Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1943 — Page 9

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WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN ALGERIA (by Wireless).—Of all the American troops over here

who’ are about to bust a hamestring to get into

battle, I suppose the Rangers are the worst. : Thais because they're trained like racehorses, and if they can’t race every day they get to fretting, - As you know the Rangers are the. American commandos. For months their training has been a violent, double-barreled curriculum of body-toughening and scientific elimination of the enemy. All summer and fall in the cold waters of Scotland, ‘they practiced until they were as indestructible as Popeye and as deadly as executioners. Then they had a shot of the real business. A few went on the Dieppe raid, and all of them came to Africa. Here they had one specific and highly dangerous Job to do. And they did it so expertly that they suffered almost no casualties and spared all the Frenchmen’s lives. Since then the Rangers have had nothing to do. They are in camp now, running through - mock landings, swimming in the Mediterranean on the coldest days, doing military police duty in a nearby town. And they are gradually going nuts waiting

| to get into action again.

Since the specialty of the Rangers is landing on enemy beaches and storming gun positions, I asked one of them, “Do you suppose you'll just have to sit here until we invade another continent?” He said, “My God, I hope not! It might be too long a wait.”

Remember Sugar Shortage?

A NURSE IN an old blue sweater came walking down a muddy street at an army hospital out in the country. An army friend with me yelled at her, and stopped and introduced me. And the nurse said:

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum,

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Virgil Sheppard, who has just been named president of the new Home Rule league, executive director of the local Red Cross chapter, authority on governmental affairs, former

state welfare assistant administrator, sports enthusi-

ast, auxiliary policeman, one-time streetcar conductor and the father of an old-fashioned family. He has five daughters and one .son. And since his name is Virgil and his wife's is Vergie, they've given each of the kids a middle name starting with V. Virgil Sheppard is a vigorous, friendly sort of individual. He's 44. About 5 feet, 8 or 9, he’s rathMr. Sueppard er Saag weighs iih 190, His blue eyes have a twinkle in them. He has pinkish hair turning gray, a sandy complexion, a strong chin, crooked nose and long arms. Somewhat bowlegged, he has some sort of hip trouble that makes him walk with more than a trace of a waddle, But despite his hobbling gait, he gets around with agility, and he’s pretty good at any sport tries, including badminton, table tennis, bowling, etc.

+... As bis chin indicates, he’s pretty determined, once

he’s made up his mind. By nature, he’s enthusiastic and cheerful, seldom gets upset. Of a philosophical turn, he never wails when things go wrong; just gets ‘busy and tries to right them, -

Forgets Names Virgil has a terrible time with people’s names. He

"hates to let on that he’s forgotten your name and

tries to cover up. Usually, he trips himself up, starts

out calling you Smith, or Jones, and winds up calling

you something entirely different. Golf is his chief hobby. He gets out on the links whenever he finds a few hours free. - To him, golf is more than just walking around and swinging at a ball, He enjoys every minute of it, does everything he can to make an opponent miss his putt. His own

Washington

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—It is a definite war aim that the axis shall be disarmed and kept disarmed. We may argue.about setting up a TVA on the Danube. The opposition may try to challenge President Roosevelt's objective that there shall be jobs and reasonable security for men and women after the war, But every time anybody says there must be no repetition of this war, he is saying that the axis must be disarmed and must be kept disarmed. President Roosevelt made that an emphatic point in his annual message. When he said he had learned that peace could not be maintained by good intentions alone, he was talking the practical common sense that the axis must be licked by force—which he now regards as a certainty—and that it mast be kept from building up another war machine to make a Sil try for world conquest.

Methods Already Discussed

TO KEEP THE axis disarmed will require concerted action by the victor nations. Certainly in view of the record only the united nations, co-operating, could hope to keep Germany, Japan and Italy from rearming as Germany did after the last war. No one can take the position that the axis must be kept disarmed and at the same time oppose American participation in the responsibility for seeing that the axis does not rearm. Isolation will mean telling Germany to come and take it. Mr. Roosevelt did not go into detail in his mes-

sage but he has been mulling. over possible methods,

The axis countries would be forbidden to make airs. craft or tanks, for instance. United nations inspec

~ tors would be assigned to check axis industrial plants

" WASHINGTON, Friday. = was very interesting to get a glimpse of the new congress and to watch the reaction to the president’s speech on the floor a in the galleries. Because of my partial deafness I 4

not always hear every word of the speech, in spite § complete concentration. Ho

I find that with every speech that.

is worthwhile, one should read it several times ip order to better derstand its full meaning. ~The president’s uncle, ' Frederic Delano, went into the capitol with me and as we went up in the elevator he remarked that each message seemed to have an increasing significance, beginning with the first one when we ‘were facing an. eco=

“ charge in California of the program for teaching

By Ernie Pyle

“Well, at last! I've been saving sugar for you fori two years, but I never expected to meet you here.” I had never seen the nurse before in my life,

"so a little inquiring about this sugar business was

necessary. The facts in the case are as follows: Mary Ann Sullivan is a former surgical supervisor in Boston City- hospital. She and her sister nurses

were reading this column -two years ago, when I jl

was in London and complaining bitterly in the public prints about not getting enough sugar. | So it seems the nurses laughed about it and started: saving sugar. Whenever a cube was left over they, would save it, and laugh and say, “This one's for Ernie.” Then a year ago last summer these nurses joined

a Harvard unit and set sail for England. And they jl

carried with them that sugar especially earmarked for me. :

Now in Davy Jones’ Locker

THEIR MOTIVE WAS high but it came to naught. For the Germans torpedoed their ship and my sugar went to the bottom of the Atlantic. The nurses were eventually picked up and taken to Iceland, then to England, and finally to- Africa. And here we all are and isn’t it a small world after all even if my sugar is gone? Mary Ann felt badly about my sugar being sunk, but she did bring a hospitable commodity which bot censorship and the ethics of war forbid me to mention. So our meeting after two years was not without a certain rare delicacy to put in our mouths after all. Mary Ann Sullivan came ashore in Africa on the very first morning of the landings. They operated on wounded men for hours, with snipers’ bullets. still pinging on the walls, which is just the kind of life} Mary Ann had been waiting for, She is so steamed up she can hardly wait for the next battle.

I am arranging officially with general headquarters

to be wounded in Mary Ann's vicinity.

game is a little irregular—anywhere from the high 80s to 100 plus. He always wants to bet a little on the side, golf or anything else. As a rule, he drives a hard bargain, But he’s a sucker when it comes to betting on Toledo university. Born at Findlay, O., he began his educational career in Ohio State’s agricultural school, soon changed to governmental affairs, switched to Toledo U, where he earned tuition as a streetcar conductor. After teaching a couple of years at the university and serving four years as secretary to a Toledo mayor, he came here—in the midst of the depression.

Chews Pencil Point

Sent to Lake county as relief director, he earned the undying hatred of the 2-by-4 politicians by cleaning up an unsavory mess. Later he was assistant state emergency relief director, was Indianapolis C. of

C. research director a year, in 1936 joined the state] {i

welfare department and was assistant administrator when he quit a couple of months ago to become Red Cross director. He’s strong on memos, and handy at whipping a

report on an investigation into readable material, He | il

chews the sharpened end of his pencil while working. He eats sensibly, doesn’t care for coffee—drinks tea, instead. He, doesn’t smoke, likes picnics and frequently organizes them among his employees.

He can sleep right through a radio program-—and| frequently does; but not through Jack Benny’s program. His favorite movie actress is Bette Davis. He! lil reads all the current magazines and books. ;

Stirs Up Arguments

Virgil enjoys having a crowd of friends around, likes to drive his car, takes in an occasional hockey, football or basketball game, gets a kick out of working on the acre or so of lawn at his home. He enjoys discussion groups, such as the Butler forum, gets a kick out of stirring up an argument, and sometimes argues against his own beliefs just to help things along. One of his idiosyncracies is that he never carries a watch, He says there's always someone else around to tell him the time.

By Raymond Clapper

to be sure that parts were not being made surreptitiously. Any violation of prohibitions against arms

manufacture in axis countries would bring quick|j

punishment. It must be a cardinal principle in any such enforcement that the punishment be quick and sure. That is more likely to stop trouble than a wavering, uncertain course. Japan in “Manchukuo, Mussolini in Ethiopia and Hitler in the Rhineland and in Austria and Czechoslovakia gambled on hesitation and division among the other countries. Because of that hesitation among

their enemies they got away with their aggressive! :

moves.

Ruthless Procedure Necessary

SO THE THINKING now is along the line of having an international air authority, as Vice President Wallace recently suggested. International authorities could be set up much like the New York port authority. The axis countries would not be permitted to build or own or operate aircraft of any kind. The line between civil and military craft is too narrow. The united nations would furnish commercial air transportation service for those countries because that is economically desirable. But the air fields, the opSraiions, the Whole control wouid be kept out of axis S. In the event an axis country was caught violating prohibitions against disarming, the united nations authority would impose an immediate blockade of all|® traffic and communication, sealing all frontiers. Notice would be given of bombing intentions against offending areas. For instance, allow one week, after which bombing would begin. Ruthless methods will be necessary if the enemy ‘is not to rearm and make ahother try as Germany oa before. We must invoke them for our selfefense.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

all adventuring in many different fields of thought and action. A very interesting woman came to see me in the -afternoon, Mrs. Mabel Farrington Gifford, who is in

dren who have speech impediments. ; Last night I attended the Marian Anderson concert, given for Chinese relief. As seat was filled in Constitution hall, I am quite sure it was a successful financial undertaking. Miss ’S program was beautiful and she was certainly most enthusiastically received. It was a significant evening not only from the artistic point of view but from the social point -of view. I have had word from the war activities committee of the motion picture industry, Which is sponsor ing a united nations week beginning Jan. 14 and continuing through Jan. 20, that about 26.008 motion pic-

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The state highway commission’s huge plans for $160, 000,000 worth of post-war improvements to Indi; ily highway system will bring such changes as widening, dual laning, better bridges to nearly 5000 miles of roads. Black lines on the map are highways : really scheduled for new construction or improvement,

Highway Commission Ready to Meet Slowing War Production With 10-Year $160,iG1,000 Program

When the war is over and war production begins to taper off, the state highway department plans to be ready with a $160,861,000 road and bridge building program which virtually will blanket Indiana. The post-war program, which will employ thousands of men, will be spread over an estimated 10-year period. It will sweep from one end to the other of the principal highways that criss-cross the ‘state, will bring the long-awaited belt road around the capital city and gain back the ground lost during the war-

gram will see a divided lane road on U. 8. 52 all the way from Indianapolis to Lebanon with a fivemile by-pass around Lebanon to relieve the bottleneck there. The dual lare to Lafayette will be nearly completed by planned construction of 71 miles of wide road between there and Lebanon. South from Indianapolis, U. S. 52 will be widened over more than 85 miles to complete the improvement of the main artery between Chicago and Cincinnati. , The little stretch between Dunreith. and Dublin and another between Richmond and the Ohio line will be dual laned to make U. S. 40 a multiple-lane road all the way

artery through the heart of the state, will. get an $11,547,000 going over

length. . When this part of the big job is done, a dual lane highway

dianapolis, Kokomo and Peru to|

South Bend. Widening of U. S. 50 across southerr Indiana is planned from Vin-

to Aurora, a total distance of a

| little: less than 100 miles. The esti-|

IE Br Tool Host 45 Wok: + TU. S. 31, main north and south

along more than 160 miles of its}

cennes to Shoals and from Seymour]

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worth of improvements including !' miles of dual laning and 118 1

of widening and other repair. 117 section of the road included in. tii construction program stretches {roi} Cook, in Lake county, on the nit,

to Evansville on the south. Across the northern half of state, U. S. highway 8 is sched i = for $5,485,000 worth of mp hie

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' ments covering more than 100 miles i from Gary to U. S. 35 and from the ' Marshall county line east to, the Ohio border.

| U. S. 24, another cross-state | route, will get wider paving or wider

. shoulders from the Illinois line all

bi the way across through Monticello, Logansport, Peru, Huntington and | Ft. Wayne to the Ohio line. { The pi calls for the ex-

penditure of $126.704,000 for high-

| ways and $34,157,000 for bridge con-

| | struction. Total mileage to be em-

{braced equals nearly half that of the - entire present state highway | system or neatly 5000 miles.

| ARMY SEEKS CADETS FOR METEOROLOGY

‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (U. P).—

| |About 1000 men between 18 and 30

who are qualified for meteorological

i training will be: certified for volun-

‘tary induction into the army as aviation cadets, the war department announced today. ‘To qualify for training in mete‘oralogy, candidates must have com‘pleted at least two years of college, ‘studied mathematics through cal culus and had one year of ee

EASTER SEAL SALE WILL AID CRIPPLED

The Marion County Society fa

the Crippled will initiate plans for its annual Easter seal sale at i

roads, 30th and New Jersey sts. Cross is a workshop estab for training handicapped pe ] under sheltered conditions so that they may later enter a trade on

more nearly equal basis with physically able person. The project is maintain

PROPOSAL IS REVIVE FOR CHANNEL TUNNE LONDON, Jan. 9 (U. BP). — projected tunnel under the channel, vetoed by the British ernment “for two decades, peared today in

fe of works 1 ins by

ernment will adopt a plan for dependent Bih-sneed roads “whi