Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1942 — Page 13

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“i= They “tied about 200 feet of heavy rope, for escape in . case the ship was hit. The enlisted men on lookout

left but gis at fahcy prices. {1 carloads short, and that means 20,000 tres.

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troops. One sold cigarets, chocolates and so forth; the!

wrth THE AMERICAN: FORCES IN ALGERIA. — e ship on which we sailed from England to North ica had two funnels, or smokestacks. The forward ‘one was a dummy—empty inside. : 5 About, three feet from its top a steel platform had 3 . sheen built. You reached it by climbing a steel ladder. - The army "kept a lieutenant and three enlisted men up there all the time, on lookout with binoculars for it was indeed a grandstand seat. I used fo go up every afternoon and sit with the lookouts. The sun was bright, the funnel sides cut off the wind, they had deck chdirs, ‘and it was’really like a few square feet of Miami Beach. Lieut. Winfield Channing, who Ce had charge of an anti-aircraft attery, usually had the afternoon watch up there, ‘and we’d chat for hours about his job before the war, and of our chances for the future, and of what we'd do: t was over. d an empty barrel up here, to which was

had. made bets among themselves: as to which side of the ship the first torpedo would hit. Fortunately,

nobody collected. We called our little post “The Funnel Club.”

“Didn't Know His Gu Was Loaded

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_ AMERICAN GUNNERS MANNED all the ship’s guns, ‘but they never had to fire a serious shot. On’ our “first ‘morning ‘out, all the ships in the convoy tested their guns, and it was a vivid and noisy display of shooting all over the place for a while.

Once under way, two canteens were opened for the

f Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

GEORGE A. KUHN, of Klein & Kuhn, drove up to his regular filling station on the North side the other day and told a new attendant—a mere youth— to put in four gallons. The lad did, then asked for

‘said: “That'll be four coupons.” “Oh no it won't; one coupon is good for four gallons,” said Mr. Kuhn. “My gosh,” ejaculated the startled youth. “I've been taking out’ one coupon for each gallon for' the last two ‘days. Oh’ gosh, . what'll. I do?” Mr. Kuhn didn’ "know. , . . The Christmas. tree situation seems to be pretty terrific this . year. Several places where they had been selling trees were closed Sunday —all out of trees. Others had .nothing much “The trouble,” one “js that this town’s about 10 Figure

salesman remarked,

it out for ‘yourself. »

g Detective Work

LEO TRAUGOTT, presidéht of the Fair store, is

: pretty sure, now, that his son, Harry, ‘is with the army “in Africa. ‘Harry had been “somewhere in England.”

Then Mr. Traugott got a letter from him which didn’t

i . say where he was. But in the letter was a question

i. which Mr. Traugott decided might be a clue: ¥ you been reading. Ernie Pyle?” ‘Mr. Traugott. called .

“Have

The Times to learn where Ernie was on Dec. 1, the

4 . arrived in Africa. , .

date of Harry's letter. Sure enough—Ernie had just . Bill Book, C. of C. executive

‘Vice president, was seen trai down Meridian st.

: Savurday with two young ladies on each arm. They

ed to have been Christmas shopping. Bashful

8 3ill kept his head down but still was recognized by

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Washington.

‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.~It was a Spectacular thing that President Roosevelt could write a note to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and have it delivered in facsimile at “Chungking within an hour or so. The ‘ghief delay ‘resulisd from the president's

pelling, which was discovered and had to be corrected just before

...the machine began. hurling the .

“ reproduction of the president’s note halfway around the world. ; That kind of communication— if we don't trip ourselves by bad spelling — will facilitate relations between nations. Yet it is not as spectacular and not as important as the facilities which are already being used to bring the heads of | allied governments into closer contact with each other. ‘One of the best stories going around Washington now relates to a conversation on post-war questions which President Roosevelt is supposed to have had with the generalissimo in Chungking. Telephone conversation by the White House with No. 10 Downing st. and with Moscow is as simple as telephone conversation around Washington,

Peace Envoys Can Move Fast * THE AIRPLANE is making personal contacts much

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“easier, Prime Minister Churchill commutes to Washington and Moscow. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov

has been in London and Washington. You can cross the otean and back between: week-ends Of course, there are a: ‘great many differences petween this war and thé last one, and ‘likewise there . will be many differences in working out the peace, Hui of the. mas; important differences this

fy Day.

: PARK, Monday. —Some friends who stayed with § not long ago, read me an account written-to them by a young boy who belongs to our paratroops. ‘They took him home one day when they found him | lonely and at loose ends at a U. S. O. club near their home, and ever since he has written them from time to time. ;

In ‘the plane, as we rise from the

*had to stand in line for three hours.

: among the troops went up noticeably after we sailed,

‘the Curtiss-Wright plant. {A Very Short Trip the coupon book (he should have had it first) and

‘Big’ Four in particular. ‘He was supposed to be in . Chicago ‘yesterday for an important conference, and

start and he got out and tried to push it. He slipped

plane and there they were, in no time at all.

By Ernie Pyle

other, called a ‘“wet canteen,” sold hot tea. There was a constant long queue at each one. Soldiers often

My special hangout down below was in a section where I ran onto a bunch of soldiers from New Mexico. One of them was Sergt. Cheedle Caviness, a nephew of Senator Hatch. Cheedle has grown a blond mustache and goatee, and looks like a duke. There was no trouble at all among the troops during the voyage. But we did have a couple of small “incidents” in the officers’ section of the ship. One officer, monkeying with his revolver in his cabin, “didn’t know it was loaded” and shot a nice hole through the wardrobe, thoughtfully missing his cabin mates. Another officer was arrested for taking pictures of the convoy out of his porthole.

News Broadcasts Piped Over Ship.

NO MOVIES WERE SHOWN during the trip. The troop .commander issued orders that electric razors

were not to be used, for fear the enemy could pick up our position. from the current, but we found out later wasn't necessary. We got radio mews broadcasts twice a day from BBC. It ‘was rumored they would be discontinued after we were a couple of days at sea, but they weren't. They were piped over the ship by loud speakers so the troops could hear the news. © Chaplains aboard ship said that church attendance

and continued to rise as we approached submarine waters. For many of us the trip was a grand rest. Toward the end some of us even hated to have it over—you felt the sad sense of parting from new friends and of returning to old foils, and you were reluctant. . But the war doesn’t. ‘humor such whims."

quite a few friends. . . . Robert Loring, the former deputy. secretary of state, now is an accountant at

BERNARD MULCAHY, research engineer for the| ‘gas company, is mad at railroads in general and the

planned to take the 1:10 a. m. Big Four. Sunday evening he went to Union station and retired for the night aboard the Chicago pullman. Came the dawn and he arose and dressed. Then he looked out the window and discovered he still was right here in Indianapolis. The Big Four for Chicago had failed to leave Cincinnati. ‘He had to wire his regrets to the conferees. .- Tom Rhoades, of the News, is crippling around on crutches. Seems his car wouldn’t

and fell, straining a tendon in his knee. A Willing Sacrifice : BENJAMIN STERLING DENNY, a junior engineer employed by the light company, submitted an entry in ‘the’ national RCA-Victor records slogan contest in November. He forgot all about it until Saturday when he was notified he’ had won first place — $50 worth of repords. Asked. what -the slogan was, he admitted he couldn't remember. . . . A visitor at the Christmas clearing house remarked about the “fine spirit of self-sacrifice” shown by the ‘volunteer workers there. “Humph!” remarked one of the volun-

teers. “Not .much sacrifice. It's better than. staying

home and shivering in a house heated’ ‘only to 65 degrees—to save oil. At least we're warm up: here.” . + «. The citizens school committee is planning an evening meeting for some time next month as a sort of get-together for the new and: old school boards, with {the public invited. It probably will be in Caleb Mills: hall. .

: Jo Raymond Clapper

time is this facility of contact among the leaders of the united nations. The men who are running this war and who will make the peace can talk face to face and between time can converse by telephone. When peace: comes it will be possible for statesmen of the allied countries to move about with even greater speed than is possible under war conditions. When the Willkie party returned from -the trip around the world, one of the members was so impressed with the ease of moving about by airplane that he suggested it would be a simple matter for President Roosevelt, Stalin and the generalissimo to hold a good-will meeting in Alaska. ii 8)

Possibilities of Plane Dramatized

THAT SUGGESTION is not likely to bear fruit any time soon, but it does dramatize what is possible with (the airplane. When some sour situations arose in North ‘Africa “the other day, we packed a few officials aboard a

+ When we ran dan rously low on certain strategic materials, ‘the army t cargo planes into service and brought the supplies from the other side of the world within a few days. | We are all acutely: conscious of how ‘much this means in the conduct of the war. But I think we can scarcely imagine as yet how important it will ‘be in the management of the peace, which is going to require fast footwark. » In the office of one official the other day I noted, a quotation from Woodrow Wilson, who told the senate in 1917 that “there must be, not a balance ‘of ‘power but a community of power; not organized rivalries but an organized common peace.” : The airplane and the long-distance telephone bring that sort of thing in Closer yeath than % has ever:

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that Tve eaten a swarm of butterflies to find out for sure, When the time comes to get into the plane, we check our reserve chutes to see that the rip-cord isn’t fouled, make sure that our rifle is fastened, fel our helmets on good and tight, so t one of ° ute opens, and climb in. By this time most of ne butterflies have turned to canaries. | ;

“| echoed briefly through the ship. | The men Were ordered to return to

nnector links won't bat us behind the ear when| the

egy. Singapore, not 11. “Bloody fools!” another

“They have rather good

“Those Japs can’t fly,” one of the officers said. can’t see at night and they’re not well trained.”

XIV—Without Fighter Protection

WE SAT around in the wardroom.> There must have ‘been 12 or 15 officers discussing the news. : “Those Japs are bloody fools,” one of them said. these pin-pricks at widely separated points is stupid stratThe Japs should have sent over 300 planes over

“all ;

snorted. “Th ey

ships,” one of the officers re-

marked, “but they can’t shoot.”

We were all pretty tired.’

ing about what might happen tomorrow.

Some of the men were talkOthers drifted

out of the wardroom and I went over to a table ana wrote

a “last letter” to my ‘wife in" case anything happened. It seemed like a kind of silly thing to do.

Our speed has been increased to 26 knots. Lieut. Halton came into the wardroom and I asked him if we could expect anything. “We won't bipers have any fighter _. protection, will we?” “No, it would be good if we had an aircraft carrier.” We are now speeding northward to the fight, to engage the enemy, now " : that they have Cecil Brown spotted us.. The idea ‘is to get it over as quickly as possible. We expect to encounter one Japanese battleship, possibly one other battleship, three heavy cruisers, and an undetermined. number of destroyers and perhaps as many as 30 troopships filled with troops. That is the talk I get from the officers, The danger appears to be that this Japanese task force has come down from Saigon in Indo-China for Kota Bahru, and" we are going to try to intercept it and sink it. ’ ; A fleet air-arm pilot will be sent up in his Walrus when the action starts. The other. pilot expects to go up in the course of the morning. Neither seems very greatly worried where he will have to land. I asked them about that and ‘they said:'“Oh, we will come down when we exhaust our four - hours” supply of fuel: 8 nn...» NOW THAT ACTION fis near, all; the men are alert to" hear:all the commands over the loud

COOLIDGE LOSS LIKE A MOVIE

Orderly Evacuation Credited With: Low Death List’ -On Transport.

By CHARLES P. ARNOT ©: United Press Staff Correspondent U. S. BASE IN SOUTH PACIFIC, Dec. 14 (delayed).—Army officers said today that systematic, orderly evacuation resulted in saving: all but four men when the transport President Coolidge struck a mine and sank in the South Pacific. It was estimated that 60 per.cent of the approximately 4000 survivors took to the water, while others managed . to board lifeboats. and rafts. The transport was approaching a harbor when it struck the ‘mine. (The sinking was announced in Washington, Dec. 12.) “It was just like a movie scene of a sinking,” said Capt. Fred L. Smith, 29, Barre, Vt., “except that there was:not as much confusion.

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life.jacketed swimmers.” Ship Lists Heavily

Breakfast had just been finished when the mine exploded amidships on the port side, Capt. Smith said. Here is his story of what followed: The Coolidge a few feet from the water. Men were’ thrown off their feet’ in ‘the- dining; salon. Le Cries of ‘we've been. torpedoed, we've been shelled, we've been hit”

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their quarters and the _momentary| tension subsided. In 10 nutes all ‘had - aéachell] their " q ers and the ‘crew. was manning lifeboats. Twenty minutes | after the ‘explosion the bridge or- = dered evacuation of the ship, which' was listing heavily “to port. ;

Hunan f Chain ‘Saves 3

Himself a veteran of the last world

speaker, I am extremely tired and sleepy after very little sleep for the last two nights. I wish somehow I would have a great deal of energy for the action toMorrow. 21:05 (9:05 p. m.)—We're “thing in the wardroom again and the voice on the loudspeaker has just said; “Stand by for Captain to speak to you.” In an instant Capt. Tennant’s cool, even voice came through. “A signal has just been received from thes commander-in-chief who very much regrets to announce having ‘to abandon the operation. We were shadowed by .three planes. = We were spotted after dodging them all day. Their troop convoy will now have dispersed. It would be very obvious that if we continued, enemy air

. concentration would be awaiting

us and it would be unwise to continue. “I know that you all share with us the disappointment in not en- . gaging the enemy at this time, but I, am sure that you will agree with the C-in-C’s judgment. We are, therefore, - going back to Singapore.” 3 In the wardroom there were cries and groans of disappointment and even bitterness. I immediately dashed out of the wardroom into the quarters of the ratings to check their reactions. I went into one sailors’ mess and the men were sitting around the long tables. Some of the men had tears in their eyes—iwo and a half .years in the war and never a chance to engage an enemy. ” ; » : » 3

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* “An Unlucky Ship"

“HOW * DO- you fellows. - feel about that?”

The remarks I got were: “This

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Bombs are shown here bein: loaded into a Walrus seaplane, such as was to be sent up against the . Japs—one of two planes which were to engage the enemy in the Repulse’s excursion inte the China sea. But when the commander Icarned that the Japanese were preparing a concentration of air strength

against the British task fleet, he shyme,”

mourned members of the Repulse crew.

ordered the

nglish ships to turn back fo Singapore. . ; . “A bievay

always happens to the Repulse.’ “It’s a bloody shyme. y “Damned disappointing, we were all keyed up for it.” “We're just an unlucky ship.” Back in the wardroom I stood in the doorway surveying the long faces of the officers sitting in chairs and on divans in front of the fireplace and on the railing around the edge of the fireplace in utter dejection. Comm. Denby was almost ab = loss for words, and the disappointment on his face was pitiful. I was almost like that of a child denied a promised bag of candy. “What do you think of it, Commander?” I asked. “Damned disappointing,” kh said. “But, after all, there is nothing else to do without fighter protection.” “I just talked with some of the men,” I said. “They seem prett; sore.” “They won't be sore at not committing suicide.” “Do you think it’ would be suicide to go on?” I asked.

“If we went on we would. hav. .

- +o" “find ~their ships "first." search . ndreds of miles at > without 8ircraft “ds a life work and while this is going on we would be bombed continuously.’

Then his control Safived. “What a shame! What a shame!” Commander Denby and. I found a place on a divan and I asked him to explain the type of operation we expected to encounter, and what we might do now. “The essential element of this

tip-and-run raid is surprise, and °

we_ lost . that when that fellow’ spotted us this afternoon.’ It amounts to this: We are up against the whole of the Japanese air force with no aircraft protection and no destroyer screen. Well, maybe not the whole Jap force, but at least 50 per cent of .it.” I slipped up at that moment in not asking what he meant by “no destroyer screen” because we did have four destroyers with us, not much good, but at least destroyers, and one of them. was scheduled to be sent back to Singapore that night... Denby added, : “We don’t know the extent or nafure of the Jap air force .or ‘what ‘we would run’ into. Tt isn’t worth risking two capital ships under the strategie.)

officer, § 8 ‘handbe nglishman called said to me: “How do you Teel turnifg, od

Russian Beekeeper Donates Airplane 'For Stalingrad

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

MC W, Dec. 22.—Somewhere over a battle town on the southern front is @ fighter plane inscribed: “Present for Stalingrad from Ferpont Golovaty.” Golovaty, according to accounts, seems to be a remarkable character. He is 53, with two sons and three sons-in-law ‘in. the army.

war, subsequent fo the ‘Tsaritsin fighting, he was a beekeeper for a collective farm in the Saratovsk region on the Volga, northeast of the beleaguered city. : At a farm meeting which was called to raise money for arma-

ments,. Golotavy astounded hi neighbors by asking: “How much does an airplan cost?” The chairman explained patient

2 Some cost 100,000, others 170,00 rubles.” “I'll take one for 100,000,” sai Golovaty. Beekeeper Golovaty was subse quently permitted to visit the factory and choose his own’ planc from the assembly line and he eve: received a letter of thanks fron Stalin. But the story is incomplei: without the ‘awed comment of = neighbor: “Wha#’ll your wife say!” : It’s duly recorded that Golovaty

LONDON, Dec. 22 (U. P)—

The water was almost black with|-

explosion seemed. to lift the|

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Yanks' Greeting Gets British O. K.

British girls who dish out téa and “cakes in the navy and army air force institute’s canteens were officially assured today that there was no reason to blush and retreat. when an American serviceman shouts, “Hi, ya, babe!” 1 “To them it will be merely a normal conversation opening, Just. as we might say, ‘Lovely day, isn't. it,” a booklet issued by the ine ' Stitite to the" Eas explained.

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By GEORGE WELLER

C ight, 1942, The Indiadapolis es oan Daly Nee he

WITH AMERICAN FORCES IN

889,000 ENROLLED

wife, Mdria, agreed.

IN SUPPLY SERVICE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (U. P.) - Undersecretary . of War Robert P Patterson disclosed today that thc army services of: supply now emplo! 889,963 civilians. oH

This ununiformed army, con

|stituting the bulk of the w= | department's 1,000, 000-plus civilian

employes, is required because «

this country’s position as supplie of allied as well as Ameriea:

‘armed forces, Patterson said.

Comes the rain, pattertin CTOs: the wild Tubber trees and pierein:

among the pandans, louder and

louder. Then it falls upon the Toalky. gras: | The. Tain “down upon your mosquito ne ‘enters the trough of the canve.

per cent in grand. totals, including

ROLLS DROP IN

667 COLLEGES,

Law Setiools: and’ Graduate Schools of Art Hardest

» Hit, Survey Shows.

‘CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 22 (U. P.). ~Dr. Raymond Walter, president )f the University of Cincinnati, yesierday reported sharp declines in full-time student attendance in 667] 1pproved American colleges ; and universities during 1942 with “war’s levy” hitting university law schools and graduate schools of arts and sciences the hardest. ; Declines of approximately 9.5 per ent in full-time students and 13.9

part-time and ‘summer session at‘tendance, ‘were noted ‘in Dr. Wale ers’ 24th annual’ enrollment survey ‘for School and Society, educational weekly. The 667 institutions ‘had’ 746.928 full-time students and a grand total|$ of 1,075,849 as of Nov..1, Dr. Wal-| ters reported. :

Freshman ‘enrollments were down pu

1.7" per. cent but freshman enroll~ ments during the fall in technological institutions ‘were “up 92 per cent. A drop of 225 per. cent in attend« ance at 78 teacher colleges was reported. Law schools in: 8 univer= sities declined 513 ‘per cent: “an sraduaie schools 289. per gent,

aud floor, your - hand: comes ‘upon:

“Relieyed—and disappointed.” “Well, that’s a frank ansver,s he laughed. One officer called over to Gal i lagher, who was faking notes as I was, and said: “Do you think you have a story out of this?” "- “Not a thing,” Gallagher said. “Can’t write. a story on this stuff. We've just been getting back= ground.” Gallagher has a pair of cover= alls to wear tomorrow to protect hjs arms and legs from burns and shells, but I have nothing to put over my shorts and bush jacket which has short sleeves. . The senior engineer says he has a pair of cover-alls to loan me, Gallagher and I went into his . cabin and he has a recording machine he made himself. , An entertainer, Ann Denise, came aboard the Repulse at Durban, South Africa, to sing for the sailors, and the engineer re= -.eorded her songs. He played some of them’ for us. Double-entendre X

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Shoeshine Stand Is Work of Art

NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (U. PJ)’ Joe Milone’s shoeshine stand took its place in the museum of mode ern art today beside some of the finest. modern paintings in the world. Milone, a part-time boot= black ‘ard pants presser, consid “ers it “the most beautiful shoeshine stand in the world.” | Of four pieces, in red, white and blue motif, it is decorated with bicycle reflectors, sleigh bells, brass cupids and bedpost knobs. President Roosevelt is the anly

customer ‘Milone would, consider letting use it. :

18 FINISH PURDUE ‘WAR TRAINING HERE

Certificates have been ‘awarded by Purdue university to 18 men and/ ‘women who have completed a war training ‘course in precision instrue ‘| ments: ‘and machine industry taught ‘here under’ the auspices of “the hool-and the U. ‘8S. office of edus

~The ‘class’ inclided Paul Kahn, ) Sparks, Wayne Miller, ( Beck," John. Reed, . Edward Ostling, - Andrew Meyer, Aline Strange, Mason Miller, Catherine Jackson, Howard - Stech, ‘Marshall | Penley, Harold Harris, Luese Causey,’ ‘Reece’ Cooper, ‘Carl Pflueger Jr. and Claude Davidson al of Ine. ‘dianapolis.

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