Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1943 — Page 9

Hoosier Vagabond

INNORTH AFRICA—The other night I met Liet,

+ | Princeton, N. J. Since the war started he has been

in Australia,’ Africa and twice in England. He was in. France: In" the last war, and personally, I think # ~- ‘he’s having the time of his ite in this one. ; Col. Clark is a big shot Tack home. He's judge of the third circuit court of appeals in PhiladelL% phia. He’s the guy who declared ¢ the prohibition amendment un‘constitutional. It’s beyond his powers, . however, drinking likker in this part of the world. Judge * Clark is liaison officer with the British army in Tunisia, right up where everything 1s hottest. He asked me if I'd put: his name in the paper s0 his family would know he was all right. I said sure, and ‘asked him what he wanted me to say about him. “Oh,” he said, “just say you met the damned old fool.” ; : Okay judge, you're the judge.

Scrambled ‘Gold’ ;

THE AVERAGE American soldier has been without eggs for a long time, and I for one can testify that we miss them very much, The problem has been alleviated soewhiat here on. the desert. It seems the Arabs have eggs, so we go: around and buy them up. We foolish Americans have already raised the price to five francs apiece (about seven cents) but what do we care? Everybody ‘has too much money anyhow, and when you

* reach our state an egg is practically golden.

One night Maj. ‘Austin Berry of Belding, Mich., bought 29 eggs from an Arab. Maj. Berry is a young squadron leader, and he has an appetite.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

LEST ‘YOU' FORGET, there's another tin can collection coming up. It starts April 12. Get busy and process those ‘cans. . . . The town’s pigeons remind us of Mark Twain's reference to the weather.

Everybody talks about doing something to get rid of our: pigeon population—starlings too—but nobody ever seems to do anything about it. The board of . works got a letter the other day from ‘a man who proposed a big pigeon trapping campaign. Harmon - Campbell, board president, . said: he was in. favor of “considering it.” Maybe somebody will get around to doing something wheri meat rationing stafts.’. |, . Some of our school kid readers (and their "parents, too) may be interested in the following dates: Spring vacation starts Friday, April 2, and ends Monday, April 12. Summer vacation (yippee) starts Thursday, June 9. (Summer school starts the same day.)

Around the Town

SEEN AT Alabaina and Washington yesterday during the rain: Four girls standing in the traffic island and using their umbrellas to protect themselves from water splashed. by autos instead of using’ them to keep the rain off. . . . One of. our agents reports seeing an example of how to make progress slowly. Near the Irvington Presbyterian church he saw. a woman holding in one hand a leash attached to a lively chow dog and in the other hand a leash attached to an equally. lively child, about 15 months or so. Théy seemed to want to: go in opposite directions. The resulting confusion was such that the woman made less than a quarter-plock progress in five minutes... . . Robert F. Tindall of The Times’ circulation department has been promoted from captain to major in the signal corps out at Ft. Lewis, Wash. .Unless-we haven’t heard of some other pro-

| Washington

. WASHINGTON, March 17.—There is another angle

"© the question of manpower. Can we afford to waste

~ medical skill when it is so limited?

‘Many communities have been stripped of their

: phiysidiens and 40 per cent of the country’s active

doctors are in the service. ' Yet it is not enough. The war department announces that 9000 ‘more physicians must be taken from civilian life this year. In California, a friend of mine ‘ ‘recently visited an army hospital. ‘Only a portion of the beds were occupied. My friend found on duty there a prominent child specialist serving: now as a major in the army medical corps. He was putfing in a very light day’s work, : argely in an administrative capacity. Yet in the in town nearby there is not a single physician. left. Under army regulations the residents cannot be treated at the -army hospital, although it has the most modern X-ray and other equipment standing idle much of the time, and a staff of fine physicians with little to do. Some of them would be glad to handle obstetrical cases in that nearby community in order to keep themselves in training for a return to civilian practice: However, there may be. sound reasons for the regulations and 'T am not arguing that so much as I am asking questions as to whether we are making the best use of our medical skill in this emergency. -

- 8000 Women Doctors Barred

HERE IS ONE question abou women doctors. The affity needs 9000 physicians this year. But not a single one of them will be a woman doctor. - Yet there

are $00 women ghysicisse ang. Surgsons. in. the country.

: NEW YORK, Fuesday. ~The Progressive Schools Committee for Refugee Children, Inc, is doing a really very ‘appealing piece of work. I was glad yesterday afternoon to be able to speak for them before ‘a small group, but I was even more inter- ©. ested to see the photographs of

some of the children who have been in this country for two years or more, : places:

The committee these

: children in farm schools, where

they can live close to earth with .the animals as companions. This seems to help them to adjust fo the new life here after the horrors they have been through.

‘Every nationality in Europe seems -

to be represented among these "children.

them ‘have neither father nor mother them have ‘one parent, sometimes a"

e other parent

to create much

But army warehouses, it seems, don’t carry ‘such

‘ Helen Jeffers is the only person from home he’s ever

. passengers” to the Hoosier bus line operator who of-

We took ‘the eggs to an army kitchen and had them scrambled. Then Maj. Charles Coverley, Capt.

Jack Traylor, Maj. Berry and myself ate all 29 eggs| at one sitting, with nothing else whatever to go with. them,” That's an average of better than seven eggs|

.apiece. ‘True, I woke up at 2 a. Mm. with a historic stomach ache, but what of it? 1

‘All’ Ain’t Fair in War’

WAY BACK in Oran, a soldier was telling me a

funny experience he had. He was Warrant Officer|

Luke Corrigan: of Scranton, Pa It seems that a large Dace of American nurses were headed for the: front and had to be outfitted right away.

Now Mr. Corrigan is in charge of one of the army’ Ss big warehouses, so it was his job to outfit the nurses.

things as slips, step-ins, brassieres and what not. So Mr. Corrigan had to get himself an interpreter and go blushing all over Oran buying up dozens of _these feminine items. = = / He completed his missio and dashed to the train just before departure time. One nurse saw what he had, and grabbed at a box. Then others grabbed. The boxes: flew open, and the first thing Mr. Corrigan knew he looked like a’ Christmas tree very much bedecked ‘with panties, undies and other pink unmentionables. Mr. Corrigan was very ill at ease. And just at that moment he heard a familiar voice saying “Well, Luke, I'll have to write home and tell your nother how youre fighting the war.” He turned around and it was a Scranton girl who lives just a few blocks from him at home. Her name was Helen Jeffers and she was a nurse, too. Luke has been in the army two years and in all that time

run onto. And she had to find him like that. All ain’ fair in peace or war.

miobions, he's the highest ranking Times staffer in the army.

How to Stand Up

ONE OF THE young ladies on the staff wishes we'd give a little advice to some of the new street railway patrons on “how to stand up on a bus or streetcar without falling fer the other passengers and blocking the aisles.” The*advice is to stand facing the side—not facing forward and blocking the aisles— and to stand with feet well apart. It’s as simple as all that, she says. .. . And speaking of cars and| busses, we're sorry we ever got started on wisecracking operators who keep the passengers amused. From all the letters we've received telling-of similar instances, it seems there must be at least one clever monologist on every line. The letters report everything from the way “red-haired Operator 439 jollies up his: grouchy

fered a woman passenger his umbrella the other morning, said she could return it next day. Wish we could print them all, but we can't. :

Hobbies Go to War

MISS AGNES MAHONEY, principal of school 9 (the Vonnegut school) has sacrificed both her cherished hobbies to the war effort. For years she has collected both unusual keys and buttons. She gave up all her keys during the old key collection campaign several months age. Earlier, when the U.S. O. was collecting buttons and other trinkets, Miss: Mahoney |: contributed all but a few of her most beautiful or interesting ones. Then, when she heard there were wounded soldiers out at Ft. Harrison who were amusing themselves by making costume jewelry from discarded trinkets’ and buttons, she weakened. Into the contribution box went that rare button off her grandmother’s wedding dress, another from the baby coat of .a now middle-aged member of the Mahoney family, along with some carved jet buttons, glass buttons and velvet buttons. Now all she has left is the memory of having helped.

‘By Raymond Clapper

% _ Secretary of War Stimson ne a niece, Dr. Barbara Stimson, who is an orthopedic surgeon. She went into the British medical corps and was promoted to be a major. | The army medical corps is not to be blamed for the refusal to use women physicians except perhaps in that it has not been aggressive in trying to do something about it. The barrier has been created— and accepted complacently by the army-—through a ruling of the comptroller general to the effect that the law permitting the president to commission “qualified ' persons” for service in the army does not apply to women. ® Legislation is neécessary to change this ruling that women are not persons. 2

Many Have Special Skills

AT THE VERY TIME :a house military affairs subcommittee was considering legislation to authorize the commissioning of women doctors .in the army medical corps an attractive young WAVE lawyer from Indiana was admitted to practice at the bar of the United States supreme court. : Apparently the navy and the supreme court are .a little quicker to recognize the professional skill of women. : The American Legion and numerous medical societies have urged the use of women physicians in the armed forces. There are hundreds of women physicians and surgeons with special skills.in the fields of surgery, aesthesia, pathology, : bacteriology, blood bank work, psychiatry and. general medicine. Those ate Just the kind of physicians that the army could use. Canada and Australia take women into their medical corps without distinction. . It is very much’ the same in England. The Russian army makes no distinction between men and women physicians. There is no reason in common sense why a woman physician can’t go anywhere that a woman army nurse can go. . ;

By Eleanor Roosevelt:

Ao.5leh, finally getting to Casablanca, then to Lisbon, and at last ta United States. In the schoo “Where he was, they very wisely left him alone for a time, until they found out that he was painting. .: Gradually, he painted out his mind all the horrors-he had been through. Now he is able to talk and laugh. wip ih ihe American children. and seems to be a normal chil The schools have given 0 generous scholarships, to these children, but it takes about $500 a year for their support. It takes the parents, as a rule, about two years to adjust and begin to earn enough money|ct to take care of the children themselves. Jind - Some of these children will be people who, having

To Ernie Pyle :

ll—Devices ‘of the Saboteurs . By MICHAEL SAYERS ana ALBERT E. KAHN uo THROUGH THE WORK of espionage agents, hie Ln

saboteur is supplied with information concerning those

defense centers or transport facilities which are important

for him to attack. Having selected his objective, the next step for the saboteur is te choose his sabotage device. - An illustration of the process was provided on the eve-

ning of June 25, 1941, when

the Nazi saboteur-spy, Fred-

erick Joubert Duquesne, entered the “research” office of William G. Sebold in New York -City. Unknown to Du-

quesne, Sebold had ‘arranged for United States federal agents to be secreted in an adjoining room, equipped with

microphones and motion picture cameras.

“I want you to get me some dynamite caps and a dlows

“looked over” the General Electric plant at Schenectady and that he “could do the job with a slow-burning fuse.”

While Duquesne outlined his plan for blowing up the General Electric plant, Sebold was unwrapping a small piece of candy. Duquesne pointed to the candy and said, “If that piece of candy’ was broken in two, and some combustible phosphorus were placed inside it, it ‘would make a very effective, though small, incendiary bomb. But a better homb could be made from chiclets.” By chewing the gum thoroughly, he

said, and then folding it around

a certain phosphorus compound, one would have an effective incendiary device. He was very proud of his “chiclet bomb.” He told Sebold he had employed the device with - great success in the past. Among advantages, he added, were its “inability to explode in temperatures under 72 degrees” and: the fact that it could be planted “while speaking to the boss.” However, in spite of all these novelties, . Duquesne confessed to a partiality for the traditional “lead-pipe type of bomb.” In the end, it was: more reliable and gave better results.

Novel Bombs Found

THE FILES of the FBI are filled with descriptions of extraordinary devices used by saboteurs to start fires, set off explosions

machinery.

A new’ incéndiary device was discovered in 1941 when the FBI began investigating a series of mysterious fires on skips carrying lend-lease materials to Britain and China. This device resembles an ordinary paper envelope such as anyone might openly toss into a wastebasket or place in a ship's mailbag. But this “envelope” was found to contain two sections, with certain chemicals in each fection. When the chemicals mingled, intense fire started. Then there is the “Zepplinite,” an incendiary device invented during the last world war, but recently adopted’ for the starting of forest fires near army camps and warehouses. The Zepplinite is a tiny balloon, usually filled with hydrogen gas, to which a: delayed-action fire-pencil is attached. The balloon is released when winds are favorable, and it

‘LET'S SING” THE

Music Congress Sponsors ¥ Programs to Stimulate Morale. ‘THe week of April 1 has been set

|aside as Let’s Sing Week in Indian-

apolisi to boost the community's morale. The week is being sponsored by the Indianapolis music congress, the Marion county OCD and the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce in co-operation with the musicians’ union. Churches, clubs, men’s luncheon groups and women’s groups and women’s organizations will be asked to join in the observance. : - ““Let’s build morale through singing -together,” . Jane Johnson Burroughs, music co-ordinator for the OCD, said today. “We need to strengthen our spirit: of determination to-'win the war through music.” Mrs. Frank Cregoe heads the committee for the week, assisted by Meésdames Lucille Lockman Wagner, Louis D. Belden, Dollie Hodgson, Carl Irrgang and H. H. Arnholter.

learned what democracy means over here, will, after BO

the war, carry the message most, effectively back to the countries of their birth.

think thei bravest, and. most. apy

or cause the wrecking of intricate a

burning fuse,” said Duquesne, explaining that he had :

descends many miles from the

point of release. A Zepplinite

. was found by the New Hampshire °

state police on May 1, 1942, dur-" ing an investigation of a series of destructive forest fires which ‘had .suddenly broken out in the New England areas, destroying

much timber already cut for army

use. . Next to fires, explosions are most popular among saboteurs.

. The traditional explosive device"

is a time-bomb. All kinds of variations have been found by the

FBI. Onerof the cleverest is an -

exact duplicate of. a can of food. -It is intended . particularly. for ships’ galleys, but it can be equally effective in a factory comrhissary. - When the cook opens it, it: explodes. Another variation of the. timebomb is . the “cabbage bomb,” camouflaged to represent a vege~ table, usually a. head.of cabbage. One of these was found in a ship’s larder on the West coast in 1941. Still. another variation, in the shape and color of a piece of coal, was found about the same time on a ship in an East coast port. The “cracker” is one of the most recently discovered sabotage devices being used by axis saboteurs in*the United States. It is a small instrument resembling an .ordinary spark plug. When screwed into an airplane motor, it permits the plane to take off and acquire considerable altitude betare exploding through extreme ° eat.

Develop Special Acids

devices. ' Special acids have been developed which cause the rapid deterioration of cloth. Since such vital items as parachutes, airplane fabrics, machine belts, machinegun clips, - uniforms and army blankets are made wholly or largely of cloth, these acids, according

to a report by J. Edgar Hoover, -

are coming into considerable

- favor with adept saboteurs,

Poisons were first utilized on a large scale by von Papen’s saboteurs in the last world war when they attempted to poison canned foodstuffs. In 1940 the FBI found that sugar. stores aboard a large American steamship had been ‘treated with a poisonous chemical ordinarily used as a water soft-

ener or cleaning agent. The offi-

cers and. crew began to suffer from gastro-intestinal ailments Which led to the, FBI investigation. Luckily, We poison was, de-

.By J. EDGAR HOOVER

Director, Federal Bureau of vestigation (Written for the United Press)

WASHINGTON, March 17.—Seven thousand four hundred and séventyseven cases 'of reported sabotage were investigated by the federal bureay of investigation from Jan 1, 1040, to Feb. 1, 1943. The results disclosed 558 instances. of. technical sabotage to our industrial faeciliPersonnels failure was the main reason behind these acts of sabotage. The majority can be grouped under carelessness, industrial accidents, malicious mischief and personal grievances — problems which

peace,

constitutes a blow: struck at’ the very heart -of our national being.

individuals have been: sentenced for|,

totalling 984 years, 4 months and 8. flags a5 al Sosult of FET antivity

SABOTAGE of industrial goads . at the source of produetion:is: also : : carried on by the use of many -

" THE|FBI Reports 558 Cases WEEK OF APRIL 1

are ever Present during: Simes. of | But in war, when the lives of | our armed forces are dependent| upon production, each of these acts Four hundred ‘and twenty-four|u such criminal ‘acts to ‘prison terms

ollie’ of the plat, tol

‘Fall River, Mass.: Saboteurs destroy a self-sealing gas. tank plant.

enizy ‘of spies and saboteurs, azi ‘Bundists were- ‘actually Nea: production. inside. . ‘The first-class machinist, “Juli Weber, who served.on a Ger mine sweeper during world !

was publicly giving the Naz

lute and: telling his fellow-V

érs - “Hitler is the greatest

in the world.” A department Si pervisor, John Blaeser, was

‘the 15 men working under u

“Don’t worry about production i much,” .and ‘spreading pro-H anti-American propaganda. The foreman, Joseph Feilzer under a red, white and blue po which proclaimed “Time is reading a’ German newspaper

“ing working - hours. When:

new men were- assigned - to zer's department and were w ing to be put to work, Feilzer “Let them wait. ‘I have all day. ‘Certain ‘vital: plane parts duced ‘at the plant under

' conditions were later found t defectivé.

Frederick Joubert Duquesne being whisked off fo jail. Inset, below, is a closeup of the Nazi spy and saboteur.

‘tected in ‘time, and no one suffered any serious injuries.

ruin military equipment. In gun found:ies, for instance, the saboteur las only to spill a litle hot coffee or tea down the cooling barrel of a big gun. So finely - tempered is the steel used in these cannons that, after they have been sabotaged: in. this way, the barrels will crack upon the first discharge. ‘The word sabotage self derives from the sabots (wooden shoes) which ‘the 19th-century French weavers: flung into their ' looms to smash the machinery which they believed would rob them of their jobs. Wrecking machinery remains one of the most common forms of sabotage. There are innumerable ways in which: this can be accomplished. In November,

1940, for example, emery dust and

ground glass were found in costly drills and lathes at the Tocd shipyards : in’ Seattle. *

Of Industrial Sabotage

: fident al’ for you must depend on someone else to keep it confidential.

Be Vigilant, Not a Vigilante ‘Dor’t undertake an investigation on your: own initiative. It is the responsibility of the federal bureau of investigation to ‘investigate sabo-{ s|tage and’ espionage - by presidential directive. : The' FBI ds as near as your teleptione. : y

TIRE RESTRIGTONS HR % v

‘All sorts of devices are used to

Disrupt Workers ANO: LESS effective device for sabotaging war production is that of stirring up dissension among the workers and thus cutting. down theif output. One’ of the purposes for which the German American Bund wads organized ‘ was to ‘help the: Nazis recruit spies and saboteurs in key “jobs: in American industries. :

Two favorite Bundist devices

for ~ interrupting the ‘supply of war materials: are "artificially incited slowdowns: and strikes. In order to sabotage production by these means, the saboteurs must first gain some influence among the workers, or. occupy strategic positions. within . the plants. This state of affairs was found . in important industrial plants. At a New York plant, Bundists on the production line organized a slowdown to interrupt the flow of warship and aircraft parts, While ‘armed guards were patrolling the

ind by United Feature &

Seek Labor Control

TO SECURE effective control of the: American labor moven

has long been the ‘aim. of Nash agents in the United States. - first attempts were staged in | strategic industrial center of troit ‘early in 1939. There the German. American Bund , helped to form an. organization ci the National Workers league, chief object of which was to cruit large numbers of Wo from the auto plants. one ‘The Nazis -hoped that, by volving sufficient auto workers i

dominate the unions in the ine dustry and, eventually, be abl sabotage production through downs and strikes. CaN ‘Parker Sage,-an American ci zen, who had for some time closely associated with the Ge man: American Bund, was ch to head this “labor” organizat in Detroit. = One morning, in’ the- sprin 1939, workers in the plant found that: thousands 0 little cards had been mysterious ; placed in their lockers. The ; carried printed messages urgi “Christian. American workers’ ‘join the National Workers les for the purpose of “Protecting Jobs, Happiness and Welfare the ‘American Gentile.” TI propaganda barrage was follow up by a succession of public ral lies at which Sage was the chit speaker. For a ‘while, Sage’s campaign met with a certain amount of success. During 1940, his o ization penetrated numerous aut plants. Much discord and - dis sension was stirred up among workers before the true charac of Parker Sage and his Nation workers league: became app ent. When. the auto workers theme selves finally recognized what 1 behind - Sage's agitation, launched a vigorous coun campaign through their nj locals to expose the National Workers league as a _Nazi-ins spired fifth column. oi Next: “Sabotage by Cartel.” ht, 1942, by Harper & E cate,

(EXHIBIT To SPUR WAR BOND SALE|

{Navy ‘to Aid Vincennes

Campaign Here on . Saturday:

“Buy. a war bond and sign. your name ‘on a model of the new cruiser Vincerines. wh - That's’ what you: will. hear ‘Satur- | day afternoon when the ‘Indiana | navaleade. opens on: ‘the. south of Monument ‘cirele’ for a showing of. navy ordnance, photographs and | equipment. The show will be re-

- [peated at 4:30 p.m. at Fountain|

square.

The ‘navalcade is touring. 1 ‘Inds. 23 ana cities ‘in’ the ‘state’s: drive for|

$22,000,000 in war bond sales: to re-

| place the sunken cruiser ‘Vincennes: ;

Bonds will be sold at ‘both shows:

At_ the circle, Governor. ‘Schricker

RecGrzes Son

(U. P.):—"Charlie, you can’t me any longer—youre my son! With those words, a 69=y old Nashville barber 8 by a scar on his chin a 40sy old man whom he was shaving a son whom he had nevis before. ‘He was George -T. Allen; arated from his first wife k the son. was born. His son, Ch C. Allen, a resident, of E Mill, O., said he knew his fe immediately upon entering shop but waited to see. if he be recognized.: ‘The elder Allen said he about the chin scar beaise had been told recently his had undergone a facial

COE

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3{and Mayor Tyndall: will’ ‘welcome og”

the navalcade and Chief Pharmacist Frederick A. Méody, U. 8. ‘N., who

was - wounded aboard the former} :

Vincennes, will talk.

son): troduced. ey be will be sworn in and the -navall

training school drum snd bugle

Suipe’ from Site naval Srey wi