Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1943 — Page 9

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TUNISIAN ATRDROME.—We have

A FORWARD hd today probably the most traveled squadron

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‘American flying fortress crews in existence. The guys are such. confirmed sightseers they all want to Ro tnio the ‘tourist business when the war is over. i ann This n actually took its : present formation in India last t § spring, from crews that already jd had fought on several fronts. ‘For nearly a year now it has been

thistle. It is still subject to striking out for some new weird place before dawn tomorrow. - Here is where these men. nave fought—Philippines, Java, Australia, Burma, China, India, Pales-

tine, Egypt, , Eritrea, Libya, Tripoli, Tunisia.

Some of them started out 8 year ago by flying

. across the Paciffe, and if they can just fight their

Way. across the Atlantic now, they'll have been round the world. And that isn’t just a dream either, for some of them have so many missions under their ‘belts they'll undoubtedly get to go home soon. Like, Palestine Best CIN BURMA this squadron was based only 60 miles from the Japs. In India they lived through the dreadful summer heat that killed one man and put 15 out of 150 of them in the hospital with heat prostration. But through it all they kept sightseeing. Theyre authorities on the Holy Land. They've seen the pyramids of Egypt and the Taj Mahal of India. They've been to such mystic places as Cyprus, Syria and Lebanon. They've lived in luxury in India with half a dozen servants apiece, and they've lived 0 the go ground under tents in the midst of suffocating

Of all the places they've been, they like Palestine’

: best. When they start talking about Palestine you

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

" PROFILE OF THE WEEK: John Lewis Niblack; the incorruptible judge of municipal court 4, fair weather fisherman, former school teacher and newspaper reporter, former state senator, world war I sailor, and one of the city’s leading victery gardeners. When it comes to gardening, Judge Niblack is no Johnny-come-lately. Gardening has been his hobby for years. Fact is, he spent one semester at Purdue with the intention of becoming a practical farmer. Each summer, dressed in clothing that would make a scarecrow blush, he spends every spare moment digging and hoeing in his quarter acre, or so, garden. Last fall, he and Mrs. Niblack canned something like 650 jars of food from the garden. . A slender, wiry individual, he’s 45; stands 5 feet 9'2, would like to weigh more than his 135. He has keen, brown eyes, a long, thin face, a prominent nose, determined chin and a black mustache. His thick, black hair is shot with gray, and it’s usually mussed from his habit of running his hands through it while thinking. ‘He stands erectly, frequently with both hands jammed in his hip pockets or both thumbs in the Armholes of his vest. He has a habit of tugging at his mustache when he’s nervous.

Enjoys His- Own’ Jokes

JOHN NIBLACK is a self-made man, a country boy who has had to fight his way up in the, world. And the struggle has left its mark on him. It shows itself in his sympathy for the underdog. ‘He’s been described as an Abe Lincoln type. Careless in his speech and clothing, he has a rugged conscience, a strong sense of right and wrong. And there’s very little compromise in his makeup. Nevertheless, there’s nothing self-righteous about him. He's a good companion, has a keen sense of humor but doesn’t care much for practical jokes. He has a staccato laugh, and roars at his own jokes. He isn’t afraid of anything, or anybody, and he'll argue about most anything. He enjoys reminiscing about his newspapering days on The Times.

Washington

WASHINGTON, March 13.—In the things that count, ..the Republicans in congress are coming

* through.

: troublemakers.

Most of them have refused to follow the extreme Some individual speeches may sound violent and indicative of trouble but they seem more like crackpot utterances when considered in the light of the more balanced course that the majority of Republican members are following. The attitude of the Republicans is one of the most impressive things that is going on in American politics today. It is especially important because a national election is coming oh next year. ~The attitude of the minority party, if based on narrow partisan considerations regardless’ of anything else, could be most injurious to the war. and the best “interests of the

2 country, :

Contribute %o American Unity

WE HAVE JUST seen how the Republicans have refused to make partisan capital out of lend-lease. “ Not one of them voted against it in the senate— making it possible for this national policy to continue with a unanimous vote of confidence by the senate. That demonstration of solidarity will mean much in

4 strengthening America’s hand abroad. In the house

only six votes were cast against continuing lend-lease,

. three by Michigan Republicans and three by Ohio

Republicans. The Republicans also co-operated to permit final ‘passage of the lend-lease extension on the second

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday—The meeting in Phila-

neace . However, I is possible that we ‘shall do what we did before. I am old enough to remember with

.game and the players.

fornia—fresh and green and strictly up-to-date. They say the most modern hotels in the world are there. They've been through so much heat that the chill of North Africa makes them suffer badly. Their losses have been heavy, but they've wreaked so much devastation they've lost track of the figures. The total of shipping they've sunk got beyond them in October, when ‘they were operating over the Mediterranean

‘ out of Egypt. shifted hither and yon like the islands,

\ Pet Monkey Has 300 Hours

They've. bombed Greece, Crete and the Dodecanese

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THE LEADER of this squadron is Capt. J B. Holst, of Savannah, Ga. The boys say that practically the entire population of Savannah who went into the air force is right here on this front now. Lieut. Clarence E. Summers of Lincoln, Neb., says that if all the Savannah boys are here, then apparently all the Phi Gam fraternity members are, too.

He was eating the other night with six fliers he hadn’t known before, and five of them wrned out to be

Phi Gams,

Some of the navigators on these ships have navigated as much as 200,000 miles since they left home. For an international touch, they have a pet monkey. India, and it has flown all the way with them. has 300 flying hours to its credit. It just wanders around the plane during flight, making itself at home. When they get high where

It

it gets cold, the monkey burrows itself between two|

parachute cushions to keep warm. ‘The monkey is smart. from Englishmen, Arabs, French or Indians. - She doesn’t like anybody but Americans. I'm an American but she better not start liking me. I know all about monkeys, and I Getest them. Even heroic monkeys.

Worked in Rubber: ‘Plant

BORN AT Wheatland, he got a job teaching school after three months in normal college. Too light for the army, he worked a summer as a B. & O. section

hand, went to Purdue a semester, then managed to}

enlist in naval aviation in 1918. After the war, he built up an $850 stake in an Akron rubber plant, then went to L U. and got his A. B. degree in three years. He studied law while working as a reporter three years on The Times, quit the paper to become a deputy prosecutor under Will Remy. He was one of the founders and for five years president of the Indianapolis Public Links Golf association.- He was executive secretary of the Citizens Non-Partisan School committee in 1929, executive vice president in the 1934 and' 1938 campaigns, He was: elected to the state senate in 1928 with city manager league support.

Yanks Hat Quer Eye

A GOOD BRIDGE player, he gets a big kick out of winning. In fact, he’s good at most any card game. He’s a fair golfer, enjoys most all sports, seldom misses a hockey game, entertains nearby spectators at baseball games with ‘his droll remarks about the He loves to fish at Wawasee. He's a very careful driver, gets mad at reckless drivers. He usualy wears oxford gray or dark blue suits. He always wears gray snapbrim hats, and

_ they seldom look good because of his habit of yanking

them down hard over one eye: He's a bird lover, always remembers to put food out for them in the ‘winter, and he won't have a cat around the place. He reads much of the time, enjoys biographies and history, seldom novels. - He frequently re-reads Shakespeare and the Bible. He enjoys going to church, attends the Central Avenue Methodist. Fond of the radio, he can read right through it without being bothered. Occasionally he goes around the house or garden singing to himself. Sometimes he makes up little songs to tease his adoring young daughters, Nancy, 8, and Susan, 6. And he’s pretty good at ad libbing when he runs out of funny papers to read to them.

| By Raymond Clapper

anniversary of the act—a dramatic touch that will contribute. to the sense of American unity. These last two days’. actions by congress will go far toward wiping out the impression of confusion and division which some of our friends abroad must have received from watching the battle of Washington. Even more significant than Republican support of lend-lease is the desire of Republican leaders to refrain from a political fight over continuing the trade agreements act.

Europe Watching Us

WHAT CONGRESS does now, and particularly what the Republicans do, is closely noted abroad, because all governments are trying to determine which way America is likely to go after the war. : Republicans have indicated a disposition to cooperate. That was voiced in resolutions adopted by the Republican national committee almost a year ago and reindorsed at St. Louis on Dec. 7. It was voiced also in a statement of policy by Republican members’ of congress last September. A resolution by congress is considered desirable by a number of members, some of whom are trying now to hit upon satisfactory

: language for it.

Some Republicans are interested in such a declara< tion. As Mr. Willkie pointed out in his recent Indianapolis speech, Republicans are only going back to McKinley, who said 45 years ago that “isolation is no

.Jonger possible or desirable.”

That was when fhe United States made its first “experiment in imperialism. We withdrew from it. Now we are moving out again but it may bg in quite a different way this time, through united nations co-operation.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

and go to work for peace in the world. So we turned around and concentrated on domestic issues and felt very virtuous, because all we asked was payment by the other nations of the money we lent them during the war. The net result was that we put them in a position where they could not recover prosperity themselves, and in time our ephemeral prosperity disappeared also.

I listened to Governor Stassen last night with]

great interest. I do not question his sincerity, for

he is a fine person. I hope that in the course of] ‘events the similarities which are apparent in this} situation may not come to fruition in the future.

I have no particular formula for the way we shall

. function after the war. I only feel sure that we must

Which had been proposed on a

; | non-partisan ‘basis. But when it

By Ernie. Pe) A

- can't: get them. shopped. They say it's Just like uli.

Sergt Pittard of Athens, Ga. got it in|.

She can tell Americans]

Dwindling

Baffle Housewife

Fresh Vegetables, Scarce Due to Canned Goods Rationing, and Other Substitutes, Are Hard to Get, Too.

Foods

By ROSEMARY REDDING Had trouble finding meat?

Well, sister, you ain’t heard nothing yet!

There's a shortage of fish and poultry in Indianapolis. What's more there just isn’t a variety of fresh vegetables to supply the demand brought on by the rationing of canned goods. And just to make the day a little darker for the menu- -maker, comes

reports from commission merchants that old standby, the potato. Yep, the family dinner is going to h--- in a handbasket. And many a housewife has the definite feeling that she’s being taken slong on the handle.

Pfft! Go Substitutes

Last week there was the headache of juggling figures with the initiation of point rationing. And just when the chief cook and bottle washer was getting around to a feasible plan for substituting with substitutes, pert! goes the substitutes. It seems they've been going, going, but not quite gone for sometime now, but it took canned goods rationing to bring things to a point. The mnieat shortage hasn’t been ‘any secret. for a long time now. ‘That's “brought a greater demand for poultry and fish. But black market operations in Indiana are cutting into the poultry supply. Poultry. dealers can’t supply the demand. The OPA is making “every effort” tc correct the situgtion and expects ‘definite results” in the not too distant future. There's another reason, too, for the poultry shortage: Now when a chicken is in a mood to lay eggs, it’s in a mood to lay eggs—irrespective of how hungry city dwellers are. - And right now, chickens are in the mood. And when they get that way, the farmer is pleased and spares their necks. He is obviously a bit a to part with them to the poultry man. The poultry man is anxious to wring a few necks these days but he can’t pay more than the ceiling price to do it. The farmer can build himself a little nest egg with eggs. So, today, there isn’t even one chicken in every pot. Those that count on fish are go-

ing to get a shock, too. There isn’t

an adequate supply to meet the demand. In fact, one local fish market estimates that there has

been a 40 per cent reduction in the

supply during normal times. One Hopeful Sign

‘For one thing, the government has ‘need for the fishing trawlers. It’s requisitioned quite a number of them. Without boats, men don’t go fishing. Some have een drafted anyway. A lot of them, especially along the seaboard, are now working in the expanding shipyards. The price of fish is higher due to the shortage, the bad weather and unseasonable time of the year. There is one hopeful sign in the fish story though. When spring thaws come to the Great Lakes, the supply will be increased and when the supply increases, the price will go down. And so if the scarcity of fish continues beyond the end of this month, you can blame the weather man for that, too. It’s a fortunate thing that dietary restrictions for Catholics during the Lenten period were limited this year, for otherwise the demand for fish might have been doubled in Catholic households during the 40day period. To illustrate ‘how the situation stands, one fish dealer declares he could do a good business just on the demand he can’t supply. . Three things have "affected the supply of fresh vegetables, some commission merchants believe:

1, Shipping facilities aren't as}

adequate as in normal times.

that there is an acute shortage of

some freezes in the southern parts of the country, have spoiled some crops. 3. The government is buying for the armed forces and lend-lease at the producing end. One large commission - house reports “beans out of the question; peas scarce.” Most are agreed on the potato shortage, some venturing it is “acute” and others saying the supply is simply “short.” One merchant can get little cabbage but another has plenty on hand “for the time being.” Leaf Lettuce Ample

Apples, carrots and head lettuce are available. And if there is one thing there is plenty of it’s leaf lettuce. In fact, Herbert Ristow, secretary of the Marion County Greenhouse Growers association, injects the one bright note for local housewives. There is, he says, an oversupply of lettuce, So much so, in fact, that it is being shipped elsewhere. And by mid-April, the greenhouses here will be turning out more fresh vegetables right here at home—so that will get around the shipping question affecting some vegetables. And it won’t be so long after that until victory gardens will be producing some things like radishes and onions, lettuce and peas. Mr, Ristow has just returned from a big conference of = shippers and growers -and shippers felt that they would be able to satisfy the needs of consumers in the coming months. Labor a Big Problem

However, that sentiment has a qualification, he said. That is providing the price ceilings set by the government are high enough. Labor is the growers’ problem. It’s hard to get and the wages paid must be high enough to compete with those in industry. That means the cost of producing the food, especially under glass, is higher. If the prices finally set

that some growers will be forced to curtail production. The recent price ceilings placed on: carrots, tomatoes, cabbage, peas and snap beans, he said, had not caught the eastern and midwestern growers so much “in the squeeze”

were considerably worried. Prices on fresh fruits and vegetables skyrocketed during the week all canned food sales were frozen. ~~ The Housewife’s Problem The prices on these items have been one of the major causes of the housewives’ budget skyrocketing. While retail prices of all foods over the nation rose 94 per cent|" since ceilings first went into effect last May,.the prices on foods not under price control, fish, fresh fruits and vegetables, rose 272 per cent. Although late local figures are not available, the prices on some items, compiled for a national average, does give some indication of the housewives’ struggle with the budget, During the last year, spinach rose to around 40 per cent higher in price; cabbage about 19 per cent and carrots. 20 per cent. Shipments of carrots here from Texas in the last few weeks has sent the price: of carrots down some. Well, if you haven’t had any ideas

. Weather conditions, especially

about a victory garden, it looks like now’s the time to get one.

Library Selects Practical

"Books to

“The amateur gardener will be a book gardener this year.” That's the opinion of Luther L. Dickerson,

fic| “Vegetable

Aid Gardeners

sistant in the Central library catalog department and an experienced gardener, and several other practical gardeners of the city. ; The six recommended are “Vegetable Gardening in Color” (Daniel J. Foley), “Vegetable Growing” (James Edward Knott), “Home Vegetable

“Twenty-Five Vegetables Can Grow”

Anyorie (Ann Roe Robbins), Growing Business” (Ralph L. Watts and Gilbert 13.

are not high enough, he believes|

site.

but that those around Kansas City|

Growing” (Charles -H.+ Nissley),}’

carne and other bean dishes. OPA is swamped with letters

just can’t maks out on the amount of driecl beans which they are now tllowed. . ‘Many families in these parts of the states consumed over eight pounds of dried beans a month for every member of the family. Now, one pound of dried beans costs four points, so | obviously unless OPA makes special regional allowances for different types of diets, southern Californians, Arizonians and New Mexicans wili have to find a new dish.

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Rabbit Not Rationed

Summary

. « » There is a better supply of market. ,

on farms will be started soon. .

set by WPE.

HOME FRONT FORECAST

By ANN FRANCE WILSON Times Special Writer WASHING" ‘ON, March 13.--If you're having a time ying to make out on 4} points a month, consider the plight of the poor | guy who, before rationing set in, practically lived on chili con

ern California and New Mexico—all from families who say they

Look for Coffee Stretchers

You have been warned many times, no doubt, about making sure that if you want pure coffee you should read the label on the can to be sur: that no “stretchers” have been added. Assume, how- _ ever, that no chicory, chick pea or other ingredients are in the coffee unless it specifically says so on the ¢an.

Don’t overlook the ration-free, lowly rabbit. Dressed up in red wine—or even braised. You'll find him a most appetizing and succulent substitute for the run-of-the-mill cuts of meat. _ Celiing | price of on¢ pound of rabbit meat is 55 cents.

Wool studies shows outlook for civilian clothes is encouraging,

: . New slogan for the rationed housewife is “budget, substitute and save.” ... A campaign to enroll women volunteers

. tions on sizes and designs of caskets and burial Vaults have been

of complaint from Arizona, scuth-

hearing-aid batteries now on the

. . Limitation orders and restric-

Hard Work Won't Overcome

Poor Soil in G

By 4. A. IRWIN Horticulturist, Agricultural Extension Service

Regardless nf how good seed may be and how liard the gardener may work, a good garden cannot be pro-

duced on unfavorable soil. You need 1

not be a sail chemist to know’ sof {rom dirt.

‘Take a look at Webster's dictionary—“soil is ‘the upper layer of earth which may be dug, plowed, etc.; the loose surface material of the earth in which plants grow.” The same book further states that “dirt is any foul substance, gravel, or other foreign matter.” With an all-out garden program, there will be scarce seed wasted on poor soil or dirt. The back yard that has been filled with gravel and sub-soil from the basement excavation with a few pieces of broken plaster and boards -thrown in, may be a disappointing garden

Top Soil Best

If the fill has had organic matter and fertilizer added to it over a period of years, some of the easier

grown vegetables may be grown on|

it to a limited extent. On a very large percentage of soils, the available plant food is contained in the top eight or 10 inches with very little available plant food in the sub-soil. If you sre fortunate and have good soil for your victory garden, then take care of it. In the first few days of warm weather the overambitious gardener may start spading and preparing his garden soil too soon. ~~ When soil is stirred or walked on when it is 00 wet, the fine particles become wedged together making it hard for plant roots to penetrate. As the soil dries out it will become hard ana difficult to work. If clay soil is worked or packed while it

is wet, it will dry out hard and

cloddy and the sun may hake it to almost brick-like hardness.

Yiow to Test Soil To determine when scil is dry

'jenough to work, take a handful of

soil and press it together with the hand. If the soil is a compact mass and does not readily crumble when released ly the hand, it is too wet to work. The sandy soils will dry out first, the loam soils next and the clay

It’s true that it is time to the early vegetables, but it will you to wait until the soil has dried out so if will crumble and fall apart hen spaded.

have just after the last freeze. The freezing and thawing will

ee ee ull le art

arden—Irwin

Gardeners, beware! Don’t waste good seed on bad dirt. Gardens need good, well drained soil, not cinders and rubbish. Take a sample of your soil to the county agricultural agent for testing before you buy your seeds.

RIDE-SHARING WARNING GIVEN

Privilege Is Abused, Brown Says.

WASHINGTON, March 13 (U.P.). —Motorists today faced loss of supplemental “B” and “C” gasoline rationing books issued for occupational ‘uses: if ‘they refuse to participate in ride-sharing clubs. Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown has ordered local rationing boards to insist that applicants for supplemental ration books belong to full . ride-sharing clubs when the books : become renewable, beginning March 22. If arrangements to carry three other persons to and from work regularly have not been made, the applicant will have to produce evidence that alternative means of transportation are not available, and that he is sharing his car with as many people as possible. Brown said that ride-sharing must be made a universal practice if passenger car mileage is to be reduced to the 5000-mile-a-year average recommended by the Baruch rubber investigating committee, An OPA spokesman said that sup» plemental rations may be either denied completely or drastically curtailed to motorists who: refuse deliberately to co-operate.

HOLD, EVERYTHING

Drivers May Lose Books if

COOK BOOK IS NOW RATED AS BEST SELLER’

Precious Points.

War ration book two may be the book of the month but the lowly cook book, believe it or not, is the book .0f many months. Its popularity has been growing by leaps and bounds ever since wartime food problems first came to the fore. And now point rationing is establishing it as a best seller. Throughout the country, certain books are crowding the sales records of popular novels and right here in Indianapolis, book stores report cook book sales ranging from “very, very good” to an “up in sales somewhere between 25 and 40 per cent.” : Time was.owhen book departments had a dozen or so different editions tucked away amony volumes on etiquette and home’ decoration. But

1 no more!

Local stores now carry anywhere from 40 to & hundred different titles on cookery. Special sections are reserved for their display. And such " sections are fast becoming among the most popular and most profitable in the book departments. Why the boom? Well, it's rather obvious. Rationing, and the expectation ofg further curtailment in certain foods, - has sent housewives in search of menus from sugarless recipes to: meatless meals. Meatless and wheatless days of the first world war were responsible for what seemed then to be a magnificent total of 18 new. cookery. ° books brought’ out in 1918 alone. But in 1942, 41 brand new treatises on the art of cookery were published and many more are on their way in 1943.

Contain Scientific Data

dwelled at some length on biscuits" “Just like his mothe to make.” Today, cook books der thét only a nie Meteor ions dwell at great length on-nutritional values, and list vitamins and protein v. and a lot of other more scientific information that grandmother wouldn't have understood. There are extensive sections on how: to. run an efficient kitchen, how : to pack a healthful lunch box and how to get Johnny to eat his spinach. But what gets the vote of the housewife ‘at the moment is the book devoted to wartime cookery. There are lots of calls for that type at the Central library, Nancy Todd of the technical department reports. And it isn’t only the new bride who asks for them, either. The woman who has been cooking 20 years is just as much at sea in this business of cooking in wartime as her daughter.

Canteen Workers Read The .library has seven .or eight shelves devoted to cook books; which Miss Todd roughly estimates may run to as many as 250 volumes. That doesn’t even count the books on diet and health. Another change which the war has brought to the cook book section is the popularity of books on

‘| quantity cooking. These are in de-

mand by members of the Red Cross canteen. Mrs. Janet Levengood, head of Block’s book department, noticed the cook book demand about the time sugar rationing began. She now believes sales are up any place from 25 to 40 per cent. “The standard books,” she said, “still are good sellers and many of the. publishers have brought out ‘wartime editions to help the housewife. They usually include new: material on economical food substitutes.” One .of the better sellers with Block's is a book of recipes just for two people. At Stewart’s, Mrs. Elizabeth D. May recently ordered a number of copies of “100 Meat-Saving Recipes” and “before she had her back turned,” they were snatched up. “Meatless Meals” is another that

‘all lines, in fact. Much of it is due to gas rationing with people having = spend evenings a their

‘jown fireside.

In the old days, cook books

first