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iy our immense armored convoy when we ut before many hours had passed we had so Hany slow-moving vehicles that we worked our way well up into the Be CONVOY. ¢ As we droned along through the night it was hard to realize that we were part of such an immensely long string of war machines. Vehicles stretched ahead of us for scores of miles, but of course we couldnit see them, and our only companion-
ship was five or six red tail-lights
ahead of us. | We all drove without headlights, but did have tail- - lights so we could see.when the fellow ahead was stopping. Occasionally we would smoke and I would light cigarets for the others. We didn’t try to hide the flare of the match, for it was only a flash and then quickly gone. Once in a while we would overtake a truck with a dead engine, or a big wrecker towing a half-track. But our American machines are good ones, and of the hundreds of vehicles in that great convoy only & handful had trouble during the long journey.
A Slow Business
‘OUR CONVOY was as complete as a circus. There were ammunition trucks, kitchens, repair shops, trucks carrying © telephone switchboards and generators for camp lighting, trucks carrying bombs. There were jeeps carrying generals, and there were great wreckers capable of picking up a whole tank.
“It was quite a contrast to the Arabs we'd pass in the night, driving heavily loaded camels and burros.
The moon gave us enough light to drive by, but now the bulk of the convoy, which started long before
the moon came out, ever got over the mountain range
is beyond mie. They had to drive in total blackness.
Guides would go ahead to study the road. They spot- -
ted all the sharp turns and steep banks, and they would indicate the direction of traffic with their hooded flashlights.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
. MISS LELA TAYLOR and her mother, Mrs. Nora A. Taylor, were quite thrilled to see a robin pear their home, 37 Johnson ave. It seemed to hint that spring 18 coming. . . . Bernard Lynch Jr. tells us that the Ferndale tavern serves a couple of unique drinks. On the tavern mirror they list: Jap highball—25 cents; Nazi flip—10 cents. Ask for a Jap highball and Red Tracy hands you a glass of water and a 25-cent war stamp. For a Nazi flip, you get a glass of water and a 10-cent war stamp. . Three sailors, seated in widely separated parts of the balcony of one of the downtown govie houses, gave other moviegoers a bit of entertainment the other night. During the intermission, while the lights were on, the sailors stood Not speaking wigwag, our agent. couldn't tell us what they were talking about. . . . A rather stout woman crowded her way to the door of an E. Michigan streetcar at Fulton st. the other evening, elbowing many of the 100 or so passengers packed in the car. Just as she was stepping off, she lost her footing and sat down hard on the step, then, fell forward on her face. Spectators tittered #hd ond niall: wisecracked: “Lady, that's really getting off the hard way.” She got to her feet in injured silence and. went, her hin 5
‘Rumor Department THERE'S A RUMOR going the rounds dowatown.
that the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been sold —or is to be sold—to General Motors for use as a proving grounds after the war. This might or might not mean the end of the 500-mile race. Al Rickenbacker, brother of Capt. Eddie, the Speedway president, says he knows nothing whatsoever about the rumor. Neither do we. . . . August Souchon, chef at the I. A. C, sent a couple of packages to his son, Pvt. Bob Souchon, U. S. marines, at San Diego, yesterday. One contained a wrist watch. The other contained a
- hunting knife with a blade six or seven inches long
and sharpened to a razor’s edge. August thought Bob might get a chance to try it on some Japs. « « »
Washington
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—China is essentidl in our
‘scheme of defeating Japan. Without the co-operation
of China any plan for military victory over Japan would be seriously weakened. Likewise, China is important to us in any arrangement for security in the Pacific after the war.. The extent SE ‘of our interest in China was reg- : istered for all time when we refused to sell her out to Japan just before Pearl Harbor. We took the risk of war with the Japs rather than agree. to proposals of Tokyo that would have left China a slave of Japan. : We took the side of China, not out of a kindness of heart, but because the safety of the United States would have been jeopardized by allowing Japan to become su-
. preme in ihe Orient. Those facts should be sufficient
to prove to some of the Chinese who are discouraged that the United States has every interest now and in the future, as it has had in the past, in helping China. They should suggest that anything we are not doing for China is not done out of neglect but because we have difficulties to overcome first.
We Must Have Supply Routes
MME, CHIANG KAI-SHEK is likely to receive a national ovation, and undoubtedly some in congress will be moved to demand that more aid go to China. Such suggestions already have been heard during the lend-lease hearings, which show pitifully little help to China as compared with England and Russia. There is no reason, however, to allow enthusiasm
My Day
"COLUMBIA, Mo., Tuesday. ~ Various delays this morning gave us time for a very ‘comfortable break-
- Germans are trying some savage tank smashes at us
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fast with Col. and Mrs. Hoag. I have always had a
great ‘admiration for army wives, but it was en-
Rainsed by. Mis. Hong's: philosophical attitude toward
the present situation. They left
Puerto Rico in June and are still without most of their furniture. Nevertheless, she seems to have enough to. make everyone com-'
fortable and she told me that she
_ routine of the barracks.
A little before 10 o'clock we
left. the" field in Des Moines and City,
, at about 11 a. m. There . 5 x
. nemyer, of Bargersville, who works at Eli Lilly & Co.,
~ students met us at the airport. I
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stops the “drivers checked thelr ane We had been on the road three hours and come exactly 27 miles. Snaking a huge convoy over a mountain range in the dead of night is slow business. But open country was’ ahead, and when we reached that we stepped up to 35 and 40 miles an hour. The night wind cut more cruelly now. We didn’t talk much, for it was too cold. My goggles kept steaming inside, and I would have to lift them ‘off and wipe them. Finally all of us except the driver pulled blankets over our heads and dozed a little. But not much, for holes in the gravel roads were hard to see and often the jeep would do a back-breaking hurdle.
Infantry Gets It in Neck
AT THE REST STOPS the soldiers would get out and run up and down the road, or stand in [one spot jitterbugging in an effort to warm their feet. The ones I felt sorriest for were the infantrymen, packed like sardines in open trucks with no protection from the bitter cold. It seems as if the infantry always gets it in the neck. About 4 a. m. Capt. Riddleberger and I changed places with two soldiers riding in the back end of the truck ahead. We lay down on barracks bags and pulled blankets over us, thinking we'd snatch a little sleep. Pretty soon Riddieberger said: ‘These biankets smell so bad I can’t sleep.” . Mine didn’t smell exactly like perfume either. “Well, hell,” the captain said. “The poor guys never have a chance to take a bath.” Apparently it didn’t occur to him that he and I never took baths either. “Wonder how we smell to others. : When I came to there was a faint light in the sky. It was just 7 o'clock. I had been dead to the world for two hours. It Was hard to believe, for the truck had been jolt-
ing and bouncing and stopping and starting ‘all that
fime. Weariness is a great cure for insomnia, or maybe I had been anesthetized by those gr who knows? (Continued Tomorrow)
Someone with a very faint sense of patriotism has “dumped at least a truckload of empty tin cans, unprocessed, along Lyndhurst dr. between ‘Vermont and 10th sts. It’s a Nazi trick.
Fun on the Bus FOLKS WHO commute daily from Neighboring small towns by bus often get quite “chummy, get so well acquainted they call each ‘other by their first names and know quite a bit about each other's busi-
ness. Take the Scenic bus line from Nashville, for instance. One of the regular passengers, a Mrs. Min-
became ill recently and had to go to the hospital. Some of the other bus passengers missed her, learned where she was and took up a collection to send her flowers. Friday there was a “thank you” note pinned up in the bus. It was addressed to “my fellow sufferers on the old Scenic bus,” and was signed: “From
your strap-holding, seat-grabbing friend.” . . . Inci=|: dentally, Jack Clarke suggests that the next time you |! sit down next to a “hospital smelling” fellow on the|:
bus or streetcar, “don’t turn up your nose—he’s probably on his way home from Red Cross headquarters after giving a pint of blood. And the medicine smell
form is shown in the adjoining columns. This is the first time the government has presented a rationing form for first distribution through newspapers. Decision to permit the newspapers to issue this form as a public service to their readers was made in
papers reach practically every individual in the United States and can, therefore, put over this rationing campaign as successfully ‘as they handled the nation’s scrap drive last fall. : By presenting the consumer declaration form through this newspaper, The Indianapolis Times makes it possible for the house~ wife or any individual making
On this page today The Indianapoiis Times prints the consumer declaration which must be filled in for everyone applying for war ration book No. 2. Cut out this form and save if.
is from the dope they put on his arm, as yowd know|
if you'd ever been there.”
Around the Town
: ONE SCENE in the second picture at the Circle usually brings a murmur from the audience. It’s a closeup of a pair of hands cutting a nice juicy steak —the kind we used to get. / Remember? . . , Capt. Wally Middlesworth, the former city recreation director and assistant football coach at Butler, now is serving at Del Valle army air base, Austin, Tex. He’s special service and athletic officer, and among his duties is the supervision of the base newspaper, the Del Valle News, a very fine eight-page tabloid, He's complaining about the heat down there, the ungrateful wretch. . . . Lieut. Harry Scott Jr. has gone to Del Valle after a short leave here. ‘He came here after winning his wings at:Roswell field, N. M. His dad had the pleasure of going to the field and pinning the air corps wings on Harry Jr.
By Raymond Clapper
for our sturdy friends to throw us out of balance. Demands for changes in the program can cause confusion but are not apt to affect the plans.. After Prime Minister Churchill's speech last week in which he said the plan was to defeat Germany first and then turn to Japan, some criticism was heard in this country.’ President Roosevelt, in his address on Lincoln’s birthday, undertook to soften that criticism by saying that our policy toward our Japanese enemies is the same as our policy toward our Nazi enemies—a policy of fighting hard on all fronts and winning the war as soon as we can. But the fact is that we can do little in China until we have sea and land routes in there. We can’t even do a large-scale bombing job without having ground transportation by which to move in gasoline and bombs, Although bombing must be’ heavy. and persistent to be effective, we will try anyway to do what we ‘can, including such bombing as we can, on the present basis of using air supply lines. -
North Africa Comes First
~ YET IT 18 clear that real help. to. China waits; first of all, on the winning of North Africa. The hard days of the war in North Africa are at hand. The
now. _ People here look for a fairly fast cleanup of Africa, but they expect it will be costly. President Roosevelt said the other night the casualties would be heavy. Washington is preparing the country for the. price that will have to be paid to win a victory. - No other claims will have priority until the battle of North Africa is over. That is why China needs to be patient a little while longer:
‘By Eleanor Roosevelt
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fairly equal in their achievements. Some of the men
never touched a typewriter before and, therefore,} p take a little longer to learn the typing out of code/cial sf
messages. Some of the women have never used tools
ed, covering the amount of coffee on hand Nov. 28, when coffee rationing began, and the number
{1 of cans of food on hand Feb. 21,
in excess of five cans per person.
War ration book 2 will be issued for everyone. Coupons will be removed. from books 1 and 2 for coffee and canned goods in excess of one pound of coffee and five cans of food per person.
SPUR GARDENS IN RURAL AREAS
Program Designed to Get Each Family to Grow Ton of Right Food.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (U.P).— The agriculture department will start a campaign next month designed to get rural families to produce a ton a year of the right kinds of foods for every member of the
amily. ® The victory home supply food
program will stress production of fresh fruits and vegetables, the canning of 100 or more quarts of fruits and vegetables for each member of
|the family, and production of an
ample; supply - of. milk, chickens for eggs and meats, and other homegrown: meats: and. ood: ops for family use. { The" dephrtment. hopes, that it rural families co-operate fully with
before and are a little slower in acquiring mechanical|pop skills. A healthy rivalry, however, seems to exist| A
and I rather imagine that all the students do their work better .because they .are. there. together. 1
and we went over the arrangements, ways are similar to these in Miami.
S3e army has taken gver sonaidetable Hotel space r
past may have held one guest. es ow nad hie nrc
or four cots, sometimes. ‘the double-decker variety| - used in barracks. On’ the: whole, I think this is an
easier life to: adjust fo than the complete army
We reached Columbia, Mo., on time and a group of 2 w. 1
inspected the cadets 31 5% pary SuSES#SIGL sn ks oan a Tey utes. ,
recognition of the fact that news-
Fill in the information request-
THE OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION today. released to The Indianapolis Times a copy of the form for “consumer declaration of processed foods and coffee,” which must be filled out for every person to whom is issued war ration book No. 2, covering canned goods and other processed foods to be rationed March 1. A copy of this
application for war ration book 2
to fill in the form at home during
leisure moments. And by taking the completed form to the registration centers, during the week
of Feb. 22-27, much time will be
saved. Standing in line will be reduced to a minimum. The form announced by OPA headquarters and the local rationing boards today is comparatively simple and is largely selfexplanatory.
Only four blank spaces have to
be filled in, plus a list of names of persons for'whom applications for ration book 2 are being made. The steps which everyone filling
in the form should take are as
follows:
On Feb. ”, every housewife should make an inventory of the canned goods she has on her pantry shelves. Count only 8 oz. or larger sizes of food listed on the declaration.
° Nation-wide registration for war ration book No. 2 will be held during the week of Feb. 22-27. Every applicant must present the consumer declaration and war ration book No. 1.
Rationing of canned goods under the point system will begin with blu¢ coupons from book 2 on March 1. All sales of canned goads will be stopped during registration week, Feb. 22-27.
4 consumer declaration from today’s newspaper. 3 # # ‘® On Feb. 21, go to your pantry and count all cans, jars and
bottles containing eight ounces . or more of the following focds Which you have bought in a store: - Canned fruits (including spiced: ;
fruits). 3 Canned vegetables. Canned fruit and vegetable Juices. Canned soups, chili sauce and catsup. . The net weight contents of every can or jar is printed on the label. Don't count containers holding less than eight ounces. Don’t count canned or glassed foods you put up yourself. Don’t count canned olives, canned meat or fish, pickles, relish, jellies, jams, preserves, spaghetti, macaroni or noodles. Don’t count dried or frozen foods. td ” 2. You are now ready to fill out the form. First, under the heading “Cof-
fee,” in the blank space at the -
right of number 1, write in the number of pounds of coffee you had on hand Nov. 28, less 1 pound for every member of the family, 14 years of age or older. You were told to make a note of coffee on hand Nov. 28 when coffee rationing began. If;there are five members of your: family—Pop, Mom, Grandpa, a boy of 18 and a girl of 12—you would be entitled to have four pounds of coffee orf hand. If you had only one pound or less for each person over 14, you would print a big “O” in the blank space, or write “None.”
_ If "you had six pounds of coffee
on hand and there were four members of your family over 14, you would enter in the blank space the figure “2.”
Guess Is Permissible
IF YOU have lost your Nov. 28 inventory Bf coffee on your shelves, or if you can’t remember it, they’ll probably ask you to guess. Second,
enter in the blank
- space at the right of question 2,
the number of people # your household over 14 years of age for whom a war ration book No. 1 was issued. In the five-member family given above as an example, the number to. enter would be: “4.” The 12-year-old’ daughter would have a book for sugar, but could get no coffee. Third, figure out the number of cans of goods you're entitled to have on hand. Suppose your Feb. 21 inventory shows that you have on the pantry shelves four cans of fruits, eight cans of vegetables, six cans of vegetable juice, five cans of soup, one jar of chili
sauce and three bottles of catsup.
That adds up to 27 units. All right, there are five members of
the typical family as listed above.
They're entitled to have on hand five cans per person, or a total of 25. So, in the blank space at the right of question 3, the cor-
rect figure to enter would be “2.”
(27 minus 25.) ” 8 ” List Number in Family FOURTH, put in the blank space opposite question 4, the number of persons for whom you are making application for ‘book No. 2. In the: family example given, the number would be “5.” Finally, print the names of the
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As a special service to its readers, The Indianapolis Times prints above the form which must be filled out for every man, woman and child making an application for war ration book Ne. 2. This form may be completed at home and taken to local rationing board registration places during the week of Feb. 22-27. When registering, ration book No. 1—now used for sugar and coffee—must be taken to the registration place with the farm above. Filling in this form at home will sa time and avoid standing in line during registration.
members of your family and opposite each name put the serial number appearing on the war ration book No. 1 issued for that person. Sign your name and put in the address, and then you're all set to go register for your book No. 2. Be sure lo take this consumer declaration . form with you, and
Make Plans Needs
This is the third of a series of 12 articles of expert advice for victory gardeners this year. It is suggested that you clip and save each installment for future “reference.
The size of your victory garden and the variety, of the vegetables to be grown are determined in accordance with space available, climate ‘and soil, the amount of time you can devote to gardening, and the size of your family or group to be supplied. In general, victory gardeners are asked to make their gardens big enough to produce all or a
‘substantial part of their family’s
needs for fresh and preserved vegetables. ‘Such a garden will ‘make its
~ weight felt in adding to our total food ‘supply and ‘thus strike a
blow toward winning the war. Plan your garden to ‘produce maximum quantities of nutritious,
protective vegetables, particularly leafy green and Yellow ones, and
tomatoes. All these kinds 6f garden pro-' duce can be grown so successfully. and yield so abundantly that each gardener should aim at enough. 30 Saks sare of home, Seeds : full, 2 8 oo»
Supply Family Need
Victory Garden—No. 3
to Fill the Family's for Fresh’ Vegetable Diet ||
also should include extra supplies for nearby markets. In addition, every farm where climate and water supplies permit should have enough small fruits, grapes and fruit trees.to provide in the next few seasons a full supply of fresh, dried and canned iruits for family use. Plans should be as shisple as possible, with attention to producing good supplies of the vege-
' tables providing the most in nu-
tritive. value rather than a littie of each of a large number of varieties. Long, straight rows, spaced far enough apart to allow adequate cultivation, are sirable. Where summer rainfall is short, farm gardens should be in spots where water may be directed for irrigation from a creek or spring. : * ya 8, 2 =» Work Hour a Day SIMILAR PRINCIPLES apply to city and suburban victory gar-
‘dens as far as space and circum-
stances permit. A garden 30x50 or 50x100 feet should be the goal.
An average of an hour .a day in | “such a plot will:do wonders in the | ‘way of ‘increasing the family’s | vegetable supply.
Community and allotment type
gardens often may be established - “| on vacant ground around industrial plants, vacant tracts await- : evelopment ¢
‘most de-
* promises to be
should be cleared of ehatriictions, plowed and staked off for assignment of plots. o » » Help School Lunches SCHOOL GARDENS should be
planned | both for their educational
value‘ and’ to provide supplies of fresh and processed vegetables for school lunch programs. Hotbeds
and cold frames will be needed
for class work. Care and cultiva-
tion must be well organized and supervised. Summer care of such “gardens must be provided to keep gardens that have started well from dying,
‘and provision must ‘be made for ‘groups - of ‘pupils, instructors, or
interested parents to harvest and properly process or ‘store the vegetable crop. The
rural schools many town
=. portunities for:
and suburban schools to join in |
the victory garden drive are especially outstan
“The supply of vegetable seed needs, but the
for 1943 |
also the war ration book No. 1
for ‘every person for whom you're applying for a book No. 2. If you don’t take the book 1 with you, you won't be given a book 2. As a warning, note that the penalty for making a false statement on this form is 10 years imprisonment, or, $10,000 fine, or both.
CHINESE PUBLISH PAPERS ‘IN. CAVES
CHUNGKING, Feb. 11 .(U. P) (Delayed) ~Chinese correspondents, deep behind Japanese lines, broad=
king.
from all over the world are broadcast to Chinese newspapers published in mountain caves and bamboo: huts, also behind . enemy’s lines. & All a free China editor needs publish a paper in enemy territe is. a printing press, or a du Of pencils, crude Chinese paper, and a radio receiving set. paper, in. small, brown sheets, not be considered §od. enough wrapping parcels - the Uni States. | All newspapers ptbiafiod ine
“| territory are ‘called rural :
HOLD EVERYTHING
victory garden ARR situation is tight, | particularly for 3,
‘onions, beets and carrots. However, it should be remembered
that the supply is not so large as
to permit waste f seed by indif- z
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