Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1943 — Page 40

Okla. Senator Is Rugged, Individualist Among . Compromisers,

DICK THORNBURGH Times Special Writer

INGTON, April 16.—1It ng Senator Ed Moore of long" to understand ington, but Washington will lever understand Ed Moore, To a government operated day in And day out on the theory of com- | » Ed Moore has brought as strong as Patrick ’s. : In a ‘city where politicians are ‘Weaned on weasel words and raised Straddling a: fence, Ed Moore is as “outspoken as Westbrook Pegler. In Washington youre either a erat or a Republican—but not Ed Moore. . He sits on the Republican side ‘of the senate chamber, was ¢lected on le Republican ticket (unseating Rew dealer Josh Lee), but in Okla- © Boma he is registered as a Demorat and does not intend to change _ that registration. He calls himself # Jeffersonian Democrat and. hopes will be worthy of that label.

Issue Is ‘Simple’

To Ed Moore, the issue is simple. . Ta Lim the whole question of poli- {Of money invested, which is the Bios resolves itself into Americanism | Preferable location.” “@gainst any other ism, new deal/ When a town in which he had Rgainst anti-new deal. _ He says he is a “political accl- |airport (mostly federal funds), Senflent,” his election the result of a |ator Moore wrote to the chamber of evolt against the new deal by a|commerce that the town has as tion of Democrats and Repub-|much use for a big airport as a “cat ns, has use. for two tails.” ,, The senator is a dark little man,| Explaining his attitude, Senator Boft-voiced, with a wrinkled, worn |Moore said: face and a ready smile. He is 71.| .“To me it was Just a question of . Ed Moore’s correspondence pro- | honesty in the expenditure of pub- * Yides an insight into his character. | lic funds.” : & When you ask to see certain let-| The senator is wealthy. He made - fers, the senator turns to his secre- | his’ money in the oil business. tary, Harry Wirick, and says: Money, he said, is a tool to work . “Turn the files over to him. THat's | With and a heavy responsibility. He “all public business in those files.|sees himself as ‘only the custodian There's no reason why tke publictef his money, which he must. use Shouldn’t know anything that’s in|in.a way to benefit the most. people. them.” Ed. Moore was born on an 80- : += He Didn't Write It acre Missouri farm, worked his way : through the Chillicothe’. (Mo.) norOne letter concerned the rivalry : between two Oklahoma towns, Still- | oy, Se:001 By ie ue janitor, * water and Cushing, for a new naval City ‘law school by. tesching. alr base. Cushing was selected. A He went to a new country, the 3 ytivally minded friend tole 10 Indian Terirtory, and hung out his Senator Moore and suggeste ¢ | shingle in’ Okmulgee. When oil was Write a “nice, easy, smooth letter discovered in Oklahoma, he went ~eause it did not.get the base. : "I am not going to write any nice,| PENSIONS GROUPS MEET easy, smooth letters,” Senator Moore! Indiana Old-Age Pension group ‘feplied. “The only thing I am in- 17 will. meet at 7:30 p. m. Monday terested ih is, from the standpoint {in McClain’s hall, State and Hoyt of the war effort and the amount |aves. ; :

Foreman Jack Sowell gets a swig of water from pretty water girl, June McKay. Barrett and Hilp shipyagds, San Francisco, where concrete barges are built for U. S. maritime commission, find it’s timesaver if water is carried to workmen,

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Axis: JimmyzWhose Sting & Is Deadly.

. SC By PHIL AULT -. United Press Staff Correspondent

| | Africa April 16 (U. P.).—A year ago| -

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They Have Brought Australia to the Australians, Paper Says. ‘

By HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Correspondent

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, April 16 (U.. P.)—~American engi-

{neers and. equipment have built a

ending has been by all odds the most | more than 25 years of flying. may-care fliers in a daring surprise |

| cities: that. gave American morale its ‘| first shot in the arm of the war. The : {enemy didn’t know where Doolittle’s

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ef Sunday Jukge strategic road system through Australia’s interior, over which some 30,000,000 road miles have been re i

To pe a He wh times greater t Ww, travelled the central Australian tracks prior to "the road building program and operational costs have been reduced as much as 75 per cent, The road system traverses the interior country which the vast majority of ‘Australians never have! seen. . One newspaper remarked last Aug. 19;

PE So | “These Americans have literally| ; ACES 10 M ‘brought Australia to the Australians, A - It has taken a war to give us roads Coos RL linstead of hotel-les bush tracks. SAN FRANCISCO, April 16 o. Perilous Task Faiders came from or where they|p, m.4 Hunter, 43, one of the| This dispatch is being written wen : he Ja: ioneers : four convicts who failed in an at- from one center from which p - hts TT : | Hair-Raising Flig! tempt to escape from Alcatraz Ave set off for one of the most That was on April 18. Since then,

ison; Tuesday, faces an additional PC 04S undertakings. They are -year- {pris » 1 men Who scout this vast territory rte ng Si a hair. | Sentence of 15 years and heavy|for war winterials which abound in| raising flights and : has helped to flines, U. S. Attorney Frank J. Hen- ghscure ces. organize and lead a fighting air force | Ressey said yesterday. cis ad Thigtows e was one of Austrathat has done more than its share|' Hunfer, a‘ former member ‘of the lias least dis ished. inland outtoward chasing the axis out of North| Alvin Karpis gang ot robbers and Dosts. It now-is & well policed cerfter i : ; i with the inevitable pubs. Through Africa. kidnapers, would have been eligible |} a He has been close to disaster sev-| tor parole inf a little more than two|it truck convoys rolhlike clockwork. eral times in the last year but, like years: for g behavior, Hennessey wih the als ha Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, he has|said. Now he faces five years for | PeTity. The resi been living “on borrowed time” for attempted escape and 10 for attackso long that he looks upon it as ang an officer with a ‘deadly weapon permanent conditan, the allied|i® 8ddition to $15,000 in- fines on Dyoliitie 8 ran . both ‘counts. Tt At one of the leading hostejries ; ; here, I occupied a double room with seat and . brought the bigiplain iron bedsteads Which i e rts.| bomber back. : MacArthurs occupied, and the. el Trench bombeis hd Shiels 509 up| After the raid on Japan, Docittle] derly . housemaid, Kathleen, still Tunisian ports and airdromes and returned to. Washington to receive talked affectionately of them and crippling the axis life lines from|the Congressional Médal of Honor.|{remarked that “like ail Americans Italy, Sicily and Sardinia. Soon thereafter he was assigned to|they liked stéak and eggs for break- ! organize a bomber wing for duty|fast—steak and roasts are about all Received Medal overseas.and it was agreed that he you Americans ut” de a ai When the Tunisian campaign is|should command American air forces € was proud of the fact tha over, he may be expected mpgien an/in northwest Africa. the MacArthur family and the genimportant role in the air battles] He flew: to England and helped eral’s staff went to the local movie over the European continent. Maj. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz organize and sat among the Aussie’ soldiers. Doolittle can be found the ma-|the 12th U. S. Air Force. He went) Besides the militasy. installatidns| jority of the time at advanced air-|on several fortress raids over enemy|in this town, there are armies of dromes or on operational flights. territory just to have a look for him- civilians, most of them connected in Recently congress voted him the self. : some way with the war effort. There| Silver Star for gallantry, inspiring] He flew to the first airdrome occu-|are miners, engineers, surveyors and leadership and participation in five|pied in Algeria by the allies after the merchants. Every day some daring! dangerous raids in the North African {November landings before theiprospector with bulky equipment| theater. He is known to have flown| French had ‘stopped shelling it. He [starts off into the bush to make over both Sicily and Sardinia. directed the defense of the airfield another road from somewhere in! He likes to pilot the planes him-{and Spitfire attacks against tank|Australia to anywhere in Australia. self and there is no type he has not{columns. Travelers return from the extreme mastered. Once the pilot of a flying| Within 60 hours his bombers were {back country with strange stories fortress in which he was riding was|attacking Tunis and he participated {of aboriginal tribes, of camel trains wounded. Doolittle slipped into the' in one of these raids. driven by Afghans and Chinese.

reckless and thrill-packed of his . A year ago he led a:group.of devil- ALG:

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