Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1943 — Page 19

FRIDAY, JAN. 29, 1943

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Hoosier’ Jsie A FORWARD AIRDROME IN .FRENCH NORTH AFRICA— (By Wireless) — is a continuation of the story of nine American | boys who got lost, accidentally ran into German jump from their fortress on thelr very first day in the war zone. The bombardier, Lieut. Victor Coveno of Cleveland is the gay one of the outfit. It was all ‘marvelous to him. He recalls dll’ the funny little things that happened. For instance, about the German fighters who surprised them, Coveno says: “You know what I said? I said, ‘Let’s shoot them tin cans down.’” But the tin cans kept out of Coveno’s range. ; Finally, late that night, they ran out. gas and had to jump. They had a box of vitamin pills aboard, and they each ate a handful of pills just before jumping. Coveno grabbed a 45 automatic in one hand and a flashlight in the other, and jumped that way, carrying them all the way down. One of the sergeants tucked an orange under his arm. And then while plunging through space he had to reach up and get the orange in his left hand so he could free that arm for pulling the ripcord. He saved fhe orange then, pe later he let it drop

somehow. He’s still cussing about it. Coveno sang all the way down. He doesn’t re- . member what he sang, but he just sang because:he was so happy about that pra However, it oscillated so badly he got seasick.

Get Tired of Goat Meat

PARACHUTES IN the war zone are ‘packed with chocolate rations, and the boys stuffed a few additional rations in their pockets before jumping. On the ground, Lieut. Devers ordered them to cut their rations to half portions, [in case they should be in the desert a long time. s it turned out, their parachute rations were still {untouched when they finally reached an American airdrome. They ate goat meat all the time with the They don’t care much for goat meat.

abs.

Vagabond

ter planes, and had to

. 80 years old, had only one eye and no teeth.

Arabs are naturally wizards at finding water holes, and the boys would fill their canteens at these. They always remembered to put in purifying pills, which we! all carry. ¢ They slept "in their parachutes all five of their nights in the desert. They didn’t sleep much, for it was too cold. Devers appointed guards each night, for|they still weren’t sure where they were.

By Ernie Pyle

During the day, when riding razorback camels in|’ utmost agony, they all sang that Bing Crosby-Bob|:

Hope song, “The Road to Morocco.”

They were aj:

iong way from Morocco but they felt that the song:

sort of fitted into their bac! und. The old Arab who first picked them up was a spec-

tacular character, a true nomad moving from day to}:

day with his family and his herd of goats.

They talked to him in sign language. He told them he had heard their plane the night before.

He was}:

The boys tried to give him jmoney when they):

parted. He wouldn’t take it, but he did accept some knives.

New Outfits? Not in Africa

" LIEUT. WATT was the only one in the bunch who

saved his ripcord. Several of the crew arrived carrying specimens of a peculiar rock picked up from the sands. It's called desert rose, and is a hard sandstone. It really looks like a rose. It’s a precious souvenir they'll always keep. All of them lost everything they had on the plane. When they arrived they naively said: “We want to go to the quartermaster in the morning and get some new outfits.”

Everybody laughed loudly. You don't get mnew|

outfits here. You wear just what you ve got on, and keep on wearing it for months and months. These boys feel miserable about bungling their trip and losing a brand-new ship. They are humble about it. And they are almost worshipful in the presence of the veterans here who have seen so much action. But they will get a new ship, and in a few months they will be able to talk like veterans to other new

arrivals.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

A GROUP of Republican, women - gathered at the Garfield Republican clubrooms on Shelby st. one day last week to hear addresses by several major county officials. The meeting was barely tinder way when in burst a couple of uniformed cops. “What's going ‘on here?” they demanded. The women explained. “Excuse it, please,” the embarrassed officers stammered. “We saw the crowd and Just supposed it was a bingo game.” . . . Add signs of spring: C. Stilwell, 1635 Gerard st., Speedway City, reports he has some yellow jonquils that are mixed up in their seasons. Mr. Stilwell noticed their little green shoots above the ground Jan. 21, right after the big cold spell, and they're still there, an inch and a half high by now. .. . The county rationing administration bulletin reports that Mrs. L. D. Foster, 44 E. 52d st., says her husband, who is in the army and is stationed at Washington, sends ‘his suits back

iw. home to be cleaned and pressed.

- Whoops—Wrong Library A POLICE CAR skidded to 2 stop in front of the Indianapolis public library on St. Clair st. A police- * man hopped out and, seeing one of our agents, asked: “Say, is this the state library?” Told where he would find the state library, he hopped back in his car and with red light on and siren shrieking, went raging through a red traffic signal in the right direction this time. (P. S. The run he was on was a false alarm.) . . . The Nelson Rockefeller committee on ; Inter-American affairs is considering Riley hospital as the locale for a 35-mm. movie designed to contrast for our Latin American friends the difference between the democracies and Ci Riley hospital is

Washington

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—It doesn’t ‘necessarily follow that because important military decisions were made at Casablanca there will be an invasion of Europe after breakfast tomorrow, or day after. - Impatience is likely to follow the high hopes built up in the enormous volume of words that is being printed and spoken over the radio about the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting in Africa. Military operations take time. Since there is no sign of an early unconditional surrender, we must count on sufficient time for the _ elaborate preparations that big operations require. It was nearly six months ago that we landed on Guadalcanal, : and we have not yet cleaned out the Japs. we landed in Africa nearly three months ago. Most of that time we have been building air

*% fields and bringing up equipment for the coming bat-

tle of Tunisia. We can’t judge the future progress of the war necessarily by ‘the more spectacular rush episodes, such as the British chase of Rommel across Africa.

Rommel was trying to get away.

Fight Slowly Against Subs

THERE CAN be no comparison between that kind of movement and the amount of time required to prepare for an attack, especially. for an invasion of strongly held territory. The North African landing was some four months in preparation, and planning

had begun even earlier. Before we can begin hitting ‘at southern Europe, the axis must be driven out of Tunisia. That battle, so dispatches report, may begin any time now. Bad weather has held us up. That fight may last for some time; While our people have no doubts whatever about it, they figure

‘My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday. —T spent yesterday eve-

‘ning. ab the Jewish community center U. S. O. club. F They. are inaugurating a series of Wednesday evening [ programs dedicated to the allied nations. Last evening was the opening. night. Lord Halifax, the British ambassador, spoke, and then some Brjtish movies, descriptive of the life of the people in Great Britain and their total war effort, were shown. I was glad to tell them a : little of my own experiences.

Even from pictures, ‘it is hard’

to realize what it means for a whole nation to unite as com- . pletely as they have done in Great Britain in fighting this war. It is \ so far away from us that we still have very little notion of what a completely mobilized nation ean accomplish. China, of course, knows, and Russia knows. Some one who has just returned from Russia,

ve ot hos there the type of :

. below zero Wednesday of last week, adding:

considered ideal for the movie, since it was conceived by civic-spirited citizens, the money was contributed by individuals interested in the welfare of ill and crippled children, and it's named in honor of a poet instead of a general or a politician. ;

Around the Town

STREET SCENE: Two policemen diverting traffic around a whitewing at the east approach to the circle yesterday while the whitewing swept up the remains of several soft drink bottles that had fallen off a truck. All three deserve “good citizen” medals. sign atop the Electric building Wednesday night. Some of the lights were out, making it read: “Ind--= apolis --we- --- Light Co.” . . . Corp. Edwin Rose of International News Service is back from Alaska. He stopped off here a couple of days en route to officers’ training school in Maryland. “Tom Creasser, Water company meter reader and former scoutmaster, applied for a job as cook when he went

‘into the army recently. So, when he got to Miami,

they gave him a job as drill instructor.

Where It Gets Cold

FROM RIVERS, Manitoba, Pilot Officer David Marshall of the R.C.AF. writes to inquire: “What's all this balderdash in the paper about it being cold down there? Are you kidding?” Dave says it got 58 “You wear everything you own and ¢an borrow and then only go outside to dash between buildings. When you do ‘your eyes water as soon as you've walked five feet and before the tears can drop off your cheek, they're frozen into little pellets. You try not to breathe because the air stings your lungs with sharp, biting needle points. But you can’t help it since the cutting wind causes you to gasp for breath.” Whew!!! And we thought it was cold here! Dave, fortunately, is being transferred to the Toronto airport.

By Raymond Clapper

on going through a real fight to throw the Germans out of Africa. ‘A factor that impatient people do not appreciate is the slow fight against the submarine and the drain it makes on our shipping. We have broken all shipbuilding records in the last year yet we have been able just about to replace the Suippins ts) has been lost.

We Must Get the Goods Across

THE DEMANDS that military operations are making on our shipping space are .indicated by the steady tightening of restrictions on consumption of

~ gasoline and fuel oil in the United States. Our pro-

duction is gaining and in most items has fulfilled expectations and more. But it must be carried across the ocean. We forget, too, that the campaigns now going on must: be supplied continuously and that any additional campaigns will commit additional shipping for|. an indefinite period. For many such reasons the time-table of war is slow. Hitler's race through the low countries and France was an unusual thing, perhaps unexpected by his own staff. The Japanese had their three months of Hghtning war in the Pacific, taking advantage of our surprise, Jack of preparation, and the general confusion. Then they slowed down, and they find it, difficult to undertake new campaigns now. If we keep in mind some of the time-consuming difficulties, we are less likely to indulge in unwarranted expectations of early victory. Hitler, faced with: the unconditional-surrender terms of the Casablanca conference, is like a gangster surrounded in a building by the FBI. He won't be able to escape. But he is in there with a gun, desperate, knowing he won't come out alive, and determined to make it ‘as costly as possible by shooting it out.- It may take a while to get him and it may cost some lives to do it, but the gangster hasn't a chance. That's about the position Hitler is in today.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

I remember that my eldest son told me long ago how much impressed he was in China that, because of the lack of machinery, people had to do the work ‘which we think only machines can accomplish. Fortunately, these countries, where ‘they had less opportunity for industrial development, have populations capable of meeting this kind of emergency. When I was in Red Bank, N. J. the other day,|

they were using their U. S. O. program to serve the|

‘parts of the country. ‘Again, last might, I found that “girl ‘government workers here formed the corps of hostesses for the U. S. O. group I was with, and the club house was also open to men government workers. ‘I am very glad to see this done because it brings service men and the other workers in the

ot mss 8 nh %* help, 35. gives) wil be sponsored by the EEE hospital, ‘making dynam 5 the ( f the frst Midwestern hos-|s

hard us 4 feshing of unity in our common. struggle,

Stars Aplenty fi /

Stuart Erwin (left) and June Collyer, Hollywood movie stars, will appear at the all-tar talent show at Cadle tabernacle at 7:30 p. m. to-

morrow night.

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The Light company had trouble with the big|

“Three former ‘Broadway stars, ow stationed at Cap Atterbury in the service of Uncle San. will

will be: among the host of entertainers aiding the infantile paralysis fund at the Cadle tabernacle’ pros

gram.

be back on the stage tomorrow. They are, left to right, Pvts. Russ Slagle, Sandy McPHerson and Sergt.

S. Peterson.

Hali-Hour Radic Show Port Of Cadle Tabernacle Frolic

Marion county will .go all-out in the. battle against infantile paral ysis tomorrow night when an all-star talent show, dances and enter

tainment programs bring to a climax the local activities in the 10th):

annual fund drive of the National

Highlight of Marion county’s annual observance of the President's

Fund for Infantile Paralysis.

birthday will be a two-hour program of radio, screen and stage talent

at Cadle tabernacle, Stars of the National Barn Dance radio program will present their half-hour broadcast over a nationwide hookup from the stage of Cadle tabernacle. Joe Kelly, quiz-mas-ter of the Quiz Kids, will be master of ceremonies, and entertainers will include Lulabelle and Skyland Scottie, Hoosier Hot Shots, Lieut. Comm. Eddie Peabody, banjo player; the Dinning sisters, vocal trio; Arkie, the Arkansas woodchopper, and Pat Buttram, “the sage of Win-

‘| ston county.”

6 Models to Appear

Also on the program will be three Powers models, Audrey Long, Ellen Allerdice, Angela Green; Stuart Erwin and June Collyer, Hollywood stars, ‘and Singin’ Sam, radio performer, accompanied at the piano by J. Russell Robinson, composer of “Margie” and “Mary Lou.” Governor Schricker will greet the audience, and Judge H. Nathan Swaim, president of the executive council of the foundation in Marion county, will speak. Three former Broadway stars, now stationed at Camp Atterbury, also will appear on the program. They are Pvts. Sandy McPherson and Russ Slagle and Sergt. S. Peterson. :

Symphonic Choir and Maennerchor|

The Indianapolis symphonic choir, directed by Elmer Steffen, and the Indianapolis Maennerchor male chorus, directed by Clarence Elbert, will sing, accompanied by a double brass sextet. A patriotic organ concert will be played by ‘Dessa Byrd Rappaport, and Capt. Alvin Myrice; Ft. Harrison chaplain, will give the invocation. Led by Capt. George Campbell of Camp Atterbury, the singbell of “The Star-Spangled Banner” by the audience will conclude the

There will be no reserved s the price of admission is $1.10. T ets for seats on the. stage will: $5.50 for two people. Dance at ‘Tomlinson Hall

. Negro. organizations of Totes

st.; clubs at 2245! Riverside drive; In

ave.; York st. ing a talk by President’ Roosevelt

to 11:15 p. m. over the four major networks. Originating in New York, the program will swing about the country with pickups from New York, Honolulu and Hollywood. Clifton Fadiman will be master of ceremonies, and- the program will include Sammy Kaye's orchestra, the Great Lakes naval training station band and choir, a 40-piece WAAC band from Ft..Des Moines, Ia, Artie Shaw and his orchestra, Gene Autry, Bob Hope and other film celebrities.

Visit War Plang

Some of the entertainers for tomorrow night's Cadle tabernacle show will visit Allison’s at 11:45 a. m. tomorrow for a short program. Governor Schricker will speak over the public address system to the war workers. Other visitors will: be Joe Kelly,’ Stuart Erwin, June Collyer, the. Powers models, Lieut. Comm. Eddie Peabody, Judge 'Swaim and W. S. Akin, executive secretary of the show, and Mrs. Louis R. Markun, a member of the county chapter ‘board of directors. Other war plants co-operating in the ticket drive are the CurtissWright ,Corp., Schwitzer-Cummins, the Link-Belt Co., E. C. Atkins and Co., and: P. R. Mallory and Co. Executive officers of the county chapter will attend a banquet at 5:30 p. m..tomorrow at the Claypool hotel, - with Judge Swaim presting.

7 Halt of Money Stays Hee | Bifty per cent of the" ‘money

2 raised by the Marion county chap-

pjser wil be sant ‘to the national er 10 re Baa ine |

* {Sita the Gity hospital, the James|s

In the past eight years, Indian- fof

their clubhouse, 1305 -N. Delaware |’ Associataed American Syrian: dianapolis Saengerchor at 1238 Park South Side "Turners at ‘their|§ hall, and Joy lodge 5, 322 E. New A one-hour radio program fentuils

will be broadcast from 10:15 p. m.|

- remaining |

ll{apolis -institutions have. received oT ever

Fletcher Henderson eo.» leads orchestra at Tomlinson hall.

‘tonight by. J, Russell Robinson, Lou.”

Ellen Allerdice . . . one of three Powers models on the program.

Singin’ Sam (above), radio star; will be accompanied at the planes

composer of *Margie” and “Mary,

Elmer Steffen . . . directs Indian. apolis symphonic choir.

EXILES’ PEACE TERMS BARED

Treaty Proposals to Washington.

LONDON, Jan. 29.—The peace terms which the allied govern-ments-in-exile at London wish to have imposed on Germany, were taken to the United States by Gen. Wiladislgw Sikorsky, when the Polish premier visited the United States early in December, it may be revealed now. - While the minimum terms ‘which

to see exacted had been generally agreed on beforehand, Gen. Sikorsky was expressing primarily the Polish views when he submitted the outline ‘at Washington. These were laid before President Roosevelt, in addition to the memorandum Sikersky had drawn up on allied strategy. The ° reconstitution of Poland within - frontiers permitting more effective defenses than the pre-war

‘of the peace settlement demand. Full reparation by Germany for all property taken or destroyed is the

the exiled European :leaders "wish

Polish: state possessed, is the basis |.

Jap-Backed Dictator Made Papuan Natives Love Briti

By HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Correspondent WITH ALLIED FORCES, SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Jan. 27 (Delayed) —Big, bad Po’ Unga, the’ native dictator set up by

_|the Japanese, has fled and his

grateful neighbors of the Orokaiva tribe in Papuan New ea, who never before have n' friendly with the British, now walk up and shake the white man’s hand. For the villagers on the vorthern Papuan coast the war is over and they. are returning, to the homes from which they were driven six months ago when the Japanese invaded Buna, but it will be a long

time before they forget Po’ Unga.

‘This ' cruel native was made a gangster dictator: by the Japanese and set to intimidating the villagers, Po’ Unga organized raiding: parties and despoiled villages—forcing peace-loving natives to co-operate with the invaders. He preached that Australian rule

was finished and convinced skeptics} among his listeners, by knocking He became |!

their heads together. ‘the most feared and hated man in

Papua. Feathers Failed to Save Him

Pa’ Unga continued his banditry. He seized Japanese defense pits

- .laround one village and took over a

captured machine gun that would have exploded if he had ever disapvered how to fire it. But it took only one white man and | six native police boys: to wreck Po’

|| Unga’s “kingdom.” Ome of his fol- | lowers: fought the police with a 7 | stone club. while another tried the _ | terrorizing, effects of a feathered headress, but it was no go:

Now that Po’ Unga has fled, and

Even after the Japanese defeat, ||

mint” (the government) has’ his promises and Yestored homes.

In some sections enough nati : labor has been recruited to. \ working rubber trees capable of pros ducing ‘a million and Pe annually. Papua has‘ shown : whi must be done in Malaya and Java in order to completely reclaim natives’ loyalty. Many villages recently deser are now filling up with natives = are busily snipping ‘the ‘grown: grass, stem by stem, outside huts. Ppt-bellied babies, bali-b: ed belles, and . bushy-headed offer travelers huge golden ripepla tains along the wayside. The ning natives greet the white with the happy words: “Japs he gone.” ; :

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