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= A FORWARD AIRDROME IN FRENCH NORTH AFRICA (By Wireless) —Although our fighter pilots are shooting down more German planes than we are losing, still they have a deep and healthy respect for “the German airmen. “They apparently brought their 5 very best men to Africa,” one of the boys said, “because the newi comers sure know their business. There are no green hands among th 9 American fliers who have been captured and then escaped report that there seems to be a sort ~ cameraderie among airmen—not in. the air, but on the ground. There is no cameraderie at all in the air—it’s fight to the death and nothing else. * The other night the boys were recalling stories from the last war. They had read how allied and German fighters would shoot up all their ammunition and then fly alongside each other and salute before starting home. There is none of that stuff in this war.

Fighter Pilots Lead Lonely Lives

OUR PILOTS really lead lonely lives over here. Shere is nothing on earth for them fo do but talk to each other. In two weeks you've talked a guy out, and after that it’s just the same old conversation day after day. The boys hang around the field part of the day, when they're not flying, then go to their rooms and lie in their bunks. They've read themselves out and talked themselves out. There are no movies, no dances, no parties noihing. They Just lie on their cots.

® 4 By Ernie Pyle Flying a fighter plane is not comfortable. There is so much to'do, and you're so cramped, and you sifaid so constantly watching for the enemy. Also, fighter cockpits are not heated. The pilots get terribly cold at 25,000 and 30,000 feet. They don’t wear electrically heated suits, In fact, they can’t even wear too heavy xine ‘clothes, for their bulk would make it impossible to twist around in the cockpit.’ They wear only their ordinary uniforms with a pair of coveralls on top of these, plus flying boots and gloves. even wear really heavy flying gloves. “Our bodies don’t get so cold, it’s our hands and feet,” one of them said. “Sometimes they get so cold they're numb.”

Excited on First Mission

“IT'S FUNNY,” said another, “but you're never cold when youre in a fight. You actually get to sweating, and when it’s over your underwear is all wet in back. Of course that makes you get all the colder afterwards.” It’s interesting to sit n with a bunch of pilots in the evening after theyre returned from their first mission. ‘They're so excited they are practically

* unintelligible. Their. eyes are bloodshot. They are red-

faced with excitement.

And they can’t

They are so terrifically stimulated they can’t quiet| |

down. Life has never been more wonderful. They tell the same story of their day's adventures over and over and two dozen times before bedtime. The other night one boy couldn’t eat his supper. Another one couldn't go to sleep.

The older: boys listen patiently. They were that

way not so long ago themselves, They know that bat- |" tle maturity will come quickly. Just drop in a few weeks from now. \

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowel Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Morgan Collins Jr., right hand man to Joe Cain, boss of P. R. Mallory Co.; an old-fashioned Democrat, a director of the Woodstock club; and one of the town’s most up and coming young industrialists at 37. Morgan Collins— his middle name has been a deep, dark secret since childhood—is a strapping big fellow, 6 feet 2, and’ weighing 190 or more. He's full faced, has more than a trace of a double chin, blue eyes and - plenty of black hair. Athletic in appearance, he stands quite straight for a tall man, walks with a measured tread. He has an attractive manner of speaking—nice voice and splendid’ vocabulary. Jolly looking, he’s convivial, Sh has a buoyant disposition and a sense of humor. Deliberate in thought and dction, he's. an interesting conversationalist, has pretty decided views on most world problems. He's tremendously formal when you first meet him. And he likes lively conversation, bores easily when the conversation gets dull but is fairly skillful in con‘cealing it.

. Makes Psychic Bids

MORGAN COLLINS is more of a spectator than a participant when it comes - to sports. He enjoys {#atching a good set of tennis, and plays a mediocre game of golf but gets a’ big kick out of the game. Fond of making moderate bets, he lets his enthusiasm run away with him when he’s had’ a good hole, and

no an average poker player, ‘he’s better than fair at bridge. He likes to make psychic bids, has a tendency to overbid since every hand looks pretty good Better than most. anything else for relaxation he "enjoys reading. His hobby. is political science. He also likes historical novels, and now and then a good mystery tale.

Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—It seems inconsiderate to be asking President Roosevelt to do more than he is doing. Yet something is badly needed which only he can do. The country needs to have put into focus its thinking about what is to come out of the war. - A babel of talk is creating dangerous confusion and misun- © derstanding. Here Rep. Clare Luce warns in the house of representatives that our - government is about to surrender control of the air. But in London members rise in the house of commons demanding to know whether the British government is surrendering its air rights. "Vice President Wallace writes a magazine article about freedom of the air although ‘there isn’t yet a ghost of a government policy about any of this. Nor about much of anything else aside from the military program Elmer Davis has an enormous propaganda

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- put he has nothing authoritative to talk about except

"the four freedoms, because there isn’t any government policy about what is to come out of the war.

War Is Moving Fast

I AM NOT trying to be captious. Mr. Roosevelt Has more to do in 24 hours than a human being should be expected to do. And on the military side ‘he has done it well. © f This is not a piece about how everything is going wrong, because I don’t think everything is going wrong. On the contrary, most of it is going exceedingly well. The war is moving fast and favorably. I don’t find victory over Germany expected this year, but it is considered very likely next year.’ . The Russians are wounding the Germans deeply’ byt: another wallop or two may be left in the German army and air force, Hitler will never get the Caucasus. *. This year “probably will bring some other big vic-

~~ My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday—This is Linceln’s birthday and, following the custom of the last 10 years, the president drove down to the Lincoln memorial for the very simple ceremonies which are always held there at noon. I went with him and we watched x : the wreath being carried up the long flight of steps and heard the’ long Te anthem played. I often wonder if the spirits of Lincoln and - Washington have hovered over all the war presidents since their day. = In the ‘White House, itself, one is. very conscious of the way that Lincoln must have suffered in the war between the states. One can gaslly dmagine Bim. gazing out

"His handwriting is bold with the capital letters of his signature an inch tall. His favorite expression of the moment is “forthright.”

Turned Down Scholarship

MR. COLLINS was born in Chicago, where his father became chief of police under a reform administration. In high school there, he won a scholarship to the University of Chicago for excellence in mathematics, but didn’t accept because his heart was set on going to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduated there in 1927 with a B. S. in civil engineering, he then spent two years as a student at the Harvard business school, remaining 18 months longer as an assistant in research. In 1931 he entered the financial business with John Hertz in Chicago, subsequently being affiliated with Field, Glore & Co. in both New York and Chicago. In 1936 he went with Lehmann Brothers, and he came here two years ago. He has three lively sons, Morgan III, who is 6; George, 4, and Peter, 2%.

Chocolate? Yum Yum!

HIS TASTE in food is epicurean. He’s forever sampling some new dish. . And he likes any dessert— _ just so it's chocolate. He smokes Philip Morris cigarets—incessantly; has a yen for gray suits; enjoys driving his car, and he dislikes cats intensely. The only reason he gives for his dislike of cats is that they make too much noise “stomping around.” He spends about half his time traveling for the company, had to go to California this week. Several weeks ago, while in Washington, he twisted his ankle,

He's quite fond of the spiral socks his’ “wife knits for him. A few years ago, while in New York, he met a man who admired the socks, asked if he would get the directions so the man’s wife could knit some for him. Morgan complied with the request and then learned who the man was. He was the husband of Gypsy Rose Lee.

By Raymond Clapper

jfories over Germany. Turkey may come into the war on our side—it’s a reasonable hope at least. The Germans are going to be knocked out of Africa. Tunisia may be all ours in another six weeks. Secretary of War Stimson says we must be prepared for casualties there very soon, which is another way of saying that we are about ready to go into action. We expect the Germans to fight savagely in North Africa but we are confident they haven't got what it takes to stay there. The Japs seem to be held in the Pacific. ! At home, production is n good shape. Headaches over labor supply and inflation are severe, but no more than we should expect considering what violent changes have taken place in the life and work of the nation within the last year.

‘Shooting From the Hip’

BUT THERE is a harmful delay here in preparing for what is to come out of the war.. Various administration officials shoot from the hip in all directions and leave the public more disturbed about the peace than about the war. Public opinion educated. The British acceptance of Gen. Eisenhower as supreme commander in Africa is a fact that could be made to contribute mightily toward better feeling and stronger mutual confidence among the allied nations. But beyond the fighting, people see developing only the early sprouts of post-war rivalries, with no developments toward anything to bind the winning powers together. That is what makes them cynical to the extent that a recent poll showed 60 per cent believing another big war would follow this one. These are the harmful consequences, and the signs of disintegration that come from the administration's _neglect to prepare for what is to come out of the war. Action and leadership by President Roosevelt are needed in this field—the kind of action and leadership that Wilson gave in the last war and that Mr.}| Roosevelt himself gave during the period lending up to’this war.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

I think, towards the events of the day. perhaps. to deal with the present, one should not only ha knowledge, but a real feeling for the men and circumstances of the past. It must add to one’s perspestive and make it possible to Be more objective in all of one’s decisions. !

Sunday, Feb. 14, is ot. Just st. Valentine's day, though to many people that will ‘undoubtedly loom as most important. It is the climax of Negro history| week, and the association for the Study of Negro - and History holds its. annual ‘breakfast : y ’ It is important for ail of us to 3 knw the story of ‘the people of the United States as a whole, and every minority group has contributed toward the making of our nation. The Negroes have done much for our country. There are no wars in which they have not

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ys over the Russian front. Deadly accurracy of the they had ridden into the mouth of enemy guns, brave Russians jump to the attack somewhere on the

southern front during the present drive. that has ‘hurled the Germans back to their 1941-42 line.

‘A German, his clothes in flames, ‘hangs from hatch of tank at right, while in background is another Nazi tank filled with dead. This and other pictures of this series are from a movie record of one day on Russian fronts, filmed by 160 Russian cameramen, 30 of whom died in action.

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Sailors at Londonderry Called MANY OVERPAY | Boston Marines

IN STATE DENIED| "Best Ever,’ 2 are From Here Q PENSION TAX

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Koch, 1411 S. New Jersey st., and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gasvoda, 3336 W. 10th st., must be pretty proud papas and’

State Medical A Association’ Says No Fear of Epidemic:

Need Arise.

«Indiana citizens: need have no apprehension or fear that. they will

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case -of an epidemic. » That's the assurance in a bulletin issued this “Week by the bureau of publicity of the Indiana State Medi-

cal association. : “A survey of the. situation concerning : the availability - of medical services iff Indiana has been completed recently and upon the Tesults obtained the bureau of publicity. feels. that facts warrant complete confidence in making this reassuring statement,” the bulletin states.

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mammas today.

It isn’t every day in the. week that a four-stripe captain looks over |

the shoulders of their sons at work and says: . “Finest ‘navy lads I ever saw and I've k ‘been- in the navy: since before

any of these youngsters were born.” But that’s just. what happened. In a story from Londonderry, Ireland, today, Capt. Van Leer Kirkman, commandant of the naval operating base there, is quoted as saying just that as he looked over a: group of -men helping. keep the United States and allied ships at sea in the battle of the. Atlantic

against U-hoats.

The Kochis’ son,. Robert: 3; and the Gasvodas’ son, Frank J. were included ‘in ‘the men ‘at: the. great Londonderry base which he praised. “Capt. Kirkman went even further and said: “When we breed - men like these, we don’t * have ‘to worry | 400 mich about the future of the United “States: I am’ prouder: of [Frank

He made’ the comment as he took a group of American correspondents on a tour of the base. Li Young Robert Koch has’ been overseas about /a year and his mother . says he writes he’s pres

It would appear that the . oe cver there are being given plenty of [hard work in leu of action. against

had ‘been - in: training at Great Lakes, San Diego and New York. When a boy, he went to St. Pat-| rick’s church and later to Manual.

He was a grocer’s: clerk before “joining up.” The Kochs have just the two boys. The gther son, Frederick, -is «in the medical corps at Sheppard field, Tex. : The Kochs sre still speculating: on what Robert meant when he aid in one letter: “Don’t be surprised’ if I bring an Irish girl Home with me.” They. don’t know whether he’s “kidding” ‘er’ really serious. The Frank Gasvoda family works during .the ‘daytime, so ‘young ’s’ background isn’t available. He does ‘have’ another” ‘brother, Joe,

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The base where he and’ Robert {are stationed ‘is only about a year old." There’s: rain and fog and a bitter: chal with barely

Limit 1s $30 a“ Year But ‘Treasury Collects [Excess Millions.

| Times Speeial ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Millions of dollars in excess of the 1 per cent levy. prescribed by law have been deducted ‘from the pay envelopes. of American workers and paid into federal old-age pension funds,

the - social security ‘board disclosed

today.

Most of the excessive payments |

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Arrive as Usual

BOSTON, Feb. 13 (U.P). — Smoke from a blazing waste= basket filled a powder yoom on the seventh floor of the. federal building today. ak There . were several young women in:the room at the time. After the girls put out the ‘fire with hand extinguishers, marines from ‘a recruiting office on th same ‘floor saw’ smoke and wens, to their aid. : When the marines popped: in, one of the women was so astone ished that she fainted. A marine carried her out. ‘There were no other casualties.

OE. GROUP TO MEET Cumbe land - Shenter, Oh E. will hold Wednes

The law provides ‘a pay ‘envelope deduction ‘of 1 per cent on salary|.

up. to, $3000—a maximum’ levy of $30. In ‘some ‘cases where an employer’ froma pay ‘check and the worker shifts to a new Ring the new employer begins deduction all over :

has deducted ‘the full $30]!