Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1943 — Page 19
_ SDAY APRIL 15;
| Hoosier Vegebord
EL a “IN TUNISIA—You run on to some unusual people
in the American army. For instance I know a corporal who can recite the Versailles treaty by heart, and: who can quote from memory every imBrians military treaty since the Franco-Prussian war. This man is Cpl. William Nikpg olin, of 1105 W. New York st., In~dianapolis. You call him Nick. He is 28, and has gold teeth. He has lived 14 years in America and 14 years in Europe. He: can talk in almost. every language there is in Europe. Although born in America, he speaks English with quite an accent. Nick studied. jourmelism at But~ ler and Columbia universities. Then he went to: Europe, and took an M. A. degree in poBtical history at Belgrade university. ~.. For six years he worked on various European newsPapers. He knows the Balkans intimately, and his manner of thinking is really more Balkan than In 1939 Nick returned to America, because he saw the war comingsand he wanted no part of it. He was disillusioned and sad over the state of things. He resolved he would never return to Europe under any circumstances. He turned his back.
Wants to Be Part of the Peace
_ AND THEN He was drafted, and here he is headed right back for the old stamping grounds. But he is
glad: now. He's an excellent soldier, and ‘outstand- .
conscientious. He will be of great value when
i ms! y our armies get on to the continent.
oh Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
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"But he sees further than that. He wants to be # part of the peace building. - He wants to get his discharge over here, and stay on to cover the peace
THE BOYS “in the know” say the city’s gambling erusade is ‘beginning to show signs of going the way of all crusades. The lid still is on, but there’s a general relaxing on the part of the gambling operators, and ghey hint mysteriously that “everything’s going to be okay before very long.” A sample > of the trend is the fact that some pinball machine operators have readjusted their machines to restore the free game feature. And all but one of the major pool (lottery) operators are emerging ‘from retirement and going back into business openly, although some ‘hold their drawings out of town. One of the old-time pools is changing its name. The operator of another
is switching from the pool racket
to the race horse bookie business. . The bookies are still cautious, most of them keeping . their shops closed and doing business over restaurant tables and on street corners. We haven’t heard of any slot machines emerging from storage yet.
Gift for the Governor < GOVERNOR SCHRICKER received a mysterious
"package yesterday. Accompanying it was a note saying that the sender had won a bet (he bet the Gov-
. ernor would decide not to buy the Trimble mansion)
and felt he ought to share his winnings with the governor.. The latter opened the package and found a
~ year’s supply of Mail Pouch chewing tobacco. The Nut. . , . Friends advised him to try to trade it for
ut». was very unhappy, because he chews Beech
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some Beech Nut. ... With the baseball season opening coming up; the governor is beginning to give his good right arm some warming-up exercises. He’ll have & new catcher for the opening ball this season—
Washington
WASHINGTON, April 15.—The dilemma of the Pacific is very well stated by one of the wisest diplomats in the united nations, Walter Nash, New
‘Zealand minister to the United States.
He says we are not going to confine ourselves to a holding war in the Pacific while _ Germany is being licked. He says it is a mistake to imagine that the united nations are putting all their strength into the war in Europe and leaving Japan until that war is over. But at the same time, he says, it would be dangerous so to divide the forces as to run the risk that they would ‘'be effective in neither theater. American army and navy -officers from the South Pacific and Southwest Pacific commands of
E Adm. Halsey and Gen. MacArthur have been here
for some time pleading their case for more help. Naturally, the decisions are not revealed. It is mot _ likely that they received as much as they asked for . by any means, but they must have received something. Our produciion is sufficient to permit some . help - to them. : The speech of ‘Prime Minister Churchill made clear that we intend" to strike for a decision first
against Germany. So the bulk of our air force will
be concentrated against her.
Airplanes Handled Skil fully ‘MEANTIME IN the Pacific airplanes can do the
° work against Japanese ships that German submarines
* do against our ships in the Atlantic. We are using submarines in the Pacific but airplanes are probably sinking or damaging more ships now. ' That is because of the advanced technique devel- - oped under Gen. Kenny. Thus in the Pacific an | appalling shortage of planes is partly overcome by
‘exceptionally & skilful technique.
My Day
: WASHINGTON, Wednesday.— Yesterday morning | wo Sint the abdication of the Jemerson memoria : Jt is beginning to look very beautiful and some day, . when the cherry trees around it bloom in great pro- | “fusion; people will forget that We ware ver afraid of spoiling the landscape around the
“he lives just over the hill from us in New Mexico.
‘duffel bag, trying to thumb his way east. "He needed
conferences. . He feels himself sepecially equipped for ‘the job. Nick, in addition to- his other duties, is a sort of personal assistant for two officers—Maj. Charles Miller of Detroit and Capt. Tony Lumpkin of Mexico, Mo. Nick looks after them as though they were
babies. They have a tent buried in the ground, with| a kerosene stove in it, and’ évery night just before
bedtime they heat up some beans and make some cholocate and call Nick in, and they all sit there and eat and drink and discuss the world.
A Neighbor from New Mexico
WE CORRESPONDENTS have many little mem‘ories of the central valley in Tunisia; little things we never had time to write, I remember one night, for instance, when four of us ‘were eating supper with Col. Edson Raff, the famous paratroop leader, and his young adjutant, Lt. Jack Pogue. It was my first meeting with Raff, and I felt some awe of him, but he was so attentive that I soon got over: that. .Lt. Pogue and I got to talking, ‘and it turned out
He’s from Estancia, in the valley behind Albuquerque, only about 40 miles away. So there in the Tunisian desert we did a couple of hours’ reminiscing about our own special desert back home. You see little things in wartime that make you laugh, they are so incongruous. I.remember the forenoon our troops Were evacuating Sbeitla. The roads were lined with our convoys. Mixed in with them was the French artillery, withdrawing along with us. The sight that struck me as so funny—a caterpillar tractor was laboring up a slight grade In the gravel road, pulling a French 75 behind it. And as we watched, here came another 75, pulled by six straining horses, and sped right around the motorized gun as though it were standing still.
Mayor Tyndall. When someone reminded him of this, the governor asked: “I wonder if the general can catch a red hot curve?”
Bass Goes to Dinner
THAT 3-POUND small mouth bass that a fisherman donated to the water company’s aquarium Tuesday didn’t last long. The big fellow attracted a lot of attention yesterday. One man stuck his finger in the water and the bass became so excited he thrashed around and upset the drain pipe, letting all the water out of the aquarium. When an attendant discovered the situation, Mr. Bass and all the other denizens of the aquarium were flopping around out of water, and gasping for breath. They all were revived, but it was decided to get rid of the big fellow. Willie Thomas, a janitor in the utility offices, volunteered to take him home for dinner, and that’s what happened. Mary DeBrasseur, 309 Prospect st., wishes chewing gum could be abolished. She went into Thompson’s near Pennsylvania the other day and a wad of gum stuck under a chair ruined her hose.
Around the Town
RATIONING TIP: If you like dandelion greens, the statehouse lawn is the place: to go. Youll find them thick—and tender. . . . Seen at East and Washington at 6:30 a. m. yesterday: A soldier standing in
a truck. . . . Sign on the bulletin board of the Meridian Street Methodist church: “At least you can try.” . . « The pink section of the city directory lists the occupants at 431 N. Meridian as: “World War Memorial Trusties.” Well, well! Sounds like some Michigan City alumni. . , . Home on leave is Ensign Creath Smiley, who stopped off en route from his former station in New Jersey to his new post in Boston.
By Raymond Clapper
An authoritative Australian analysis which I have received from Warwick Fairfax, managing director of the Sydney Morning Herald, reports that there seems little or no prospect of a definite counter-offensive on a large scale. He says that the Casablanca conference determined to capitalize allied successes in the European Zone to the utmost, and that in Australia this decision .is accepted generally, although not unanimously, .both in official circles and among the public. Yet, he says, the. Churchill forecast of partial demobilization after the defeat of Germany has made gloomy reading in Australia. It indicates, apparently, an inadequate appreciation of the size of the job in the Pacific. Here in Washington there is concern among: some thinking persons over the danger of a letdown, and excessive demobilization, when Germany is defeated. Many will consider it the real end of the war, with the Pacific phase a brief sideshow. That is a grave underestimate and it is a dangerous state of mind for this nation to be drifting into.
Must Strike at Japan's Heart
“THE SMASHING of Japan is going to be no picnic. It will require the defeat of substantial Japanese naval forces, the reduction of island fortresses that are going to be defended to the last man, and the use of enormous quantities of air power in the softening up of the heart-island of Japan itself. : "Before Pearl Harbor we used to hear experts say Japan could be polished off in three or four months. But navy people never felt that way. In fact, for weeks before Pearl Harbor our army and navy Were insisting’ that the state department get them m time in which to prepare, before Japan could s We need to be on guard against the insidio effect of our tendency to think that the war will practically over when Hitler is licked. Any such idea would honeycomb the home front and weaken it prematurely,
By Eleanor Roosevelt
we shall simply have dominated their more aggressive enemies. At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want—for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
By Ernie Pyle|
Wathiogton tt new rising the Daily—almost hourly-—decisions control what she can wear and buy
house for the American housewife.
are reached and orders issued which
and use.
To find out how all these Things come to happen, Mise Maxine
Garrison has been spending days decisions.
with the officials who make the
This is the fourth of a series telling how all this complex regulation
of everyday life is brought about.
WASHINGTON, April 15.—“Just step with me into my rocket ship, and we’ll take a slight trip into the future.” If someone had extended that invitation to me after my visit to the department of agriculture, I wouldn’t have been
a bit surprised.
For the developments in food packaging I had just
seen were in themselves
like -a trip into the future. Do you remember an old movie, one of those science-and-fantasy dreams about the future world, in which the characters had for food just a few pills a day? We all laughed and said, “Ha! That's a good one. Imagine getting all the food you need in something that size.” Well, it turns out that that picture wasn't so fantastic as we thought. I held in my hand a little box the size and appearance of a crackerjack box with the outer wrapping removed. That little package contained three square meals! In it were orange juice, soup, eggs for scrambling, milk, chocolate pudding, a walnut bar and tablets of vitamins A and C. All were dehydrated, of course, and pressed to great compactness. The contents dehydrate to eight pounds of food, sufficient in bulk ‘and nourishment for-a whole day’ Ss
supply. * =
Could Feed City
THIS PARTICULAR item was developed for flying food in to areas isniated from regular supplies. It can be used to feed troops if necessary, or to deliver food to the devastated and half-starved communities we may take under our protection. One plane could carry enough to feed a city! The department of agriculture fairly ‘hums with such developments as this. In neat little jars, not quite as big as vaseline jars, I saw all types of food being tested for dehydration—potatoes, rice, beans, turnips, carrots and others. Just to see what they were like at that stage, I bit into a little chunk of dehydrated sweet potato -—and found it mighty sweet and mighty hard to chew, bui unmistakably sweet potato. Many foods are far past the experimentation stage, and are being sent abroad for soldiers and friendly nations. Among the things I saw packaged for shipping were dehydrated spinach and kale (what an odor!), butter, dry yeast and various meat products. Into the palm of my hand went a package about the size of a package of dates, covered with transparent paper. It was made up of thousands of minute. flakes, pressed tightly together. This. small bundle, they told me, had been made from 40 pounds of fish ~-imagine!
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It Smells Good
ON SNIFFING the marvelous odor of a package of dry powdered soup, I was all ready to look for some water and a gas burner to try it out. This contained green
NEW SALT DRINK
MAY SAVE LIVES|
Experiments May Aid in Halting Deaths From Burn Shock.
By Science Service WASHINGTON, April 15 — A drink of salt water, of just the right strength, may become. the future first aid treatment for shock in extensive burns, Experiments at the National Institute of Health by Dr. ‘Sanford e|M. Rosenthal, principal pharmacolel ofist of the U. S. public health service here, point that way, although so far no human trials of the method have been made. Survival rate for the first two days among burned mice giver about
« one-fourth of a teaspoon of the salt
drink was about twice as high as among the animals not given this drink, 13 Out of 100 When the animals were given two salt drinks, one and four hours after the burn, only about 13 out of 100 died the first day and 17 out of 100 on the second, as compared with about 93 out of 100 dying among untreated confrols. Whether a salt drink can, replace
sh blood serum or blood plasma as life-
saving treatment for, shock in hu-
y the|man vietims of burns cannot be told -of until more
more experiments have been
ear|macie. The salt drink treatment is
lege a ol students Thos Jefferson. two. winners were photographed with me and me ¢ a jes in the
WAACS TO GO TO BRITAIN LONDON, April 15 (U. P.) —Capt. Anna W. Wilson of Studio City, Cal, head of the WAACs in the
pea flour, soybean flour, powdered skim milk, - vegetable protein extract, powdered onion, salt, celery salt and white pepper—and grandmother’s kitchen never produced a more yummy-smelling concoction. One tin of food being sent to the Russians carries with it quite a, romance. Its label is in Russian, and there doesn’t seem to be an English name for the dish, so we'll just call it X. This X is made up of cooked pork, lard, onions, salt and spices. Now that doesn’t sound too romantic, but it is apparently relished by the Russians no end. The legend goes that X is made by an old Russian recipe for a delicacy favored by the czar and his court, but out of the question for the common people. The dish still has a romantic aura for the Russians, even though the czar and his court have long since gone, and they get a big kick out of having as everyday food what once was a rare delicacy. (Sort of makes us even for caviar, doesn’t it?) Foods are being packaged with labels which give contents and instructions in 12 languages. We made out English, , Greek, Polish, Russian, Arabic, Italian, Chinese, Dutch, French and Spanish, and
- guessed that the other two were
one of the Norse tongues and a Balkan language. This way, food can be shipped wherever it’s needed, immediately on call, with no delay to make sure that those who receive it will know what to do with it, # ” »
Space at Premium
THE CONCENTRATION on compressing food arises from current shipping problems. Space is at a premium, If you can compress two or more times the amount. of food ‘into. the. space it occupies in its original state, you multiply the value. of ship;ping just that much. Currently the effort is directed largely toward oceanic shipping, so that our military forces and our friends abroad may be better supplied. But railroad and truck shipping space right here at home is becoming more valuable, too. Vast plans for cargo transport by air are in the making. Thus all these experiments may affect your life and mine before long. Already we've seen some dehy-
drated foods on the market. -
We've tasted concentrated noodle, vegetable, mushroom and cream of spinach soup, chicked gumbo and mixed dehydrated vegetables, and found them good. Having seen first-hand some of the latest results of these processing efforts, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised in the not 3 oe ‘distant
Food in many languages is what the United States is ‘producing. here on thé home front are being rationéd and why many things are so hard to get. The U. S. is not only the arsenal of democracy but the breadbasket as well. The picture above, a U. S. government photo, shows | canned meat with several foreign labels. :
That's one of the reasons why we
. Dehydration is the miracle of this war, so o far as food is concerned. Compressed into a package the size ‘of a orackerjack box are three square meals, as shown by the drawing by Artist Ralph Reichhold. Miss Garrison saw this package in the department of agriculture in Washington.
future to find much of our food
at home being prepared from
“miniature.” oe u = RURAL . ELECTRIFICATION companies are vastly interested in = these plans because they promise to do-away with the canning problem which : now looms so large. . Dehydration, incidentally, got under way during the last war. But faulty dehydration lost vitamins and food value, and many plants’ which had converted had to stand considerable loss. Great care is heing taken that this does not happen again, and vitamins and other food values are being preserved ‘by the new methods. This. time, we seem to be playing Ior keeps. Which ‘reminds me — when I was a litle girl, running ‘wrapping cord through cut and strung
Ernie Pyle Will Be Guest
Times Special
WASHINGTON, April 15.—Ernie Pyle may not learn about this for some time, but he is to be the absent honor guest at what may be cne of the biggest Indiana parties ever held in Washington. A group of Hoosier women here have sent out 1000 invitations to former residenis of the state in the Washington-Baltimore area to attend what they call an “Indiana Women’s ‘Smoker’ and Reeption” next Sunday. Bach participant will donate 50 cents for the Ernie Pyle elgare} fund. ‘This fund was started by a group in the Nationai Press club here and has been growing without any formal organization. All the money is turned over to the Scripps-How-ard Washington News and forwarded to one of the leading tobacco companies which lays down the ts on the fighting front at a charge of around 5 cents per
pack. Arthur J. “Dutch” Bergman, new
Of Honor—'In Absentia’
coach of the Washington Redskins and a Notre Dame All-American, and Mrs. Bergman, a native Hoosier, will head the reception line. Other prominent women participating are Mrs. Claude R. Wickard, Mrs. Paul V. McNutt, Mrs." Raymond E. Willis, Mrs. Lewis B. Hershey, Mrs. Lloyd Sayers, Mrs. James Lewis Fiesser, Mrs. Harvey Wiley, ‘Dean Marie Mount of the University of Maryland; Dr. Kalherine McHale, Mrs. Guy Mason, Mrs. Camden McAtee and Mrs. Mark Clark. The latter is the wife of Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, leader of the preparations for the African invasion. According to Mrs. Madge Ballard, prime mover in the event, all the food will be donated by various Hoosiers here so thit every cent will go to the Pyle smokes fund. The postcard invitations close with this slogan: : “Help happy Hoosier hilarity at home—Smoke out the axis in Africa.”
PILOT CONDITIONING CAMP IS PLANNED
WASHINGTON, April 15 (U. P). —Recruits who want to serve with the army air forces but can’t quite meet physical requirements will have a chance tg condition themselves under a new program an-
BoHhted yestarday by the war dies]
program will be undertaken | 3 first at Babler park, former CCC wa
partment. ‘The
European theater of operations, said| —During
44 Women Fined For Hitch-Hiking
WALTHAM, Mass., April 15 (U. P) ~Forty-four Watertown women war workers were let off with
court, costs ang a lecture from the .
green beans kept my fingers out of mischief through many summer hours. These were then hung upto dry, and jin the winter they made many a tasty “mess” of * out-of<seasonn green beans. Maybe this dehydration isn't such a new idea after alll
Uncle Makes Mistakes
AS A HOUSEKEEPER, Uncle Sam, too, makes his mistakes. Even the experts can’t be right all the time, and one very pointed example was the sliced bread episade. Soriebody—by now nobody at all will admit any responsibility for. the bright -idea—decided that not slicing bread before sale
would save paper, paraffin and
steel. . Thus ‘we’ were “told to slice our
“ owh bread, and ‘the papers and
radio regaled us with elaborate instructions . about holding the knife with the point away from
the body, and grasping the loaf firmly in the left hand. Instructions or ne, housewives claimed t wasted bread, mad : impossible, and ‘threa . safety © of children who had a sudden. urge for ga slice of bread and jam, and wanted to cut it for themselves.
The whole thing worked up into quite a tempest in the breadbox. But. before a riot ensued, it was ‘discovered somehow that the paper and paraffin situation wasn’t ‘as perilous as had been expected, and that very little’ steel was being saved through home-slicing while = bread was being wasted, Presto—sliced bread again. Like any housewife, Uncle Sam has learned that he may get his fingers ‘burned several times. before he succeeds in running the house smoothly.
NEXT - Uncle Sam enters the kitchen.
VALUE OF FARM LAND UP 27%
Only Kentucky Leads State - In Agriculture Report
On Sale Prices.
Times Special WASHINGTON, April 15—A 27 per cent increase in farm values over 1942 was reported for Indiana today by the department of agriculture. This is. the largest increase of any state, except Kentucky where a 29 yer cent increase was. recorded, The statistics are based ‘on a bureau of agriculture economics survey and the index figure 100 is the average price per acre from 1912 to 1914. As of March 1, 1943, the Indiana index was 98. ,
Average Is 96 Per Cent
Other figures given for comparison were as follows: ‘1915, 102; - 102d, 161; 1925, 102; 1830, 80: 1933, 53; 1935, 61; 1940, 74; To41, 77 and 1942, 88. : “For ‘the east north central states, which include ‘Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, the 1943 average was 96. as compared with 89 in 1942. The Kentucky figure for 1963 was ui, and 129 in 1942.
ONE ALLIED BOMB. STRIKES TWO SHIPS
ALLIED | _ HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA, April 15 (U.P). ~Lt. Col. ‘John W. Weltman of Rowlesburg, ‘W.: Va. piloting ' a fighter-bomber during attacks
,| against naval installations in Sicily, said which passed
dropped
a
: yisotigh 4 Steigiter at Porto Termes ‘exploded in another
Your Blood Is Needed
April quota for Red Cross Blood Plasma Center — 5400 donors. Donors ‘so far this month— 1437, Yesterday's quota—200, Yesterday's donors—143. You can help meet the quota by “calling LI-1441 for an appointment or going to the center, second floor, Chamber of Commerce building, N. Meridian st.
ICKES HITS $1-YEAR MEN
WASHINGTON, April 15 (U. PJ. —Secretary of the Interior Harold
Ickes, appearing before a congres-
sional . committee, yesterday dis~ missed the whole issue of dollar-a.
year-men with a curmudgeonly “=
snort. - “Don’t want ‘em in my des partment,” he told a house com= mittee. “They come down ‘here to ‘work and then spend three or Ione
HOLD LD EVERYTHING