Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1943 — Page 15

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= NORTHERN TUNISIA ‘By Wireless).—Our army n North Africa is still full ‘of rumors. Most of them ive to do with when we will go home. ~ Recently there was a rumor that President Roosevel had made a radio address saying that the mothers, wives and sweethearts of the ‘men in North Africa were due for a big surprise as soon as the Tunisian campaign was over. I have never been able to verify whether he made such a speech or not, but anyway the rumored remark spread. and was immediately interpreted by the men as mean- - ing that everybody was going home the minute the last German was out of Africa. Some of our troops sincerely believe. that’s what will ; happen. ; . The orange and tangerine season is over now. Those richly Juicy North African tangerines were one Of the pleasantest things of our war over here. For months we ate them hy the daily dozens. Now that they are all gone we are back to occasional canned -fruit juice from America. And on British mess tables you'll find a little can of pills called ascorbic tablets, which you take daily to make up for the lack of fruits in your diet.

" %U” Ration Has Everything

A NEW. type of American ration has just .showed up over here in answer to the British “compo,” which small ‘ groups of traveling soldiers had found so , Superior ‘to anything of ours. The new stuff is called " “U Ration.” It's wonderful. It has everything that is needed by four or five men out on a trip who have to fix) their own meals.

By Ernie Pyle

It comes in a pasteboard box inside a wooden box. Everything is done up in small cans or packets just big enough to be used up at one meal. With it come twe printed menus to help guide you. I've lost No. 1 but here is No. 2: Breakfast— Tomato juice, whole-wheat cereal, sliced bacon, biscuits, coffee; dinner—bean soup, roast beef, quickcooking rice, biscuits, lemonade, hard candy: supper— meat and vegetable stew, dried prunes, coffee, apricot spread. The ‘ration also includes root beer, gum drops, canned butter, lemonade,- tomato juice in powdered form, and two big envelopes of toilet paper. The tomato juice is fairly lousy, but the canned bacon is superb. God bless the U Ration! :

Surly German Is Thankful

LOTS of odd little prisoner stories are popping up. One American officer I know had to take charge of a German aviator who had been brought down. The German had a slight wound in the forehead, so the American officer took him in a jeep to a hospital and had the wound treated. Then he put him under guard forthe night, but saw to it that he was free to go to the toilet whenever he wished, and eyen sent him some extra blankets. The German was surly throughout. Efforts at casual conversation with him got nowhere. Obviously he was mean, and couldn’t understand what was said to him anyway. The next morning he was transferred to a prison | camp. The American officer wasn’t present when his guest left, but just as the German stepped into al truck he spoke to one of our orderlies, and in perfect | English without an accent said: “Corporal, tell Maj. Smith I deeply appreciate everything he did for me.” :

. Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

MRS. A. J. SIMON, 2019% Ruckle st., has a nice

a French tricolor which she would be willing to give

to one of the service centers, or some similar agency. It’s 91 by 141 inches. . . . Ensign Norman Perry Jr. has been home on leave from Boston where he’s been with the inshore patrol. He’s wearing dark glasses, not to fool his friends but because of a touch of the pink eye. . . . One of the janitors at the Consolidated building accidentally raised the flag above the building upside down yesterday. It wasn't that way long. First, some pedestrian stopped an employee washing the downstairs windows and told him about it. A minute or two later ‘a police squad arrived to convey the same information. . The chairman of one of our draft boards enjoys. admonishing newspaper- , men as follows after giving them news stories: “Garble this, young man, and we’ll put you in the army.” That's really the ultimate in threats,

Bang! Another Fox

ONE OF OUR feminine readers writes in to report a nice Boy Scout deed by a fine-looking sailor lad. Tired after working all day, she was cutting the . grass in the evening. Along came the sailor, a perfect - stranger, and. volunteered to cut the grass. And he

* wouldn't even accept a coke for it. . . . Audley Dunham, the locksmith, is helping to reduce the fox "population in Hendricks county. Audley looked out the window of his home, on the Crawfordsville road, Saturday evening and saw what he thought was a (dog digging into a , groundhog den in his yard. The "animal turned and he saw it was a fox. Grabbing * his .410 gauge shotgun, Audley let fly out the window. Reynard promptly fell dead. Tuesday night he looked out in the yard and there was another fox. He fired , again, The fox jumped about 10 feet in the air and

‘Polish Grisis

WASHINGTON, April 30.—The crisis now involving Russia, Poland, Finland and Eastern Europe is - doing great damage to American plans for post-war collaboration with the united nations. The impression is growing here that Moscow now fully intends to have its own way with the territory, governments and peoples of Eastern Europe and the Balkans, regardless of Washington or London. If that is true, there is little or no chance that the United States senate will ratify any subsequent treaty which would commit it to ‘the policing of frontiers thus drawn. With considerable reluctance many here are coming to believe that a new European balance of power is in the making, with Russia and Great Britain , dominating“the- scene.

Though Prime Mihister Churchill seemed to hint

af something of the kind in his speech of March 21, few believe that particular solution would be his Mirst choice were he free to choose, Premier Stalin, .- however, may force his hang, leaving him with no workable alternative.

U. S. Lejt Holding the Bag =

vy. A NEW European balance of power would leave the United States on the outside looking in. Doubtless she would be invited to “collaborate” in such a setup. But if she accepted, her role would be pretty much that of the sigrer of a blank check, She would have little if anything to do with major decisions. Her job would be to help shoulder the conse“quences if and when they turned sour. Such a role the senate would alnfost certainly turn down. ‘was ‘the often inspired London Times which, six: weeks ago, tossed up the first straw showing which; way | at least one breeze was blowing. ‘Interest of Russia,” the Times declared,

to assure that her outer defenses are in sure hands. to any

promptly played dead. Just to make sure, Audley fired again. And again the fox jumped 10 feet in the air This time he took no more chances but raced over ‘the hill and out of sight. He hasn't been seen since.

Grown on the Spot

THE HAAG drug store at 38th and Illinois has gone | into the victory garden business. The store, you may| recall, is set back quite a few feet from 38th st. In' past years, much of the space was planted in petunias. | This year, Manager E. E. Montgomery decided gro- | ceries were better than posies, so he turned the ground over to the store employees. L. J. Heim, a clerk, has a couple of plots, and O. W, Stansifer, assistant manager, has some others. Already there’s a nice crop of potatoes, radishes, carrots, peas, onions, etc., showing. And before long, you may be able to sit at the | soda fountain and order a vegetable salad and watch | it picked fresh in the garden. ... Things we didn't know: Clear glass bottles should be’ placed for city | trash collection. The glass is reclaimed at the city | dump and broken there. Then it is shipped to glass factories for reuse. It’s just as valuable salvage as is scrap metal.

OPA Not to Blame

A: COUPLE OF girls dropped into the Claypool tavern the other night and ordered a couple of bottles of Royal Amber beer. “Sorry,” said the waitress, “but

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Royal Amber's frozen.” The girls ordered another

brand. When the waitress returned with the beer, | one of them asked her: “Why did they freeze just | that one kind of beer? And when did the OPA start] freezing beer?” The waitress smiled: “Oh, the OPA | didn’t. have anything to do with this. That brand! just. was too close to the freezing coils and got frozen | into ice.” . . . Mrs. Phyllis N. Paul, 416 W. Maple rd., reports she has had a Whip-Poor-Will in her back yard two nights this week. Its song was clear and lovely. Mrs. Paul says this is the first time in 10 years she has heard this bird which usually prefers the country.

By Wm. Philip Simms

And this interest will be hest served if the lands between her frontiers and those of Germany are held by governments and peoples friendly to herself . . . that is one condition on which Russia must and will insist.” Russia, the paper went on to observe, will be in a position after the war to make her decisions stick.

‘But (inasmuch as the peace of Europe will devolve

chiefly on Britain and the Soviet Union) it will make all the difference in future Anglo-Russian relations whether Britain freely concedes these things or whether they “are grudgingly accepted as a fait accompli after victory is. won.”

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America Would Decline

BRITAIN'S OTHER task, it added, was to interpret all this to the United States—that is, explain why it is necessary to abandon the little nations of Eastern Europe to their fate. It is well understood here that some sort of postwar organization is necessary if there is to be any peace. An Anglo-Russian balance of power might well do the trick for a time. But what the leaders of the grand alliance hgve been proclaiming all along is that what is wanted is a world organization—a new system of collective ' se curity in which Russia, the British commonwealth of nations, China and the United States would take the lead. That, it is pointed out, was what Prime Minister Churchill had in mind no longer ago than last month when he said the British, the Americans and the Russians “should immediately begin to confer upon the| future world organization which is to be our safeguard against further wars.” : Therefore, it is said here with some feeling, it is high ~ time President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin got together. For inquiries here clearly reveal that if Europe or any other part of the world is'to be split up and partitioned by the arbitrary act of ° any individual nation, the United States will never become a party collective treaty of enforcement.

branch library.

war materials. a way of life previously unknown.

the door, or no answer at all. These

them. '

By Eleanor Roosevelt

But the people are geared to war. |.

.'Mrs. Donald Carlisle, 306 S. Warman ave.,, who helps her husband in the plumbing ire do looks over blueprints from one of the technical books in the Hawthorne

2. A turn around the floor on skates at the Hawthorne community center, 2400 W. Ohio ~'st., saves tires and gas for these two members of the Indianapolis Victory Rollers, Inc. They are Alva Bates and Mrs. Alice Carroll. 3. Like mother, like: father, like son, like daughter. members of the Capitol City Casting club. champion, and her son Charles Jr. check reels and tackle for the coming season. 4. Victory gardening on a small scale « . .' seriousness on a great scale. The little ‘tots

And for the first time in their history these homes are experiencing In most cases a knock will bring a’ sleepy-eyed man or woman fo

men and women are drawing their| America is more than fighting living from the plants surrounding mad.

That's the Charles Sutphin family, Here Mrs. ‘Myrtle Sutphin, a national

“Never before has the center heen

People in Belmont-Washington St. Region are{s widely used as today.” said Dr. Geared for War... . . Fighting Stock of Ancestors Still in Blood.

By VICTOR PETERSON

. The home area centering about Belmont ave. and Washington st.| Ohio sts. is the compass point around which are located plants -grinding out vital| Here Week in and week : out are

er. The center has grown so that it has overflowed to the house to the west and to the Hawthorne branch library on the corner of Mount and

held civilian defense classes in home nursing, nutrition, first aid and for afr raid wardens. i But when the ‘classes are over the workers keep coming. The first aid casualty station is in the basement of the library; approximately 50

- But ‘the AS in this West | women a week come to roll bandages

community were not looking|for the Red Cross on Tuesdays,

going to raise their own vegetables. hardt, Linda Jane Dunn and Carol Ann Housefield. 5. Introducing “Dec” Rush T. Swick, physician and surgeon of the Belmont Bicycle hospital, 2120 W. Washington st. old bikes, he rebuilds them like new. 6. Four times a week ladies of the community gather to roll bandages for the Red Cross. . Working from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. they do their bit in the war effort. Making bandages (left to right) are Mesdames Alberta Wilkerson, Willa De Burger, Laura Henschen and Florence Murphy.

With rationing,

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of the Hawthorne kindergarten of the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten society are Hard at work are (lefy to right) Nicholas Stein-

his business has boomed. Buying

They are not rationed.

are about 25 in the olub which is]read technical books. According to

headed ‘by John Carrell, 1357 8S. Sheffield ave. And then there are other “bugs” that bite West-siders. For example,

Miss Thompson, they find them of great value in their plant work. And so another community has

there is the Capitol City Casting acclimated itself in time of war.

club which meets in the community center every Friday evening to whip out their lines at targets. At one time they used rubber tires for targets. Then Uncle Sam called in all. tires, even those used by kiddies to swing in. Today they are made of plywood,

Library Circulation Down

‘The president of the club is Donald Carlisle, 306 S. Warman. ave, and he is mighty proud of his fellow casters. Yet the men blush a

‘bit for the only national champions

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But they feel ‘it. On the Washington - high- s¢hool

service roll of honor there already are nine gold stars. \

ALUMINUM OUTPUT UP PORTLAND, Ore (U, P.) —Northwest aluminum. plants, mainly ic the Portland area; now are producing 50 per cent more than the total national output before the war, according to Raymond Miller, engineer.

Many of them come from pioneer|side Wednesd Wednesday evenin thrust ays, y ¥ stock -and the fight of their ances- for. fo ied gre about | and Thursdays and the air raid dis-

tors is still with them. the main building And that very fight flows in the|their daily tasks adjusting them- telet, oe is. In veins of their children in school. No Selves. longer does the schoolroom reflect| The Hawthorne community “cen- > In: Constant Use fection, because cuts, burns and bruises taken care the era of and brotherly love, per; 2440 W. Ohio st., is just what : AO of at once, will be only minor ailments if no infection peace its name implies. It is the center, Heading the OCD ac 1es-In is In, Dave teh Tosters Cause: Shudders the hub, of community activitiesand | area is Mrs. Harry Litchfield, 30. N. ar, we have tried to urge doctors voluntarily under the direction of C. G. t st. with Mrs. L. Roy Smith, to move into the areas where shortages are acute. Today a shudder runs: through i ind i | Dr.:C. 4 Ho tat 1 charge ot: tho joe

This, however, proved an unsuccessful method in|the ‘adult as he watches a: grade ES “5 ma Great Britain, and I am afraid we shall make the school girl calmly look at a poster },: : Ee, Crete; b Fl sont is ain don't : ~ and night goes by |: i organized medical depicting » snarling; begrimed Amer-| | Your Blood Herdly a, day Tighe ‘constant {have time to read. That leaves the| Is Needed | April quota for Red Cross

tors who ot: nter is no the services sometimes have mot Ico Soldier crouched over a spit {that thie ‘ce Io PERE children nore fee of parental guid‘wanted their is taken over by other young men ue. In; Dencet : Blood Plasma Center u 5400 donors. ; Donors so far this month— 2087.

SAN FRANCISCO, Thursday. —I wonder how many le have really read the facts published after a y made by the office of war information, of the on the civilian population of the extensive ion of the number of physicians and surgeons in private practice? The problems brought about by taking 40 to 45,000 doctors into the armed services, and the inevitable increase which will come as the army and navy forces are augmented, seems to have placed almost ‘unbearable ‘burdens on the munities, Many. of ‘them are endangering their own lives in the SHOR to meet ‘the demands made

jo I-read the whole report, cerall, we must do: all

during iliness, they should at once take the Red Cross’ home nursing course. One important thing for every woman to know is what constitutes cleanliness which will prevent in-

in the ranks .are women. They are Mrs. Harry Sutphin and Mrs, Jack Lewis. Neither live near the center, but they belong to the club. Another mirror to the community is the branch library presided over by Miss Helen Thompson, Like other libraries throughout the city, with |" the exception of two, the circulation

HOLD EVERYTHING

_Wwhile they are gone, bo? : - Men who have Iucrative practices, do not want to Below the ‘poster ‘a sign ‘reads: ‘which may need them badly, but| “A machinegun costs $150. We have them. inadequate income and, fre-|bought stamps amounting to $00.00.” | - housing problem for their] That's at- ‘school 30 on ‘N.- Miley | cal ; isocieties and other groups|ave.

+ . Yesterday's quota—200. irs many Cases anything which savors of| A few blocks. ‘west

‘ Yesterday's donors-—141. I ‘You-can ‘help meet; the quota | by Hori § LI-14a1 for. an 3

As school 50| |

Hore ‘are. pictures of Neal Hoots:

rule, are sent only in case of crushing Anges and Jepanese