Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1943 — Page 15
FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1943
Hoosier Vagabond
NORTHERN TUNISIA (By Wireless).—It isn't good form for correspondents to put themselves too much into their war stories, for we at best are only onlookers. But right up in the lines interesting things happen which you cannot tell without writing about yourself. So for a day or two I am going to violate the usual! ethics and regale you with some of my own mild experiences. I'll tell you the machine-gun story first. Usually on trips into the lines I have enough columns written to last until I get back to our permanent camp. but this time I didn’t. I have to write one on the spot. Of course I couldn't have a typewriter with me. so I wrote with a pencil, sitting on the ground. Now the midday sun is so bright and hot one can’t sit out in it and write. Where we were there was only one spot of shade in miles. That was a tiny patch, made by a big rock behind which our battalion staff lay directing the battle. So I picked out this spot of . shade for my writing room,
Four Times and Out
IT WOULD have been all right at that, except my special spot of the rock was the front side and consequently afflicted with bullets. I would write for 10 or 15 minutes, then suddenly machine gun slugs would come singing down froin vthe hilltop and buzz past us overhead. They came from a dugout sniper on our own hill. Apparrntly my paper made a target for him. I would stay each time until three or four bullets went past. then go around to the other side of the rock and tell the battalion staff: “That guy is shooting at me again.” We'd all laugh and after a while I would go back
By Ernie Pyle
to try to recapture the muse. Four times in one day that fellow chased me out of my shady place. : Our soldiers finally dug out and captured the sniper that last afternoon. So there is my narrow escape story, and I'll stick with it. ‘ I don't know which was the greater mental hazard —my writing, the bullets, or snakes. This rocky hill country is a reptilian paradise. i After the machine gunner had made me flee in shame, I sat down in a foxhole and tried to write. If I had just kept my eyes on the paper it would have been all right, but for some perverse reason I happened to look down on the ground. There, alongside my leg in the hole was one of our dear little slimy friends. A movie of me leaving that foxhole would look like a shell leaving a rifie.
A Snake-Fright Whoop!
CPL. RICHARD REDMAN of Struthers, O., oecupied a shallow foxhole adjoining, an hour or so after my episode. Corp. Redman was catching some daytime sleep in his trench when I happened to walk by. There, within a foot of his head, was a real snake. This time I let out my special. snake-fright whoop, which can be heard miles. The battalion surgeon grabbed a shovel and killed the thing. He said it was an adder, very poisonous. Later they killed another at the same spot. When Cpl. Redman woke up I told him how I had practically saved his life. He was very grateful. Cpl. William Otter of Hazelton. Pa, had the next foxhole. So he joired in cur snake discussion. He said, teco, he had had a complex about snakes all his life,
but since being in Tunisia he had seen so much; horror of battle that a snake seemed minor stuff to him now and his unreaSonabie fear had gone, | Maybe I feel a little like that myself. I thought I couldn't possibly lie down in my foxhole that night, | with snakes all around. Yet, when the time came, there was nothing else to do. So I made myself crawl |
in. and I slept soundly all night.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
WAYNE COY, Hoosier boy: who has been going great guns in Washington (he’s currently the assistant director of the budget), is in town this week for a visit. He's also having some dental work done. He'll spend the week-end in Franklin and start back to Washington Sunday evening. He's been conferring at length with such prominent Democrats as Governor Schricker and State Chairman Fred Bays, but told newspapermen he doesn’t “know anything about politict.” He concurs in the opinion of most of Washington that FDR will run again. . . . Governor Schricker has been politely turning down many requests that he speak here and there throughout the state on Memorial day. He plans to follow his long-time custom of spending Memorial day at his home town, Knox. That's the one day in the year he won't make a speech. . . . Lieut. Gov. Charley Dawson, in a preoccupied moment Tuesday, walked off from the Hotel Harrison with the wrong raincoat. He would be glad to trade back. The one he walked away with is greenish, and a bit too small for him. His own is black.
School’s Boss Improved
DEWITT S. MORGAN, school superintendent, who has been ill, has been back at his desk a few hours a day the last three days. He was in a hospitai for a checkup following a sinus flareup and a recent attack of influenza. . . . Robert T. Harrison, former head of the schools’ radio department and more recently with the OWI in Washington, visited the school board offices this week. He is recuperating after 18 weeks in St. Vincent's hospital. . . . State Rep. Wesley Malone (R. Clinton) now is a buck private out at the Ft. Harrison reception center. He waived his constitutional immunity from the draft as a legislator. He introduced the bill making it a misdemeanor to gvp a newspaper carrier. ... . Whenever youre thirsty for a coke and can't find one anywhere else, youre pretty
Sweden
STOCKHOLM, May 14 (By Wireless). —I have talked to many pecple hers about Germany, and nos one of them has expressed admiration for German efficiency or made any of the comments usually expected from pro-Nazis. On the contrary, they universailvy comment on the brutality and terrorism of the Nazis, People here make a sharp distinction between the old Germany, to which they felt close, and Nazi Germany, which they abhor because of its inhuman treatment of conquered peoples. This inhumanity is brought home to the Swedes because they are in such close and constant contact with occupied Norway. Many Norwegians escape across the border to this country, and
sure of finding one in the traction terminal refreshment stand. Every time we pass the stand, we're amazed by the huge piles of cases of cokes. A Nozi Prisoner | BACK IN MARCH, Ora W. Cunningham. 319 Taft st, movie operator at the Fountain Square theater, saw in The Times a picture of some American troops captured by the Nazis over in Tunisia and thought he recognized one of those in the group as his stepsen, Cpl. Daniel Jones. reported missing by the army. He showed the picture to Mrs. Cunningham, mother of the corporal, and with a mother's intuition she was certain it was her son. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham are more convinced than ever now, as they have re-| ceived a telegram from the army announcing that the | international Red Cross has reported Cpl. Jones actually is a prisoner of war of the German government. . . . One of our agents was impressed with the courtesy of a College streetcar motorman on car 1061 about § p. m. Wednesday. A woman got off and spilled a half dozen small packages on the street. The motorman climbed off and helped her gather up the packages. . , . The state OPA office has received from Washington the news that everyone's been waiting for: “Effective May 26, new price ceilings will be established for used bed springs.”
The Duchess’ Pups
THE DUCHESS, a black and brown dog that adopted the boys at engine house 17 several months ago, proudly presented them with a family of five pups Wednesday. Lt. Renihan and Harry (Red) Kinney are feeding the pups with a medicine dropper. ‘The Duchess succeeds another dog, Spencer, that was killed by an auto about four months ago. Spencer used to ride the trucks to fires, but the Duchess hasn't started that yet. The boys say they will try to find good homes for the puppies as soon as they are old enough to wean. . . . Richard Edwin Emry, science teacher at! the Calvin Fletcher junior high school, was sworn into | the naval reserve as an ensign Tuesday at the head- | quarters of the civilian advisory committee for the | office of naval officer procurement,
By Raymond Clapper
military success, which also is now beyond their reach. Many instances of Polish resistance to the Nazi terror under most heroic circumstances have been reported here through the underground. About 85 secret newspapers and periodicals are being published in occupied Poland. Several of the papers are dailies. These papers are distributed under the noses of the gestapo. But it is not a gay business. The Germans recently discovered one underground newspaper office, and they shot everybody who was on the premises. Also, as a reprisal, they shot the owner of the house, the widow of a former Polish ambassador to Berlin. The Poles now have a secret radio station. Its call letters are “SWIT,” meaning “Sunrise.” Through this station the Polish underground communicates with the government-in-exile at London.
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storic buildings. For the last 22 years one of the newer and larger buildings has been
simply the “Main.” But next Friday it will be renamed Treadwell hall in honor of the first commandant of the government arsenal located there
in the late 1800s.
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By HELEN RUEGAMER FOR THOUSANDS of Tech alumni the Technical high school campus is a tradition-laden site where practically every building, path and cornerstone bears an historic name, recalling the days when the campus was the scene
of a government arsenal.
There is the famous Arsenal building with its tower clock, the West Residence, the Artillery building, the barracks, the barn and the guard house—all used for classes now but originally built in the late 1800's for government
housing and munitions.
After the arsenal was turned into a technical school
in 1903, new buildings were added. And the first of these was a large brick structure, erected in 1921.
For lack of a better name, it has been called simply the “main building” -for the last 21 years. But next Friday, May 21, at the school’s annual Supreme day exercises, it will be renamed Treadwell hall, and thus join the long list of buildings bearing historic and significant names. 8 ‘2 =
Honors Commandant
THE NEW title will be in honor of Lt. Col. Thomas J. Treadwell, who served as the first commandant of the federal arsenal constructed ‘on the grounds in 1863. It was under the direction of Col. Treadwell that the site was selected, the arsenal building constructed and the road which is now arsenal ave. opened from the grounds to the national highway, today’s Washington st. Col. Treadwell served at the arsenal grounds from Aug. 5, 1863,
to Feb. 1, 1864, after which the ,
Job of improving the site and erecting the buildings was taken over by other commanding offi-
Your Blood Is Needed
cers. The arsenal was used for storing heavy artillery, lighter arms and a limited amount of ammunition, and during the Span-ish-American war it was used for the making of haversacks and knapsacks, In the early '90’s a general movement was started throughout the country for the abandonment of arsenals, and after the Span-ish-American war, the Indianapolis arsenal declined rapidly. In 1902 it became publicly known that the war department contemplated the complete abondonment of the site and the sale of the land, and on March 27, 1903, the grounds were purchased for the establishment of a trade
school. ” ” ”
Flag Was Lowered
ON APRIL 13, 1803, the last sunrise cannon was fired, and two days later the government flag was lowered for the last time. The trade school was established on Nov. 8, 1904, but in 1909 it became insolvent, and Tech was started in 1912. Four years later on May 22, 1916, the supreme court authorized the execution of the title to the Indianapolis
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Lt. Col. Thomas J. Treadwell , . . he directed the planning and construction of the federal arsenal which is now a part df Tech.
school board to be held forever in trust for the purpose of maintaining an arts and trade school. This day is celebrated annually as the school’s Supreme Day. Although Col. Treadwell’'s service on the arsenal grounds was of only six months duration, his efforts in selecting the site and planning the construction will forever be an integral part of the four score years of progress at the site of the old arsenal. Col. Treadwell had joined the military academy in June of 1850, graduating four years later as fifth in his class of 46 members. He was commissioned a second
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WASHINGTON, May 14 (U. P.).
lieutenant in 1854 and through his years of service he advanced steadily until in 1878 he attained the rank of lieutenant colonel, » ” o
Promoted for Service
DURING THE Civil war he commanded the Frankford arsenal at Philadelphia, Pa. and later the Indianapolis arsenal. He then went on a tour of service as principal assistant to the chief of ordnance, and he received his promotions to major and lieutenant colonel “for faithful and meritorious service during the rebellion.”
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In the records at West Point, Col. Treadwell is typified as “an officer of great capacity and large experience. Self-reliant and strong of will and temper, with profes sional attainments of a high ore der, fine powers of analysis and rare good judgment, his social qualities were such as endeared him to all.” He died at the age of 47, after serving his country 25 years as an officer in the ordnance department. In the order announcing his death on Aug. 2, 1879, the chief of his department said, “Those of us who have for years been in intimate association with him, mourn the loss of a friend and comrade, but the country has suffered the greater loss of a faithful and meritorious public servant. He fairly earned the reward that should follow duty well performed; and neither bronze nor marble can mark a spot where rests a nobler nature or a more excellent soldier.” » o »
5000 Pupils Attend
THE 5000 pupils now attending Technical high school, as well as many alumni and friends will ate tend the Supreme Day exercises beginning at 9:45 a. m. May a on the campus quadrangle. Principal Hanson H. Anderson will speak on “Eighty, Thirty and Twenty Years,” followed by the renaming of the Main building by Miss Esther Fay Shover, Tech's first English teacher. It was at Miss Shover's sugges= tion that the school board decided to rename the building Treadwell hall. Always greatly interested in the history of the grounds, Miss Shover was instrumental in having the records of the Indianapolis arsenal transferred from Frankford arsenal here. She has filed and cataloged them, and they now rest in the archives on the third floor of the main building, soon to be called Treadwell hall, ; The structure now houses first aid rooms, the student center, home economics and social science departments, biology, botany, zoology and physiography classes, and some commercial, music and English classes,
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—Salvage operations in New York on the burned and capsized Lafayette—the former French luxury
they tell their friends here what has happened under Jews Receive Worst Treatment
German rule. Even probable exaggerations are ac- The object resembling “a body”
May quota for Red Cross Blood Plasma Center — 5800
STOCKHOLM, May 14 (U, P).— A German promise to respect Swe-
cepted here as likely to occur if they have not al-
ready occurred. : The German freatment of Norwegians, as much as
THE GERMANS give the Poles worse treatment than anybody else except the Jews. They are cleaning the last of the Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto,
donors. Donors so far this month—
den’s neutrality was regarded today
liner Normandie—will be completed
and the ship “floated by fall,” Adm.
which two soldiers saw thrown into
the canal near the footbridge
as a moderately conciliatory ges-
which had a population of 400,000 when the war| | 1441. E. L. Cochrane predicted to a house | Wednesday night, was recovered to=
gnything elise, has turned Swedish opinion overwheimingly to the allied side, despite a determination to maintain neutrality while within the Nazi blockade
wall, Horrors for Poles
IN DENMARK it is different. The Danes are
allowed considerably more freedom than the peoples .
of other occupied countries. The fact that Denmark went overwhelmingly democratic in the recent election. when the largest vote in Danish history was cast, made a deep impression in Sweden as showing how occupied peoples react to Nazi rule even when specially favored with relative leniency. But the special horrors of the Nazi order are reserved for Poland. It is impossible to make people accept such conditions, or to win the confidence of other peoples in the presence of such conditions. "That is the big political mistake of the Nazis, which would have ruined them even if they had won
My Day
NEW YORK CITY, ThurSday.—We had a twohour meeting yesterday morning of the United States committee for the care of European children. Miss Honeybun, who has come over from Great Britain to see the children who are here, gave a most interesting talk, explaining some of the difficulties of adjustment of a British child to an American home. This is particularly true of the older children. She also told us of the difficulties which exist in the homes of Great Britain as well, where the life over here is not well understood. The older boys are rapidly going home now and she feels it would be well for many of the girls, who reach the 18, to ¢ same.
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started and was down to 35,000 this spring. They have been removing the Jews at a rate of 3000 a day, using machine guns when the slightest resistance is shown. The Nazis are renovating the ghetto quarters, and the Poles fear they are to be herded into the ghetto to replace the Jews, thus clearing better sections of Warsaw for the Germans. One curious exedient for relieving the German! manpower shortage was the taking of several hundred blond Poles and putting them into the German army for service in occupied countries. Some'of them escaped en route, and thus the news leaked out. In German work battalions the French, Danes, Belgians and Norwegians are paid the same as the Germans. But Polish workers must pay a special tax for the reconstruction of Poland, and they get no overtime pay, no holidays, no family allowances. They are excluded from insurance, and are unable to send money to their families,
By Eleanor Roosevelt
of humor. It is easy to see how she succeeds in making her contacts with the groups of British children, and what a joy it must be to them when she can tell them she has met their parents in Great Britain, . Lately the committee has been successful in bringing over several groups of refugee children from other parts of the European continent. These children present a different problem, for many of them will never see their parents again, since they have been left behind in concentration camps in various European countries. In the afternoon I went to the Textile Workers Union of America convention in Carnegie hall. In the evening I went to see a play called: “Tomorrow the World.” I found it very interesting. Some of the critics have said that the change in the little Nazi boy, around whom the Phim “of
the family center, is too but
P).—A training place from the naval, training base at Bunker Hill crashed in a freshly plowed field at Kewanna today, fliers. Names of the victims were not learned immediately.
Yesterday's quota—200. Yesterday's dondrs—130.
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.
TWO DIE IN AIR CRASH ROCHESTER, Ind, May 14 (U.
killing two
ture arising from Swedish claims that the Nazi had violated this country’s territory. The Swedish foreign office received a note from Germany saying that Nazi armed forces and merch-|
appropriations subcommittee in testimony released today.
Cochrane, chief of the bureau of
ships, then estimated another nine months will be required to remodel
ant ships had received strict orders | and outfit the former “queen of the
to avoid such violations. was in reply to Sweden's protest of April 24 against the shelling of the Swedish submarine Draken by a German merchant vessel.
RATION COOKING STOVES
WASHINGTON, May 14 (U. P.).— Cooking stoves that burn coal, wood, oil or gas will be rationed everywhere in June, Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown announced today.
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CRITICIZES NAVY POLICY
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 14 (U, P.) ~The U., 8. navy and the Illinois state government were criticized by the Most Rev. James A. Griffin, bishop of the Springfield
diocese of the Catholic church
today, the former for enlisting 17-year-old boys, and the latter for
employing 16-year-old girls.
day by the police. It was a bicycle]
frame. In connection
driver. Police are investigating possibility of the bicycle having been stolen
and then stripped. Two soldiers |} stationed at Butler fieldhouse start- |} de the search when they reported |§ seeing two men throw what looked |'
like a body into the canal and drive away in a truck, attempting to hide their faces while passing.
Incidents Show U.S. and England Speak Different
By TOM WOLF Times Special Writer LONDON, May 14-—Wanted: By the U. S. army in Britain— An American who speaks English. No kidding. It's so serious a matter that a joint AngloAmerican committee is at this moment compiling an EnglishAmerican dictionary so that we can understand each other's military requirements. One example: Not leng after American troops arrived here, Col. Wayne Allen, general purchasing agent, ETOUSA (Buropean Theater of Operations, United States Army) asked the British hether they could fill a large LAS OL | aD cans . The roland 3
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have any. The following week-end the colonel was visiting a friend who had built a new garden. The col- £ e A ». es * . | Tele *
circles which made up one sec tion of his friend's garden. He asked how his host had made them. With the top of a dust bin, replied the friend. When the colonel asked to see what a dust bin looked like, he found—you guessed it, a garbage can. He rushed to the phone, asked the war office what the dust bin situation was, found there were plenty for every one. So the day—and many tons of precious shipping space -- was saved. This example, while it has become the quartermaster classic here, is by no means the only one. The British turned down an A 8 lo mn.) ss ead :
til they discovered that we meant “boots,” which is the British name for any shoe which comes above the ankle. Other items, selected at random, where British and American army nomenclatures differ, are “dippers,” which the British ‘call “pannikins”; an American's “bench, wood” is the Briton's “form, g. 8”; a& “wool muffler” becomes a “cap comforter” in English; a “blow torch” a “brazing lamp.” It's not only nomenclature that varies, but systems of weight and measurement. We measure nails by weight, the British by length. Moreover, our ton is 2000 pounds,
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with the case, an 18-year-old youth was arrested|| on a vagrancy charge. He is a truck}
“Yes. I see her—but you still can’t wear slacks.”
Languages
drugs by their Latin names, se how was it to know that we wanted “oleum morrhuae” when we asked for “cod liver oil"? Of all the British bureaus with which we have dealt, none has been more convinced that we were completely mad than the ministry of food, which we asked for a large order of cookies. The M. of F. thought a cookie was a girl (evidently remembering the song, “Lookie, lookie, lookie, here ‘comes Cookie.” Te An American = quartermaster
asked for a number of rat traps,