Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1943 — Page 11
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TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1943
The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
" (Editor's Note— This column was written by Ernie Pile before the fall of Tunisia but has never been published before.)
NORTHERN TUNISIA (By Wireless). —Unaccustomed as I am to air superiority, I must say that after A brief association with this notorious stranger I find him one of the pleasantest companions I've ever dealt with. When you've got air superiority you can sit down in your tent and just keep on sitting, without running out every time you hear a plane for a cautious checkup. When you've got air superiority vou cah drive along in your jeep and not hit the ditch every time you see a bird soaring in the distance. When you've got air superiority you can hear great droning formations approaching and know automatically that they're ours, not theirs. You don't even fuss if you do see a German plane, because you know the skies are so full of our patrolling Hawks that they'll get him before he can do much damage. ./ Our ground troops have at last known the exaltihe experience of fighting all day without a single Stuka diving on them. As our air strength grows and the enemy's dwindles you almost begin to feel sorry for the poor troops on the other side who are now tasting the bitter brew from the skies.
They ‘Cover the Cover’
“I'VE RECENTLY been living again with some of our American fighter pilots, and the shift in balance has done as much for them as for our ground troops. They're flying themselves punch-drunk in this big gush, yet they fly with a dash they've never known. For at last they are on the upper end of things. We are making great hay while the sun shines. The ground crews are working like flends keeping the planes flyable. Pilots are going at a pace they
Now
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
MAYOR TYNDALL, after six months in office, has come to some rather definite conclusions, one of which he voiced in a recent conversation: “What this city “is two mayors—one to make the speeches and one to run the city. One man hardly can keep up with both jobs.” Former Mayor Sullivan probably would ‘second’ the idea. ... That robot traffic signal at the intersection of Roads 31 and 431 south of town seems to have gone haywire, Instead of its usual stellar performance, we're told, it acts as though it had had a nervous breakdown, operating neither with traffic nor on schedule. It must be the humidity. If you're figuring on trotting out the old hay fever plea in asking extra gasoline for a summer trip to Michigan or Wisconsin, better think up something else. Rationing boards, we're told, don't recognize hay fever as a legitimate reason for more gasoline.
All Is Gloom, Now HOWARD T. BATMAN, public service commission, has been very proud of his The garden is and since
needs.” he opined,
public counselor for the
victory garden, especially of his corn. Jocated near his home, 1115 Pomander pl, he had more ground than he needed, he turned some
of it over to Mrs. Schricker. The governor, who has learned a lot about corn on his tours of the state's fried chicken circuit, went out and inspected the garden the other day and discovered corn borers in the corn. Now Howard's pride is turned to gloom. . . Sgt. R. H. Messham, who has charge of the military training of I. U. medical students, says we were all wrong in our item last week about the medics getting
In Africa
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, July 8 (By Wireless) —Not so long ago I used to wonder where all the planes, ships, tanks and men that we talked about in such gigantic numbers actually were. Now I am at the other end of the line, or rather at the end of several lines, and the results of America’s production program are bountifully evident. Flying across North Africa I have landed at or passed over numerous airfields, all servicing planes in enormous numbers. From the air some of these fields looked as if flocks of enormous birds were roosting on them. Here we are 4000 miles from the American shipping ports, yet material and men for the invasion of the continent of Europe are flowing regularly and smoothly into the concentration ports of North Africa as well as those of Britain. In Britain I saw acres of supplies in huge depots gerviced by specially constructed depot railroads. In North Africa, from the west coast across more than # thousand miles of coastline, are more such depots. {Harbors are busy with shipping, which is now freely using the Mediterranean.
Sinkings Unbelievably Low
WHAT I have seen both in England and here proves to me beyond question that the submarine, if not licked, is in no serious degree hindering the shipping of supplies to concentration points around the perimeter of axis Europe. Figures on sinkings of material bound for North Africa are unbelievably low. Allied ships loaded with supplies are now seen far inside the Mediterranean in large numbers. For the time being the submarines
My Day
HYDE PARK, Monday. July 5—We have had a very pleasant week-end. A number of children to keep us busy. Our son Jimmy and his wife were with me at the cottage and, with the exception of yesterday, we had sun in which to bask after we swam. Yet it was coo! enough weather so that I did an unprecedented thing—I had a fire in the fireplace in my sitting room and we sat close to it and enjoyed it. On Saturday we had a picnic lunch and even at noon the sun did not seem too hot to make it pleasant. My old friend, Earl Robinson, who is on his way to Los Angeles, spent one night with us and gave a concert in the library in which the soldiers who were able to get away from their uties joined. I think they had a very happy hour Ps to him and singing with him. We have actually been reading some poetry aloud t odd moments, and that is always a joy. Jan Struther has written a new poem called “War Time Journey.” It may not as yet have been published. It was to me a most moving and sensitive piece of
writing I was saddened yesterday to find that the national
youth administration is going to be closed down. I course,
am iiot, of
couldn't stand very long. Some fighter pilots are flying as many as five missions a day, where one used to be tops. The fighters are doing all kinds of work—escorting, ground-sweeping, dogfighting, and even light bombing. Let me tell you how air superiority works. In the old days we'd send a cover of fighters along with the bombers, but there were hardly ever encugh of them. Now—just listen—we not enly send an enormous cover but we send a second layer to cover the cover. A sort of double insulation, you might call it, We don't even stop there. We send out groups of fighters known as ‘free lances,” far out of sight of our bombers, just to intercept anything that might be wandering around.
Sees ‘Ultimate in Superiority’
AND TO wind it all up, we send out fresh planes to meet the bombers just after they leave the target, in case the regular cover of fighters might be having trouble or running low on gas. These are called “de-| lousing missions,” and they scrape off any pests that! get tenacious. ! But I think here is the ultimate in air superiority. | Both sides, you know, have kept constant airdrome patrols in the air all winter—from two to half a dozen planes circling each airdrome constantly from dawn to dusk, to be already in the air if enemy planes appear. Well, we are still patrolling, but we have also taken on a little extra work. We are patrolling the German airdromes, too! Our fighters actually patrolled one whole after-| noon over a big German drome, just flying back and; torth and around, and prevented every single Ger-| man plane from even taking off. Of course, that was an isolated case, and I'm not trying to make you believe we patrol all the German dromes all the time, | but the fact that it can happen at all is practically phenomenal. | Yes, air superiority is a wonderful thing. It's one | of life's small more accustomed.
picked up by M. Ps “while wearing fatigue uniforms.” They were in regular uniforms and were picked up when they were unable to show passes, he said. And | he adds, they were released after only about an hour | in jail. The sergeant says the boys are beginning to drill like veteran soldiers. And that's sweet praise, coming from a sergeant.
Around the Town
A TRAVELING MAN, grumbing over the slow movement of the endless lines in front of the ticket windows at union station over the week-end, observed that “the railroads have made much progress in re- | cent years in every respect except ticket selling. It| still takes them an inordinate amount of time to sell] vou a ticket.” Why can’t someone invent a new sys- | tem? . . . One of our agents is amused at the sight] of a couple of truckloads of military police, headed by | a motorcycle with siren and red light, crashing | through red traffic signals on their way to make other | folks obey traffic signals. . . . ! At 615 Massachusetts | ave. there's a sigh above the window reading: “Feather | beds made into mattresses and down quilts.” Right] below it is the name of the firm: Ace Welding Co.
Gosh, How They Bite
THE CHIGGER crop is here, and what dandies | they are this year! Bigger and more vicious than any we've ever seen before. They leave welts as large as| a silver dollar. If vou don’t believe it, you can easily prove—to your own dissatisfaction—that what we say is true. Just get out in fairly tall grass. Most vars veteran of the chigger wars has a different remedy | for chigger bites, but the most common is: Cover wound with iodine. When this dries, cover the wound with collodion. one form of which is New-Skin. That | (1) poisons and (2) smothers the pesky little insects. | If you know you're going to be in thigger territory, a bit of sulphur in your shoes, under your belt a garters, will help discourage the little so and sos.
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By Raymond Clapper
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Chiang Kai-shek Is
‘Even Bigger’ Than The World Thinks
CHAPTER EIGHT
FROM LANCHOW we flew south to Chengtu, then up into the mountains to the capital, Chungking. On the way home from China, we flew north to Sian, then back again to Chengtu to take off on the long flight
across north China and the Gobi to Siberia. In the northwest, we had seen the future of China. In the southwest, especially in Szechwan province—Chengtu and Chungking—we
saw its present at its best.
Here it was not the land but the people that made the strongest
impression.
It is difficult for anyone to understand fully the inexhaustible
human resources of that country. People who know China but
have not been there since 1937,
when Japan began its present attempt to conquer China, tell me the vitality, the resourcefulness, the courage and devotion to their cause of freedom which distinguish the Chinese people are a constant marvel
to them. I arrived in Chungking late in the afternoon, at an airport some Long before our automobiles had reached the city, the road on either side was lined with people. Before we reached the middle of the city, the crowds stood packed from curb to store front. T° Men, women, e young boys and Mr. Willkie girls, bearded old gentlemen, Chinese with fedora hats, others with skullcaps, coolies, porters, students, mothers nursing their children, well dressed and poorly dressed—they packed 11 miles of road over which our cars slowly moved on our way to the guesthouse in which we were to stay.
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Demonstrate Good Will
ON THE OTHER side of the Yangtze river, they stood and waited. On all the hills of Chungking, which must be the world's
{ hilliest city, they stood and smiled
and cheered and waved little paper American and Chinese flags. It was perfectly clear that not all these people, many of whom were barefoot or dressed in rags, had any clear idea of who I was or why I was there. But in spite of all my efforts to discount it, this scene moved me profoundly. There was nothing synthetic or fake about the faces I looked at They were seeing, in me, a representative of America and a tangible hope of friendship and | help that might be forthcoming.
ONE WORLD by Wendell L. Willkie is breaking all sales records as a book and more copies have already been sold than any book in history over a similar period of time.
We are proud to be able to present to our readers this version of ONE WORLD, carefully condensed into 10 installments from the book of 60,000 words, to be followed by a new and exclusive article by Mr. Willkie as the final installment.
It was a mass demonstration of good will, And it was an impressive show of the simple strength, in people and in emotions, which is China's greatest national resource.
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Chiang Dominates
POSSIBLY NO other country on our side in this war is so dominated by the personality of one man as China, His name is Chiang Kai-shek. although he is universally referred to in China as “the generalissimo.” sometimes affectionately shortened to “gissimo.” I had a number of long talks with the generalissimo, as well as family breakfasts and other meals alone with him and Mme. Chiang, who acted as his interpreter. We discussed the past and his administration's aim to change China from an almost exclusively
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By Ernie Pyle “One World
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Wendell Willkie talking with. the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang,
agricultural society into a modern industrial one. He hoped in the change to retain the best of the old traditions and to avoid the social dislocations of large-scale western industrial development by the establishment of a great number of widely distributed small plants. I can write no account of China without setting down my own conclusion that the generalissimo, both as a man and as a leader, is bigger even than his legendary reputation. He is a strangely quiet, softspoken man. When he is not in military uniform, he wears Chinese dress, and this accentuates the impression he makes of a scholar—almost a clerical scholar -rather than a political leader. ” ” ”
A Trained Listener
HE IS obviously a trained lis= tener, used to the task of picking other men's brains. He nods his head when he agrees with you, with continuous soft little ya-ya's; it is a subtle form of compliment, and one that disarms the man he is talking to, and wins him in some degree to Chiang's side. The generalissimo is reported to spend a part of every day in praying and Bible reading. He has acquired from this, or from some childhood influence, a reflective manner, a quiet poise, and an occasional appearance of thinking out loud. He is undoubtedly sincere and his dignity and personal imperturbability have something almost severe in quality.
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The young republic of China, despite its youth, has already developed a sort of “old-school tie” of its own which automatically keeps some men in high position. The chief wearers of this “oldschool tie” are the comrades-in-arms of the generalissimo during the years when he was fighting warlords, and it is China's gain that none of these is yet an old man. ”
Pian Tutelary Stage
I WOULD NOT like to suggest that the leaders I met in Chungking were not men of considerable caliber, They were, But they ale not all representative men, in the western sense. Just as the Chinese concept of democracy differs from ours in certain respects, so does the pattern which life imposes on its leaders. The Kuomintang parity which rules China includes in its plan for the growth of self-govern-ment in China a tutelary stage during which the people are being educated into new habits of liv ing and thinking designed to make them good citizens of a complete democracy, with electoral rights, at a later time. (Among the many talented Chinese leaders whom Mr. Willkie met and through whose minds he was helped to a clear understanding of this great nation, its aspirations and ideals, were Presi dent Lin Sen, who entertained him at his residence, and Capt. Weikao, son of the generalissimo by
Picnics and Barbecues—They Make Home Vacations
Following is one of a series of
| articles specially prepared by two | recreational experts and authors
have ceased to be a serious problem. Use of the Mediterranean is like adding a third or more to our tonnage, because it eliminates the longest supply line in the world, which we ran around Africa, These facts indicate a spectacular change in the allied war position since I went across Africa a year| ago. That trip had to be made through Central Af-| rica, because the axis had the north, We were trying, to send urgent supplies by air because the shipping, route was so slow. The Central African route was then an important artery, but now in a year’s time it) has become secondary. The allied line has moved a] thousand miles north to the coast and the Mediter- | ranean,
Achievement Uneacelled
A YEAR AGO production figures were in the thousands, vet MacArthur in the Pacific and Stilwell in| India talked in hundreds, and that was sometimes | exaggeration. As far away as China I heard pitiful stories, Perhaps it has taken a long time for the flow of material to “fill up the pipe” so that the equipment coming out at the end bears some proportion to the! amount rolled off the production lines. Whatever our shortcomings in management on the | home front, American production of material and movement of it and of enormous number of troops over long and dangerous supply lines is clearly a historical | achievement unapproached in the last war, and prob- | ably far beyond anything Hitler ever calculated as possible,
Success in modern war depends 90 per cent on or-, ganization of a superior mass of material and men beforehand. The Tunisian campaign was delayed many months. But after a sufficient force had been assembled to achieve dominance. the actual campaign was over quickly in a joint victory for our ad in the field and the factories at home.
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By Eleanor Roosevelt
effect this will have on youth at present. I have felt all along that youth not called into the service could, of course, go into industry and get its basic training there. It seemed to me, however, that much training could be given by NYA which would make young people more useful when hired and therefore less costly in industry. The training given by NYA was basic, not specialized, as often must be in industry and, therefore, it is more valuable for future use if you have to change your job. The main reason, however, that I am sorry to see NYA go is that I have learned how difficult it is to train people to do certain kinds of work and set up organizations to accomplish definite objectives. It seems to me highly improbable that in the transition period between war and peace we will not need an organization such as this to help our young people to prepare for new jobs. We did not have it in the past, but we have learned a great deal and I thought perhaps we could profit by, our past. The cost to the country has seemed very small. Perhaps we could even put it on the credit side, if it has been possible to compute how much this! training really helped in using workers more quickly. The decision is made and I only hope that in| the future it will not be youth which suffers, but | their elders who make these decisions for sometimes are slower to make the ¢
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sions to do the pounds of fired
to suggest fun and relaxation at home for travel-restricted Americans,
By MARY BRELN and ARTHUR LAWSON
Times Special Writers
AN OUTDOOR supper can be the most complicated thing in the world—or the simplest. Remember it is your vacation, even if it is in your own home, and that vacationtime is no time for trouble and fuss. If you follow the plans given here you will find yourself having a lot of fun. You also will be able to amaze vour friends with a real meal that made hardly any dent in your pocketbook and not much in your ration book.
First, a few suggestions on picnics: Lots of green things—from your garden, of course—will save almost any picnic. Carrots are good raw. Leave the tomatoes home unless you are not going far. Wash all fresh vegetables and pack in waxed paper. You can cook anything in an outdoor fireplace that you can cook at home in a frying pan, on You must
remember the fire, though. Use
hardwood or charcoal—and get the fire going ahead of time so that you cook by the heat of the coals instead of flames, » ” ” WANT A BARBECUE? Well, this is the year when few of us will barbecue a beef in the old western manner. But we can
barbecue a chicken or turkey or rabbit—or we can cook fowl or fish in the South Sea manner by burying them in a hole in the ground. You will need a pit. Dig it twice as long as your chicken, as deep as your chicken is long, and as wide. Make it bowlshape, lined with stones. A foot from each end of this depression erect two forked sticks about 18 inches high. Then build a fire in the pit. Use hardwood or charcoal. Keep the fire going for an hour or so until there is a good bed of coals. Spit your chicken on a piece of maple or other sweet wood and place it over the fire supported by the forked sticks. Turn very slowly. Baste only once with butter or grease. If you stuff the fowl, cook the stuffing first and put it in hot. You can cook two
Fish, fowl, clams and corn make a feast.
or three chickens at the same time by making your pit longer. But don't make it deeper or wider. Sweet corn and tomatoes from your victory garden, bread and jam and watermelon finish off this excellent barbecue—and you will not have used a single ration point.
HIT-RUN CAR PLOWS “INTO 200 SOLDIERS
FORT GEORGE C. MEADE, Md, July 6 (U. P).—A hit-and-run au-
| lomobile plowed through a column
of 200 marching troops near here early yesterday and injured 15 of them, three seriously. Several hours later police arrested as a suspect a man whose car, found locked in a private garage, bore evidence of having been in an accident, The troops were marching to the Patapsco state park for night maneuvers when the automobile smashed into the column from the rear. The car slowed after the first man went down but the driver
shifted gears and plowed on through,
Fort Meade officers reported. The soldiers threw helmets and flashlights at the automobile but it kept going. Of the injured, 10 were hospitalized. The more seriously hurt were listed as Capt. Frank G. Hubbard of Asheville, IN. C.; Pvt. J. Holcomb of Ballground, Ga., and Pvt. Paul S. Snyder of Arcadia, Calif.
ARMY SALVAGES COPPER U. 8. army training and proving
Want a Steak? Just Get Sick!
WASHINGTON, July 6 (U. P.. —If you enjoy a nice juicy steak with lots of catsup and all kinds of heavily rationed vegetables, the best thing to do is to get sick and go to a hospital.
The office of price administration announced today that “no hospital patient need suffer from inability to get food because of rationing.” The OPA said it is working out a uniform procedure to provide supplementary allotments for hospitals. But in the meantime, it said, local boards heve full authority to grant such allotments to meet the needs of patients whether or not they are on special diets.
CLAIM TOJO VISITS HIS BURMA LEADERS
By UNITE» PRESS Premier Tojo, Japanese prime minister and war minister, has arrived in Burma to confer with his military leaders there, Tokyo radio reported today in a broadcast recorded by United Press.
The broadcast said Tojo left
them and grounds are contributing 5,000,000 Tokyo June 30. He was reported ajto have visited Thailand after a
RATION BOARDS GET |
ANNIVERSARY PRAISE
| War price and ration boards cele- | brated 2 year and a half of service yesterday with more than 64 per
cent of the original board membership still serving in the 74 counties of the Indianapolis district. James D. Strickland, district OPA director, lauded board members, saying: “The fact that more than 64 per cent of the original membership still is serving is another remarkable manifestation of Hoosier citizenship. The rationing program has been carried forward by citizens serving without pay and undergoing all kinds of pressure.” Governor Schricker expressed his appreciation of the work done by letter. He said in part: “Your task has been far from easy. You know, as I know, how difficult and distressing it is to have to say ‘no’ to friends and neighbors as we so frequently must for the welfare of our state and nation.”
COIN COLLECTION SOLD
ROCHESTER, Ind. July 6 (U. P.). rency collection with a face %alue
Baker were purchased today by Max Mend, Ft. Worth, Tex, Smismatist
—An old coin and fractional cur- P
of $72 gathered by the late Mitchell
THE OLD South Sea island method of cooking outdoors is very much like that used by your
local fire department on its annual clam bake. Use a hole similar to that described above. Start the fire about four hours before eating time. Keep it going until there is a deep bed of coals. In the meantime get
Potatoes May Be Ballast to U. S.
WASHINGTON, July
suggestion of Rep. Raymond £.
Springer (R. Ind.). In a letter to Springer, LendLease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr. said: “I have in=quired into your suggestion that vessels returning from the United Kingdom carry potatoes as bailast cargo, and I think there is much to be said in favor of it.” Stettinius pointed out that “summer potatoes are extremely perishable and would be impracticable to ship. . . . As regards fall potatoes, on the other hand, I think we shuld carefully explore the possibility of obtaining potatoes under reciprocal aid from the United Kingdom.”
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SHORTS AGGRAVATE BERMUDA SPEAKER
HAMILTON, Bermuda, July 6 (U. .).—Speaker J. R. Conyers com- |
plained in the house assembly yes- | terday that the practice of members! wearing shorts in the house is “dis-
respectful to me and lowers ge ignity of the house.” :
8 (U.P. | —Americans may be eating Irish —or at any rate English—potatoes next winter as the result of a |
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Chennault Hard to Forget
BRIG. GEN. Claire L. Chennault, commander of the China air task force of the United States army air forces, is a hard man to forget once you have talked with him. He first went to China as an individual fighter and aerial strategist, to help train. the Chinese air force. Later he organized the American volunteer group which cov=ered itself with glory both in China and in Burma, He is in the United States army now, and the army is lucky to have him. The story is now well known of what he and his men have done. They have shot down Japanese pianes in combat with a loss ratio ranging from 12 to 1 to 20 to 1. When I was in Chungking, the Chinese records showed his forces to have won more than 70 consecutive air battles against the Japanese without a single loss, in spite of the fact that the Americans were outnumbered in each battle. I was shocked at only one thing I saw: the paucity of the material he had to work with, What he asks for is amazingly little; and what weé have sent him falls far short ol &i even that little.
NEXT: Need for Common Understanding,
Happy Ones
everything else ready. A chicken or a duck or two, cleaned. Lobster, or almost any kind of fish. Clams or oysters. Now, an hour and a half before you expect to eat, rake most of the coals from the pit. Spread a thin layer of seaweed or sweet tasting grass over the pit. On this put a layer of corn in about half of the shucks—then chickens or fish—more seaweed or corn-shucks--then clams or oysters laid flat on shells so that the juice will not run out. On top put more seaweed, a damp cloth, seaweed, and pile up the coals you recently raked from the pit. If there is any more seaweed left throw that on the top and relax. An hour and a half later you can start unstacking. Work carefully. The corn, chickens, everything will taste slightly of clams. But it will be wonderful. There are a few things you always should remember when cooking outdoors. We mentioned before that you should use hardwood or charcoal. Have some sort of shelter ready in case of a sudden rain squall. Always plan one or more “safe” dishes so that the kids can eat no matter what they do to the food they are trying to cook. A good salad—baked beans —even bread and jam will generally suffice. And-—don't be fancy. Well, it's your vacation. You can be just as fancy as you wish. Make yourself a very special little treat. Did you ever wrap a piece of bacon around a tomato, dip it in seawater, and roast it on a stick over a bed of driftwood coals? Try it.
HOLD EVERYTHING
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