Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1943 — Page 11

IY and desert.

Hoosier Vagabond

én ; ; SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA.—During a lull in the

" Punisian fighting I let the old wanderlust get the better of me as usual, and took myself a trip. It was just a little trip—only 13,000 miles. If I'd ough: to go in a different direction, I could have traveled from Tunisia to California and back to Tunisia again in the same direction. Yet all I did was fly around Africa. The reason for the trip was twofold—to get a breathing spell from the front, and to try to get warm, I hadn’t been warm in nearly nine months, and one way to get warm is to go south. So I went down to the tropics. I slept under mosquito netting, swam in the Gold Coast surf, bought ivory carvings in the

Congo, watched native jungle dances, took after-

lunch siestas, had*my own houseboy, and really lived the life of Reilly on my small world tour.

Hardly a Sight-Seeing Trip

OUR TRIP took us over mountains, ocean, jungle It was a sort of pioneer version of “peacetime traveling with Pan American Airways, except that it was all by army plane. We'd fly all day, go to bed early, and get up anywhere from 2:30 on for another early start. You almost always take off before daylight, for dis-, tances are vast in Africa and you cover a lot in one day. Rolling out of bed at inhuman hours gets

/ to be almost normal for you after awhile.

We flew across the Sahara. We landed at liftle pinpoints populated by a lonely dozen or two Americans in khaki shorts, holding these far outposts that must be held by somebody. The desert was stifling when we came down upon it, and each time we pitied the fellows stationed there,

® By Ernie Pyle For a long time I forced myself to stay awake and keep looking out the window, for fear I'd miss something interesting. But finally I gave up hope of seeing anything, and plunked myself upon an inviting stack of gray sacks piled along one side of the cabin. And thus, cuddled down into a nice form-fitting nest I slept most of the way across the Sahara desert upon the United States mail.

Off With That Woolen Underwear!

.I SHOULD have abandoned my long underwear and heavy uniform the day after starting. On the third day we were deep in the tropics. We stopped at a jungle field for lunch. Most of the black natives were semi-naked. The whites were sitting around in a sort of boiling stupor. The sweat poured off us newcomers, and that woolen underwear began to wriggle. I felt as though somebody had poured hot gravy down my back. And then the pilot, Capt. Johnnie Warren of Columbia, 8. C., decided to stay there overnight. 1 flopped on my cot a few moments and shut my eyes, just long enough to roll over in my mind the delightful anticipation of the bath I was going to hdve. In the tropics, bath water is never heated. It’s just right without heating. The water came pouring

so good. Baths had been few and unsatisfactory for me during the past winter. But there in the tropics I washed and washed until I was weak from over-

cleansing.

And then I put on summer underwear: and thin khaki, abandoning long heavy underwear for the first time since last July. For a couple of hours I felt the way one feels after fever—light and floating and strange. But I felt good. That transition from heavies to lights, from months of cringing against the cold, to the sudden

Men Facing

Draft Aided By Training

For men who expect to be

drafted. . . .

For men who want to play an

For men who believe in keeping

physically fit. . . .

For men who want to learn the

There’s a place in the Indiana

state guard open for you, if you're

between th s of 18 55. out of the showers over me, and water has never felt}. e ape ang

Requirements Are Few All that is required is that you

pass physical examinations, attend drill once a week for one and onehalf hours at the Armory, and be willing to take training and instruction based on regular army principles.

Promotions are fast in the state

- carry a wounded or unconscious

important and necessary part in home defense. .. .

always-useful principles of first aid and emergency medical assistance.

. The famous “firemen’s carry” which enables one person to

After applying an arm tourniquet and treating a head wound, a litter squad carefully lowers an medical detachment training, Cpl. George E. Hansen is the “vic-

“accident case” to the floor during Others are (left to right) Pfc. E. R. Daily, Pvt. George Bridgewater and Sgt. Louis E. Ellis.

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and were glad to leave and climb back into the cooler skies. ' The Sahara is hard to see from the air, because the wind keeps a constant haze of sand hanging above it. After you've risen a couple of thousand feet you don’t see anything. ;

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

A. B. Good, the schools’ business director, is suffering from “Victory garden back.” He had trouble standing up straight yesterday. Blamed it on the fact, he says, that over the week-end he got down on his hands and knees and pulled weeds out of his 30 by 60

victim to safety, is demonstrated by these medical detachment members of the state guard, who learn emergency medical aid. Cpl. Hansen is carrying oi Ralph N. Clark.

guard, because draft-age men are constantly being taken into the military services, leaving vacancies to be filled, according to Capt George M. Binger of the state executive staff. And a good thing to remember, | the captain adds, is that men with state guard training usually benefit by it when they enter regular army or navy life. One state guard sergeant who was drafted and reported to his army camp was named drill sergeant almost immediately, because of his state guard experience, Capt. Binger says.

freedom of true warmth, is an experience that sticks in your mind for weeks above the ordinary happenings of the days. Liberia is where I became a sanitary human being again. Long live Liberial

physical therapist at the Veterans’ hospital. Some time ago, when an auto crashed into’ a downtown Indianapolis store, tourniquets were made for

two injured women by two guardsmen trained in the medical detachment. They were credited with sav-

THE ENGAGEMENT of Jean Grumme, 5701 Carrollton ave., to Lt. Clyde B. Budd Jr., now at Brooks field, Tex., was announced a week ago but the announcements missed part of the story. Miss Grumme was expecting to receive the engagement ring by

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mail. Instead, she was called on by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde B. Budd Sr., 57 E, Maple rd, They presented Miss Grumme with a-bou-quet and a box of candy. And then Mr. Budd Sr. placed an engagement ring on her finger as a proxy for Lt. Budd Jr. Neighbors saw a package from California in Mrs. Mae F. McNair’'s mailbox the other day and later asked if she had a birthday. “No, just a box of Postum,” she explained. She doesn’t like coffee, does like Postum but never can find it here, so a friend in California sent her some, The friend is Miss Mariana Sturges, who used to live here but now is in Huntington Park, Cal. Wonder what Mrs. McNair does with her coffee coupons?

‘In Big Black Print’

ONE. OF OUR feminine readers has been con-: sumed with curiosity Since Sunday. While driving west on 38th st., past Crown Hill, she came to Michigan rd. And there, seated on a stool in the safety island, was a man (he might have been a youth) wearing a Santa Claus outfit, with a long white beard. He was holding a large sign reading: “In Big Black Print.” Anyone know the answer? ... Paul G. Robb,

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. 2633 Carrollton ave. is proud of his garden. He had

two 25-foot rows of peas ready to eat over the last week-end. He's also the proud father of a baby girl Just a little over a week old. It’s his first child, . ..

Sweden

. LONDON, June 8 (By Wireless).—This is perhaps the crowning week in Winston Churchill’s long public career, for he has returned home with the offensive definitely in allied hands after three years of refusal b accept defeat, or even compromise, during the darkest days. from Dunkirk on. Seldom, I suppose, has a people been able so clearly to trace its survival to the unbreakable courage of one man. Churchill returned from America in January of last year to greet a nation depressed over the loss of Malaya and Singapore. There were deep stirrings of trouble in commons, but he survived. And while he was in America last summer Tobruk fell. For a few days there was a breathless fear that the axis might crash through Suez and join hands with Japan, coming in from the East, and that all hope of victory might be extinguished for years to: come. Now Churchill returns from his latest Washington conference with triumphs for the allied cause— not achieved, it is true, but now certain. ' Africa has been cleared of the axis. The knocking

garden.

Ultra Fast Service

A TAXICAB struck a light pole at Massachusetts and New Jersey the other evening, shattering a lamp globe and scattering the glass over the street. Following the taxi about a half-block was a light company service truck, driven by Roscoe Cole. Mr. Cole saw the accident and stopped and began sweeping up the glass. The taxi driver saw him and asked: “Where'd you come from?” Replied Mr, Cole: “1230 W. Morris st.” That's his headquarters. The taxi driver looked at him dubiously, then said: “Nuts, it can’t be done.” . « «+ Downtown shopping crowds set some sort of a record last night. Most of the shoppers crowded irito shoe stores to use their No. 17 coupons before June 15. It took one woman two and a half hours to get waited on for shoes.

Thumbnail Manicure

FROM THE District of Columbia Library association president—David C. Mearns—comes the following letter: “Far be it from me to suggest ever so slight a need for a manicure but your thumbnail sketch of Col. D. Laurence Chambers of the Tennessee Mounted Foot (published May 29) confers on Zanesville an honor to which the Flotsam and Jetsam chapter of the United Daughters of the Blue Muskingum have no right to aspire. Actually he was born in what is now known as Washington, D. C.” Okay, Mr. Mearns; you're right. We just phoned your uncle, Mr. Chambers. He says his parents and brother and sister were born in Zanesville, but his natal city was Washington.

By Raymond Clapper

kirk, when Churchill stood with no army and no weapons but only his own courage, and rallied Britain to fight it out. He sent his pitifully small tank force on to the Middle East, and stood Hitler off with noth‘ing but sheer nerve. It was nerve only that enabled the British coolly to hold back a small force of fighter planes for a desperate defense. It was nerve that enabled Churchill, by his personal force, to muster the latent reserves of the British people. Hitler had prepared for everything except the courage of Churchill. By all the rules of logic the Nazis should be celebrating their third anniversary in London now. Efficiency was not enough. Historians are bound to ponder this thrilling demonstration of the force of one man over the course of the world. :

Prevented Liquidation of Empire

GRATITUDE TOWARD Churchill is heightened by the man’s own physical stamina, recently demonstrated. At his ‘age men do not always recover from pneumonia. Churchill not only didn’t even. give up his long black cigars, but he was able to knock around on a trans-Atlantic mission that would exhaust men many years younger. Churchill flew back here from Africa, arriving

First Aid Vital The big need now is for enlist-

ments in the medical detachment, which trains men in first aid, litter drills, gas training and regular army drilling, all of them helpful in both bcivilian or military life, in war or in peace.

Men interested in joining the

medical detachment are asked to go to the Armory any Wednesday night, at 7:30 p. m. In charge are Capt. Carl B. Sputh, commanding officer, resident physician at City hospital; ‘dentist, and Lt. William H. Schlamp,

NEW ARGENTINE a= CABINET CHOSEN ‘2

President Ramirez Pleads

Lt. L. S. Earhart, local

For Unity, Pledges Neutrality. ‘

BUENOS AIRES, June 8 (U. P)).

—Argentina, only Latin American|: country maintaining relations with the axis, was pledged by its new government today to remain 'neutral “for the present.”

(Diplomatic sources in Monte-

video, across the mouth of the Plata river from Buenos Aires, said the use of the phrase “for the present” was significant and left the way open for a change of .attitude in the near future.)

President Gen. Pedro Ramirez, in

proclaiming his country’s foreign policy shortly before his inauguration last night, said that his government affirmed, however, Argentina's “traditional policy of friendship and loyal co-operation with the American nations in accordance with existing pacts.”

Rawson Withdrew “In respect to the rest of the

world,” Ramirez said, “its policy for the present is neutrality. The provisional government further believes it necessary to express adherence to

ing the life of one of the women. Those who want to join the regular guard may apply on either Monday or Wednesday nights, which are meeting nights for the guard. Adj. Gen. William P. Weimar is in charge. Members of the guard wear gray summer uniforms. They will go on week-end maneuvers during the summer. Many of them are professional men. There are war workers, too. In Co. F, 2d Bn. 3d Inf. for instance, 20 per cent of the personnel are Allison plant employees. Although the guard is on con-

NOVELIST Phil Stong, famed for his portrayals of American farm life, turned reporter and obtained information about farmers and their wartime chores. This is the last article in a series of six.

The Commercial club of Keosauqua, Iowa, had an attendance of about 25 at its weekly luncheon. *“Commercial”’ is probably a misnomer for that club, since fewer than a dozen of the members were engaged in the commerce of the little county seat town of 1200 or so. Present were the partners in the county’s

oldest law

firm, one of whom was bond drive director for nine Southeastern Iowa counties! the president and the cashier of the only bank in a dozen miles or so; two or three of the county officers, all operating farmers, the town druggist—and what druggists don’t know about what goes on in a

Phil Stong

. “Somebody

Artificial respiration is part of the first aid training given to Indiana state guard medical detachment members. The “victim” above, Pvt. O. Nicholson, is being treated by Pfc. Daily, under supervision of

Lt. William H. Schlamp.

stant call in case of an emergency, members must drill only once a!

else milks them tliough. You can't afford to sell a good milker for slaughter.” “Just the same, it’s not increasing milk production. They're buying cows instead of breeding and adding to the total stock. Larry, the bank teller, interposed. “We always have sales this time of year. There aren’t any more transactions than there usually are; or not many.” “It’s right at the cracking point,” said Mr. Reeve, the creamery manager. “It’s certainly not going up, and every good dairy hand that leaves the section now means that much less milk and butter.” “Haven't deferments checked ‘that any?” one of the lawyers asked. » ”

Draft-Dodging Trick

“Why do you think the cows are bringing the prices?” one of the merchants asked. “Look, Phil, supermen aren't an ordinary breed anywhere. In this war, like every other, a certain bunch of folks will. do anything to keep their darling boys at home. They'll buy a dozen milk heifers or deed over an 80 to their sons to get them deferred. Then you

week between 7:30 and 9 p. m. The|versary last February, and now hag guard celebrated its second anni-!3000 members throughout the state

that he can pay and those that are ‘provided for slightly skilled jobs on shovels and lathes. He is not making a point of it

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Only Individualist Left

The farmer is almost the last complete individualist in American society, and you can bet your pants that he will stay that way as long as people do not live sole ly on vitamin pills and mackerel. The government cannot drive or direct him by penalties or “incentives.” There is no reason for these bribes at this moment because patriotism and profit are concurrent bribes. Don’t be mistaken about the patriotism — a Midwest farmer, Merle Hay, was one of the first soldiers te die in the last war, and the Midwest is already counting its losses grimly in this one. They - will fight it out on. this line if it takes all summer, or many summers and nany harvests. They will win, somehow, because they don’t lose.’

In summary, the country will have adequate food for its people and it will not let distribution go so far astray that it distresses the home folks. The present food difficulties and those to come are caused by inadequate resources for processing and transportation, strained by export demands. . The American farmer, handicapped by the plundering of his labor, and the disparity of his occupational hours and that of some Lewis stooge, will feed everyone to the best of his ability. The best supply of new farm labor will probably be ‘teen-age kids who have been brought up on machines and will adapt more easily than older men. . We would rather not have them, cither, if we can get farmers. It takes years to teach a

farmer. But, youll be fed.

(The End)

Nurses 'Toughened' Before

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the principle of absolute autonomy of states . .. and therefore will not tolerate any foreign interference.” Ramirez and his cabinét, comprising five army. officers, four naval officers and one civilian, were sworn in less than 15 hours after Ramirez accepted the mandate form Gen.| tions on farm labor and focd proAturo Rawson, his co-leader in| duction in general Friday’s march. on Buenos Aires 2 8 8 which deposed the isolationist gov- . ernment of President Ramon 8S. All Knew Farming Castillo. Rawson withdrew When| - Nearly all of them were either he was unable to form a cabinet. | formers or owners and co-man-agers of nearby farms.

(The first impression gained by diplomatic observers in Montevideo| - Around 1932 it was possible to steal farms from the Land Banks

was that the new government was a distinct improvement in quality| a: small expense for burglar tools , ; , They agreed that it was difover that originally selected by| gnq a few of these people were forony 2 * fools enough to pass up the x 8 =

Rawson.) v chance. My grandfather’s farm, : HOLD EVERYTHING which sold for $39,000 cash in 1922 Hired Man Is Farmer I did not ask about the pos-

or 1923, was acquired by me for $9500 in 1932, the first price being sjpility of procuring more farm about as absurdly high as the lat- labor by paying higher prices for ter was ridiculously low. labor. The hired man is still a This cross-section is given with- farmer. His highest average wage out apology for organization, be- in this country, which is that paid ing more or less a Socratic inter- on the Pacific coast, is little over view on various relevant ques- $3 a day, and found. In the Breadtions which had been asked me basket it is slightly over $2, and in the East. found; but: in the Breadbasket “What do all the ‘SALE” signs employment is as :nuch social as’ of dairy cattle in your front: win- financial, without being serf lab- . orin any sense. In successful in-

dow mean, Henry?” Henry Strickling is the druggist stances it follows the apprentice ey of the region as his father was Systcmstie: Young IR Wekks : : s, learns his trade, The radio and newspapers seem to be preparing 5 Rat hefreim; | saves his money and buys a farm. us for’ action in the European theater of war, as well 5) £9 2 There is no possibility that the as in the Pacific. Like millions of other women| I~ 3 ‘Milkers Are Work’ farmer could outbid industry at throughout the country, I turn on my radio and the present moment. The farmer open my paper with a certain amount of dread every “Milkers are more work and would rather stretch his day than day, and yet I know that action is the only way to trouble than beef cattle or pigs. give away his profits even if he bring our present difficulty and horrible Situation 0 to [| When a farmer has a boy drafted. couid give away enough tc rake an end. The united: nations cannot begin to build he cuts down that much of his any differences.

got the other side of it, that a lot of seasoned fellows, worth twice as much to the country on the farm as they’ll ever be to the navy or -marines, can’t be tied down. All their friends join and they get ashamed of themselves and join, and there goe:z en.ough grub’ to feed two companies.” “The boards are pretty good about that, though,” one of the county officers said. “They know when a kid's needed on the place, and when it’s phony. In a county this size, some draft official knows the circumstances and the board can check up. Difierent in the East, no doubt.”

of Italy out of the war has begun. The pulverizing of Germany from the air is going on. The French are reunited. Stalin has come into closer collaboration with Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill than ever before, shutting the last door of i hope in Germany that defeat might be escaped through making a separate peace with Russia.

One Man Determines Course

CHURCHILL'S RETURN is in effect his victory parade, because while the end of the war is probably many months away, preparations for Germany's defeat have made that event inevitable. We are now in the process of celebrating a psychological victory, in the sense of ending the fear once felt by many that the allies might have to accept a stalemate. | Such is the progress in the three years from Dun-

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday. —After I reached Washington yesterday afternoon, I spent a quiet hour eating a rather frugal supper of iced tea and fruit on the south porch, and thought of people one remembers when one sits alone in this house or looks out at the view. The site for this city was chosen by George Washington. In reading Carl Sandburg’s column in the ‘Galesburg Post today, I find he quotes two letters of the first president which should be read to- ‘ day because the principles which he laid down for peace in time were as global as ours have to be now. He knew as well as we do that all mankind has to be free if peace is to exist. ‘Washington’s monument points .‘It.is the first thing you notice from the porch, which is as it should be, for he was i y to lay a course for this country to we haven't deviated so far from

neighborhood isn’t worth mentioning; the manager of the Southeastern Iowa creamery, a highly successful co-op that is now shipping to the army in carload lots, and a number of other gentlemen with very definite no-

about 5 a. m. after an all-night flight. He met with the war cabinet in a forenoon session, waving to the crowds around 10 Downing st. and showing a fresh victory smile for the news cameras. . The epic of Winston Churchill is first of all individual, but around his sturdy shoulders rest all the hopes of the British, who when he took over in the summer of 1940, definitely faced extinction, at the worst, and at the best the breakup of their empire and the imposition on England of such a life as exists in a Nazi colony like Denmark. What Churchill’s further historical mission will be remains to be unfolded, but it is already down in the books that he prevented, in his own phrase, the liquidation of the British Empire. ' That is what the outburst of gratitude toward Churchill here this week means.

Leaving for Combat Zone

WASHINGTON, June 8-—Army nurses are toughened up just as soldiers are before leaving for duty in the combat zone. Nurses, the only women privileged to go wherever the American soldier goes, before embarkation receive special training to equip them for the strenuous life and work’ to follow in the combat zone. They are even taught to detect booby traps. Each time the soldiers go on maneuvers, army nurses accompany them, stated Capt. Kathleen Atto, assistant superintendent of the army nurse corps, in an interview here. Some nurses are given special instruction while in g at an army hospital, Capt. Atto declared. They are taught how to wear gas masks and drilled in putting them on. They undergo a course in chemical warfare where they learn how to detect the chemicals and the treatment of gas casualties. At the “School of the Soldier,” however, the nurses learn individual defense against air and mechanical attack. They practice in. ambulance loading, and lifter drill is given. Demonstrations in insect control are made. The nurses are drilled in the ‘importance of safeguarding military information. The army nurse learns regular drill formation and how to move quickly and obey orders. She goes|. on long marches’ and gradually acquires the ability to carry her own heavy equipment. A class held at Camp McCoy, Wis, in midwinter was appropriately listed as “operations in snow and cold.” Other nurses, on

company the men on maneuvers. They live on field rations, have an A. P. O. number, and are treated just as though they were out of the country. On these maneuvers. the ' nurses -make ingenious substitutes

for former “necessities.” G. I. helmets have been found to make satisfactory wash basins, and mirrors often go unused. If there is grumbling at all, it is more likely to be about the delay in being sent overseas rather than personal dis~ comforts. In California some of the nurses are receiving training at a desert center. Here they live in tents and’ have only the equipment which would probably bé available in Africa. Army uniforms and boots are the accepted costume for the nurses, and operations are performed in tents. i Up to the present time, stated Capt. Atto, the need . for army nurses, all of whom have volunteered, has been so great that it has been impossible to give them all: this preliminary training. However, each nurse receives last-minute hardening and additional at the staging area while awaiting her sailing date.

JAPS CLAIM 142 PLANES . By UNITED PRESS 43h The Tokyo radio broadcast a com=

By Eleanor Roosevelt

your eyes back to two little mounds on the White House grounds, which Jefferson built because rolling country to him made a more charming landscape than a flat lawn. . We. probably owe to him some of the beautiful trees which shade the lawn. We certainly are indebted to him for many of the ideas which kept Washington’s original course for this nation toward a real democracy. Finally, though you cannot see the Lincoln memorial, you are always conscious of Lincoln’s presence and of the hard years of the war between the states. He must have watched the other side of the Potomac river so often and wondered whether the boys in »gray would look into a man’s face and think only of the brotherhood of man and not of the division of

emy aircraft in air combat or on t ground during the recent ign south of the Yangtze Hver inCH