Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1943 — Page 9

THE. NORTH AFRICAN DESERT— When our a - expedition finally found the wrecked : far ‘out on the endless desert, thé mechanics

ourselves the official diteh-

the day. We were all a | of

Pe rato? The Ce over and saw men working around .the planes, and we wanted a nice |

ditch: handy for diving into. The way to have a nice ditch is to dig one.. ‘We wasted no time. Would that all slit trenches

could be dug in soil like that: The ' Sand was soft and moist; just the :

kind children like to play in. The

four of us dug a winding ditch 40 feet long and 3 feet deep in about

an hour and a half.: The day was not, ana we took off our shirts. . One sweating soldier said: “Pive years ago you couldnt a got me to dig a ditch for $5 an hour. Now look at me.

“You can’t stop me digging ditches, I don’t even

want pay for it; I just dig for love.”

That's the new outlook, the new type of conversa- :

tion, among thousands of American boys today. It’s hard for: you to realize, but there are certain moments when a plain old ditch can be dearer to you than any Possession on earth. For all bombs, no matter where they may land eventually, do all their falling right straight at your head. Only those of you who know about that can ever know .all about ditches.

Letter Stirs Up Controversy

WHILE WE WERE digging, one of the boys brought up for the thousandth time the question of that letter in Time Magazine. What letter, you ask? ‘Why, it’s a letter you probably don’t remember, but i it has become famous around these parts. It was in the Nov. 23 issue, which eventually found its way over here. Somebody read it, spoke to a few friends, and pretty soon thousands of men were commenting on this letter in terms which the fire department ‘won't permit me to set to paper. To get to the point, it was written by a soldier, and g a ‘said: “The -greatest Christmas present that can “beg ven, to. us this year is not smoking jackets, ties,

Insic

oe “1 A LITTLE BIT “outside Indianapolis” but we t ‘maybe you might be interestéd in hearing ut: the fire Saturday at Ernie Pyle’s home place, * miles southeast of Dana, Ind. The fire, which : started ina chicken brooder house, was discovered by a neighbor, Dr. J. D. Sturm, the lve ian. and father of Paul Sturm of the Indiana Chain Store council. Dr. Sturm ran up to the house and notified Ernie’s father, William C. Pyle, and Ernie’s Aunt Mary Bales. Someone got on the party line phone and about rang the phone off the wall sounding a general alarm. Farmers came running from far and near. And they weren't just onlookers, either. ne They got busy with buckets and 4 sayed the main poultry house and - barn, despite a high" wind that blew the flames in that: direction. The’ brooder house burned down and A destroyed 200°0f Aunt Mary’s chicks. For a while there { ‘was about as much excitement on the old farm as ie is seeing way over there in Africa.

x “Referred: by Eleanor

OUR FELLOW ‘columnist at ‘the ‘bottom of this _page really get around, -doesn’t’ she? The annual report of the Indianapolis Legal “Ald society, in reporting the persons and organizations referring applicants to the society, lists: “Mrs. Roosevelt, 3.” .. .-One of our agents reports seeing a restaurant window (he thinks it was on S. Meridian) with a group of help wanted signs: “Wanted cook,” “Wanted waitresses,” “Wanted cashier,” etc. And right underneath them was another sign: “This place for sale.” ... Some of the better legal minds of the state are of the opinion that the law just passed by the legislature making it a misdemeanor to cheat a newsboy out of his ‘money is unconstitutional: They base this belief on the fundamental law that you can’t imprison a person for debt. You can go to prison for income tax

Washington

WASHINGTON, March 23.—One of the merits of the Ball-Burton-Hatch- Hill resolution to put the sen-

ate behind the organization of the united nations is that it tries to break through the walls that American Politics have erected against free consideration of such questions. ‘We are caught : today in the ruts that were worn in the League of Nations fight. Go back earlier than that fight and you .. find something quite different.

That was before partisan politics

came to dominate this primary question. of foreign relations. In 1915 the League to Enforce Peace. ‘was organized at Philadelphia. Its: president was William Howard Taft, a Republican, who had retired as president of the . United States two years before. “That organization adopted a platform stating that i was desirable for the United States to join a League of Nations which would bind signatories to settlement of international controversies through peaceful means. * The platform provided that the signatories should ¥~ jointly use their military and economic forces against any one of their number that went to war or committed acts of hostility against another,

Republicans Become Hostile

‘SENATOR HENRY CABOT LODGE (the elder) indorsed that program in an address at the first annual meeting of the League to Enforce Peace, in 16: 1518 Alor Lodge, saifl that “f we are to promote ine erna ‘peace at the close of the present terrible war, if we are to restore international law as it must: be restored, we must find some way in which the united forces of the nations can be put behind the ‘cause of peace and law,” 2. But President Woodrow Wilson was now taking up Site {deus Befors long i Hevams his primary poace aim.

enough encouragement from their constituents.

pipes or games. Be people will only take the money wl i

and buy war bonds . .-. they will be helping ! selves and helping Us $0 be home next

| Being home next Christmas is somethin which would : s of

”m

be appreciated by all of us boys in

The letter was all'right With the soldiers over here 5 until they got down to the address of the writer and|

discovered he was: still in. camp in the states. For a soldier hack home to open his ‘trap about anything concerning ‘the war is like waving a red flag at the troops over here. They say they can do whatever

- talking’ is necessary.

A New Form of Grousing «

“THEM POOR DOGFACES back home,” said one of the ditch-diggers with fing soldier sarcasm, “they've really got it rugged. Nothing to eat but them old greasy pork chops and them three-inch steaks all the time. I wouldn't’ be surprised if ‘they don’t have to eat eggs several times a week.” “And they're so lonely,” said another. “No entertainment ‘except to rassle them old dames around the dance floor. ‘The USO closes at 10 o'clock and the night clubs at. 3. It's:mighty tough on them. No wonder they want to get home.” “And they probably don’t get no sleep,” said another, “sleeping on them old cots with springs and| everything, and scalding themselves in hot baths all the time.” “And nothing to drink but that nasty old 10-cent

‘ beer and that awful Canadian Club whisky, » chimed

in another philosopher with a shovel. “And when they put a nickel in the box nothing comes out but Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw and such trash as that. My heart just bleeds for them poor guys. ”» “And did you see where he was?” asked another. “At the Albuquerque air base. And he wants to. be home by next Christmas. Hell, if I could just see the Albuquerque air base again I'd think I was in Heaven.” That’s the way it goes. The boys feel a soldier isn’t qualified to comment unless he’s on the wrong side of the ocean. They're gay and full of their own wit when they get started that way, but, just the same they mean it. It’s a new form of the age-old

* soldier pastime of grousing. It helps take your mind

off things.

de Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

evasion, of douise, but only for failure to file or for

“filing a false return—not for failure to pay.

Just Like a Nightmare

WHAT HAPPENED to Lewis T. Smith the other day shouldn’t happen to a dog. According to his friends, Mr. Smith, a civilian employee of ‘the air corps central procurement office on N. Pennsylvania, was driving on 46th st. near the Monon railroad when; to his amazement, ‘he saw a quarter of beef laying ‘in the - street. It: evidently had fallen from a truck: Jumping out of his car, he tried to load it in his car, but it ‘was too heavy—weighed something like 350 pounds. Climbing back in his car, Mr. Smith hurried back to Marcy Village, where he lives, and hunted up a friend. . Then they drove back to the spot. To his sorrow, he found the beef had disappeared. Oh, unhappy day.... One of our agents was in a market near:38th and Illinois over the weekend and saw a woman buying this and that in anticipation of further ‘rationing. Suddenly. she -espied a half dozen fly swatters and—in the middie of March— said: “Oh, yes; you'd better give me one of those, too. They might be rationed.”

From Cop to Gob

OUR ITEM ABOUT the 43 tab on: state police car 203 covering’ up the 1042° tag brings a note from State Policeman F, V. Chew Jr., who says he has been piloting said “heap.” Says he: “Now I don’t want to seem obnoxious about such a small matter but have you tried to place the ’43 tab on a ’41 Chevrolet yet? If not try it, and you will be enlightened. Furthermore, the instructions printed upon the outside of the license envelope says in effect that the license should be]. placed on top of the ’42 license if possible. Nothing deep about that, is there? Oh well, what's erence. I was sworn into the navy today (Friday) as an ensign and report to Cambridge, Mass., April 1.” Congratulations, Ensign. Chew. But about that 43 tab—we put ours on the bottom of the license plate on our own ’4l Chevrolet. So there!

By Raymond Clapper

The more definitely the Wilson administration. committed itself to the League of Nations idea; and the closer the idea came to being translated into reality, the ‘more the Republicans became hostile to it. By the time Wilson went to the Paris peace conference, the Republicans were in control of the senate. They were never able to unite completely in their opposition to the league. The party was split. Some Democrats also refused to support Wilson's treaty. Nevertheless it became the major party issue and was the subject of most of the campaign -opposition throughout the 1920 national election. e Republican candidate, Harding, formally buried the league in remarks to the nation the instant his election was announced.

Politicians Must Have Issues

"MUCH DEPENDS ' ON whose ox is being gored. Politicians must have issues. We can only hope that this time their choice of issues will be less harmful to the interests of the United States. Yet that won't be determined by wishful thinking. For as Cordell Hull once observed, self-preservation End the first law of politics. Senators know that this kind of issue is easy meat for demagogic attacks built on prejudice. That makes some of them timid. But Governor Stassen of Minnesota and Senator Ball had enough confidence in the common sense of their constituents to carry this question. into their election ‘campaigns last November. They did: it in the face of an ‘isolationist tradition; in the face of the heritage of Shipstead and Lundeen, and they won. ‘In -Ohio, Senator Burton is parting company with his Republican associates, Senator Taft and presumably Governor Bricker, on this question. ; Undoubtedly many other senators’ would like to take their places on the side of making the senate a useful guide and counsellor in American foreign relations instead of a blind obstruction. Perhaps they would be more ready to step forward if they had

By Eleanor Roosevelt

and evil things.

Eo toe thak aibtte Sar trons ¥have he known people to indulge in’ foolish extravaganods,|...

simply because they did not have enough self-assur-

.and naval intelligence.

railroads, airlines and steamship companies. ' The bureau also arranged to survey defense plants to see ‘that the necessary protective measures were taken. FBl agents were soon instructing local law-enforcement 'officials in scientific methods of combating espionage and sabotage. A number of cities set up special branches in their police departments to act as “anti-sabo-tage units.” >

» os ”8 Spy Rings Smashed IN THE SUMMER 6éf 1941 (as told in an earlier installment) the FBI, after many months of careful preparation, rounded up members of ‘two large Nazi espionagesabotage rings in the New York area. One was the ring headed by - the veteran saboteur-spy, Frederick Joubert Duquesne, an agent of Col. Nicolai. The other ring was headed by Kurt Frederick Ludwig, an agent of Hein-

rien and women agents caught by the FBI in this major round-up. Another important axis espion-. age-sabotage ring was smashed by the FBI in June, 1942, when Anastase Vonsiatsky was arrested: after a raid on his Thompson, Conn:, headquarters. Vonsiatsky was charged with violating the espionage act and divulging United States military information to the German and Japanese governments. Indicted with Vonslatsky as. cos

had escaped to Mexico a short time before and was subsequently arrested there and turned over to the United States authorities; Dr.

the German American: bund; Rev.

Philadelphia Lutheran . church, who was charged with serving as a go-between for the spy ring; and Dr. Wolfgang ‘Ebell, a physician of El Pasp, Tex, whose ‘home was used as headquarters for German and Japanese agents.

guilty with: the exception of Molzahn, who : contested the charges against himself. (Editorial Note: Molzahn was convicted. on Aug. 25, 1942, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. His appeal is still pending.)

ica’s counter-sabotage forces was

COMMENCEMENT SET AT I. U.

400 to Receive Degrees April 22; Cancel ‘Class Reunions.

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 2. —In the first of three commencements to be held this year at Indi-

ana university, approximately 400 degrees wil be conferred April 22.

gram, the commencement will be limited to one . day. George F. Heighway, alumni secretary . and chairman of the university's commencement committee, said bacca-

"| Elections of an alumni member

of the university's board of trustees and of officers of the alumni ciation will be held through a

_ance to feel that respect for them was not dependent|

8 Our payehiologlste hav. long stily. befors Shem loarane ow aE re of us, who are rath life with a humility which: the

‘arrogant, approach d Christian religion should teach us, but which few

: People iid have unless they are absoluisly ‘self- = ul

rich Himmler. There were 49

at. Philadelphia. wh

conspirators’ were: Gerhardt Wilhelm Kunze, former fuehrer ‘of the German American bund, who

Otto Willumeit of Chicago, former leader of the Chicago unit of -

Kurt E. Molzahn, pastor of a -

All of the accused pleaded

Under the war-accelerated pro-.

| Mas Magdalene Boyce, sentinel. me peer pnt.

(DEDICATE. NEW WARD

Vil—Counter Sabotage Lg By MICHAEL SAYERS and ALBERT E. KAHN = THE THREE chief agencies for combating enemy ‘espionage-sabotage. activities in the United States are the federal bureau of investigation, G2 (military intelligence)

On Sept. 6, 1939, President Roosevelt Jssued a direc ‘tive placing the FBI in charge of all investigations of espionage and sabotage in the United States. Even before the president’s directive, members of G2 and naval intelligence had been receiving part of ‘their training at FBI schools, and the FBI had been working closely with the army and navy intelligence divisions. : Soon after the outbreak of war in Europe, the FBI took steps to protect American defense industries. ‘bureau drew up a confidential booklet “incorporating the basic principles ‘of protection against espionage and sabotage,” which was distributed to reliable plant officials, lawenforcement officers, and representatives of public utilities,

The’

dramatically made clear to the public on June 28, 1942, when the FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been landed by German submarines" in. Florida and Long Island. The eight saboteurs carried $174,000 in United States currency for: bribery ‘and for paying off

their ‘accomplices: in the : United

States. Each man had - been trained at a special sabotage school near Berlin; each had lived

in the United States. Two were

American - citizens, and most of them had been’ members. of the ‘German ‘American bund. They had come ‘equipped with all the latest devices for sabo- - tage; high-explosive bombs dis guised as pieces of coal and wooden- blocks, special timing devices,

.'fuses of all sorts, blocks of T.

N. T. carefully packed in excelsior, rolls of electric cable, and a number of small incendiary bombs disguised as fountain pens and pencils. They had even been supplied by the German intelligence with forged selective service and social security cards. The saboteurs carried with them detailed instructions for an ex-

“tensive sabotage campaign in the

United States. . The was to include; _. Destruction of Hydro-dlectric plants at-Niagara Falls; New York,

cattipalgn

.and of three plants of the Alum-

inum Company of America located at Massena, N. Y,, E. St. Louis, Ill, and at Alcoa, Tenn.

Handpicked and well-equipped German saboteurs landed in the United States last year by U-beats

were quickly rounded up by the

FBL

Six were executed, one received a life sentence, andther was

sentenced to 30 years in. prison. Upper row, left to right, Peter Burger, Edward J. Kerling, Robert Quirin and. Werner Theil. . Lower, ‘George John Daseh, Herbert Haupt, Herman Neubauer . and Heindrich

_H. Heinck.

ized anti-sabotage units and. de-

tailed trained guards to watch over all’ phases: of - production. - All

lunch boxes and packages were °

carefully inspected. Extra spotlights and alarm systems were installed. Under the direction of the trained guards, production workers were organized into spe‘cial fire brigades equipped to fight

"all forms of incendiary sabotage.

Crippling of a cryolite plant -

produces: materials essential :f * duction: of* aluminum; + «+ ‘Blowing up of. Hell Gate pidge over the:East river in New York; Destruction of the Pennsylvania railroad terminal -at- Newark, 'N. J.,. through .which flow : great ‘quantities of war products and raw materials going into the nation’s war effort; . .. Sabotage of * New York City’s reservoirs concentrated. in Westchiester county; Destruction’, of the canal and lock system at Cincinnati, oO, and .St. Louis, Mo. . « Destruction of the “horseshoe” curve of the Pennsylvania's anthracite coal. industry by wrecking rail transportation.: The scope of these plans indi‘cated . that the eight saboteurs had been sent into the United

- States to supervise the activities

of a'large and ‘well-organized Nazi sabotage ring which was already

_ in existence in this ‘country. 82 8 8 : THE GROWING power of Amer-

‘On Aug. 8, 1942, six of the sabo-

- teurs were executed at Washing-

ton. . One- received a life sentence.

° ® Mrs. Williams To Head O.E. S. Mrs. Osceola L. ‘Williams will be installed . Worthy matron of Day--light chapter, O. E. S, at 7:45 p. m. Saturday in the Masonic temple, Illinois and North sts. Other officers to be installed include William H. Williams, worthy patron; Mrs. Jenny V. Moreillon, associate matron; Samuel B. Huffman, associate palm; Mrs. Nellie M. Young, sec-. retary; Mrs. . “Mrs. Williams

Agnes. L. Singer, treasurer; Mrs.

_Adah Julian, = conductress, and

Mrs. Margaret E. Stone, associate conductress.. Others . include Mrs. Ruby L . Hufford, chaplain; Mrs. Helen A. Stone, marshal; Mrs. Mamie Passmore, organist; Mrs. ‘Mary L. Williams, Adah; Mrs. Hazel Skill-

AT CITY. "HOSPITAL |

“A-36-bed obstetric ‘ward: at City

opal will be dedicated at 8 p.m.

Rev. Kurt E. Mglzahn , , . ' Philadélphia pastor, who: was sentenced to 10 jyears for espionage.

The eighth was sentenced to 30 years in prison. #

War Plant Protection

IMMEDIATELY following

. America’s entry into the war, the

FBI began making raids in every part of the country on the homes and hideouts of enemy suspects. As a result of these raids, the FBI seized: large supplies of explosives, incendiary materials, arms, short-wave radio equipment and other materials. “FBI agents: undertook "investigations on a nation-wide scale of axis suspects working in the war industries. . Co-operating with the FBI and military and naval intelligence, ‘major U.S. defense plants organ-

PUPILS PREPARE

‘RIPPLES OF '43’|

200 Participate in School's Vaudeville Wednesday ~~ Evening. Barbershop chords, bagpipes, magic

i ahd patriotism will intermingle :|when 200 students of the Eroad Rip-

ple high school present the “Ripples of ’43” as their annual spring vaude-

_ [ville offering at 8:15 p.m. Wednes|day.

“The. ¢urtain raiser will be an act entitled “Trylon Swing,” oy Robert Bevis and ' Robert Beasley, which will feature Marian Sumner, -vocalist. | The act will include a dance specialty by Mildred Cornelius: and Jack Vaughn. Ey “The Pals of the West,” in which Jack: Burris: ‘and ‘Charlotte Augus-

J i pant Jacque- | line . Long, - who will dance the

; Jack Parrish and Robert Davis, who will present “A Wee Bit 0’ Banter,” and the “Lassies Octet,” “ih will sing. siz. songs. A ‘Barbershop’ Quartet ‘Robert Bevis will entertein at the plano during the second. intermission.. : The ay Nineties Revue” will

: the barbershop quartet, con- | | | Siting ‘of Max Roome, Scott, R

American labor unions drew up ‘practical plans for combating sabotage. The National Maritime union, the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen'’s union, the railroad brotherhoods,

_ the United Automobile, Aircraft

and Agricultural Tmplement Workers and ofher ‘large unions took steps to: guard against sabotage.

Credit must be given to the

American press-for the superb job it: ‘has done’ in warning against the. lack of vigilance at certain industrial plants and the conse--

“quent ‘glaring: +opportunities. for

sabotage. “A'New York City: newspaper as’ signed reporters ‘to “visit docks,

‘ freight yards, and various plants

manufacturing vital war “mate-

rials for the army and navy. The

reporters found that they were able to gain access to these strategic centers and to wander through = them “with: complete freedom and without ‘identification of any kind.” Reporters from a Cleveland paper carried on the same type of investigation and exposed an equally dangerous sit‘uation in their area. Alert newspapers throughout the country vigorously = campaigned against this sort of negligence.’ Despite all the measures taken, serious : shortcomings clearly -still exist in United States countersabotage preparations... How can

* “pionage,” but - was. tion Yor ‘returned to the United States, ~ where he pleaded guilty,

chief Donald Nelson, could under= take a nation-wide campaign to enlist all war-workers in the fight ‘ against sabotage. ‘These ‘commit tees ‘could draw upon the knowles edge and experience of 11,000,000 men and women in factories, raile “roads, warehouses, docks and . ship= yards, who are intimate with every detail of the United Sta production machine, and w could ‘make .valuable recom: mendations for the safe; of war . machinery and ve

these -shortcomings be overcome? 4

An’ important measure ‘that might well be adopted is this: : The "joint management-labor committees, which were set up at the. Tequest of war Production

Local WAAC

Finishes Training |

“Pollowing an intensive course of}: basic ‘training at the first WAAC training center, - Ft. Des Moines, i Iowa,

Ft. Oglethorpe,

-| Ga. There she will

continue her training at the third center to ready herself in duties that will release a man for active duty. Before entering the at 1301 Hoyt ave. ; \ CAN Ne Velma R. White, 2953 Talbot st.,

service she lived

has been commissioned a third offi-{, cer in the: WAAC: at: Ft. Res}:

Moines, Iowa.

HOLD EVERYTHING -— “

: dlrs Aid, the Bus and Union “| tions; “the Y. ‘M.C. A,310N. I :

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PUBLIC TO VST 1 U.S. 0. CLUE

| Nation Wide Open. Ho

On Sunday fo Show Group's. Work. Citizens will visit U, §. O. ¢

|here Sunday in keeping with: t

invitation issued throughout -

By ¥ o nation,

Otvilins.will be grested: from 2 5: p. m. to-show what is being do for the fighting den in their. Jot hours.

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- Brigadier Puker Jordan, Mis. P. 3. »