Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1943 — Page 15
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~ bedrolls. But the youthful traders didn’t leave.
SDAY, APRIL 29, 1943
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= NORTHERN TUNISIA By Wireless) —One night at Kairouan three of us correspondents, finding the
“newly taken town filled with newly arrived British
and American troops, just drove ou of town into the SOUDLEY. and camped for the We didn’t . up a tent. We Just slept in the open, and before we knew it morning had come and a hot sun was beaming down intoour squinting eyes. And what should those sleepy eyes behold but: two Arab boys standing right over our bedrolls, holding out eggs.’ For all I know they may - have been standing there all night. At any rate they had come to the right place, for we were ; definitely in the market for eggs. ‘They wouldn't sell for money, so we dug into gs. larder box and got four eggs in trade for three little Seliophane Dacor of hard candy. Then we started over ag and got four more eggs for a k of g pac
We thought it a good trade, but found later that the trading ratio which the Germans had set up ‘ahead of us was one cigaret for one egg. We Americans have to ruin everything, of course.
Traders Double as Valets
BUT AS one tough-looking soldier said: “If I want to give $50 for an egg it’s my business and my $50. And from all I've seen of Arabs an extra franc
. or two ain’t gonna hurt them any.”
All this transpired before we had got out of our As we were putting on our pants each boy whisked a shoeshining box from under his burnoose and went after our shoes. Then when we started a fire and were feeding it with sticks, one of the boys got down and blew on the flame to make it burn better. It _was easy to see that we had acquired a couple of
THAT FLAG floating right under Old Glory atop
the Consolidated building on Pennsylvania st. is the TU. 8. custom collector’s port of entry flag in case
you've been wondering. Lots of folks have been wondering what it is and where it came from. One reader speculated it might be the Mexican flag since it . appeared about the time the president of Mexico was in this country. The flag is the same one that used to -- fly over the southeast corner of the Federal building. The customs office moved recently from the Federal building to the second floor of the Consolidated building “to get more space.” And here it was just a couple of years ago that the size of the Federal building was practically doubled. " The state conservation department is getting some squawks from fishermen because game wardens have ordered commercial fishermen to stop using D-nets in the Wabash river between Lafayette and the state line. What these fishermen apparently are overlooking, department heads point out, is’ that the
legislature this year passed a law banning the use
of D-nets. Go Ahead and Sue—
LEO X. SMITH, attorney for the owners of the present Juvenile detention home, says he’ll be on hand bright and early Monday to file suit to oust the unty from the property. That's the expiration of vs 30 days given the county to buy the property (now being rented) or to get out. The county has no
- place to move the home. County Commissioner Bill
Bosson says he welcomes the suit. “Maybe it'll get the public aroused and we can get something done about the situation,” he said. . . . One of the hardest working officials in the courthouse, we're told, is
County Clerk Jack Tilson. He's on the job bright
By William Philip Simms
WASHINGTON, April 29.—President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are understood to be
moving heaven and earth to bring Russia and Poland
together on a mutually satisfactory basis. Failure, it is universally felt here, would be devastating to the united nations’ post-war peace plans. Their ‘chances of success are not believed to be too brilliant. If reports from Moscow are to be relied on, any formula which would appease the Soviet Union would doom the Poland of 1939, and few seem to think that a settlement acceptable to the Poles would satisfy the Russians. The trouble is, the break is deeper than appears on the sur-
face. Superficially it seems to . “have been caused by the “discovery of the bodies of
many Polish officers near Smolensk and the Nazi charge that they had been “massacred” by the Russians. The real clash had to do with post-war frontiers and with ideological differences between
the two neighbors.
i “Russia Has Been Frank
ELMER DAVIS, OWI director, put his finger on one of the hidden factors. He was not talking about Poland and Russia, but what he said applied to
them. He said there might be no formal peace con-
ference after the war because the war might culminate merely in occupation of enemy territory. For months Moscow has been extremely frank
with the world. She has been saying that, after the
war, she intends to map some new frontiers for her-
_gelf. She has made it plain that she intends to
absorb Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and parts of Poland, Finland and Rumania. For taking in some of this territory, a a victorious Russia could make out an excellent case for herself. Much of it once belonged to. the czars. : * But the case of Poland is different. Russia is at
My Day
SAN FRANCISCO, ‘Wednesday. —Here we are on our way home, and we have had two lucky breaks. I've had a chance to see our son, Johnny, and our daughter-in-law, Anne, and their children again, and to take a young soldier who will soon be over- < seas to dine at a restaurant. When I opened one of my newspapers yesterday morning in Los Angeles I gasped with dismay. I
the two naval hospitals ‘which I ey 1 had not only taken their names, but the names of their families and héme addresses, and had rashly promised that my husband would write to every one. Of course, I didn’t. make such a promise and the men themselves will appreciate the fact Eecvidn's asks. sie resident to Wilts soms 1190.
ent I couldn’t think how such a story Then the germ of truth
“they cleaned up all the scfips around our bivouac,
: @ By Ernie Pyle The boys were herding about two dozen goats in some nearby clover. Now and then one of them would run over and chase the goats back nearer to our camp. We called ohne boy Mohammed and the other Abdullah, which seemed to tickle them, They were good-natured, happy boys of about 15. The: boys told us in French ‘that the Germans had made them work at an airport, opening gas cans and doing: general flunky work. They said the Germans paid them 20 francs a day, which is above the local
scale, but it turned out they were German-printed francs, which of course are now absolutely worthless.
Writers Become “Hadjis”
OUR SELF-APPOINTED helpers hunted sticks for us, poured water out of our can and helped us wash our mess kits. They kept blowing in the fire
they lifted our heavy bedrolls into the jeep for us,
and just as we were ready to leave they gave our
shoes a final brushing. We paid them with three cigarets and two sticks of gum each, and they were delighted.
When we were ready to go we shook hands all| i around, au-revoired, smiled and saluted. And then| i
one of the boys asked apologetically if we could give them one more thing maybe. We asked what it was they wanted. You'd never guess. He wanted an empty tin can for his goats to chew on. We .gave him one. “Hadji” is the Arab word used in place of “sir” before the name of anybody who has journeyed to
Mecca and become holy. Seven journeys to Kairouan |
equal one to Mecca, so we correspondents now go around calling ‘each other Hadji, since most of us have crossed the city line more than seven times. Another word we've adopted is “djebel.” It’s Arabic for hill or mountain. On the maps every knob you see is Djebel This or Djebel That. So we also call each other Djebel, and if you think that’s silly, well, we have to have something to laugh at.
and early and violates all the traditions of elected officials by staying on the job all day and working at it himself. . . . Some juvenile court workers and supporters are a bit concerned over Judge Cox's statement in a recent case that in his opinion the “entire juvenile court law is unconstitutional.” He referred .to the 1941 law which recreated the court.
Girls, Beware!
A YOUNG WOMAN writes us a warning to other girls to beware of a certain “man about town” who pretends to be a newspaper photographer. The fellow stopped her, she says, as she stepped out of her apartment building, said he was a photographer for a certain newspaper (not The Times) and wanted her picturg to use “in a bond drive.” The young lady added:
“He said he would come up to the apartment some)
time in the next few days and take a few shots of me. One in shorts, bathing suit, or even street clothes if I so desired. I was a bit suspicious of this sort of photographer’s approach and so at my first opportunity, approximately three minutes after I sent him on his way, I called the paper and they said they have no photographer by the name he gave. Too bad.”
Watch That Trash
MAYOR TYNDALL takes this “city beautiful” business seriously, and it arouses his civic wrath to see folks carelessly scattering trash and debris on our streets. He was riding to work in his car the other day and, as he approached city hall, noticed trash blowing out of a truck parked at the curb. The general had his chauffeur, Harold Kline, get out of the car and order the truck driver to clean up the debris from the street. Chauffeur Kline subsequently caught another offender doing the same thing, letting trash blow out of a truck, and made him clean it up. . « « The mayor is going to have to train someone else as official ‘trash spotter,” however, as Mr. Kline goes to the army Monday.
war with’ Rumania and Finland. She is not at war with Poland. On the contrary, they have been
allies from June, 1941, down to now. And every rule|
of the game, past or present, says it isn’t cricket for one ally to grab the territory of another right after they have fought side by side and defeated a common foe. By breaking with Poland, Russia has begun to clear the air. If she shoves Poland into the camp of her enemies, her technical position will be vastly improved when, after the war, she lays claim to much of eastern Europe.
Situation Pleases Germany
ESPECIALLY WILL this be the case if the war ends as Mr. Davis says it might, without a formal peace conference. For the Soviet armies are likely to be in occupation.of most everything up to Berlin. Mi. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill, therefore, have a terrific job ahead. Moscow is reported to be insisting on two things: First, the ousting of Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski and other “hostile” elements in the Polish government-in-cxile and, second, the construction of a new government prepared to deal with Moscow “on a basis of realities.” If these reports are even approximately true, the demands amount not only to a denial of Polish sovereignty but to an agreement in advance to surrender Polish territory. To both counts the Poles may be expected to demur violently. Should the United States and Britain press any such terms on them it would be taken by Poland and all of the timid renunciation of the very principles for which the united nations are fighting. Failure to mend the breach, however, would. be disastrous. It is precisely the thing Hitler and his gang have been praying for. Axis morale, now reported low, would skyrocket—and at the worst possible moment for the allies. Axis puppets, now wavering and said to be ready to drop out, would scamper back to Hitler's fold and grab at this new hope of axis victory.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
maller nations, without exception, as a|.
often starts these rumors came to me. In the, .Corona hospital one of the men was a patient from’ the Houston who took several cruises with my husband. He told me he took the president fishing sometimes, so I did ask for his name and I know that my husband will be interested in hearing about him and will want to drop him a line. We were taught in our childhood that great oaks from little acoins grow, and readers would do well to remember it, for there is uspally some foundation for everything that is written, but it may be embroidered in the telling, or it may grow like the oak tree, or it may be misinterpreted. Worse yet, sometimes in the things which we write ourselves, we take for granted that other people will understand ‘how we think and feel, forgetting that nothing should ever’ be taken for granted and that when you want to convey something, you should say it elearly and in unmistakable terms. In any case, this will clear
p, I hope, the disillusionment . ‘which some people}
IT hve 161 Bad they watied for » letter sow the
Brig. Gen. Fred S. Borum , . , proud father of the first troop carrier command as it celebrates its first birthday tomorrow.
By VICTOR PETERSON AN ARMY chaplain is credited with saying: “They would fly a barn door if outboard motors were attached . . . take off in a rain storm . . . deliver a payload to hell’s front doorstep . . . thumb their noses at the devil
and scoot back for another trip.” He was speaking of members of the first troop carrier
command whose unit tomorrow celebrates its first birthday. And out at Stout field,
headquarters of the command, the birthday cake has figuratively been frosted for today 157 WAACs reported from Florida to take up their duties. But they are merely part of the Bunyan-like strides made in the last year since the public puzzled over the giant planes flying low over the capital city. In July of last year the first news stories of the command were released. At that time the field was the scene of bustling construction - activity which in a year’s time was to bring 150 buildings in place of the original three. The originals were on the fleld when it was under the command . of the national guard. -
s 8 =. Personnel Expands
THE CIVILIAN and military personnel of the field, and the other bases of the command, has grown by leaps and bounds. It has mushroomed in size and importance,
And though the command is the “baby” of the army air forces in age, it is a giant in achievement. . Today members of the command and their planes are on every battle front. of the united nations, and twice in recent months it has been cited for devotion to duty and extreme gallantry in the face of enemy action.
RAYBURN PRAISES F. D. R. LEADERSHIP
AUSTIN, Tex., April 29 (U. P.)— Speaker Sam Rayburn of the na-
tional house of representatives yesterday - told the Texas legislature that people could’ have looked the land over and could not have found a “greater / commander-in-chief” than President Roosevelt. “As long as he’s commander-in-chief of our armies and navies he deserves and shall have: my uncomplaining support,” Rayburn said. Rayburn was speaker of ' the Texas house 32 years ago. He returned for the formal dedication of an oil portrait of him which hangs in the house. .
K. OF C. ENDS BOND . CAMPAIGN FRIDAY
The Knights of Columbus postLenten dance in the council's auditorium tomorrow night will mark the close of war bonds. The but more than ready have been sold. The party, under pervision. of ‘Russ’ Battreall as general chairman, will follow a patriotic motif with a floor show and music supplied by Ralph Lillard and his “Wharf House” orchestra to spur bona buying. Bond sales were boosted by large
Fin ee ie rd pa 3
One citation came from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme united nations commander in the North African theater, for transporting . troops on a 1500-mile non-stop flight from England to Oran. The other came in the name of President Roosevelt through Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war. This was for action in the southwest Pacific. In one instance there, two squadrons ferried 3600 troops in full battla equipment 600 miles in less than 24 hours. 8 " FJ
Mission Is Explained
THE PRIMARY mission of the troop carrier command unit is to
“ provide for the movement of air-
borne troops, glider borne troops, paratroops and their ‘equipment, evacuation of the wounded and the supplying of ground troops in combat zones. And here at Stout field the grooming of these men goes on day and night. New runways and wider aprons have appeared and barracks for WAACs and soldiers have grown from the mud and dust. The greenery of grass is replacing the area where you could stand in mud up to your hips and still have dust blow in your face. In the evening the personnel can attend movies with five changes a week; one of the most complete station Hospitals in the country has been opened under Maj. Rankin C. Blount; a 30piece band has been organized and members of it will form a
Fear of Cancer Less for Parents
By Science Seryice BALTIMORE, April 29.—Parents are less liable to death from cancer than other people. Harold Dorn, in a report to Human Biology, states that for both males and females, those who marry and have children are less likely to die from cancer than those who remain single, but those who marry and have no children have the highest death rate from cancer. While the difference in the death rate. for men was not so marked, the. mortality indices for married, “widowed or divorced, and single women for England and Wales were 100, 117 and 105.
Your Blood Is Needed
April quota for Red _ Cross Blood Plasma Center — 5400 donors. Donors so far this month
Yesterday's quota—200, Yesterday's donors—183. heii can help meet the quota by calling LI-1441 for an ap-
Stout field has mushroomed from three buildings 0 more than 150 In a year, Here is a scene of row om row of barracks housing the military personnel,
Capt. Ruth H, Kerr, liaison officer attached to the command to co-ordinate. WAAC activities,
Victory gardens on an air field with jeep-power. °
Lt, Prentiss Vaughn Donaldson is the supply and mess officer for
‘the ‘WAAC eotlingent arriving
today.
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Mrs. Rosemary Bergengren, lady “sky cop,” is ome of six women who now work in the cons trol tower,
Available space is now being turned into
Here Pvts. Frank F. Pafumi, Springfield, Mass, and Joseph Kosiorek, Hartford, Conn., do a bit of f
soldiering.
14-piece swing band. The base commander is Maj. Robert J. Rentz. , Like other camps and bases for America’s men there is a newspaper, The Fielder. It, too, has made strides under the direction of Capt. E. C. Stein. Judged in competition on its second, third and fourth issues it was rated
second. ® ” ”
AND WITHIN a few weeks -
two weekly radio shows will open -
K. OF C. SCHEDULES ANNUAL RECEPTION
Indianapolis council, Knights of Columbus, will have its annual spring dance and reception « tomorrow night in the auditorium at 1305 N. Delaware st. for members and friends. During the past two weeks the K. of C. here has sold more than $500,000 in war bonds, and a final report will be made at the dance. The committee in charge of ar-
rangements is: Russell Battreall, chairman; Edmund V. Burk, Leo P. Brown, Charles A. Clark, Louis A. Doerr, John L. Gardner, James P. Hegarty, Edw. F. Monghan, Harry E, Schley, Leo V. Vevul, Robert O. Williams. Patrons and patronesses are Mr. an Mrs. Theodore J. Abel, William 8S. Ankenbrock, Richard J, ‘Brady, George A. Bischoff, Francis H. Blackwell, Carl W. Boersig, Ned Corcoran, Earl J, Cox, Edw. J. Dowd, Edw. J. PFillenworth, Maurice J. Fitzgerald, Brancis C. O'Brien, Frank. S. Pitunan, John PF. Raferty, George Rice, John T. Rocap, W. Lawrence Sexton, J. Albert Smith, “Bev. J. Troy, Russell W. Woods, John W. White, gt. David J. Fox, Raymond C. Fox, M. Gerdenich, illlam J. Greener, Vernon v. George J. Boftamy Jr,, Paul E. Just. J. Kernel, Oswald- C. Litzelman, John F. McCann, ad s. Noll Mr. Theo H. Barrett, Milton J. Piepul. Basil Vanier and Bernard F. Kelly.
MALE VALEDICTORIAN
AFTER 16 YEAR TRY|
HILLSDALE, Mich., April 20 (U. P.) —It took 16 years, but the male
. | species finally has asserted its superiority over Hilisdale high|
school’s distaff representatives. Don Gemmill, star baseball pitcher and a straight A student through
over local stations produced by the men of the field. One will originate at the base, the other in a downtown studio. So as the command reaches its first birthday under Brig. Gen. Fred S. Borum and his chief of staff Col. Reed G. Landis, many of the men who flew over your roof tops a few months ago are
today probably carrying your sons
and husbands in and out of battle zones.
At 8:30 p. m. PAT an anni- .
Gallant Retreat Brings Reward
By UNITED PRESS
Gen. Emilio Giglioli, chief of
the Italian general staff, won a decoration today for a successful job of back-pedaling from “Paige. Wadia.
Rome Radio announced’ — i Victor Emmanuel gave.
Giglioli the cross of the military order of Savoia for his gallantry in retreat, according to a broadcast recorded by the OWI,
d|HOLD EVERYTHING
versary program will be broad nationally. It will be heard locally over WFBM and among those of the program will be Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army al forces, and Gen. Borum. .. Tomorrow is the comm : birthday of the men who “hav strange ideas about such as weather reports. Jokingly th say, ‘Last year's Dr. Miles alm is all we need.’ ” Their belief is: “He conque who gets. there first.”
STEEL MILLS STR E LASTS FOR ONE HC
GARY, Ind, April 20 (U. POs Another in a series of unau hi strikes at the Carnegie-Illinois o mills occurred last night when men halted production for one hot ‘Company officials said the stoppage was the 17th in two. to affect .the corporation’ tion in the Chicago area. The entire crew of the 18merchant mill halted work to test adoption of a new wage {i tive plan. The same men § three days last week over the issue. The men returned to last night at the request of A Sharp, grievance negotiator for C. I. O. United Steel Workers.
HUSBAND ON TRI IN WIFE'S SLAYIN
FRANKLIN, Ind, pet 3 CO}
—Testimony begins today & first-degree murder trial of B. ‘Dickinson, 43, Franklin & driver, charged with slaying h year-old wife, Dorothy, at a station here last Dec. mo SE oan hy. cual 3 Paul ul Snel, Whiteland.
a. Dia was found: shot in the Jriveway of & tion. Her husband
nin