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3 Inside ‘Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum)

By Ernie Pyle HIRE 1

Lightoings 38). Tt 1s Wiel Job to. Kespl deadli-{

Loskbeed off German fighters and to absorb whatever

; ness the Nazis deal out.

It means longer rips than fighters ever male|

before. Sometimes they have to carry extra g

which they drop. when ‘the fight

to it with the enemy when they e long Sg ol at’ high altitudes.

are nad they have to navigate home. or The P-38 is a marvelous Siibiata an

h abo ‘are who'Bies tt loves It: But the very thing tha e sponge that is absorbing the the Lightning capable of these long

‘unfit i for the t7pe of combat, i. {aces when It gets

‘In England the fighters’ of the R. A. P. gets the glory because of the great Battle of Britain in 1940. But in America our attention has been centered on the bombers. The spectacular success of the flying fortresses when they went into action made the public more bomberconscious. There is still rivalry between the fighters and the bombers, as there always has been. That: in itself, is probably a good thing. But of late it has sort of slipped out of the category of rivalry—it has developed into a feeling on the part of the fighter pilots that they are neglected and unappreciated and taking a little more than their share on the nose. : Their ratio of losses is higher than that of the . bombers, and their. ration of credit is lower.

P-38 a Marvelous Plane

THERE HAVE BEEN exaggerations in the claims that the fortresses can take care of themselves without fighter escort. Almost any bomber pilot will tell you that he is deeply grateful for the fighter cover he has in Africa, and that if he had to go without it he would feel like a very naked man on his way to work. Our heavy bombers now are always escorted by

AN ‘INDIANA: AVE. record shop window had a sign on it yesterday, apparently advertising a record. Thé-sign ‘read: “Nightwatchman—What's Wrong With Me?” , .. On the sidewalk along Meridian, near the Seville yesterday, was ‘a pile of ‘broken glass, Mixed in with it were the remains of a pound of coffee. Fingermarks indicated most of it had been . seraped up and salvaged. . . . Add signs of the times; A sign in the window of the jewelry shop next . to the Alamo theater on N. H- ~ linois reads: “No alarm clocks or dollar watches.” . . . Seen on the statehouse lawn Monday: A .small’boy and a girl (evidently his sister) flying a kite. The kite was in the air but the string— being held by the girl—was caught in a tree The ‘boy was very angry with the girl, shouting: “Go back, you dummy; go on back, you big: dummy.”

F More About Borscht, Etc.

THAT RECENT item about borscht, which is spelled variously as borsch; borshch, ete., but is mere-

chest soup; ‘still: Is having. repercussions, Col. Everett ‘1. Gardner, Indiana employment security division di-

'" rector, who lived in Russia several years, insists it

should be spelled “borsch.” Says the colonel: “To the peasants in Russia; this consists of cabbage and water, boiled with no other ingredients having food

value. In the hotels, borsch is a cabbage soup, with cents; one garden rake, 25 cents.

there.

get in ‘a-fight’

It two Lighty

‘come out the little end of the horn, because the Lightnings are heavier and less maneuverable, The ideal work of the P-38 is as an interceptor, ground. strafer, or light hit-and-run bomber. It would be a perfect weapon in the hands of the Ger-

mans to knock down our daylight bombers. Thank|

goodness they haven't got it. Fighter Losses Run High CONVOYING BOMBERS is monotonous work for

‘the fighter pilot who lives on dash and vim. These

boys sometimes have to sit cramped in their little seat for six hours. In a bomber you can move around, but not in a fighter. The bomber has a big crew to do different things, but the fighter pilot is everything in one. He is his own navigator, his own radio operator, his own gunner. “When you hear the pilots tell all the things they have to do during a flight ‘it is amazing that they ever have time to keep a danger eye out for Germans. 3 Although our fighters in North Africa have accounted for many more German planes than we have lost, still our fighter losses are high. I have been chumming with a roomful of ‘five fighter pilots for the past week. Topight two of those five are gone.

water, salt: and pepper, dash of sour salt, sour cream. Mix everything except sour cream in a large kettle, bring to a boil and let simmer gently three hours or until meat is tender. When ready to serve, rémove the meat (this may be served as the meat course) and serve Soup accompanied by the sour cream.

Around the Town >

GEORGE FISHER, principal of school 54 (at 3150 E. 10th) is recuperating at his home after several

weeks in the hospital with an attack of spinal menin-

gitisc He hopes to be back at his desk in a few weeks. . . . A. B. Good, the schools’ business director, is taking his? ‘annual Vacation. He and Mrs. Good

left Monday for a couple of weeks at Ft, Lauderdale,

Fla. Wish we were there, too. . . . Lieut. Edward .J. Green, the former state senator, is home on leave for a couple of days. He's stationed at the ninth naval district headquarters at Great Lakes. He got quite an ovation yesterday when he visited the senate. . + + Earl Richert, The Times’ political columnist, got a fan letter yesterday that began: “Dear Mr. Richert —I like ‘your column in The News very much.” AB, such is fame.

Prices Back in 1888 i

ARTHUR TOMLIN “of the Public Service Co. of Ldlecaduss 1 on his desk that gives an idea of ces back 1888. It’s apparently the sales record of a grocery. Mr, Tomlin found it in a power plant in North Vernon. Some of the entries: show sales as follows: Butter, 25 cents a pound; coffee, 25 cents; sugar, 10 cents a pound; four dozen eggs, 40 . The Street

water, but includes different vegetables such as beets,” Railway officials still are trying to figure out ways of

tomatoes and also meat. In most cases, sour cream is used as a delicdcy in making borsch tasty. of course, the peasants.do not have sour cream nor extra vegetables, only cabbage and water.” A page from a recipe book handed to us lists “borscht” as follows: Three pounds of beef, two cups raw grated beets, one carrot, cut in ‘strips, three cups shredded cabbage, ong and. a half cups canned tomatoes, eight cups cold

Washington

. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—The belief here and in London that Hitler is depending on his submarines to save him from defeat is strengthened by the pro-

' motion of Admiral Karl Doenitz, commander of the

submarine. fleet, to supreme command of the German “navy. A submarine commander ot the head of the German naval service, we may be certain, will fight for top priorities in German manpower and materials for constant

expansion of the submarine fleet.

Just as we have had the Jeffers - army - navy-Nelson priorities struggle here as between synthetic’ rubber, high- octane gasoline and escort ships, so’ there ay have been a similar struggle in ' Germany.

. Hitler's chief hope now must be to slow dows the 2

allies submarine operations. “His army's strength has been ‘80 crippled in Russia that. its big offensive days may be over. : ‘Tt must have suffered

+ | also a sevee loss in prestige and: confidence,

Likewise the German. ir force has been losing superiority everywhere, and the American air operaBons sto just beginning ux thie fist America Bomb

getting folks to “move back in the car, please.” You'd think the rear end of cars and busses was poison, the way folks avoid it. The latest campaign being planned calls for a series of “teaser” placards hanging from the ceiling of cars. They start out with a picture of the operator down on his knees saying: “Pusleeze.” You have to keep on moving back to see what each of the signs says.

Raymond Clapper

choking the allied supply lines across the Atlantic and in the Mediterranean. The allies ‘have expected this for some time. We have had months of warning, particularly in the high rate of submarine construction in Germany and the difficulty of breaking it up by bombing. As has been stated by the British government in commons, ‘the highest rate of Sinkipgs in the whole war followed the allied landings in’ North: Africa. Subsequent improvement in the sinking rate carried with it no confidence of a basic improvement in the situation and both ourselves and the British expect some very destructive months ahead. Defensive measures through rapid construction: of escort ships, and more use of the airplane, and the combination ‘of ‘all other possihle kinds of tack, will be necessary to hold ourown.

Key to Fighting in Africa

THIS IS the silent war. All governments surround submarine warfare with extreme reticence. Our offi‘cials say the public does not appreciate the danger, ‘but it <has not been possible as yet to publish the ‘facts about submarine sinkings that would dramatize the. extent of the losses effectively. ‘Some good reasons exist for withholding the information, although a more liberal compromise might ‘be’ reached so that the public would become as aware . of the situation as it was last winter when submarines

were operating savagely along our own east coast.

More detailed information would ‘n)ake clear to the public the heavy pressure of necessity that lies

: behind restrictions, such as those on oil and gasoline.

This: silent, war in ‘the Atlantic will do much in the coming months to decide how far the fighting in Africa and Europe Will get ue Whlayeay. hs

armed services showed me

“and two Messerschmidt 109s] “Americans sre almost bound to

y Karsten Ohnstad Points. to

29 Jobs They Can Perform in War Work. BY ROSEMARY REDDING

found one of their most, if not their most, articulate spokesman.

tips,” makes a moving plea to the public to recognize that many of the blind do not ask to be served but to serve. The book was written “some months ago and now Karsten Ohnstad is practically “stumping” the country pointing out, among other things, that many of the blind can take and do have a place in war industry. Bobbs-Merrill published his book and he stopped off here this week to discuss some future writing with them, during an Interim) in. a lecture tour. He pointed out that there are 300,000 blind persons in} the coun-

standing on a corner Ww cup. A hundred years Bg

of the blind’s greatest : “Most of them do no } an object of pity. .or shut off from the s

kind by a well-meaning formed . public.

Wants to Teas

“Twenty per cent of employable in normal a small amount of th are,” he said. Mr. Ohnstad has a master’s degree and wants to teach in a college. Since he graduated from college five years ago he doesn’t believe the possibilities ment of blind people has

materially at all. He points out

Jobs but only

I { 0 h

em actually

not come to : of employment is through oydix

> a “major

t it. He adal public has ) become ‘acroblem since

not had a chance quainted with the

would like’ them to become acquainted with it. | He has investigated [the possibilities for employment and found more than 100 types of work which the blind [are performing successfully — teachers, storekeepers, librarians, musicians, telephone operators, ographers, salesmen; social workers, efc. “And in the field factory op-

erations—where ‘help is needed sof badly today—there are 29 different - kinds of operations ty are per-

forming from ly work to riveting and ‘running a punch press.” Adjusted to Lite

Mr. Ohnstad is an example of how a blind person can adjust him-

self and go on living a normal life. :

He travels alone the country. For five weeks boing A he was in Indianapolis “polishing” his

‘book. He lived in the 2000 block on}

Delaware st., and each morning boarded the bus alone and. went down to. Bobbs-Merril). He tells time by locating the hands with his fingertips. He types letters’ of

drafts of manuscripts to be read by|

sighted people. ‘He snaps his fin-|-gers to locate houses, . entrances, parked : cars, etc. He skates, he skis and he swims. He plays the

cornet and ‘plays cards. with hisf friends. -

He's been blind 13 of his 29 years.

After an injury ine soccer game, By Eleanor Roosevelt :

- panes tums tito commit of me in te hu

In Karsten Ohnstad the thou-| {sands of employable blind have

He's the young blind man whose s ‘book, “The World at My Finger-

_ |was killed yesterday in a plane

for employ-|

~ British Prime Minister Winston

Lieut, Dallas Shadinger

TED SHADINGER KILLED ON COAST

2d dndianapalis own’ Flier To Die in 2 Days; Fleet- ~~ wood Rites Friday.

Lieut. Dallas F. (Ted) Shadinger, son of Dr. Guy H. Shadinger, head of Butler's chemistry department,

crash at the Marine aviation base in El Centro, Cal. His was the second death in two days in the original “Indianapolis Own” squadron which entered] service a year ago. Ensign Robert L. Fleetwood, sports writer for The Indianapolis Times, was killed Monday in a crash at Norfolk, Va. Funeral services for Ensign Fleetwood will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at the home of his father, ‘Earl

Fleetwood, in Seymour, Ind. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery there.

Classmates at Butler

Lieut. Shadinger and Ensign Fleetwood were classmates at Butler. Lieut. ‘Shadinger was president of the first Loyalty Legion at the Fair-

view campus and was a member of |

Sigma Nu fraternity and the Utes. He was a native of Carlisle, Pa., but had spent most of his life in Indianapolis. He had completed three years at Butler before "entering the navy air corps. * ‘He graduated from ‘the Navy's School of the Air at Corpus Christi and was commissioned a lieutenant in the marine corps. + Of the 1000 men in Lieut. Shad-

‘were allowed to apply for transfer to thé marine corps.

One hundred and twenty-five ap-| plied and Lieut. Shadinger was one

of 15 accep Later the ‘men could express a hoice for work with multi-engined bombers. He was one of two who were chosen for this.

Had Bags Packed

Sent to the West coast, Lieut.

Shadinger continued his training and was considered one of the 10 finest pilots of the 60 selected from over the country to fly the larger ships CE ursday he had ‘his bogs packed to come home.’ At the last moment the orders were rescinded. A graduate of Shortridge high school, Lieut. Shadinger had been a freshman track man at Butler.: Besides his father, he is survived by his mother and a sister, Miss Mary Jane Shadinger of Miami. Mrs. Shadinger is now with his: sister in. Miami. “

Churchill still

Paints Pictures WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U. 8).

“Churchill is still pursuing his. hobby of landscape painting, President Roosevelt disclosed - today, © : ‘Mr. Roosevelt said that ‘when he ‘and Mr. Churchill nt to Marrakech. after their Casablanca meeting, the British prime minister took with him his painting tools to capture scene in oil. He said he and ‘Churchill ’ “arrived at sunset. When he left: Marrakech for Monrovia, ‘Churchill was sketching the.

G. 0. P. Leators Anticipate Labor's Approval of New Features.

to give majority leaders time for in-

vestigation. : A decision on what the final

| workmen's - compensation bill will ‘|16ok like was reached by a Repub-

lican policy | committee last night and this time, G. O. P. leaders said, the decision is final. Under the agreement certain fea‘|tures of a labor-sponsored workmen’s bill will be incorporated in the Republican platform bill which has passed the lower house and now is in the senate labor committee.

additional liberalizing amendments desired by labor groups will be tacked onto the party bill by the senate committee. As now scheduled, workmen's compensation changes are believed to be satisfactory to labor. Five major additions to the majority bill weer agreed upon: Asks Use of Home Courts

“1..A provision that employers ‘must provide artificial eyes or limbs and necessary braces for injured. workers in addition: to the injury compensation. . 3. A requirement that injuries must be reported to-the state labor board within a week. 3. Permission to prosecute viola~ tions of the werkmen’s compensation law. in the home county of the

violation occurred, instead of re-

brought beforé the Marion county criminal court as under present law. 4. A clause requiring that employ-| ers pay expenses incurred by an employee in traveling to have an examination and that the employee be compensated for time lost in obtaining examination. 5. Definition of the loss of hearing, setting compensation at 5 weeks for loss of hearing in one ear and 200 weeks for loss of hearing in both ears.’ Nothing is collectible under the present law for: ‘at least a year.

NAME WILLKIE

| iniger’s “class, the top 15: pet’ cent]. i

Al Norris’ of Rushville Is ~ G. 0. P. Chairman for . Day-Long Visit.

_ Al Norris of Rushville, 10th district G, O. P. chairman, has been named by the Republican state committee as chairman of an arrangements committee of five members to manage the day-long program for Wendell Willkie who will be here Feb. 11 to make two “Lincoln Day” speeches. ‘Other members of the arrangements committee are Mrs. Grace Reynolds, Indiana Republican national committeewoman; Mrs. Fern Norris, 11th district chairman; William Myrray, G. O. P. publicity| . director and president of the Republican Editorial association, and Claude . Billings, secretary of the state committee. Mr. Willkie will address the- general assembly at 11 a. m. Feb. 11 and at 12:30 will be a luncheon guest of the state committee. - A reception will be given for Mr. Willkie from 2:30 to 4:30 p. m. in room 742 of the Claypool hotel at which many party leaders are: expected: to be present. ‘Members of the arrangements committee said it was not known yet whether Mr. Willkie would give a second speech before the state organization at the luncheon.

lt Se an apis nt

The office of price administration

largest ‘net income in‘ history, ap-

snow-capped Atlas mountains.

prosimately $1,000,000,000 in. 1942.

Hanfstaengl Held Hitler’ s Life i in His Palm, F

According to the present plan, the|

worker or in the county where the

quiring that all such prosecutions be,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U. P.).—|C

announced today that price control x {saved the nation’s farmers, with the}

Estelle carey

TORTURE BY FIRE

Chicago ‘Police Ht ‘Hunt Hoodlums, Hint : Motive May . ‘Be Vengeance. CHICAGO, Feb, 3 (U. P.).—Po-

tiful red-haired Estelle Carey was tortured by fire, perhaps in an effort to wring from her. the location of an imprisoned gangster’s millions, before shé was bludgeoned and slashed to death in her apartment. Acting Police Captain ~ William

tion, gave this reconstruction of the last. moments of the glamorous queen of Nick ‘Dean’s gambling casino, the fashionable Colony club: Estelle was placed in a chair, evidently by a man she had admitted to the apartment. She was struck several ‘light : blows in addition to the crushing strokes of a rolling pin, which was found bloodstained nearby. Her nose. was roken: Her throat] was slashed by a butcher knife. |

Flames, Sear en

coat and flames licked up the shapely limbs which had made her a popular photographer's ‘model. “She: apparently staggered out of the chair after her torturer,” Drury

her waistline, but ‘not until she had been severely burned around the legs.” ‘Dr. Thomas Carter, the coroner’s physician; in: his first report, seems to bear ofit my theory that she suffered agony.”

roundup of known -hoodlums today in, an effort to determine whether the vengeance of an ex~Capone gangster was the motive for the murder, : Chief of Detectives John L. Sullivan ‘announced ‘the arrest ‘of Lawrence (Dago) Mangano, gambler: and former Capone gang member. . Mangano was - closely associated with Dean, former . sweetheart of the dead woman. ’ Sullivan said: he would question all hoodlums ‘frequenting the near North side’ night club district where| Miss Carey. gamed a small. fortune; as a dice girl. ‘Dean (Convicted

He. said the police believed a re-| lationship might exist: between the|

conviction of Dean on charges of conspiracy to extort more than $1, 000,000 from movie: executives. He], was. sentenced fo eight years, and

*|some of his friends were known to

have ‘held a grudge: against Miss

* Fotos emmy. signs of ‘a: struggle}: kitchen, where 8 _shaip|s

{EVIDENCE | FOUND.

lice found evidence today that beau- |

Drury, in charge of the investiga-| panies.

‘Police alréady have begun ‘al:

crime and the statement given by| = Miss Oatey iu. 1981 which led ib the

her her burn aartment yesterday]

Demands Probe - of . Reports of Lavish Lobby Parties.

Investigation of any reports lavish spending to entertain leg! tors and influence legislation wi demanded by Senator Phelps (R. Ft. Wayne) on the of the state senate yesterday. “Stories of luxurious en

i ment provided by certain lo

groups in past sessions has cast reflection ‘upon ‘the general bly and I want to see that it doe

“i have a statement here by a former state instance 4 con missioner who said lobbyists tor

activities here two years ago. Cites $12,000 Expense

“Several insurance men in Wayne reported they spent $12.0 lobbying for .and against bills ears ago.” Senator Phelps said he would see fo it personally that any ) lavish entertaining of legisla this session are investigated tl

{| when a bill authorizing mutual

isnurance companies to write icies. on. additional hazards. bill was passed unanimously, bill introduced in the se yesterday. would permit several =n iton dollars’ worth of real esta Indiana to continue tax free for more years. : Continues Tax-Free The property affected by the is that owned by regilious, frat and educational organizations held for them" by holding The measure would tinue the tax-ftee provisions Mazxch 1, 1944, until March 1, ET , house a ‘war-time emergency that would permit the state chasing agent fo buy on the © market food and other supplies § state institutions. without a ing for bids. The. law would after the: war. :

Restore Russian

So “Pb. 3.—One of features in the. steady growth

said; “and fel} to the floor, prevert-| * ing ‘the fire from ‘spreading above

sistence of Premier Josef Stalin. mi as an outward symbol.

cow arEiar, and other con stationed here; have donned she der straps and emblems—not use since the revolution adopted

“chevrons’ and lapel which had previously designe rank. : In the next. wo. weeks, “transition will be extended to the units of the Soviet army.

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the great mass of a dis

fnsreasingly restive under bomb Col. Osvaldo Valencia, who 1