Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1943 — Page 9

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' NORTHERN TUNISIA (By Wireless).—A few weeks ago I said in one of these columns that the part the Americans would play in the final phase of the Tunisian war would be comparatively small. That was true, if you look at it from the big angle. But when you look at it from the worm’s-eye view that has been mine in the front lines during a big portion of the fight, it is hard to see anything from the big angle, and I feel constrained to eat my words. Our part has seemed mighty large to me at times. For our American troops had a brutal fight in the mountain phase of this campaign. It was war of such intensity as Americans on this side of the ocean had not known before. It was a battle without letup. It was a war of drenching artillery and hidden mines and walls of machine-gun fire and even of the barbaric bayonet. It was an exhausting, cruel, last-ditch kind of &ar. and those who went through it would seriously A oubt that war could be any worse than those two weeks of mountain fighting.

Don’t Underrate America’s Role

THE GERMANS battled savagely and desperately from hill to hill until the big break came. There Jere times when we had to throw battalion after

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE OPERATOR of a Central ave. bus, apparently #8 brand new employee not familiar with the route, was having trouble the other evening. In several places he stopped in the middle of the block, and once he missed a stop. After a bit of this, an elderly woman asked him: “Driver, is this 23d st.?” Replied the worried operator: “I don’t know, lady. If you don't know, you sure are lost.” . Merle Sidener. who is recovering from an operation at Meth= odist hospital, is doing well and is expected to be home in a.week or 10 days. Dr. John G. Benson, the hospital superintendent, has been pinch hitting for him at the meetings of the Christian Men Builders class in the Third Christian church. . . . A man waiting on the feeder bus at 34th and Illinois the other morning was busily employing an almost extinct utensil. It was a celluloid toothpick.

Canine Democracy

THERE'S NOTHING SNOBBISH about dogs. In fact,- they're the very soul of democracy. We were reminded of this by the sight of a ragged trash gatherer pushing an oval-wheeled pushcast. Tied to % the cart was a black-and-white-spotted purp, trotting mlong just as proudly as any pedigreed show dog with a flock of first place ribbons on his collar. . . A bus load of air corps troops {probably from Stout field) sat in front of the Columbia club Friday afternoon and entertaifed passersby with eight or 10 vocal selections. Some of the boys had pretty good voices, too. . . . A few hours after arriving in town, Herman Paris, a new advertising salesman for The Times, took 8 Red cab and started out in search of a house. As he sat down, he noticed something bulky on the cab seat. It was a woman's purse, containing $104.77. There was a telegram in it and Mr. Paris phoned the tejegraph company, learned where the

Sweden

STOCKHOLM, May 10 (By Wireless). —When vou consider that Sweden is surrounded by Nazis, that all communication is cut off except by air though she is dependent on the outside for coal, foodstuffs and materials, it is amazing how little life here is affected by the war. Clothing is rationed, but people all seem well dressed. Only a third of a small bar of soap is allowed each person each week, yet everyone is spotlessly clean. I have seen numerous kitchens, all spotless. Social services, for which Sweden is famous, continue unaffected by the war. Expansion has been checked, although an enormous hospital is just being finished. I saw rows of new low-price cottages being built, with the aid of government subsidy—owners put up prefabricated houses, supplied by the government on long cheap credit. The owner's labor is accepted as down payment, with 8480 vears allowed to pay the balance. I spent a whole day looking at apartments, homes, nurseries and hospitals with Mrs. Myrdal, wife of Prof. Gunnar Myrdal, who is well-known in America because of extensive investigation of social conditions there. She says that Sweden has advanced well toward its goal in state medicine, still has much to do in housing, and is lagging badly in schools.

AT rend to Socialized Medicine

THE SCHOOL AGE is 7 to 14, when 80 per cent go to work, 10 per cent go to college and 10 per cent go to trade schools—against an average 10-vear compulsory schooling in America. with over half continuing in high school. The trend in medicine is toward socialization. Public hospitals dominate, with 968 per cent of all beds in the country. About half of the doctors are

My Day

WASHINGTON, Sunday.—I spent yesterday in New York City chiefly talking to young peoples groups. Just before 10 in the morning, I was at the society for ethical culture’s auditorium. If was thé last meeting in a course which they organized largely for high school students. Various speakers had covered such subjects as civil liberties, race relations, the post-war world, and the students had a discussion on the subject of what students can do while they are still students to make some contrbiution to this world at war and the future world at peace. As I looked at the young and eager faces, I thought of how many problems lay befere them, and it seemed as though the only thing one could say, no matter how much you embellished and embroidered it, could be contained in the brief words—be honest and have courage. Afterwards, 1 looked through the school rooms where the poor week-ends, and which Ink the Summer ag'4 Play

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By Ernie Pyle

battalion onto an already pulverized hill before we could finally take it. Our casualties will surely run high. : Nobody will care to underrate the American contribution to the end of Rommel in North Africa. My time at the front was spent with a certain unit of the 1st infantry division. This division has now been through four big battles in North Africa and has made a good name for itself in every one of them. But it has paid dearly for its victories. Apparently there have been some intimations in print back home that the 1st division did not fight so well in its earlier battles. The men of the division all are as sore as hornets about it. If such a thing was printed it was somebody's unfortunate mistake. For the 1st division has always fought well.

Division Will Live Forever

IT IS NATURAL to be loyal to your friends, and I feel a loyalty to the 1st division, for I have lived with it off and on for six months. But it is a sad thing to become loyal to the men of a division in wartime. It is sad because the men go. and new ones come and they go, and other new ones come until at last only the famous number is left. Finally it is only a numbered mechanism through which men pass. The 1st division will exist forever, but my friends of today may not. For you at home who think this African war has been small stuff, let me tell you just this one thing— the 1s: division has already done more fighting here than it did throughout the last war.

owner, Mrs. John Elliott, could be found and phoned her that he had her purse. “There really is a Santa Claus,” she said.

Around the Town

BILL DEAN has resighed as program director for WIRE and moved to WLW at Cincinnati, where he will handle publicity. . . . Larry Sogard says Mayor Tyndall ought to quit worrying about the debris scattered by trash men and get after the newspapers. He says the canal bank out around 52d and Boulevard place usually is littered with newspapers that had been wrapped around the carrier boys’ bundles. And he said our boys were no better than the rest. We'll see what we can do, Larry. . . . One of our agents reports that out at Allison folks use those large manila envelopes over and over again in sending papers from department to department. They just scratch out the previous address and write 8a new one. One envelope is reported to have had nearly 150 different addresses on it. Sounds like a tip for some of the rest of us to conserve harder.

Forgot to Save One

FRANK SAMUEL, national adjutant of the Legion, had charge of the platform arrangements for the Roane Waring talk at the Coliseum the other night. No one could be admitted to the platform without a ticket bearing Mr. Samuel's name. When he got out there for the program, he found he didn't have a ticket for himself. He wound up by borrowing one from Leonard Shane, a United Press reporter. , . . Mrs. Harmon W. Marsh lives at 3258 Park ave. next door to Dr. R. A. Misselhorn, the dentist. Dr. Misselhorn has two hunting dogs. One, a pointer, always has been very friendly with Mrs. Marsh. The other, a setter, acquired more recently, was decidedly unfriendly. In fact it wouldn't even let Mrs. Marsh out in her own yard. Mrs. Misselhorn noticed the setter’s unneighborly attitude and suggested an “introduction.” Rather timidly, Mrs. Marsh agreed. “This is Mrs. Marsh,” Mrs. Misselhorn told the dog. And now the setter and Mrs. Marsh are quite friendly.

By Raymond Clapper

publicly employed, either full or part time. I saw one of the finest hospitals where the real cost is $4 a day, the patient paying barely one dollar with the remaining cost divided between the city and state. The heavy emphasis on public health is due to the alarm in recent years over a declining birth and an almost stationary pobuiation. Hence the excellent cheap hospital care, especially in maternity cases. To low income families the government gives a heavy rent rebate for extra children—30 per cent for three to 70 per cent rebate for eight or more children. Stockholm has six municipal day nurseries, 15 cooperatives, and numerous private ones which the government is considering taking over in its campaign for saving children. I rode back from the hospital with the board chairman, a businessman, who complained that this was all very expensive.

Prepared for Any Eventuality

TAXES RUN 20 per cent for low incomes because of heavy defense expenditures. Rural districts and provincial communities feel that they are taxed for expensive Stockholm social services while getting “little for themselves, although hospital care with transportation is provided for all parts of Sweden. While there is small tapering off, there is no disposition to stop or turn back. The Social Democrats seem solidly in control. The Conservatives on the whole have accepted changes far more readily than those in America. They figure that good living conditions and public health pay long run dividends. Of course there has been nc bombing, but shelters are everywhere. Sweden is preparing for any eventuality, but actually it does not seem to me that anybody here really expects trouble. All seem to be set to ride through the war without getting singed very much more than now. There is much talk here about defense, and I hava seen some fine developments, but I doubt that any realist thinks Sweden could resist very long if anybody wanted to pay the price to take it.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

In the afternoon I spoke at the meeting called by the United States student assembly. Forty colleges were represented and I feel that this young group is moving forward and will build a good organization on a firm foundation. They should learn something through their activities about the citizenship which they will have to practice in the future. ; From the Y., W. C. A. where this meeting was held, I went directly to international house, where I had supper with the members of the Chinese Students’ forum. This is the parent forum, but it has offshoots in many other places throughout the United States. They told me the very delicious food we had was typical of an ordinary family meal in China. Their meeting began at 8 with singing by the Chinese students’ chorus, and some of them have beautiful voices. This period ended with the singing of the “Star Spangled Banner” and the Chinese national anthem. The flags of the two countries hung behind me as I spoke. I have great hopes that this group may have the opportunity to know something of the family. life of

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Use Extended to Bugles - _That's Why the Public’ Gets Fewer ‘Gadgets’

PLASTICS GO into the new bugle that gets the soldier up in the morning. Plastics are used for the lining And plastics may make up the hull of the PT boat in which a sailor fights or the body of an airplane

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the teacher of a course in plastics offered under the Purdue university war training program. “If you are the average person, you meet plastics 24 hours a day,” he points out. “There is hardly an article you can name that has not been made of a plastics material—everything from stiff collars to airplanes,

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Plastics Aren't New

“PLASTICS. contrary to public conception, are one of the oldest materials known to men,” he said. “Some go back as far as 1830. However, they did not step into their own commercially until the late 20's or 30's.” The plastics industry was growing by leaps and bounds when the war came along. Today, all goods that are being produced from plastics, with a few exceptions, are goods that will help win the war. Sometimes they've been utilized to substitute in the metal shortage but Mr. Davis points out that in “the majority of cases, it has been found that they can do an even better job than the

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Use Plastic Bugle

TAKE THAT plastic bugle for example. “You can't get ‘em up, you can't get 'em up, you can't get 'em up in the morning,” sounds the same rolling out of a

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Yes, plastics, too, have gone to war. And as they do, more and more, civilians are going to see less and less of those gadgets which came onto the market with astonishing rapidity before the war. In short, most gadgets of plastic are out for the duration.

plastics to tell of the impor-

tant role they are playing in war equipment and neces-

Such a raconteur is Robert L. Davis, the plastics representative for the General Electric Co. in this region, and

plastic horn as a brass one. The quartermaster corps already has accepted it for use. Then there is plywood plane construction which has been an important development in the aviation industry in world war II. It was only about a year ago that the first experimental plastic-ply-wood plane was ordered by the navy. Now cargo planes of plywood are flying supplies overseas. Those Mosquito bomber fighters flown by the R. A. F, have fuselages made from resin-bonded plywood. And the hulls of those P-T boats which are distinguishing themselves in the South Pacific are made of thin layers of wood laminated with plastic, ” n 2

Soap Dish Is Light

THERE IS even a soap dish used on a bomber made of plastic. It's light, Something of the role this material plays can easily be seen when Mr. Davis points out plastic materials are about one-sixth the weight of steel and one-half that of aluminum.

Plastics are even serving in place of aluminum. Fuses on a trench mortar were made of aluminum and now three pounds of that valuable and scarce material is saved by the development of a fuse made of plastic. The story of how plastics aid in the war effort can go on and on. There is a portion of a bearing for a ship made from plastic materials which can be lubricated with water rather than oil. There

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Robert L. Davis holds a plastic fuse for a trench mortar, designed to replace the aluminum one (standing

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are lenses on gas masks made from plastic, and raincoats for soldiers. THERE ARE whistles of plastic for M. P.'s, plastic seats for aircraft, even canteens are now being made of plastic. The story of how plastics are utilized in communications — in telephone, radio, etc., in the war— is a big one and perhaps best known to the public. Becoming well known, too, is their use in the making of engineering materials—gears, machine parts, ete. And the future? Well, Mr. Davis, like other men in the field, doesn't go so far as to call

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State Association Group Pledges Co-operation Under U. S. Law.

Hoosier doctors, through the executive committee of the Indiana State Medical association, yesterday promised complete co-operation with the government in its plan to pay for the maternal and pediatric

care of wives and children of service men, According to the committee, federal financing, under act of congress, is considerad a “concrete and necessary” undertaking. No mention was made at the meeting of the possibility that the program might be a step toward state medicine.

Opposed “General Plan”

Prior to passage of the congressional act, the house of delegates of the state association adopted a resolution opposing any “general plan” using federal funds for families of military personnel. Members at yesterday's meeting, however, emphasized that Indiana physicians “have made certain that all of the needy wives and children of service men have received medical care in the past, and they will continued to do so in the future.” Attending the meeting were Dr. Thurman B. Rice, state health commissioner; Dr. C. A. Nafe, Dr. C. H. McCaskey, Dr. A. F. Weyerbacher, all of this city; Dr. J. T. Oliphant, Farmersburg, and Dr. F. T. Romberger, Lafayette.

GOLD MOUND UNIT DRILLS WEDNESDAY

Gold Mound council, degree of Pocahontas, will celebrate Tamina day in their wigwam, North st. and Capitol ave, at 8 p. m, Wednesday. An exhibition drill will be presented by drill teams of local lodges. Edward C. Harding, great chief of records of the Red Men, will be the speaker. Mrs. Mamie Stowers is general chairman,

Your Blood Is Needed

May quota for Red Cross Blood Plasma Center — 5800 donors. Donors so far this month— 929. Saturday's quota—200. Saturday's donors—118. You can help meet the quota by calling LI-1441 for an appointment or going to the

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Harry Hanna Named Head

Of United War Fund Drive

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day was appointed general chairman of the second annual United War Fund campaign by William C. Guiffith, fund president. He was associate chairman of the first campaign last fall. The campaign goal and dates will be determined within a few weeks. Mr, Hanna has been active civic and welfare work. Last fall's campaign had a goal of $1,500,000 and went “over the top” to raise $1,800,000, resulting in one of the best records of any of the war fund drives held in the larger cities throughout the nation. Mr. Hanna, active in the annual Indianapolis Community fund campaigns, was chairman of the utility division, one of the major organizations in the drive two years ago.

Member of Legion

Mr. Hanna is a member of the American Legion, the board of directors of the Central Indiana Council of Boy Scouts and of the Rotary club. He has been vice-| president of Indiana Bell since 1933 and has been associated with the Bell system ior 21 years. Mr. and Mrs. Hanna reside at 4316 Knollton road. A son, Harry S. Jr, is a lieutenant in the signal corps. Among the agencies mcluded in

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the United War Fund are the USO, both local and national; Navy Reiief society, British War Relief society, Polish War relief, United China relief, Greek War Relief society, Russian War Relief society, War Prisoners’ Aid committee. Comrhunity Fund, Indianapolis Service~ men’s Centers and the Marion County Civilian Defense council.

LEGION COMMITTEE FOR PREPAREDNESS

Military Funeral

Set for Andrews

The executive committee of the! Indiana department, American Le-| gion has called upon the govern-| ment to maintain an adequate army, ! navy and air force to prevent a repetition of our unpreparedness in world wars I and II. The resolution was adopted at the annual spring meeting yesterday in the national legion headquarters. Eventully it will go before the national convention for consideration. Fred C. Hasselbring, commander of the 11th district, presented the resolution on behalf of one of his posts. Clarence U. Gramelspacher, Jasper, department commnder, presided.

STUDENTS TO WEAR STAMP CORSAGES

War stamp corsages will be worn by Howe high school students Friday at the “Blossom Time Ball,” a semi-formal dance sponsored by the “Hilltopper,” Howe yearbook. Al Weiscopf and his 10-piece orchestra will play for dancing in the s€hool gym from 9 to 12 p. m. Members of the student committee are Virginia Reese, Jack Rennoe, Martha Scott, Lucille Broeking, Mary

Jim Bayly, Suzanne Fisher and Bob Bowles,

Parents of students will serve as

WASHINGTON, May 10 (U. P). —High army and government officials today will honor the late Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, Bishop Adna W. Leonard and the 12 officers and enlisted men who died in a plane crash in Iceland on May 3. At Ft. Myer, Va. Brig. Gen. William R. Arnold, chief of army chaplains, and other army chaplains will join in paying tribute at memorial services to the late commanding general of the European theater of operations and those who perished with him. Maj. Gen. James A. Ulio, adjutant general of the army, will read the call of the roll, and an army escort and the army band will render full military honors to dead. Families of the crash victims and high army and government officials will attend. King George VI has offered historic guards’ chapel in London just outside Buckingham palace as the site where British government officials and U. S. army representatives will eonduct memorial services today, too.

. TEN-YEAR-OLD DROWNS ENGLISH, May 10 (U. P.).—Ten-year-old Curtis Lee Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wilson, Jef-

this the plastic age, but his pre dictions for the future sound almost like flights of fancy. Many of them are based on experiments already conducted.

" ” » Plumbing Holds Heat ALREADY he has a sample of pipe for plumbing made of plastic. Water coursing through it would retain the heat that is absorbed by metal pipe. He talks of men’s suits ‘that would not absorb perspiration and pants that would not lose their crease, suits that would shed water in a downpour.

MISSION GROUP TO MEET HERE

National Convention, Opens Friday.

An outstanding event of golden anniversary year of the Wheeler City Mission is the regional conference to be held here Friday through Sunday. The regional conference is scheduled to replace the national convention of the International Union of Gospel missions which was to have met in Indianapolis but has been postponed because of the war. Governor Schricker and Mayor Tyndall will welcome delegates at the conference dinner Friday evening at the -Central Avenue Methodist church. Others who will extend greetings are Sheriff Otto Petit, Dr. Howard J. Baumgartel of the church federation, the Rev. H. H. Hazenfield, president of the ministerial association, and Mrs. Virgil Sly, president of the council of churchwomen. Responses will be given by the Rev. L. J. Sutherland of Newark, N. J, and other members of the executive committee of the organization. The Rev. Peter MacFarlane of St. Paul, chairman of the executive committee, will speak on | “Miracles. of Missions,” Dr. W. E. Paul of Minneapolis, twice voted the outstanding citizen of that city, will speak on “The Seven Freedoms” at the mass meeting Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the First Baptist church. On the program also are the Rev. Mr. Sutherland and Ralph Jacobus of Kingsport, Tenn.,, a Hebrew-Chris-tian.

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Meet at Mission The routine conference sessions will be held in the Wheeler Mission chapel with discussions of service men’s centers the main matter of business. Joseph Keating of Trenton, N. J. president of the Philadelphia district of the

ice center, will speak and show moving pictures. The Rev. Herbert E. Eberhardt, Wheeler Mission superintendent, host to the convention, is the president of the Chicago district of the union and a past national president. Harry W. Krause, president of the mission board, is dinner chairman. The mission was founded in 1893 by William V. Wheeler, a layman of the Central Avenue Methodist church, which is a reason why the committee wished to serve thé conference dinner in that ¢ h.

RUSS SPEED TRAFFIC LONDON, May 10 (U. P.).—~The Moscow radio said today that Sovjet marine and river transport

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It saves three pounds of vital aluminum,

Four years ago in the United States there were 136 plastic molders., Last year there were 276

such companies. That illustrates the phenomenal growth of the industry. There are four plants in Indiana now producing molded plastic products. Mr. Davis declares there is sufficient business in the state to support eight or ten of them, In fact, he believes there would be sufficient business in Indianapolis to support four such plants doing a total business of ap=proximately $4,000,000 annually.

Brothers Meet At African Movie

MT. VERNON, Ind., May 10 (U. P.) —Mrs. Stella Owen of New Harmony had an item to add to the “isn’t it a small world” department today from her two sons in North Africa. Mrs. Owen said a letter revealed that Pvt. Alfred Owen was waiting in line to go to a movie in North Africa when he saw a familiar figure ahead of him. It was his brother, Lt. Thomas Owen, whom he last had seen in the United States a year ago.

MRS. KEYES TO QUIT POST UNDER MNUTT

Mrs. Edith Keyes, Indianapolis, an executive of the war manpower commission, plans to resign soon to go with Vice President Wallace's war economic board. Mrs. Keyes’ resignation followed that of Fowler Harper, who re-

signed Saturday. Mr. Harper, a former professor of law at Indiana university, was deputy manpower commisioner under Paul V. McNutt, manpower chief. Mrs. Keyes was administrative assistant to Mr, Harper. Formerly assistant Indiana WPA director under Wayne Coy, Mrs, Keyes went to the Philippines while Mr. McNutt was high commissioner there. Mr. Harper became associated with the war economic board after McNutt on economic questions,

CONFER DEGREES

Degrees will be conferred on one candidate at the meeting of the Beech Grove chapter of the O. E, S. tomorrow. A Mother's day program {is planned. Mrs, Lorraine Wilson is worthy matron and Carl Wilson is worthy patron.

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