Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1943 — Page 11
MONDAY, JULY 5, 1943
The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
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NORTH AFRICA (By Wireless).—The Red Cross rect contact with America in case of family emergency. |
has a few critics but they are few indeed. The wonder Is that it gets its job done at all, considering the conditions under which it has to work When the Red Cross opens up in a new war theater its growth has to be as fast as the growth of the army. The way clubs spring up overnight in newly occupied centers, the way restaurants and dances and movies and clubmobiles and hospital workers mushroom into life all over a new country, is something that still astounds me, Bill Stevenson, the Red Cross’ delegate to Africa, wouldn't admit this himself, but actually his job is to do things for the army in spite of the army. Not that anybody is against the Red Cross. It isn’t that. But the Red Cross has depended on the army for a great many things—for jeeps, and boat priorities, and requisitioned buildings, and permissions of many kinds— and each of these is guarded by some individual whose Job is to conserve things for strictly military use. The result is a fine art of wheedling on the part of Mr. Stevenson. But things do get done. { We who have written about the Red Cross in the § post have usually centered upon the fine clubs it operates in all the big centers where troops are stationed. And yet actually—and I didn’t know this until a few days agpo—the club part comes third in the list of things the Red Cross does in Africa First and foremost is the hospital program. The Red Cross has women workers with every hospital in this theater—five each at the big ones, three at tl
smaller Live With Combet Outfits This is ru
outfits.
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SECOND is the field program,
work
n by men
who live and with combat I'hey dole out books little thin horns Fixer-Uppers. They are the ones who wire home to see if Pvt Joe Smith has become a papa vet. They bring the gad news that a soldier's mother has died at They talk things and get a neglectful %write hom Through these
towels, toilet all the
the
sets, writing paper
gs soldiers lose battle. They are
of and father confessors and Johnny
plenty
home
over boy to
field workers the soldiers have di-
It's surprising the number of cases they handle. Every | day 250 cables and 300 letters start across the ocean, solving soldiers’ problems—it takes seven American| oir] stenographers typing constantly to keep these! messages flowing. ! The field men conduct 26.000 interviews a month with soldiers, advising them about allotments and other things. The most spectacular Red Cross activity, although third on the program is the club service, Today the Red Cross has more than 40 clubs in North Africa. I'hese aren't just little reading-room affairs—they’re| hotels of four or five stories, serving meals, providing | beds, and equipped with snack bars, lounge rooms, | dances, and movies, The Red Cross has 365 Americans over here now, | and 100 more are due shortly.
Miss Touch of Femininity
i NO MATTER what deep services the Red Cross may perform, Stevenson says it's the touch of femi- | ninity that does the soldiers the most good. Bumpy (Mrs. Stevenson) laughs and says that's] the outstanding thing Bill has learned in his war | career—he has awakened to the powerful existence of womanhood. He has found it out in two ways—one, the touching approval and desire of the soldiers for female companionship, even if it consists of nothing more then standine and looking at an American gi:l behind a| counter: and, two, the rather laughable troubles he | has with his staff in matters of the heart. Bill has what he calls “colonel tr It seems} his eals are always getting engaged to colonels You'd! think a man old enough to be a full colonel would! either be well married and settled or else determined to be an old bachelor. But no. Colonels moon around the Red Cross workers like country swains, and thej thing vou know they're betrothed, begorra, here's no rule against Red Cross girls getting marvied while overseas, but there is a rule that they can't be stationed in the same area as their husbands. One general who has a colonel about to get married on him savs he will consent only on condition that they will be stationed a thousand miles apart, Bill Stevenson wonders whether it's going to be the general's duty to keep the colonel-husband away from his wife. or his (Bill's) duty to keep the Red Cross wife away from her husband. 1 that Bill and the general make up a pot between them and hire a small Arab boy to stand watch. |
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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
HAROLD (SPEEDY) ROSS. of Bozell & Jacobs, 1issed the Advertising club meeting Thursday for the second time in six or seven years. The reason was the then impending arrival of Miss Joan Ross, who subsequently weighed in at Methodist hospital at 7 pounds, 11 ounces. She is the Ross’ third child. . , . A certain business man went fishing other day and caught no fish but found a whole colony of little frogs about the size of the end of his thumb, Having a fish pond at his home, he gathered up about 150 of the little frogs and put them in his minnow bucket. En route home, he came to a stop traffic signa The {froglets that moment to set up a mighty almost unbelievable from guch small throats. People in other cars looked around to see where the din came from but our friend, equal to the occasion, stared right back. Incidentally, they all disappeared from his frog pond within a short time after being turned loose.
Hei, Wake Up! THERE WAS A minor flurry aboard an Illinois gtrestear the other evening when the operator decided he ought to do something about an army corporal who had been sleeping in the back of the car more than two hours, Unable to awaken him, the operator stopped the car and called for help. A policeman and
Wallace Feud
WASHINGTON, July 53.—Vice President Wallace's open feud with Secretary of Commerce Jesse H. Jones raises again in dramatic fashion the question whether Mr. Wallace can be renominated in 1944. The “dropping of Wallace” has been a lively topic wherever there is talk of the 1944 ticket among Democrats The project has much support in congress, except among dycd-in-the-wool New Dealers and these are far fewer than formerly Some middle - of - the - roaders, not closely alighed with either New Deal or anti-New Deal faction in the party, go along with the “drop Wallace” movement because they feel that the vice president lacks political appeal. They believe that such appeal will be essential next year on both ends of the ticket. Democrats are chagrined over the Wallace-Jones feud because of the spectacle of washing dirty linen in public in the midst of war and because of the ammunition it hands Republicans, gratis. Enemies of the vice president have seized it to promote the “drop Wallace” movement.
Another Feud Appears
AN INCIDENT of this feud is that it has brought into the open another feud—between extreme leftists and rightists who have long used these two men as gvmbols and hav been splitting hairs for months about the jesuies involved. This has gone on without much public recognition, and, in fact, with little attention being paid to it by the bulk of officialdom. The vice president has not become popular with the average politician, either in or out of congress. They do not understand him. He is respected for his eharacter and integrity, but does not seem to inspire affection.
My Day
WASHINGTON, Sunday—It is interesting that the fourth of July this year should fall on a Sunday. Perhaps it is a sign that this is a solemn occasion in pur United States, and we should approach it, not in the usual spirit of national pride for past achievenients, but in a prayerful spirit, asking for whatever help may be granted us to meet our presentday problems wisely. On the war front we have had some siecesses and a lull in aetivity of late, but during that time the home front has been particularly active. We realize that war is being waged not only by the sobdiers at the front, but in every country by the peoples at home as well. We are struggling to make a pattern at home which will garty us into the post-war period and help us to meet the probléing of reconstruction. As in other trying times in our history, it is easy \ to pick out men and women in our midst who are thinking solely in terms of their own self-interest and not in terms of their country. Sometimes I think that this war front between personal interests was, ih the past and ie today, almost as bitterly contested as any other battlefront throughout the world Human beings are apt to - What is
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an army sergeant responded. The policeman shook and shook, the sergeant, meanwhile, repeating: “Hey, wake up and put on your cap.” Finally, the corporal awoke, and looked dazedly about him. He wasn't drunk, just tired and a heavy sleeper. He said he wanted to get to Ft. Harrison, so the sergeant steered him to the bus terminal .. . A sign on an establishment in Carmel reads: “Beard's Barber Shop.” . | . Wonder who drives the coupe with a state-owned license that occasionally is seen parked at the ballgrounds. The license sounds like a basement bargain price.
All It Took Was a Dime
BOB EBY the lawyer, saw a man walk up to a “runner” for a justice of the peace in the courthouse |
corridor the other day and ask where he could find a The his living by his wit seriously: “Well. vou know there's a war on, and thev're taking lots of notary publics. The army | especially wants all the notary publics it ean get. | So they're getting hard to find. However, I think 1| can find vou one, but it'll cost you a dime.” After his | discourse, he disappeared and returned a minute later | with one of the courthouse’s regular notaries and col- | lected his dime. Home on furlough from the | army, a former bus driver, we're told, pleased his old | patrons by getting behind the wheel in army uniform, | and resuming his old occupation for a while. It was| the West Edgewood bus, we hear.
accustomed to earning] head and said,
notary public. “runner,”
scratched his
By Thomas L. Stokes
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His nomination at Chicago in 1940 was resisted by | the politicians. President Roosevelt forced it upon a convention that almost got out of hand. His renomination would require even more strenuous foreing, it wotld now appear, for he has not increased his friendships aniong the politicians, though he has had the] opportunity with his contacts as presiding officer of the senate. i President Roosevelt inczisted on his nomination at] Chicago, it was generally believed, so that he would have as a running mate and possibly as a successor! a staunch New Dealer. The conservative wing of the party wanted representation, and was denied. |
Wallace Lost Own State THERE WAS talk, too, at Chicago, that the presi-| dent wanted his secretary of agriculture as running | mate to help carry the farm states and to offset thej influence of Senator MeNary of Oregon, minority] leader of the senate and popular in the farm belt,| who was Republican vice presidential candidate. But| the Roosevelt-Wallace ticket lost Mr. Wallace's own state of Towa to the Republicans. When Mr. Roosevelt gave his viee president im-| portant war jobs, lifting him from the usual obscurity] of the vice presidency, the report went out that he was grooming Mr. Wallace for the presidency in "44. But Mr. Roosevelt seems to have his eye on that job] himself, and it looks now as if Mr. Wallace won't even get second place, unless the president really sets out) to fight for him and the party situation is more fa-| vorable to dictation than it is today i For the conservatives are surging back into power again in the party, as is being demonstrated daily in congress. It looks now as if they will have to be bought off to assure a harmonious convention, and the vice presidential nomination is always on the block for such purposes.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
| you about such opportunities in vour neighborhood. You probably will be amazed at how easy it is to make such a trip, and how much fun it ean be. If you have stored your car for
going to happen to them or to their belongings tomorrow or next week is so mich more real than any vision of what is going to happen to the world two) or three years from now!’ It may well be that this home-front battle of ours in the United States may have a considerable effect] however, upon the military battle. If the world decides that in the United States we deal justly and fairly with all of our citizens, that democracy really means that the will of the people as a whole is translated into action, our strength may seem so invineible that resistance may become weakened. Enemy peoples may even turn more hopefully to the solutions which they see us working out oh our domestic front. These solutions may prove to be adaptable to their own ways of life in the future, and so they affect their desire to resist in the struggle now going on. Bach one of us as a citizen today looks back with pride on the service and sacrifice of former eitizens. We celebrate the declaration of independence in which a people formulated their ideas of liberty, and spoke with words which have become immortal. We may well remember, however, that each new day de-| mands new service and new sacrifice, a different so-| lution to new problems. Perhaps even the forging of a new document which may express the aspirations xpressed the
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By Ernie Pyle |ntensive A
clivity Marks Bunker Hill Birthda
The Bunker Hill naval air station was a year old last Thursday. From the air it makes a striking picture with planes on the runways and base buildings showing distinctly.
Once Tranquil
Land Assumes
Militant Air
A little over a year ago tractors broke ground for the first road which was to lead into the U. 8S. naval air station at Bunker Hill. Thursday the station celebrated first unit mliitary that of a
the completion of its vear
as active operating of
an
the navy and today a
atmosphere replaces peaceful countryside. Before commissioned training planes began to arrive, but they were painted the brilliant hues so popoular among civilian As no painters were present to change them to bright wvellow, they lent a very unmilitary appearance to the field. Men were few, work was plenifful in the early days of base construction. Uniforms for new recruits had not arrived and many of the sailors worked for days in civilian clothing.
the base was
pilots.
the navy's
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Cadets Accept Challenge
TODAY, thousands of virile young Americans have picked up the gauntlet of war thrown at their feet and are meeting the enemy's challenge in the air. Playing a prominent role in the vast efforts of naval aviation cadets are those now in train= ing at Bunker Hill. Drawing cadets from all seetions of the country for fight instruction, the base is under the command of Cmdr. Morton T. Seligman, former executive officer on the illustrious aircraft carrier U. S. 8S. Lexington which was sunk in the Coral sea. Bvery cadet is a volunteer
Fam
Following is one of a series of articles specially prepared by two recreational experts and authors to suggest fun and relaxation at home for travel-restricted Americans,
By MARY BREEN and ARTHUR LAWSON Times Special Writers IF YOU DON'T LIVE where pleasure-driving is forbidden, did you save your gas tickets for a day away from home? If not, or if it bothers your conscience to use them, plan a trip anyway by streetcar, bus or on foot. You will have to work this out according to the nearby recreation facilities, the age of your children, the state of transportation. If your children are very young vou had better make only a picnic of your excursion. Leave home well after morning rush hour and come home early. If
| the children are older, especially
if Johnny is a Boy Scout and Betsy a Camp Fire Girl, you might take {wo or three days and do seme genuine camping. There is hardly a city of town in the country that is not near some state or federal picnic or camping ground—and this year they will be even less crowded than usual. Your local paper or Chamber of Commerce can tell
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When dawn comes up like thunder 'cross the air
base the aviation cadets are out conditioning. obstacle course.
through enlistment and must be unmarried. under 27 years of age and be a graduate of at least an accredited high school. He must pass rigid physical and mental ex= aminations to successfully enter a pre-flight school. Onee in training the mental and
the duration and the local transport bogged down with war workers, you can hike to a picnie in the nearest park. Make the day an adventure. Give it a purpose so that it will live forever in the family's memory. Is there a mountain to elimb, or a place to go fishing? Nearly every town has some historic ruin worth visiting. How about that battlefield where Gran'paw fought the Injuns? Or the first hotise built in your community? The local historical society can tell you all about these interesting places. ” ” ”
IF YOU ARE lucky enough to stay overnight at a beach or some camping ground, try to cook a supper out of doors. Remember that you always should have one foolproof, hearty dish on hand for such a party. A can of beans—if you still have one in your safe deposit vault—would be perfect. If Johnny is becoming an ornithologist, see how many differ= ent birds or ealls you can iden= tify. You will have to get up early for this. Nearly any tree,
is
even in a big city, is likely to
BEECH GROVE LIONS T0 INSTALL CLAPP A
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C. IL. Clapp will be installed as president of the Beech Grove Lions club at Wednesday's luncheon in
the Beech Grove Methodist ehureh.
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[ewis Marine is the retiring presi= dent.
Byron Saunders, secretary of the elub since it was founded, will be= gin his eighth year in that office, Others to be installed are C. V. Kinsey, first vice president; H. BE. Yeager, second vice president; Dr. R. A. Butler, third vice president; Dale Fahler, Dr. I, W. Berger, Noble Stogsdill and Fred Byrum, direc tors; Bilton H. Geshwiler, lion tamer, and Vernon Little, tail twister,
BEN HUR JUNIORR TO MEET The Ben Hur junior meeting will
{pe held at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow in
Here one climbs a wall along the
a
CR
SAN
for their physieal
planes,
physical conditioning is a continuous proposition. In ground school the cadet learns the fundamens= tals of dead reckoning naviga= tion, aireraft and ship recogni= tion, radio and blinker, aerology, power plants, gunnery, communi= cations and voice procedures and
Standing before th
the theory of flight. Flight instruction is of an indi= vidual nature and a commissioned officer aviator is his constant flying companion. The primary flight training at Bunker Hill includes dual, solo, cross country, formation, night
ly Hike or Picnic Can Be Nice Substitute for
Hike if you like=or if you must
have a bird in it=and maybe a nest. If you live in the city where there is a natural history mus= seum, visit it to see its collection of birds and animals. Later you and Johnny will better be able to recognize the live ones in the woods. If Betsy is a naturalist, set
Your Dog Needs
ttention, Too
ton is honorary president, ap= pealed to dog owners today not to desert their pets because of exists ing inconveniences. Owners were asked to solve their own problems, rather than turning dogs over to the overs burdened dog pound, the primary purpose of which is to take stray, lost or injured dogs whose owners are not known. Dog lovers were urged to take ill pets to a veterinarian. When moving out of the city, they are urged to erate and ship dogs to their new home by freight or ex« press or to find a good home for them.
ANTI-LIQUOR LEAGUE TO MEET
Carrie Nation Anti-Liquor League, Ine, will meet at 2 pm. tomor-
Castle hall, 930 BE. Ohio st. Eliza=|row in the Wheeler City Rescue
mentor and
beth Himes, junior
| mission.
Charles O. Thorneberry
seribe. will meet with the organ= will outline the work of the ore
ization for the last time tomorrow
pefore making her residence in|trio will sing. Mrs, E. D. Fuson
ganisation and the Martha Best
out on a nature hunt. You will find pollywogs in most pools or brooks, or newts under the rocks, or other minute and fascinating creatures. A handful of different kinds of mosses and ground bers ries can be brought home and planted in a pie=pan garden, These will grow in a most astonishing manner.
CAPEHART TO DIRECT INDIANA'S NAVY DAY
ANIMAL WELFARE | league, of which Booth Tarking- |
Homer E. Capehart, president of
e tower which directs the planes are representatives of the groups stationed at the naval base, Shown (left to right) are a navy nurse, marine, bluejacket, aviation cadet, naval aviator instructor and a WAVE,
In formation above Ay military
cst
and instrument flying and the first stages in aerobatics. When all training has been completed and a cadet graduates from an advanced base he is commissioned an ensign. Training life of a cadet is hard. Uncle Sam wants it that way.
Motor Trip
WHEN you only want to get out of the backyard for a while you can organize a scavenger hunt, There is no limit to what might happen during such an event, Invite your friends and their chil= dren to spend the afternoon, Tell them to come early. If the chil dren are very young, confine the hunt to the few houses closest to your own, If they are 10 or 12, you might let them go farther afield. Have the players hunt in pairs for a specified list of things, These can include such items as an old felt hat, knitting needle, the middle name of your most crotchety neighbor and the license plate number of the car parked down the block. Three or four such will suffice for the very young, eight or 10 {or the others, Have a suitable prize ready for the pair that first returns. If you find it absolutely impos=gible to get away, pretend you are taking a trip anyway. Rig up a shower in the back yard. Pretend it is Niagara Falls, It will cool you off and highly entertain the children, Let this be your beach, Later on, ask some of your special friends over for an outdoor supper. Serve them out of vour victory garden. And make a rule that anyone who mentions steak will have to weed a row of beets,
Packard Manufacturing Corp. will | HOLD EVERYTHING
direct Indiana's observance of Navy!
Day, October 27, Sheldon Clark, president of the Navy League of the United States, day. The observance will mark the date when the Continental Cone gress received the bill providing for the original U, 8. fleet in 1775. October 27 is also the birth date of Theodore Roosevelt, known for his support of a navy adequate to the national need.
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High civil and military officials |
will participate in a parade that
day consisting of marching organ- |
izations, military bands and army and navy units,
D. OF A. OFFICER FETE
Indianapolis council 57, Daughters of America, will entertain two state officers, Mrs. Pearl Benhan and Mus, Daisy Hunter of Indianapolis, at
8:30 p. m, tomorrow in Castle hall, 230 E, Ohio st. 3
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“Can you leave my door open a little tonight? It's a bit warm in my cell!”
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