Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1943 — Page 9

SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1943

‘Hoosier Vagabond

NORTHERN TUNISIA (By Wireless) —With the arrival of warmer weather we've started accumulating our Spring crop of fleas. Nobody can trace their origin. We shun flea-carriers as camels, burros and Arabs, but the fleas just seem to spring into life-out of nothingness. : One magazine photographer has nore than 30 vicious ‘bites. One fighter pilot says you can actually see solid lines of them, like ants, hopping up the legs of his cot. Another pilot says he has solved the flea problem by getting' under different layers of his blankets about three times a night. He says it takes the fleas two hours to find him after each change. However, something is very Wrong with the flea picture, for I havén't had any of them yet For years I have been a sort of proving ground for the insect world—all such things as mosquitoes, chiggers and chicken lice apparently visualize a welcome on my doormat, and they turn my frail body into a monument of torture Yet so far the ' Tunisian fiea has given me a wide berth. Surrounded as I am by the flea-bitten fraternity of soldiery, this strange immunity is beginning to be embarrassing Could it be that I'm getting too repulsive even for fleas to associate with?

Weathers Freak Hailstorm

4 SOMETHING HAPPENED the other day that you won't believe, yet I'll swear on oath I'm not exaggerating, and there are several thousand Riers and mechanics who will back me up At one fiying field we had a sudden freakish hailgtorm which lasted 15 solid minutes. The hailstones were the size of eggs, and some of them ran as big as tennis balls. That's the truth. There were no

little hailstones at all. And I don’t mean that “Just a few fell. ‘They fell in torrents, like a tropical ¢loudburst. After it was over, the ground was inches deep in ice balls. I was caught out in'it, and had to jump out and crawl under a jeep for protection. My feet stuck out, and I took a dozen direct hits on my feet and| ankles which pained like hammer blows, Hailstones went right through the tail surfaces of the airplanes. And this happened a day after I'd written half a column about our magnificent spring weather over nore in dear old Africa!

Same Weapons—Best Men Win

SOME PILOTS I know were coming up to the front one day in a medium bomber, from way back behind the lines. This was before our victory in Tunisia. They had a tailwind that they didn’t know about, and were flying due east. They realized something was wrong when they came out over water. A little lightning calculation and they discovered they were looking smack down en the city of Tunis. They turned and beat it back as fast as four

seared airmen possibly could, and during the whole)

time over enemy territory they never saw a single

enemy plane. After any big tank battle both sides are out on the battlefields towing back everything that’s repairable. Sometimes each side will recover and repair enemy tanks. The Germans got a number of our General Sherman tanks in the mid-February battle of Sidi bou Zid. They repaired them, and later on used them against the British 8th army, which also had American Sherman tanks. Thus it wound up that British Shermans and German Shermans rumbled into battle against each other, and the British Shermans recaptured the German

Shermans.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Ear] Brandon Barnes, attorney, successful businessman, one-time newspaperman, and one of the city’s most enthusiastic bull fight fans He makes trips to Mexico several times a year and seldom misses an opportunity to patronize the Mexican national pastime. Mr. Barnes, head of the law firm of Barnes, Hickam, Pantzer and Boyd, is an affable individual with pleasant manners and a tendency to be a dreamer. He looks and acts younger than his age—62. About an inch under 6 feet, he weighs 165 or 170, has blue eyes. His gray hair is turning white at the temples. He works hard and he plays hard, but never mixes the two. As a youth, his nickname was “Stubby"—short for stubborn. Today he's gtill fairly set in his ideas, but easy to get along with. He has a tendency to be formal.

Fell in the Creek

MR. BARNES is fond of travel, used to visit Europe 3 every summer up until a few years ago. Since then he’s turned his attention to South America and Mexico. He always says the best part of traveling is coming home, Hes fond of fishing but never seems to catch much, He usually has a complete fishing outfit in the trunk of his car, likes to slip out to some small creek , Baturday afternoons. He likes to dress appropriately for every occasion. When he’s fishing, he wears the very latest in fishing garb. In Mexico a month or so ago, he went deep sea fishing but caught nothing except a load of sunburn. A couple of years ago he became so excited over hooking a fish that he fell in the creek. He went home and sneaked up the service elevator to his residence in the Winter apartments,

Sweden

STOCKHOLM, May 15 (By Wireless).—A significant development in Germany is the emphasis oh the policy of wiping out small business everywhere. Little retailers are being closed out. This is considered here to be an indication of extreme difficulty over manpower and materials. The civilian economy in Germany has been squeezed severely for years, but this additional tightening has some long-range impli-

Mr. Barnes

cations that are being given spe-

cial study on the allied side. The first implication is that with the civilian economy so tight any damage to it at any point is

He's always fashionably dressed, but never goes shopping. He has his wife either buy things for him, or make two or three selections from which he can make a hurried choice. He always wears Sulka ties, and likes them loud. He's fond of blue, hates brown.

Managed Grid Team

HIS EARLY youth was in Kokomo where his father was county school superintendent. Later he moved to Richmond when his father bought a half interest in the Richmond Item. In high school, he was editor of the Argus, monthly paper. He was graduated from Earlham in 1902 after managing the football team and heading the debating society. He obtained his law degree at Harvard, Summers, he was practically the entire staff of a Kokomo newspaper, working 18 or 19 hours a day to pay for his education. He started practicing law in Kokomo, came here in 1925 and opened offices with Fred Bates Johnson. He joined his present firm a couple of years ago. A director of Shell Oil, he’s a part owner of Shell American, president of Medallic Arts of New York, and a director of various other large firms.

Ah! Tripe Is Wonderful

FOR RELAXATION, he reads in his comfortable chair at home. He has a fine library, cares little for fiction except for an occasional detective story. It's hard to drag him to the movies since Charlie Chaplin quit making films. He goes to the symphony under pressure, and seldom turns on the radio. While visiting in Vienna about five years ago he quit smoking temporarily. He found his food tasted so much better he’s never started it a His favorite food, by the way, is tripe, especially tripe a la mode de Caen, a recipe he became acquainted with while in Europe. He even likes tripe for breakfast, and he has some of his friends send word to him right away when they visit a restaurant and discover tripe on the menu.

By Raymond Clapper

N the governmental system of distribution collapses with the defeat of Germany, the whole private trade mechanism will have to be rebuilt. Third, the wiping out of the small-business class eliminates one of the stable private-enterprise factors in society, leaving Germany more open to a wave of communism when the defeat comes. It is not criticism of our Russian ally in any sense to say it would not be for the best interests of Europe or the world for communism to spread throughout the continent, giving overweight to one power. Yet the Germans are now destroying the last vestiges of the free enterprise system, leaving the way open for violent changes at the end of war which will only add to the difficulties of reconstruction in Europe and delay the return of livable conditions.

By Ernie Pyle

Cramped quarters in the

Others have been turned

Handling of Mental Patients Difficult in ‘Crowded Quarters

By SHERLEY UHL OUTCROPPINGS OF war neurosis here have critically hampered disposal of mental cases and severely strained the city’s already overburdened institutional facilities.

City hospital psychopathic

ward have forced a number of mental patients to endure lengthy holdover periods in the Marion county jail.

away to seek refuge with

families or, in some cases, in not-too-well supervised nursing homes offering little medical attention. Destruction by fire of the Evans-. ville Insane hospital further aggravated the institutional “overflow” here. Because many Evansville inmates were moved to Central State hospital, the latter institution has sometimes been unable to absorb patients assigned there from the hospital psychopathic ward, ” 8 ”

100 Applications

DR. MAX BAHR, superintendent of Central State hospital, said yesterday that “more than 100 applications” for admission to that institution were on file with little prospect for their immediate fulfillment,

At present but one private sanitarium is accepting mental patients for authoritative medical treatment, according to Dr. Kenneth G. Kohlstaedt, assistant superintendent of City hospital and supervisor of the psychopathic ward. None of the other large hospitals has facilities for their accommodation,

City Hospital Superintendent Charles W. Myers points out that

That barred door is closed upon the men’s prison ward adjoining the psychopathic enclosures. Psychopaths and prisoners exert adverse influences on each other.

“the cost of hospitalization for the mentally ill in a private institution in this community is pro-

hibitive, ranging from $100 to

$200 a week.”

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psychopathic patients aré thrown together without regard for types of aberrations. Those suffering fram delusions of grandeur mingle’ freshly with maniac depressives and alcoholics, » : » ” Only Two Alienists

WHEREAS EIGHT alienists previously staffed the ward, two. now carry the increased load. Another flaw is the proximity of the prisor» ward, situated midway between the male and femalé psychopathic sections, Complaints of ailing prisoners further inflame the defective minds, attendants say. While modern shock-treatment methods are available, their use

. 1s limited by lack of laboratory

This is the “down-under” window view facing psychopathic ward patients whose mental outlooks aren't often brightened by the land-

scape perspective.

Meet With Mayor

PROBLEMS RELATING to the adequate care of the mentally discased were discussed yesterday in Mayor Tyndall's office by city and county officials and medical specialists. Three solutions were provosed for immediate consideration. They were: 1. Assignment of more City hospital beds (outside the psychopathic ward) for use by mental patients. 2. Conversion of all or part of the Julietta infirmary into an insanity institution, with the proviso that the arrangement be recognized as a war emergency move. 3. Erection of a new wing at City ‘hospital through solicitation of $500,000 in federal funds under the Lanham act, Most of those present agreed that it would be inadvisable to permanently establish Julietta as an insane asylum, since such a

move would vest in the county a responsibility which actually lies with the state. Dr. Myers has already been refused a previous request for a $500,000 federal grant, but said he would like to renew his petition. He readily concedes that certain conditions in the present psychopathic ward are “deplorable.” Among these he names location of the ward, which is in the basement with barred windows set flush with the ground level, This gioomy, underground atmosphere, he says, deprives patients of air and sunlight so vitally needed for successful rehabilitation. The ward contains only 32 beds. Dr. Myers believes at least 50 more are needed, but the space just isn’t there. Although there are eight individual compartments, most of the beds are bunched together in two narrow rooms. Except for division of sexes,

space, Since Feb. 1, 135 patients ‘were serviced on the 32 beds, From November, 1942 to April, 1943, 323 persons were cared for as compared with 241 handled during the same six months period of 1941-42, The big mental ailment these days, reports Dr. Kohlstaedt, is dementia praecox, an aberration symptomized by retreat from the world of reality into a world of sheer delusion, Much of this, he says, is caused by undue mental strain resulting from the incessant pressure of war worries. ” » ”

Alcoholism Up

RECENTLY THE ward has accepted “seven or eight” ex-service men discharged from the army or navy because of mental disorders. Alcoholism is very much on the upswing, the doctor reveals. In 1938 a hundred chronic alcoholics took the “cure” in the ward, In 1942, 174 habitual drunks were inmates. Municipal Court Judge John Niblack, in attendance at yesterday’s session, suggested that the county consider as a “long-range project” the possibility of establishing a “Keeley Cure institute” for the exclusive care of alcoholics. Judge Niblack said he also had observed a marked increase in forms of sex insanity,

WELFARE LEGAL SNAG CLEARED

Emmert Rules on Eligible List for Appointment of New Director.

A legal question that has been delaying the appointment of a new Marion county welfare director for two months has been cleared by an opinion handed down by Attorney General James A. Emmert.

The opinion held that the state welfare department is required, under a new 1943 law, to furnish the eligible list from which the county welfare board must select a director and not the state personnel board which previously furnished the list. When tha new local welfare board, appointed by Judge Mark Rhoads, of juvenile court, met two months ago to name a ‘new director it was discovered that the new law mentioned the slate welfare board's eligible lists.

Vacancy Since Jan. 1

Thinking this might have been an error and not the intention of the legislature, the welfare board

How Bill Passed by Senate Would Deduct Your Taxes

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. P.).—Here are the revised rates adopted by the senate for taxes to he withheld from wages and salaries

beginning July 1:

wWeekly Earnings

Married Married Married No Dep.

At Least

$0 10 15 20 25 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170

Less Single Than Persons $10 basse 15 $.10 20 1.10 25 2.10 30 3.10 40 4.60 50 6.60 60 8.60 70 10.60 80 12.60 90 14.60 100 16.60 110 18.60 120 20.60 130 22.60 140 24.60 150 26.60 160 28.60 170 30.60 180 32.60 180 190 34.60 190 200 36.60 $200 or over

ere

$37.60

$.20 30 0 2.20 4.20 6.20 8.20 10.20 12.20 14.20 16.20 18.20 20.20 22.20 24.20 26.20 28.20 30.20 32.20 34.20 20 per cent of the excess over $200 plus $35.20

Employers may use the above table in making the tax deductions, or they may, if they choose, make exact percentage calculations of the tax. Most of them, however, are expected to follow the table. Which-

Married

1 Dep. 2 Dep. 3 Deps.

. even tree sree

$ .20 30 50 70 1.00 2.60 4.60 6.60 8.60 10.60 12.60 14.60 16.60 18.60 20.60 22.60 24.60 26.60 28.60 30.60

$ 20 30 .50 10 1.80 3.80 5.80 7.80 9.80 11.80 13.80 15.80 17.80 19.80 21.80 23.80 25.80 27.80 29.80 31.80

$.20 30 50 1.00 3.00 5.00 7.00 9.00 11.00 13.00 15.00 17.00 19.00 21.00 23.00 25.00 27.00 29.00 31.00 33.00 $31.60

$34.00 $32.80

Colleges—

DEPAUW GRADS

Commencement

way at several Indiana colleges.

annual baccalaureate and commencement graduates participating, will be held tomorrow. Alumni day is being observed on the campus today with an alumni luncheon scheduled at noon and class dinners this evening.

apolis students who are newly-ap-pointed cadet officers in the R. O. T. C. unit are Hollace A. Chastain, lieutenant colonel; Sidney N. Cahn, major; Clifton L. Ferguson and Lee R. Ford, captains; Richard L. Dowden, Roy W. Richards Jr. and Lawrence B. Yeager, lieutenants.

is now secretary of the Association

HOLD REUNION

Exercises Tomorrow for 240 Candidates.

Spring activities are now underDEPAUW UNIVERSITY — The

exercises, with 240

ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE:

Twenty seniors will be graduated at | | commencement exercises next Sunday, May 23.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY: Indian-

Virginia Brown of Indianapolis

Three Are Hurt 1

At Rail Crossing

TWO GIRLS and a youth, all 17, were injured last night when their auto collided with a switch engine .at Fall Creek blvd, and 42d st. i Miss Mary Jane McClain, 4815 College ave. is in St.. Vincent's hospital witht a head injury. Miss Josephine Manifold, 4035 Ruckle st, received arm and knee injuries, and Paul Sullivan, 3669 Birchwood ave., had several teeth knocked out. The engineer was William Wisehart, 6701 E. 34th st. The engine knocked the auto into steel girders of the bridge over the creek and dragged it 40 feet. ' Flash signals were working at the crossing, police said.

BUILDING COSTS UP

2.9 OVER LAST YEAR

. Arf increase of 2.9 per cent in the

cost of building a standard Six~ room house in Indianapolis was shown in index figures of April,

1943, over April, 1942, released to-

day by the Federal Home Loan ‘Bank . Review,

The index figures are based on the 1935-39 level which equals 100. * In

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April of "1942, the figure was 121.9 and for this year, 1254. Costs in April of 1939, 1940 and 1941, respectively, were 105.3, 96.8 and 113.1. A downward trend is noted since October, 1942, when the index figure reached 129.9, Reported costs reflected in the index include materials, labor costs and compensation, an allowance for contractor's overhead and transportation of materials, plus 10 per cent for builder’s profit, The figures do not include the cost of land, surveying the land, providing the walk and driveways, architect's fee, planting the lot, costs of building permit, financing charges or sales costs.

asked for an attorney general's opinion. “The state board of public welfare can operate its own merit system for the state and county welfare departments,” Mr. Emmert’s opinion stated. A vacancy has existed in the Marion county welfare directorship since Jan. 1 when Thomas L. Neal resigned after several years of administrative conflicts with the old welfare board, which was appointed and served under Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox.

of Women Students. Named to the AWS council for the summer semester are June Brown, Susan Countryman, Mary Alys Werkhoff and Patricia Peterson of Indianapolis. Serving on the Indiana University Board of Standards for the summer session are Peggy Trusler, Marilyn Vice, Patricia Peterson, and Mary Alys WerkhofT of Indianapolis. Gifts to the school during the past year totalled $102,788. » os ”

Earlham College: The 12th Earlham Institute of Foreign affairs will end today. The theme of the threeday session is “The Peace That Is

ever method is followed, the employee must later file an exact return of his income and taxes deducted. If too much has. been deducted, the

treasury will make a refund. If too little has bern deducted to cover all the tax, the taxpayer will pay the balance.

4-H CLUB LEADERS WILL MEET MAY 31

L Working oe Yiowry will be the, The progtam will include ademe of the s 4-H club junior|gresses on “Leadership on the Home leader training conference to be Front,” by H. F. Ainsworth of Pur-

held at Greencastle May 31 to due, state 4-H club leader; “Indi-

June 3. The conference will be sponsored |ana Youth for Victory,” by Dean of by Purdue university's agricultural] Agriculture H. J. Reed; “Building extension service, which will pro-|for Tomorrow,” by Orville Maxfield vide the educational program, and|of Ft. Wayne, district governor of the Kiwanis clubs of Indiana. Eu-|Kiwanis, and “We Build,” by Mar-

damage to the Nazi war effort. Hence new opportunities for economic warfare are opened up. It becomes more practical to squeeze the neutrals against letting supplies into Germany. One thing about Sweden that rubs a visitor the wrong way is to see materials going into Germany. ) While visiting the Baltic fleet I saw a lumber ship dip its Nazi flag as we passed. It was loaded with lumber, which Germany must have. She has to have Swedish iron ore likewise, Of course it is recognized that Sweden must have coal, and since Britain cannot deliver coal here Sweden must get it by trading with Germany. However, the fact remains that it becomes more im- ( portant every day to squeeze down on neutral trade into Germany, for that will save American and other lives in the end.

Germans Becoming Sullen

THE NAZI liquidation of small business is being done in the usual brutal way. All equipment is taken out of shops—fixtures, cash registers, stocks of merchandise are thrown out. The proprietor sends his personnel into another industry. Much bitterness is resulting. Information reaches Stockholm about increasing sullenness among the German people. Some seemingly reliable reports go so far as to say that the people are getting out of hand, with frequent scenes in the streets. It has been accepted here for some time that Hitler is less important than the generals now in strictly military operations. However, there is some doubt about underground reports that the Nazis are being elbowed out of power.

Expect Meeting Soon The new 1943 law removed control

It is now evident, incidentally, that it is useful to inflict bomb damage on civilians as well as military establishments in Germany, for this helps wear down the Germans.

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Destroying Free Hnieprive

IN THE second place, the policy of wiping out small business in Germany will complicate the problem of reconstruction, because it means Germany is destroying her private distribution system. When

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday. —VYesterday I went to Briarcliff junior college in Westchester County, New York. Mrs. William H, Good and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Cousins 'went out with me on the train, and we «had a very pleasant trip and reached our destination all too quickly. On the platform with a group of attractive girls, were Mrs. Ordway Tead, the president of the college, and the representatives of various groups, such as the Red Cross. The meeting was attended by the students of the Briarcliff junior college, representatives from high schools in neighboring towns and villages, and individuals from various or-

ganizations. The blossoms were out and

the country looked more beauti-

fully green. There is no doubt about its being a late spring, however, sod I can Spey imagine that what

A Berlin dispatch to one Stockholm newspaper says all permanent employees of the Nazi party as well as members of the reichstag must resign their industrial and financial conditions, such as directorships. Evidently this is a move to stop grafting. The more grim the military outlook becomes, the more bitter is popular resentment against Nazi racketeering. Goering has been much criticized because he made himself rich. His rival, Goebbels, is gaining popularity among the working class by closing expensive restaurants, bars and night clubs.

By Eleanor Roosevelt|

ever, and after the meeting we walked to Mrs. Tead'’s house. I have a letter from two ladies, Miss Elizabeth Bryan and Miss Katherine Bonnell, who tell me that they have been looking into possibilities for training open to women at the present time, who want to take war jobs in the strict sense of the word. They have written two articles in a weekly magazine, One of them describes a two-week course, given in the northern New Jersey area, for women desiring to go into aircraft factories. The secret, of course, for the rapidity of this training, is that the woman is trained for just one operation. A real mechanic or skilled machinist, can probably do all the different operations involved on any type of machine in the shop where he works. For the moment we are interested in mass production, and this can be more quickly accomplished By teaching each individual only ohe operation. These writers also investigated training for farm work and described that as being most successful in one of the New England states. We shall shortly diswh Re British Y 0 A § A '

of the appointments from Judge Cox and placed ‘them under Judge Rhoads. Harper J. Ransburg, president of the new board, is expected to call a meeting soon to consider selection of a director. Miss Helen Guynn has been acting as director of the department | since Jan. 1.

CIRCLE WILL MEET The Ramona grove of the Supreme Forest Woodmen circle will meet at 8 p. m. Monday on the 5th floor of the Castle Hall bldg. The Addie Braly guards will confer initiation degrees on Mrs. Helen Mobley, Mrs. Helen Genier and Mrs. Stella Whittinghill,

Your Blood Is Needed

May quota for Red Cross Blood Plasma Center -~ 5800 donors.

(Doms 50 far this month—

: iter qutte=200. Yesterday's donors—124.

You can help meet the quota | by calling LI-1441 for an appointment or going to the Se second floor, Chamber

gene Akers of Greencastle is chairman of the Kiwanis committee.

FUNNY BUSINESS

shall D. Abrams of Greencastle, past

governor of Kiwanis.

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0CD TO HOLD PARADE!

anapolis and Marion county will stage a parade on the evening of July 4.

20,000 defense workers and marching columns from patriotic and

fraternal organizations, scores of floats and bands.

announced the following appointments in connection with the event: Police Chief Clifford Beeker, marshal; Homer E. Capehart, general chairman; James C. Ahern, assistant chairman. Working with Mr. Yockey and the parade officers will be Carl Winter, assistant OCD city] and county director; James L. Dilley, Indianapolis OCD public relations director, and Mrs. George Ziegler, assistant director for the women’s division.

Deems - Taylor, president American Society of Authoss and «Tonner, ig

OPA EASES MACHINERY RULE

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U, P). —The office of price administration

are “essential producers” of farm

DOWNTOWN JULY toc ruled that manufacturers who

Civilian defense forces of Indi-

Plans call for participation of

and for

Harry Yockey, OCD city director,

DEEMS TAYLOR HONORED

equipment may obtain adjustments in ceiling prices in cases where out~ put of the item is threatened or impeded.

HOLD EVERYTHING

NEW YORK, May 15 (U. P.). — of