Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1942 — Page 11

N, Aisi (By Wireless) —If you want a touch e in your North African: stories, here’s a

cre that he rides about ‘the country. <The other ‘day he was riding to “Arzew, about 20 miles away. He passed a monstrous-looking lizard lying on’ the pavement, so ‘he stopped and went back, : The ‘lizard’ was about a foot long, plus six inches of tail. The thing kept changing ‘color. Its eyes could move separately, ‘and in any direction. It was an ‘evillooking customer indeed. ‘Nat poked it gingerly with his shoe, - but it didn’t attack him. Then he poked it with his gloved S38] and still it didn’t try to bite. Then he stuck His hand-in front of its nose, and the lizard crawled pon the glove, just as though 'it had been waiting:

a casant Dinner Companion ) NAT HELD real still and the lizard continued i wl—up his arm, over his shoulder, up the back 0 his neck and clear to the top. of his head. There: it set-of curled up, resting on the top of his cap and king forward snakelike over his brow. Nat, crowned L this dragon, got back on his motorcycle and rode

lew. ; : ked the -moforcycle and walked ‘down the

CB. Ernie Pyle

street. He Kepes Fanaitig into soldiers he knew. They would start to salute, and right in the ‘middle of the salute their mouths. would fly open and they would gurgle out: - “7° “Lieutenant, for God’s sake don’t!” Nat had dinner with the lizard stili poised comfortably on top of -his head, spent a pléasant hour walking around the town: and’ startling his friends, then got back on the motorcycle and rode back almost to Oran.

Finally he :stopped at a field hospital where he} knew some of the doctors. He left his friend there

for them to experiment with. .

It May Be a Camel Next Time ALTOGETHER . THE LIZARD spent about ‘three hours and- ‘rode about 30 miles on. top of Nat’s head. The army is thinking of transferring Lieut. Kenney to Iceland for fear hell come riding to town next with a camel on his handlebars. A local French newspaper had a small piece from America recently saying—if I read it correctly—that the maximum age for induction into the U. S. army had been lowered from 45 to 37. That’s good news to us old duffers who fled America to escape the draft,

‘but they might have decided it a little sooner.

The -next time I have dinner with Gen. Eisenhower (what next time?) I'll have to speak to him about this business and tell him to get busy. I'd kind of ‘like to sport a few stripes myself. I'm due for a six-months foreign stripe already, and although I haven't been: wounded ‘and don’t expect to -be, they might give me. a stripe for being awfully tired,

side hs ‘By Lowell Nussbaum

GENERAL TYNDALL may rate as “some punk-

Moore, happens to be mayor of Brendonwood, while another, G. E. Hines, is mayor of Ulen,. a’ small community near the Ulen country club at Lebanon, ... «» One of our agents reports he was. over at Martinsville the other day and noticed that everyone was com-’ plying with the governmental request for no electrically lighted outdoor Christmas displays — everyone, that is, except the government’s own postoffice. . , . Signs oy of the times: A sign in-a pawn Ww. Washington st. advertises, “Prices” all -

‘Two. MEN, ‘both apparently din their late 20's and both somewhat tanked, sat in the same seat of a" Central trackless trolley Saturday’ night. Other : ngers could tell there was an argument going asionally they would hear one of the men— prt; heavy one—tell the other to “shuddup.”

and: 2 wate the fight. After a few blows had been : .everybody piled back on the trolley—everys:: body, that is, except the ‘taller of the two arguers. : “on: foot. . Pfc. Raymond E. Shannon; now: with. thes marines, has written his .

old associates at Indiana ‘Bell wishing them a Beppy New: Year,

Oh, Wotte Life!

THE ENTIRE December issue of the Indiana university. alumni magazine is given over. to raising cain’ with: Life magazine. Life, in its Nov. 23 issue, ;-had a féature on student life on the I. U. campus, In the alumni magazine, “an open letter to Henry R. Luce, editor of Life magazine,” charges that Life's photographer - got students to pose for photos to illustrate the “do's” and the ‘“don’ts” established by campus. tradition. But, asserts the alumni publication, Life: published only the “don’t” pictures, “insihuating” that “Indiana university students do not: know that a war is going on.” And so page after page is devoted to stories and pictures of the thousands of alumni and undergraduatés in the armed forces, and of the training on the campus by the R. O. T. C.,

womens’ auxiliary training corps, naval yeomen and |

WAVES. Altogether, it's a pretty good showing for 1. U. Take‘that, Life! . .

‘Just. Hitchhiking

THREE DIGNIFIED civic leaders, caught out at Riley ‘hospital Monday afternoon without a taxicab in sight, unbent enough to try the modern means of transportation. They stood on a corner and thumbed passing cars until one stoppéd. and gave them a ride to. town. Chief ‘hitchhiker (because he had the biggest thumb)’ was Hugh McK. Landon, vice chairman of the. board of the Fletcher Trust Co. Waggling lesser thumbs: were Joseph J. Daniels, lawyer ‘and ‘11th dis-

5 trict’ 'G. O. P. chairman, and William H. Book, chamber ‘'0of commerce executive vice president, . . , Looks.

like ‘the street railway has finally decided fo do something about the smoking on streetcars and busses. They've installed some fresh, punchy signs requesting: s“Be. Considerate—Do. Not Smoke,” >

by Rend Clr

The: ricét’ important thing that the axis ‘could

XXI-—Death On the Life Raft

1 KNOW THAT I SHOULD. somehow try to get rid of

"some of my clothes.

The oil makes their weight feel like

tons. Tears are pouring out of my eyes from the oil, and I sense tiny salty rivulets running down my oil-covered

face. That oil! debris, around the men.

It coagulates around each body, around the One officer in the water shouts,

“Spread out a bit, men, and let’s get out of this oil.” Some of the men-do it; others are reluctant to get away from pieces of wood. Others depend on absorbing some strength

from men around them. Not only miserable but drowning men love company. One officer swims by me and says, “Let's make for that raft.” I shake my head no, and he swims on. About 10 yards from me I see twa youngsters—ihey musk be about 18 — i: 3 laughing and | joking, and I hear one say, “I'll race you to Singapore.” We ‘are 50 miles from shore and :

of the city those youngsters are talking “about. es sh 2 ie Cecil Brown that brings me near the Carley float. The Carley contraptions are rafts, 15 feet long, 10 feet wide, and bounded on all sides by a foot-high bulge. Extending around the bulge. is--a- ope on which men can grab hold. The raft toward which the tide carries me is jammed. There are men. inside, men sitting solid on the bulge at the edge, and every handhold on the rope is oecupied. Obviously there is no room for-me, so I make no effort whatsoever, letting the tide carry me where it wants. It carries me to that raft. A royal marine sitting on the edge calls to. me when I am 10 feet away, “Just a bit more, just ‘a bit more.” I don’t answer, just look’ at him ‘across that 10-foot chasm. 3 2 8 ”

Can’t Bridge Gap .

GRADUALLY I DRAW nearer. He extends his hand as far as he can and I stretch out my hand. For five minutes our

hands are three inches apart, but-I don’t have the energy to bridge that tiny gap. Once again

6 ON U. 3. SUB

"ly to get a hand hold on it.

the tide does it for me. Our: hands meet, clasp and I'm yanked toward the raft, leaving the small table which thus far has saved my life. ; The 20-year-old marine, Morris

Graney, pushes one of the men

sitting on the bulge back inside -- the raft, on top of another man, to make way for me. Then he pulls me onto the bulge and holds me there. His first remark is: “My Lord, do you still have your camera?” “Yes.” “Are you all right?” I nod. “Can you sit here?” I say, “Yes, I am all right.” Actually I'm not, and almost fall face forward into the water.

hands—my right hand, since my lefv is rtill clenched to prevent my ring from falling off —and forces it to grasp the lifebelt of a man inside the raft. “Hang onto him,” Graney. says. I hang on. : ” " »

Destroyer Is Goal

THE RAFT TOSSES and heaves with the swell of the sea. Men are’ bobbing and swimming on all

sides’ near the raft, some trying -

to reach it; some hoping eventualWe want to reach a destroyer which is stationary about a mile or a mile and a half away. There is one paddle on board, and some one'inside, using the paddle, is calling, “Heave" ho, heave ho, heave, ho!” Graney says, “Let's all sing. y Not many voices join .'in his choice, “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling,” but the voices that do are cheerful. ..Graney wears only shorts and his - thick chest is -covered: with oil. His brown hair hangs over

his forehead and into his eyes.

I ‘think just the “sight of Grane; helps many a man. He is almosf six feet. tall, husky, almost barrel-

“A royal marine, sittin when I am 10 feet away.’ marine, 20-year-old Morris

chested. - Above a square has a slim, delicate musta:

blue, kind, shy eyes.

time the only .one definah!s tion expressed in those. ¢: amusement. Graney’s ami: as th I am deathly sick stomach, and dizzy, too, and almost fall forward, Graney

is -enough, though, tosses.

me. “You. stay right here,”

slapping me on the should¢ “Iam very tired,” I say I want to rest down there. ’ Graney .slaps- me across: face, saying,” “Now, none You stay right here with 1r “No. Those other men “I ami

on the raft,” I say.

and. I can rest better

water.” ” ”

En 5 _2:Have Just Died GRANEY'S HAND is into my arm and shoulda

mn the edge" “of the life raft, calls’ ‘to me This is Cecil Brown’s own picture of: the raney,

v he: and A the mNo= is. went raft the * cain rabs

hurts, but somehow I don’t. pro- . test. I just know it hurts: “We're watching those other men,” Graney says sharply. “They’re all right, You stay right here with us.” I twist my. head around te look inside the raft! It’s the wrong \tinte to do that. Men inside are vomiting and glassy-eyed, all -of them black with: oil. have just’ died ‘and their : bodies are being gently hustled over’the side to make room for more men. I feel a twinge of pity at the sight of ,it, but ‘it seeins an SEiAgaNY practical thing to do. ¥ Six or seven Jap bombers’ are roaring over’ again at about 5000 feet. ~-“They’re,: coming over :to-ma- : chine- -gun: “us?” some says. : ool 2 «Shut up Zthat .guff 1”. Graney if sng a ‘because we all: feel ‘bad i Ca Sri :

hie

3a, ys, and

the of hat.

Two men

“i they come over to machinegun 'us,” a voice ' suggests, “dive under the water.” : _T think to myself: “If I have to dive under the water, I'm never coming up again.” They don’t swoop down on us and. they don’t drop bombs. They just go on. It isn’t Japanase chivalry of Bushido. They're just out of bombs and ammunition. With the planes gone and heads turned from the sky to the horizon, we get the impression that the destroyer is getting farther and farther away. In fact, we see one of our destroyers steam away,

Someone calls in panie, “They're

all going.” A reply comes from somewhere inside the raft: “They'll wait for us, don’t worry.” ” ” ”

Morale Starts to- Slip . MEN HANGING onto the rope

* around the side are kicking furie ously. One man says, “I'm going -

to swim for it)” He starts out,

-but when -he is 10 yards away

he calls, “I can't make it—I'm coming back.”

eral times. As ‘the minutes go on and we seem to be getting no nearer to the destroyer, the morale on the raft begins to slip lower and lower. ‘Graney ‘is one of the first to recognize this.. “Keep kicking, keep paddling!” he shouts. “We will soon be there!” As we drew near the destroyer he said, :- “All right, now, it’s ‘Anchors Aweigh’!” And again

he starts singing. Almost every

one joins in‘then, because for the

‘first time we seem to have a

chance of rescue, Rafts and men are converging on the destroyer from all direc tions. We can already see drip= ping figures being: hauled onto the deck of the ship. Through a megaphone - an officer on the bridge is shouting something at us, but we can’t make .it out, “They want us to hurry,” cone man: ig our raft says. “Anyway,

- that's what I'd be calling if. I was

on ‘the bridge.”

(Copyright, 1942, ‘by Random House Inc.; distributed: ‘by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

TOMORROW—On the destroyer : Electra, racing for Singapore

with survivors of the Repulse and - the ‘Prince of Wales,

GRAIN ELEVATOR AT

- FRANKTON RAZED

And he does, Men. ‘near me slip off the raft to go _to the help of men who can be - Seen going under. They do it sey-

aye

salvage. out of defeat this time would be similar indifference. That. is .what the axis will play. for—a state of. world. anarchy again. If it can have a situation‘in which the United States doesn’t: -give.a damn, in which: ‘England, France, Russia and China flounder in: exhaustion, : then: they can look: forward to building up to another chance.

Work for:Roosevelt to Do oe

~IN: OTHER WORDS, the. axis can win. its second‘best * victory ‘if ‘the’ United States serate: takes: the United States back into-isolatiori. ' Wilson: failed - because: at (he critical point he would. mot. play. ball . with the. senate.. He failed to take -any senators to his peace conference when he should have had not only Democratic. but. Republican senators working in collaboration. . Wilson'could have acceptéd the Lodge reservations and. saved . the treaty and the league. His relations with congress had been bad, and many chickens came - home ‘to roost. on the. issue of ratifying the league covenant. Let Mr. Roosevelt look at his senate. There is work for him, for James F. Byrries, for everybody ‘who has the real winning of the war at heart. The: reciprocal trade act must be renewed at this ‘session of “congress. The lend-lease: act must be res] . newed. - Defeat. of either of these would: be a shock of the most severe kind. Defeat "of either measure would be considered a major ‘repudiation of the administration, both at home and abroad, such a reverse. would give no little comfort to the axis and would throw confusion into the :allied: side; since: it. would reise very grave doubt as to the" cotirse the United: Stat¢s intended to follow. ‘Vice President Wallace said in his Woodrow Wil-|: son anniversary address that the nations have a second’ chance to erect a lasting structure of peace, such as Woodrow ‘ Wilson’ sought to build “but which crumbled away because the ‘world was not yet ready. ‘Wisdom: didn’t triumph for Wilson. It won’t win this time either unless President Rogsevelt does a better job of carrying ‘tongress with him. I n't be a oneman job.® A” demotratic victory m 3 be saved and made to stick by democratic action. “President ‘Roosevelt can begin with the new. congress to develop that teamwork between the executive and the legislative branch that alone can save victory trom chaos and make it last. :

“By Eleanor Roosevelt

EDIE that has ‘been sold .to- the American “that, right and wisdom always triumph.

saying on the occasion. of. his anniversary irs this week. Yet he failed. The present-world war .is a monument to that failure. “Why did Wilson : fail? . What advice ‘would ‘Wilson give. to his successor in the White House today? It is up. to Mr. Roosevelt - to succeed where Wilson failed. Wilson's - failure — to pin it down in simple terms -to.the decisive act — was his: inability to obtain a two-thirds vote in the senate to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. . His failure“was in his nS with congress. - Symptoms of the same trouappearing now. Last month’s elections carried ain warning. Congress refused to act, on the r powers bill, another warning. ] te isolationist Republicans are digging around. gy are trying to bounce the assistant. Republican el the senate, Austin of Vermont, because he they call an internationalist—that is, he bee. United States’ must work with other napreven a a third world war. ,

FRANKTON, Ind., Dec. 30 (U. B.), —The Welborn and Holland grain ° elevator was destroyed by fire yesterday and loss, which included oats, wheat, feed and soybeans, was estimated at more than $15,000,

NEWPORT, Ind. Dec. 30 (U. P.), —Damage of about $20,000 ‘was |caused yesterday when fire destroyed several business buildings, including a restaurant, an empty building, meat market and dry goods: store.

NAOMI O. E. 8. TO ‘MEET Naomi chapter, O. E. S., will have officers’ advance night at 8 p. m, Friday at the Masonic temple, North and Illinois sts. Degrees will be conferred. Mrs: Elizabeth Wigal is A worthy - matron, . and William. H, Hartmann, worthy “patron.

: PLAN CASUALTY STATION “A casualty station staff will be organized at a meeting of first aide

GET CITATIONS

Get Awards for Heroism - Which Sends Enemy Ships to Bottom.

‘U.:S. SUBMARINE BASE, NEW | LONDON, Conn., Dec. 30 (U. P.).— Six officers and men of a U. S. submarine that completed a “highly successful and aggressive war patrol which resulted in the sinking of 29,600 tons: of enemy shipping,” were decorated “today for heroism.in a ceremony believed to be the largest number of ‘a single crew to receive commendation - for: distinguished service under. fire. The navy cross was presented to Richard F. Breckenridge, 21, Tacoma, Wash. a quartermaster first class.

5 ‘Awarded Medals

Navy and marine corps medals were awarded by Rear Admiral Freeland A. Daubin, commander of submarines, Atlantic Fleet, to: Lieut. David B. Bell, Washington, D.C. Chief Motor Machinist's Mate Russell ‘Thomas, Granger, Tex. ~ Chief Electrician's Mate Stewart A Mills, Van ‘Nuys, Cal. First © Class Motor Machinist's Mate Harry E. Michael, Berwick, Pa. .Chief Torpedoman Daniel L. Zimmer, Portsmouth, N. H. The citations, given in the name of the President, were signed by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Pacific fleet commander in chief. “The “extraordinary. bravery” for which ' Breckenridge was cited occurred while his ship ‘was making a crash ‘dive “to escape destruction” in enemy waters. The' conning tower hatch wheel jammed, making it impossible to close the hatch. The commanding officer ordered the tower abandoned. All hands except ‘Breckenridge obeyed and dropped into the control room. :

the: sediing of minds’ than in ary facts which may| Heroism Saves Instruments rbed, for, trained minds will ascertain the facts | Breckenridge, facing certain death : fo in the flooded compartment, and shut off from the rest of the ship,| “coolly remained at his station and| by his skill and determination suc- ; ceeded. in. freeing the - handwheel| and securing the hatch before flood- : ing of the conning tower reached the floor plates. By this act of heroism valuable instruments ‘were| saved and the submarine was. able} to continue ‘on a successful patrol.” | ‘The citation’ for Lieut. Bell said} that “during ‘the midwatch,” while|

I itr. Ball of Minnesota? Are the Republicans ready. to sabotage the peace as they did the e? can’t ‘win a military victory. now. But:the a “still + win the peace as: Germany won ‘it’ the

"The best that the axis could ar By in defeat, would be that the United States " be unconcerned in preventing. a buildup: for

can 100k through old newspaper files. and find ut the time some of our soldiers were born, years ‘ago, news dispatches reported. secret’ rearmin Gennany. Nobody cared.

. | ers in district 34 at 7:30 p. m. Mon= PRL 0 - Bl Par |day at 1130 W. 30th st. First aide Officers of the Tndiana Society of Architects, elected at 3. cnt meeting here are (front row) Ray | ov 2iepding the meeting who Volo A. Worden, second vice president; John R. Kelley, president; ' Ricl 2rd K.. Zimmerly, first vice. president; will be certified for arm bands, (back: row): Alvin M. Strauss, director, of Ft. Wayne; Richard C. 1s anox, past president; ‘Theodore L. Steele, secretary, and Edward D.: Plerre; director. . ; HOLD EVERYTHING John ‘R.. “Kelley of : + Indiana olis FRENCH WARNED OF [225 2c coi pesaent OPEN. VALVE BLAMED II PF Indiana ‘Society of Architects. The ea | election : took place at the an zl : g INVASION TO COME recive ey mee wc {IN TWO GAS DEATHS LONDON, Dec. 30 (U. P.)—An|dianapolis Athletic . ANDERSON, Ind., Déc.30 (UPJ). allied spokesman warned the French| Others. named were Richard .| ap gren valve key oda: gas’ pipe people by radio today “to stand by|Zimmerly of Indianapolis, vice pi « was, blamed: today ‘by Robert Anin event of an allied invasion.” | dent; Roy A. Worden, second : ce >| derson, Madison couhty deputy He told them, particularly those|, esident of: South Bend; Theo ve | coroner, for ‘the death : of - Leroy} living in the former occupied zone, L. Steele secretary and Donslc E.| ‘Compton, 82, retired fatcory -fore-| to move .if .they live near railway| ™ © "man, and Mrs. Elizabeth : ‘ Blizard, 1: centers, factories, workshops, repair| Compton, treasurer, both of I:-ing a noysekeeper. shops and coastal zones. + .dianapolis. : The bodies of Compton anc: Mrs. In some cases it would be impos-| War housing and post-war - -|Blizard were ‘found late’ Tuesday sible for them to move, he said, and | construction: were discussed 4! 2 /when Miss Mattie B. Fry, a relative, those French should demand round table session. Bert J. Wr - was unable to obtain. admission: to adequate air raid shelters.” ~ |over of Indianapolis, authority the residence. They apparently had “The day allied occupation armies| national building . codes, stres: been dead’ ‘since Saturday. ¥

11 n-so’ TON, Tuesday. One “of “the most :in- a g: points in Vice President Wallace's speech realization that education in. ‘the “aggressor must :be watched in the. future, Implicit, 7 yin: : that acknowledgment is :the: fact® that a education must. be ‘Watched every“where. . owe «aso. gUIDE. 16. live dna. . “world® ruled ‘by true: democracy, . then it is essential that every: ‘hu- , man’ being receives the’ kind of ‘education. ‘that. will best develop his. faculties. _In addition, each and every one of us must become conscious of the fact that we have ~ an obligation to think for ourselyes so that we may function as . citizens. We must base our ac- Federation : tions on facts. and use. them to

need your co-operation, you will be | the importance’ of publishing :. d i Lely informed.” . ; | enforcing an’adequate modern st: IV, STREAMLINE IN AUGURAL

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NORWICH, N. Y., Déc. 30. (U. P), —Louis ‘Robinson sneezed ‘violently retiring’ president,” is a member f dered ’s ‘biennial inaugura. | : | vion Stripped of Spowp. and Tile?

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‘means to' acquire whatever we need have a truer perspective on what ve through our educational system. grades the tools must be provided.

individual. . Some people develop the ‘use of their hands. To 2 education | brings. the greatest ,, scientific studies make a ou’ “have your tools in hand,