Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1942 — Page 9
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My Day
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‘WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN ALGERIA. —
: Our: troopship in convoy from England to Africa ‘had
hrse, hospital, and it was filled. The long train.
in unheated cars across England seemed 10. 1 give everybody a cold, and it was a poor man indeed
“who couldn’t sport a deathiike z2 cough aboard ship. We had two pneumonia ‘cases, both of whom pulled through. I myself came down .with one o the Ten Best Colds of 1942 the day after we got aboard, and spent the next five days in bed, feigning seasickness. But the ship had plenty of army doctors, so I had lozenges, : injections and consultations, all without charge. Our. ship had never carried Amerfcan troops before, and the British waiters were somewhat shocked by the appetites and the diningroom manners of the younger officers. Seeond lieutenants, muscular and still growing, would order a complete Second dinner after finishing the first. And in between times they'd get up and serve themselves with bread, carry off their own plates, play loud tunes on their glasses with their forks, ‘make rude jokes about the food, and generally conduct - themselves. in a manner unbecoming ‘the dignity of a British cruise-ship waiter.
Hot Tea as an Eye. Opener
I MUST SAY, ‘in behalf of the British, that they finally broke down and entered into the spirit of the
thing, and I think eventually enjoyed the’wild west . cameraderie as much as the Americans did.
* “Those of us in the bis were awakens at 7 each
morning by the cabin steward, ‘bearing cups of hot|
‘tea. Meals were in two sittings, an hour apart. The
headwaiter - ‘wore: a tuxedo at dinnertime, and the]
food was excellent.
We had Iried eggs and real bacon for breakfast|.
By Ernie Pyle
every: ‘morning—the first real egg I'd tasted in four| §
months.. There was also tea in the afternoon, and | sandwiches ‘at night. ‘Smoking was prohibited in the|
§ dining room.
There was a bar in the evening'for soft drinks, but no liquor was sold. Some officers brought whisky
aboard, but it was all gone after a day or two, and| from then on it was probably the driest ocean voyage -
ever made. As ‘someone wisecracked, “We catch it both “Ways. We can’t smoke in the dining room because it’s a British ship, and we can’t buy liquor because it’s an American trooper.” :
Rumor Circles Ship in 30 Minutes
OF ALL THE SPOTS on earth where rumors run wild, I think a convoy trooper must lead, hands down. Scores of rumors a day floated about the ship. You got so:yol. believed them all, or didn’t believe any. It ‘was rumored we would rendezvous with a big convoy . fram America; that an aircraft carrier had
joined . us; . that ‘we'd hit Gibraltar in six hours, 24|
hours, two days; that the ship behind us was the West Point, the Mt. Vernon, the Monterey; that we were 80 miles off Portugal, and 200 miles off Bermuda. None of these turned out: to be true. The Fumog-mongering got so rife: that one officer made up a rumor to the effect that we e going to Casablanca, and timed it to see just how Yong it would take to encircle the ship. It came back to him, as cold fact Tight from "the bridge, in just half an hour.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nusshauin
PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Robert Andrew Adams, Marion county chairman of the war savings staff, insurance lawyer, first national judge advocate of the American Legion, past president of the Dramatic,
Contemporary and Indianapolis Literary clubs, an
ardent admirer of John: Philip Sousa’s music and probably the city’s No.-1 circus fan. He traveled with the Hagen-beck-Wallace circus for two weeks while representing it in a legal case’ several years ago, and he’s never gotten over it. He’s on hand tb see every circus arrive and unload; and you won't find him at his office again until the last elephant has been loaded and the train pulls out of town. Bob Adams is 51, a tall, slender, dignified appearing man with 8 dry wit and a subtle sense of humor. A good six feet tall, he weighs 165 or 170, has blondish hair, a high" forehead, 'wideset, .hazel eyes; a rather long
Mr. Adams .
face and a determined looking chin. He has almost
a military carriage and. a snappy walk. In fact, he goes at everything energetically; He has a pleasant, well modulated voice, and. is an excellent extentporaneous speaker.. J
He Never Rides
HE DOESN'T give a darn about .sports, but owns probably the oldest set of ‘golf clubs in the city. They've been hanging in a closet a quarter-century
without ever being used.
Although he’s on the board -of the Traders Point Hunt, he never rides and never hunts. In fact, his friends say he’s half afraid of a horse, "Proud of the flower garden at his home, he doesn’t contribute much tq it. About his only gardening accomplishment is.cutting off the dead flowers. He has an orderly mind and hates to’ see things where they don’t belong. Picnics don’t interest him. He insists that nature resents him, since she always attacks with swarms of mosquitoes and ants.
~ Washington
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. aor people can’t laugh off the warnings that are coming from friendly sources now: If union leaders have the control that they are supposed to have, this is a good time for them to demonstrate it. Big-shot labor leaders look a little silly down here in Washington demanding that labor be given a larger share of responsibility in directing war production while their own local unions back in the plants are pulling strikes. The high talk of national labor leaders would go down better if they were keeping order among their own locals. C. I ©. automobile workers tied : up tank production for a couple of hours at Ford’s this week on the very day that Philip Murray, president of C.{I. O., had his views presented to a senate committee on the subject of how the army, navy and big industry were hampering the war effort. William Green, president of the A. F, of L., also contributed his views on' the subject to the senate committee, and af the same time his A. F. of IL. machinists in ‘the! West Coast airplane plants were voting to be released from their no-strike pledge so they could vote a walkout to back | up their wageIncrease demands,
Public Patience Has Limits
MR. MURRAY AND MR. GREEN, and Walter ‘Reuther. of the C. I. O: automobile workers, could well take ‘some time off right now from telling Washington how to run the war, and go out in the plants gl
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°: WASHINGTON, Friday—Last night I had the _ pleasure of having Mr. Earl Robinson come down ' from New York City to play us a new composition. Orie of his: favorite themes is Abraham Lincoln, and this has a haunting quality and is a stirring and ulating composition. Later, we all went over to the
Watches the Ocean a
HE TALKS about vacations but seldom takes them. When he does, his favorite spot is Atlantic City. There he likes to sit, well protected from the elements, and just look at the ocean. Swimming in icy water and sunbathing on sand infested with sand fleas don’t appeal to him, Born injColumbia City, Ind. he attended Wash-
ington & Jefferson and Harvard law school. He had been in Harvard 18 momths when he entered Camp Taylor as a private. Receiving a commissien in the judge advocate’s department, he went overseas in May, 1918, as a captain, saw active duty until the armistice. After that, he served in the general headquarters at Chaumont several months, was on duty at Washington until October, 1919, and emerged from the service a major. While national judge advocate of the Legion, he went to Paris in 1927 in the Legion pilgrimage. There, he sat next to Marshal Foch at a luncheon. The marshal told him of his own collection of medallions. That started Bob on a collection of his own which he treasures highly.
“Music Died With Sousa”
HE ALWAYS insists he will eat “anything but tripe.” His clothing is conservative and neat, except for his hats.,The rougher they look, the more devoted he is to them. He'll play bridge, if he has to; plays a pretty good game of Michigan or gin rummy; seldom goes to the movies, loves the theater, and gets a kick out of Jack Benny and Charley McCarthy. He has an inquisitive mind, reads everything, ‘He likes to go to parties but. ‘refuses to play games —says he’s “just a decrepit old man”—and usually goes home early. Sometimes he attends Indianapolis symphony concerts, and he gets a big kick out of telling his friend, Fabien Sevitzky, that “music died with Sousa.” Fabien always notifies him when the orchestra is going to play Sousa’s “Stars and Siripes” so Bob can attend.
By Raymond Clapper
tell their own union members that it also is important to keep the war plants running. The government has given labor a good deal of co-operation in helping it maintain union membership. But the government is getting very indifferent co-operation in return, about the same kind of cooperation the farm bloc is giving. Labor leaders could afford to take seriously the warning that came out of the war labor board this week. Wayne L. Morse, a public member of the board, friendly to labor, offered a majority opinion in an automobile ‘warkers’ strike that. should ‘set every labor leader tq thinking, He said labor should not be blind to the fact that the patience of the public hes its limits, The WLB severely rebuked the C. I O. Automobile Workers’ local for repeated strikes at the Yellow Truck & Coach plant at Pontiac, doing war work,
This Is Strong Language
REPEATED WORK STOPPAGES were listed by the WLB, which added: “The public members deplcre the work stoppages which have occurred in this plant and they feel that those responsible for the stoppages are deserving of a severe reprimand and censure by the bpard and disciplinary action by the union. » That is strong language, coming from WLB. This administration ‘rarely usés such language, even on an employer. It ought to startle every labor leader into wondering if the counter-revolution is about to break. That language also is a rather plain invitation to Philip Murray, Walter Reuther and all of the other responsible C. I. O. labor leaders to clean ‘house. In fact, the B calls on them to discipline those responsible for the stoppages.
By Eleanor. Roosevelt
Of course, what he has done is to give thousands of such young. couples, to parents 12 go thom and to friends, an unforgetable suggestion. In this particular case, the girl told him: “Right now we have to build d our marriage on paper, so letters overflow
oy bureau drawers and have to be stored downstairs
in my trunk.” “Then he finds the perfect patagmaph! “Let those
Who may complain, remember that only on paper
has humanity yet achieved beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue and abiding love.” This morning I met with a group of Latin-Amer-ican gentlemen who ‘are here studying agro-econom-
ics and who faced me with some pretty dificult prob-
lems, which I attempted to answer as truthfully as possible. They ‘seemed to me somewhat in the unanswerable field, because when you are asked what
© a nation such as ours may do in the future, you are
guessing pure and simple. You ean only state your| hopes and determination to ry to make thas hopes : Shah | Ne I eine Begun Shih more | 40. In, the health od qucation felis 18 he women |
come frue. I had the pleasure, t00, of seeing Begum
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'AT 9:45 LIEUT: HALTON took Gallagher, Abrahams.
and myself up to the bridge to see Capt. Tennant. We hadn’t met him before. Halton took me into the captain's sea cabin. This was a room about 12 feet long and.five feet wide with glass all across the front. Halton introduced me, and the captain said: “I am very glad to have an American reporter on board. * He gripped my hand hard. : = Capt. Tennant was dressed in shorts ad a shirt with no insignia on the shoulder. His hat was on the shelf. He seemed about 50 years old, with an open, pleasant face, pinkish, smooth skin with wrinkles around the eyes. On
“the shelf there ‘were a vase his wife. As he asked me what part - of America I came from he paced up and down the cabin, back and forth, peering out of a porthole on each side and the window in front. : -“I hope you will excuse me if I move around while I am talking,” he said. 3 He asked where I had been, and I told him in Rome, Jugoslavia and the Middle East. Then he saw. that Galla-
gher and Abrahams were out-
+ side the door,
in a tiny anteroom, “Oh, are there _others there? Come. in—csms in” Gallagher and Abrahams were brought in by 2 Lieut. Halton, Cecil Brown and- the captain explained to us all that we were going around the Malaya coast toward Patani and then northeasterly toward the Indo-China coast. “The Japs are probably bringing their convoys down over that route. If we are spotted by theif. aircraft today the Japanese con-
“voy may turn back and they will
send two or three battleships and so forth to meet us.” 2 =» =
Expected Action
‘CAPT. TENNANT was very gay, ' pleasant, smiling and ‘courteous and seemed confident that we would encounter action. “You may make history on this
EDUCATORS RAP ~ ISOLATIONISM
Indiana College Presidents Back World Co-operation
For Just Peace.
Presidents of 10 Indiana universities and colleges today joined in announcing their support of studies directed toward international cooperation “to the end of attaining a just and. durable peace.” Their statement was issued by the Indiana Committee for Victory, Hugh McK. Landon, chairman. The 10 presidents signed the following statement: “We are confronted by a situation which leaves no choice, If civilization is to be preserved, the united nations must remain united for the winning of the peace as well as the war. “After military victory in world war I the United Stgtes chose to withdraw from international cooperation. That choice has not brought peace. We must find another way of greater promise. “This being the case, we wish it to be a major objective of our instituticns ‘to direct the thinking of
our students to an understanding| need for the} United States to co-operate with]
of the imperative
other nations to the end of attain-ing-4 just and durable peace.” The signers included Dr. Hernan B. Wells of Indiana university; Acting President F. C. Hockema of Purdue, with President Edward Elliott’s approval; Dr. W. G. Spencer of Franklin college; Dr. Frank H.
-| Sparks of Wabash college; Dr. Ron-
ald B. Prentice of Rose Polytechnic
institute; Dr. M. O. Ross of Butler |
university; Dr. Clyde E. Wildman .} of DePauw university; Dr. Albert G. Parker Jr. of Hanover college; Dr. I. J. Good of Indiana Central college, and President-emeritus S. A.
of orchids ad a picture of
trip—an then, again, it may not be very important.” The Prince of Wales was plowing along ‘less than a half mile ahead and Gal yemarked that we were supposed to be on the Wales. “Yes, 4 know.” The captain laughed.
“We can't even mention that the Repulse is out here,” I said. “That’s nothing. The Repulse hasn't been mentioned for as long as I can remember. The wife of every man: on the Wales knows where he is, but our wives don’t know whether we are at Scapa, in the Mediterranean, in the Atlantic, or in the Pacific. They never read anything about the Repulse.” We told the captain we won-
dered if the flag deck was the
best place to see action. “Where would vou like to be?” he asked. We said we thought we could see more from the after-mast control tower. “And anyway,” 1 added, “there is a lot of armor protection up there that I would, kinda like to have around me.”
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A Rainy, Miserable Day
“WELL,” THE captain said, “I though the flag deck was better. You§ can fun from one side to the other and watch things from both sides. We'll try that, and if you are not satisfied, perhaps we can put you somewhere else.” “Would you give us an outline of the action after it is over?” Gallagher asked. “Yes,” the captain smiled. “We hope to get some action, and
. if so I will try to explain it.”
It is raining today and it is pretty miserable out. .The main
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¢pulse headed for the South China sea.
15-inch guns. and the armament second degree of readi: age control and supply tion stations. \
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wardroom. Comm. D« in and I asked him fo
of the situation at the no “There are no deve 0]
he said. “If we are aircraft we can expect destroyers or dive bom! tack by dusk. In anj can expect something before noon tomorrow.” A lieutenant asked ©
certain * section was ¢ i: 2
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“Oh, there is only 01 3
Denby said casually, *
i a war with Japan.”
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Up Milita
And Non-Military Co
Times Special . BLOOMINGTON, Dec. 19.—Indiana university is prepared to install the new army and navy post-induc-tion training program, Herman B. Wells, president, announced today. “Though the educational institutions through which the new training plan will be conducted have not yet been made public, Indiana has been in close contact with the army and navy departments Shroughout formulation of the new poliey, ” Wells said. * The university already has set up prescribed courses of armed force study and completed a survey of
housing and mess faciliti ed. University officials
that preparation for {I no way meant the schot . ing taken over by the
navy.” On the contrary, new curricula have bee for women and for men into military service,
Although unable to sa 4 when the post-inductio
would start, officials ex opinion that it would get
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No Grounds For Complaint Here DEDHAM, Mass, Dec. 19 (U. P.) .—A published report that Norfolk county jail inmates were being given three cups of coffee daily brought from Sheriff Samuel H. Wragg this explanation: Only .the morning cup is made from fresh coffee. :
The other two cups are brewed from ‘the same grounds.
CHRISTMAS PARTY SET ‘Prospect chapter 452, O. E. S., will give a Christmas program at 7:45" p. m. Monday at Prospect Masonic hall, Prospect and State sts. Daisy
I U. FACULTY TO ASSIST |
Times Speeial BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Dr. Herman T.- Briscoc vice president and dean of Indjana university, temporarily as technical the war manpower com
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Crew in Happy Mood
HE THEN came back over and sat down on a divan with an-
other pilot, ‘They were arguing
over some technical matter. “You'd better take at least one flare, at least to land by.” “That doesn’t help much,” the other said. “Certainly it will. Drop it at 1500 feet and stick your nose down. ‘You can get down before it goes out. You can make it in “time.” At 11:25 the captain’s voice - piped over the ship’s communica“tions: “Gun crews on watch below must be prepared.to close up on a moment's notice.” I asked Commander Denby it
PATMAN GROUP RAPS BUREAUS
ens House Action to Save
~ Small Business.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The Paiman small business committee yesterday joined the chorus of critics of OPA. In ‘a preliminary report to Speaker Rayburn, the committeemen charged that OPA prices are
‘|squeezing the small businessman
out of business and that it also is responsible for an “inequitable distribution of merchandise.” . Criticism also was directed at the smaller war plants corporation for failure to finance small manufacturers as congress intended it to do. Ranking minority member of the committee is Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind), who left last night for his home in Rensselaer. The "Indiana congressman, who is dean of the Hoosier Republicans in the house, pioneered in inves the impact of the ‘war on business.
Boh can committee to make such investigations on Aug. 11, 1941. So successful were his efforts that the house established the special committee for such investigations, voted $20,000 and put a Democrat, Rep. Wright Patman of Texas, in as chairman. That was Dec. 11, 1941. The G. O. P: committee had no federal funds, so Rep. Halleck joined in the work of the Patman committee and led ‘the questioning in hearings throughout the United
| States.
May Oifer New Bills
The committee recently returned from conducting such. hearings _ in St. Louis, Memphis, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, . Jacksonville, ‘Atlanta and Charlotte, N. C. The Republican committee had
lite first hearing in Indianapolis. report
The Patman committee
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the aircraft we spotted this morning was a Japanese. “We are not certain about that,” he said. “It may have been Rutch. They are ‘patrolling out here, too.” The ratings in their mess at lunch were happy and singing. Apparently the only reason: for that is the prospect of action. A series of provisions has been issued for tonight and tomorrow. For example: “Breakfast will not be served tomorrow. There will be food put on the table and each man will help himself. There will be 11 action:messes.” That’s what they call luncheon and dinner when cold plates are left on the table and the men eat when they have, a chance.
A Plane Is tes
SUB-LIEUT. PAGE, with whom ' we had a long falk last evening, | fell down a companionway 10 feet. He. broke his wrist, injured his chest and apparently suffered internal injuries, because he can’t walk. He was a fashion designer in ‘London before the war. He is a tall, handsome, curly-haired, smiling chap, and I like him very . much. We had a good lunch of roast baked; “beans, prunes and -coffee. It was, all very tasty. : There is .a plaque on the ship near the quarter-deck which shows the captains of his majesty’ s) ships named Repulse, beginning in: 1586 with Sir W. Monson andl} down to 1938 with E. J. Spooner, who is now the admiral in como mand at Singapore, At 12:45 a plane was spotted! a tiny dot above the horizon. There was some uncertainty
* whether it was a Japanese flyi
boat or a Catalina. Later it w verified as a Catalina ‘and fina it drew closer. } While I was up op the flag deck this afternoon: the captain & down and said: “We've a couple of knock-kneed destroyers with us. We've got to oil them. We're go= ing to find a few of your destroy=ers when we get back to Singapore.” This is the first word that American ships are now operat-
* ing from Singapore naval base.
NEXT: Japanese aircraft spot —then shadow—the Prince of by Wales and the Base, ic ’
’ (Copyright, 1942, by “Random House Inc., distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Jap Ship of Kiska | Won't Stay Down
HEADQUARTERS, ALASKA DEFENSE’ COMMAND, Dec. 17 (U. P.) (Delayed). — Air force pilots have dropped another load of bombs upon a Japanese cargo ship, nickname? “Old ‘ Indestructible” in the belief it is the. most persistently bombed of any in the North Pacific war. : “Old Indestructible” has been. alternately sunk by bombs ani repaired by the enemy. The last action occurred on Dec. 11 when American pilots discovered the ship at Kiska and scored a direct hit which put the ship on the beach again. Pilots wha took part in the attack included: Lieut. John P. Nealon, Gary, Ind.; Lieut. Delynm Anderson, Stearns, Ky., and Lieut.: Frederick Moore, Charlotte, N. C,
IT'S A LIE! THERE'S NO BUTCHERING FEE
butchering of hogs and cattle will be restricted, Secretary of Agricul= ture Claude R. Wickard said ‘today. “Farmers not only are perfectly free to butcher hogs and animals for home use; they ought to do | their normal amount of: home butchering,” Wickard said. There are no regulations on butchering for home use, he. despite a widespread rumor farmers will have to pay a fee for a butchering permit. He said farmers have a patrio duty, however, not to use more than their share of meat. That share was fixed yesterday at 35 ounces per week for each adult. :
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