Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1943 — Page 11

MONDAY, FEB. 22, 1943

“Hoosier Vagabond

THE TUNISIA FRONT—(by wireless)—Our soldiers at the front have learned quickly how to keep their stomachs filled during emergencies. Ordinarily, of course, the soldier’s food is prepared _ for him in army mess kitchens, but at the front many things can happen. Small parties go out for days at a time and have to carry their own rations. E On the battle front, kitchen trucks come up only at night and sometimes not even then. . With our mobile armies always moving it isn’t always possible for kitchen trucks to be in the right place at the right moment, and i as a consequence every soldier knows how to feed himself. Every vehicle from jeep to tank has a few spare cans of rations hidden away somewhere, Soldiers cook their own meals on the move. They make a fire in one of two ways, each involving the use of gasoline. For a short fire they dig a hole about the size of your hand, pour gasoline in the hole, sprinkle sand over the gasoline, and then throw in a match. The sand keeps the gas from burning too quickly. On a small fire like that they can heat a canteen or cup of coffee.

Like the British Ration

FOR A BIGGER FIRE, first they fill a small can with gasoline and bury it even with the surface of the ground. They pile rocks around to set their cook-

. ing utensils on, and then toss a match at the gas.

I've never yet seen a real skillet, pan or stewpot over here. The soldiers make their own utensils out

"of those famous five-gallon gasoline tins. I don’t be-

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

Financing the Orchestra WHEN"SHE turned in a contribution to the Indi~ ~

lieve there’s anything in'the world that can’t be made

out of a five-gallon gasoline tin.

To wash their mess kits the soldiers scour them with sand and then polish them with toilet paper. The best dishrag I've ever found is toilet paper. Despite their primitive forms of cooking the sol-

TOM BATCHELOR, the lawyer, got an SOS the other day from George Wellbaum, who used to be with Indiana Bell, but now is with the New York phone company. So he went right out and bought a big slab of bacon and sent it to George. Now George is happy. . . . Folks in Speedway can get the fire department now by merely telling the phone operator: “Speedway fire department.” They used to have to waste time looking up the number. Otherwise the operator gave them the Indianapolis department, . which wouldn’t make the run. . . Mayor Tyndall's chauffeur, "Harold Klein, served him in the same capacity during the general's army days at Camp Shelby. . . . Everitt I. Brown, the architect in charge of the new building at Julietta, the one being investigated by the grand jury, left recently for Norfolk, Va., after receiving a navy commission as a full lieutenant. He writes John F. Conner, his attorney, that he’s enjoying life, although he has to go to school eight hours a day in addition to his other duties. ... . One of Block's Illinois st.

i, show windows still had a sign Friday reading:

“Valentine gift sugestions for her.”

anapolis Symphony maintenance fund, Miss Shirley

Sevitzky would have the orchestra play Gliere’s Russian Sailor's dance. He put it on the next Pop program, and she paid the money. Now Miss McVeigh says she will duplicate the sum if the orchestra plays the Polka and Fugue from Weinberger’s “Schwanda. 3 Thus far, it hasn’t been scheduled. Any less thoughtful conductor might be able to take all Miss McVeigh's money from her by the simple process of playing what' she wants and collecting from her each time. ... A motorist with a C card tells us he’s frequently embarrassed by the looks People give him when, with an empty seat, he passes them up on street corners,

Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Before Mme. Chiang Kai-shek came down here the other day, I lgoked back over the notes of my visit with her for tea in Chungking last April. I thought perhaps I had been overly impressed, The first few lines in my notebook : run as follows: “Then Holly Tong took me to see Mme. Chiang. She more than lived up to buildup. Speaks English—no accent—cigaret in long holder—Col. Chennault was leaving as I arrived and she intro- . duced me—she has everything— looks, ‘wit, vivacity and intelligence.” . She asked about the airplane trip, whether it was hard, the route, how many days, and other traveling details. She said she

might go to the United States for treatment soon.

She talked about the Indian situation, and at length about abolishing extraterritoriality, and said she was “hitting from the shoulder.” I believe that what I wrote about Mme. Chiang at that time laid it on fairly thick. But on the basis of

/ her first few days in Washington, it seems to stand up.

Helen Hayes Couldn’t Do Better

NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS who were at the White House press conference when she appeared with the president participated in a show such as we probably shall never see again. It was high state drama, played by the real characters. Some day they may put Helen Hayes in the part but she’ll never do it any better than madame acted it in real life. shrewd, quick, witty and powerful First Lady of the East against the great master himself. As the press conference began the president asked the reporters not to put any catch questions to madame. She in turn played to the president as the

My Day

WASHINGTON, SUNDAY.—Saturday morning was most interesting. I left the house with Maury Maverick at 8:30 and caught the 9 o'clock train for Baltimore. We were joined on board by John Hall

and Warden Lewis Lawes. The war production board is interested in what federal prisons can produce for the war ef= fort. It is good to know that, .evil as war may be, it can bring _ some people salvation, for it is salvation to be kept ey if you are in prison. - We went to the Bal bre prison and were met by a number of the board members. After a brief survey of the cell block and a. trip through the mess hall, we. undertook a real inspection of ‘prisen industries, . At one

A Wee Bit Late

reported around town, is trying to get Capt. Eddie

It was the delicate, feminine, $ arm. Madame, not a hair ruffled, had a pleasant im-

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By Ernie Pyle

diers do eat well. They get either British or American rations, or a mixture of the two. Soldiers who are traveling actually prefer the British “compo” to our own famous “C” ration. The reason is that the “Cc” ration has so little variety that after three meals you can hardly look a “C” can in the face. The British “compo” is more diverse. It has such things as sausage, puddings, chocolate bars, salt,” jam, butter, and cheese. It even includes toilet paper. Although a general order is out against buying food from the Arabs, in order to avoid using up their supply, still we buy it anyhow. Mess sergeants scour the country and ‘come back with eggs, sheep and chickens. You might say we partly live off the country.

Tale of a Wondering Hog

OF COURSE ridiculous prices are paid to the Arabs, which infuriates the Europeans in North Africa, for it runs up the prices for them too. But the Americans attitude is usually expressed something like this: “Well, money means nothing to us here, and from the looks of most of the Arabs a few extra francs won't hurt them.” The other day I was at a command post in a farmyard in a prosperous irrigated valley. The grounds were full of officers and soldiers: who had

just arrived. All of a sudden across the barnlot there] -

came plodding a huge white hog. It was touching and funny to see the wave of desire that swept over the soldiers. Everybody looked longingly at that hog. ‘A year ago none of us would have looked twice at 8 hog. Today the mere grunting passage of a swine across a barnlot brings 10 thousand words of covetous comment. » » » Excerpt from a letter written by Ernie Pyle Jan. 15 in North Africa and just received by a friend: “There must be tens of thousands of clippings of the column coming back across the ocean, for soldiers are always showing me clippings or letters their folks have written them about the column.”

and he wishes we'd explain to you on behalf of him and others similarly situated. He lives way out and carries a regularly scheduled load to work. The trouble is that some of his passengers live half way downtown. So if he did pick up a passenger on a street corner, he’d have to let the passenger out half way to town.

Curiosities No Longer

THOSE TWO women bus drivers seem to be doing all right. When they first went on duty, Jan. 24, they were looked on as curiosities. Men got on their busses with an air of taking a chance, gripped their seats until they became accustomed to the phenomenon of a good woman driver. Women seemed even more surprised than men to find the women really could handle one of the big busses. Several people just took rides for the experience—riding to the end of the line, then paying another fare to ride back. Now, that’s all over with and the women operators are pretty much taken for granted. Even as stern a critic as old Inside grudgingly admits they're pretty good drivers. However, the chances are there won't be any more women operators for a while. There aren’t any more training now, largely because of the difficulty in finding qualified candidates. Besides, there's been a pretty good supply of male applicants recently.

GENERAL TYNDALL set a new record for tardiriess last week. Scheduled to speak at the opening meeting of the Y. M. C. A. membership campaign, he showed up Friday evening and spoke. Just before he spoke, however, someone tipped him to the fact that that wasn’t the opening meeting. It had occurred just one ‘week previously. “I've been late before,” he quipped, “but this is the first time I've been a week late in filling an engagement.” . . . The C. of C,, it’s

Rickenbacker here to speak at war plants. . . . And Allison reportedly is angling for a visit by Mme. Chiang Kai-shek. . . . Sign on a Central ave. pharmacy: “Frozen dog and ‘cat meat.” Personally, we'd rather have horse meat. . . . Today's slogan: Throw away your can opener and get a spade.

By Raymond Clapper

big strong man who could work miracles. Mme. Chiang, tiny, with feet dangling from the high-seated Roosevelt chair, was working smoothly, while toying with her compact, to coax a promise out of President Roosevelt for China. Mr. Roosevelt, the master of the press-conference technique, was trying with equal smoothness not to melt too much under madame’s technique. Imagine: the ‘scene. Two hundred reporters in on the show, Mme. Chiang sitting between the president and Mrs. Roosevelt, who laid her hand protectingly on madame’s fragile arm.

What Did Confucius Say?

MADAME MAKES a lively little greeting, with delicate flowers for everyone. A reporter thrusts a direct question as to whether .China’s manpower is being fully used in the war, Madame holds her poise, but with a touch of feeling replies that China's men are fighting to the extent that munitions are available for them. When more munitions are sent to China more men will fight. With the greatest of ease, she has thrown the ball square into the lap of the president. He explains that we will send munitions as fast as the Lord will let us. Madame, smiling and making it all so polite and sweet, says she hears there is a saying that the Lord helps those who help themselves. About that time President Roosevelt indicated it had gone on long enough and suggested that if the reporters had any questions for him they’d: better be getting on with them. As we left the president's office, the three were sitting inscrutably in a neat row. Mrs. Roosevelt's hand was no longer laid protectingly on madame’s

personal gaze from which no thoughts escaped. The president was busy with parting words - to Straggling reporters. Whatever it was that Confucius said, it sure was a

mouthful.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

tial metals, so only little tags are being made this year, but many other industries have been started. The men are repairing shoes, making blue shirts for the navy, long underpants, shell cases and funiture such as double-decker cois, chairs, desks and bedsprings. These last items necessitated the making of their own tools. The printing shop goes on and they do a good part of the state printing. In addition, of course, there are cooks and maintenance men, who, if they are allowed to enlist in the services, will find themselves immediately useful. = = At another prison in the state of Maryland they told me that they are raising great quantities of foodstuffs. I understand that where neighboring farmers have a shortage of manpower and have,s therefore, discontinued: the cultivation of their land, they have been able to’ lease it and increase their own production. "This Work is good for the prisoners and the naPsychologically, nothing could be better than to

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about new alloys, synthetic chemicals, plastics, radio and electronics under the impetus of war necessity has cleared the way for the future. Because the war has speeded up industrial research to the point where studies that might have taken years have been finished in months, so. the marvels of the future will arrived a decade ahead of schedule. Some of the things ahead are so startling that their recital sounds fantastic,

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‘Your Post-War Auto

POST-WAR automobiles, after a few years, will be so far ahead of 1942 models that the difference separating the two will be greater than those separating the 1942 car from the old Model T Ford. The first post-war autos, to fill the - immediate demand, will be much like present ones. But thereafter changes will come with amazing rapidity. " Thanks to what is being learned about engine design, new alloys, and. new fuels, tomorrow's automobile will have .an engine more powerful than today’s but only half as large and heavy. That in turn will make possible en‘ entirely new type of design with the engine over ‘the rear axle instead of out in front. Auto bodies of transparent plastic—like the noses of fighting planes—are another possibility.

NEW YORK TROUBLE, T00 MANY. TIN GANS

NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (U. P.).— Municipal and war production board officials today were attempting to dispose of large stock piles of salvaged tin cans following charges that they were creating: a “health menace.” . For. weeks department of sanitation trucks had been collecting the cans for distribution to 10 projected detinning and recovery plants from coast to coast. But the government suddenly called a halt to the government-

terials for construction which would contribute more to the war effort. Now harrassed officials are wondering what to do with the cans. Some 30,000 cubic yards of cans are piled up in: various sections of the city. Because many of them are unwashed, the city council adopted a resolution ‘declaring that they would “attract vermin” and create “an extremely unsanitary condition.”

KORAN CEREMONIAL SET Koran temple 30, Daughters of the Nile, will have a ceremonial and banquet at 6:30 p, m. tomorrow in the Travertine room of the Hotel

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End of War Corian

New World

-(First of a Series) By DAVID DIETZ

Science Editor

“IN THE FIRES of war the research scientists and engineers of American industry are forging the future. Beyond the flame and smoke of battle a keen eye can . already discern the shape of things in

America will not merely move out of the present war into an era of victory and peace, but into a new world. Peace will see the advent of mechanical and electrical . and chemical wonders as far ahead of the things we used before the war as the flying fortresses and fighter planes of the mo- § ment outdistance the performance of - prewar aircraft. Ln Rs The scientists and engineers who are now dekigning the weapons of war are at the same time preparing the peacetime marvels of tomorrow. What they have learned

financed building ‘to conserve ma-}-

The new design will probably follow the streamline “tear drop” model and the inferior of the car will resemble a glassed-over solarium. Probably only the driver's seat will be fixed in position. The other seats will be moved around as easily as the chairs in. your living room. ‘The heater that keeps the car warm in winter will be replaced by an air conditioner that cools it in summer as well. Engineers likewise foresee many smaller and lighter cars, peacetime jeeps, built of alloys and plastics so light that it will be possible for a man to pick one

up almost ‘as easily as he lifts a°'

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New Designs Possible

THE AUTOMOBILE ‘industry will be free to explore any given design after the war because its prewar assembly lines have been torn down and dismantled. No desire to save old assembly lines or tools or dies will play any part. This same factor will operate in many other industries that have undergone complete war conversion.” One need not be a prophet to foresee what will happen when aviation is released from the business of fighting a war. and permitted to cater to civilian needs. Passenger planes will fly whereever the big fighting ships g0 NOW. Inland towns, if

Theft Is Repaia After 24 Years

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 22 (U. P.). —William H. Sweetwood, of Pittsburgh, today has $700 in new war bonds to replace $400 stolen from him in a Ft. Worth, Tex, hotel in 1919, Sweetwood received the money yesterday from Otis Milleage, a cook at the navy mess hall of Cornell university at Ithaca, N. Y., who wrote Sweetwood that he was the porter responsible for the disappearance of the money from beneath a pillow 24 years ago and wanted to return it “with interest.” ‘ Milleage said the theft had bothered his conscience since he had become a member of Father “Divine’s religious sect. Sweet= wood took the money and imme--diately purchased : war bonds with it.

WAR MOTHER FILLS HOME FRONT JOB

WATERVILLE, Me. (U. P).— While her two sons fight the axis in the army, Mrs. Katherine Taylor of Waterville is doing » big iob on the home iront. She has collected more | than 12,000 pairs of: old silk stockings to

nc | matron, will have charge of the;

Artist Willard Combes takes a

look into the future:

A stratosphere super-liner, carrying passengers

over the top of the world, wings its way across the sky. A helicopter lands on the flat roof of the modern istic house. In the foreground an automobile of the post-war world, a “solarium on wheels,” travels along

the road.

strategically located on air routes, will rival seaports as centers of commerce. After world war I, people marveled at the courage of an Amundsen or a Byrd who flew over the North pole. After world war II, people will themselves be passengers on routine flights over the top of the world.

Thousands of pilots back from

the war will want te continue flying, and it is extremely probable that small, light planes will be on the market to meet their demands. Improved designs, making the planes virtually foolproof and greatly minimizing the hazards of flying, are expected. It is also significant that ‘researches are now being conducted with helicopters, flying machines capable of rising directly into the air from a still position, of hover-

ing almost motionless over one

spot, and of landing gently on any spot large enough to accommodate the machine. Gigantic passengers planes will be matched by equally large, perhaps: larger, cargo planes, and these will fly over land and water. Oranges, permitted to ripen on the trees of Californja or Florida, will arrive by cargo plane in time for breakfast. In this and many other ways, tomorrow’s airplanes will revolutionize the buying and living habits of America. » » ”

Television, Electronics

TELEVISION is. just around the corner. Just as radio broad--casting arrived after world war 1, so television will be here with the close of world war II. _ Because of the major use .of the radio locator and other radio devices in the war, it is not possible to say much in detail about the trend in this field, but scientists have accomplished truly amazing things and their effect will be felt after the war. Not only in radio but in every field, the science of electronics will play a major role. Photoelectric cells and other electronic tubes will usher in a new day of automatic control for numerous manfacturing processes, speeding up production and improving products. All the new alloys and plastics and chemicals that are giving Uncle Sam the world’s greatest fighting machine will go. into improving living after the war. Prefabricated houses, air conditioning systems, new building materials, new fabrics—these are

CRUDE RUBBER GETS ITS OWN BUREAU

WASHINGTON, Feb.22 (U.P) .— Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones disclosed last night that ‘the government’s crude and synthetic rubber programs have been divorced to place greater emphasis on the development ‘and procurement of natural rubber in Latin America and other foreign countries. ; He announced creating of a new rubber development within the . reconstruction finance corporation to ‘take over all phases of the government's natural rubber program. Synthetic production will remain under control of the RFC’s rubber reserve company. The shift was suggested by rubber director William M. Jeffers, who revealed he asked Jones to set up the new agency so it could “devote its entire time” to cultivation and procurement of foreign supplies.

0. E. S. MEMORIAL SET

A memorial ceremony will be held by the Beech Grove chapter 465, 0. E. S., tomorrow evening at the Masonic temple, 619 Main st., Beech Grove. Mrs. Luella Frame, ‘worthy

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but a few of the things in store. All of these things, it is important to remember, are coming out of the nation’s great laboratories just as are the new materials and devices and weapons that are helping Uncle Sam win the war today. It is all part of the story of American industrial research, one of the proudest chapters in the history of America. ’ #2. 8 =

Research Moves Ahead

INDUSTRIAL research laid the foundations for the growth. of 20th century America. The story begins in the closing years of the 19th century with the pioneer work of such men as Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. Business and industry grew up on the work of such men and the country grew with them. They made possible the. railroads that spread across the plains, the electric lights that brightened the cities of America, the telephones that linked them together. Industrial research developed American industry and made the American standard of living the envy of the rest of the world. It made America the industrial giant capable of delivering the knockout blow in world war I. It carried on after world war I and, what is most important, carried on in the postwar depression. After the stock market crash of 1929, America suffered its worst depression. . But there never was a depression in the research laboratories. : The wheels of industry slowed down, even stopped in some places. The furnace fires flickered lower. Rust gathered on lathes. But. in the laboratories the Bunsen burners were kept going. No dust gathered on test tubes or retorts.

u Brings New World

AS. A RESULT the volume of research went up as business activity went down and so, when recovery finally came, it was far more than that. In 1936, America began to move into a-new era of taller buildings, longer bridges, swifter trains, safer aircraft and finer homes, into a world of greater beauty, deeper comfort and smoother efficiency. ‘This new world was built of stronger steels, tougher alloys, better aluminum products, ‘more useful plastics, harder abrasive, more powerful machine tools, more

Gets His Wings And a $10 Bill

SECOND LIEUT. GEORGE J. TRITTIPO of Indianapolis collected a $10 bet from his fatherah H. A. Burlson, 711 E. 58th t.,. when he successfully comi his pilot training in the army. The new lieutenant won his wings and commission a short time ago at Moore field, Mission, Tex. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter. L. Trittipo, 2920 N. Olney st. He says he’s going to frame the bill and carry it in

every plane he flies as a good luck token.

CRUISER CHICAGO

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SYDNEY, Feb, 22 (U. P.). — The United States cruiser Chicago, sunk recently in the Solomons, narrowly escaped damage or destruction during the Japanese midget submarine raid on Sydney harbor last June 1, it was revealed today. One of the midget submarines successfully reached the inner harbor and fired its first torpedo at

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ingenious automatic controls, new chemical compounds and new chemical processes. Along with these products came a new appreciation of beauty, a new interest in design that .reflected itself in automobiles’ and streamlined trains, even in vacuum cleaners and electric irons.

Industrial research was carrying °

this world from one new success to another—the flying clipper ships that spanned the Atlantic and the Pacific, the transcontinental Diesel-electric trains, new plastics, etc.—when Hitler and Mussolini and Hirohito threw the peoples of the earth into world war II. 2 How well the industrial laboratories—and all of industry as well —has met this challenge can be read on every battlefront today. America is truly the arsenal of democracy and everywhere are troops fighting with superior guns, tanks, planes and ammunition. These things have happened

~ because all through the 20th cen-

tury, American industry has lave ishly but wisely thrown millions of dollars into research. EJ 2 ”

Country’s Salvation IN 1940, THE LAST year whose.

entire 12 months found America

at peace, American industry spent $220,000,000 on research, according to the survey made by Dr. William A. Hamor, associate director of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Pittsburgh. Ten firms in 1940, including four chemical concerns spent ore than 10 per cent of their gro! income on research. In fo41, American industry spent even more on researéh, ace cording to Dr. Hamor. The figure for that year was $275,000,000. This expansion of research during the year put American industry in an unusually excellent position to contribute to the war effort that became necessary when ‘Japan delivered its sneak punch at the end of the year. In 1942; American industry spent more {han $300, 000,000 on research. America. can congratulate itself upon the wise policy of its ine dustries with regard #o industrial research. It has paid dividends in the form of better products and lower prices to the ‘whole nation, Twice in the century, in world war I and world war II, it has meant the salvation of American democracy.

NEXT: Research earch in the ‘Chem. cal Industry:

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