Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1943 — Page 9
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DAY, MARCH 30, 1943
) Hoosier Vagabond
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN ALGERIA— Everybody who comes to North Africa with the army is issued a special desert kit, The ‘main item in our kit is a dust mask. It isa Srlhtfil-lasking contraption. It consists of a big black rubber schnozzle that covers your nose and half your face. To this are attached two circular de~ vices, about saucer ‘size, which ‘look like wheels and which hang over each jaw. Apparently the theory is to scare the dust away. We also are given a pair of oldfashioned racetrack goggles, the kind that strap around your head and have fuzz around the edges of the eyepieces. They're tinted
slightly brown to act also &s sun-.
glasses. Further than that, each of us is givens a dozen isinglass eye-shields, to be used largely for gas attack, but which also can be used for dust. ‘On the day when we have to put on our gas masks, dust mask, gas eyeshields, dust goggles and steel hel-
- met all at once, they've promised to give a medal to
the last man to choke to death.
Sore Throat at Sundown
ACTUALLY, NOBODY uses or needs his dust equipment at this season. If is raining now a good part of the time, and some kind of duckfoot attachment for your shoes would be much more appropriate than a dust mask. This country along the coast is not truly desert. It is without trees or much natural vegetation, but it is all farming counfry, covered with vineyards and olive groves and grain fields. The soil is a sort of
pd red clay.
But soon it will blow, and from what the people say, it will blow until we almost go insane. Even now, after a few rainless days, you can notice a thin
film of dust on your table. ‘You really can't sense dust in the air, but some is there. The doctors say this. invisible dust, plus the rapid drop in temperature at sundown, is responsible for for what we call, or at least I call, “sundown throat.” Almost everybody ‘I know gets a- sore throat just about sundown. It’s a strange, seemingly unaccountable thing. It comes on just after the sun gets behind the hills, and the evening chill starts: coming down. Your throat gets so sore you can ‘hardly swallow. It is gone next morning. If your general health is good, nothing comes of this “sundown throat.” But if you are run down, one of those African flu bugs may come along, and then your sore throat turns into the African flu, as happened to me.
‘Puny Pyle’s Perpetual Pains
. IN THE desert kit are also other things. There are two little bottles of pills for purifying drinking water when you're in the country. You put one pill in your canteen, let it sit half an hour, put in the other pill and wait a few minutes, then drink the water. Pill No. 1 kills all the‘germs in the water, and pill No. 2 kills the nasty taste left by pill No. 1. ’ In addition we have a can of mosquito paste, and pills to take for malaria. In this area and at this season, there isn't much need for these. I've yet to see a mosquito, although once in a while a malaria case turns up at one of the army hospitals. Africa is not clean, and we can expect a good bit of disease before we finally get out of here. Our sore throats and flu are known to the doctors as “winter respiratory disease.” The malaria, dysentery and stuff that we’ll have this spring will be known as “summer intestinal disturbances.” The large and small diseases that infect the, ragged carcass of this sad correspondent at all seasons and in all ‘climes are known medically as “Puny Pyle’s Perpetual Pains.”
Anside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
EVERY MORNING when Gen. Tyndall shows up at the mayor's office, he draws a smart salute from his colored receptionist—Selqc C. (Silk) Bates. The mayor returns the salute. Silk is an old army camPaigner himself—served overseas in the other war and has a son with the army in the Southwest Pacific. He's also a retired professional hoofer— danced all over the country in various vaudeville circuits for 27 years. He quit years ago, recalls dancing on the stage at English’s three times during his career. To look at him now, you'd never guess that Silk was an old hoofer. He looks too dignified. He's 54 now, but he still goes into one of his old routines occasionally, some--times when he’s on a stairway. We almost forgot to tell you about another of Silk’s claims to distinction, He contends he’s the on in town who washes his face, shaves and brushes hi teeth without looking in a mirror. #
In the Shadow
WHEN YOU'RE waiting for a bus or streetcar, don’t stand directly under a streetlamp. If you do, you're likely to get passed up. The trouble, a bus
T driver explained to one of our friends, is that there's
a shadow right under the lamps. . . . One of our agents was in the central library reference room the other day as one of the librarians was unwrapping the latest shipment of government documents. He noticed that the pamphlet on top was labeled: “Agriculture Do Miscellaneous’ Publication No. 500—143 pages. » 1943. Price 20 cents.” It’s subject was:
“X “The io "of North America.” We'll bet thé demand
for that baby will be terrific. . . . Mrs. Katheryn Bicknell, 2231 Central, came to the rescue of Chief Brooks and his Yéomen 8 on the Hi Sailor broadcast. She has volunteered to lend them a piano for the duration. Now Chief Brooks’ only problem is how to
get the piano moved. He has the men but not the
Washington
. WASHINGTON, March 30.—~Mutual advantage, not sentiment, is the only basis on which we can hope to maintain satisfactory relations- with other nations. That is something we have to learn now because We nie going to be mixed up with other nations for a long time. American officials who have gone out to China overflowing with warm sentimental ideas, often have come back home disillusioned and cynical, if not embittered. Traffic between America and China is that way—starryeyed going out, and fishy-eyed coming back. I have been told, by old China hands, that this is a common occurrence and that if you wait long enough the patient will usually swing back into a middle ground. dually a normal outlook will develop, and it will be realistic, recognizing the merits as well as the faults, and above all recognizing the national advantages to us as against the liabilities that we must carry in order to enjoy the advantages. ‘
Alliance Not Always Sentimental
oo FOR INSTANCE, as to China, you figure ‘that
was much waste, much “squeeze” on the Burma
- yoad. It was not an efficient operation by our stand-
ards. Yet it helped keep China going, helped keep China in the war, helped sustain the hope of ‘future effective warfare against the Japanese. The net still seems to have been our way. : ‘There hasn’t been nearly the same tendency to gentimentalize about Britain as about China. Apparently they have no tendency in Britain to sentimentalize about us. Which is the way. it should be. There is no reason why every American should like svery Englishman or vice versa, any more than that all Englishmen should like each other or all Americans should like each other. An e doesn’t necessarily make two peoples friends. :
~ My Day
. CHICAGO, Ill, Monday—This afternoon I am speaking for the war savings bond committee. All I shall have to do is to congratulate them on the marvelous work they have accomplished. Selling only ¥E bonds, they have managed io sel, for the past 40 days, a million dollars worth of bonds a day. This is a record which does; not.-seem to. require ‘It seems as though good Teci are made everywhere. ‘Earlier ‘this month, I heard of a speaking engagement in Syracuse, N. Y.,“which was arranged by a lecture manager late in February. The lecturer, Cecil Brown, ‘gave three lectures before he came to this evening lecture, which climaxed a bond selling week where Gutainable thitugh the Sle of wap
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truck. Any volunteers? You can get him at MA. 1561,
Horse Meat Sales Slow
DESPITE THE uproar over the shortage of meat, the sale of horse meat doesn't seem to be catching on very well, reports Dr. J, L. Axby, state veterinarian. Shops selling it are required to post signs conspicuously calling attention to its sale. The biggest market for horse meat is as feed for cats and dogs. It doesn’t require any points. . . . Heiny Mueller, Center township trustee, was startled yesterday to receive a postal card from one of his relief clients, an elderly woman, suggesting that he cut her relief allowance in half, She said that $4 every two weeks is too much for me as I am old and cannot eat that much.” Heiny thinks there must be a catch in it somewhere. . . . Betty Malone, secretary in the American Airlines office here, has been transferred to the El Paso A. A. office. She was succeeded here by Miss Eloise Russell, formerly of Stokely’s and more recently of Lukas-Harold Corp.
A Bookkeeping Error
THERE WAS a bit of excitement. in the state treasurer's office the other day when someone phoned from one of the banks and wanted to know “what's coming off?” The voice told Wallace Weatherholt, chief deputy state treasurer that $7,146,000 in state pay warrants came through the bank today.” Startled, Wallace immediately began checking up to see what had happened. Before long, the bank called back and said everything was okay—that someone in the bank had made a $7,000,000 bookkeeping error and the warrants actually totaled only $114,000. So don’t
. you readers feel too embarrassed if, sometime, you
get your own checking account balance mixed yp. . . » Incidentally, the state’s balance in some 400 banks in Indians is at its highest point in state history— around $65,000,000. However, much of that sum.is earmarked and will be distributed to Toe) governmental units soon. :
By Raymond Clapper
One American army officer sends back a story of a. British army officer questioning a German officer who had been taken prisoner.- They had:both been
"educated at the same university.
So at the end of the questioning the British officer said to the German prisoner, “Now, just talking as we used to talk, what do you Germans really think of the Italians?” To which the German officer replied: “I should say just apout what the Russians think of the British and the Americans.”
Affection Can't Be Commanded
PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL'S speech a week ago won much respect in America because it was recognized as ea practical statement from the viewpoint of Britain’s interests. If our government tries to pit the post-war program on any sentimental basis, then you will have the outcry against becoming Santa Claus for the world. There. is a place for sentiment among the nations and no one can exclude it. You can’t exclude the
"respect of one.people for the achievements of another.
nor. the admiration of one people for the forms of
government and . the institutions of another people. ‘To try to squeeze out all such considerations would
be contrary to-human nature. . But those must come of their own free will. Affection can be won, perhaps, but never commanded. As we try to build -out of this war, we have to recognize that although we have known and been fond of many Germans, the German state has been
.& menace to our peace and security and it must be
disarmed and kept disarmed and perhaps divided. We have to recognize that Great Britain and Russia, on either side of Germany, are the two logical
(allies that we must depend upon to form the nucleus
of nations that will join together to protect each other. There isn’t any sentiment in a mutual fire-insur-ance company. But it is worth belonging to.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
. Perhaps one of the great factors in the comparative ease with which ‘the bonds seem to sell,
By Ernie Pyle] 1
TAX FOR STATE DOWNONLY 17%
{Hoarded Stocks of Motor Fuel Evidently Used, James Says.
gasoline, State Auditor Richard T. IT. James said today in
per cent below those of a year ago. In December, the first month of rationing ' when many motorists started out with extra cans and jars of gasoline stored in basements and garages, gasoline sales dropped 39 per cent below December, 1941. In January, the sales were 33 per cent below those of the previous. year. . Mr. James said he believed, judging from the February collections, that gasoline tax collections would not drop more than 20 per cent because of rationing and that hence the state, county and city road systems which depend upon the revenue would not be harmed as much as some persons had feared.
Hadden Concurs State Highway Commission Chairman Samuel C. Hadden concurred in this optimistic view of the high-
way fiscal picture. He said that unless there were
|some new regulations curtailing the
use of gasoline and making it harder to purchase tires “it looks now as if we will have enough money to operate on.” The highway financing problem was one ' of the big problems before the legislature. The legislature provided that if income frfom gasoline sales and license plate sales should drop below $22,600,000 that the state, cities and counties would have to share proportionate cuts. But with license plate sales apparently running only’ a little under
improving, it looks as if there will
highway operations for all governmental units now staring in the highway fund revenues, according to officials in both the highway commission and the state auditor's office. ~
RADIO BROADCASTS 70 AID GARDENERS
Public school students in .gardening and those interested in preserving crops raised will receive additional instruction through a series of radio programs, “Voices of Vic-
WISH. The program will be broad-
cast every two weeks from 11 to 11:15 a. m. Arthur C. Hoffman, Technical high school agricultural director, will outline the series and answer questions. Several of last year’s successful gardeners from schools 37, 51,72 and 82 will speak. April broadcasts will’ follow the study course used in the schools. The subject scheduled for April 13 is “Plots and Plans” and that for April 27, “Seeds and Weeds.” ~ Beginning May 18 discussions on foods will be added to the series alternating with the garden advice. Special broadcasts on canning will begin the week of June 1. Dr. George M. Darrow, department of agriculture, Washington, D. C., will be interviewed over
'WFBM by Chuck Worcester, CBS
farm editor, on the “Garden Gate” program at 8:30 Saturday. He will discuss the raising of small fruits. The remainder of the program will be conducted by Tom Williams, the “Old Dirt Dobber.”
ALLMAN SPEAKS AT
H. B. Allman, president of the Indiana state teachers’ association and superintendent of the Muncie city schools, will speak at the Kiwanis luncheon tomorrow noon at the Columbia club. April 7 will be Ladies’ day, and a tentative date of April 26 has been set for the 1943 golf tournament at Highland. ’
AFRICA VICTORY BY JUNE 1? ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
The allies will' complete the North or ‘before June 1,” Brig. Gen. Eduday at a press conference, He: is visiting this war theater at the invitation of the allied high command . HOLD EVERYTHING
is ‘the campaign carried on through very sttractive| DOL
‘posters which come out every month. I have just} seen the one for April, by Alexander Brook. It is|
called, “Remember Me? I was at Bataan.”
On Bataan day, April 9, at the Brooklyn, N. Y. | museum, there is to be an exhibition “Art for Bonds,”| and the -original painting for this particular poster’
will be the feature.
“Many of you will probably feel with me the|
strength and beauty of this poster, but also its grim
horror. Some, I fear, will never forget our unpre-i
committee on the housing emergency calld *Tomor-
row's Town?” I was much impressed in the summary
of the British Uthwatt report.
It is evident that no set-up for the future develop-| ment of land could be similar in the United States,
but, nevertheless, the mere fact that a committee
gopuinted Sy suides She gins of ihe sti vas]
Hoosier motorists evidently bave| § used up their stocks of hoarded|
reporting that| gasoline tax collections for thef month ‘of February were only: 17} ¥
last year and with gasoline sales| be sufficient money for war-timej’
tory Gardeners” starting today on
"KIWANIS MEETING
North Africa, March 30 (U.P.).—} African campaign .victoriously “by| ardo Gomes of Brazil predicted to-}
This Tops All
(Loyal ‘ Republicans -. Given Run-Around, He Says; |
_. Hates to Bicker.
County Republican = Chairman Henry E Ostrom: -sald - today he would continue to fight the city ad-
| ministration in behalf of loyal par|tisans who deserve city jobs, but
, [said he would not let his differ-
STREET DEBRIS 13 ‘EXPLAINED’
Campbell ‘Blames Previous Administration, .Careless ‘Truck Drivers.
Debris-covered streets were blamed today on careless truck drivers, prolonged winter freezes and the last city administration. Answering complaints | received by city hall officials on the condition of Indianapolis streets, Harmon Campbell, president of the works board said most of the dirt could be attributed to truck drivers who lose part of their loads while rounding curves or bouncing over chuckholes. He also criticized the police department for failing to enforce an ordinance requiring clean-up by drivers of gravel, coal or other materials scattered from overloaded trucks. The safety board, he said, will be asked to inform police ‘of the ordinance in behalf of sanitation and. tire conservation.
Skip Fall Cleaning
‘Mr. Campbell charged that the previous administration is also partly responsible in that the street department last fall neglected to rid thoroughfares of leaves and other seasonal rubbish. The street department, he stated, has been ‘delayed in its spring
‘| cleaning also by broken-down clean-
ing equipment which had to be overhauled. Late freezes likewise deterred early scouring of the streets, he said. He promised: that all city stree would be cleaned “within the 1 15 days.” + “We'd like to have the citizens’ £5 operation in this” ‘matter,” he added. “By now they should be conscious of the fact that there is a’ severe“ labor shortage which makes it impossible for us to send £rews to ‘all parts of the city ‘at the, same time.” Mayor Tyndall, at the works board meeting yesterday, said he had noticed an unusual amount of rubbish accumulated in apartment house courtyards. He suggested that custodians be asked to rid apartment lawns of paper scraps and other trash.
SPEAKERS’ BUREAUS TO AID SEAL SALE
The Red Cross Speakers’ bureau and the Indianapolis Speakers’ bureau will meet April 1 to form a unit to help in the Easter seal sale to be conducted by. the Marion County Society for the Crippled. According to Bert C. McCammon, chairman of the speakers’ committee for the seal sale, the joint Indianapolis and Red Cross speaking unit will present the work of Crossroads, the county society's sheltered workshop project for crippled. persons. The organization meeting will be held at 8 p. m. at Cross-
{roads, 3001 N. New Jersey st.
DR. TAYLOR TO SPEAK Dr. Robert Taylor of the Lilly research. laboratory, City hospital, will address first aiders and other members of the District 41 civilian defense emergency medical unit ab school ‘84 tonight. The meeting, scheduled to begin at 8 p. m., will feature first aid motion pictures and a discussion of “Shock and Bleeding Control.”
Easter Bunny By ROSEMARY REDDING The chocolate bunny and the sugar hen have been drafted. Easter, or no Raster, they've gone to war. fig And we have it from reliable sources that the Easter bunny is s0
busy serving elsewhere, in a disguise, - that he won't be able to get around
ences with: Mayor Tyndall degenerate into a public bickering match. After Mr, Ostrom had lashed out | yesterday at Mayor Tyndall's handling of city hall patronage through |Harry Ray, an employee of the sewer department, the mayor: replied that the county committee
had bad its chance at city patron-|
age and had failed. In yesterday's statement Mr. Ostrom charged that the city was be-| ing saddled with the expense of a personnel manager while the county. committee, able and willing to fill city jobs “with loyal and deserving Republicans at no expense to the taxpayer,” was being ignored.
Denies Mayor's Claims “I hated to issue that statement,” Mr. Ostrom said today, “but I just
{had to defend myself before these) |g
loyal Republicans who worked hard to get the party ticket, including Mayor Tyndall, elected, and now are being. shunted aside by the mayor’s personal Patronage organization. “I don’t like this bickering. I think we should all be pulling together behind the administration, but I can’t agree when the mayor charges that the county committee fell down on the job of filling city posts.” : In replying to Mr, Ostrom’s statement of yesterday, Mayor Tyndall declared that until Jan. 23 of this year the county committee had the opportunity to handle city patronage, but “simply didn’t fill enough jobs. ” “I can't quite see the logic of such a statement,” Chairman Ostrom said, “because Charles Jewett,
patronage committee, and Mr. Ray, who is a sort of ex-officio personnel director at city hall, both were at county G. O. P. headquarters most of the time during that first 23 days. . ~~ _% His ‘Last Word’
“We wanted them to represent
;| the mayor and wanted to co-operate
with them in behalf of Whe administration. c+ '“° - “If the mayor's personal representatives, pulling with the county committee, couldn't get the job done to his satisfation, I can’t see how they .could do # much better job alone.” That, Mr. Ostrom said, was his last word in the current outbreak of the long standing patronage dispute. “I don’t want to make things any harder for Mayor Tyndall than they already are. I have had my say and I'm ready to drop the matter for a while.”
Firemen Save Old Firehouse
FIREMEN PUT a lot of senti.ment into combating a fire last night. They saved the downtown headquarters they vacated 28 years ago. The ‘blaze of undetermined origin was in a vacant storeroom in the building at 246 Massachuetts ave. Firemen knocked out windows in the W. H. Rich~* ards printing shop at 127 E. New York st. and laid hose through the shop to fight the flames. Smoke routed 15 persons living in apartments on the second and ‘third floors over the store room. Total damage was estimated at about $50.
CARDINAL DIES, IN ROME LONDON, March 30 (U. P)— Ermen Egildo Cardinal Pellegrinett, 67, who was operated upon for “interior ulcers” Wednesday night, has died, according to the Rome
who is now on the mayor’s personal} -
{ received. & efter from Judge Ralph
sone 9 Su war.
as men go off to war.
WARNS CHIEF OF ILLEGAL RAIDS
Cases, Says Letter From
Superior Judge. Poiice Chief Clifford Beeker today
Hamill of ‘superior: court 5 admonishing’ him against conducting raids “unless you are sure” ‘the raid is legal: + = ° Judge Hamill ruled Friday that a raid on the Capitol City Publishing Co. was. illegal .and ordered’ seized property returned to the owners. “This sort of action leaves in the mind: of: the public the belief that the judges. of our. county are not co-operating with'the police department,” Judge’ Hamill - ‘sald in ‘his letter. “I would like to see the gambling rackets in this city absolutely destroyed. A court of ‘law, however, is for the protection of all the people’s rights and these rights must be recognized, even those’ of murderers and gamblers.” :
{ No- ‘City Witnesses
The judge pointed out that in the| publishing company case, the police department failed to offer a single withess to support its action in raiding ‘the firm's offices. “I suggest, therefore, that hereafter you do not permit your officers to seize the property of a citizen unless you are sure :that you are| legally. entitled to do so—then once so seized, your lawyers should go into court and defend your actions to- the utmost,” the judge's letter. stated. Judge Hamill’s ruling followed a similar one handed down two weeks ago by Judge Earl R. Cox in circuit court who held that lottery equipment seized 'in'a raid on the J. L. MacDaniel: Printing Co. was taken unlawfully and ordered an injunc-
radio.
Miss Halele Westfall, former telephone oneralor ab ‘Bicknell, now throws levers for’ the Pennsylvania railroad as she replaces a man
‘Phone Opsrilor Now Thiowss Switches on the Main Line
Shade of Casey Jones, the railroader of ballad fame. Women are invading the railways as they have other occupations
Today more than 150 women are employed on the Indianapolis divi’ sion of the Pennsylvania railroad: system and:a total of nearly 15,000 are employed by the entire company.
Women in this area are employed as block operators; coach cleaners, store attendants, clerks, mechanical helpers, painter helpers, laborers, printer operators, telephone operators, stenographers and crossing watchwomen, To prepare for a position with the railroad, the women undergo a training. period, part in classroom sessions and part on the Toag for practical experience. Popular here ‘are positions ‘as block operators. One such operatos
-|is Miss Halcie Westfall, i
ephone operator at Bicknell. .
Controls “Block Signals
Blocking trains means she ‘han dles the signals in her territory of approximately 12 miles. Besides re=' ceiving and dispatching ‘messages, she operates levers which control the block signals at her tower and throws the hand-controlled switches at her siding.. At ‘a’ class meeting ‘today ‘were Miss Westfall; Miss Aline Mitchell, former theater cashier ‘of Corbin, Ky.;. Mrs. Mary Phillips, power ma~ chine operator of North Vernony Mrs. Ella Johnson, saleswoman: of Greenwood; Mrs. Muriel Hoffman, government employee at Columbus: Miss Beulah DeMars, Western Union employee of Chicago; Mrs. Opal DeBusk, €oil winder of Columbus, and Mrs. Opal Miner, Housewife of Greenwood.
VEVAY WOMAN. GETS. OIL INSPECTION 0B
her new job Thursday. SPRING FESTIVAL SET Fifty-one * Warren Central high
participate in the annual Marion county spring festival at Decatur Central high school March 30, 1
tion contintied in’ effect against the Mr. R
police department.
Won Be Around—He's Gone to War
But they - aren’t the only things that are missing from candy counters these days. To find out why, we went down on Chocolate ave. to Dilling & Co.
There we found that, like in most
foil which can’t be had.: There's the tight paperboard situation and the ban on cellophane, which makes special packaging, as for Easter, al-
bars aie part of ‘ration XK. designed for parachute groups, mountain troops and crews of planes and marines. Chocolate goes with flying. men to the upper air where the