Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1943 — Page 11

TUESDAY; APRIL 6, 1943

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SIDI-BEL-ABBES, Algeria—Our visit to the French Foreign Legion was made highly pleasant by ‘a Legionnaire who is an Englishman — Sergt. John Whiteway. Whiteway is not an adventurer at all; he is a normal kind of businessman. Just after the last war he went’ to Paris to live. For 20 years he was the Paris representative for American refrigerator and radio companies. He married a French girl and they have three handsome children, the youngest of whom he has never seen although the child is now nearly 3. When war seemed imminent in 1939, Whiteway felt he should fight for the country that had supported him for 20 years. He couldn't join the regular French army, so he joined the Foreign Legion. They fought through the fall of France, and then were shipped back to Algeria. And here Whiteway has been ever since. It was tough going, the first few months, for a man of his maturity and intellect. But his business . ability and office experience made him invaluable to the Legion, and he was soon put into administrative work at headquarters. Thus he has escaped most of the rigors and the deadly barracks life of the Legion.

‘We Were a Happy Party’

WHEN THE AMERICANS came, Whiteway was one of the few English-speaking people in the Legion. So he was immediately attached to American headQuarters as a liaison man. He wears civilian clothes now, and it was he who brought us to Sidi-bel-Abbes. Although Whiteway had been away only a month, is return was like a royal homecoming. We were a happy party who visited the Legion. In addition to Sergt. Whiteway and myself, there were five American army officers. They tere: Lieut. Col. Egbert W. Cowan, who served all over

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

AL FEENEY, the former sheriff (remember him?), needed some cash the other day, so he wrote a check on one of those blank checks on which you write the name of the bank. Then he cashed 1t. The next day, he had a feeling that something was wrong, and hurried down to the club where he had cashed it and asked=“to see it. He found he had written it on the Marion County State Bank which has been out of existence several years. And Al never had had an account there. He just can't account for his mental lapse. . . . Juvenile Court Judge Mark Rhoads went fishing over the week-end south of town and caught four fish, one of them a 2%-pound bass. That's not to be sneezed at. A couple of urchins (fugitives from a truant officer) were passing the Washington st. entrance of the Claypool yesterday morning as the doorman was helping a passenger into a taxi. “Home, James,” ordered one of the youths solemnly. Passersby snickered. The doorman maintained his dignity. Directors of Curtisspens will .be in town tomorrow for their first meeting in Indianapolis. They'll inspect the yiiward plant, . . . Capt. Earl Hoff, The Times reporter, is home on leave from Camp McClellan, Ala., looking fit as a fiddle.

Housecleaning at Hall

THE FIRST THING Mayor Tyndall noticed when he got back from a visit to Harrisburg, Pa., was that during his absence all the windows in the city hall ‘had been washed. He was quite pleased. ... And then - he was amused at rumors that he “didn’t really go to Harrisburg at all but was hiding out at the Columbia club from something or other, . . . Incidentally, the mayor is well pleased with the way things are going at police headquarters and with the gambling situation around town. If anyone thinks the private clubs are going to get the “go sign” to put their slot machines back in service, they've got another think coming. At least that’s the way we get it. Washingt WASHINGTON, April 6.—In the long run much will depend on what the victor governments do about monetary stabilization. Secretary Morgenthau is beginning discussions of possible measures with appropriate commitiees of congress. Soon representatives of allied nations will visit Washington to discuss possible measures. . This is the dullest of all subjects. I don’t know of any way to make monetary stabilization in-, teresting. Secretary Morgenthau doesn’t even {try. But whether you are interested in it or not, you will be affected by it. The whole state of the world after the war will be affected by the arrangements that are made in advance regarding monetary stabilization. This is largely a question of the value that one nation’s currency is to have in terms of another nation’s money. When a nation depreciates its currency, that acts as a price cut in foreign trade. f Depreciation will be a strong temptation to hardpressed governments after the war. It offers a patentmedicine method of underselling competitors abroad ' while reducing the burden of debt at home and stimulating business activity.

Remember What Happened Before?

AFTER THIS WAR a large amount of rehabilitation help will be necessary. Extensive investment will be required to rebuild and modernize industries, to develop utilities and public works of all kinds. After the last war, American’ private -capital invested heavily in foreign loans, many of which became worthless. Germany had been loaded with a heavy repgrations debt and in addition borrowed heavily through American bond issues. She depre-

My Day

PORTLAND, Ore. Monday —Friday evening I attended the Women’s War Savings league bond rally and spoke to a crowded house. They presented sertificates of merit to about 75 women, who represented their industrial plants which kad agreed “to the 10 per cent payroll deduction. Some plants had 100 per cent of contributors, but all of them at least 90 per cent. A reception was held afterward, tor which I think most of the audience came. The very charming wife of the governor, ‘Mrs. Arthur Langlie, introduced me. : In the states of Washington and Oregon, they are carrying on classes to acquaint people with the value of buying bonds, and the reasons why people should be saving at the present time, but I am wondering whether talks are also " heing given to Women on Sther subjects which might

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the world in the regular army and whose daughter Shirley is about to become a ferry pilot at home; Capt. Art Nillen, a boisterous dentist from Dallas, whose motto is “See your dentist every day and brush your teeth twice a year;” Lieut. Albert DesChenes, a young Boston doctor who speaks French, and well he might with a name like that; Lieut. Max Kuehnert of Chicago, who was, America’s best brick salesman before the, war, and who still carried around his sales booklets of model brick homes; and Lieut. Leonard

Bessman, a likable Milwaukee lawyer who doesn’t}

speak French but who has the virtue of continually trying to speak it. A

Ah, Breakfast in Spanish!

- LENNY AND MAX are both enthusiasts. Everything they see is wonderful. Lenny has been a Foreign Legion fan ever since he was a child, and we almost had to hold him to keep him from signing up right on the spot. - Max’ dropped into a little bar patronized almost exclusively by the Legion. If is run by a man named Lucette Paume, a Swiss who spent 20 years in the Legion and is now retired. Max speaks German, and this is how it wound up —Max and the Swiss in one huddle talking German; Lieut. DesChenes and the proprietor’s daughters in another huddle speaking real French: Col. Cowan with a little group around him telling about hunting elephants in Indo-Ching; Art Nillen standing in the doorway shouting “Zid, yalla, you little atl all the passing Arab kids; Lenny and the sergeant in another huddle speaking pidgin and making motions, and me sitting all alone in a corner ordering my breakfast in Spanish over and over to myself. Breakfast-words happen to be the only Spanish I know, and damned if I wasn’t going to talk some kind of foreign language amidst all that international sewing circle, even if I had to keep ordering hypothetical breakfasts all afternoon, Thus the day passed. Vive le Legion Etranger!

. . A clue to what started all the “heat” on slot machines can be seen in the mayor's recollection of his days down in Florida where there were slot machines in the groceries and drug stores and housewives frittered away their time and household money, and even kids “snitched” money from their folks to pour into the slots.

Naval Polar Bears

THREE YOUNG sailors gave fishermen lined up on the river bank near the 30th st. bridge quite a shock Sunday morning, About 9:30 the sailors strolled | down to the river bank, carrying towels. The fishermen began kidding them about it being “too cold to take a bath.” “How about a swim?” asked one of the sailors. “We're from Minnesota,” added another. Then, without further ado, they stripped down to their shorts, plunged into the icy water, swam across the river and back. And they seemed to enjoy it, too. As for the fishermen, they just stood openmouthed and shivered at the very thought of the water. Tough guys, these sailors. . . . Speaking of sailors, the Great Lakes naval training station lists among its new arrivals for “boot” training: George B. Quick. He's 28, and lives at 3843 E. Michigan. , . . And speaking of names, the telephone directory lists Mollie Pitcher, a namesake of the Revolutionary war heroine (possibly legendary) who took the place of her artilleryman husband when he fell in the battle of Monmouth. This Mollie, Fiicher runs. a rooming house at 1431 N. Meridian;

Calls the Police

MRS. FRANK HAIGHT thinks the recent drowning of two small boys in Fall creek might have been avoided if -more persons followed her practice of phoning for police every time she sees youngsters playing on the ice or on the creek bank. Mrs, Haight, who lives on Fall Creek pkwy., doesn’t like to spoil the kids’ fun, but she’s willing to do it to save them from possible death, She recalls that two persons said they saw these two boys playing beside the creek bank a short time before they disappeared. The boys might still be alive, if one of these persons had called police to chase them away, s she believes.

By Raymond Clapper

‘ciated her own currency in what some have always considered deliberate sabotage. Germany’s fantastic inflation, the drying up of international trade at the end of the '20s, the banking collapse in Central Europe, all combined to aggravate the worst depression of the century. The violent backwash was felt in the United States recently enough to leave its mark fresh on all minds. In the middle '30s the United States treasury entered into the tripartite agreement with Britain and France to keep the three currencies steady in their relation to each other. Undoubtedly this stabilization = fund prevented economic chaos and possibly disastrous penic during the early days of the war.

International Agency Needed

: Secretary Morgenthau. is asking congress to authorize continuation of this fund. It is inconceivable that congress would refuse. Most members recognize how imperative it is that the United States keep a steady

hand in this business. Our own interests, as well as the interests of other nations, require order and stable relationships with the currencies of other countries. Treasury officials are working over proposals for expanding the management of international monetary affairs into some form of united nations stabilization fund. The British are suggesting an international currency known as “bancor.” This would be used only by government and central banks for clearing international trade balances and credits. It would not be actually money for individual use, but an instrument of bookkeeping among governments. Whatever the form, some international banking agency for the united nations seems necessary. Since its services will Ye needed promptly at the end of hostilities, organizational work should begin prompily,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

tells me that, at Hunter college, they are ving a series of six lectures. at which they have speakers from the war manpower commission, the vocational department of the board of education, the U.'S, em-| ployment service, the New York state board of mediation and the state department of labor. These talks are designed to acquaint women with the needs and opportunities for them in industry, witly the background of the labor union and its place in the plant; with the importance of safety measures, proper clothing, diet and health habits under new responsibilities. They also give them the information; on‘community facilities available to women on meet-|mer ing their child care and household problems, and they tell them of the state and national labor Jaws affecting women in industry, Of course, this is primarily valuable for women who have mot worked before, or who are changing their present employment for employment more essential to the war effort. It seems to me a very helpful service. 1 shotid like to. see added to It some + Giscussion: of: dhe uRdenIvnE

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Giraud's proposal to the Italian people of an honorable peace if they will ‘overthrow the Fascist party, which has ‘sold them out to Hitler, and his warning of the terrible fate which will overtake them. if they do not, is likely to fall on willing ears, | according to an Australian woman, Linda Mey Hobbs, just arrived here from internment in Italy.

almost panic level in Rome. ‘Photographs “of the damage to Genoa,

Twa owing to the dreadful effect ‘they wete having on morale.

als re oo tas many Italians that Italy will be out of ‘the war by the end of he sum-

cording to this Australian who was interned for 26 months, has-become desperate. Internees and guards ‘alike are] fed on potatoes, beans and jam, with occasional leces of - : black,

Fifty incendiary bombs stream foward the target at Ngazaunghpet, Burma, during an allied attack on the Japanese Positions in the

Taungdaung district of Burma,

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Daphnee Sylva, although she

studio, intends to: sling hash.

The. Red Cross war fund got a. big boost from. Joan, Joyce, Jeanette and Geraldine: Badgett, famous “quads” of Galveston, Tex, They'll take life etupershiny Iater.

. Navy Lieut. William O’Dowd got these tires the hard way.

found them in a Jap warehouse Monticello, 1nd,

IN PEACE ‘M000’

otaines Sa y $ Giraud Offer Falls on Willing Ears. By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

1943, by The Indianapolis Times The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

LONDON, April 6—Gen. Henri

Fear of bombings has reached

Turin and Milan displayed in Rome

“The advances of the British and

Tite ‘food situation in Italy, ac-

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Leon Fleisher, 14-year-old New

Francisco symphony soon.

The salvos of 5/38 and 3/50 caliber guns fail to scare these WOWS has a new contract with a film who are doing a big part at the testing grounds at the navy proving

grounds in Virginia.

This is WPA—Tunisia style.

The army * air force ground crew

dig slit trenches in Tunisia. Ditches are used to dodge bombs,’

Dolores Amici, 7, of New York City, has 31 inches of blond hair Yorker, will appear with the San which is just right for Uncle Sam’s war instruments, She's going to

donate it to Uncle Sam. Vad

Kuomintang and Communists Are Examples Of China's Strange Political Paradoxes

This is the seventh article of a series by A. T. Steele, who has just returned from the Far East. By A. T. STEELE 0 GL a ee China is full of political . paradoxes but none stranger nor more disturbing than the weird relationship between the Chinese Communists and the dominant Kuomintang government at Chungking. Today, though both Red China and Kuomintang China continue to do battle with the Japs, their position toward each other continues to resemble an armed truce. . . Kuomintang China is blockaded by the Japanese, but has a narrow inlet of aerial supply from the outside world. Red China, however, is block-: aded not only by the Japanese ‘but by the Kuomintang. Only the tiniest driblets: of materials have entered the Communist areas from

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other parts of free China during the past three years. Japanese pressure on the Reds has been heavy and continuous.” The Chinese Red army is desperately in need of material. assistance and ‘could probably obtain it, to some extent, from the Chungking government were it willing to effect a political agreement on : :

Fundamental ‘political -and ideological differences have so far made this impossible. Red China embraces but a fraction of the entire Chinese population. Its

free China as a whole. political hold on the people within its borders is considerable. The system bears no resemblance to true communism. It is nearer to democracy, though under firm party Supervision. Most of Red China is behind the Japanese lines, in the narrow: zones

unists, who ‘have a rly equipped army of about 500,000 rifies, claim that they have re-

Soviet Russia, which has confined its military and material assistance (now vastly diminished, because of the war in Europe) to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek’s' central government at C y Both parties want a settlement, but each on its own terms. .

NEXT: India’s part in the war.

OPEN AIR RAID SCHOOL

A new air raid warden school for ‘district 42 will ‘be opened at 8 p. m.. Wednesday at the Sutherland Presbyterian church, 28th st. and Guilford ‘ave. Emmanuel Barling will describe air raids on London..

HOLD EVERYTHING

MAYOR KELLY IN ELECTION TEST

| Revitalized G. 0: P. Organi: zation Using ‘Smash ‘Machine’ Tactics.

CHICAGO, April 6 (U. P.).—Chis cago’s powerful Kelly-Nash Demos cratic machine faces other test

today in a city election pitting Mayor Edward J. Kelly against George B, McKibben, the candidate of a strengthened Illinois . Republican organization. Political observers expected a light vote—perhaps 1,200,000 from a registered electorate of 1,800,000-—al-though the bitter campaign has shown little’ of tke apathy which has characterized many wartime election contests. Despite the Republican resurgence in Illinois, Kelly was favored to win re-election to the post he has held since the late Anton Cermak was assassinated 10 years ago. Evens money bets were being: made that Kelly would win by 100,000 votes. McKibben, who resigned as Gove

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