Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1943 — Page 21

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x oy TUNISIA Little items 5 Ra a at least a fourth of the young lieu- = meet are expecting “blessed event” news from: home about now. , . . e German photographic plane that covers every v important sector in Tunisia daily is known in the trade as “Photo Freddie” . . . On days when more than one comes over, the second is called “Freddie Junior.” : +. . Once in a while you can make out the plane as it flashes in the sun, but usually it’s so high you can’t see it at all, you just ; hear it... ; I heard a funny.

soldiers were riding in a Jeep when strafers came diving. The lier tn tie Tack seek at pons: vo could keep a watch to the rear. The jeep took off #icross the fields, with the strafers after it. The rear * guard kept ealling “right” or “left” to indicate which way the driver should turn to dodge.

Twas Time to Leave There

BUT FINALLY it got too hot for the boys up for t, and they just bailed out and left the jeep running. That left our hero alone, riding backwards in a driverless jeep, yelling “right-left” to nobody, while the ‘bullets splattered around. Finally he looked around to see why the driver wasn’t obeying. Then he, too, hit the dust. , . In some parts of Tunisia the sand is soft and yellow and moist, and it's almost a pleasure to dig slit trenches in it, the digging is so easy. But it does have’ its drawbacks. + I know of two cases where soldiers were sleeping win narrow slit trenches and the loose sand. slid in on em without waking them up. They were smothered o Bye Our tank warfare has shown two things—that a

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

Lo SOMETHING NEW has been added to criminal gourt. It's a portable witness stand—one that’s mounted on casters. Thus, when there's a deaf juror, it can be wheeled over close to the jury box so he can hear the Vestimony. And when there’s no jury, the 2 stand can be wheeled up close to . — the bench, so Hizzoner, Judge W. D. Bain, can look the witness in the eye and guess whether he’s telling the truth. . . . Mrs. Elizabeth Bolander, of Indianapolis, is one of the $50 prize winners in the ChiTrib’s “beat-the-axis” slogan contdst. Her slogan was: “Heroic hearts, halting. hearsay, help Hitler ‘harvest hellish headaches hastily!” | . . H.:R. Michael thinks all this “to do” about the Tr . - Missouri-Indiana, squabble is rather foolish: “The statement of this so-called judge from St. Louis (about Hoosiers) seems to be indicative,” Mr. Michael says, “of a marked inferiority complex. After all, if my information: is correct (says he), Indiana‘ had a pretty thick’ layer of culture long before the Missourians quit running around on all fours and chasing each other trough the Irees . with knobby sticks.”

YAround the Town

WE'VE RECEIVED a letter from Mrs. Mertie Harlan, 1702 Washington st., Lafayette, Ind., asking us to Delp her get .n touch with the mother of James

has sad from her son, Fred, also over in Africa, pictures of the two boys and she thought Mrs. Herrell would like to see them. All Mrs. Harlan knows Xs ‘that Jim's mother lives somewhere in Indianapolis. Anyone know her? . .. Mrs, Oval Miller, 876 Bolton ave. is proud that a Maryland firm manufacturing precision instruments for the armed forces has accepted some of her blond hair which was cut 20 years ago and has been preserved all this time. . . . A young woman who danced for a recent dinner party given by the Bus Operators’ association at the- Lincoln was unable to find her music afterward. It was

Washington ~ WASHINGTON, April 16.—With extremely heavy Submarine losses, the need for the most efficient utilization of war shipping is obvious. Eviden presented to the war shipping administration by the C. I. O. maritime unions indicates that ) we are far from the most efficient : use of our ships. One ship leaving. an American port loaded with a locomotive, tanks and trucks began pitching the grst night out-in a moderate sea. It lost its convoy and was obliged to -make a run for the nearest port. Army and navy officers inspecting the ship found a 10-ton road-grading machine loose in one . hold, slapping against the side of gu the ship. The cargo was secured ws 10 diye’ later the ship made back to another erican port. There 23 trucks were removed from the deck. Finally the ship returned to home port and 17 days were lost because of. unwise planning of cargo loading. :

about a road strafing the other day. Three

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+ isn’t easily replaced. The girl, who is dancing in

a soldier ovér In North Africa. Mts. Harlan’

By Ernie Pyle

large. numb: and that, although the fire is all over the place in & few seconds, the majority. of the crews are able to get out safely and straggle back to camp. One day I was up on a mountainside with some troops who were holding a forward outpost. They were in such an inaccessible and perilous place that they were getting just one meal a day, and artillery fire was whining over their heads constantly. Yet right in the midst of that a truck arrived at the foot of the mountain; and here came soldiers lugging up sacks of mail. The boys were getting their letters right on. the firing line. . .

What the Halians Are Called

YOU HARDLY ever hear: Italian soldiers referred to as Italians. It's either “Eyet or “Wops” or “Guineas.” : In one case the reason for abandoning “Italian”

was a concrete one, In this case a mountain lookout]

reported that “three Italians” were coming up the hill. The officer who heard it thought he said “three battalions,” and ordered a heavy barrage dropped in

When the lookout called back’ to ask why such heavy shooting, the misunderstanding was straightened out. But from then on, all men in that outfit} were instructed to refer to Italians as “Guineas.” I saw the tragic remnants of a jeep that got a direct hit from g 500-pound German bomb. Three soldiers were in it, and they were blown to disintegration. Nothing was found of them to bury. But searchers did find scattered coins, knives and bits of clothing. One soldier had a pocket Bible, and about half of its sheets were found. Another had a large pad of currency—bills just folded over once. And the reason I'm telling this story—those bills were blown fogether with such force that it was impossible to get them apart.. You couldn't even strip off one bill with a pocketknife. The blast had vulcanized them together, without Yearling any holes in them.

a mounted - concert arrangement of “Egyptia,” and order to study music and go to college, wishes whoever found the music would return it. It has her name and address on it.

Dogs Is Dogs, John

OUR REFERENCE Tuesday to the gal strolling along the canal with “two matching Salukis—those ultra, ultra Afghan hounds” brings a reproachful noté from John Hillman, the Star's canine expert, who reports that “all standard dog books say the Saluki should not be confused .with the Afghan hound.” (Sounds technical, doesn’t it!) “The Saluki, or slughy,” writes John, ‘comes from Arabia where it is used for hunting gazelles and is as carefully bred and highly esteemed by the Arabs as are their horses. Its coat, with the exception of profuse feathering on the ears and legs, is shorter.and silkier than the Afghan’s and it carries a drop tail, whereas the Afghan’s is curled over its back. . . . If you should be interested (John adds) in checking up on the dogs (or the girl), I suspect that from the locale and description the dogs were Afghans and their escort was Mrs. Vincent Kelly, 27 E. Westfield blvd., who owns some of the. finest individuals of this breed in the United States.” Thanks for the info, John.

Which Way We Going?

AN ELDERLY elevator operator in one of the} downtown buildings took a load of passengers -up to the fourth flogr, let one of them out, then sat there for nearly a minute, Finally, with a puzzled look, he turned around and asked the passengers: “Say, which way were we going—up or down?” .. . The driver of an out-of-town car made a left turn onto ‘the circle from W. Market st. yesterday and played hob with ‘traffic while he fought his way on around the circle, clockwise, to S. Meridian. We still think there ought to be better directional marking at the Circle approaches. Only the psychie stranger can be sure which way to go. . . . George Dehn, 830 N. Graham st., received a letter from the Bloomington chapter of Theta Chi fraternity Tuesday (April 13) that was postmarked April 21. ‘That's’ really fast postal service! It’s even faster than the grapevine.

By Raymond Clapper

A ship docked at a West African port where the docks were stacked with crude rubber forsthe United States. No instructions were issued to pick up the return cargo. ‘The ship left witheut the rubber.

As the maritime unions say in their memorandum, |-~

these examples demonstrate the confusion, mistakes and delays in the operation of precious ships. They all stem from the same basic cause—the lack of central operating authority over the shipping pool.

Demand: Centralized Control

THERE IS one point which the martime unions are stressing. : It is that merchant shipping control should be centralized in the war shipping administration and really exercised. : A multiplicity of agencies concerned with shipping results in jurisdictional rights and grabbing of shipping space without regard to maximum utilization of space as a whole. The maritime unions say that instead of WSA exercising its authority to pool all available space, to make allocations according to need, and to coordinate the assembly of ship cargoes, shipping space is forced to meet the jurisdictional demands of

of our tanks catch fire when badly hit]

he’ Afth.of six stories telling how and why Uncle Sam is regulating household.

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the American

WASHINGTON, April il 16.—If there's anything that makes a woman see red, it’s to have a perfect stranger come into her kitchen, watch her work, and say, “Oh, no,

you're doing things all wrong.” It fairly makes her hair

stand on end to have her cooking methods interfered with

or criticized. You've all felt that way

several times lately, when -

bulletins arising in that formless thing called “government bureaus” have criticized your menus, .your methods of cooking and storing food, your garbage pail and just about everything else in the kitchen.

But you shouldn't. These things

sre not meant just as mere criti-

“cism. They are to help you make

the most of our precious food supply, and using it wisely is a job in which we must all co-op-erate to win the war. The advice given is not arbitrary rules set up by theorizing men who would be panicked at actually having to cook a meal It, is prepared chiefly by women who've made food the business of & lifetime—many of them the same. women you've listened to so eagerly in helpful demonstration programs of new cooking methods and shortcuts.

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Malnutrition Seen

ONE OF the first definife indications that our kitchens hadn't been doing the job they should came when physical examinations for the draft revealed widespread malnutrition. Here we were, a nation with virtually unlimited food supplies in comparison with our peacetime needs, with moreevariety in food than any other country has ever known. And yet we weren't eating properly. It wasn't a matter of money, for boys from all types of homes, even the wealthiest, showed definite signs of malnutrition. No mother wants her child to be ill-fed, and when food becomes comparatively . scarce we mug know how to eat by need rath than by appetite, which is so often misleading. That's why today we have all the nutrition charts and programs prepared by newspapers and magazines, by such organizations as the Red Cross.

Eat it all ... . don't leave half your meal,

That's why, too, we have the office of defense health and welfare, which devotes its time to charting better nutrition for the whole country. This office com-

bined in 1940 the activities of ..

various government and civilian agencies which had long been working on the nutrition problem.

15 SCHOOL BOYS 10 AID FAY FARMERS

Southport Students to Work Half-Days Next Fall.

More than 75 high school boys will be made available for half-day farm work next fall under a plan worked out by the Southport high school

THE OFFICE works with a program constantly being adjusted * to changing food supplies and,

through state and local committees all over the country, is help-

ing to improve nutritional stand- -

ards and to foster such community

projects as school lunch programs °

and Red Cross canteen kitchens for community feeding should it become necessary. - In tests given during an experimental “nutrition week” at South

Bend, Ind., it was found that only °

a little more-than a tenth of the families interviewed used daily something from all of the eight basic food groups regarded as vital to health. (If you want to check yourself, the groups are milk and milk products; oranges, grapefruit, tomatoes and raw salad greens; green and yellow vegetables; other vegetables and fruit; bread and cereals; meat, poultry and fish; eggs: butter and other fats. Each i of these groups should be represented in the daily diet.) :

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Lectures Helpful

EVEN AFTER just one week of local lectures and demonstrations, - further tests showed an improve-. ment of 16 per cent in food knowledge.

+ Women I talked with at the office of defense health and welfare, incidentally, hand a laurel to the educational advertising programs of dairy companies, citrus fruit growers, canners and bakers of bread with enriched flour. Women in general, they say, are far better informed on the values of these foods than on the values of such things as vegetables, . which haven't been educationalized through advertising. What set me back on my heels was two simple percentage figures cooked up for me by one of the food experts in the department of agriculture. ‘They'd never been tabulated in just this manner before, and they will really make you think. ” ” #®

Waste Is High ~~

JIN 1942, it took about 13 per cent of our total food supply to furnish the needs of all our military forces, lend-lease commitments and shipments to friendly nations.

In the same year, 14 per cent of our total food supply went to waste right here at home! The garbage pails of America . last year could have more than supplied all the food sent abroad. Although it is estimated that this year these outside needs will take about 25 per cent, that still leaves more than half which could be furnished merely by more careful handling of food in our own kitchens.

Some of the waste can be laid to plain carelessness, som some to ignor-

Bone-burying dogs and victory gardens don’t mix. So, Police Chief Clifford Beeker has instructed members of his department to be on the lookout for all dogs running at large. The animals, licensed or unlicensed, will be sent to the city dog pound. If a licensed dog is impounded, the owner is required to pay the impounding fee of $2 before he can have his pet again. Dogs without licenses may not be reclaimed by the owners until both the impound-

The American housewife sees red When a stranger enters her kitchen,

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watches her work and says,

“Oh, no, youre not doing that job right!” But in world war II, it’s Uncle Sam who is the intruder and, no matter iow mad we get at him, we have to accept the fact that he is there to help us, The »chest nation in the world we were—yet our army draft examinations show that a great group of us were astually

undernourished!

ance of certain food values, and some—this is one for the book—to etiquet! Do you know, this minute, all the things that are in your refrigerator? ‘ If you do, you're a most unusual woman. We've got into the habit of putting left-over foods in the refrigerator, to be used later—and then forgotten them entirely, until they've dried up or spoiled. Every de-frosting or cleaning out is likely to se a lot of food thrown away which would have made whole meals if it had not been neglected until too late. ! #

Save Plant Tops

WHAT. DQ. you do with such _ laws handing out a prison term

things as the outside leaves of lettuce and’ celery. and the tops of beets and turnips? Throw ‘them away? ¢ Most women do, and yet those are the most nutritious, .the most vitamin-packed = parts of vegetables, and may be used in many ways. Do you always lore “a little something” on the plate? Is the pulp of a baked potato eaten at your house, and then the skin thrown away? Is the lettuce on which a salad is nested left on the dish? Is meat nicked at gently with knife and fork, and the bone left untouched? All these thi ve a certain standing in Hines Tove old-fash-ioned but still prevalent etiquet which makes a virtue of daintiness in eating.

Beeker Warns Dog Owners To Protect Our V-Gardens

be killed by any peace officer or game warden. This may sound like harsh treatment, but victory gardens are im-

portant. There will be thousands}

of them in Indianapolis this year. Chief Beeker urges dog owners to co-operate in the victory garden effort by keeping their pets on their own property. Otherwise, the law must be enforced. Definite regulations concerning dogs, written into the city ordinances, are as follows:

Well, Henry VIII may have looked 'a bit uncouth when he tore a chicken to pieces in his hands and threw the licked bones over his shoulder but, nutritionally speaking, he had the right idea. This finickiness which we were all taught concerning food could almost literally be the death of us in time of a desperate food shortage—except that a really hungry person forgets his manners entirely. "

V-Garden Tips

YOU CAN imagine that Uncle Sam was pretty shocked when he found what a wasteful family he had. He's not likely to pass any

to anyone who throws away beet tops, of course: ‘He believes that a program: of nutrition must be educational.

The outside leaves are most - _ nutritious,

That’s why you've seen so many tips on food-saving—that plus the

CITY WILL PUSH GRADE PROJECT

Expects to Petition WPB For Materials Needed at Morris St. Crossing.

Petition’ to the WPB for priority

materials with which: fo launch a

grade-separation project at Morris}

st. and the Belt railroad, will be made soon: by city authorities.

fact that since we must supply food to so many besides ourselves, ‘food becomes doubly precious. Speaking of supplying others, women have been heard to remark, “I don't see why I can't

‘ get meat (or canned goods, or

whatever) for my own family, when we're sending so much abroad!”

Just for the book; let's look at some typical figures: In 1943, 23 per cent of our canned vegetables will go to our military forces, and’ 3 per cent to lend-lease; 156 p=r cent of our beef and veal to the military, and 5 per cent to lengllease; 30 per cent of canned fruits to the military, and 1 per cent to lend-lease. And if you're “a wictory ‘gare dener, you: might find some tips on what to plant in the acreage plans the government food experts have drawn up for commercial growers. Because of the great food values, it is planned to increase the acreage of carrots, lima beans and snap beans from 15 to 29 per cent. Present generous allotments are considered + sufficient for peas, cabbage, toma~ toes, beets, spinach and broccolli, all highly nutritious foods. And to make better use of the soil, decreases ranging from 2 to 25 per cent are suggested for as~ paragus, artichokes, green peppers, lettuce, watermelon, egg plant, cucumbers and caulifiower,

(Next — Further - Changes That Lie Ahead.)

HOLD EVERYTHING

Construction of an’ underpass beneath the four-track crossing at

vocational agriculture department.

1. Persons who permit dogs to The students will work-on farms

remain in or on their premises. are

ing fee and the regular $2 license fee are paid.

numerous agencies. In this tangle there are to be considered the war

| Waited 59 Days for Orders

! OTHER INCIDENTS are cited of oil drums left unlashed on deck, of life rafts being lost because they were not properly lashed, and of injuries to the crew because of improperly secured cargo. In the. South Pacific one ship lay in port. more than 100 days because of delays in unloading cargo. Another one spent 59 days at. anchor in a British Isles

shipping administration itself, the army and navy, both of which operate cargo vessels, the maritime commission, BEW and WPB. A brief, outlining all of the foregoing and much more, has been before the war shipping administration ‘since February. Spokesmen for:the C. I. O. maritime unions, headed by Harry Bridges and Joseph Curran, have been here again pleading the case.

this summer and will continue working half-day on the same farms next fall to help relieve the farm labor shortage. The plan is being; carried out. under a program for victory farm vol-|.

unteers, announced recently by C. C.

Owners who do not reclaim their dogs from the pound within a week will find that tke animals have been sold or destroyed. Fine Authorized A 1937 Indiana law also authorizes a fine of not more than $25 for any owner who allows his dog “fo stray

legally the owners of the animals. 2. All dogs within the city limits must have a license issued by the city controller.

run at large without a collar with a proper license tag attached. 4. It is unlawful fo keep-a dog

3. It is unlawful for any dog to}

Morris st., a much-used artery to|

the West side, will cost an estimated $215,000, city engineers estimate. Even should the WPB give the go-ahead on the project, the gradeseparation probably would not be completed before next year. City Engineer Arthur B. Henry,

“I think you make contacts!”

BOMBER SINKS i IN CARIBBEAN A

port waiting for orders. . A certain ship sailed from an American port for

8 West African: port. A: hundred ships were waiting in the harbor. After a week's delay without being able to unload this ship: returned to this side, thus making a round trip.

which - causes serious annoyance: to persons in the neighborhood. Sheriff Otto Petit points:out that the law will be eriforced in the area under his jurisdiction and that gardeners | g losses ‘may take

Little progress apparently has been made on this problem of centralized and efficient use of our limited " cargo space—the true bottleneck of the war,

beyond his premises, unless under reasonable control of some person, or when engaged in lawful hunting, accompanied by the owner or custodian.” The law also says that after

Leedy, the high school principal. The farm volunteers will work under the direction of E. R. McCor-

mick, the vocational agriculture teacher. Each student will be en-

who termed the planned underpass “a -major development in the city's|. engineering program,” said underpassing of the Belt tracks is designed ' to facilitate the flow . of traffic - from the East and South

Editor’s note: Raymond Clapper is on his way" to Sweden, one of the few neutral “listening posts”

- A certain ship ‘sailed from an Ameritan army base in October, bound for a North-African port. She carried about 3000 tons of sand ballast. The ship Jeiurnediactis side in balls WithOus ‘eargo, ;

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tired On “Tuesday night I went - to the dinner given in Washington by the ends of German Freedom, This dinner had as its the strengthening of the labor movements occupied sountries, particularly in Germany. In many of these countries, the only non-Fascist organization that will exist when the war comes to an end, will be whatever leaders or organizations have been kept alive within ‘the labor group. i think it is important that we, in ‘this country, do. all we possibly can to recognize these groups and : to strengthen them now Fang in the future. =~ In every axis country, there will douse ‘be ae people, awaiting

left in Europe. He will report his observations there by wireless. The column above is one of several he prepared before leaving Washington.

By Eleanor Roosevelt -

during the past few years because. of their willfigness not to protest against Fascist control. They may sometimes seem to be the only available material for organization, unless we make it a point to look - for those who have led labor in the past. Since this is to be the century. of the common man, there must be a partnership between those who work| with their hands and those who work with their| 0 heads. They must cll insist on their common interest because they are the workers of the world. They are the mass: of people who must control their governments. in order to have’ a chance to build a better life ‘thyoughout ‘the world. ‘On'the 13th, there operied in New York city, a film’ called. “Desert Victory, shortly to be released all over the countey. This ‘extraordinary picture which was: shown: to the president here some

rolled in the agricultural department and will carry the normal load

time ago. Iti is the actual picture of the battle o of El Alamein and|ma : lI-lack an understanding of )

of four regular subjects. One Afternoon Class Three of these will be scheduled for morning classes, while the fourth, agriculture, will be scheduled as the only afternoon class. Students will ‘he excused from school to work on farms the’ full afternoon and will receive full credit in agriculture, and be counted in attendance at school. The program will include both boys working on the home farm and city-bred boys working for farmers. The students will be required to be present in class the last three days of each grading period and on all other days not actually engaged | in necessary farm work. ol

Seventy-five boys already are en-

rolled fu the program.

June 15, each year, ‘a ‘dog upon which the tax has not been paid

civil action against dog owners. He. dogs

becomes a public nuisance and may

FCC DECLINES TO

LOWER 'PHONE RATE WASHINGTON, April 16 (U. P.). ~The federal communications com-

Your Blood ‘Is Needed

Blood Plasma Center — 5400. donors. ; Donors so far ‘this month— 1562. Yesterday's quota—200, Yesterday's donors—125. _ You can help meet the quota. by calling LI-1441 for ap ap- | pointment or going to the center, second floor, Chamber of Commerce building, ‘N. Meridian st.

SWEDES HIT PROPAGANDA | By UNITED PRESS :

sides to the large West side defense ares. Recent survery, as discussed by works board members, have disclosed that almost constant use of the Morris st. track. sector by Belt trains has delayed war workers and generally slowed the east-west traf-

| fie stream. Ape bt tor Red Cross |

Finapcing of the project probably would be accomplished through issuance of municipal bonds, it was stated.

INOW IT’S HAM’N EGGS

A LA CAN OPENER

By Science Service WASHINGTON, April 16. —Canned

ham-and-eggs, ready to heat and

eat product, is the newest thing in army food to pass the tests at the

bombs from & U.'S. army k av bomber several’ months =go, | navy revealed yesterday., A member of the crew. of § submarine to whom the dropped a life raft and vest. picked up later by a U. 8. de it was disclosed. | The plane was piloted by C Howard Burhanng Jr. Philadelpk Pa. He was on a patrol flight the submarine was sighted 3 miles away. Hl The sub had no time to submer and was. still on the surface the depth charges were let Thirty-seven = minutes after depth bombs were dropped a ar oil slick appeared and the. si C was sighted. Although efforts were made to cate the survivor Le was not. by the destroyer until 10 days |

He is the first survivor

marine attack the navy ha