Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1943 — Page 11
DAY, MARCH 2, 1943
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{ FRONT, March 2 (By Wireless). midst of the forward rushing tanks, what the score was. So I pulled side, gradually easing a way out. get to a high spot and take a look at what was happening, before we got caught. So we bounced over gullies and ditches, up the side of a rocky hill. ‘© There—in a hidden gully—we found the commanding colonel, standing beside a radio half-track. We’. stood close enough to the radio to hear the voice of the who was leading the tank attack. At the same ime, through binoculars, we watched the fantastic surge of caterpillar metal move forward across the desert, in front
e town of Sidi Bou Zid. Through the cout see it, only as a great oasis, whose stood out against the bare brown of the beyond were high hills, where some of - were still trapped after the surprise attack ore. . our tanks, ‘leading the attack, other icles puffed blue smoke. New formations move forward swiftly. The artillery went by armored infantry in half-tracks in jeeps. Now the entire desert was surging movement, ' radio came the voice of the battalion
he edge of’ 15m Bou Zid, and have
; this wintry weather fool you, shivering . or spring, gentle spring, is just around the do we know? All signs point that ‘way. firemen have been looking over their brooms in preparation for batting out the
usual epidemic of spring grass
_ fires. There was a big one north
‘of town last week that threat-
ened several farm houses. Robins
are getting to be a dime a dozen. Postman Jim Mize reported hearing a couple of meadow larks last week. Kite flying has been going on so long it’s almost out of season again. We've had half a dozen
~ reports. of folks with sap buckets
hanging on maple trees—and getting some maple sugar water already. We saw a plowed lot on the
work this morning. Scores of folks report wers poking their heads an inch or two ground. And there's the usual epidemic of who. went outdoors without a coat on days. We could go on like this by the
n’t.
If the groundhog knows anything
weather, there’ll be just two more weeks h weather. It was Just a month ago today Y ndhog saw his shadow and holed up
erence, but the official gots ‘for. spring 6:03. a. m., March 21. It doesn’t make any
ause
S Jing Seldom pays any attention
ice ¢ of the Day
BE VCE: The Indiana Republi-
; stetation met at the Claypool hotel ‘did tHe Democratic Editorial association. ‘Murray was re-elected president of the association, while Ray Smith, secretary to
, named president of the Democratic
usual phase is that both Mr. Murray 3 sons of Methodist ministers, both
traff
} March 2—In discussion of comafter the ‘war, we would do well to
fun amental point that everything rests
reciprocal arrangements with Great
t must be the starting point of any
American policy regarding postwar commercial aviation. : :» In discussion of commercial air traffic after the war, meaningless phrases have been tossed around. They have done harm among friendly nations. ‘We should quit
"using the meaningless phrases
about freedom of the air and sov-: ereignty of the air and talk in specific terms. ; Mrs. Clare Luce, whose first speech in congress sét off an international controversy, has clari-
ni ng. She says we must make reciprocal Great Britain’ and other foreign nations,
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r the better. track, or rather it practically eliminates
That gets the argument
ots Should Be Worked Out
READ Mrs. Luce’s freshman speech to we ‘should demand air rights every-
grant none here. No se impossible position
sible person would On the other hand,
that freedom of the air meant that we erybody to have unrestricted air rights ry and ask nothing in return. No one ‘such a senseless policy. . Eden, British foreign minister, indicated f common recently that discussion of questions with other nations would be soon. That is highly desirable Becatse air commerce is closely linked with milions and allies ought to have agree-
out before the war bn over.
| Monday. Yesterday Svening we en by men in North Africa who e heart of. battle, and sometimes
lines than their own. It was an in-
i: heart-rending picture, for it in- : cluded the inevitable costs of vic.tory, wounded and dead men. - In the White House there'is no. chance to forget that one is facing
se it showed the French troops passing in review before the Americans, and later our own boys gallantly fighting. But it is also a
a cruel ‘and terrible war and that victory is only obtained at a heavy ~ price. I hope that all the people
in this country will work as hard '
for the establishment of friendship and good understanding among
f the world in the future, as they have
achieve vicfory in the war.
I see a thoughtless statement about
t our future aims in world organiza: for the harm it may do other naharm it may do us. We are only a
rt] -and South Africa of the popu- '
~ to sput.
. that our two countries are now intimately mixed up
_ ments.
: celebrating their 31st birthday. If more leaders could
struck no opposition yet.” So our tanks were across the vast plain, which the Germans had abandoned during the night—after the chaos of the previous day. This peaceful report from our tank charge brought no comment from anyone around the command truck. Faces were: grave: It wasn’t right—this business of no opposition at ali; there must be a trick in it somewhere. . . . Suddenly, brown geysers of earth and smoke began We watched through -our glasses, Then, from far off, came the sound of explosions. Again the voice from the radio: . “We're getting shelled, put can’t make out where it’s coming from.” Then a long silence, while We geysers continued to burst. . . . “I'm not sure, ‘but I think it’s artillery along the road north of town. . . . Now there is some from the south.” = We looked, and could see through our glasses the enemy ancing. ‘They were far away, perhaps 10 miles—nafrow little streaks of dust, like plumes, speeding {down the low sloping plain from the mountain base toward the oasis of Sidi Bou Zid. We could not see the German tanks, only gus plumes extending and pushing forward. Just then I realized we were standing on the very hill the general had picked out for me on his map that morning. It was not good enough. I said to the young lieutenant: “Let’s get on up there.” He replied: “I'm ready.” So we got into the jeep, and went leaping and bounding up toward what was—but we didn’t know it then—the most ghastly armored melee that has occurred so far in Tunisia.
(Continued Tomorrow. )
were graduated from Huntington high school in 1915, both entered DePauw, both joined Phi Delta Theta, both studied journalism and both entered the newspaper field when ghey were graduated, . . . Because of these similarities, maybe it’s no wonder that Mayor
Tyndall, scheduled to attend the Republican editorial |-
‘association meeting, accidentally walked into the Democratic meeting by mistake. According to Claypool lobby stories, one of the secretaries to Democratic State Chairman Fred Bays saw the mayor walk in and quickly helped him find the right room.
Our Military Dept. ¥
P. W. HOLADAY, sgience instructor at Shortridge, has been commissioned’ a second lieutenant in the air corps and leaves tomorrow for Miami. After training, he’s to become a science and photography instructor at Randolph Field, Tex. . . . Lieut. (jg) Urban Wilde, the Real Estate board secretary, is home on leave after completing navy communications training at Boston. He leaves Sunday for a new assignment. ... Lieut. Paul Sparks, the former Indianapolis schools’ psychologist, is home on 10-day leave. He completed a 12-week course at Ft. Washington, Md., and now goes to the adjutant general’s department in Washington to do research work in selection of soldiers for the army’s specialized and advanced schools.
Those Club Luncheons
THE PRICE of club luncheons at downtown clubs and hotels—at least some of them—was boosted from 85 cents to $1 a plate. The increased cost of food, extra breakage resulting from forced use of “green” help, and other reasons were cited. At least one club has boosted its minimum' price for dinners (served to organizations) to $1.85. . . . Bob Lering, former chief deputy“secretary of state, has been out at Ft. Harrison quite some time. And he still hasn’t seen a gun, his friends report. The nearest thing to a weapon he’s had his hands on is a mop. . . . Overheard on an elevator as 'a young woman wearing one of those tricky hair-dos with a big ribbon on it got on: “Is that a hat, _dearie, or do you wear your hair that way?”
By Raymond Clapper
The desirability of developing the whole business around reciprocal arrangements with Great Britain is
all over the world. More than that, the United States ahd great Britain are strategically one group now and will be hereafter. The British Isles are the keystone of our defense in the Atlantic. The circle air route by way of Iceland, Greenland and Canada is part of our defense. This line to the United Kingdom, which is known among navy men as the US-UK line, has top priority in all of our external defense.
Military Interests Are Mutual
THE WEST COAST of Africa, where Great Britain has held strategf®-territory, is also essential to the defense of the western hemisphere. President Roosevelt has made it part of our policy that we hereafter have .an interest in the situation on the west coast of Africa. , Australia, New Zeal and, and British flag possessions in the Pacific are also part of our defense system. Our interests are mutual in the military sense, in development of air facilities both in the Atlantic and the Pacific. The silly thing is that commercial rivalry should be allowed to get in the way of the essential military defense of both nations by obscuring the fact that reciprocal air commerce arrangements are essential to the maintainance of that military defense in the air after the war. For instance, it doesn’t matter too much what kind of a split we make with the British gbout commercial air traffic to South Africa. But it is vital.that the military air facilities we have built on the west coast of Africa remain as part of the air defense of the American hemisphere... Anybody who has flown that route understands why. International commercial air traffic after the war cannot be considered apart from May require-
By Eleanor Roosevelt
for the results of future wars, if we do not prevent them, will be disastrous to all of us. I am honorary chairman of the national advisory committee of the Camp Fire Girls, as I am alsc honorary chairman of the Girl Scouts. Both of these organizations have very similar aims and I have long felt that it would be valuable if they could work together, but such an understanding has never seemed possible. This month I wish fo salute the 321,000 young girls who belong to the Camp Fire organization. They are
be found, I believe they could increase their membership, for every young girl: I know is anxious to do something in the war effort. Their annual birthday. project has been named “serve by saving,” and they have become “skilled in the saving of money to buy’ war stamps and bonds, in the conservation of clothes, food and home equipment, health and salvage of essential materials.” Their activities are many. Some of them are directly connected with war service. For instance, they act as messengers for civilian defense and Red Cross organizations. Through home activities, they also free older people for essential war work. I want fo congratulate them on their achieve-
By Ernie Pyle|
Research Accelerated by War Promises Hints on How to Conquer Disease
By JANE STAFFORD Science Service Writer ~ WAR MAY see an increase in the death rate Form cancer, but out of the war-accelerated research on nutrition may come new knowledge and even promising hints as to how-this disease may be conquered. This is the talk in scientific circles where cancer
fighters discuss their plans occasionally when’ scientists and science writers meet to assay what progress is being made. The increase in cancer deaths will be misleading unless the age distribution of the population is considered. The loss of young
‘men through war casualties will result in a relative increase of the
older age groups in the popula- -
tion, and it is in these older groups that cancer is most prevalent. The prospect of a depletion of the staffs of cancer research laboratories and cancer diagnostic and treatment hospitals and clinics has worried some cancer control authorities ever since Pearl Harbor. For instance, some cancer re-
search projects in England have
already been abandoned or halted ause of the war’s demands on the time of physicians and medical scientists. The English, with two more years of war experience then we have had, apparently have taken or have had to take the view that it is more important to save lives now threatened by battle wounds or war plague than to continue searching for a possible cure for cancer. g = 8
Future Progress
EVEN IF THE war -curtails some planned cancer research programs, advances ih the search for knowledge of how cancer develops and how to check it may, nevertheless, be made. As an example of this, there is the research just reported by Dr. Alfred Taylor, of the University of Texas, which comes pretty close to showing what many Have long . believed, that cancer in man and other mammals is caused by a virus. He has isolated from breast
. cancers of mice a virus or virus-
like principle whi¢h, when injected into other mice, produces
URGES OFFICE FOR WLB HERE
Auto Union President Says Move Would Put End
To Bickering.
COLUMBUS, O., March 2 (U. P.). —Establishment of regional offices of the War Labor Board in Indianapolis and the 21 other cities where there are offices of the national labor relations board is advocated by President - R, \J. Thomas of the
} United Automobile Workers union
(C. I. 0). Mr. Thomas, a member of the WLB, said experience showed that the board’s 14 regional offices are unable to handle the flood of cases brought before them.
Cites Boeing Case
He warned of further labor unrest similar to that at the Seattle g airplane plant last week unless there are more regional boards. Mr. Thomas and members of the union’s executive board met for the regular quarterly meeting and a report by Mr. Thomas to the mem-| bership. Mr. Thomas revealed . that the union’s membership reached a new high in February when 845,000 mempers paid dues. Previous membership high was 779,000 in November, 1942. He said 150,000 members in the armed forces were not included in the figures.
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DENIES RUSS DESIGNS
ON OTHER NATIONS
WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. P.). —An article in the information bul|letin of the Soviet embassy said today Russia “cannot have any such war aims” as imposing Russian ideas of government upon other nations. ‘A The article, written by Alexander F. Gorkin, secretary of the presidium of the supreme soviet of the U. 8. 8. R, said: “Our first aim is to liberate ¢ our territories and our peoples from the German-Fascist yoke,” the article said. “We have not and camnot have any such war aims as that of imposing our will and our regime upon the Slavic or other enslaved nations of Europe who are expecting our help. “Our aim is to help these nations in their struggle for liberation from Hitler's tyranny, and then to leave them to organize their lives
on their own lands gs they think |
and hopes as they will do
cancers. A virus cause for a certain type of chicken tumor bas long been known, but Dr. Taylor's work provides apparently the first
, clear-cut evidence of mammalian
tumors being produced by injection of material that does not contain cancer cells. Of course, much more work ‘must be done before scientists will know for certain whether or
not human cancer is caused by a virus, and if so, what can be done in the way of prevention or treatment. This probably significant discovery, however, was made during our first year at war and the circumstances show something of how other significant advances in the cancer fight might be made, even if some planned cancer research programs have to be curtailed during the war. For Dr.. Taylor was not working at cancer. research but in the field of nutrition. ; : His work was begun a month after Pearl*Harbor when he was using large numbers of eggs in a study of the effects of vitamin lack on the growth and development of chick embryos. Knowing that the yolk sac of the chick embryo had been used successfully to grow many dis-
ease-causing viruses, it occurred?
to Dr. Taylor that it might be possible to show the possible existence of a cancer-causing virus by using this material for its growth. So he turned from nutrition research to this cancer problem, and made the discovery just reported. . Nutrition Research
NUTRITION research, which because of its direct relation to the war effort is likely to continue unabated, has provided other important leads on the cancer problem in recent years. Most people
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By VICTOR PETERSON Local health authorities have launched the greatest campaign in the history of the city against the inroads’ of venereal diseases with a $150,000-a-year program. Within the. city limits there are approximately 26,000 syphlitic cases, 4000 more in the county and untold cases of gonorrhea, Dr. Norman M.
Beatty, director of the venereal disease control division of the city board of health, disclosed today. Syphilis, the dread and muchhushed social disease, ranks next to the common cold and respiratory ailments in prevalence. Buried in: wraps of respectability, it took world war I to draw public attention to the seven million days of service lost to the U. S. army as the result of venereal infection. A total of'338,746 men, the equivalent of 23 d visions, received ‘treatment.
New War Revives Fight
Brought to light for public scrutiny, there was created here at the time the venereal disease control division of the city board of health. It flourished in war, languished in the throes of peace and. virtually died in the aftermath of the “roaring twenties.” During the depression era the division asked a $12,000 g year budget from the city council, but had to take $7500. The War Lord Mars tossed his head again and another generation marched off to war. This time more than 100,000 of the first two million American men up for their military - physical examination were rejected because of syphilis or gonorrhea. A Gigantic Job Startled by the high percentage of those infected before entering service and the number infected while on leave, military authorities demanded of local public health agencies, “What are you doing?” Today in Indianapolis the venereal disease control division has its own home at 1140 E. Market st. and is operating on the $150,000 program. And the job is gigantic. Indiana has the highest percentage of venereal disease of any state in the North and ranks 13th in the nation. Since the opening of the Market st. isolation hospital, authorities there have interviewed 1854 infected or suspicious: persorls «v.20 or 30 a day. When fully completed the hospital will be able to quarantine 200 infected persons within its walls. A staff of 29 operates the institution. ‘A co-operating agency with the state board of health, the U, 8. public health service and civil and military law enforcement. groups,
ments, op. thie Weck will biilig thefh 5 sere
.who have followed cancer news have read something gbout biotin. This/is an important but little understood member of the vitamin B group. It is essential for the growth of yeast and other microorganisms. It is believed essential also for human nutrition, but its exact role is not yet known. The finding of more biotin in cancerous tissues than in normal tissues focused attention on biotin as a possible factor in cancer, and even led to the suggestion that raw egg white, which contains an anti-biotin substance; might prove useful as a cancer remedy. Most cancer authorities who have investigated this last possibility see no ground now for considering raw egg white, or its anti-biotin chemical, avidin, as a cancer remedy. Whether biotin holds any clue to solution of the cancer problem could be determined more readily and rapidly if there were more of it available. This chemical, however, is very difficult to extract from natural sources, so scientists in both nutrition and cancer research hailed a recent an- . nouncement- from Prof. Vincent du YVigneaud ang associates at
City, Armed With $150,000,
Fights Venereal Diseases
ing trial to follow,” said Dr. Beatty. “We can’t let up for a moment. We will never reach everyone who has a venereal disease. “For that reason we can never relinquish our fight. Assume that we have checked the disease in all but 10 people and stop. It is highly possible - for 10 people to transmit
each in a single day. That makes 50 or 60. The next day each infects four or five more. It is easy to see what can happen in a week's time,” he said.
Authorizes Tax Levy
But for post-war protection the drive against venereal diseases will not languish. H. B. 358 is now pending in the state senate after receiving the unanimous support of the house. The bill provides that cities may set up a tax rate up to 3 cents per $100 taxable property for the express purpose of controlling venereal disease. : Dr. Beatty said, “The greatest problem today is not the professional prostitute but the promiscuous girl. Yet it is true that threefourths of the commercial prostitutes are afflicted with syphilis and most of them with chronic gonorrhea.” Four investigators work daily ferreting out cases within the city.
Military Aids Fight
But greatest source of information comes from military authorities who have discovered infected personnel on return from leave. Questioning leads to the source of their infection. This is relayed to the local authorities whe investigate. The second largest source is disclosed through draft examinations, and the third through the contacts of those in groups one and two. ~ Other important sources are routine law enforcement agencies’ check-ups, pre-employment examinations and private doctors. With peace the two major sources of information will be shut off afid the public eye will not be fixed on the problem. “That’s why we are fighting fiow. for post-war protection,” said Dr. Beatty. “We must never-forget that ‘syphilis is almost as common as the common “cold.”
0. K. JOB INSURANCE The senate today passed unanimously the Republican platform measure inggasing maximum
workmen’s ‘compensation payments from $16.50 to $18.70 weekly and the maximum total Payment from
Cornell Medical college.
the disease to four or five persons
That virus-like substance may
' cause cancer in mice, man and
[YOLK SAC
other mammals is suggested by recent research. A mouse with cancer is shown above. Studies of vitamin needs of the chick embryo (left) and knowledge that the Yolk sac keeps disease viruses nourished and growing led to an
~ Important cancer discovery.
These scientists have worked out the structural chemical formula “of biotin from which it is hoped synthesis of the vitamin and con‘sequent ample supplies for research will soon follow. Cancer fighting, however, is pretty much of a 56-50 job. Scientists in the research laboratory cannot, at present, do all of it. Part of it depends on the physicians, surgeons and radiologists who diagnose and treat the condition. The other, very large part of cancer fighting must be done by lay men and women. Discussing ‘the effects of war on the fight against cancer, Dr. C. C. Little, managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, has warned that “women all over the country must realize that in all probability cancer will continue to kill 10 or 50 times more of them each year than will be the missiles delivered by the enemy from the sea, Jand:atg, air combined.” ” 8 Ir SUCCESS IN treating cancer by methods now available, in
other words, the: cancer patient's
RECORD SET BY NEW TVA DAM
FDR Lauds Completion Kar Ahead of Schedule; Batt Hits Absenteeism. NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 2 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt said yesterday in a message read at the dedication of TVA’s. Douglas dam, that “a new world’s record in engineering history has been established” by completion of the dam in 13 months. I William L. Batt, WPB vice chair-
man who: spoke at the dedication,
deriounced absenteeism and. told workers and management to settle their quarrels “on their own time.” “I can. see no excuse—no, excuse
|whatsoever—for any unjustified ab-
senteeism, for any failure of any man or woman to stand steadily by his or her work, whether. it be at a desk or in\the shop,” Batt said. “Certainly in our differences betwee n and management—we shall have our arguments and our quarrels. But to quote an old expression I remember when I worked in the shop, I should like
your own ‘time!’ ”’ Praises Free Men
In a letter to Chairman David Lilienthal of the Tennessee Valley authority, of which Douglas dam is a part, the President praised the “free ‘men ‘and free institutions who have worked together to make this brilliant achievement possible.” He said that all credit should be given to “every man and woman working with pen or shovel or machine who made ii possible to shorten by half the time required for completion of this huge structure.”
age of approximately: 100,000 kilo-
watts to the TVA sysiem, will help
meet expanding power demands for production of aluminum, phos pho ro
TOPKICK’S BULLETIN
KEESLER FIELD, Miss, March 2 . my ~A bugle myteriously miss-
posted a notice on a bulletin board.
men would stand reveille one hour earlier in full class A uniform every morning until the ehmpaty bugle was found.
to say to such. people, ‘Do it. onj
chance for recovery, depends on early diagnosis and treatment. A good many men and women now know this but do not take the vital step of consulting a doctor when symptoms of possible cancer first develop. In a recent study of patients entering the. New Haven hospital or tumor dlinic, it was found that more than half delayed consulting their doctor for over a, month because they did not think their symptoms serious : enough. This shows that the first battle in the war on cancer must still be fought on .the home front. Preventing unnecessary sickness, keeping well or taking prompt steps to get well quickly are ime portant ways of helping win the military war. Remember, there-/ fore, the danger signals of cancer: the lump or changed appearance of the breast; the unusual bleeding; the persistent indigestion; the sore that does ndét heal promptly; the mole or blemish on the skill that gets bigger or is frequently cut or rubbed. ‘Consult your doctor promptly about any of these symptoms. Just because you and he are busier than ever is no reason for putting off the consultation over such symp‘toms, nor for putting off the annual of; semi-annual medical ex- ° amination that might detect cancer. .
669 ENEMY EA " DOWNED IN AFRICA
ALLIED NQRTH AFRICAN HEADQUARTERS, Feb. 28 (U. P.). (Delayed). — American and British air forces operating from North Africa have destroyed a total of 669 enemy aircraft since last November and lost 286 themselves, it
|was announced officially today.
The announcement was g sort of final report on allied air activity in the North African theater, because all allied air action in the Mediterranean theater has. now been unified under Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder.
SERVICE MEN SLEEP IN WAITING ROOMS
NEW YORK, March 2 (U. P.)— Hundreds of soldiers and sailors are forced to sleep in ‘railroad waiting rooms, hotel lobbies, wash rooms —even telephone booths, a weekend survey by the New York World--Telegram of sleeping acccmmodations for service men showed today. " The situation, according to the World-Telegram, was described ‘by canteen and Y.M: C.A. workers’ as “terrific, » #critical” and “getting : worse all the time.” Hotel clerks told the newspaper they were forced to turn away from '20 to 200 service men each weekend, though many reported they “let them sleep all over the place” when the situation was particularly acute. : The World-Telegram said many service men were forced, in desperation, to go to “dubious hotels” where they were charged as high as $8 a night to share a room with three or four Sher:
The dam, which will add an aver-| , airplanes and other war|. J
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