Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1943 — Page 9

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Hoosier Vagabond

Back In Bnglind Tacs summer I apont sou sie vith the army’s,medical corps, intending to write about our

preparations for tending wounded soldiers. : Bu. 1 never wrote the. columns. The sight of sur-

geons being taught to operate at the front, of huge warehouses filled

to the roofs with bandages, of scores. .of hospitals built for men then healthy who would soon be cripples—it was shocking and too

morbid, and I couldn't write -

about it, : But now all that preparation is being put to use. Our doctors and nurses and medical aids have had their first battle experience.’ The hospitals are going full blast. And it doesn’t seem morbid in actuality, as it did in contemplation. In the Oran area, - where our heaviest casualties occurred, the wounded are in five big hospitals. Three are French hospitals taken over by the army. One is an abandoned French barracks turned into a hospital. And one is a huge tent hospital out in an oats field, It is the most #mazing thing I have seen, and I'll write about it later.

Sulfanilamide Works Miracles

SO FAR THE doctors can be, and are, proud of their work. The nurses have already covered themseives with glory. The wounded have only praise for . those who pulled them through. Our only deaths in the original occupation were those killed outright and those so badly wounded

nothing could have saved them, In other words, we *

lost almost nobody from infection, or from medical shortcomings in the hurly-burly of battle, You've already read of the miracles wrought by ilamide in the first battles of Africa. Doctors and men both still talk about it constantly, almost with awe. Doctors knew. it was practically a miracle

, JAN. 12, 1943

By Ernie Pyle

drug, but. thoy haditt Jealized kulte how Miraculotn Every soldier was issued a suifanilamide packet before he left England,“some” even before they left America. It consisted of 12 tablets for swallowing, and} a small sack of the same stuff in powdered form for on wounds. - The soldiers used it as instructed, and the result was an almost complete lack of infection. Hundreds are alive today who would have been dead without it.

Mix Up of French Emotions

ONE DOCTOR TOLD ME that most American wounds were in the while most of the French

wounds: were in the head. The explanation seems!

to be that we were advancing and thus out in: the open, while the French were behind barracks with * just their heads showing. Both sides treated the wounded of the other side all during the battle. Our soldiers are full of gratitude for the way they were treated in the French hospitals. They say the French nurses would even steal cigarets for hem. The mixup of French emotions that showed itself during the fighting was fantastic. One French motor launch went about Oran harbor firing with a machine gun at wounded Americans, while other Frenchmen in rowboats were facing the bullets frying to rescue them. I know of one landing party sent ashore with the special mission of capturing four merchant ships. They took them all without firing a shot. The captain of one ship greeted 'the party with “What was the matter? We expected you last night?” and the skipper ol another met the party at the gangway with a bottle of gin. Many of our wounded men already have returned to duty. Those permanently disabled will be sent home ag soon as they are able. ‘Those still recovering are anxious to return to their outfits. I've inquired especially among the wounded soldiers about this, and it's a fact that they are busting to get back into the fray again. Morale was never higher

Inside. Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

WERE IN TROUBLE with some of our readers. They think we don’t know our stuff about calendars. It all started last Thursday when we mentioned that “Dr. Miles’ weather calendar still is with us.” Well gir, our mail yesterday flooded us with calendars—

minus weather’ predictions and noting: that weather predictions had been “withdrawf® for the duration of the war as they might be of service to the enemy.” Accompanying the calendars . were letters inquiring “how come?” One calendar came all the way from Richmond—from J. William Sullivan, manager of Meyer's drug store there and formerly a local pharmacist. He chided us gently. So did Mrs. Zenana Z. Sims, who lives in Linton. One of the nicest letters came Yom Olive McHaffey, 508 E. Michigan st., No. 18. Since our own calendar DOES give the weather forecasts, we got in touch with Senator Edward H. Beardsley. The senator, you know, is general manager of Dr, Miles’ laboratories. There we got the answer. Senator Beardsley explained they had printed five million copies of the calendar WITH weather predictions before they got the idea that maybe they shouldn't. So they checked with Washington, and Washington said it might be a good idea not. to. print any -more that. way. So the remaining 14 million were printed without forecasts. P. S. Dr. Miles. predicts “fair” weather “day and “warmer” tomorrow,

Around the Town ‘

HERB PINNELL; the lumberman who has a farm near Lebanon, recently sold an “outsize” bull at the union stockyards. We're told it weighed 1450 pounds and was the biggest Otis Carmichael ever bought. And it brought $13.75 a hundred pounds, too.. Some ‘bull, eh? ,.. For the Christmas rush, the postoffice gets extra equipment out of the attic, Including large

Washington

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Lend-lease is up for further appropriations to finish out the present fiscal year. Then it will be up again a little later on the question of extending the lend-lease act itself beyond June. This insures that this lend-lease administration : ‘will be subjected to a thorough going. over by committees of congress. The administrator of lendlease, Edward Stettinius, will carry - the burden of explaining and defending the rations, which by now amount to about $8,000,000,-

000... But - the real target will be ° Harry Hopkins. Since Leon Henderson was driven ‘out of the government by political blackjck methods, the heat has been turned on the president's most intimate *Sriend and adviser. The story of the jewels, the emeralds that Lord Beaverbrook was supposed to have presented as a wedding gift to Mrs, Hopkins, has been denied by him as a tale that the axis likes to have circulated and By Mrs. Hopkins as “baloney,” on the ground that she has no emeralds and wasn't fiven

any. At the White House, Secretary Early says Mr. and - Mrs. Hopkins are ready to appear before a committee of congress if an investigation of their personal affairs is desired.

Safety Valves of War Pressures

THE GOSSIP ABOUT the jewels, and the Siosies about fancy dinner parties, the use of governmen limousines for driving to social affairs, and the printing of news pictures showing clearly the license plates of some high officials with low numbers, is giving this winter in wartime Washington an unusually venomous

tone.

My Day

~ WASHINGTON, Afoday-Owitig to the fact that my daughter and son-in-law, who were coming in from Seattle, Wash., BY $rains Yesterday morning ta do some very urgent business here in Washington, arrived several ‘hours late, I spent some time in the union station waiting for them.

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wooden trays. When they got them out this year (we learn belatedly) Clerk Hewitt Hutto exclaimed: “Here's a letter postmarked December, 1940.” It had adhered to the bottom of a seldom-used tray and slept there two years. Among those witnessing it was Max Ridgeway. . . . The Lions Roar, publication of the Lions club, reports an “overheard at the blood donor center.” “Nurse to Lion: ‘You may be a buneh of Lions, but just now you're nothing but a bunch of drips.’ ”

Mail for Ernie

ERNIE PYLE doesn’t know it yet, but he’s going to get quite a deluge of mail one of these days. Recently he remarked in his column about some of the fellows in Africa getting as many as 75 letters, while others “like this lonesome correspondent got none.” Lots of folks who read that decided it wouldn't do for a Hoosier to be pining for mail. And since then the letters have been pouring in for us to forward. One res quest that came direct to: this column was from Virginia Fretz and Helen Cox. The letter’s on its way, girls. . . . Young couples visiting the county clerk’s office to get marriage licenses find no difficulty in locating a minister to marry them. In faét, it’s not easy to avoid a couple of ministers who patrol the courthouse lobby just outside the clerk’s office, stopping young couples and trying to-sell their services. To some people, it’s a little nauseating.

KP Made Easy

BEING ASSIGNED to kitchen police duty no longer terrorizes soldiers out at Stout field, now that they have a new mess with an (almost) all mechanical kitchen. For instance, electric toasters toast 660 slices: a minute. Another machine washes and dries food trays, cups and bowls. And they even have a machine to peel potatoes—by the abrasion process. It rolls the spuds against an abrasive material and scrapes the skins off them. The eyes have to be picked out by hand, and then the potatoes are damped in another machine that mashes and creams them. Pretty soft, eh?

By Raymond Clapper

These personalities are the safety valves of war pressures. It was impossible to get rid of rationing, so they get rid of Leon Henderson. A political opposition in trying to justify its existence sees that drastic war measures are necessary so it finds that the men in charge of them are to blame for all of the inconvenience. Likewise with lend-lease. We can't get'rid of it. Everybody around here knows it is essential and that it has been a fortunate device for furnishing aid to those who were fighting our enemies. Lend-lease has solid justification as a measure of national defense.

But an effort will be made to show that it has been!

loosely or unwisely administered, and Harry Hopkins is the natural suspect who is to be worked on, although he is not technically head of the lend-lease organization and officially has no place in it.

Part of Price for Winning War

MR. HOPKINS is chairman of the committee that supervises the fulfillment of schedules under the Russian protocol. But the Russian schedules call for such a large proportion of materials that the servicing of those requirements affects lend-lease operations. ° Because of his position. at the White House, Mr. Hopkins inevitably has large influence over lendlease through guidance and counsel sought by lendlease officials. Most of the lend-lease cost will never come back in terms of dollars or even in terms of goods. It is part of the price of winning the war. We are getting some of it back in various ways. But details of lend-lease operations can dardly be made public currently. ° . “Unless there is discovered some appalling stupidity or bad judgment involved in the. operations, it is not likely that congress would take the responsibility of refusing to continue that Phase of war aid,

By Eleanor Roosevelt that one really saw what the whole country was like. matter how different their types may be in middle

age! I walked up from there with two young girls who

-| machine shop,

war to a swift conclusion. Warned by the collapse

on the home front in world

war I, the Germans this time mace great preparations in

“invasion of Norway, Holland,

expanded agriculture, in stored food, metals, textiles and in synthetic production of oil, rubber, explosives. Upon

Belgium, Jugoslavia, France,

Poland and the Ylsraing, she seized their accumulated

stores.

robbery, Germany was not substantially short of supplies during the first two years of the war. But she has consumed her stocks and there is much less to be taken from the invaded countries. The tide has turned on the-home front, and all the forces of intern-. al degeneration are now in action. By working millions of ‘prisoners and imported labor they have kept up the bread, potato, "and vegetable supplies. The so-called normal bread and cereal ration amounts to a rate of about 260 pounds per person per annum against the 200. pounds the American people eat. But the story in meats and fats is far different. The blockade has greatly reduced her imports of vegetable and fish oils and feed for her Mr. Hoover animals. Her animal products have greatly diminished.

Meat Ration Drops

ALL CALCULATIONS of meat and fat supplies are very involved, but the following represent an approximation and indicate the trend. In 1936 the Germans con-

OFFER GLASSES IN PRODUCTION

Training in War Work to Be Held in Public High - Schools Here.

Registration for free war production training classes will be held in public high schools from 7 to 9 p. m. today. Thirty-tive members of the American Women’s - Voluntary Services will assist interviewers from the employment service -and the war production training center with registration. Miss Virginia Wakelam is chairman of the committee, assisted by Miss Fern Brown, Miss Mabel: Dunn, Miss Vera Morgan, Miss Margaret Sullivan and Mrs. ‘Betty Keeler. More than 200 persons enrolled in classes during the first registration last Wednesday.

Trainees Are Paid

War production is given in the shops at Technical, Manual, Crispus Attucks and Washington high schools. Subjects offered ' include parts inspection, radio wiring assembly, tool and gauge design, airplane mechanics and arc welding. Under the National Youth administration training program, special courses are open to men and women between the ages of 16 and 25. Trainees are paid a maximum of $25.60 per month for 160 hours in class and shop instruction. Subjects offered are power sewing, drafting, radio and radio soldering, machine shop, sheet metal, foundry, pattern making, and clerbel ical training. NYA representatives also will interview applicants tonight. s

GORDON CHAPTER TO

New officers will be installed at a meeting of the Joseph R. Gordon chapter 43, W. R. C., at 1:30 p. m. today at 512 N. Illinois st. : They are Mrs. Alice Hodge, president; Mrs. Emma Taggart, senior vice president; Mrs. Lona Pfafflin, junior vice president; Mrs." Irene Compton, chaplain; ‘Mrs. Lula Hart2zog, ; Miss Evelyn Comp-| ton, conductor; Mrs. Minnie Jackman, guard and press correspondent; Mrs. Mable Bruce, secretary; Mrs. Kate Scott, color bearer, and

es| Mrs. Nellie McGruder, patriot in-

structor. Mrs. Grace E. Hoimeyer wil he

LAWYERS T0 MEET

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INSTALL OFFICERS]

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In: consequence of this advance preparation and this

sumed at the rate of about 165 pounds of combined meats and fats of all kinds per person per annum. In 1939 the “normal” ration was at the rate of about 105 pounds, in 1940 about 91 pounds. in 1941 about 81 pounds and in 1942 it was about 70 pounds per annum. Hard workers gef more. This does not indicate any substantial meat or fat supplies from the Ukraine. At my direction after the last war, an investigation of the food

experience during the war indi-

cates that the. present amount of fats in their ration is below the full health level to the ordinary consumer. : But equally important is the degeneration of practically all other supplies for civilian use, including clothing and coal. The people suffer for cold in winter. Overcrowding is adding ‘to its miseries. The wear and tear on the railways -and machine shops and their destruction by air attack are creating difficulties in transportation and manufacture. German manpower on the home front, is weakening steadily de- . spite forced labor from the occupied countries.

A work week of 60 hours is the .

minimum in factories compared to our average under 44 hours. The workmen are feeling the pressure of overwork.' She is making frantic efforts to secure skilled manpower from the occupied countries. :

MENTALLY THE people have retreated from confidence of vic-

Pershing's $4.13

Tax’ Forgiven

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. 12 (U. P).—Gen. John J. Pershing can (uit worrying about his $4.13 delinquent tax bill in Kansas City. George Clark, county assessor removed Pershing’s name from delinquent tax rolls, he said, along with those of former President Benjamin Harrison, Author Mark Twain and temperance crusader Frances Willard.

Pershing, Harrison, Twain and Miss Willard all had been listed as local residents owing various amounts in back taxes. Explaining, Clark said that tax rolls were prepared from the city direciories and that it probably never occurred to the clerks that the scidresses were public schools named for the prominent nistional Persozaliijes. : ’

SMITH TO REVIVE AMERICA 1ST GROUP

DETROIT, Jan. 12 (U. P).— Gerald L. K. Smith's threat to start a third political party has blossomed into a revival of the “America first” movement as a “safety first measure

to protect the two-party system in America.” Smith said he was reviving the isolationist kroup to furnish opposifon to “internationalist” presidential candidates in case the Republican and Democratic parties “merge in 1944 as they virtually did in 1940,” when President Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie were nominated. The defeated independent congressional candidate told a meeting of his followers that the third paity ‘would be formed by a “committee of one-thousand”—an abbreviation of his committee of one-million resulting from the nation’s manpower shorta;ze. He said headquarters of the new party would be set up here.

ioe Sufferers

Speedily With New Drug

By Science Services

* SAN’ FRANCISCO, Jan. 12— that Dr. Marx suggests a trial |,

Recovery from chronic sinus

‘trouble can be achieved in be--

tween three and four weeks on -the average by local treatment with sulfathiazole, Dr. Roland F.‘Marx, eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, announced here yes- : * terday as a ftesult of studies at

the University of of California Med- 1

“ical school: : Almost. three-fourths, w per

.R. A, F. raids, such as this shops, has changed the Ge:

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Nazis Realize They Ave on a Tiny Island in Sea of Hu te, Says Hoover

This i the: sboond of u'strles of six articles by Herbert Hoover, an “appraisal of the global strategy of the war as it is affected by the home fronts, foreign and domestic, in the trying months ahead. :

. - By HERBERT HOOVER NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (U. P.).—All is not well upon the Gérman home front today. The blitz and terror which

were to have won a short war have in a large sense failed. Germany has abandoned the hope that she-can bring th.

. which plasted the Dusseldorf main railway station and other work1 mind from an attitude of quick

victory to defensive thinking.

3 tory and have fallen back upon resolutions of defense. They non realize that tiey are an island in a sea of 200,000,000 invaded and starving people who hate ther with: an irreparable bitterness. And thus the Germans know the dream of the new order in Europe has vanished. The terrors of aerial bombardment and the losses in battle are having a depressing effect upon the spirit of the people. That the home front. is far from contented is indicated by the Nazi fortifications of strategic buildings in preparation to quell civil disturbances and by the placement of Nazi generals in

command of the armies over the

older staff. : further degeneration cannot be stopped. However, I do not believe the Germans will collapse again internally at the end of their fourth winter in this war. But it is impossible for them to withstand indefinitely these pressures on the home front. There is, however, at once 3 major reservation to Pe _state-

|STATE FLORISTS

CONVENE TODAY

Expect 100 to Attend Af ‘nual Convention; Election Is Scheduled. .

Trophies will be awarded for the finest roses, carnations and swee! peas submitted in competition at the annual meeting of the State Flor. ists association of Indiana this afternoon at the Hotel Antlers. Approximately 100 members at: expected for the meeting, beginning

at noon. Election of officers will ke

held. The association is a regional anit of the Society of American Florists,

Henley Is President

Henry B. Henley of Terre Haute is president. Other officers are: William Roepke, Indianapolis, first ° vice president; John Bertermanr, Indianapolis, second vice president; Prancis A. Baur, New Augusta, secretary; Edward C. Grande; Indianapolis, regional director. William G.

Fox of Indianapolis, who died re-

cently, was treasurer.

‘Al Aulbach of Indianapolis ‘1s

sergeant at arms, and the chairmen

of standing committees are Rober!

Ellis, Bloomington, membership:

Jake Eitel, Greencastle, legislative: :

Harry Woolley, Richmond, social se-

curity; Ralph Baur, New Augusta, be

reception; Mr, Grande, state fair: William Bertermann, program; Ed Nordholt, entertainment; decorating; E. J. press and publications. 0. E. S. 464 TO MEET Nettle Ransford chapter 464 O.

E. 8, will have a stated meeting,

at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Prather Masonic temple, 42d st. and Coliege ave. Initiation for degrees will fol-|

Ed C.

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sen, judge, and Clarence R. G 2

low the meeting. Mrs. Lelia Wim.

mer is worthy matron and Pesley :

Wimmer is worthy patron.

Recover

of sulfathiazole treatment before

ment. Germany is still potent for offensive, and she is under tre-

‘mendous pressures from the home

front to . break - soraewhere the ring which surrouncls her. The only direction she can gain sub-. stantial relief for the home front is to the southeast.

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Junction With Japs

IF HER ARMIES could effect junction with the Japanese in the indian ocean by defeat of the united nations in Persia or Egypt

snd India, they could open a new ¢conomi¢ area from which great relief would come—rtibber, metals and oil. She could g=t food, particularly fats, fruit and sugar. She could lift her whole standard of living, and in such an event the home front would stiffen for an indefinite number of years. The Italian armies have been so repeatedly defeated in Africa that they have long passed their zenith, Her navy has been beaten in every first-class encounter. Her

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submarines are not so effective as

City Broke Own Blackout Rules |

DETROIT, Jan. 12 (U. P)— liven the city got in Dutch during Detroit’s last blackout test. Patrolman Donald Moody walked up to the executive offices today with ‘a summons to hail the “City of Detroit” to court . for leaving’ a Neon sign on the city hall blinking for five minutes. during a blackout ast Nov, 18. Mayor Edward J. Jefferies ;alked fast and furious, but he didn't “talk the city out of it. william M. Walker, public works :ommissioner, blushed, admitted ne sign ‘was left on and said he vould pay the fine out of his own »ocket.

Walker will appear in court Jan. 19.

Nl. SIDE CASUALTY "STATION PLANNED

Flans for organizing a casuaity ition and ‘first aid posts will be smpleted at a'meeting. of first aid rkers of division three, civilian «fense district 41, at 7:45 o'clock toizht in the auditorium of school 84, ¢ nitral ave. and 57th st. [1a case of emergency the casualty ‘vidon will be located at fire station , Illinois and 56th sts, and will manned by: qualified: first-aiders ‘ the division. The frst aid posts

vill’ be organized to work in areas

hich might be subject; to bombings : other disasters. Jector chairmen are Miss Stacey anley, Mrs. Chsrles

rick, Thomas Jenkins, Miss Dor17 Kirkhan, James Warren, Garth wine, Mrs. Mildred : Ross, C. C. ‘nett, Mrs. Earl R. Moore, Mrs. Vir-

‘Nicholson, | ‘5 Carolyn Wishard, Mrs, Louis|

the Germans’. Her airmen have proved inferior. Like Rumania and Hungary she is only a military appendage to Germany. Italy is: suffering greatly from. air raids and seems to have little resistance. - She is short of many materials due to the blockade. In food, with a much lower normal standard of lving, she is more nearly self-supporting than Germany. But with poor administra=tion many |of her people are suf fering. She has no coal or oil except such as the Germans give to her. . Her clothing is in bad shape from lack of textiles. This winter will be the worst she has experienced. Thus on the home front, Italy has degenerated more than, Germany, Her zeal for this war has never been extravagant. It is weakening despite stiffening by German per= sonnel. ‘Attrition is likely to produce results on Italy sooner than upon Germany. :

(TOMORROW: The home fronts of Japan and the occupied ‘ democracies.)

MYERS HEADS DEMOCRAT CLUB.

Robert Allison ison Is. First Vice President of State Group.

Dewey E. Myers, defeated Democratic mayoral candidate, was elect

: ed president of the Indiana Demo-

cratic club, 319 N. Pennsylvania st, at the annual election: of officers yesterday. : Robert Allison was named irs vice president; John Linder, second vice president; Robert Carrico, secretary, and John Conley, treasurer. : Twenty-seven persons were elect

ed resident - directors. They are Frank Baker, George ‘Sadlier, Ar-

Burk, William D. Vogel, G. Li, Mec- | Farland; William ~Steckler, E.. J. Williams, - Jack Kammine, Henry Mueller, E. Curtis White, Chester Smith, Al' Feeney, J. K. Northam, John T. Sweeney; ‘Frank Quinn, Gideon D, Blain, E. W. Hoover, Charles Holder, E. Kirk McKinney, Thomas Blackwell and Mark Roden-

back. : ; Get Honorary Posts: Named honorary vice presidents

MeNusj, M.' Clifford owners;

nia Pierson, Mrs. Fred Albershardt = rie

14 Mrs. Thomas Mahaffey Jr.

ir. and Mrs. David W. Russell| gj

i co-chairmen of the district's

if ald organization.

“TAEMBLEY IS HEAD : OF CAMERA CLUB

"Varner B. Trembley is the new|.

sident of the Indianapolis

riera club, succeeding Mohn, R.1{

rey. ther new. officers are Jack