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AFRICA One day 2 Mrs. Sora Harvey of “Tenn, Wrote u letter to me, and it finally eas its way over here, Mrs. Harvey--asked me to look up her husband in England, and tell him to hurry up and get the war won and get back home to her. Lots of people write me letters like that. Unfortunately the world is a big place and our troops are scattered. Only once in a blue moon do I happen to be in the vicinity of the husband or sweetheart asked for. But the Harvey case turned out just right. When Mrs. Harvey wrote, her husband and I both were in England. When the letter arrived we were both inn Africa and Mrs, Harvey's ever-loving was right under my nose. All IT had to do was walk through a bunch of palm trees and across a little sand, and there he was. He is Sergt. Benson Harvey, radio man with a fighter squadron. Harvey and another fellow live in a pup tent just big enough to hold their blankets. Their private slit-

of the tent. The picture is of Mrs. Harvey.

One of 4 Brothers in Service . SERGT. HARVEY is a young fellow. four ‘brothers scattered all over the - Robert Harvey is a ‘doctor now on his way over probably to Africa: James is a chief petty o or in the navy. He was through Pearl Harbor afi the

Solomons battles, and is somewhere at sea. His wife

Was once notified that he was dead—but he wasn’t.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

CARL MOORE of Franklin township reports the first straw hat appeared in front of the Claypool at p. m. last Friday. Rushing the season a bit, eh! .. . ' Carl adds that the black and white setter which used to gambol on the statehouse lawn at 8 a. m. no longer is there. He hopes nothing has happened to it as the dog was the most obedient Carl ever encountered. Maybe that’s because a policeman was its master. . .. Seen at Illinois and Market: A .young soldier snapping a picture with a small camera. His subject was a U. §. marines recruiting poster with a girl's picture on it. ... . A drugstore at the intersection of Massachusetts, Walnut and Park, has a permanent sign in the window. reading: Prescriptions our hobby. . . + « Agent Z-9 phones in to comment that we've been having a sample of lend-lease right here at home recently, what with housewives lending or trading butter, sugar, coffee and other rationed items over backyard fences. :

Robin Keeps Bobbin’

© MRS. O. R.. TOOLEY, 6120 Indianola ave, read about the silly robin that has been butting its head against the windowpanes at the H. W. Oberlies home, 1019 N. Kealing. And then she called us about another silly robin, This bird keeps flying against the losed porch windows all day long. The Tooleys have tried everything they can think of to stop the bird. First they washed the windows, thinking that would help, but it just made it easier for the robin to see his reflection in the glass. Then Mr. Tooley tried turning the hose on it—and found the robin ' didn’t care, Mrs. Tooley says she'd like to know if anyone finds something to discourage the pest. . . . - During Sunday night's blackout, Mrs. Glen Hanning, an air raid warden stationed at Washington between Pennsylvania, and Meridian, saw a man ‘walking on the sidewalk. “Youll have to seek shelter, sir,” she informed him. “Sorry lady, but I'm a detective,” he told her. She opined that maybe it was all right for him to be out. A couple of minutes later she dimly saw the outline of a man and also ordered him to seek shelter. “Sorry, but I'm still that same de-’

Washington

WASHINGTON, March 31.—The reason there won't be a big coal strike this year is that John L. Lewis has decided not to attempt one in the middle of a war. Recently the war has been winning in Washington. That has not aiways been the case. Sometimes the war comes second —after some confractor gets his or some group gets its cut. = But the war sometimes wins out, although we don’t hear as much about those instances as we might. For instance, the war won out _ over the farm bloc on one point— the question of whether the cost of living should be increased by tinkering with the farm parity : formula. That action, taken by the senate in the interest of holding the cost of living steady and thus discouraging inflation, has he to strengthen all hands in Washington that are interested in that. The restraint on the part of John L. Lewis is likea certain indication of the force that war's deands are coming to have here. -

T D. R. Can Give the Orders

"THAT 18 the meaning of the news that the United Mine Workers and the northern and southern operators will not interrupt work today when their contract expires, although they are far from completing negotiations for.a new contract. .. Two years ago Mr. Lewis took his miners out of the mines on less. of an issue than he has raised this time. In fact there usually is a strike every two years when the bituminous contract expires, even if only for a few days as a kind of demonstration of strength. The last tine, in 1941, the mines were tied up

~My Dey

MINNEAPOLIS, “Minn, Tuesday. —The women’s - war bond! savings sf of Chicago, which I addressed yesterday , featured particularly its booth workers. Cook county and the city of Chicago cerfeinly are Justinably ‘proud of these women workers ; in this particular service. They stressed the fact that it was not in any way a ‘glamorous iting It was ~which i ‘women, who ies all ‘day, were © still doing in their free time in the evening. Women who ta

other jobs and could spare ‘an

hour here and there, were giving

that hour whenever it could be.

found. - They learned how to tell the ‘story of - the different bonds they sold and proved themselves highly successful. p thinking that, after the war, they

resentment at and superiority over the soldiers back +] fisoldiers have the slightest control over whether they

i "Zand are no doubt itching to get over here.

The fourth brother is Frank, an ‘aviation machinist’s mate, who was on the Wasp when she was sunk. ‘Sergt. Harvey says it'll be tough when they get home, for they'll want to tell their lies at the same time. While we were roaming around, Sergt. Harvey took me into the squadron’s little dispensary and hospital. We got to talking with Sergt Burt Thompson of Cleveland. He used to be a production clerk in a hydraulic-equipment factory in Cleveland, but now he’s in the medical section and has hung around doctors so long he’s started inventing things.

Pocket-Size M edical Kit \

THE AIR FORCES make up a medical kit for

pilots to take with them on their missions. It’siin a canvas case with a zipper, and is placed behind hui pilot’s seat. It's all right if you can get to it, But a wounded fighter pilot can't always reach it. { So Sergt. Thompson has assembled a smaller which a pilot can carry right in the map-pocket on his trousers leg. There is now starting to grow up among the soldiers over here, I've noticed, a little feeling of

pathe states, I'm sorry to see this, for I think it's unfair. Few

S to be in Africa or Florida. Soldiers don’t choose; The ones back ‘home aren’t cowards,

There is one thing concerning home life that soldiers are absolutely rabid on, and that is strikes. You just mention a strike at home either to soldier or officer, living on monotonous rations in the mud under frequent bombing, and you've got a raving maniae on your hands.

tective,” he apologized. The same thing happened a third time. Finally, when the lights came on, the detective approached Mrs. Hanning and said: “It’s okay now; I'm going home.”

Around the Town

A NEAT PLAQUE bearing the names of teachers and other school board employees in the service has been prepared by pupils at Tech and placed in .the

lobby of the school board offices. It contains something!

like '90 names, , . . Mrs. Roosevelt, who is one of American Airline’s ho customers, was aboard an airliner that stopped ‘at municipal airport the other day. She stayed aboard the plane the entire tig” it was here. . . . Pictures of some of the cast of the Ft. Harrison troops’ play, Khuki Kapers, to be presented tomorrow, Friday and Saturday, are posted in the lobby of English’s. The pictures have expressive captions. For instance, under that of the male lead, is: Jack Good-—and boy, is he! Under another: Lynne Shore—she shore is! , . . Capt. Ed Stein and the staff of Stout field's publication—The Fielder—are proud that the paper has received a certificate of achievement in world-wide competition among U. S. army publications. The first prize was won by a paper in Hawaii. This was the only army paper in 3 iis area to win an award, we're told.

Recognizes Son in Photo A PICTURE in The Times, March 19, showing a

group of American soldiers who had been captured:

by the Germans in Tunisia, has given Mrs. Ora W. Cunningham, 319 Taft st., hope that her son is still alive and well. The son, Corp. Daniel Jones, 24, has . been reported missing since Feb. 17. The soldier in the picture closely resembled photos of Corp. Jones,

and Mrs. Jones is sure that he is her son. Corp. Jones|

attended Tech and before joining the army clerked at the Bloemker grocery, 1202 E. New York. .. . Every

now and then the military censors have a little fun|

by adding something to:the letters they censor. In writing to a local young woman, Capt. Charles Mc-

Auliffe, who's with the marines in the Pacific, forgot|:

to put his address on the letter and wrote it incorrectly on the envelope. The censor corrected the address on the envelope, then wrote it on the letter itself—even to the full name, Capt. Charles Patrick McAuliffe—and added a Po “He forgot.”

By Raymond Clapper|——

during April. The chief controversy was a wage differential between northern and southern mines. Then 50,000 miners were out over the issue of introducing the closed shop into the captive mines owned by the steel companies. Neither of these questions had the proportions that the current issue does—the demand for a wage increase of $2 a day. Rising living costs sharpen that issue. But this year President Roosevelt notified all parties that there must be no strike. Furthermore there must be no break away from the wage ceilings set in the Little Steel formula. This is war, and the commander-in-chief can give the orders.

May Salvage Some Sort of Increase

THAT WAS BITTER beer for Mr. Lewis. He could have neither his strike nor his wage increase. And that from the president against whom he turned with irrevocable hate after deciding that the president was showing no gratitude for the half-million-dollar campaign contribution in 1936. How can a labor leader lead when he can’t offer his. men either a raise or a strike? Possibly Mr. Lewis will salvage a fair equivalent « of a wage increase. Coal miners have . been paid only for the work they do after reaching the face of the coal down in the mine. A court decision recently held that iron-, ore miners were entitled to be paid from the time they went through the company gates. ] If the time spent going down the shafts and through the tunnels to the face of the coal should

be added in as pay time, theri Mr. Lewis could show|

his miners a pay increase under another .name, with the hourly rates of pay remaining the same. That is the way out that is being considered. That is a compromise, to be sure. But. the fact that there was no coal strike tnis year is bound to be of enormous influence in discouraging other strikes. |

By Eleanor Roosevelt

purchase a new “Chicago” for the navy. Two boys who are survivors from the old “Chicago” came to the front of the stage and were loudly applauded. “They were introduced to me and I found it hard to speak. Somehow, one cannot forget those who did not come back, and all I could do was to wish. them good luck. “ Afterward, we stopped at the servicemen’s club, where Mrs. Edward J. Kelly, wife of the mayor, is in charge. Most of the women I saw working there are volunteers. It can be no light work, for the cafeteria was crowded with soldiers. Mrs. Kelly says that their favorite food is hot.dogs, coffee and cake. These cakes are baked and brought in by. the schools and citizens of the community and all the food is donated. ‘In the evening, I spoke for Bethune-Cookman college, and then we boarded the train for Minneapolis. We were able to get our breakfast on’ ‘board this morning, and Mrs. Thomas J. Dillon met us on arrival and took us straight to the hotel for a press conference and from re oust home «for lu

"By Ernie Pod

Stilwell. snd Chennai Need Only the Tools To Do Their Jobs Well

This is the second of a series of

eight articles by A. 1. Steele, just

returned from the Far East on leave.

By A. T.

I. STEELE

A YANKEE AND A SOUTHERNER are America’s two outstanding military men in continental Asia, and

both are as tough and salty

as they come. Each in his

own way, Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell and Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault are making ready for the still-far-off big push. Given the tools, it would be hard to find two men better fitted for delousing Burma and China of the

noxious Japanese invaders.

China, under Chiang Kai-shek, and India, under Sir

Archibald P. Wavell, have the armies. ‘United States army’s role in

have the air force. But the

The Americans

China, Burma and India is more than just knocking zeros

out of the air and bombing

Japanese bases. Our army

is doing a tremendous. job of -supply.

It is helping also to equip and train up a model Chinese military force in India which is expected to demonstrate that the Chinese, when properly armed, can hit as hard and as effectively as any other fighting force. The day may possibly come when it will be necessary for the United States to send big armies to India and China to help the British and the Chinese to complete their job of expelling the Japanese from continental Asia. How much American military assistance will be needed depends to a very large extent on how effectively China is able to utilize her enormous manpower. Six. years of war have sapped China’s military strength. But Gen. Stilwell, for one, is convinced that once China's lifelines are restored that strength can be refreshed, revived and directed in such a way that China’s vast armies will

Gen. Chennault . . . his weakness is soft-heartedness.

NAZIS PREPARE DEFENSIVE WAR

Quit Surface Ships to Build

U-Boats, Says London.

Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. LONDON, March 31.—New evidence reaches London showing Germany’s need t6 concentrate her industrial ‘manpower and heavy materials on the shortest list of armaments regarded essential for fighting defensive warfare throughout all operational theaters. The latest information through neutral sources declares that Adm. Karl Doenitz, recently appointed as Germany’s new naval commander-in-chief; required all constructional work on heavier types of surface warships stopped and all effort directed toward turning out’ the ‘maximum number of submarines and minesweepers.

Arm Coasts

One report declares that Bremerhaven dock workers have been engaged for the past two months in dismantling the "almost completed heavy cruiser Seydlitz, which is a 15,700-ton sister to the Prince Eugene and the Admiral Hipper. It is said that the heavy guns from the Seydlitz are being set up in the coastal defenses and the armor returned to the factories for other purposes. The decision to concentrate new: construction - on submarines and minesweepers ‘emphasizes the changed view of the war prospects now taken in Berlin. : Minesweepers are needed with the hope of conserving the muchstretched German merchant marine which "has been suffering heavily during the coastal transport of war material in the North sea and the Baltic from mines laid by. toe royal ‘air force.’ U-boats are needed to delay the moment when the allies can mount a large-scale continental invasion.

‘CHUTE PLANT ON STRIKE HAZLETON, Pa, March an @.

become a very powerful offensive ;

factor,

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Chinese Form Model Unit

“UNCLE JOE” STILWELL'S pride and joy is a camp, ‘“somewhere in India,” where a unit of Chinese troops is being groomed, with American equipment and under American and Chinese instructors, to show what the Chinese cane do when given half a chance. This detachment, consisting partly of Chinese soldiers who retreated from Burma with Stilwell, - has been outfitted and armed almost entirely with American materials. You'd never recognize them for the same men who straggled out of the jungle a year ago. They have made astonishing gains in weight and general physical well-being. They are as delighted as children with their new weapons and keep them in immaculate order. What's most important, they have responded remarkably to instruction and ‘have made’a record on the target range and on the maneuvering grounds which compares favorably with that of any modern army after a similar period of training. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has promised that when the reconquest of Burma begins, the Chinese will take an active military role. They will attack not only from China, but also from India. It is then that this experimental Chinese force in India will have an opportunity to show what Chinese soldiers can do when, for once, they can face the enemy with decent odds. It has been ®possible to divert to this Chinese expeditionary force some

. part of the lend-lease materials

which have been piled up in the India bottleneck awaiting shipment to China. ’ Generally speaking, India has been a bigger base of American military activity than China. This is natural, for not only is India much more easily supplied but it is also the Togical base for the

Washington to

main push against Burma—most. important allied chore in continental Asia. For our air offensive, however, which is steadily growing. in power and which must be pushed regardless of delays in the Burme campaign, “China offers the only suitable bases from which we can strike deep into the vitals of the Japanese empire.

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Air Force Divided

UNTIL RECENTLY, our air force in China, Burma and India was under a combined command, with Brig. Gen. Clayton Bissell as its head. Now our small China air-wing has been made a separate air force — the 14th — under Gen. Chennault. This is good news, for it means greater harmony in a place where it was badly needed. The outspoken differences of view between the Chennault and Bissell camps had long been a cause of anxiety to detached observers who recog‘nized the special abilities of both these officers but felt the need of better understanding between their adherents. Chennault and Bissell remain, of course, under the general command of Gen. Stilwell. Gen. Chennault, a rugged,

" weather-beaten oak of a man, has ,

Jong been and still is one of the outstanding air theorists in the American armed forces. Some of his tactical theories are so revolutionary that they do not set with more orthodox minds. among his own subordinates Gen. Chennault is idolized almost to the point of worship. His record as commander of the old “Flying Tigers,” and more recently of the China air task force, provides convincing proof of his talents. During his early years in the army air corps, when flying was still in its infancy, Gen. Chennault delighted in tearing up out-of-date theories and devising new ones. His specialty was pursuit

Forego Its

Favorite Sport—Dinners

WASHINGTON, March 31 (U. P.). —The capital's favorite indoor sport —large dinner parties at which everything except the meat was

roasted well—appear to be out for the - duration. Rationing and the shortage of help seem to have doomed most formal dining. Pot-luck dinners, rationing dinners and buffet suppers may take the place of the dining of a gayer day. Mrs, Gifford Pinchot, wife of the former governor of Pennsylvania, is one of the few hostesses who still “hopes to serve many buffet suppers. »

She feels that with ingenuity and good planning, entertaining still can be done. How? “By serving the very popular baked beans, Spanish rice, various fish dishes, and hundreds of other platters which can be concocted as attractively as the never-to-be-for-gotten roast beef,” she replied. But other hostesses are not quite so brave. They all were agreed on one thing: : “Large-scale entertaining definitely should be discontinued during wartime. There’s too much really important work to occupy peoples’ minds and time.”

STUDY FEEDER PLAN FOR AIR TRANSPORT

WASHINGTON, March 31 (U. P.).—~The ‘civil aeronautics board today started an investigation to determine ‘to ' what extent air transportation may be extended to smaller communities. The CAB will study local feeder! - pick-up air service and such questions as methods of operation, types of flight equipment, and facilities required. Mednwhile, two CAB ckafiipers recommended a new air service from New York to Jacksonville, Fla, with intermediate stops at Charleston, 8. C. Wilmington, N.| C.,- Norfolk snd Philadelphia.

DIVORCE IS SOUGHT

BY GLORIA TOPPING|

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March| bec 31 (U. P.)—Gloria Baker “Topping, _prol the nation’s “No. 1 debutante” six|

years ago, sought a divorce today

frfom Henry J. Topping, Jar, eto :

two children, Sanda, 4, and Henry, 3d, 2, and support for them, although she did not seek alimony.

Mrs. Topping, i = the |

Girl Wants Adults

ToKnow Rationing

. CLEVELAND, March 31 (U. P.). —Little Milly Jean Hafner wrote ‘Elmer Davis a letter asking the

office of war information director Just how she could explain point rationing to adults she overheard complaining about ‘the system's “inconvenience.” 2 “I am only 14 but it irks me to hear adults talking about. something’ they know little or nothing about,” she wrote. “I have studied the system, but I'm afraid an adult would resent my explaining something to him that he thinks he knows all about.” - * Davis was not too busy to reply. “We appreciate your dilemma bolarae we also sometimes find it very difficult to explain these things to adults,” he said. “I think you had better not say anything se the adults you mention would not like to have 8 pulnted out.”

Joleen. 31, of 3845 ave. was found lying in the street at West and Wilkins sts. Se oday—the, vietim yt a hit and}

Both Gens. .

~ handicapped by insufficient planes,

behind Gen. Stilwell a year ago.

flying. He had the annoying habit (to the older heads) of thinking . years ahead. He was an admirer of Billy Mitchell. He wrote a manual on pursuit flying. . He devised a new system of (gunnery. He was a most vocal advocate of teamwork in pursuit flying long before it had been developed to its present technique, While he was stationed with the army air corps in Hawaii, he began thinking out his theories on air-raid warning networks which were later ap) lied with great success in China. After he was invalided out of the army, Gen. Chennault came to China as an aeronautical adviser to the Chinese government. For years he remained there, helping to train Chinese pilots and studying Japanese tactics. He spent hundreds of hours, during Japanese air raids, watching Japanese aerial maneuvers through his binoculars. He rarely bothered to go into a dugout. The result was that when Gen. Chennault took over command of the American volunteer corps (the “Flying Tigers”) he was able to tell his men exactly how the Japanese. would behave and to instruct his pilots in’ a revolutionary method of dealing with them.

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. Needs More Planes

GEN. CHENNAULT came back into the American army as a Brigadier General when the Flying Tigers gave way to the China “air task force. « He has been

but has done wonders with the small force at his command. Gen. Chennault’s theory is that the Japanese- are using China as a ‘training ground for pilots destined for the South Pacific. He believes that: given enough fighter planes he could ‘cripple Japanese air operations in the South and that given still more planes he could knock the Japanese air force into ‘a cocked hat.

If Gen. Chennault has any

PANEL IS DRAWN TO NAME JUROR

Bain to Make Selection Saturday; Contract Probe To Be Resumed.

Jury commissioners have drawn .a/|/ panel of 10 names, from which one juror will be selected to fill thi vacancy on the county grand j caused by the resignation last w of Harold F. Wurster, 912 N. Audnbon rd. Judge W. D. Bain of criminal court will select a new juror Safurday from the following panel:/ Ralph Chupp, 726 Pleasants Run Pkwy.; ‘Fred Hubble, 1711 College ave.; Harvey Carson, 6402 Allisonville rd.; Andrew H. Evans 1210 N. Rural st; Norman Cissha, 2522 Broadway; Edward Phelps, 46 W. 27th st.; Orville Pettijohn, /3125 Kenwood ave.; Herman Chaniper, ‘5740 Kingsley ave.; Solomon | 'T. Shifrin, 2317 N, Capitol ave., and’ IWarren G. Hoyle, 320 E. 22d st. R

Many Criminal Cases

The jury next week is expected to resume deliberation: : than a score of criminal investigations involving persons now held in Jail, By April 12 the Hury is’ due to

tracts which interrupted a

month ago by disclosure that one member of the pyevious grand jury

JIMMY, VALENTINE’ * PLEADS INNOCENT

~on - more;

. You'd never recognise China’s experimental army In India as the same men who straggled out of Burma

Weakness, it is his soft-hearted-. ness. He is lenient to a fault. It woud ke unfair to Uncle Joe Stilwell’s boys in China and India to pass up the great job they are doing in ferrying strategic supplies to China over the Himalayan “hump.” A share of this traffic between India and China is handled by the Chinese National ‘Aviation corp, a Sino-American concern; but the bulk of it is carried in army transports, with

+ army pilots. These young trans-

~ port fliers, who are increasing in numbers as more and more transport planes go into service, have not had half the recognition they deserve, They're performing a task less glamorous but no less dangerous than that of the men who drop bombs on Japanese bases—and it has to be done almost every day of the year, re. gardless “of. conditions. = Their hazards are not only Japanese Zeros—for they often skirt ‘the Japanese lines in northern Burma 3 —but also foul weather, mountains higher than McKinley, fierce winds that toss you scores of miles off course, and frequent icing conditions that push down twansports to dangerously low altitudes at the very peak of their climb. The roll of Americans who have died fight-

‘ing the elements over the hump

"is a lengthening one. ‘Bad weather and blind crashes into mountainsides are’ usually responsible. Several fliers have had narrow squeaks from the Japanese. There is the: pilot, for instanc who lost his way’ and was fate) to land in a riverbed behind the Japanese lines. ‘He finally got his bearings and took off, just in time to get a bird's-eye view of a Japanese patgol beating its way

toward the spot where his plane had been.

TOMORROW: Why U. S. planes are not bambing Japan.

¢ * Renew Search in Creek for Boys : L THE THEORY tkat the two 8-year-old boys who disappeared three weeks ago were drowned in Fall Creek has not been abandomed despite reports that they have been seen downtown. For three hours yesterday Sergt. Leo Troutman’s squad rowed the shore from Meridian st. to the creek’s entrance into White river, searching underbrush left by the stream’s fall.

The boys are William Long and William Stevenson. 3

CHARGES ‘SLAVERY’ IN DRAFT OF LABOR

The ' Indiana C.1.0. today expressed opposition to the Austin Wadsworth bill for drafting labar to work for private employers. In a letter to Rep. Charles M. LaFollette, the state C. I. O. sec=~ retary, Walter Frisbie, termed labor drafting “slavery ‘in the simplest, clearest sense of the word.”

MONTREAL STRIKE ENDS MONTREAL, March 31 (U. P)--

A strike of trolley and bus operators,

which halted all public transportation for two days and ously,

start re-investigation of county con-|ye hood of railway employees 88 bargaining agent.

“I HoLb EVERYTHING