Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1943 — Page 9

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Hoosier Vagabond

IN ALGERIA (Delayed) ~The sawhones who aid-

ed me to victory in my recent battle with North * burgh, took an airplane trip to a neighboring country|

African flu was a young Boston ‘doctor. named Lieut. Albert Deschenes. Lieut, Deschenes and I had Happeried o be ona : couple of trips together before I

y fell 11° consequently ‘we already knew each other by our first | Thus the doctor's bedside }

N ew. Technique on Fly-Swatting Furthermore, I was the first of my breed that he had ever seen,

and he felt it would be a bad ' cago, one of the press censors, came past to help

' cheer me up, and since I was busy killing flies with

names. : manner was all that the most plaintive patient could ask.

omen to lose his: first correspons dent.

more newspaperman for posterity. The army takes no pay for medical services rendered. of course, so my only hope is to, keep on surviving all the sundry foreign germs for the duration, and wind up in Boston sonie beautiful day in 1944 and buy Dr,.Al Deschenes a drink, He'll need it by then:

People Bring You Things

ANOTHER OF the medical corpsmen who came to

render segvices at my bedside was Corp. William C.

Barr—a high school teacher by profession. Barr lives

in Tyrone, Pa, and he taught arithmetic, history

and English in the Tyrone high school before going into the army. He is a bachelor. Barr has a degree from Muskingum college at New Concord, O., and has been working on his master’s at Penn State. Youd think it would be pretty devastating on a fellow of Barr's background to swing into

the rough~and-tumble life of the army. But he says

he’s had no trouble adjusting himself.

He actually enjoys his work in the siedical corps, |

even though some ‘of it is pretty menial. He says he'd rather be here than in any other branch of the army.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Earl Beck, director of organization and methods for Eli Lilly & Co, member of the state personnel board, zealous supporter ‘of the merit system in government, lover of animals and a farming enthusiast. Earl Beck is a tall, genial sort of fellow who stands out in any crowd. Now 48, he is 6 feet 2; weighs 200 or so and has an erect posture. His dark, curly hair is speckled with gray. He ‘walks with somewhat of a shuffle, on his heels and with his toes pointing out. He wears glasses for reading be- : cause he's farsighted. When he forgets them, he has to hold a paper at arm’s length, or ask someone to-read it to him, He's deliberate and well poised, = appears solemn but really isn’t: His sense of humor is keen but subtle, and he’s a gentle teaser. Somewhat poker faced, he has an easy smile. And: he’s a good: listener to other. people's problems. . He has an unéanny ability to remember people and associate them with incidents, bujgglong some other lines he’s a bit absent minded.

Interested in His Hogs

¥ REARED: ON a farm, he never has lost his love for the soil. He now lives on a 230-acre farm near 7ist ‘st. and Marsh rd., and actively supervises the farm’s management. He keeps books on the farm, and reads lots of books on agriculture. 8

“Earl Beck +

& * He has a dozen or so milch cows, and 3 is very inter

ested in his hogs. He's especially fond of horses, has three for riding, and is forever petting them. The “livestock” on the farm also, includes two dogs, a setter named Pepper, a Scottie named Bonnie, and a couple of cats—Skippie and Ivan. Ivan is his special pet, follows him around and cuddles up to him When " he lies down.

Washington

: WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Those headlines are back again—"“WPB Menaced by Its Worst Internal, Row.” So what? : Let the row go on. We have had several of them, and the first dozen or two were interesting. They had ‘us scared into thinking that if the controversy wasn’t settled at once, war + production would stop, the war . would stop, everything would stop except Hitler, who would be over here ‘on the next boat, | WPB can have its worst internal row for all I care, and it ' can go on forever so far as I am concerned. I'm not listening. War production rattles on during rows as well as between rows. It is like a Chinese theater audi-. ence that goes right on talking, gossiping, reading newspapers and wandering around (to greet friends without being at all disturbed by the drama on the | Stage that proceeds to its tragic climax. +4 So war production -proceeds without much regard “to the drama on the confused stage at Washington.

See if Anybody Cares ;

FOR INSTANCE, while this latest WPB row was being advertised as the biggest yet, the figures came out showing that in December we delivered to the , army, navysand our allies 5489 airplanes. That is

# about 1400 a week. December production of planes

was 671 more than in November. “How do you like that, Hitler? ‘Last year we produced almost as much steel as the other mite nations and the axis combined—we actuhave passed them with two weeks’ more Bro Tet WPB have 2ts worst internal row and see if anybody cares, or even bothers to kriow who is rowing

wiih whiom.,

My Day

3 WASHINGTON, Friday. —This morning I attended ‘an 11 o'clock breakfast at the Congressional Women’s club, They were very wise in building the addition. to their clubhouse before the war, so now they have a beautiful Kitchen, out of which came a delightful

breakfast. The lady next to me er seen hominy grits beexplained

had nev ne that she came

So. Dr. Deschenes leveled : his full professional skill in my direction; and thus preserved one

‘essay of their own,

‘ merely knock an African fly off his pins. It would

the last few. years for a couple of weeks in February.

‘they will go on quarreling.

menaced by its biggest internal row, or whether any-

bringing you things. Sergt. Chuck Conick, from Pitts-

and brought me back bananas, grapefruit and lemons. The Red Cross sent me books to read. The sentries downstairs sneaked up with cups of hot coffee late at night. Even a general wandered in one night}: and sat on my bed and talked a while, thinking he was in somebody else’s room, IT presume. i

ONE AFTERNOON Lieut. Duncan Clark "of Chi-

a folded-up French newsmaper, he contributed a little item on fly-killing tect ue. Lieut. Clark said Le had discovered. in some earlier research, that flies always take off backwards. Cansequently if you'll aim about two inches behind them, you'll always get your fly on the rise. So for the next few days I murdered flies under this scientific system. And I must say that T never missed a fly as long as I aimed behind it. The African flies, incidentaliy, are worth a little ‘They look just like American flies, but there are two differences. One, while eating they raise high up on their legs and flutter their wings, like a chickén stretching. And, two, they are the most indestructible flies I've ever seen. it is almost impossible to kill an African fly outright. It simply cannot be done with one swat. You stun him with the first blow, and then you have to beat him to death. One blow with the Sunday New York Times would

require the Sears Roebuck catalog to bludgeon one into insensibility. And if you insisted upon execution at one stroke, I know of no instrument carrying sufficient weight and power short of the unabridged Webster's dictionary. Thus ends one phase of my North African campaign.

Mr. Beck enjoys walking around the farm, preferably with a companion, On the farm, he dresses like a, farmer, sometimes sits down to a meal in his farm clothes even though he has guests present.

Started.at $10 a Week

BORN IN THORNTOWN. he, attended country grade school, was graduated from Shortridge in 1914 and got his first regular job with the old Empire Automobile Co., which built the - “Little Aristocrat.” After three months there, he went to work at Lilly's

at $10 a week as a time study man. That was 1914. And he’s been with Liliy’s ever since—29 years—many

years as personnel director. He's a past president of |

the Indianapolis Personnel association and was the first president of the Community Fund Employees’ Fellowship. Always prompt himself, he insists on others being on time at meetings, loves to demand a cigar from the last person to arrive, His favorite brand is Park & Tilford.

Likes Sporty Ties

SIMPLE, IN HIS habits, he wears clothing that's conservative except for his ties, about which he’s rather fussy. They're usually sporty. A past president of Meridian Hills, he used to play golf but hasn't had much time for the game since he acquired his farm a few years ago. He works hard at his vacations, goes in a hurry and ‘hates to slow down long enough to eat. He likes to go to Cape Cod, and has been going to Florida

Before he got the farm, he used to go on fishing expeditions up in. Wisconsin and Minnesota. “He likes to play cards, including pinochle; plays Tripoli about once a: week. He reads rapidly and has a knack for analyzing figures at a glance. And his favorite remark when he’s disgusted about something is: 1 more I like my hogs.

By Raymond Clapper

William Jeffers, the rubber administrator, says there hasn't been a pound of synthetic rubber produced in a government-owned plant, and Undersecretary of War Patterson say ’'taint so and that a lot of rubber has been made in government-owned plants. And Mr. Patterson has some figures which sound as though Mr. Jeffers was incorrect.

But even while they fight it out before a congres- |’

sional committee, the White House has given the goahead on the schedule that will give synthetic rubber and high-octane gasoline both the best possible break.

Quarrels Really Don’t Matter

. YOU CAN TELL these people not to quarrel but Mr. Roosevelt told them months ago to button up their lips and to clear their dirty cracks about each other through Elmer Davis. It is about as futile as I expect to be the order of Gen. Eisenhower that no one over there must criticize an ally. ' Gen. Eisenhgwer can issue his order but it will be the first’ time in recorded history if it stops soldiers in one uniform froin making cracks about soldiers in another kind of uniform. You might as well stop trying to prevent the army from criticizing the navy and vice versa and the ‘marines from being a little tactless about them both. It isn't very good manners, and it doesn’t help, but ‘not very much can be done about it. War and war production seem to go on regardless of what people say about each other. The current that carries everything along now is big and swift. So it doesn’t much matter whether -WPB is

body around here can get along with Mr. Jeffers.

“The more I see of some people, the!

One sdvaniage in’ being sick is that people. Keep :

. : ; ve SRE

“| Middle East Leader Came

Up Hard Way and Has

Trust of Men. .

By . CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—If the army men who know him best could elect the No. 1 man to direct the job of carrying the war to Germany,

would almost surely be the choice. That's a fair measure of the appointment of Gen. Andrews yesterday as commander of U. S. army forces in the European theater. By ability and background, and by the affection and confidence in which he is held by the army, Andy Andrews rates the recognition and responsibility which come to him in one of the most important command assignments of the war. He's

fighting man. Was: Early Plane Booster

Silver-haired, trimly stocky, handsome, 58 this week, Gen. Andrews is an airman who has fought as hard as any man alive for recognition of airpower, but he’s also counted one of the army's finest field commanders. He's a Tennesseean who came out West Point in 1906 and who has been through all the command schools and soldiered all over the world since. Back in the mid-"30s, when Gen. Andrews” was head of the general headquarters air force, a starving outfit having a tough time trying to tell the country what air power meant, he wrote: “1 am convinced that the fourmotored bombing plane is the weapon of hope for this nation.” Today he gets ready to deliver the blows he has been preparing for years. Loyal to Subordinates

Of Frank Andrews his friends say: “Many men are loyal to their superiors.) He's loyal the same way to subordinates.” There have been soldiers who got to the top by never sticking out their necks. This, soldier has always had the reputation of saying what he believed whenever he wanted to; it cost him the favor of men in high places at times, but ability always brought him back. -As G. H. Q. commander his plane never left the ground without him at the controls; if a co-pilot took over in the air it was only to let the general grab a cigaret. When they made him G, H. Q. commander in 1935, Gen, Andrews realized, his friends say, that to some airmen under him he might seem only a “desk general.” He fixed that. He went out and broke three world records to dissipate such nonsense.

Pioneered Blind Flying

often he has gone up in conditions that would keep other fliers grounded. He was one of the earliest blind fliers in the business. There wasn’t much of an air force when Gen. Andrews became G. H. Q: chief. He organized the country into three combat wings and began beating combat and tactical knowledge into what had been a disjointed organization, He pushed development of aircraft cannon. Continually he hammered away for long-range bombers.

Picked by Marshall

He was buried in’a Texas outpost for a ‘while aftershe left G. H, Q.,

Marshall to take the vital Panama command, then went to the Middle East as U. S. ander there. He followed tactics in the mechanized African campaign as the close student he is, and he goes to his biggest assignment now with a background probably as fully rounded as any U. S. general possesses. Washington cheers him today as a man particularly fitted to give Hitler a bad time as soon as ample men and equipment are his i command.

BUTLER my GROUP ELECTS

Henry J. Kuenn is president of the Newman club, Cath student

The war and war production have become so big

organization on the :Butler univer-

and have acquired such momentum that the indi-lsity campus. Other ees are

vidual details and petty frictions that once were so

important how have little more effect on the total! Joan Green,

Deette McGrath, vice president; financial secretary:

job than a quarrel between Soupie of bricklayers Mary Helen’ Cain, recording secre-

over What Westronk Pegler said.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Miss Thompson had, fiowever, started them in to lunch, and I did not face the hungry and impatient

‘guests I had pictured to «

them, having just had a very sumptuous breakfast, I

sould ‘of est. Juneh, but 3t gave, me; more time Jor

conversation. Brery time I piss the age door canteen ere, I am reminded of the cont:

from the Middle West where |

ee a en a |

self. I had to explain to):

which the various!

tary, and Bernard Sifferlen, treas-

urer. + James Wehlage, former president, is now in the armed forces.

HOLD EVERYTHING

v

Lieut. Gen. Frank Maxwell Andrews!

a soldier’s soldier -and a. superior :

The general's fearlessness oN ¢ flying man worried his friends;

was picked up by Gen. George C.|

Hero’

By JOE wikuaams

"Times Special Writer ] NEW YORK, Feb. 6—On Desi:

A

I a Sd looked] abun, adi

clouds. Something of a roi ‘had assembled, a. selected, personal

with the public knew this particular plane was coming in. The crowd was made ‘up. mostly of military persons. There was just a scattering of civilians.

youngster, age 17. He threw his aged man.

again.” Bill Didn't Say a Word.

age 15. Almost sheepishly he followed the other. And just like the other he threw his arms around the man and held him close. But not a word came from his lips. He just held the man close. “And that,” said Capt. Eddie + Rickenbacker to us this week, “was the big thrill of the trip.” You see, they were his two boys, . David the older and Bill the younger—Bill, who felt so much inside his little soul, drawn taut as a mandolin string, after so many days of desperate conflict between doubt and hope; he just couldn’t say a word. “Yes, that was it,” Yepeated the captain as he pulled up. a chair to sit down to lunch.

‘That’s the Lucky Chair’

The lunch was at a place in midtown called Cafe Louis XIV. Singularly, there is a Louis there. He is the head man. He takes you to your table. We ' had arrived somewhat in advance of the time for the appointment. Louis. ushered us to the table. Aimlessly we reached for a chair to sit down. “No, no!” Louis fairly screamed. ‘“Not that chair. That is the lucky chair.” It turned out the captain always ate at this place and always he sat in the same chair. It was Louis’ belief, of course, that this

KEEP TRASH AND GANS SEPARATE

City Trucks Won't Pick Up Containers If Mixed With Debris.

City trucks won't pick up your tin cans if they are placed with trash’ or refuse. That warning was issued ‘again today by Harry Calkins, secretary to Mayor Tyndall. Tin cans, he said, must be prepared and placed at the curb in separate containers on tin can collection days. Trucks will make the seventh consecutive tin can collection beginning next Monday. Homes north of 16th st. will be canvassed on Monday and Tuesday, and homes south of 16th st. on Wednesday and Thursday.

Pick Up Cans Only

Luther E. Tex, street commissioner, also warned residents not to place scrap iron or rubber at the curb with tin cans. Tin collection trucks cannot pick up salvage material other than tin, since trucks are unloaded directly into waiting freight cars to be transported to the detinning plants. The tin salvage answering service, MA-1933, has been kept busy since the phone number was first an-

{nounced yesterday. Residents may

phone for information’ relative to tin salvage or collection.

BIL TO ERADICATE SLUMS. INTRODUCED

Corporations formed to purchase slum areas and redevelop them would be given some special privi-| leges under a bill introduced yester-

|day by Senator John Atherton (R.

Indianapolis). Senator Atherton said the bill is designed to encourage neighborhood projects in slum areas as a major

Corporations formed expressly for

ts were started.

l oi DEFENSE UNIT | © WILL HEAR BRITON

19 of last year a big army plane

‘sun that struggled through ‘the crowd because nobody in touch Out of the crowd leaped a arms around the gaunt, ‘middle- 0

“Dad, Tm 50 happy to see you

There was another youngster, -

Capt. and Mrs.

in the Pacific. David Rickenbacker,

right is. William.

fact had influenced the miracle

which brought the captain back

alive and safe after drifting on the bosom of the capricious Pacific for 24 days. And you can

be pretty sure nobody is ever

going to sit in that chair but the captain, as long as Louis has charge. There was an interval of time’ before the captain appeared. By way of making conversation, we

d to Louis: ie Soe the ca; gulls?” “No, no!” he quickly protested. “No girls for the captain. He has the very handsome wife.” ; “It was not his idea of a jest; it appears when we say Sulls it comes out girls. “That was' the big thing, the thing I'll always remember, the

a still 80 for

By DICK THORNBURG Times Special Writer FT. MONMOUTH, N. J, Feb. 6.—

{When Maj. Gen. Dawson Olmsted,

chief signal officer of the army, holds a staff conference his officers

‘lall over the world attend—via radio

teletype. In one such conference recently communications problems were discussed by staff officers in this country with signal corps officers in North Africa, Alaska, England and Panama.

teletype machines gperating on radio channels with first. one of those far-flung places and ‘then another. The machines automatically code and decode messages. Intelligent interception is. virtually impossible. Those conferences are only one of the wonders which the signal corps performs daily. Communications in this war are as far. ahead of the last war as a tank is over Hannibal’s elephants. All types of radio equipment are developed, designed and’ ‘improved here ‘at Ft. Monmoyth=-radio sets for tanks and planes and paratroopers, ‘devices with dials that show the presence of an enemy transmitter, other devices that locate that transmitter, two-bit flashlights developed for jungle troops, $20,000 vehicles equipped for weather forecasting. + Here they have radio devices that automatically transmit weather data every : three. hours to forecasting centers. They have small transmitters fer rubber rafts on which it is necessary, only to turn a crank to send out repeatedly 20 seconds of S. O. S., then 20 seconds

The staff here was connected by;

inch by inch, all the while the

rubber matt pitching and tossin

around the bird's toothpick legs.

3

Shows His Crucifix The captain is still somewhal

. pewildered about this. As he has

written, he is not formally a re-. ligious man, But for 26 years he has carried close to his heart

In the middle of his lunch— ~ spaghetti ~ spread with heavy -cheese—the gaptain pulled out small, water-stained purse-like thing and opened it. There lay the crucifix: and the three holy medals. One of the meddls had somehow escaped the corrosion of salt. The crucifix and

§ -the other two medals were bitten

Eddie Rickenbacker, reunited after Rick’s rescue

thieir son, Is: In. uniform. ‘At; the :

thing that - has certainly done something: to my philosophy of

life. »” He was talking about the eighth day out. ‘Up to: then there had been no water, no food. There had been spiritual sustenance. Some days before that the captain. had started to read a borrowed Bible to the eight men touched by the inexplicable whim of fate. J . “An hour after I finished reading ‘the Bible. that day the gull came . ..” “We've never heard ‘anything more movingly dramatic in [its stark simplicity than the captain’s narration of how the gull came out of nowhere to light on his ‘battered - hat and how he painfully, cautiously reached up,

An SOS Sender Would Have Brought Rick Early Rescue

of clear signal to enable a direction finder to locate the raft. ' If Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker and his crew had had one of those devices they would have been rescued

quickly.

Pasted on the inside of the signal corps’ newly developed mobile radio repair shop is a list of instructions to be followed in’ case capture is imminent. These order the man in charge to destroy the shop—by explosives, by fire, by demolishing with axes, or by standing off and throwing grenades at it. But before taking that step he is to follow seven other orders for destroying by hand certain secret instruments. : Map In Seven Minutes

. The signal corps has a ‘‘transceiver” which makes a facsimile copy. of a drawing or map or mes-

sage as far as China in seven|

minutes. The corps has developed a: new lip microphone for talking in tanks or planes where outside noises drowned conversation. It will geplace the throat microphone. Under adverse conditions ‘a person can hear 83 words out of 100 spoken by another using the new lip mierophone. Under the same conditions, using the old throat model a per-

‘son could hear only 35 words.

Col. R. V.'D. Corput Jr., director of the signal corps’ groynd signal service, smiles when he recalls how industry complained that signal corps’ specifications for equipment for rough usage were too stringent. He put the ordinary police Tadio in a tank and drove a mile down the road. The police radio was shaken to pieces. . “No telling what would have happened to it -over rough country.” ‘he added.

‘In Salaries of

fiat 20 per cent increase in Day, would be given state, county, city and township officers on July 1,

step toward improvement of’ general ¢ a 1 ihe condith 1943, under terms of a bill intro

duced in the house yesterday by

I ge ary 3 Hover il tax benefits by “freezing” for 10{S. Steele, Republicans. : Ji years the assessed valuation of the || real estate at figures existing be- | fore im;

‘Excepted from its provisions are |ond class cities, firemen and police-

House Bill Seeks 20% Hike

Public Officers

offical time for all ‘subdivisions of the state. Require Marlon county commissioner, upon. petition of 300 freeholders, to advertise and hold a public hearing and: take steps to repair the ‘courthouse ‘or build a new courthouse or lease courthouse

Governor Schricker,. -officials of sec- | grounds.

‘Freeze tor the duration all prices

{oe hasher services at levels of De

to an angry brown rust. “1 pride myself on my memory,” he said, “but in this case I am humiliated. A little 10-year-old | girl gave .me these on one of my trips around the country, and I can’t remember her name.” In recent days the captain has been in contact, by person, press, radio. and mail, with thousan of persons; he gave us the idea he'd like most of all to know the name of that little 10-year-old girl. “I suppose she’s married and has a kid or so at the front fighting for us now,” he added with feeling,

"Most. of Weight Regained

‘This was the first time we had seen the captain since his “Pacific mission.” It was the first time we had seen him in a year as a matter of fact. “You don’t change much,” he said as he pulled up a chair. The captain doesn’t either. He lost. 40 pounds during his ordeal. He's got ’em all back, “except maybe five or six.” He looks a little tired about the eyes and his face is more drawn than: it used to be, and there are times when he becomes deadly serious. “We aren’t doing enough for our youngsters at the front,” he will tell. “Not half enough.” His older boy, David, is now ready to go. . . . “Dad, I'm so. happy to see you again.” . . . and the younger boy, Bill, who just held him close and couldn’t . say anything.

ASK REPEAL OF RIPPER BIL

Senators Want Governor to Name Accounts Examiner, Deputies.

One of the 1941 G. O. P. ‘ripper laws taking patronage powers away from Governor Schricker would repealed ‘under a hill introduced in the senate yesterday by Senators Robert Miller (R. Bloomington) and Walter Vermillion (D. Anderson). The bill would return to the ernor the power to appoint the examiner of the state accounts board and two deputies. The 1941 “ripper” law took th appointments away from the gover: nor and placed them under the state personnel board. The bill also would restore the chief examiners’ salary back to $6000 a year. Under the “ripper” law the examiner got only $5400. Republicans’ hopes to elect a governor in 1944 was seen behind the G. O. P. suppor for the ran

ripper.” :

90:DAY ASSEMBLY SESSION PROPOSED

A joint resolution seeking amerl* the state constitution provide for general assembly sessions of 90 days, instead of 60, and providing for a 30-day recess study pending bills was introduced yesterday by Senator Robert Brokenburr (R. Indianapolis).

be confined to introduction of only during the first 30 days v provisions that no bills: could

. | passed during this period.

the resolution proposes. that tl legislature recess for 30 days givi all members an opportunity to all pending bills. . Duging the last 30-day © the legislature would devote its tire time to committee and passage of bills. 3 A question has been whether the resolution can be ¢ sidered at this session. because limits on the number of const:

legislature at any one time. The resolution was referred the constitutional revisions cl