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”, ‘WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN ALGERIA —

Every army headquarters anywhere in the world has what is called a “Message Center.” It is run by the signal corps, and through it goes all the vast flow of communications ‘necessary ‘to keep an army running. : ‘Where I am, the Message Center handles my columns after they leave the censor. Some of these - columns go home by wireless, some go part way by air and the rest by wireless, some go all the “way home by air. : 1 have to trust blindly to the boys in the Message Center to get my columns headed in the right direction and by .the right means, and especially trust them to get them started somewhere immediately, and not let them lie around - for days under a stack of papers. a I understand there were. several lapses in this ¢ column at home a while back, due to its getting bot-tle-necked somewhere along the route. But I'm sure

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the delay hasn't been here at the fountainhead 'of'

literature. For the boys at the Message Center and 1 have a system, to-wit: © “I'll put their names in the paper if they treat me nice and handle my copy well; they’ll treat me nice and handle my copy well if I'll put their names in the paper. It sounds like collusion, and undoubtedly is.

Now Comes the Payoff

AT ANY RATE the boys have done their part, so now I'll pay off. If any of their parents should réhd this, you may know that your boys are living under pm eating well, are in no personal danger, and that hey are gay and have fun at their work. Here they

ut Gordon Carlisle of Exeter, N. H He was still in college when he joined the army. They call him the boy from “Cow College,” the nickname for

! By Ernie Pyle the U. of N. H. Coming from up north he’s a freshair fiend, and keeps the boys frozen stiff by having the windows open all the time. Pvt. Frank T. Borezon of Erie, Pa. Prank says the worst part about being in Africa is that he can’t find a bowling alley. He was a champion back home. Pvt. Julius Novak of Brooklyn, N. Y. He is so (quiet the boys can’t tell me a thing about him to put| in the paper. s Pfc. George Doomehin of the Bronx. He says the great mystery of this war is now the Saturday Evening Post gets along without him. He used to sell it at home.

A.C. and Juke the Fake

CORP. A. C. MOORE of Mobile, Ala. His mother always called him “A. C.,” which has been slurred into “Ace” in the army. In the slack hours late at night the boys pass the time by drawing up court-martial charges against “Ace.” He is a printer by trade. His wife is waiting for him out in Lufkin, Tex. Pvt. Jacob L. Seiler of Covington, La.” “Jake the Fake” the boys call him. Jake says to put down that he was a “mixologist” before the war. In other words, a bartender. I assume that he carries on in the army by getting the messages all mixed up. Sergt. John D. Taylor of Temple, Tex. He’s a big husky who was a football and baseball letter-man at the University of Alabama. Corp. Jack Price of Bellefontaine, O. He says he grew up in a poolroom. His father owned one. Jack speaks only about twice a day, and then it’s always something that rolls the other boys in the aisles. That old dry wit, you know. Pvt. Primo de Carlo, Steubenville, O. The boys give him more Italian nicknames than Muuso himself, the main one being Signor Vaselino, The signor just grins. Primo was once an opera singer. He went to

school for three years in Milan. And then wound up

selling beer in Steubenville. . He wonders if he won't eventually get back to

‘Milan after all,

} Inside Indianapolis 8» Lowell Nussbaum

MRS. HW. OBERLIES, ‘1019 N. Kealing, had frouble all last summer with an addlepated robin that made a career out of banging his silly head against the window panes of her house.. It nearly ‘drove her to distraction. The thump of the bird’s body could be heard all over the hguse. She tried every scheme she could think of to discourage the ‘bird, such ‘as darkening the window, removing the curtains, leaving the ' window open. But without = success. - When autumn arrived and the bird left, she heaved a sigh of relief. She thought she was rid of the pest x last. But no. Spring arrivedy the same darned robin wit. ara Now Mrs. Oberlies is getting desperate. She doesn’t think she can stand another summer with the robin trying to inate with his réflection in the window. If anyone knows a good remedy, they might pass it along. She says if the bird doesn't stop pretty soon, she’s going to get out the garden hose and keep dousing him every time he goes near the window.

(How're They Biting? THE MOST popular question nowadays when a couple of fishermen get. together is: “Where can I get 8 bicycle?” With gas rationifig, that’s about, the : only way some of them can get to their favorite fishin’ holes. Chances are that the small streams near home will get a much ketter.play this summer, now. that week-end trips to northern Indiana are pretty. much .out. of the question. , . . Mrs. Gerald K. Tilney, Crawfordsville,. asks us to furnish Ernie Pyles address in North Africa. Sorry, Mrs. Tilney. We don’t have it as Ernie moves around too much. But if you'll send the letter to Ernie in care of The Times, we'll do our best to get it forwarded. . . . Have you noticed the number of clocks around town that

Washington

WASHINGTON, March 29.—One good thing about this trip of Anthony Eden’s over here is that, contrary to the unfortunate experience with the Casablanca gonference, this affair has not been overballyhooed. The British foreign minister will go back home without there having been any tremendous announcements. No ‘one has been led to expect sensational developments. The Casablanca conference was attended by an enormous amount of advance rumors and hints so ‘that big things were expected. Actually little could be said in the communique. That vagueness caused a general feeling that the conference bp had not lived up to expectations, Ba although it was never in the cards that much sould have been said about the Casablanca conference once Stalin had refused to have anything to do with the “meeting. _ The Eden visit has not been attended with the spotiisht _and prominence which have surrounded that . Chiang Kai-shek. “There has never been any Mme. of his attempting to influence the American siblic over the head of the government. © Secretary Eden’s one speech, at Annapolis, is not one that attempts in any way to alter the policy of the American government. It was pointed up rather to support the position already taken by President § Roosevelt and most administration spokesmen in de-. © elaring for a united nations with force to prevent fu-

ture aggression. "An Airing of Ideas

" THE EDEN VISIT has been essentially a personal exchange of ideas and thinking out loud, between him and the president and Secretary Hull. In addition Mr. Eden has talked with a large number of Amer- _ fcans, both in and out of official life, always off the . gecord and seemingly with frankness. Equally important, he has been sounding out Amer-

My Day

CHICAGO, 11, Sunday—Since I arrived here Friday night, I have done nothing but see a few friends and feel as though I have been living the life a lady of leisure. I have had a chance to read a which, as usual, I have. carried around in my briefease too long. I read and particularly liked John Dos Passos’ article on “Down Easterners Building Ships.” There is one little sentence at the end of _ Mary Heaton Vorse’s: article on “The Girls of Elkton, Md.” which

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can be applied, I think, to all our

workers in factories, on farms and. in the ‘offices: “These girls are

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are stopped, or else showing the wrong time? There's a regular epidemic of them.

‘Stay Home—Or Else

BACK FROM a trip to Washington, George Saas agrees with the advice of other travelers: “Don’t travel if you can avoid it.” ‘ And he adds a postscript: “If you must travel, take: along some sandwiches.” The train to Washington was crowded, as they all are,

with civilians and soldiers, especially the latter. And |

the dining car was turned over from 4'to 9 p. m. to the privates and noncommissioned officers. As fast as one group of enlisted men left the dining room ~another group was ordered in. = Meanwhile, the civilians and commissioned officers, including one brigadier ‘general, sat outside and tried to get their

‘minds off food. You could have sold them ham

sandwiches for $5 each. . . . Lifted from the March issue of the Indiana Pharmacist: “A grammarian criticizes the president for e ge jie a sentence with a preposition. However, in these war times worries over rhetoric are ‘the least we have of.”

Around the Town:

THE WALL SPACE between the Saratoga bar and the Point restaurant—across from the Linccln has on it a large advertising sign reading: “Always say Rival dog fi Write your own wisecrack. . . .

Virginia Miller, who has been on leave from the state | TY,

welfare department since Jan. 1 because of a serious spinal - operation, visited her "office the other day and expects to report for work Thursday. Several of |- her vertebrae were fused by grafting a piece’ of transplanted shinbone to them. . . . A lucky young soldier is Pvt. Leo Mieth, who is in the air force, probably in Trinidad. In the 11 months he has been in the service, his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Mieth, 1302 S. Worth st., has written to him every day but three. And what's ‘more, she gets a letter back from him ‘about every fourth day. ;

By Raymond Clapper

'jcans, because the British want, more than anything

else at this time, to know what America is likely to do. They want very much to know whether the country, and particularly the senate, is likely to support the general attitude of the administration, or whether it is to be another Wilson affair all over again. Undoubtedly we know just about what the top men in the British government are thinking with regard to what might be done about Germany—whether she is to be set up.as a republic again, or divided into separate states, for instance. Undoubtedly Mr. Eden knows what our top people are thinking about possible solutions of that question, and about the frontiers of Eastern Europe. That does not mean at all that decisions have been made. Alternative solutions are discussed. The advantages and disadvantages of each may be canvassed. Individuals may express their personal preferences on a tentative basis.

A® Question of Pirtideskip

ANOTHER THING is 'theé” British ‘sensitiveness to anti-British feeling in America. :The British are apt to exaggerate it. For instance, some of them, concerned over what we think about India, may feel that something very deep is going on. Actually I doubt if very much of anything is going on here about. India. British treatment of the congress party and.leaders is hard to justify. But Gandhi's fast was a propaganda: flop and Americans lost interest, which is the reason for the silence in America on the Indian question. It was different a year ago when the Japanese were about to invade India. The British and ourselves have strong enough mutual interests to make it advisable that we regard each other as preparing for an extension of the wartime partnership with Russia, China and other united nations members of the. partnership. A partnership is an association for mutual benefit. That's what is working up among the principal allied nations. And this visit here .with its meeting of minds shviously has resulted in progress toward that end,

By Eleanor Rovsevels

What is the matter with us all? There is enough food to go round, none of us are going hungry. If we can’t always have our choice we can find substitutes. I have been reading with ‘great pleasure “Come In,” and other poems by Robert Frost, with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer: ‘I have always liked Robert Frost's poems, but I think the running com- |

mentary makes them even more delightful. Do you | remember the last lines of the poem, “Wild Grapes"?

I had not taken the first-step in knowledge: I had not learned to let go with the hands,

As still I have not Jearned'to do with the heart, |

. And have no wish. to with the heart—nor need,

. I may yet live, as T know others live, ~~ To wish in vain, to lét go With the mind— Of cares, at. night, to leep; ;

The headlines in the papers =

8 last words, for it is not only 5, but all of us who need ‘realized

Let us hope go with the the days

“That I can see. The mind—is not the heart. A

RIBBENTROP'S J0B IN PERI “FOR SPY PLOT

Farther Than First

Believed.

March 29.—Additional details reaching this part of Europe concerning the recent discovery by the Nazis

of a Soviet spying ring in Berlin reveal that the organization is far

lieved. (The United Press reported Stockholm today that there are persistent reports of an impending shakeup in the German foreign ministry, possibly involving the re‘moval of Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. : (It might be that Field Marshal Hermann Goering and Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels might be able to use the discovery of a spy ring in Ribbentrop’s bureau as a means of getting him ousted or “promoted” to a new but. insignificant position. Both Goering and Goebbels intensely dislike Ribbentrop, but up to now he has maintained the confidence of Adolf Hitler and the support of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler.

. Report 134 Arrests

According to the latest information, the activities of Soviet agents in the heart of the Reich’s capital were not limited to the Wilhelmstrasse but also extended to three other ministries, including the ministry for economic affairs, and had even contaminated that sanctuary of, German military traditions, the Wehrmacht Oberkommando. The number of arrests following the ‘discovery of the plot now totals 134, of whom 50 have already paid with their lives for their Soviet sympathies. Among ‘those executed is ‘Lieut, Klassen, an officer in the Wehrmacht Oberkommando. All arrested were charged with supplying the Soviet with secret information connected with their jobs. Inquiry has established, according to the story, that the conspirators transmitted information to

“| Brussels whence, presumably, it was

smuggled to London. Friend of Soviet Envoy

One of the heads of the Soviet spying ring, Hans von Scheliga, was executed at the end of Janu- . _Scheliga, the story: runs, 'Was™ attached to “the German embassy in Warsaw for more than 10 ‘years, during which time he ‘became closely connected with Soviet minister to Warsaw Wojkoft. It is believed that his links with the Soviet esplonagd system resulted from this connection. An acquaintance of Scheliga’s in Warsaw describes him as a. “very lukewarm” Nazi, although nothing was known then of his Russian sympathies, ! At Warsaw, von Scheliga served as first secretary of the embassy under Ambassador Hans von Molke, who died over the week-end at Madried, where he had been serving as German ambassador. (Another execution in the ring, disclosed today, was that of re von Harnack, who was governor of a Prussian province until Hitler came to power.) This story of an extensive espionage organization working for the Soviets confirms recent reports from Germany of the revival. of Communist activity inside the Reich. It also may account in some small measure for the perfectlytimed, efficiently-conducted Russian winter offensive.

MILK BOARD STAFF ON 10% HONOR ROLL

The Indiana Milk Control board staff received a treasury 10 per cent “T” flag last week in recognition of its ‘participation in the pay roll plan for buying war bonds.

ernor Schricker presented the flag to the 20 members of the board's staff it was pointed out that 18 per cent of the milk control board’s gross pay roll is being set aside for war bond purchases, the highest average of any state house department. ¥ The milk control board will go out of existence next June 30 under a statutory limitation which the legislature refused to extend.

Tables Turned

Ernie Pyle, The Times’ roving rePorte: now in North Africa who has “written up” hundreds of per~ sons he has met, gets 8 write-up

Ring Disclosed as Spreading

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OVER WEEK-EM

Three Sluggings, guings; One Purse Snatching Reported

To Police.

Indianapolis ~ went through a week-end outbreak of what is cure rently referred to in New York “muggings,” a term covering a multitude of crimes. In the East the term covers purse snatchings, knifings, sluggings and

“|similar crimes.

One of the first things Roddy McDowell, youthful motion picture star, did when he arrived in Indianapolis yesterday was to visit the Rotary Convalencents’ Home at Riley hospital. Here Robert McCafferty (left), Roddy, Glenn Burbrink and Head Nurse Brown of the crippled children’s graphs from Roddy’s latest picture, “My Friend Flicka.”

ward; look over photo-

COLLEGE EXAMS

Tests to Be Friday Morning In Local High

Schools.

Examinations of men of high school and college age for the army and navy college training programs will be given in each of the city’s

seven high schools from 9 to 11

a. m. Friday. Men accepted for the. navy course will be detailed directly to college. Those accepted for the army will undergo further screening during a 13-week period of basic training before they become qualified for college attendance. All will be placed on active duty, in uniform, under military discipline with pay and the government will bear all expenses. 3 Eligible for the army classes are high school and prep graduates or seniors who will be graduated by. July 1 and college students who do not have high school diplomas, all of whom must be between 17 and

22 years of age as of July 1.

Qualifications for navy aspirants are the same except that the age

limit is 17 to 20 years as of July|

1 and the applicants must be unmarried. Those planning to take the examinations must procure applications in advance from the high school principals and present them when they report. Men now enlisted in any branch of the armed services, including V-1, V-5 and V-7 reserves on inactive status are not eligible for these tests, which will be the last to be given for several months.

FLOODS SLOW DOWN FIGHTING IN RUSSIA

By UNITED PRESS There were no substantial changes on the quagmire Russian fighting fronts today as spring rains and thaws turned roads into little rivers and streams overflowed their banks. The Germans claimed, without Soviet confirmation, to have recaptured Sevsk, 85 miles northwest of Kursk. Moscow said Russian troops, for the second time in 24 hours, had wiped out a German wedge in their lines on the Kharkov front and seized four hamlets in the defense system around Smolensk. The German advance southeast of Kharkoy had carried to the edge of a village north of Chuguev, 22 miles southeast of Kharkov. Three hundred Germans were killed as the spearhead was wiped out. The earlier wedge annihilated was along the middle course of the upper Donets

river. 4 New York Pastor Will Speak Here

Dr. Adam. Clayton Powell Jr. pastor .of the Abyssinian Baptist church of New York, will speak at the Second Baptist church, 423

ARMY, NAVY SET

Today

ability to plan important battle

carry him successively to Mahares, tion with the other main body of his army under Gen. Jurgen von Arnim in the Bizerte-Tunis area. This retreat differs in one very important respect, however, from that in Libya. In Libya, as in Tunisia, Rommel had the sea on his right. His left was protected by the desert, so that he was immune to serious flanking attack. In Tunisia, his left flank is highly. exposed. Allied strategy has been an open book. The question now is “ whether Rommel underestimated allied strength or overestimated his own. ; The Americans are threatening to drive through to the coast from east of El Guettar, towards Gabes, from east of Maknassy towards Mahares or Sfax, and in the Fondouk region of northern central Tunisia, where

U. S. Officer

LONDON, March 20 (U. P.)~— Maj. Sy Bartlett, first American army officer to bomb Berlin, said the weather was cloudy when the R. A. F. reached its target Saturday night, but “God just seemed to reach out and sweep the clouds away and say, ‘There's Berlin.” With perfect vision of the city below, Bartlett, in a Lancaster bomber “B,” ‘pushed the button that released a 4000-pound. blockbuster and hundreds of incendiaries during the R. A. F's heaviest raid on the German capital. Bartlett is a former Hollywood script writer, and husband of the film actress, Ellen Drew, who is in London to entertain United States soldiers. The major, who went along on the raid as an observer for the bomber command, said his plane had just reached Berlin when the bombardier turned to him: “Major, this is my favorite target. You miss that and rank or no rank I'll drop you through the bomb bay—without benefit of the bombsight.”

Ts WarMoves

Y LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst . Marshal Erwin Rommel’s generalship and his

for any contingency in the most to date in the North African war,

seems ‘about to be put to the supreme test. His grip on the strong Mareth line broken, Rommel has no apparent choice but .to withdraw as rapidly Rim. and in as good order as possible to Gabes and beyond in a retreat along the coast which would be greatly similar to that from El Alamein across the Libyan desert.

is retreat, if successful, would Sefax, Sousse and thence to a junc-

they are headed for the highway center of Kairouan, some 50 miles from Sousse.

In the extreme north, the British first army is showing signs of intense activity in the Djebel Aboid sector, northwest of Tunis, where they are holding a large part of Rommel’s forces. ! Rommel evidently calculated that he could hold the heights at these threatened points in-central Tunisia and keep his avenue of escape open while ‘he made a massive delaying stand at the Mareth line,

not gained Hitler as much time as Rommel had hoped. It looks now like a ‘close race to pull his forces out of the Mareth-Gabes area in time.

'Looked Like Oven,’ Says 1st

to Bomb Berlin

“How can I miss?” asked Bartlett who had taken off his glove to pull the lever. Bartlett's ship was among the first hundred over the target and among the last to leave. “It looked like an oven down there,” he explained. “First they dropped flares to light the target. Then a hundred planes all at once dropped the heavy stuff. It was perfect.” Bartlett, formerly an aid to Maj. Gen. Carl Spaatz, present commander of the U. S. air force in North Africa, said there was plenty of anti-aircraft fire from Berlin but not as bad as in the Ruhr. “One . time the flak somehow formed three perfect swastikas in the sky. Apparently he was trying to convert us with Nazi propaganda,” said Bartlett. One of his proudest welcomers when he returned to: London was his wife, who had suspected he went on an air raid but didn't know for sure. He had told her on Saturday he was just going out to the country to “see some pechle. »

Claypool Save

The Claypool hotel saves 100 pounds of grease every week to be processed for its glycerine content, T. .E. Snodgrass, hotel manager, said today. “Home cobks would have more fat to bring to their meat dealers if they followed the example of Hotels like the Claypool,” Mr. Snodgrass said. “Our chef, Fred W. Haver, exerts constant vigilance to see that every scrap of fat and every drop of drippings from roasts and broiled meats is properly conserved. We have a large steam boiler which is always in operation, into which every type and variety of fat or fatty tissue is plunged. Every so often the hot, liquid fat is drawn off and deposited in cans.” Efficient kitchen management Fequires that every bit of food be used in some fashion, Mr. Snod-

s 100 Pounds

Of Grease Weekly for War

gears and for medical supplies, but. it also keeps down the cost of dining out,” Mr. Snodgrass declared. “Every dollar received by the hotel for the waste cooking fats turned in is applied against our kitchen overhead, so the saving is reflected in the prices charged for food. In a smaller way, the same thing is true in the home. Every pound of waste you bring to your meat dealer pares a few cents from your budget. . The more thoroughly you conserve, the more you will save. And every spoonful you save helps American boys on the battlefront.”

OPA ‘DISCIPLINES’ | GAS STATION OWNER

The regional | office of -price PI Labi ministration at Cleveland today suspended the right of sn Indisnap0 business for. 30 days ‘because of gasoline rationing violations.

erator testified that without the ex-

S{#hange of gasoline he had accepted |

coupons from motorists at the end

{of & valid period and that he had

stories.

VICTORY GARDENER |

d| Edward Venable, , was burned hile t

. His sacrifices there, however, have|

ig station operator to do|p

At a recent hearing here, the op-|

BRUSH 5 pai)

Over the week-end here, four “muggings™ were reported to police They included three sluggings and one purse snatching. A nurse at the Sterne sahitarium; Grace Cherry, 1328 Bellefontaine st., reported to police a man seized

purse from her hand yesterday morning as’ she was walking near 11th and Bellefontaine sts. She said the purse contained $3 in sash | and personal items.

Slugged, $60 Stolen

James . Mitchell, 20, of 1620 N. Pennsylvania st., told police he lost $60 when he was slugged early yes= terday morning near the Fox bowling alleys. A soldier at the state fairgrounds, Clifford Neuse, was found early yesterday - morning in front of the Lyric theater. Police are holding a cab driver alleged to have slugged .

The third victim of a slugging, Leonidas McClellan, 72, of 829 S. Noble st., is in critical condition at City hospital with head injuries. His wife, Mrs. Carrie McClellan, told police she found him lying in front of their home late Saturday night.

STATE SCHOOLMEN'S CLUB TO MEET HERE

A panel discussion of measures affecting ‘education enacted at the last session of the legislature will feature the meeting of the Indiana Schoolmen’s club at the Claypool hotel Saturday. of : Participating in the “discussion, which will be held at 10:15 a. m.,

Rep. George W, Freeman, chairman. of the education committees of their houses; Miss Virginia Kinnaird, chairman of the legislative commit= tee of the Indiana Staté Teachers' association; L.. T..Buck, president of the Indiana’ ‘Pederation of Public School Teachers, and H. B, Allman, president of the, Indiana State Teachers’ associati At 11:45 a. m. Robert H. Wyatt, secretary of the State/ Teachers’ association, will deliver an address on “Indiana Leads m Educational

Legislation.” - Homma Spaeth of the mpdars : ation for American Com and Conductors, New York, de-" liver an address on “Music for

Everybody” at the afternoon session.

3 PLANS DISCUSSED "FOR FRENCH UNTIY

ALGIERS, March 29 (U. P.)~ Gen. Henri Honore Giraud and Gen. George Catroux, Fighting French liaison officer, were reported today to have agreed on the broad lines of their discussions designed to unify all French forces. It was said authoritatively that they are centering their talks around three proposed forms of a pro=visional French government which presumably - would take - over "in metropolitan France during any allied occupation. These would be: 1.'A joint com= mission with Giraud handling the armed forces, Gen. Charles de Gaulle, Fighting French leader, leading the forces in the field, and Catroux ' man4ging political ‘and civil matters.” 2. A joint government with and de Gaulle at its head. © 3. Complete separation military and civil branches, with the former in the hands of Giraud.ai de' Gaulle and the latter under civilians. The first of these three. is currently favored, it was learned -al= thoritatively.

SPEAKS ‘AT DEPAUW ‘ Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., March: 20,

Id F. Carr, pastor of the Lak Methodist Shi. w . will be the main sp

at DePauw university's . spri ‘gious emphasis program We and Thursday. The student ¢ on 0p Selisious life is Spensining

HOLD eERvTHING

her by the neck and twisted her

will be Dr. Clement T. Malan, state superintendent of public instruction; Senator John W. Atherton and =