : Then suddenly I realized he meant every word of it, and;;I realized that one little light might have killed us all, and I was sorry he didn't kick her for good measure.

Everyone Had a Life Preserver

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All entrances to the deck were shielded with two sets ‘of heavy black curtains. In the holds below, the ports Were opened for short periods each day to air the ship out. ; Everybody had a life preserver, and had to carry it constantly. They were of a new type, rather like . two small pillows tied together, You put your head between them, pulled them down over your shoulders chest, and tied them there. We merely slung

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

. OUR CHURCH EDITOR, Mrs. Emma Rivers Milner, was in Washington last week, with her husband, W. F. Milner, to attend the graduation of their son, Mac (short for Maclin), from officers candidate eho]. With Mrs. Dan Kidney, they were “seeing the i town” in a taxi. Suddenly the cabbie jammed on his brakes, bumping Mrs. Milner’s knees against the front seat. It ruined a brand new pair of stockings," and hurt her knees, too. * She sat in the taxi while Mr. Milner and Mrs. Kidney went to a drug store for first aid equipment. While they were gone, the cabbie, very apologetic about injuring - Der, said he had a gift for her. 3 Digging into a large briefcase beside “his ‘sent: he ‘pulled out. two sermons which he ,-gave to her. Bain he often gave them to his passengers, /

Chanip Cyclist:

THA FELLOW riding a ploycle down the sidewalk @n Central near 24th. Monday evening really, was A ‘Blain, the dignified attorney and new works beard member. He admits it. Says he had just bought it for his granddaughter and was riding it home so he could, take. it to her in Richmond by auto Christmas tally, Gid is one of our better known. 5: ‘bought a victory model several months ago and has been riding it evenings all over the North side. ‘He claims to be the champion bicyclist of Martin county. Claims he won the championship race in 1893 and there hasn't been another contest since. . Jerry Liddy, another member of the new. board, . is up and around after his recent illness. . . . Seen on ‘Maryland st.: The driver of the police safety car— the one that bawls out jaywalkers—stopped, got out, ‘wiped the windshield, started around in back of the

‘Washington

: WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—It is becoming fairly certain that the peace this time will not be simply a document drawn up in a conference, signed with a flourish and then embalmed in some palace of the Ratios. ‘We tried that kind of static peace the last time and it failed. The modern world just won't be poured into a rigid mold. It wouldn't stay poured into the treaty of Versailles and it won't stay poured into anything we can work out this time. | Herbert Hoover sees that, out -of his experience at the Paris peace conference, present government sees it. - Mr. Hoover, in his thoughtful and constructive Chicago speech this week, says that if we ‘are not

: to see the Wrogpdy of Versailles repeated, we must have

a new approach to the whole method and process of Republican politicians who are setting’

just as our:

By Ernie Pyle

them over our shoulders for carrying. They were immediately nicknamed “sandbags.” After the second day we were ordered to wear our web pistol belts, with water canteen .attached. Even going to the dining room, you had to take your life preserver.and your water canteen. There were nine in our special little group. We were officially assigned together, and we stuck together throughout the trip. We were: Bill Lang of Time and Life, Red Mueller of NewsWeek, Joe Liebling of the New Yorker, Gault MacGowan ‘of The New York Sun, Ollie Stewart of The Baltimore Afro-American, Sergt. Bob Neville, correspondent for the army paper Yank and Stars and Stripes; two army censors, Lieuts. Henry Mayer and Cortland Gillett, and myself.

Humor Runs Thin on a Convoy

SERGT. NEVILLE, being an enlisted man, wasn't permitted to.share cabin space with us, but had to go to general quarters in the hold and sleep in a hammock. We did manage to get Him up to better quarters after a couple of days. Neville was probably the most experienced and traveled of all of us—he speaks three languages, was in Spain for that war, in Poland for that one, in Cairo for the first Wavell push, and in India and China and Australia. Ollie Stewart is a Negro, the only American Negro correspondent accredited to the European theater. He is well educated and has traveled quite a bit in foreign countries before. We correspondents already knew a lot of the officers and men aboard, so we roamed the ship continuously and had many friends, Bill Lang and I shared a cabin with the two lieutenants. We enjoyed ourselves on the trip. we'd get out the regulations about correspondents, which says that we must be treated with “courtesy and consideration” by the army. We'd read these rules aloud to Lieuts. Meyer and Gillett, and then order them to light our cigarets and shine our shoes, Humor runs pretty thin on g§ long convoy trip.

car, and did a Spanish fandango when he stepped on an empty whisky bottle on the icy sidewalk. He looked quite embarrased at spectators’ snickers.

Hush, Hush Training

THE BOYS’ GYM class at the I. A. C. is taking)

“commando” training and getting a big kick out of it. The instructor leaves out the bone-breaking and muscle-mangling - phases, but retains most of the “toughening up” exercises. The training carries over into the pool where the youngsters are practicing swimming under water — without splashing; getting into and out of the water without noise. Maybe the kids’ parents could get them to practice that quiet business at home. . . . The 1943 Victory Book campaign will get under way Jan. 5, so you might start looking around for some contributions. The books go to the fellows in the armed forces. This year the sponsors — American Library association, American Red Cross and the USO—are discouraging the attic cleaning psychology. Instead, the campaign theme is to be: “If it’s a good book you want to keep, it's a good one to give.”

Suggestion Department CHESTER HENRICKS, 2445 Villa ave. has what

sounds to us like a good idea for simplifying and] -

stimulating the tin can collection. To save precious man-hours, tires, gasoline, he proposes asking householders to place their tin cans in containers at designated collection, points in each neighborhood, such as 50 feet from a mail box, or fire plug, or maybe af a designated alley or street intersection. The idea, of course, is that the street department’s collection «trucks, making only one or two stops to the block, instead of at every house, could make faster time. Also it would encourage suburbanites who still are driving’ to save and bring in their processed cans, Mr. Henricks suggests. The air raid block wardens might ‘designate the collection spots in their respective blocks and they might even check up on collection mornings and be sure the cans are in the right spot.

By Raymond Clapper

table“that symbolizes the futile, static, peace method of the past. Mr. Hoover agrees with the top thought in this - administration that the principal united nations must agree in general on some of the main post-war questions before the war ends. They must do that in order to be able to move quickly and surely to deal with the explosive chaos that will exist everywhere. Mr. Hoover mentions the shortage of food in Europe, which he says amounts to a faminine among nearly 200,000,000 people. It is that way nearly everywhere. There are food. riots in some places that you never hear of. Nearly every country is having acute Inflation— anid we will get. it here if we don’t watch out. The pressure is intense. That's what's behind the sereaming against Leon Henderson. There is pressure to shove up prices because the shortage of goods will permit it.

Some Things Con Be Adjusted Now SOME OF THIS TROUBLE can be dealt with

Xl—The Repulse Hunts Action

GALLAGHER AND I then wrestled with our problem.

“How do you feel about

story.” “Well, since we've come go on with it?

it, Gal?” I asked. "+ Gallagher said: - “From a story point of view the whole thing’s a washout, but there is no time for any other correspondent to be’ sent out from Singapore to go on the

this far, Gal, why don’t we

We'll have ‘a sea trip for four days and when we get back we're going to get fired: anyhow, ” Gallagher mumbled agreement.

We called to Capt. Leach: “We're ready to shove off.

We're going to carry on.” “That’s. fine,” he said. waiting.” We walked down the gangway from the officers’ side of the ship and stepped into the admiral’s launch. Capt. Leach stood at the top of the gangway and called to us: “You will be very comfortable - on the Repulse and they have made-. arrange‘ments for you

and almost at once we began Cecil Brown ving out. A young . lieutenant of the royal marines said he had been assigned to look after us and we stood .on the forward deck of the ship "playing with a black kitten. It had difficulty standing up; its legs were weak from rickets. It was very playful and-I dangled a string for it to grasp at as the Repulse moved down the Straits of Johore. “What the devil are we e going to do for four days?” I asked of the lieutenant, still very much worried that I had done the wrong thing by leaving Singapore—and the coverage of the war—for four days.

Promised a Movie

“OH, WE may have something. We might even have movies, We had a picture last night aboard.” I asked what it was and he said, “Arise, My Love, with Claudette Colbert.”

WARN AGAINST

Safety Council Says Gasoline Rationing Won’t Solve Holiday Toll. 4

Times Special. ’ CHICAGO, Dec, 18.—Every accident to ‘an i American. war worker is a Christmas present for Hitler. The National Safety Council made that assertion today in .a nationwide appeal to. every American to |accept personal responsibility for reducing the accident toll which nor-

“Although gas rationing is reducing normal driving and cutting the trafic toll, millions of motorists are saving their ration coupons so they may use their cars during the Christmas holiday periqd,” said Ned H. Dearborn, executive vice president of the council. “We cannot indulge, therefore; in any compla-

“The launch is ready and

YULE AGGIDENTS|

At 6:20 the Repulse drew out into the Straits of Johore, We moved at half ‘speed. It was a beautiful evening, that twilight of Monday, Dec. 8. The bright-eyed sunset silhouetted the palms on the shore. Within minutes the Prince of Wales drew up alongside and passed us. The crews of each ship stood at attention. Capt. William Tennant on our bridge waved ‘his white ‘hat. Two men standing on the bridge of the

+ Prince of Wales waved their hats.

They were Admiral ‘Tom Phillips

‘and Capt. Leach.

Lieut. Halton of the Royal

Marines took us on a tour of all ’

parts of the ship. We went up and down masts, into various control towers, into turrets of the 15-inch guns, down into the engine room, and to the top of the mainmast.

When we finished «the tour of

. the ship we went to the officers’

mess and were introduced to Comm. Denby, the executive officer, a middle-aged but boyishly husky man who was tough and

amiable and who introduced us to .

each of the officers in the ward-

room. Ot that time there must

have been 15. It was terrifically hot and we-were all soaked in perspiration. ‘By then the Repulse and the Prince'of Wales and four

destroyers were out in the South

China Sea, moving northeast. Someone came into the wardroom and tacked a notice on the bulletin

" board. I-got up and read it.

Looking for Trouble

IT SAID: “For -the ship’s company: “We are off to look for trouble. I expect we shall find it. We may run up against submarines, de-

Plan Magatine Of Propaganda

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (U. PJ). —The. office of war information announced today that a magazine entitled “Victory” will be issued

every two months exclusively for

distribution abroad to counter enemy propaganda by showing the “character of America, its war aims and the magnitude of its war effort.”

To be issued on a non-profit basis under an agreement with the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.,

the magazine will be printed in . several languages, including Eng-

lish, .for - free distribution. Approximately $50,000 copies of each issue will be printed. “The magazine:will carry avers tising, thus providing a means for American business ‘to tell the world how industry in this country is geared. to ‘the war effort, OWI said. 5

SAYS BRAZIL NAZIS

"We went aboard the Re-

pulse. We asked a young officer, "What the devil are we going to do for four days? He answered, "Oh, we may have something. We might even “have movies'." The cruiser Repulse, bombed to the bottom two days later by Japanese planes.

stroyers, aircraft or surface ships. We are going to carry out a sweep to northward to see what we can pick up and what we can roar up. We must all be on our toes.” The signature was that of Capt. Tennant. TUESDAY, DEC. 9: Gal and I showed up at our action stations on the flag deck at 5:15. We took with us our gas masks, helmets and our anti-flash equipment and life belts. The anti-flash equipment is simply a white cloth hood that covers the head and shoulders and leaves exposed only the nose, eyes and mouth. You are supposed to wear it during action to prevent burns from shells bursting on deck. It isn’t burns that bother me—it's shrapnel. / Our action station is on the flag deck which is underneath the bridge and is the least protected part of the ship. The flag deck lieutenant is a tough, wiry officer of about 24 or 25. “Is this your action station?” he asked. “Yes, it is,” we sald. “Well, there is ore thing about this place. In every action some men on the flag deck get killed.” “That's encouraging,” we said.

” ” » A Plane Is Sighted AT ABOUT 6 a. m. it began to lighten and we found we were about four miles off shore. The Prince of Wales was four cable lengths in front. The destroyers

RULING UPHOLDS PELLEY VERDICT

Chicago Appeals Court Suppotts Tribunal Here

On All Issues.

CHICAGO, Dec. 18 (U. P.).~The U. 8. circuit court of appeals yesterday affirmed the conviction of

William Dudley Pelley, silver shirt leader, and his publishing assofiate, Lawrence A. Brown, on charges of sedition and conspiracy. The court’s unanimous opinion, affirming a district court conviction of the Fellowship Press, Noblesville, Ind., as well as that of Pelley and Brown, was written by Judge Evan A. Evans and concurred in by Judges J. Earle Major and Otto Kerner, The appellate court upheld the Indianapolis district court on ‘all "| the issues raised by Pelley’s attorney, including objections to failure

of the indicting grand jury to in-| clude women, appearance before the|

flanked 'us:about a mile away. Men

all over the ship were sitting and standing by their guns.

I asked Sub-Lieut, Page if the men ever think Noo ote!

At 6:20 an aircraft was report- -

ed off the starboard beam, but it kept far away. It; might have ‘been a, Japanese ‘reconnaissance plane. As dawn came up, lifting the blackness, I felt terribly exposed. One of. our catapult air-,

craft, a Walrus, was put on the

track but didn’t take off. Gallagher and I were peering into the haze of dawn to see what we could find. He motioned at something. i .“You can't tell,” he said sardonically, “whether that's island or five Japanese’ battleships, 10 cruisers, and three: aircraft carriers.” “1f it's the Japanese fleet,” .1 said, “we won't be interested very long.” At 7:30 this morning we sat in the wardroom at breakfast. Over the radio we heard President Roosevelt speak to Congress putting the United States in a“state of war with Japan, 4 It was strange. None of the officers in the wardroom said anything. All. these officers are very charming and agreeable and friendly, but they are so nonchalant. : Indifferent isn’t the right word and I hardly think phlegmatic is either. They just seem casual. I am not sure that it isn’t a good thing for them to be that way.

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years we'd all be nervous Wrecks by now.” Co. » 2

‘Nothing Sighted Yet

AFTER BREAKFAST I. went back on the flag deck and said'te the lieutenant there:

“Oh yes,” .he laughed. “Askin ally-we’ve a couple ‘of hundred. watching all the time.” “Then,” I. xu don’t think. I have to kéep a for x marines: or a batdleships He grinned... =. :

bar, It's shocking, but t! tion of the th

take a while to get’ adjusted.” Isnt NEXT—Second-degree readiness’ is ordered on the Repulse; its men sing at the prospect of battle.

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Secretary Kno Greets "The Typical Navy Mother

- WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (U. P)o~ Secretary of Navy Frank Knox yesterday personally greeted Mrs. Irene Shafer of Glendale, Cal, selected recently as the nation’s “typical navy mother.” He gave her a Christmas message for the mothers of all naval personnel. Mrs. Shaffer was chosen from among 10,000 nominations as a spokesman for ‘all navy mothers. Secretary Knox’s message follows: “It is my particular pleasure to greet, through you, the mothers of navy men everywhere. Not all the

sacrifices of war are made on thé|

fighting front. Not all the victories are won in the thunder of battle. The women of America, as' they send their sons forth to war, make as great a sacrifice to the common

welfare as any of their countrymen, “And as they make this sacrifice bravely and cheerfully, as only mothers can, the morale on the home front, they are winning a victory as mighty as any triumph at sea. You, Mrs, Shafer, with your two gons in the navy, are a living symbol of this sacrifice—and this victory. “At this Christmas. . Season Bi thoughts of all of us naturally turn more than ever to th

to celebrate with hearts the birthday of of Peace.”

LIMIT REFUNDS ON PULLMAN TICKETS

J. C. Soucie, agent of the Pullman

Local Trainee Earns Citation

FOR SHOVING ‘a‘mate out of ‘ the path of an army plane which crashed at the Great Lakes naval

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HAVE ARMY WAITING

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 18 (U. P).—A “complete German army, aimed to forestall the United States war effort,” was organized in Brazil by General Niedenfuhr, former German - military attache, Gen. Manoel Rabello of the Brazilian army charged today. Rabello, who is regarded as one of Brazil's foremost “military meh, said in an interview printed in the newspaper O Globo, that the force was organized among the German residents of Brazil and that other such armies of have been organized “in ‘neighboring | coun-

<0 Tomes. qui: ho. roorqmuisat at a moment's notice, Rabello said.

now. -For instance, the government of Iran is hiring Dr. A, C. Millspaugh to return as financial adviser, as he was in the middle 20s when the country was known as Persia. Iran has severe inflation. Food is extremely difficult to get. The Polish premier, Gen. Sikorski, is here andy hopes for some preliminary understandings with the chief united nations. Some have suggested that we go back to the geographical boundaries fixed by the ‘treaty of Ve es, use them as starting points during the tice or period of conditional peace, and readjust as appears advisable later on. In theory it is an attractive proposition. In practice some objections are raised which may not he insurmountable. . Buf, that is exaculy the kind of question that needs fo be worked on now. The nore of those that can be adjusted before the end of the war, even on a temporary basis, the easier the jolt from war into the chaos of peace will be.

Co., warned prospective rail travellers today that refunds on unused sleeping and parlor car reservations will no longer be made. unless reservations were cancelled before! train time, - The refund. provision, Mr. Soucie |

said, is a legal requirement rnder an interstate commerce commission tariff filed several months ago. The action was taken upon the request - of railroads in an effort to réduce the amount of unused space on crowded trains. ! “The theory of the refund tari” Mr. Soucie said, “is that the ricket holder must give notice of his inability to use the space in time so that it can he old and noi go urmused. There is a "shortage of space on, practically every train these days and observance of the refund provision will aid in re- |} lieving the situation.” i

out now to demagog about the peaec would find { some far better stuff to lean on in what Mr. Hoover says.

Peace Will Be Continuous Process

MORE LIKELY THE PEACE this time will be a

Sowing, Sver<haneing condition, requiring constant 5 1 and adjustment among statesmen of various nations. Peace will be a process, a method, rather a frozen mold. > in the happiest of large families, nothing stays. There are always some matters to be : settle and the peacemaking labors of the mother are * done. /'The next peace will continue an active process in : which the long-distance telephone and the airplane, “can bring principals together on a few days’ notice, will replace the formal green-baize conference

My Day

| WASHINGTON, Thursday.—The train trip down A was. ‘a wonderful opportunity to do much

grand jury of Oscar R. Ewing, New York, special assistant attorney general, and alleged failure of the government to prove insubordination in the armed forces. due to Pelley’s writings. The Indianapolis court last August sentenced Pelley to 15 years imprisonment, Brown to five years, and Fellowship Press to a $5000 fine.

STUDENTS FILL ORDER PORTLAND, Ore. (U. P.). — Members of Bensaon high school’s woodworking class were ‘surprised but undaunted the other day at a hurry-up order by the Red Cross for 1100 cribbage boards to be included in packages to American soldiers overseas. In‘just 3% days, 18 boys of the department finished the boards, 130,000 drilled holes and all.

Yanks i in French Morocco

cent belief that gas rationing will solve the holiday traffic: accident problem.”

ing, 1215 E. Michigan st, has been cited for meritorious cons duct. : Harding and Harold w. ‘Herring of Brownsburg, hoth were come mended last week -by. the: com= .manding officer of the Grea Lakes service school for shunting comrades away from the crashe ing plane which struck and fae tally injured Paul Allen Landers, seaman second class, of ‘Terre Haute, Both Harding and Herring an fire . controlmen, second : Rardings ile.

Safety ‘Don'ts’

The council offered these suggestions to prevent holiday accidents: Don’t drink when you drive—and

don't ride with a drinking driver. Buy only fireproof Christmas decorations. Don’t put the tree near the fireplace. (lear up’ and dispose of Christmas gift wrappings

promptly. Don’t try to trim your tree while

standing on a makeshift support, such as a box or chair, Use a safe

stepladder. Check your home for-such haz- | jee.

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cause a fall, frayed or worn electric cords, ete. Be sure all toys given to children are safe—and be sure: children are taught how to use them safely.

tically no rebuilding going on in Great Britain at present. The thing which he brought out, however,

accumulated. work. When I arrived here I had time bo Re ready for a tea, which Mrs, Harry Hopkins and I gave. for the nurses and the nurses’ aids o Columbia hospital. ‘They are using nurses’ aids in this hospital with great success. I saw in some magazine the other day, the suggestion that we need to develop better qualified people - to help in hospitals. 1 know of no way to do, this. except by taking in nurses’ aids and keeping them usider: supervision until they develop skill enough to! - “be given real responsibility. The

the same lines.

the ‘more qualified people we ‘will have who ner yesterday responsibility.

| dent that we should offer something better to al : unde

and which interested us all, is the amount of planning high has ‘been ‘done for the development in all these cities Improved housing can be undertaken as soon io the war comes to an end and normal transportation! is resumed. This will be a source of employment which is basically very valuable, use the build« ing materials used require much labor, in addition to the labor required in the building of the houses. Of course, we have no devastatéd areas, but we shall need much additional housing. I hope we shall study the plans made in Great Britain and use any ideas which can be adapted to our own needs. I hope we shall offer the occupied countries encouragement by making it clear that we tend @ help tiem ulog

Hitler apparently has a master plan to develop Germany industrially and leave the occupied eoune tries primarily agricultural nations. ‘It is quite evi-

° CASABLANCA THEATER| NOW IS YANKS’ CLUB

Dec.|. (U. P.).—American troops in French | ; | Morocco are learning to play base- p

U. 8. HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Dec. 16 (Delayed)

Create Game-Irish Pool

3 BIG SOAP FIRMS PAY $10,000 FINES

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (U.P) —