Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1943 — Page 13

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IN TUNISIA The central part of Tunisia is a It is made up with wide, fiat, fertile valleys ridges have fir ‘trees high up, We valioys are without vegetation except for the Sons and a knee-high growth of

OR eaeqtohtls the valleys are poor places for hiding big motorized troop concentrations. gAbout the only thing that affords any natural cover is an olive grove or a cactus patch. ‘These cactus patches—some of

between th Boe em, The.

them grow wild, and other are

planted in rows just like any other crop. The plants are soulder high, and have big thick leaves of the prickly-pear type.

They lave ‘thorns an inch long, vicious and cruel. The cactus is-grown for camel feed. And camels

actually come up and eat them off the bush. How they do it I don’t know, for the ‘stickers are as hard as steel needles, and they don’t bend. But the camels don’t seem to mind,

Everyone Cautious Except’ Ernie

EVERY SOLDIER over here has learned to tread cautiously through a cactus patch. For these stickers can cause you grave trouble. They frequently start bad infections. ‘I saw a soldier one day being taken to the rear with his aym swollen so badly he had to carry it on a sort of rack. Ahd I myself had a small experience with them. I'd noticed for several days that my right knee was 80 sore I could hardly put any weight on it when I got down to roll up my bedroll. But I supposed I'd Just bruised it on a rock, and didn’t pay much at-

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tention. It wasn’t until I returned to e city ‘and took off my clothes for the first time in rs that I saw there was an angry-looking lump on my knee. So like a country boy as it, i) out popped a cactus thorn half an inch long. In a day or two the soreness was gone. Anybody else wquld probably have lost his leg, but you see I lead such a pure life that my blood is clear and strong and noble and all that stuff period. The soldiers all laughed when I started out to battle armed only with a shovel. ridiculous instrument to carry to the wars, but I'm a pretty smart guy, you know, and I'd figured this thing all out ahead of time. eo

Long Live the Shovel!

MY CALCULATIONS were verified when I got up front where the boys actudlly know what the zing of a bullet sounds like. None of them laughed. Because brother, when you're up there where the divebombers play, digging becomes instinctive, I've heard of dive-bombings so severe that soldiers lying in shallow trenches would try to dig deeper with their fingernails, And I know of many a man who is alive today because he happened to be near an empty

. foxhole some previous warrior had dug. So long live

the shovel! There seems to be a sort of unwritten law that full colonels and generals always act nonchalant when in danger. Most colonels and generals don't wear their steel helmets in battle. I thought for a while it was an unbreakable- tradition, but I have seen a few colonels and generals wearing them. I don’t wear mine, incidentally. But that’s not because I'm. nonchalant. Its because I got rattled and forgot and left it lying under & truck one night when we were. retreating. . - ;

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

¥ couple of weeks ago, Mr. Pritchard went out to the

£2 poses. Several Such

i forgotten his pass. + “gure, I know you're the president, but you know the

ONE OF THE reasons A A Irwin, assistant county agricultural agent, is such an expert on gardening is that for years he has had a garden of his own. But this year, Mr. Irwin is so busy making half a dozen speeches a day around town, telling novices how to raise victory gardens, that he says "he won't have time to put out a garden of his own, Come summer, and he may have to pass the hat, or maybe a basket, for contributions of vegetables. . . . If you notice some of the local news.Jpapermen, including all ‘three papers, going around with that . absent-minded look, blame it on Aaron” Benesch, the’ city editor of the St. Louis Star-Times, who has 8 been in town since Saturday on a {4rajding” expedition. He’s been fering the boys (preferably 4Fs and those over 40) d: the girls more money than theyre getting here and more than their present employers can pay them under the wage freeze. It has some of them in a dither. Oh, yes, and Freddie Mollenkopf, city editor of the Toledo Blade, was in town the other day, inviting some of the boys to “drop in and see me if you're up around Toledo.” And here we thought . PF. D. R. had stopped folks from shifting from one job to another to get more mopey.

Sounds Like the Army

THE LIGHT COMPANY" has very strict rules for . the protection of its plants. One of the rules is that no one—literally ne one—enters the plants without the proper pass. Only four men, of whom President Harry T. Pritchard is one, can sign the passes. A

Harding St. plant. When he got there, he found he'd “Sorry,” apologized the guard.

rules.” Nof having a blank pass with him, Mr. Pritchard had to get someone to telephone downtown + and have Russ superintendent of power production, bring one out to him. . . And while we're on the subject of utilities, Edward Hilgemeier, 5608 College ave., phoned John Kleinhenz of the Water Company a couple of weeks ago and asked if he would

‘Washington

WASHINGTON, April 14—One of the most important differences of outlook between the British and American stabilization proposals concerns whether stabilization machinery is' to be used also for any ~ broader post-war ‘purposes; When this point was brought up to: Secretary Morgenthau he was emphatic in stating that the American treasury viewpoint was against using the stabilization ma- '. chinefy for control of anything else. He said the task of stabilizing world currencies was sufficiently difficult in itself without + Joadipg extraneous tasks on to the ' ‘mechanism. Washington. expects entirely different agencies to be set up for other purposes such as rehabilitation development, The stabilization fund is exclusively a project-to facilitdte trade.

Foresee Cledring Union as Pivot THE BRITISH, on the other hand, conceive of

the clearing union which they propose as possibly

becoming the pivot of the future -economic govern= ment of the world. e Keynes-plan states that the greatest possible emp should be given to the usefulness of the cl ig union are suggested. The clearing union might handle the financing for post-war relief rehabilitation and reconstruction.

. It might finance any international policing body that

might be created. For instance, if a country were to infringe its properly. authorized orders, the policing body might

request the clearing tuinion to impose a financial

blockade on the delinquent country. The clearing

4 union might also. finance sommedicy sontrol and

ever-normal granaries. ° ¢ I is also conceived of as possibly becoming. s

‘My Day

for underprivileged children.

WASHINGTON, Tuesday. —I attended a party for

‘the thrift shop here; an old charity in the District

of the work done was very much impressed a short speech made by Capt. “Thomas L. by ‘Gatch, U.. 8. N., whose ship has a ‘most dis record. . He is recovering from wourids received in ‘action and paid a f tribute to -the bluejackets and . youth fighting the war. It: must ‘make all of us proud to be Amer+icém ‘citizens ‘and have our coun-

of Columbia, which supports

¢ union in serving other pur-

like a nice three and a half pound bass for the company’s aquarium, “Sorry, too big,” replied John. Yesterday, still attired in fishing clothing, Mr, Hilgemeier showed up at the utility’s offices with another bass, a three pound small mouth, which he had caught “somewhere’ in Eagle Creek.” This one went into the aquarium.

Good Old Kentucky .

RECENT STORIES about “out of staters” making light of the nickname, Hoosier, prompted a reader to relay to us a story told by Police Capt. Walter Houck at the police auxiliary school. Capt. Houck said he used to have a neighbor who came here from Kentucky, and it was the captain's habit to tell this neighbor all the stories he heard in which Kentuckians were‘the butt of the joke. That went along until one day the captain told a story that got “under the hide” of his neighbor. “Say, captain,” said the neighbor, “do you know the difference between Kentuckians and : ?” “No, what is it?” asked Houck. “Well sir,” replied the ex-Kentuckian, “It's the Ohio river.” . . . Ruth Bucklew, Spencer, Ind., writes us to ask if we have found a sure cure for robins which bang their heads against the window all day. She says she has one that won't quit until she opens the window, and it’s a little cold for that. Sorry, Ruth,

‘we don’t know & sure-cure,

Like a Cue Ball

A BIT OF LEVITY crept into the usually dignified]

sessions of the safety board at its meeting yesterday. It arose when a poolroom operator appeared to plead for restoration of his license. He explained his poolroom is across the street from a fire station and said

the poolroom was a morale builder for the firemen who|

played there “during their lunch hour.” He invited Chief Harry H. Fulmer to come out and play a game. Board President William H. Remy commerited: “I've often thought you ought to play pool chief. Your bald head reminds me very much of a cue ball.” The “chief blushed furiously, until he resembled the three ball ‘more than a cue ball. . . . The session broke up with Mr, Remy challenging "Board Members Paul Robertson and Smiley Chambers to a pool game, the winner to take the others, and newspapermen, to lunch next week.

By Raymond Clapper

governor in steadying the trade cycle by exercising

" contractionist or expansionist influence on trade in|

general as the need might arise. The British contend that their broader plan re-

quires no greater surrender of their sovereign rights! — - than in a commercial treaty. The obligations are!

to be terminated on certain conditions by giving notice,

Basis for Give and Take

THE PLAN emphasizes that greater readiness jo enter supernational arrangements must be required in the post-war world. It is an advantage und not a disadvantage, the British plan points out, that it invites member "states to abandon the license to * promote indiscipline, disorder and bad-neighborliness, which to the general disadvantage, they have been free to exercise hereto. +In these two plans the basis has been laid for give and take. It would be unfortunate if in the public discussion each side became’ adamant concerning details. The necessary thing to do, and the most important purpose of both plans, is to abolish barter arrangements and the trick currencies which were coming into vogue through the Nazi example. Both plans look toward the establishmént of agreal International monetary standard based.on gold yardstick. Both plans undertake to insure that currencies of all countries would have a fixed standard of value in international trade and would not be subject to the harmful effects of depreciation. - The American plan can be put into effect by transferring for the purpose the present two-billion-dollar stabilization fund. This fund has been operating for several years and has actually made a small profit. Partly because of the stabilization operations it was possiblé when the war broke out to continue trade without any disastrous effects due to panic or currency Siglocasion,

‘By Eleanor Rooseuch

of the. ultimate gift which love for one’s fellow may exact. from an individual, for Christ gave up his divinity in order that he might suffer and redeem

- the human race, “Through the ages that has been

‘the symbol of the greatest love of mankind. ’ In his paintings, Mr. Wickwire shows that the youth. of today. is again paying the ultimate price for the good. of mankind. They are giving up their lives so that the rest of the world may have a chance again to redeem itself and.build a better world. In the evening we attended a mass memorial in Constitution hall dedicated to the two million Jewisk: dead of Europe. It was called, “We Shall! Never Die.” The music, singing, narration, and actors all served to make it one of the most impressive and moving pageants I have ever seen. No one who heard each

group come forward and give the story of what had , happened to it at the hands of a ruthless (German

n- military, will ever forget hose, haunting words: “Remember Us.” ?

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134,000,000 Americans.

those things you've learned to that’s what you've learned if you didn’t give up and go crazy some fime ago. So, also, with Uncle Sam. Many of the orders deemed necessary simply have to be given time, so to speak, to ripen. It’s been more than six months, for instance, since you saw that red shoes, among other things, were to be out of the picture for the duration. Yet you still see red shoes in the stores, and are likely to for a while to come. “It must be illegal for them fo be sold,” you worry, “and it would certainly be unpatriotic for me to buy them.” Right there, according to officlals with whom I have talked, is one of the dangers of this lapse. The order, as given, banned the dying of leather in more than six named shades, as well as specifying other shoe limitations.

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Flexible Schedule

BUT MANY tanners at that time had red leather in process. Manufacturers who work months and months ahead of the ‘“market” (meaning the time retailers ‘purchase their stocks for coming months), had considerable quantities of red leather on hand and more on order. Some of that red leather, dyed .and purchased or ordered months ago, is still waiting to be made up. : To ban the sale of red leather

‘Wool to our allies . . . and some from Australia.

tiable material, and would serve no good purpose whatsoever. As a customer and patriot, all you need to remember is this: Merchandise in the stores is there quite legally and above-board and it’s perfectly all right. for you to buy it. (You're not supposed. to indulge in wasteful buying of things you don’t need, but you know that already.) If merchandise is frozen, as the stock of electric refrigerators was, you won't be able to buy it. Even on the balmiest summer

YANKS GUESS ON WAR'S END

Americans in Britain Think 21/> Years Needed to Crush Axis.

By NAT A. BARROWS Copyright. ‘ine Chicago D Jndianapols 7 Times LONDON, April 14—The poll of several hundred Yanks in Britain— variously guessing that the war will last another 21; years—is an interesting bit of crystal-gazing on the a|part of the G. I. Joes; but that is #1 about all. These American soldiers, waiting here for what lies ahead of them when Sousse and Kairougn are far behind and other days bring other battles, do not have any more inside knowledge than the folks back home. They are amusing themselves and their consensus, as recorded . by William B. Cruise of Montclair, N. J., director of the American Red Cross Mostyn club in London. Cruise got answers from 620 men from “every state in the union and all branches. of the service, both men who have been pounding the axis from four-engined bombers and those who are waiting for invasion orders. In addition to the majority opinion that the war will last another 2% years, the Yanks guess that Germany will lay down its arms in August, 1944, and Japan will give up about a year later. Sgt. Jerry Cram of Waterville, Me., put it this way: “we'll have the European situa‘tion well in hand by August of next year. By then, our air force will have smashed what is left of the dwindling Nazi resources, its (Germany’s) manpower will be greatly reduced and its supply problem will present a hopeless picture.” !

ST ———————————————— . FORTS RAID PRUSSIA

This is the third of a series of six s regulation of everyday life is brought about,

* offices,

Wiikat, bios golt ta et Setdpht sud wens lamiotow? Wait a minute—have you consulted Uncle Sam? ; For he’s making the decisions these days that affect the lives of

telling how this complex -

. WASHINGTON, April 14.—Uncle Sam's problems as a housewife aren’t too dissimilar to your own. When you go to the door and call, “Johnny! Johnny, come here this minute!” you know very well that it may be anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour before Johnny shows. The lapse between order and compliance is one of

consider as natural—at least,

day, you can’t very well say to the family, “We'll go on a picnic next Sunday.” Instead, you say, “We'll £0 on a picnic if it doesn’t rain, or if Daddy doesn’t have to work, or if Harriet and the children don’t drop it.” You have to keep your schedule flexible, or you'd run into all sorts of difficulties and impossibilities. » #° 8

Wool Curtailment

THERE AGAIN, Uncle Sam is right with you. He learned early that in keeping house you have to allow for unexpected changes, for both windfalls and emergencies. One of the things we had to allow for when we went into war was a great curtailment of wool for civilian use. We were making millions of uniforms which would take plenty of the precious stuff. Shipments from Australia, our chief source, were doubtful, the southern Pacific being a war zone. It looked too, as if we would receive virtually no made-up cloth from England, altogether the picture wasn't rosy. The clamor that went ‘up made it look even worse than it was. You would have thought wool was

as definitely cut off as nylon was,

when it was diverted entirely to military use. There was a time when some people did tink Just that. ”» You probably heard, “Better buy wool while there’s still some around,” until you have visions of wrapping yourself up in newspapers to keep warm.

“From Australia

BUX YOU kept on seeing wool in the shops. Not so much for a while, and then considerably more. You began to. think someone had been spoofing you, and you said so. In fact, you got quite huffy about it on occasion. : But no one was frying to spoof '

. you. This was a tangled skein to ‘shoes would be to waste this val- -

-unwind, and I had already picked" up several strands (some of which I felt weren't pure wool). In Washington, it’s led me to several and it straightens out pretty much this way: Biggest factor was the improved situation in shipping from Australia, which brought more wool than we'd expected to obtain. Besides that, the domestic output exceeded expectations, and non-ci-vilian demands weren't as great as had been expected. This caused such a shift in the picture that just recently the ci-

tom heme pemmhmkm hehe BY MAXINE GARRISON bh

No fancy frills for milady’s dresses will be permitted during this struggle. The women in the armed forces, the women in the assembly lines. on the home front, and the men in'the army, navy, air forces and marines need all the textiles that count, That means that fancy patterns, frilly styles, and “eyeappeal” dresses are done for the duration. Miss Average America is on the spot—and she can take it!

vilian wool quota was doubled. The picture may change again, depending on any number of factors, and so the over-all plan will remain flexible enough to take care of them, too. This same thing can be said of many supplies, so that when the wind seems to blow now hot, now cold, it does not - necessarily indicate shilly-shally-ing by the authorities; it merely means that adaptability, at least, has not been frozen. 2 8's"

Hose Pipe Dreams

TO CONSIDER another angle of the textile situation, I asked questions about hosiery, There have been a lot of pipe dreams about great stores of nylon and silk hosiery being held back (for goodness knows what reason) for release at some vague future date. By all accounts here, they can be taken for just that—pipe dreams. You may expect an improved

feature for rayon hosiery (which

have long since proved satisfactory to women who do not expect them to: duplicate nylon’ or silk, and who religiously observe the 48-hour drying period). Longstaple Egyptian cotton, long esteemed the hardest-wearing cotton.in the world, is being imported for use in the feet of rayon stockings. If you've been reading the various orders as assiduously as most women have, bound. and determinéd to keep up with all facets of this new life of yours, you may have been puzzled over seemingly meaningless rules. To learn how these rules come about, and par-

Recommend 'Relief Diet’ On Which They Gained

HOLLYWOOD, April 14 (U. P.).—

, The wealthy William A. Pixleys,

who gained weight while dining on

«| the food budget paid relief clients,

presented their pet menus yesterday as an answer to rationing. Pixley, director of the Property Owners’ association, submitted a meal-by-megl report of a monthlong experiment to support his con-

tention that the present budget of

$27.14 per month is adequate for an indigent family. The test, conducted in the Pixleys’ luxurious hotel suite, was undertaken after the county supervisors had proposed what Pixley termed an “unnecessary” increase in food allotments. “Mrs. Pixley and I weighed before the test and again at the conclusion,” Pixley told the supervisors. “Mrs. Pixley’s weight increased from 125 to 128 pounds. I weighed 165 pounds at the beginning and 166 at the close. “Our diet was better balanced and we expect to continue many things we did during the test.

“Under wartime circumstances all of us wil be fortunate if we" can continue to get food supplies now obtained under the so-called in-

digent family food budget.” The Pixleys’ breakfasts, according to the report, usually consisted of orange juice, cereal, coffee, cream and sugar. A salad or sandwiches and milk was served at noon, and dinner menus varied from fried chicken to bacon and eggs or fish. The first Sunday dinner under the test comprised fried chicken, rice, biscuits and gravy, raw carrot and cabbage salad, applesauce and téa. The next week they had roast shoulder of lamb, roast potatoes, brown gravy, mashed turnips, carrot. and lettuce salad, canned peaches, coffee with cream and sugar. | The third Sunday dinner was built around wheat heart meat loaf with tomato sauce and on the last Sunday of the month the Pixleys

pudding for dessert.

RUSSIANS BEAT BACK ‘THRUST IN DONETS

MOSCOW, April 14 (U. P.).~— Russian troops, battling to hold their bridgehead on the west bank of the Donets river below Balakleya, killed 200 Germans today in the only major engagement reported in the Soviet mid-day communique. Five German anti-tank guns were destroyed and two tanks disabled, the communique said. In another sector of the same front, Soviet scouts penetrated an enemy-occu-pied village and killed 40 Germans.

The actions followed a futile German attempt yesterday to break

LONDON, April 14 (U. P.)—The|supply

It's Unbearable, - The Judge Says

NEW YORK, April 14 (U. P.).— Magistrate Charles Solomon fined ‘nine men and ‘women $1 each for feeding peanuts to the bears in Prospect park because “it isn't “fair to reduce their standard of living to. that of human beings.” “The first thing you know the poor bears will have gout, rheu--matism and other ailments that on account of overeating and ati ‘between meals,” he said.

MEREDITH RESIGNS AT MARION COLLEGE

MARION, Ind., April 14 (U. P.)—

-ticularly check the apparently meaningless specifications, I tracked down order M-207 of schedule IV. To be less cryptic, that is the latest ruling affecting the production of women's work clothes, In effect, it (1) eliminated rayon and rayon mixtures for such garments; (2) cut the number of cotton fabrics to be employed from 14 types to five; (3) eliminated prints, limiting colorings to bleached and

Goodbye, nylons e o o they're in parachutes now.

plain shades; (4) banned such frills” ‘as pocket: flaps, coniras ing ‘and embroidered tri an ag cuffs and pleated, shirred or tucked mming,

Saving Textiles

WORK CLOTHES for women

industrial and farm workers are of course a mushroom development of the war, and might be generically termed a part of the sportswear field. At first, everyone was pretty vague about just how they should be made, so a

WARING ON WAY HOME TO ‘TALK

Legion Commander to ‘Tell AW on Return From North Africa.

WASHINGTON, ‘April 14—Roane Waring, national commander of the

home from the African front and will “tell all” with “no wraps put

or OWL” it was announced here today. : One of the several places at which the national commander will tell his story is in Indiandpolis, May 6. Instead of the annual commander’s dinnei this year a public meeting has been arranged for Murat temple. The meeting will be ‘preceded by a parade of Legion bands from throughout the- state. Stale and local Legion officials also will parc

dined on beef pot roast with bread| Pate.

. Jack Cejner, Legion publicity director; is ‘here to arrange. for the first talk to be made by Cmdr, Waring upon his return. Following the homecoming: speech at Indianapolis, Comdr. Waring will speak at a huge Founders’ day celebration in St. Louis, May 8. Next stop will be his home town, Memphis, on May 10, and then Macon, Ga., May 11. Before taking off tor ‘the African front from Miami, March 15, Omdr. Waring had: toured. U. S.. army]. ‘camps and training centers for seve

|i weston has: sure asorundise 22. abroad’ was made with the under

upon his return, Mr. Cejner said.

IRWIN ADDRESSES °

American Legion, now is en route

on either by the war department|

The entire tour, both here and] standing that he could tl ae

‘EXTENSION: CLASS|

little bit of everything was tried. There was a definite tendency for a‘while toward the root zoot type "of thing, that might have gone to & musical comedy but weren't exactly prace tical. Out of experimentation and use have come very definite ideas of

what is needed and how textile

savings may be effected. Rayon and rayon mixtures were * needed for other essential civilian - uses, so-out they went. Concen= trating of a small number of weaves allows greater saving and more efficiency than spreading your fabric base out’ among a

‘large number, so. five strong types

were specified—pin . checks, gray sheetings, gray twills, gray print cloth and ‘denims,

Printing is’ obviously a ‘more

complicated dyeing job than plain shades, so bleached and plain shades were specified. The more doodads, such as pocket flaps, a garment -has, the more’ fabric it takes and the more labor in construction. * “Cotton: ds précious,. 0 ‘these unnecessary frills were ruled out. Time and fabric are also consumed by such construction details as shirred trimming and contrasting stitching, so these” things also had to go. Work clothes by their very name are meant to be practical, This order specifies the practicali« ty, and by. so doing saves fabrie, labor, machinery and time—all valuable war materials,

(NEXT—A glimpse into the future of food.)

HOLD EVERYTHING

4-14

“Our hotel detective got tired of stooping all the time!”

THOMAS JEFFERSON PUPILS BUY STAMPS

‘As a special feature of the ‘pros

gram held yesterday at Thomas Jefferson school 7, 748 Bates st. honoring. the nian whose name the school bears, all pupils were pledged to buy a war stamp. ey half the pupils bought stamps. =

which the children told Sorieg of

Jefferson's . life. The fifth: and sixth grade:

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