Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1942 — Page 13

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WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN ALGERIA f During the first part of our England-Africa convoy . trip, while the weather was still cold, most people § Stuck to their cabins, with only a short curiosity foray “on deck every couple. of shours to see if they were missing anything. Personally, 1 stayed in bed with my cold most of the first five days, and caught up a little on my reading. The sea was fairly rough the first couple of days, and there was considerable seasickness. - Especially below, among the troops. But they handled themselves well, and the holds didn’t get into the ‘frightful condition they ‘do’ on some voyages. : After a while the seg T and it was in the lug a. happy * voyage. The soldiers were routed out ‘at 6:30 a. m., ‘and at 10 every day they had to stand muster and : have boat drill for an: hour. : Outside’ of that they had little to do, and passed -% the time just standing around on deck, or lying down x : below reading, or playing cards.

+ Burlesque Dancer Kisses a Colonel

3 ~ THE TRIP had no sooner started than rehearsals : for an enlisted men’s variety show hegan. I believe “you could take any 1000 soldiers in our army, and ‘out of them create a | orchestra. From our troops . they dug up an accordionist, saxophonist, : trumpeter, violinist, two banjo players, a dancer, a a cowboy singer

©" They rehearsed every afternoon. The big night ‘i.came a couple of nights before we got to Gibraltar.

* men only. “It was a burlesque and I mean burlesque. The show was. Tepealsn ithe night we were ap-

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* LASPD AUGUST, Teddy, 10-year-old fox terrier ‘ owned by Arthur Sunderland, 1330 Concord, became # paralyzed—possibly as the result of being hit by a ; car. Mr.

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couldn’t even move his head, but and Mr: Sunderland just wouldn't

Teddy "a comfortable bed, com“plete with rubber sheet, down in the basement. months, he fed the dog by hand and treated it like a baby. Ten-year-old Teddy's better now. Mr. Sunderland almost cried the other day when he told a friend*that & Teddy now is able to walk about : the house and even waddle-out to. his favorite tree.

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ONE OF OUR readers phones in to ask if- we

* think it would be all right to ask streetcar mototmen -

3 and bus operators to jangle their bells ‘or tootle their

t horns a half block before they get to corners where council of civilian defense: William Munk, who suc“ceeded Harvey Bradley as director of the council;

% there is a drug store or. groeery. That way, on. old i: morning: “fillers “told - where: it's ‘warm, A few drug stores, such as the one’ down ‘by the ¥ Eli Lilly plant, have mirrors “high up on utility poles + so people inside the store can see the trolley coming. How about it,: Harry. Reid? . . Prosecutor Sherwood # Blue has the middle finger of his right hand all » wrapped up in’ a splint. Broke it playing volley ; ball. « + « Mrs. Richard F. Green, 936 Pleasant Run 2 DkWY., is nine-tenths mad at one of the télegraph x companies (she didn’t say which one). She wired her # husband at the Great Lakes Naval training station + Friday, Dec. 11, asking if they could meet the 8 y following Sunday in Chicago. She didn't hear from ! him. Then she got a letter, written Wednesda? saying

Washington

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Dec. 21 a Henderson's tob

5 ' was to hold prices in hand and in that way prevent:

? inflation from getting a running start.

-was rising about 1 per cent a

month. For several months after | price control, the cost of living |

went up only -about 1% per cent altogether, and that chiefly because uncontrolled foods have advanced about 10 per cent. This is the first time in’ a

war that we have the hope oh

escaping drastic inflation. The point: is that living. costs, measured either by. the cost-of- - living dex or the wholesale are’ being held fairly steady. That is:in" f contrast with the experience in the last War.

: The cost of living, put on an index figure of 100

in 1013, went up to an index figure of 110 in 1916, just * pefore we went into the war. In 1917 it jumped to 2129. In 1018 it went to 152; in 1919 to 175; and in . 1920 to 202—and then bang. - . Harding had to call off the fancy inaugural ball Z4n March, 1921, because too many idle men were % walking the streets as a result of the saplosion of the % world war inflation.

3 For Price Control ‘on, the, Other Guy’

"LEON HENDERSON wasn't “performing 'a miracle " but he was doing quite effectively the job.he.was put . in there to do. Some people didn’t like him to ride 1. a bicycle, especially to have ‘his picture taken. They didn’t nik he ought: to. gon “Information Please,”

JHoosier Vagabond

calmed,

d several - pianists—all . doing that when they're being taken to war like

. ‘galley slaves down there in the hold. When you: think | . '% They put on. two shows that night, for the enlisted -

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

- Happy Birthday, Jim -

Sunderland “carried thé pet from. one . i veterinary hospital "to: another, and all of them said Teddy couldn’ get ‘well. He:

he could use his eyes, appealingly, "have him destroyed. So he: built:

And for three’

.-veplies, his voice quivering with pride, “is my son,

‘until after Jan. 1 on orders from Washington. . . .

~was that people didn’t think he ought to hold down | prices— on their stuff. Everybod - . Considering what he was.up against, he was rea- |» erybody is for price con 3 Jonahly successful. Before price control went into | effect last May, the cost of living |

~ loose and silly things happening in the organization.

poaching Gibraltar and it went over terrifically.

There was genuine talent in it, and serious music, as|’ well as the whiz-bang stuff. But the hero of the evening was a hairy corporal—Joe Comita of Brook-| lyn—who ' did a strip-tease burlesque of Gypsy|-

Rose Lee.

Joe twirled and stripped, twirled and stripped.

By Erie Pole i

And when he was down’ fo his ‘long heavy G. 1.|:

underwear he swung to the front of the stage, lifted]:

his veil, and. kisséd a front-row colonel on top of his bald head! -

A Night jor Romance or Death

. THE WHOLE SHOW was marvelously good. But there was something more to it than just that. There was the knowledge, deep in everybody’s mind, that this was our night of danger. ; The radio had just brought word that Germany’s entire U-boat pack was concentrated in the ap-

proaches to Gibraltar. More than 50 submarines were| ‘said to be waiting for us. I doubt. there was a soul},

on board who expected: the Hight to pass without an attack. It was a perfect night for romance or for death. The air was warm and the moon put its brilliant sheen across the water. The night by its very gentleness seemed in evil collusion with the plague that lay beneath the .waters. And’ in that environmént the boys, from down below went buoyantly through their performances.’ We sat with life .preservers on and water canteens at our belts. We laughed and cheered against a background of semi-conscious listening for other sounds. . As the show ended a major whom I did not know turned to me and said, “That’s wonderful, those boys

of people at home squawking their heads off because| they can only have 20 gallons of gasoline, it makes my blood boil.”

he had had 12 hours liberty Sunday. He hadn’t received the telegram.

WHOEVER IT WAS that baked a nice birthday cake, put one camxle on it and gave it to Rationing ‘Chief Jim Strickland Saturday on the first anniver-

sary of OPA may be interested in knowing that thej

newspapermen who ‘ate most of it enjoyed it} immensely. . . . Passengers on an E. Michigan]

streetcar the other evening were pretty indignant at young America when three boys, about 10 years old, threw an ice. ball with a*rock in the center through a window of the streetcar near Sherman dr. young girl seated beside ‘the window narrowly escaped injury when she was showered with broken glass. The car operator took out after the boys, but he couldn’t run fast enough. . . . J. Ralph Fenstermaker, president of ‘Hugh J. Baker & Co., beams all over his face when he’s introduced to someone and they say: “Oh, yes; I know your brother.” “That,” he

Jack.” It happened right up here at “The Times the other day.

Civilian Defense Depot ' NOTES FROM THE office of Marion county

doesn’t contemplate any. changes in personnel. .-. . Nor in policies. .. . . He's pretty well satisfied with the job Mr. Bradley did. Says if he ever starts a business again, he’ll sure know where to go for capable men." The defense council will be kept after the war to deal with peacetime problems, he says. . . . There’s to be a ‘surprise dimout shortly after Jan. 1, and after that a blackout. . . . It was postponed

Too many Christmas shoppers and heavy traffic now. . . .'Too much danger of vandalism and accidents. . .:. It will be a surprise to this extent: They'll tell you the night, but not the hour.

By Raymond Clapper

por sing at night around the National Press club. That's what they said. But the trouble with Leon

trol on the other guy, but never for himself. Henderson’ not only held down prices, but he rendered great service, as the records will show, in helping to obtain: scarce materials essential- in. war production. x The farm bloc got Henderson. And some of its members are. now threatennig to get Wickard, the food administrator, if he doesn’t toe the line, .

You'll Never Find "Perfect Man’

ONE HATES TO S President Roosevelt, intimi|.dated by the threat of. the farm: bloc to sabotage ep- " propriations for war agencies unless Henderson was fired. If Mr. Roosevelt had fought it out, perhaps the country might have finally recognized that you +can't run the war on the basis of giving in to every special selfish group. But then I suppose he didn’t dare take a chance on having congress kill essential appropriations. It is a shabby plece of business all around. . Many people are being played for suckers by allowing their irritations at inconveniences to make them easy meat for a heat-up campaign against officials like Henderson who have the hard job to do. Sure, some of the questionnaires are unnecessarily complex. Nobody will ever run a job of this size without making plenty of mistakes and without many

. You won't ever find the perfect man for it. But you don’t find mahy men with the toughness and knowledge needed for such thankless jobs as this one Henderson has been gunned out: of by a crowd of politicians that is setting out now for its winter hunting.

By, Eleanor Roosevelt

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Xlll—Spotted by Japanése Aircralt.

"AT .1:20 P. M. a message was blinked from the Wales tous. It said: “The Japanese have made an air attack on: Kota Bahru which was not followed by landings. Major landing 90 miles north of Singapore. Little is known of enemy naval forces in vicinity. It is believed that Kongo

likely to be met.”

is only capital ship likely to be met. There are reported - ‘three Japanese heavy cruisers and a number of destroyers

I said to the flag deck officer: “A. eapital ship, three cruisers and some destroyers? That's the fleet we're going to face, eh? Lieutenant, how about calling a taxi to take -

me back to Singapore?” He laughed. nothing to worry about. Another message just came from the Wales giving further details: “An Akaga type, Kako. type and Zintu type cruiser have been re-

ported.” I checked up on those. One

first-class heavy cruiser and two

second-class cruisers. The Repulse has never been in action, the men told me. The closest was off Norway when three German planes dropped 18 bombs, some pretty close, but

"the Repulse

didn’t fire a shot. “We didn’t fire at their ap- : proach,” one Cecil ‘Brown officer told me, “because we were expecting English planes. Afterwards the Jerries flew away too fast.”

This ship has traveled 53,000

years of the war and has, never been in action, and all the men are extremely keen for something

to happen. 8

‘Shoot to Sink’

ernoon and then came up to the ‘wardroom about 3:30 for tea. It is a strange feeling, realizing that you are soon to be in action. There is no way of avoiding it and no particular way for me to: ..get ready for it. Writing last letters seems futile. If we have been spotted, the expectation ‘is the destroyer or cruiser attack will come at dusk. Certainly tomorrow ought to be full of action.

PANIC GOVERNED BY PSYCHOLOGY

Science Says Fireproofing Alone Insufficient to Eliminate Disasters.

‘By Science Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. —Com-

clubs to avoid repetitions of the Boston and St. Johns fires and panics need fo consider psychological preparations as well as

fireproofing. Men and women -may be killed in panics even when the actual ] But, if panic ‘can be avoided, they can be gotten out of a crowded hall even though the danger is serious. ° Here are some of the mental conditions gi to produce panic, as ouilined Dr. Edwin R. Guthrie, chnogie of he versity of been working on Eo problems here.

People Follow Crowd

1. When excited, men and women want to do something and do it immediately—in a hurry. 2. If they do not know what they should do and’ have formed no habits, as through. fire drills, they are most likely to follow the crowd. If many are pushing toward ‘one exit, others will join the jam ‘even though if is futile.

to think clearly. They use the door by which they came in or by which they usually go out. They do not

getting out., Guard Air Raid Panic 4 There are some states

he nEavels, laos

‘have been panicked at the sight

Special = precautions should be against panics public

“Oh, but they are Japanese.

There’s

miles in the two and one-half

I.SLEPT for an hour this aft-

munities tightening up on night]

look around for another means of}

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A notice has just been posted:

dawn tomorrow are to be at action stations’ and are to wear clothing’ to resist burns ' from flashes of exploding bombs and shells.” Admiral Tom Phillips, as com-mander-in-chief, just sent this message to the Repulse and to the four destroyers: “The enemy. has made several landings on the north coast of Malaya and has made local progress. Our army is hot large and it is hard-pressed in places. Our air forces have had to destroy or abandon one or more airfields. “Meanwhile, fast transports lie off the coast. This is our opportunity before: the enemy can establish himself, We have made a wide circuit to avoid air reconnaissance and hope to surprise the. enemy shortly . after sunrise tomorrow, Wednesday. We may have the luck to try our mettle against some Japanese cruisers or some destroyers. in. the Gulf of Siam. We are sure to get some useful practice with high-angle armament, but whatever we meet I want to finish quickly and so get well clear to the eastward be-

- fore the Japanese can mass too

formidable a scale of air attack against us. So, shoot to sink.”

® ” ” Jap Plape Sighted I WAS UP on the fiag deck at 5:20 this afternoon. For the first time there is a break in the thick, black clouds. Far off in the distance—about . four or five miles away, just a speck in the sky—

an aircraft was sighted. The . word came from a spotter in the

defense control tower in the aft-er-mast. The word ran through the ship like fire. I watched the aircraft circling, hardly moving.

Sigma Phi Plans Christmas Dance

One of the major social events of the Christmas holidays will be a benefit dance sponsored by the Sigma Phi sorority at the Lincoln hotel

-Dec. 26.

Proceeds from the dance will go to the United

Service Organ-

ization to help support the canteens for

Vaughn is gen- Mrs. Vaughn eral chairman for the affair. Members of her committee are Misses Frieda Brimberry, Judy Poehlein, Jean Austin and Mesdames Elvert Phillips, Norbert Keller and Bernard James."

LAUTER BOYS’ CLUB REPAIRS OLD TOYS

About 150 repaired and painted -| toys will be "given to members of the Lauter Memorial Boys’ club at a meeting at 7:30 p. m. today in the club room at 1309 W. Market st. St Sixty boys in the club's wood shop have worked three nights a week since Nov. 9 repairing the toys under the direction of Kenneth ‘Decker. The wood shop was equipped by the Kiwanis club.

Crews hop to their stations, eager to get going. . . . Everyone is very brisk and eager-eyed. :

“Its: 5 Jap, all right.” a lieutenant said as he was thumbing through a book of silhouettes of Japanese aircraft. “That means we have been reported to the enemy.” ; I saw a number of the gunners and other men rubbing their heads and doing clog steps all over the deck. The signal deck yeoman snorted: “Look at them

—all this fuss over one aircraft!”. |

The Prince of Wales has just sent us a signal that a formation: of aircraft has been reported. All gun crews hop to their stations, eager to get going. Everyone is very brisk and eager-eyed. That reconnaissance aircraft is still four or five miles away and staying well out of range: What a break that is! Just a few minutes ago there was the first gap in the overcast sky in the entire day and as luck would have it we had to be spotted just at that moment. ; The lieutenant commander came by on she flag deck and said to me: “I'm afraid he has. spotted us and he may go awsy' before we’ can get a crack ab, him.” FOALS NRA TY 2 2 | The general opinion of the flag deck is that the reconnaissance aircraft is a Nakajima Naka 93. seaplane.

HOLIDAY-BOUND

JAM TERMINALS,

Nation’s Trains, rains, Planes Overtaxed; Reservations Break Records.

By UNITED PRESS Holiday-bound service men’

dations. Sl Record crowds, ‘apparently disre=

Busses;

and| § civilians took every available seat on} trains, : busses and planes today! leaving other thousands to bel {turned away for lack of accor. mo-|{

I have just been fold that in addition to the battleship Kongo.

and the three- cruisers and a . .

number - of . destroyers there are. many. troopships with the warships. Someone ‘said that there

are about! 30. Evidently British

- reconnaissance has spotted them. La ow 3

Gun Crews Ready

DENBY said: “The admiral has layed up here in order to get at “the Kongo. There would be a good moral effect to sinking her.” One of our destroyers is going back tonight. It’s the Tenedos, an antiquated thing, which is running out of oil. «

17:58 (5:58 p. m.)—Captain Ten-

nant piped over the loud speaker: “We are now being shadowed by enemy aircraft. We are going to revert to’ third-degree readiness,

but we must be prepared to repel

aircraft at a momen’t notice.” The gun crews are standing:

. down now.

18:30 .¢(6;30 p. m)—We are at dinner’ listéning ‘to the BBC. Heavy:

tack was made an Singapore: The Japs have entered Bangkok. For dinner we had hot seup, cold beef,sham, meat pie, oranges, Rs and coffee We all talked about- the good: luck or bad luck—

* depending’ on_how you looked at ‘it—of being spotted: by: the Jap-

anese reconnaissance aircraft at.

the only time during.the day there

was a break in the clouds and the

fact that if we had avoided being

spotted another 40 minutes the ‘darkness. of sunset would ' have protected us. One of the lieutenants saw it differently. :

“It's what we came up here for,” he said; “to get into a good fight.” Well, there was another fight on board the Repulse. A red-bearded, young New Zealander fleet airarm pilot just came into the wardroom swearing. ; “Dammit! Some blighter blacked the right eye of my gunner—the - eye he shoots with.” Everybody laughed. But. to this peppery ‘New Zealander 5 was + any. Sg funny,

fighting is going on in Malaya.isa:N

The fighting is still. confused, but: BBC says reinforéements should reach there during ‘the day.

. BBC says there is no truth in °

"the: Japanese reporis that an at-

Dance Chairman

garding pleas of the office of defense 4

transportation, poured through the|

nation’s important. railroad . terminals - where trains were. running hours late. All standing room was gone and platforms were filled with disappointed passengers. Air reservations were sold out] through the holiday season and one air line, reporting the heaviest back-

log -of reservations in years, said}.

requests for reservations exceeded | “three or four times our capacity.”

of LOCAL MAN: HELD BY JAPS Maj, Ralph E. Rumbold, ‘husband

of Mrs. ‘R. E. Rumbold, 618 E, 34th|"

st, was listed today by the war department as one of 141 U., S. anuy officers held prisoner by the

Jupanese in the Philippine islands,

FUNNY Bess

.3. When excited, it is impossible] BN

in such an anxious or jittery state] of mind might panic at the sight|. of a mouse. Exhausted soldiers|

un Be ‘vecause| 77%

LeRoy Cummings =

aK. of C. to-Hold Annual Ball; Next Monday; Children’ 8 Party ‘Held.

LeRoy Cummings is chairman of the ‘annual : Knights of Columbus Christmas ball to. be held next ‘Monday night, in the K. of C. “andi torium. ° Si Indianapolis council 437 held te annual. children’s Christmas party yesterday’ in’- the auditorium.. A fedture of the party. was the formal ‘opening of the 1ife-size crib on the fawn of the Knights of Columbus home, 1305. N. Delaware , st., -and

| Christmas | carols by the. St. Agnes

academy’ glee club. ‘The | Sunday service men’s dance was held under .the auspices, of the National

; Catholic’ Community service: in the

auditorium. 33

The : Christmas party for mem-

[bers will be held tonight in the

: ment as a gift 'of the employees of

council chamber. At 7:30 p.: mi; tomorrow the St. John’s academy glee club will sing carols. The St. Mary's acadéasy glee club is scheduled to sing at the crib at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday. .

several ping pong tables and equip-

" {annual rate of consumption.

“fighter run for Sin

(Copyright, 1942, by: Random. House, c., distributed by United Feature Syn-

. dicater~Inec.)

WHISKY AMPLE FOR HOLIDAYS

Dwindling Stocks Certain To Bring Curtailment Later,’ However.

‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (U. P). —There will be plenty of whisky

{for Christmas cheer, new year toasts {land post-holiday tippling but

dwindling stocks will: change Americans’ drinking - habits before the

2 | war ends.

Total whisky supply in the

i hand? of distillers is about 490,

000,000 gallons or enough for a three-year period at-.the average That does not mean: that the entire stocks will be made availble to con= sumers before 1946 it the war 5 ‘still on. Many states that control the sale of liquor already have begun ra= tioning, Others are expected to follow. Distillers are restricting deliveries. to wholesalers and thus abbreviated supplies face retailers and consumers. * Trade | authorities explained that distillers are eager to maintain some distribution of whisky, how= ever small, throughout the war to safeguard against the recurrence of bootlegging, hi-jacking and other evils, | X $ The united nations’ campaign in North Africa has placed new and heavier drains on. supplies of in

whatever hopes existed in the industry that distillery ‘production could again be turned back to bev ‘erage Spirits.

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