Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1943 — Page 15

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A FORWARD AIRDROME IN FRENCH. NORTH

AFRICA (By Wireless) ~It is hard for a layman to understand the fine points of aerial combat as practiced

{at the moment in North Africa. It is hard even for the

pilots themselves to Sep W) Sor Shere are changes in tactics from week to week. We will have some new idea “and surprise Germans with. it.

: "Then ‘theyll come across with a

to many friends, too many roommates.

their “formation : above: “the bombers, making an ‘ums brella, a The German. has two choices—to dive down

, or to wait until somebody is hit by . .

“to drop back, Then they are on him

When “that happens the fighters: attack, but still in formation. Keeping that formation always and forever tight is what, the. fight leaders constantly drill into the joys’ heads. It is. a great temptation to dash out: ahd take a shot’ati some fellow, but by now they've seen too many cases of the tragedy of such action, :

Fighter Pilots Voimyer

THE FIGHTER pilots seem a little different from the bomber men. Usually they are younger. Many of them were still in school when they joined up. Sordinariy they might be inclined’ to be more

‘escorting bombers, which they hate, ‘Jancing to shoot up whatever they

They have to get 1 room of my special : found them all asleep. : When they first came over here, you'd

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‘hear pilots say ‘they didn’t hate the Germans,

you don’t hear that any more. - They have lost

Now it is killing that animates them.

“This Is a World Apart”

THE HIGHEST spirits I've seen in that displayed one evening after they came strafing mission. - That's what they but they get little of it. It’s a great

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enough force to be pretty sure they the SQEIny Amabs Utopia. 's what they had done that day. really ag a field day. They ran onto - truck convoy and blew it to pieces. They get excited as they told about it. The all full of men, and “they’d fly out like firecrackers. Two Messerschmitt 109s made the mistake of coming after our planes. They never had a chance, After firing a couple of wild bursts they went down smoking, and one of them seemed to blow up. - The boys were full of laughter when they: told about it as they sat there on their cots in the dimly lighted room. I couldn’t help having a fuhny feeling about them. They were all so young, so genuine, so enthusiastic. ,And they were so casual about everything—not casual in a hard, knowing way, but they. talked about their fights and killing and being killed, exactly as they would discuss girls or their school lessons. Maybe they won't talk at all when they “finally get home: If they don’t it will be because they know this is a world apart and 3 nobody else could ever understand.

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowel! Nusshaum

; A NORTHBOUND Illinois streetcar came to a :. quick stop about 14th st. Monday noon. Southbound traffic came to a stop also. Passengers on the streetcar craned their necks to learn .the cause of the stop and discovered a white pig running around in the street. The porker finally took a notion to get on the sidewalk, and trafic moved along again. + . . _. About the same time, a traffic signal at Pennsylvania ang Washington flashed red just as a milk ~ truck was starting across the intersection, The driver slammed on the brakes, and then started - dodging as crates of milk bottles and individual bottles came flying at him and out the opened doors of the truck. It made so much noise a .policeman came running Add signs of spring: Two convertibles;with the tops down. That was Tuesday, also. ., , Asign in.a store window in the 2700 biock of E. Washington (maybe it was the 2600 block) ‘announced: Strictly fresh eggs. In a pen just below the sign were several white and black rabbits. Easter bunnies, na: doubt.

Conservative Henrys.

stone, probably thrown. up by a tire, struck and |:

broke the sediment buib under the carburetor. Result: No gas. (P. S. Pumper No, 20 substituted on the run.) . . . The Advertising club celebrated its 39th birthday today with a cake at its luncheon in the I. A. O. It’s the second oldest ad club in the U. 8, being second only to Cincinnati’s club.

Around the Town

ERNIE LUNDGREN, vice president and general manager of Bozell and Jacobs, advertising agency, has ‘been proudly sporting a very fancy pair of socks which his wife knitted for him. They are green, purple, yellow and black. , .. C. J. Rapp, 6046 Haverford ave. assistant office manager for. the Indianapolis division of Standard Qil,. has been commissioned a first lieutenant in the army and leaves tomorrow. for training at Princeton university. . . . Harry T. Pritchard, president of the Light company, has been wearing a 300-watt smile. The reason: His son, Ensign Edward T. Pritchard, USNR, has been home from San Francisco on a couple of days leave.

Vox Popoff Department

NOW AND THEN we write an item which we wish afterward we had passed up. We had one of these Tuesday under the heading, “Vox Popoff-Department.”

4 We quoted ‘a letter which roasted .a man, described

HENRY OSTROM, Republican county chajrmant in the letter as “one of the heels of the lower type.”

and one of those fortunates who is SURE where his next meal is coming from, was very busy around the court house yesterday trying to borrow a tuxedo.

7 It seems he had to go fo a formal dinner and he

wasn't going to: “throw away $35 just for one night.” * Mrs, Fern Norris suggested’ he ‘could rent one for "#4, but he didn’t. like ‘that idea, either. When last’ seen, he was still trying to Borrow one, . , . Fire department pumper No. 17 ran into trouble en route to a fire yesterday. morning. The engine went dead , at Delaware and Wyoming sts. and nothing would start it. For the benefit of spectators who phoned in to inquire if the firemen had used up their gas ration coupons, we investigated snd found the bauble. A

‘Washington

WASHINGTON; Feb. 11.—Prohibition was differ —

ent. We can’t patronize the black market in meat with the clear conscience that.we used to have when we drank bootleg liquor. + ° Nearly everybody I-knew bought liquor from a bootlegger. Congressmen and senators voted dry and drank until it was running out of their ears. The only people I ever knew. in prohibition days who didn’t .drink were Wayne B, Wheeler and a few who refused . for physical reasons, or because they suspected that what the host might be serving was not sheepdip, which they could take, but wood alcohol, which they knew was bad for thém. But those were the dear; dead days. As James F. Byrnes said in his inflation broadcast, the man who helped ‘the -bootlegger in prohibition days hurt only himself. The woman who today encourages a merchant to boot‘leg food is hurting her loved ones, her country and herself. The crazy, senseless “¥ush to hay clothes hurts the same way.

" Enforcement Problem Poriifly

For propaganda reasons,.-no doubt, Mr. Byrnes: ‘says. some of the talk about black markets is exaggerated. But department of agriculture officials and OPA officials seem plenty worried about it. From the feports that come in to them it looks as if people in some areas are turning scofflaw by ‘wholesale, ~The government faces a terrific enforcement probJem. Price ceilings on meat have collapsed in some places. It is a hopeless enforcement problem unless * we snap out of that rosy idea that this is prohibition BIL over-again and it’ 8:15 Of fun: Yo have a ‘hoot

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The letter said the man was in a drugstore during the dimout Friday night, called the dimout silly and demanded his change right in the middle of everything. We didn’t use any names. The alleged culprit, who happens to be a friend of ours, has written us a note in which he sounds pretty “hurt.” He explains that at least four other persons left the store before he did, and that the cashier was willing to make change for him, by the light shining from a street lamp just outside the door, but that a clerk shouted to the cashier not fo take the money. He adds that he didn’t say the blackout was silly——merely said it was silly not to take his-money. It just goes to prove dhere are two sides to everything.

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By Rayriond Clapper

The office of price administration can’t hire enough enforcement. agents to break up the: black market in meat. If the retailers and the public do not take the meat shortage seriously enough not to cheat on it, then the whole business is going to collapse. Mr. Byrnes says the black markets must be broken up and that all food prices must be brought under control. The plain common sense of that is obvious. Yet gangsters are rushing into the black meat trade. One in the east confessed that until now he hadn't made ‘a thousand dollars a week since prohibition was repealed. Alley butchering in filthy surroundings is becoming as profitable a business as the alley distillery- where whisky used to be aged overnight.

Rationing Poor Maw’s Friend

BLACK MARKETS will bring general - inflation,

general breakdown in all economic order. For we|

are in a situation where vast amounts of food and

clothing are taken out of normal markets for the|

army and for our allies. Only by rationing can everybody be sure of getting some of these short supplies. Rationing is the poor man’s best friend. It protects him fromthe chiseler. Rationing and authorized prices protect the average family from war profiteering, from ‘gouging, from: hogging. When we are allowed now to matket only 70 per cent. of the meat marketed in 1941, there is a natural pressure favoring a black’ market. The chief protection against the black market is ‘the good faith of the average person, his willingness to co-operate to keep down confusion and crumbling on the home: front. Beyond that, retailers can help

| SYMPHONY C ORCHESTRA—IV ‘By RICHARD LEWIS - THE WOODWINDS AND BRASS people in the orchestra used to have jam sessions, some mighty fancy ones, too. But hardly any more. Most of the younger members have been drafted and they were the ones who played outside dance dates in addition to their work i in the orchestra. Also jamming is a practice upon which Fabjen Sevitzky frowns. He fails to : * see much relation between jive and music, although he ° demonstrated what might have been a suppressed jitterbug tendency the time he led the Camp Atterbury “Cannoneers”’ through ‘the machine-gun strains of “At the

Military B : Although’ holding down .a chair in a symphony orchestra should be a fulltime job, leaving the mu--gicians plenty of time for study and practice, it isn’t. The; men with families to support have to get out and ‘pitch for extra money. "There is probably no other pro-

much training and study and which yields such a small finan-

musician. The : orchestra season is 20 weeks here. The weekly minimum is $45, an income which lasts only - for the season's duration. After that the orchestra people look for temporary jobs.

Potatoes and Oil

SOME OF the men have spent summers working in shipyards, in defense factories. A few lucky

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Fritz Siegal . . . his violin is new

ones have been able to get summer concert orchestra‘ jobs or radio work. A few have business sidelines to turn to when the orchestra season ends in April. For instance there is Fred Schaub, fourth horn, who is a potato commission merchant outside the: orchestra. Kenneth Glass, second violin, works as a salesman for a prominent ‘oil company. Ralph Lillard in : the percussion section has operated the “Friendly Service,” a welcome-wagon idea which provided new arrivals to Indiana with week’s supply of groceries in the form of introductory samples. Mr. ‘Lillard is the man who beats the cymbals. You can tell

NAZI'S SMASH DUTCH DREAMS

Confir irm Reports Ending Hopes for- Eventual

Indepéndence.

By PAUL GHALI

hi, Rel by The. Indianapolis SImes Copysigt o Chicago Daily News, In

BERN, Feb. 11, ~—An article = thie important Essener National Zeitung, written by: its. Dutch. correspondent and confirmed by declarations of

clear that in the somewhat.dubious event of - a German ‘victory, the Dutch can give up any ideas of becoming - an: independent nation

the government and the public by refusing to engrge (388i.

in Date Tike The government. may have to, attempt» drastic prosecution ¢ “but it will have uphill: going if people do not, take. the necessity of ‘meat control

A few days ago, Dr. Anton Mussert, ‘Holland’v Quisling, whom the Nazis recognized last December as

the reich’s_commis-

sioner, ur Seyss-Inquart, and lead to his installment as head of

fessional field which requires so

cial return to the individual, young .

when he is getting ready to come in, because he can be seen jumping up and down in time just before the crash.

Several of ‘the orchestra people

teach, either privately or on the

the faculty of the Jordan Conservatory. ' Saul Bernat, violist, has ‘a studio in his home. Schumacher, clarinet, has worked with the city recreation department in developing band concerts.

Helping Uncle Sam FIVE MEN in the orchestra are

becoming skilled defense workers. Meyer Rubin, first bass, whose

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tux coat is always slipping off

during heavy passages, and Melvin Peabody, bassist, are learning to operate a lathe at Arsenal Tech night school, - Elvin Clearfield, bass clarinetist ® who worked in an eastern shipyard last simmer, has finished the

lathe course at Tech and is learn~

ing to make dies. Max Woodbury, trumpet, has completed an inspector’s course. Although some of these men . never dreamed’ they had any mechanical bent, they picked up highly specialized operations quickly. Defense plant executives have found musicians to be par--ticularly accurate and rapid operators on precision machinery. Perhaps it’s the same kind of versatility musicians develop on instruments generally. Pete Petevsky played violin until he went

into the army. ‘Several months

ago, his buddies in town received

"a picture clipped from the London

Times showing Pete striding down

Reba Robinson, harpist . . . she studies psychology on the side,

She is studying at present at Towa State: university.

Harpist a Psychologist

PSYCHOLOGY SEEMS to be a. fairly popular science for orchestra folk. = Reba Robinson, harpist, is also a psychology student. She sits quietly on a harp ‘case backstage when she’s nct rean to be at her instrument,

the street with a brass band,

playing the tuba. A further illustration of this strange adaptability musicians have is the report that Leon Zawisza, former concert master, now a U. S. army warrant officer directs a brass band.

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They Study Too

THE ORCHESTRA people study on the- side, too, in a variety: of other fields. Nicholas Tonhazy, Hungarianborn ‘cellist, is a pre-med student at Indiana university. Otto Deri, new ’cellist this season, holds a doctor’s degree from the University of Budapest in psychology, psycho-analysis and criminology. Born in Hungary, Dr. Deri: started out to become a lawyer which was the idea of his family. But the ‘cello got him and he forgot about law. He played in the Koncert orchestra of Budapest ~ four years, studied in Paris under Maurice Eisenberg. He came over here several years ago, as the ‘Nazi influence was spreading through Hungary, to find a spot for himself and his wife. Mrs, Deri remained behind long enough to undergo an air raid when Jugoslav planes bombed the Hungarian capital. Mrs. Deri is a psychologist, too.

Shoe Situation

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (U. P.)— Mrs. Roosevelt doesn’t think shoe rationing will hamper her famed ability to get around. e first lady plans to visit the WAAC training camp at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa, this week-end, and] she was- asked at her press conference yesterday if the shoe rationing order; spec the post. “No, I don’t believe it will,” she|¢ replied smilingly. “When I was rumored to have worn-out a pair of shoes in two days on my frip to

Nasi ~ authorities, “makes "it quite frsland, it ‘was only a newspaper

‘Mrs, Roosevelt said she was

ould limit her activity in in-|.

. by as delicately.

continued her musical education at Curtis Institute. Her ‘husband, Lieut. Norman L. Cannon, a musician and scientist, is serving overseas. . Miss Robinson has played with

the Robin Hood Dell orchestra:

in Philadelphia in the summers and with the Philadelphia orchestra. Her chief worry about her - harp is a string breaking in public.. She teaches harp at Jordan. ” 8 ®n

Valuable Instruments

THERE ARE some rare instruments in the orchestra. Probably the rarest is Emil Maestri’s sixstringed ’cello, which is one of the oldest artefacts in town. It was made in 1679 in Italy and bears the legend “Loudon”, which could either have been the name “of the maker or the name of the town where it was made, Mr. Maestri doesn’t know which. It is known in the trade as a “Yiola Da Gamba,” which identifies the instrument to musicians

as “Firestone” would identify a.

fire to a motorist. You can’t get Da Gamba instruments any more either.

Mr. Maestri’s six-stringed ‘cello

which has two more strings than-

the modern cello is worth, cons;

‘a flat back, like Jimmy’ Vhrel's

i Icellos: “which is also of ‘early Italian design, and: has a dark, somber appearance and no peg to rest on. Mr. Maestri holds it up between his eek which is quite a trick. . The instrume d-carved head

.-of .a gent in medieval Italian

intently . studying an elementary “text on'the subject. She: has reached a: chapter on «optical illusions and seemed to be fascinated the .other. day by Fig.

4, which is a series of cubes. You .- ‘look, at: Fig. 4 one way and you

see six’ cubes. Look at it another

way’ and You see. seven cubes.

~ "Miss Robinson was graduated “from: the’ West: ‘Philadelphia girls’

“High school at the age of 15. ‘She

Henan the Philadelphia. 'con-

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Won’ + Halt

Mrs. Roosevelf’ s Travels

caught: unaware by the issuance of the: shoe rationing order. “The day before: I-was going to get a pair of shoes if I had’ the time,” she said. “Twas busy and 1 did not get to buy them.” “ied

“Mrs, Roosevelt: also. indorsed the

president's 48-hour work week or<| der saying she: thought Jb was a necessary ‘wartime step. sing ‘Rooseveli-said, however, that | sone: adjustment should be made - x the hours. ‘worked on Saturday to allow: women time for ‘their week-erid - shopping. : Perhaps :department. stores and : food stores could ‘be opened: at: night to meet the needs of working people.”

11 MORE WOMEN JOIN WAACS HERE

‘Eleven Indianapolis women “re-| dicted ‘th

cently were enrolled in the Women’s Auxiliary Army corps, Lieut. Ger-

said today. . Those enrolled were Orpha G. Bodle, 432 dr.; Jane B.|tg Causey, 1017 N. LaSalle st.; Mary E.

fan. autovomous: Dutch Nazi state. | Clayton, 333 N. Davidson st.; Geneat

Cosby, jorie F. Haehl, 59 West i Wood-

his ruff Place.

trude V. Pratt, recruiting officer, :

IAP EXPLANATIONS “ARE. CONTRADICTORY

- By UNITED PRESS Japanese. propagandists contrated themselves today in further |, sfforts to_explain the loss of Guaisland.

"They had broken the news to the Japanese people: as a “planned withdrawal” and a “strategic. 'advance” > the Tear. ‘Then, they: sald Gua-

726 West st.; Dorothy L.|. : - | Davis, 1911 Yandes st., and Mar-|-

headdress ‘who ‘peers out into space like the figurine on the prow ofa ship. = © It was the custom in the 16th and 17th “centuries for starving instrument makers ‘ to carve : the head of some local, . prominent citizen on’“’cellos, possibly inthe hope that: the citizen would buy *the. instriment.

"THe identity of the head is as - much a: mystery as the manufac-

Through all these : cen-

“turies, the ‘cello has preserved a

magnificent, rich tone. ‘This might indicate that it re-

YANK TELLS OF JAP ATROCITIES

Marine of Guadalcanal Desorites Stealing

“Enemy’ s Food.

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 11 (U. P)— A Pittsburgh marine who was wounded on Guadalcanal today told of atrocities committed by Japanese on the bodies of four: marine com-

rades. j Corp. Raymond R. ‘Moore, 20, said he saw the mutilated, bayonet-

slashed bodies of four marines as|

he was- being carried to a jungle

-| hospital tent after being wounded

in the hip. The Japs, he said, had hanged two of the, marines by the ankies and tied two others to stumps. : . Moore, home on convalescent furlough, expressed a desire to get another “crack” ‘at the Japs, whom he

described as ‘brave fighters as a

group, but not: 80 brave as individ-

uals. He said: they: seldom’ travel sik alone or in pairs on. scouting duty. |

The Pittsburgh, marine spent

three days without food or ‘water |

on Guadalcanal. ‘When his was isolated, he said, they stole rice from a Jap supply source. Another means.of getting food was

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wu | JO toss hand grenades into a river, . |stunning the fish long enough for| : them to:wade’in and get enotigh far} la :meal. - Moore, ‘who returns fo active duty

t is distinguished «

; eS vibrations as it is ‘played,

It's just a theory. But it is considered possible that a good instrument can endure a thousand years if it isn't" Played oo much or Nobody dry :

it.

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Impressed Sevitzky

parents. when he. was five : ‘old. His father, a violinist, pri a half-size fiddle into his hands as a child and. he has been playing ever since. He studied for a while at the Lane Technical high ‘school in Chicago. Then he became. con

. orchestra. Since then, he always

cluding the Chicago Civic, Seattle, San Diego and Illinois symphony. orchestras. He met Sevitaky several years ago in Tijuana, Mexico, The Sevitzkys had been touring over the summer and stopped off in San

Diego o hear the symphony, of ‘which Mr, Siegal was then cone cert master.: The young ’S ; playing: impressed: Sevi The next day, the vitzkys’ drove across the border to Tijuana and parked :for a few minutes at the curb. , A group of musicians, led by Abraham Luboff, now a U. 8. army sergeant, came up to the car. Luboff introduced Siegal. When Leon Zawisza went into the army, Mr. Siegal wrote Ses vitzky about the: job. And got it. The young concert master is 25 and an accomplished violinist. He could make :more money in radio, but he prefers the musical stim lation that a grade A Symphoey 3 orchestra, provides.

TOMORROW: What —— think of Sevitzky. .

Manvalds Love | Survived 3 Wars

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 11 @ P.)—The wartime love story of Jose Ventoso and Manuela Abi

Jal reached & happy ending. yeeterday. Twelve years ago Jose ott his. home in Civeira, Spain, for Jersey City, N. J., but before he left he

to go ok and get het, So . Jose married’ Ae

time, somehow, he'd. Li ab 10 send for her.’ :

first Spain’s civil war and the world war. Travel was prac tically impossible. . St Jose entered the U: 5. army AX was sent to Camp Shelby, Miss. Yesterday: their long’ wait over. Here on a three-day Jose_met his. ‘Manuela, 7 Tved on a refugee sp.

HOLD EVERYTHING.