Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1943 — Page 15

pid the It ing at federa Fr apolis eof the tary © O.; Mi Wome! directs Jacks Prec Ww. Ja chairn her Oo: mittee At last n the ¢ fem ir termi His 8 Worle gions noon the ¢ } post-

“Ty thing what mad: ghip worle what find* in sv “B have all t ware ing emp arise golve “Vy eons Bus! tha' unle to gre: this

+

he Indianapolis

TE

Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

NORTHERN TUNISIA (By Wireless).—I hope somebody in this war writes a book about the medics at the front. I don't mean the hospitals so much as

. the units that are actually attached to troops and

work on the battlefields under fire.

They are a noble breed. They and the telephone linemen deserve more praise than I have words for. Their job is deadly, and it never ends. Just in one battalion several of the battlefield medics have been killed, and a number decorated. But noble as it is, it seems to me—and to the doctors themselves —that our battlefield medical system isn’t all it should Be. There aren’t enough stretcher bearers in an emergency, and in a recent battle at which I was present some of our wounded lay out as long as 20 hours before being brought in. The work of the medics comes in peaks. If they had enough stretcher bearers for all emergencies there would be thousands of men sitting around most of the time with nothing to do. Yet when an

emergency does come and there are not enough, it’s

an awful thing.

Carry Wounded for Five Miles

WOUNDED MEN have a rough time of it in this rocky, hilly country of Northern Tunisia. It is hard enough to walk when you aren't carrying anything, but when two or four men are lugging 200 pounds on @ stretcher it is almost impossible to keep on their feet. I have seen litter bearef® struggling down a rocky hillside with their heavy burden when one of them would slip or stumble on a rock and fall down, and the whole litter would go down, giving the wounded man a bad shaking up. Litter bearers sometimes have to carry wounded

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

WONDER WHAT'S happened to Prosecutor Sher wood Blue. He has kept out of the headlines for a long time now—in fact, since Feb. 19 when he raided Emil Rahke's establishment during the separate and gompetitive anti-gambling crusades being waged by police and his office. One of our courthouse observers suggests that probably someone convinced him that, for the sake of party unity, it would be a good idea to ease off. Anyway, that’s what he has done. . «+ « The Brookside Civic league wishes the city would fill the chuckholes in Brookside ave. and in 20th st. between Rural st. and Dearborn. , . « And several folks have suggested that if the city has a couple dollars worth of asphalt left over, it fill in the low spot in the pavement on Illinois st. just south of Washington and beside Hook’s drug store. Tires dropping into the hole on rainy days douse pedestrians and persons in the street railway safety island.

Hanging Scheduled

MISS MARIE GOTH, the Brown county artist, has completed painting the official portrait of Governor Schricker which eventually will hang with the portraits of his immediate predecessors on the wall fn the outer office of the governor’s office. The 1041 legislature appropriated $500 to pay for the painting. Miss Goth will show the portrait in Nashville this summer, . , . Mayor Tyndall has a new pink elephant on his desk. And it reminds him of one of his favorite yarns. When Col. Arthur Herrington was over in India, says the mayor, he wanted to bring back some souvenirs for his friends, “He found some cigatet lighters in the shape of elephants,” adds his honor, “and then he looked around for some in the shape of donkeys for his Democratic friends. But he couldn't find any. Finally, puzzled,

Sweden

STOCKHOLM, May 13 (By Wireless)—Reports from numerous sources inside Germany agree that Hitler's failure to take Stalingrad, after boastful promises, damaged his prestige considerably, and for the first time brought open doubts from the people on the fuehrer’s infallibility. If defeat at Stalingrad shook the German public to a limited degree, it must follow that loss of Tunis and Bizerte is reacting most unfavorably inside Germany. I find no one here expecting Germany to crack soon. The best guesses as to length of the war range from the end of this year to the end of next year—which is to the longest time anybody gives Germany. Persons who have recently come out of Germany report that people there no longer expect Hitler to invade England but, instead, are con-

* stantly speculating on where the allies will strike.

German military people expect invasion of the continent and have worked on all possibilities, including the Balkans, Norway, and Denmark. No particular grumbling is reported among the German people over failure of their air force to retaliate for allied bombings, because they realize their air force must be saved for defense against Invasion. There are supposed to be several thousand planes held in Germany or Poland, awaiting training to meet invasion from any direction,

Germans Lose Victory Hopes

PERSONS RECENTLY inside Germany report that German military experts consider the French and Belgian coasts the most likely spots. They are prepared for surprise landings, and to hold for two or three days while a counter-attack is mobilized. Reports from inside Germany are to the effect that, in resisting invasion, Germany will count heavily on cutting off the allied supply line to the bridgehead. After two or three days the defenders can have

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Wednesday—I have just heard that 75 Red Cross scholarships will be available July 1 for selected persons, who will be eligible for training in approved schools for social work. The need for trained personnel in home service activities has increased so much, that the

Red Cross finds its obligations to the families of men in the armed forces can only be fulfilled by relieving this shortage of trained, personnel at home. This shortage of trained personnel is felt in many fields. We

hear a great deal about the rise in juvenile delinquency and we often ‘think of that as meaning only

‘communities will have to see that these services children.

By Ernie Pyle men five miles or more over this rugged country. A bearer is just about done in by the time he does that, yet in battle he has to start right back again. And somehow, even though it gets to be just a miserably tough job, I've noticed that they manage to keep their sympathetic feeling for the wounded. We've heard stories about the Germans shooting up ambulances and bombing hospitals, and I personally know of instances where those stories are true. But there are also stories of just the opposite nature. Many of our officers tell me the Germans have fought a pretty clean war in Tunisia. They do have scores of crafty, brutal little tricks that we don’t have, but as

for their observance of the broader ethics of war, our side has no complaint,

Shelling Stopped for Eight Hours

ONE BATTALION surgeon told me of running his ambulance out onto a battlefield under heavy artillery fire—whereupon the Germans stopped shelling and stayed stopped while he evacuated the dead and wounded for eight hours. I've heard other stories where our ambulances got past German machine-gun nests without knowing it until the Germans came out and stopped them and, seeing they had wounded, waved them on. And so far as our doctors know, the German doctors give our captured wounded good medical care—as we do theirs also, of course. In the last war nerve cases were called “shell shock.” In this war they're called “anxiety neurosis.”

A large proportion of these cases are brought about by complete fatigue, by fighting day and night on end with little sleep and little to eat. Surgeons sometimes spot neurosis cases that they suspect of being faked in order to get out of the front lines. Their system is to put these men on stretcherbearer duty—a hard, thankless, dangerous task. If they are faking they get well quickly and ask to be returned to their regular outfits.

he inquired why none were available. And do you know what they told him? Well, the fellow he asked replied: ‘Why Colonel; don’t you know that in India the donkey is considered the lowest animal in the world?’ ” The mayor gets a big chuckle out of it.

No Waste There

A VISITOR at the air force depot at the state fairground recently was looking at a. big stack of inner tubes for airplane tires and was startled to notice that one of them was patched. He remarked about it to his guide and was even more startled to learn that everyone of the tubes in the pile had been salvaged and patched. Surprised us a bit, too, after all the stories we had heard about wartime waste in the army. . . Indac, the Indianapolis Athletic club’s monthly publication, has a new editor—Dorothy Stephenson Stout, 3750 Guilford. She succeeds Haroid (Speedy) Ross; who now is with Bozell & Jacobs, advertising agency. . . . Al Kipfer, American Airlines station manager at Municipal airport, has returned to his duties after being in New York on a special assignment,

Around the Town LEE WELLS, the western magazine writer, was walking his dog along Fall creek the other day when a couple of small boys stopped to pet the dog. “I've got a cat named General Douglas MacArthur,” proud-

ly said one of the boyf The other boy wrinkled): his nose disdainfully and sneered: “Yeah, but he:

went and had kittens.” . . . An auto and trailer were parked on Fall Creek boulevard near, College yesterday morning with one of the trailer’s wheels jacked up. In the window of the trailer was a service flag with one star on it.

is home on leave from San Antonio, Tex. He says he seldom runs into anyone he knows down there.

By Raymond Clapper

masses of submarines working, and with airpower concentrating to isolate the bridgehead. The German military belief is that the allies must be within 24 hours navigation from their bases to hold the bridgehead—which, in the German mind, narrows down the possibilities to the channel coast,

_+ + +» Capt. George|: A. Schumacher, the former Butler alumni secretary,|:

Normandie and Bretagne coasts, as the best places. Whether the Germans are correct in their estimate only time can tell. Information out of Germany seems definite that

3

Record 4.H Membership Aids War Effort

Twin 4-H clubbers who captured prizes for their Ayrshire

heifers,

which they raised and fed themselves according to 4-H rules, are Leroy and Thomas Wilson of Perry township, :

a De eet to fighting a oe Ind u stry, Fa rming Benefit

In Club Victory Program; Many Preserve Foods

By THEO WILSON MARION’S COUNTY'S 4-H clubbers have gone to

war.

They are increasing in membership, with 1943's enrollments the largest on record, and in some cases doubling

last year’s figures.

They are taking over projects in some of the war's

most important homefront

fields—the production and

preservation of food included. They are emphasizing activities essential to the war effort. Their tools are plows, canning jars, spades, weeding

implements, feed troughs.

Their manual of arms is the “Farm and Home 4-H

Victory Club Record Book,” -

a pamphlet just published this year outling work of the new Victory club, whose purpose is “to provide opportunity to give deserved recognition to any boy or girl, 10 to 20 years old, who in daily farm or home work or community service, contributes very definitely to the war effort.”

” » ” AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING is one of the Victory club's

her leaders are operating now on the conviction that |;

military victory over the allies is impossible, and; that a stalemate is her only hope.

Separate Peace Drive Fails

THERE WAS a determined campaign to induce Stalin to agree to a separate peace. The Polish affair was used as part of it, and also the argument that already the military deadlock is clear—the Russian and German armies soon will have been fighting two summers and two winters without annihilating each other. There are many reports of the Germans mounting a new giant offensive in Russia, but these are being more and more discounted. It is now believed that any such German campaign would be weaker than the one last year. It is obvious to the Germans that they cannot annihilate the Russian army, which was their real aim. Stalin brought such German peace hopes to an end with his May day speech, pledging war until the unconditional surrender of Hitlerite Germany. This now leaves the Hitler regime standing before the German people as the obstacle to peace. Hitler called in his gauleiters a few weeks ago and gave them a grim picture. He said defeat was certain unless the occupied countries took most drastic measures, along with Germany, for more men and more production. Such are samples of information out of Germany. To me such reports emphasize that Germany is on the way down, that the war is slowly but inevitably turning our way. But every judgment I get is that we must not underestimate the fight still left in Germany.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Instead of having more people to supervise playgrounds and after-hour school play, there are fewer of them. Instead of being able to develop more programs to interest these young people in games, new occupations and skills of different kinds, It is almost impossible to find people to carry on such programs as were already started before the war. Industry, civic groups and the government have begun to do something by establishing day nurseries to meet the problem of the very young child, but we have done comparatively little as yet to face the more serious problem of the older children. Equipment will be needed in many cases, as well as trained personnel to take care of them. It may not sound as though care of children was in any way a part of the war effort. Yet, if we really expect women to work in greater numbers than ever before in the factories and in any of the innumerable war time jobs that are now open, the

are

op Whe ware of

were canned by Anna Rosemeyer, Warren township, in her 4-H work, and she was the 1941 national canning champion, She's packing chicken.

GEN. FUQUA'S BURIAL T0 BE IN ARLINGTON

NEW YORK, May 13 (U. P).— Funeral services for Maj. Gen. Stephen O. Fuqua, 68, former chief of infantry of the United States army, will be held here tomorrow with burial Saturday in the National cemetery at Arlington, Va. He was 68. ; Fuqua, military analyst for Newsweek following his retirement in 1938, died Tuesday of a heart attack. Born in Baton Rouge, La., he attended Tulane university, the University of Louisiana and West Point, and entered military service during the war with Spain. He served in

Cuba and the Philippines. A graduate of the infantrycavalry school, he returned to the Philippines in 1908 and in 1914 went

with Gen. John J. Pershing to the|,

Mexican border.

In the world war he saw service|

at Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel, the Argonne.and Sedan and in 1928 was appointed chief of infantry. After four years in that pest he was sent to Madrid as military attache of the U S. embassy, serving through the Spanish civil war.

He was the author of “Americans|’

Wanted,” a volume for recruits.

‘EL LEGARTO’

Our word “alligator” comes from the Spanish “el legarto,” meaning lizard, since early Spanish explorers

believed these creatures to be gi-

activities. This includes the repair and adjustment of farm machinery, and the planning and use of labor-saving short cuts in all farm operations, Other recommended projects

are: Beef, feeding calves, studying beef rations; corn, following good fertility practices, preparing good seed beds, using adapted hybrids; dairy, feeding young calves milk substitutes, keeping butter fat production records; preservation of food, drying, storing and canning foods; garden, using recommended seed varieties, weeding, controlling insects.

RS

Preserving foods is one of the home front’s biggest war jobs. The tempting assortment above won for 4-H clubber Margery Wolcott, Franklin twp. the 1942 state canning achievement prize.

Weeds Grow Fast At White House

WASHINGTON, May 13 (U. PJ). —Weeds grow just as fast in the White House victory garden as elsewhere. Diana Hopkins, 10-year-old daughter of Harry L. Hopkins, is the authority for that. She has a garden on the southeast lawn of the White. House grounds. “Farmer” Hopkins said that her planting is all done and she is hoping for a good harvest of radishes, carrots, beets, lima and string beans, tomatoes and cabbage. Barring ruinous weather, Diana predicts that her produce will add substantially to the White House larder and will be a boon to the pantryfat the executive mansion. Diana lives at the White House with Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins, where her father is the intimate adviser of President Roosevelt,

Your Blood Is Needed

May quota for Red Cross Blood Plasma Center — 5800 donors. Donors so far this month— 1311, Sara: Wednesday's quota—200. Wednesday's donors—132,

You can help meet the quota by calling LI-1441 for an appointment or going to the center, second floor, Chamber of Commerce building, N. Meridian st.

Blue ribbon winners in 4-H foods demonstration were:

(left to

right) Jani Augustine, Jean Stratton, Margaret ann Augustine, Helen Tyrie and Francis Tyrie of Washington township.

i

Dorothy Willsey, Franklin

township, whose 4-H project was baking and meal preparation.

Farm management, poultry, soy=beans, swine, safety and first aid, health, recreation, salvage, war stamps and bonds, baking, child care, clothing, home care and meal preparation are the other projects. a » » » Many Boys Join Up THE VICTORY CLUB, ever, is only one of the units in which Marion County 4-H club bers are interested. The boys’ division runs second in membership to the Garden club, which has 453 enrolled. This is nearly as much as was enrolled in the entire boys’ division last year, when the total membership was 526. This year the total membership is 1177. The girls’ division total last year was 1474 and, although fine figures have not yet been attained, it is expected to go to 2000, mak=ing entire city and county membership over 3100. Reasons for the increase, according to C. J. Murphy, who is in charge of the boys’ 4-H club work through the Purdue university agricultural extension division, are: 1. Members are too young to engage in military service or factory work, and so they feel it their patriotic duty to do all they can in agriculture and home econamics. 2. 4-H clubbers want to help out their own families and insure having plenty of food by raising

TROPIC WAR ADDS MEDICAL PROBLEM

DETROIT, May 13 (U. P.).—The blond soldier fighting in the tropics is more susceptible to the dangers of heat and sunlight than his dark complexioned brother in arms, but both types wili present a problem to the American medical corps if they have to remain in hot climates

very long. That, in substance, is what Lt. Cmdr. James L. McCartney of the Brooklyn naval hospital told the

99th annual convention of the American Psychiatry association yesterday. McCartney's observations were based on a study carried out in the tropics and on cases returned to this country. “One of the greatest dangers of tropical life is a night-blindness among troops,” McCartney said. “Over-stimulation by a bright light over any length of time may cause this affliction, with a person having perfectly normal vision during the daytime but being useless as an observer after the sun goes down.”

BRITISH RETREAT

how

AGAIN, TOKYO SAYS

LONDON, May 13 (U. P.).—Radio Tokyo said today that

in Burma. The Japanese broadcast said the

Japanese forces that captured Buth- |

idaung, British strongpoint 55 miles

north of Akyab, were in rapid pur- |

suit of British troops withdrawing

“in utter confusion” from the Bur- give

ma front,

British troops had begun another retreat!

“Use it up, wear it out, make it do.” . . « Margaret Augustine is shown re-caning a broken chair.

First prize for his buff rock and white rock pullets was won at the

Indiana state fair by Bruce McNeal, Warren township.

Poultry raising

is a wartime 4-H activity popular with both boys and girls,

gardens, working with poultry and live stock. ” » »

Combat Delinquency

BECAUSE 4-H CLUB work puts young people into constructive work, it {8 one of thé most effective ways to combat the increase in juvenile delinquency, and men and women volunteers who act as

club leaders are doing one of the finest types of war work possible, Miss Janice Berlin, home demonstration agent, says. The increase in Marion county membership, which surpasses the quota of 3000 set for the county, is possible only through such leadership, and it gives women at home the chance to engage in a “truly patriotic and worth-while war job, as such leaders,” Miss Berlin adds. Although older 4-H club girls are going into factory work and military service, the ’'teen-agers are on the increase. In many homes, brothers and sisters are co-operating on their 4-H club work. Brother raises the chicken, for instance—sister packs it. Brother raises green beans—sister cans them. Brother grows fruit —sister makes preserves and jel-

lies. ” ” .

Earn Scholarships

This kind of 4-H club. work brings financial rewards to its members, with many scholarships in all money brackets offered for

Report Germans

Turn in Italians

WASHINGTON, May 13 (U. P.). ~Three German soldiers captured in Tunisia on Saturday were so chagrined by their fate, the war department disclosed today, that they betrayed 90 Italian troops to their captors. The story ‘was told in a report from 1st Lt, John A. Carey, a U. 8S. fighter pilot. While moving in to attack targets in the forward area on Sat-. urday, Carey's plane was damaged by flak. He managed to land, dazed by the jolting he received. Seeing three German soldiers nearby, he started to run. At a bend in the road, however, he met three British soldiers on a gun carrier, They captured the three Germans. “Just a little way beyond this hill you'll find a lot of Italians,” they told their captors. “Go and get them.” The British and Carey, armed with a British tommy gun, followed the Germans’ advice. They found 90 Italians, took them pris oner and took the lot to Tunis. Carey is married and the father of a son he has never seen,

GOVERNOR TO GIVE ADDRESS SATURDAY Members of the Harvard Club of Indiana and their guests will hear Governor Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts at a dinner meeting

at 6:30 p. m. Saturday in the Ine dianapolis Athletic club.

P. Travis will preside. Governor Saltonstall, a gradual of the Harvard class of 1014, is the commencement add Sunday at DePauw |

Howard

outstanding achievements. Many 4-H clubbers have gone through college on such sciolarships. Others, through the auction of prize hogs and calves, have made enough money to buy herds of livestock, after starting with one animal, They are given medals, ribbons, awards, all-expense trips to national and state meetings, taken on tours, and receive honors from the Purdue agricultural extension division, which sponsors it here, . and from private companies and clubs which make awards in spe« cial fields. One of the newest of these, in Marion county, is the Altrusa club's canning project, which encourages food preservation by stimulating canning work among 4-H club girls, who will have special training by junior leaders, exhibits and awards. The slogan, “Wear It Out—Use It Up—Make It Do,” is something else 4-H clubbers learn. The girls have a room beautification project which includes re-caning broken chairs, making over old furniture, utilizing discarded household furnishings, all of which comes in especially handy during these war-economizing days. Working with Miss Berlin and Mr. Murphy now are 102 women volunteers, 128 junior girl leaders, 27 men volunteers and 12 junior boy leaders.

STATE PHARMACISTS RE-ELECT OFFICERS

LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 13 (U. P.).—The annual meeting of the ' Indiana Pharmaceutical association concluded Tuesday night with the re-election of all officers, Officers are Stephen Badenish, Gary, president; Lee Harrison, Terre Haute; Wilfred Ullrich, Aurora, and Edward Wolfgang, Evansville, vice presidents; Russell Loser, Noblesville, chairman of the executive committee; Cecil Gough, Hartford City; Gordon Triplett, Os« good; Fred Wenzler, Ft. Wayne, and Laurence Heustis, Indianapolis, members of the executive coms mittee. The attendance at the two-day meeting was 300.

HOLD EVERYTHING