Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1943 — Page 9

SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1943

| Hoosier Vagabond -

i IN TUNISIA. —When correspondents first came to ~ Tunisian front last fall, there were no special "facilities for them, and every man was on his own. Some got around by hitch-hiking on army vehicles. Some bought French sedans. They wrote wherever they could; sitting in their cars, or in some bleak country hotel They got their copy back to the city by many methods, including the one of walking up to anybody about to get on a plane and saying, “Hey, Joe, would you mind taking this in for me?” 1

army public: relations office has set up an advanced post well back of the lines. They look affer a regular aerial courier service back to headquarters, and sent out our mail to us. They have a few jeeps to dole out to correspondents, and for a while they had a house where meals were served and where correspondents could throw their bedrolls on cots when they came back from the lines.. The PRO hopes eventually to acquire tents and tables and cots and a regular kitchen crew, so that it can move right along with the advancing troops, just like a’ circus. We'll be eovering the war in style. .

Gasoline Without Coupons

- WHEN I WAS FIRST in Tunisia, I traveled by . hanging around some headquarters until I hit somebody who was going my way by truck or jeep, then threw my stuff on and set out. A little later I was lucky enough to get a jeep. Only two or three of us had jeeps at first, so we

2 oar tried to double up. I shared mine for some

ume with Don Coe of the United Press. Will Lang of Time-Life and I made a couple of ‘trips together.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum;

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Paul Robertson, safety

: ye member, long time manager of the Hume-

Jinny.

Mansur building, ardent Republican one-time newspaperman, fisherman, and a crank about cleanliness and neatness. He’s meticulous in his own appear- ; ance—always looks like he’s just stepped out of a bandbox. Paul's exact age is a military secret, but he’s probably in his late fifties. Rather slightly built, he’s about 5 feet 8 or 9, weighs maybe 145, - His white hair is thin on top. His eyes are blue and he has a ruddy complexion, slender face, acquiline nose and a resonant voice. His hands are agile, he’s quick and. precise in his move- . x ments, he wears glasses and has Mr. Robertson' j nice smile. Rather quiet, he’s pleasant and friendly, but he’s a stickler for having things ‘done right A typical Scotsman, he’ll give a friend anything he has so long as he thinks it will be used to good

" advantage, but he can't bear the thought of any-

thing being wasted.

He Loves English Setters

PAUL ROBERTSON'’S favorite hobby is his unretentious, 13-acre sh near. Traders Point. started out with a on nm house and gradually added to it. . He lives in town but spends as much time in the country as possible. Right now, his big interest is his garden. He raises lots of tomatoes and sweet corn, which he adores. The place is thick. with trees—he’s always planting more but never thins them out. He's always been crazy about English setters,

jr eeps three of them at the country place and likes NE better than to have them grouped around His special pet is °

front of the fireplace. And then there's Vicky, who is very smart and very bad, and Penny, who is large and beautiful. Fond of the Indian country in the southeast, he has a fine collection of Indian rugs, in fact, the attic at his home is full of them. He's interested also in collecting old cabinet maker - fools and old clocks, keeps them in his basement workshop and loves to get them out and look at them. - He enjoys his food. Besides sweet corn, he adores thick country cream—on fruit or anything else. One

Washington

. WASHINGTON, April 10—Finally it has been settled that the united nations food conference will be open to newspaper correspondents in the manner that has traditionally been accorded the free press in democratic countries. But it was .a battle. Mr. Roosevelt came back from Casablanca very much smitten with the way complete’ secrecy simpli- ' fied the conference. Newspaper reporters were not allowed in the vicinity. A complete military blackout was maintained until the end, when reporters were flown in for a staged news conference at

‘in

which no questions could be asked..

Nobody could complain about that procedure at such a completely military conference es Casablanca. But when Mr. Roosewelt began to map out the first united nations conferbe held toward the end of this month and to food, he thought it would be a grand idea

; to s é follow the method used at Casablanca.

‘He would have the conference held at some isolated spot like Hot Springs, Va, where there is only one suitable hotel, and would admit no newspaper correspondengageven to the hotel.

OWI Goes to Bat

THAT WAS the original idea. Just a few days 220 a newspaper correspondent representing one of

the united nations asked for hotel accommodations

in the hotel at Hot Springs and was informed that the government had commandeered it beginning April 25.

Foreigh correspondents have felt it was unrea-

sonable on the part of this government to prevent

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Friday—Here we are back in'c

New York City, and my last column has not told you * ‘about Wednesday evening in Sdn Francisco! Johnny end Anne, joined Miss Thompson and me and we We to Well ‘knows Testaurant. mailed the Omar This is noted for Ar-

. typewriter, musette bag, tent. Also we carried extra

tap a couple of five-gallon cans, and pour it in, Things ate different now. The

| By Ernie Pyle

And some of the time I wandered around alone, although that isn’t wise any more, for you need one man to watch the rear for strafing planes. : ' On the jeep we carried everything we had—bedroll,

cans of gasoline, a camouflage net, and a box of canned rations, in case we got stuck somewhere away from an army kitchen. We knew where. all the gasoline dumps were throughout the hundred miles or so of American front. We'd simply drive up to one, «ll the soldier in charge we needed some gas, get out our pliers and|

He'd say, “Who's this to be charged to?” And we'd tell him any outfit number that popped into our heads, or even some mythical unit such as “The Sahara fask force” He'd seldom put it down, anyway, for obviously it was army gas going into an army vehicle. . .

Ernie Sleeps Late

CORRESPONDENTS ON THE PROWL sleep wherever they stop. Usually you can find a bare tile floor in some old farmhouse being used as a headquarters. We've discovered thai after a few nights on the floor or on the ground it doesn’t seem hard. I believe I'm about the only correspondent who frequently pitches his pup tent. Some correspondents tarry folding camp cots, but I don’t because I haven't got one, and secondly it’s much warmer sleeping right on the ground. Most officers manage to wash once a day, but I personally go more on the enlisted man’s psychology and just skip it. Between Dec. 28 and March 1 I had just.one bath. When I finally went into the city and had my first bath in five weeks, it was too much for mg. I came down with a Seven-day cold.

of his favorite recipes is.for boiled potatoes cooked in thick cream. He also likes homemade bread and very strong drip coffee. An amateur cook himself, he turns out tasty chops and steaks broiled in the fireplace at the country home,

Fish Biting! Shucks!

BORN AT Lafayette, he went out to Montana as a

CIVIC LEADERS

PROTEST NYA

Judge Rhoads Reverses His

Opinion of Training Program.

A large delegation of Negro civic

leaders has made a formal protest to Judge Mark W. Rhoads of

~ | Juvenile court against any action

that might interrupt the national

youth

The delegation, led by the Rev.

‘R. T. Andrews and Robert L. Brokenburr, state senator, called the conference in connection with recent demands made by Judge Rhoads and other county officials for NYA to vacate county-owned buildings at 25th st. and Keystone ave.

Members of the delegation pro-

tested any action contemplated county. officials that might result in closing the training. school here or cause it to be removed to another

city.

Reverses Opinion They also took exception to recent

remarks made by some county of-

ficials, minimizing the value of}

NYA’S industrial training for Negro| youths. :

Judge Rhoads, who earlier had

deséribed the NYA center here as a “playhouse,” yesterday reversed his opinion on the school and explained to the delegation that he ‘thought the “training program was a splendid thing.”

“I'm all for the NYA program

and I think we ‘can compromise

youth and got a job on a newspaper in Helena. About four years later he returned to Indigna, got a job in the old Atlas Engine: Works, then spent quite a few years in the real estate business with the Spann Co. He took over the management of the Hume-Mansur building about 1915, and now is its vice president and| *

Paul has a passion for cornflowers, nearly always|; has one in his lapel. He loves to go fishing but doesn’t give a darn whether the fish bite or not. they wouldn’t, so he could give his entire attention to just loafing. With him fishing is really just an excuse to get out in the wilds. On the radio, he likes Raymond Gram Swing, Information Please and some of the other quiz proHe’s completely indifferent to movies. He likes football and is especially interested in Purdue

In fact, he’d rather

Where Did I Put That?

this thing so that NYA can use part of the county buildings, leaving us room for a juvenile detention heme and other necessary juvenile court work,” Judge Rhoads said.

Conference Set

‘ Representatives of the NYA from Washington and Chicago will confer with Judge Rhoads and other county officials Monday to seek a compromise on the county's de‘mands for possession of the property, which is under a five-year lease to NYA at $1 a year. The county building situation reached a crisis last week wheén owners of a building on W. New York st., that now houses the juvenile detention home, served notice ‘ |for the county to vacate the property by May 1.

ONE OF HIS hobbies is' pipes. He has quite a collection of them, including one he treasures because it bears the toothmarks of one of his dogs. He smokes Gold Block, an English tobacco he learned to like while ‘touring “England in 1938. He prefers kitchen matches, He plays cribbage and occasionally rhum, but doesn’t like bridge. He sometimes plays darts and similar games. Y He likes people, enjoys talking and gets a kick out of entertaining his friends. If he has a pet peeve, it's disorder. Everything has to be just so. He keeps his desk very neat, and often puts things away 50 carefully he can’t find them later. He enjoys telling humorous stories, likes to string them out, and bemoans the fact that stories nowadays have to be short and to the point. Folks just -haven’t- the patience, he says, .to listen to & sory

Asked Steps Be Taken A week ago, Addison Parry, presi-

dent of the county council, asked Victor Jose Jr.; county attorney, to ‘take steps to sue the federal government for possession of the Keystone ave. property now used by NYA on the ground that the county has an emergency use for the buildings as a detention home.

Mr. Parry, who attended the con-

ference ‘with the Negro delegation | yesterday, said he was not opposing the NYA program here but that the county must act to get possession of the buildings because of an emergency.

Both Judge Rhoads and Mr. Parry

properly told.

agreed that no action will be taken to close NYA and that they would seek a compromise on use of the

' them from having contact with the delegations from

- By Raymond Clapper

their own countries. They did not lodge a formal protest, but they complained individually to OWI.

Elmer Davis and the whole OWI have been strongly opposed to keeping the food conference closed. Mr. Davis has had several discussions about it at the" White House. He was having trouble getting the conference opened up. Prospect that a most bitter objection would be made by the press if the plan were carried through, finally caused the White House to agree to allow the press ‘to cover the conference in the way. that hundreds of conferences have been reported in the past.

Issue Fortunately’ Settled

THERE IS NO REASON why this conference should be held in secret. . Of course closed sessions of committees will be necessary. Everybody recognizes that in discussions and negotiations there must be executive sessions so that everyone can talk it out without having a gallery listening in. But the newspapers do want the usual opportunity to talk with delegates and to report, independently on what is going on. . « The issue is fortunately settled now in a completely satisfactory way. It is disturbing that it was ever raised—but perhaps it was brought up ‘Without having been thought through. Mr. Roosevelt is most anxious, as he should be and as most of us are, that the united nations get off to a satisfactory start in its first conference. I think Mr. Roosevelt was mistaken in his Judgment | as to how to do it. He has now acted on wiser second thought. A dangerous precedent Has fortunately been avoided.

By Eleanor: Roosevelt

Afterwards, we went to see Miss Mayris ‘Chaney and her two partners dance, and heafd the leader of the band, Hershey Martin, do a most remarkable drum solo. Yesterday morning, Mr. Duffy, the warden of San Quentin prison, came with Mrs. Duffy to call for me,

buildings.

FRENCH CORVETTE SINKS 2 NAZI SUBS

LONDON, April 10 (U. P.).—The

British destroyer H. M. S. Har-

vester was sunk by a submarine

while defending an Atlantic convoy last month, but its crew saw the score more than evened by a Fighting French corvette which rammed and sank two enemy U-boats.

The Harvester located a subma-

rine about midnight, attacked with depth charges and forced it to the surface. The destroyer then rammed the sub. The corvette Aconite came

up, fired on the submarine and

finally rammed and-sunk it, taking its survivors prisoners.

The damaged Harvester proceeded

slowly and later was forced to stop. She was torpedoed.

While picking up survivors from the destroyer the Aconite sighted another U-boat and attacked with depth. charges and guns. The sub was disabled, rammed and sunk.

LOCAL MEN ELECTED TO PHI DELTA PHI

Times Special "BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April’ 10— Two Indianapolis ‘men are among the ‘students recently elected to membership in Phi Delta Phi, hon orary law fraternity, at Indiana university. They are Frank Parkhurst and ‘Arthur Gemmer. !

- Bd ‘Reich and’ Barbara: pong of |

Indianapolis recently were chosen

GLEGHS HEROIC ON RUSS FRONT

One Unit Hurled Back Powerful Tank Attack On Donets Village.

By DAVID M. NICHOL

Co ht, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times pyre d The Chicago Daily 3apal Inc.

COW. April 10.—More information is available now about the first Czech . participation in actual combat along the Russian front— the first time Czech land troops met the Germans since their vigorous

democracy disappeared under the Nazi steamroller four years ago. The units emerged from a powerful German attack with what Pravda, organ of the Communist party, calls “immortal glory.” The Nazi attack was repulsed. Their location is not disclosed, but it is probable that they took part on the Donets fighting, south of Izyum. In the course of one of these drives the Nazis concentrated heavy infantry, supported by 60 tanks and Tommy gunners, against a village held by a Czech unit commanded by Lieut. Yarosh, according to accounts, Yarosh was given the order that he must not surrender. “I won't,” was his only reply.

Attack in Waves

The Germans attacked in’ several waves. Some Nazi tanks penetrated the outer defenses and reached the inner. lines. Using flame-throwers, they wiped out a number of anti-tank fighters, Other Czech infantrymen, however, split off and fo the Tommy-gun-ners fo them to earth within 50 yards of the village limits. bo in the village itself there was a furious battle against tanks. Using rifles, grenades, incendiary bottles and anything ‘they could, the Czechs finally drove the Germans off, destroying 19. tanks and killing 400 of the enemy, according to accounts. Lieut. Yarosh perished under the tracks of an enemy tank.

Formed Year Ago

The Czech division was formed last summer. It is commanded by Col. Ludwig Svoboda, who was a. battalion commander in the Czech army at the time of the Nazi invasion, and subsequently escaped across the frontiers. ‘During its training, the unit was stationed at ar undisclosed point where apparently it won the friendship and respef® of the Soviet people, They are not the only representa-

fighting on the Russian front, however. The puppet Slovak government, according to a recent Red Star (Soviet army organ) account, has organized a total of four divisions, chieflv based on cadres of the former Czech army. Most of

their officers are Germans or Su-

detenland inhabitants.

MEET AT FT. FRIENDLY

Catherine Merrill Tent No. 9, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, will meet at 1:30 p. m. Monday at Ft. Friendly.

THIS CURIOS. WORD.

ON EARTH TODAY ORE THAN

members of Theta Alpha Phi, na-| “em

tional dramatic honorary society, on

‘the campus here. June Brown of]

Indianapolis is vice president.

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The days of early Indiana; the

—have come back to life.

to the recorded history of this turbulent Hoosier state. John Tipton, Indian fighter, land speculator, and United States senator, was no worse than his contemporaries. If anything, he was better, He was a typical product of the frontier days — hard, greedy, willing to fight at the drop of a hat, a canny politician, and a first-class businessman, first-class in the sense that he knew a good piece of property when he saw it and knew how to get it. Life in the early Indian territory was not for the weakling. Tipton was no weakling and it is perhaps significant that his career had already spent itself when he died suddenly in 1839 af the age of 52— 104 years ago, almost to the day. It was April 5, 1839. The historical bureau makes no attempt to gild the lily. John Tip» ton is presented -as-he was—a buc-

For the most part, his papers are presented as they were written, curious spellings and all. His diary on the battle of the Tippecanoe is self-sufficient: “ . . we ware answered by the firring of guns and the Shawnies Brakeng into our tents a blood combat took place at Precisely 15 minnutes Before five in the morning which Lasted 2.hours and. 20

More Bread May Mean Less Cake

WASHINGTON, April 10 (U.P.). —J. Howard Westing, assistant food rationing director of the OPA, said yesterday that bakers will havé to produce more bread and fewer fancy cakes and cookies as a result of a reduction in supplies of shortening they may use. He testified before a senate subcommittee on small business regarding complaints about an OPA order cutting . shortening allocations to bakers 30 per cent from last year. Bakers at the hearing contended that the order, effective March 29, was issued without suf- - ficient notice and will mean 50 per cent reduction in retail business in face of increasing consumer demand. Senator Arthur Capper (R. Kas.) read a telegram from a Kansas baker asserting that consumers are using more bread than usual because of rationing of other foods.

4 MILIION POUNDS OF BOMBS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, April 10 (U. P.).—Allied air forces dropped more than 4,000,000 pounds of bombs on the axis in this. zone between March 19 and

| rere are NoTWO PLACES

April 7. By William Ferguson

Left, John Tipton: Right, the one-time state capitol at Corydon, where Tipton first rose to prominence as sheriff.

Historical Collection Shows True Picture of Early Indiana

—the hard-drinkipg, two-fisted, uneducated, land-hungry John Tipton

The virile, ruthless, ambitious Tipton lives again through the pages of one of the Indiana Historical bureau’s best collections to date: The three-volume “John Tipton Papers.”

[STALE MEAT IS

days of one of this state's “greats”

It makes a magnificent addition

minuts of a Continewal firing . . after the indians gave ground we Burried our Dead among the kentucians was killd mayj owens and mayj Davis badly wounded . . . no Companey suffered like ours we then held an Election for officers I was elected. . . . Last night onley a half Rations of whisky and no corn for our horses my horse killed I got mcmahons to ride. ... I had one quort of whisky.” Tipton took a leading role in driving the Indians out of Indiana and then schemed and plotted to get their property for himself. And he was well on the way to making himself a great fortune when he died. He was rich enough to donate the Tippecanoe battleground to the state. ‘The material for the three volumes was compiled by Glen A.B Blackburn and edited by Nellie Armstrong Robertson and Dorothy Riker. . Christopher Coleman, director of the historical bureau, has written the preface and the introduction by Paul Wallace Gates of Cornell university is a highly capable short biography of the man] who went so far in so short a time. The “John Tipton Papers” is required reading for those who naively believe that the world is going to the dogs. .(by. Stephen. Ellis).

REPORTED HERE

Health Officer Says That Complaints Are

Mounting.

f Since the advent of meat rationing; reports of stale beef and pork, y that of the ground vaa have multiplied, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health board secretary, said yesterday. He stated that although the situation was not considered serious, five food inspectors were kept busy investigating complaints of putrid meat against restaurants and butcher shops. Also on the increase, he warned, is the use of “off-taste” rancid fats in the preparation of stews, soups and baked goods. Storage at Fault Acceleration of the stale food problem, he believes, was brought about by conditions which demanded prolonged storage of rationed supplies. In some cases, he said, adequate refrigeration was not available for preservation of provisions withheld from unlimited public consumption. Lower quality fats, which sometimes proved rancid, were employed after butter and refined shortenings had been placed on the rationed list, he pointed out. He said the putrid meat situation probably will be corrected when dealers have fully revised their supply and demand schedules under the rationing system.

OFFICERS ELECTED BY OPTIMIST CLUB

A. M, Springer was elected president of the Indianapolis Optimist

EDEN'S REPORT

1S REASSURING

It Satisfies Them That U. S.

Will Not Shirk Responsibility. LONDON, April 10 (C. D. N.).—

Parliamentarians studying Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's report to the house of commons this week, on his visit to the United States,

feel greatly reassured on a point which constantly worries British minds, namely, the extent to which the American people will be prepared to play their part in preserving the world peace after the world victory is won. Between the lines of Eden’s statement, they read the foreign secretary’s own conviction, albeit formed after brief but most varied contacts, that the United States will not

shirk its responsibility. They have

seized on Eden's expression of the belief that the American people share the British view:that it will be necessary to ensure by force that neither Germany, Italy, nor Japan shall be able to repeat its aggression. They deduce that Eden found general agreement in Washington that

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the axis powers must be totally diss on

armed and denied any activity capable of being used for under‘cover military preparations but should not be allowed to become a canker in the world’s heart through being crushed economically,

Eden Was Pleased

Eden's further remarks are interpreted as meaning that he recognized the American conviction that

post-war control must primarily be asserted by the four principal belligerent allies, namely, the United States, Britain, Russia and China,

with the lesser states associated

worked out.

Evidently, Eden was greatly

pleased by the fact that it has been

possible to reach a general agree-

ment on the procedure which will

be followed as the allied armies gradually - liberate occupied countries and it is believed by po-

litical circles that the Washington

talks produced ‘positive plans for

under arrangements not as yet fully =

arrangements foreséen as necessary *

in countries where the question is

likeliest to arise soon. Certainly, the impression is current here that there is not the

slightest ground for suggestions that

Secretary of State Cordell Hull fa~ vors setting up right-wing govern-

ments throughout Europe irrespec-

tive of the popular wishes.

Baby Saved by Speedy Action

. NORMAN LAMBERT, b-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lambert, 519 Vinton st., smallowed a cork yesterday, It stuck in his throat. Patrolman Everett Steele responded on the police call, applied artificial respiration for a few

precious minutes until the City

hospital ambulance arrived. Dr. Alexander J. Kahn, interne, quickly looked over the situation, managed to get his fingers around the cork and loosened ‘it. He slapped the baby on the back smartly. Out popped the cork. More artificial respiration was applied, baby started to cry, and everybody was satisfied. Norman is in “fair” condition at City hos- . pital.

URGED BY HOFFMAN

SOUTH BEND, Ind. April 10 (U,

POST-WAR PLANNING

P).~Paul G. Hoffman of South a

Bend, chairman of the national committee for economic develop« ment, said yesterday that business and industry or the federal government must provide 10,000,000 more jobs for workers after the war than in 1940. Mr. Hoffman, also president of

Studebaker Corp. told a group of

400 South Bend civic and industrial leaders that plans should be laid now for post-war employment. He

believed it would require two years

for the economic transition from

war to peace.

“The job facing the nation in transition period will be one of

toughest it ever had,” Mr. Hofman said.

Louis Ruthenberg of Evansville,

club,’ to succeed Walter V. Roberts, at the annual election yesterday in Columbia club.

HOLD EVERYTHING