Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1943 — Page 9

{| TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1943

"tT

{

—

Af 9hs Note: Ernie Pyle has notified us from ‘ ea that he will not send any dispatches for a phi Jats. Meantime a friend has forwarded a Pping of a story Ernie wrote for the Stars and

PhDs, army newspaper. Excerpts from that article

SO THE Star and Stripes wants some of us cor respondents to write stme pieces for vou guvs to read, The idea, I think, is for us to write about yi. tn oan RAg~ why we should be telling you t } °S. AI you don't know where you're at and how you feel by this time, vou must be too dumb to read anyhow. So for lack of a better subJect, I'll break ail the rules and write about myself. I've been away from home for a whole year now. Practieally all that time has been spent nosing around odd corners of the earth with you GI's, looking in vain for colleens in Ireland, trying to keep dry in England and “allez-ing” the poor Aravs to death here. I've traveled 20.000 miles in Africa, got myself shot at once or twice, and died a thousand deaths from freezing, I know three generals by their first names, and have almost been court-martialed once. I've stolen one jeep and had two stolen fiom me.

Even Writers Need Rest

SINCE LEAVING home I've sent back nearly 200.« 000 words about you and your current careers. to voin a phrase. You didn't suspect you were that interesting, did you? Well maybe you aren't but brother I've got a living to make. In my rambles through darkest Africa I've come to know hundreds of you by name and a good many thousands cf you bv sight. So far ive always pot along fine with you and you've all been nice to me At the moment I'm in a tent camp on the beach, kind of hali-working and half-shirking. waiting for the next euy. Even a correspondent imagines he needs a rest after a thing like Tunisia. Out here it's practically the same as being at Miami. Our cabana has running water (when you Up up a five-gallon can the water runs out),

Hoosier Vagabond

By Ernie Pyle

We have clean linen on our beds (at least I sup-

my bedroll last November). We have electric lights and my boudoir lamp that hangs from the ridge-pole is shaded by a delicate beige cardboard cover off a White Horse whisky bottle (The covering, I regret to say, was empty when it came into my life. If T ever see another bottle of White Horse I'm not going to drink it, I'm going to eat it, glass and all) It's truly a wonderful vacation, easily afforded by any vacationer who is willing to let the government foot most of the bill. Of course I have to pay a little extra for the ants that keep crawling up my legs, but hell, you can’t get ants like these at Miami Beach! for any price,

Just a Railbird Opinion

IN MY TRAVELS around the djebels and wadis with you soldiers, there are three main questions you aiways ask me. These questions are: 1. When will the war be over? 2. When are we going home? 2. When and where will the next move be? Being a coirespondent, I'm blessed with a sixth wisdom, and cof course 1 alwavs have a great deal of inside information. here are my answers, for what they are worth: 1. I don't know. 2. Je no sais pas. 3. Ich weiss nicht, I really don’t know and except fo. No. 3, of course, | I don't think anybody else does either. But if you] want my railbird opinion—I wouldn't make dates to! meet anybody at the corner of Main and Vine for at least two years yet if I were you. I know that] crack will make me very unpopular with you, but what the hell, at least the Arabs love me. | One night I got to talking with some soldiers and we arrived at this conclusion: | If vou were all suddenly put in the same position we are, that is if you were suddenly offered the chance of going home for good--1I don't mean a few select ones to be used tor training, I mean everybody just] up and quit and go home nierely because you want to] go home—1'll bet not one in i100 of you would vote to go until the war is won,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

WE'VE JUST RECEIVED our new Basie A gato line ratioh book and were surprised to find it isn't a “book” at all. The coupons are all on one large sheet of paper. The new form is a little harder to handle, but it has the virtue of being simpler to prepare, and look at all the precious metal saved by eliminating millions of wire staples. . Included among the slogans cn a series of three new posters desighed by Walt Disnev for use in war plants is the following: “A goofy lunch pulls your punch.” More truth than poetry, too. . . , A woman getting off the train at the Monon railroad's 38th st. station received an old-fashioned Hoosier welcome Sunday. About half a dozen women met her at the train and. surrounding her, hummed, “Back Home Again in Indiana,” on home-made Kkazoos. The kzzoos were nothing more than hair combs with paper fitted in the teeth. An hepocrotic Hen MRS. ALICE RUBIN and Mrs. Guy Ogden, 1262 S. High School rd, have an egg bearing an almost perfect likeness of the Japanese flag's rising sun, It has a circle with 14 evenly spaced lines leading away from it—giving the appearance of the sun's “rays.” The ¢g22 was laid by one of 14 hens in a flock owned by Mrs, Rubin and Mrs, Ogden. “If I knew which heh did it,” Mrs. Rubin said, "I'd wring her neck.” Of course, maybe the egg was the hen's way of prophesyving that the rising sun soon will be sete ting. . . . Two barefooted boys attracted & crowd of curious to the east side of the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument yesterday afternoon with their game hunt, The boys had 8s weapons some grains of corn, a heavy string with a noose on the snd, and a box. The grain was to lure pigeons, the noose to snare them and the box to hold them. The boys caught

In Africa

ADVANCED ALLIED BASE, North Africa, July 13 By Wireless!—The first few hours of the invasion were a test of how well the allied air ..cce had done ite work Landing on a defended shore is difficult and dangerous but our air cover met with surprisingly little resistance and enemy fighter planes were noticeable by their absence, Allied fliers returning from the first missions after the invasion started reported little or no fighter opposition, This undoubtediy was the result of the heavy air campaign which had been waged against the air fields of Sicily. The task of the allied air force is to continue the destruction of axis air fields, axis airplanes, to chop up the roads, railroads and other lines of communications to prevent the enemy from moving up forces to concentrate against our ground troops. Air strength can dull the edge of any enemy coun= ter-atfack but cannot prevent it and the outcome will depend on the ground ferces. But in the initial stages of invasion it 1s the air power that makes it possible to get ashore sufficient forces to establish a beach-

head.

Enemy Given No Rest

THE PURPOSE of our sustained bombing campaign against Sicily was to destrey the axis air forces, Allied attacks have been going on day and night give ing the enemy fields no rest, no time tn repair runwavs. Resistance to the allied attacks became weaker as the flelds became unusable,

My Day

TUMBLING DOWN RANCH, Nev, Monday, July 12.—Not long ago I had the privilege of reading the commencement address delivered this year at the University of Nebraska by the director of the budget. This address must have made a deep impression, He told them things which it is “% well for young people to remem- © per. I like the following quotation: “It is depressing to think that mankind may stop fighting through fear. Fear alone is not enough. . . . It is more honest to admit that the world is always at war in different ways. When we are not fighting with bullets, we fight with economics. . . . Running through the centuries it seems clear that men have done their best when they were free, but what does free mean? Certainly not the right to do as one pleases. ; “We think that America is the freest country in \he world, but we have more laws per square foot tian s11 the rest of the world put together, and every jaw tells us what we may not do or what we must do. We are free only because we steadily assert that our

two while Jack Reich watched, and were still at their sport when he left, There's still no zhortage of pigeons downtown. | Avound the Town GASOLINE WORRIES didnt faze a voungster headed for Riverside park Sunday. He was riding in| a little wagon, drawn hy two dogs, across the 30th st, bridge. The boy's parents were nearby but the dogs required no prompting from them. , , , A voungster, about 4 or 5, wearing a military uniform, wandered around the A&P at 34th and Illinois while his mother shopped. The lad met a real soldier, also shopping. So he saluted with all the. finesse possible. The soldier solemnly returned the courtesy with a crisp, neat salute, complete with clicking of heels. The small boy stalked on, looking very important. . .. Roy Niehus, of the I. A. C. staff, | had to take a lot of good-humored joshing yesterday | when he showed up at work with a black eve. He! attended a picnic Sunday and was having a friendly! tussle, accidentally slipping and hitting his cheek! bone against the corner of a bench. The injury be-' came so painful he had to return home from work vesterday afternoon. A Likely Story! HARRY LACY. a mailer who sometimes works at The Times, was out in a city park one night with a flashlight looking for night crawlers. A city policeman stopped him, asking what he was doing. When Harry told him, he asked suspiciously: “What are night crawlers?” When Hany said thev were fishing worms, the policeman said, “Oh, veah!” and got ready to take him away. Harny fortunately had a few worms in a bucket which he showed the policeman, satisfring him. , . , Readers of the Hoosier Sentinel the other day were startled to see a legal ad in it bearing the signature of our Republican county | clerk. Jack Tilson. By the way, Jack's going to save that little finger that was mashed last week. The doctor thought at first he'd have to amputate it.

By Raymond Clapper

The most spectacular fact of the war on this side is the rise in striking power of the allied air force] which insures its supremacy whenever its strength is applied. Of course the task cannot be measured exclusively | in terms of bombs dropped. The destruction of enemy planes is the test.

In the Tunisian campaign the allied air sores! demonstrated great ability to do that. In the Cape] Bon area which includes the numerous fields around Tunis and Bizerte the allies found after surrender that 650 axis planes had been destroyed on the ground | or abandoned. That does not include losses in combat | in the air. The total losses of axis planes in North] Africa since the landings last November run to several | times that figure not to mention the losses that Ger- | many is suffering at the hands of Fortresses from England in the air war over northwestern Europe,

Germany's Head Start Lost

TIME AND ALLIED production have caught up with Germany. All her thorough advance preparation for air warfare, hier secret training of an airforce under the guise of glider and sports flying, her unquestioned dominaticn in air strength at the time

oT have been overtaken, by the Slow-starting | Nazi Brutality Toward Those in Holland

At Munich Hitler was master because he had his force organized to strike. It has taken almost five years for the allies to catch up and pass this martial | Jackrabbit but industrial resources tell in the end in| modern war. The industrial strength of the allies, now that it is mobilized, is what makes the war news today different than it was a vear ago. There is no excuse for our ever losing the initiative again. {

| |

By Eleanor Roosevelt

| {

strength in a front against their comon enemy, the Nazi invader.

neighbor has equal rights and is or can be as gcod | as we are.” Then he points out that in the end peace can only come when there is absolute gentleness in the heart of every man and it spreads from the individual to people in general and finally to nations as a whole. “Don’t forget that I have not told you to retire from the world. Please stay in it and work in it and also become gentle. You have had one of America’s finest examples of that in your own state. By his own| character Senator Norris has stood for honesty in government, “You need not be senators in order to be effective.

London from German slave labor edicts, tells how this happy develop-

lout of liberty and civilized order,

It will do if you can fit your conception of the infinite

into your work whatever it may be, only be sure you began gradually under the impact an estimated 100,000 fugitives who have a conception of the infinite, so that what you Of German cruelty and horror until! have dropped out of sight since the| do will not only be a job but a way of life as well’ it has now reached the stage of premature May revolt was put down| “I never saw a really integrated person who was frequent joint pastoral letters and by Nazi machine guns, with 76 exe-|

not also gentle. If we can achieve this, each of us, all

that is poignant and sensitive in man can live in ground newspaper, called “Trouw” through German acts of violence. | —faithful, which was started last

peace.” I particularly like the need for a conception of the infinite and for walking by your own light. It has) always seemed to me that too many people were will-

The Indianapolis Times

Trains Men And Women For Service

By RALPH HESLER Times Staff Writer

BLOOMINGTON, July 13.— Twelve hundred belles and all's well on the good ship USS Indiana university docked on the Jordan river at Bloomington. Manpower is “on deck,” too. The army specialized training program, the R. O. T. C. and the navy specialist plan include almost 800 men under intensive training, The USS Indiana, including 1200 WAVES, SPARS and women marine corps reserves, is but one

indication that Indiana university has mustered all its resources since the bugle call to arms. The program is one of the most comprehensive adopted in the United States by any educational institution, As President Herman B. Wells himself remarks, “We have converted our molds, our machinery, just like the huge industrial plants have done. And today we are a source of tools for democracy: we turn out both the fighting men and those who will preserve the peace when we win it, “Since Pearl Harbor, the only thought that the hoard of trustees and the war council here have had is, ‘we are willing and eager to serve our country.” ” on ”

You Know It's War

A TURN around the campus will show that this desire has been attained. Throughout the day, marching men and women, snappily attired and with a bearing which makes vou proud, swing down the streets to classes, At night, sentries are posted, the campus assumes a militant air and you realize there is no monkey business. You know it is war, The best facilities of the university have been afforded the military units. Fraternities and school dormitories have been converted into sleeping and mess quarters. The army and navy get first choice of instructors. There is complete harmony between the military and civilian leaders, It is amusing to those on the campus that the WAVES, SPARS and Women Marine Reservists are quartered in what was the men's dormitory. And the army trainees are housed in the former girl's dorm. The Indiana university war service plan adopted shortly after Pearl Harbor provided ways for accelerating the progress of students to meet the nation's demand for trained men and women in vital civilian positions, n a ”

6 Phases of Service

THE ACADEMIC year was changed to three semesters, awards of scholastic credit were made to students called to service and various war-related courses were inaugurated. The university today phases of military service. In July, 1942, the U. 8S. Naval training school was set up for yeomen, Later it was expanded to include yeomen training for WAVES. Then, still later it was changed to a storekeeper's training school for enlisted personnel of the WAVES, SPARS and women's reserve of the marine corps. The storekeeper school graduates 450 women every month. The first contingent of storekeeping SPARS in the nation was graduated at the university on June 25, These 400 women are now replacing sailors at their duties everywhere in the United States. The most recent military unit on the campus is the army specialized training program. (ASTP) Established only this June, the initial units were assigned to training in basie engineering or advanced foreign area and language work.

has six

Men Without Names—

a oS gt RE MR BI ap

Ed)

SECO

ND SECTION

Indiana University Goes to War in

pose we do—it was clean the last tine I looked inside!

ROR SA SERED

Out of the Union building step representatives of the six branches of military service on the Indiana

Big Way

university campus. Left to right

they represent the WACUs, the army, the WAVES, the navy, the women's marine reserve corps and the marine corps,

Sad. Ee

Since the war the universily has carried on an extensive physical education program. Both coeds and male students are now required to take P. E. for {wo years. Two university cocds are shown here engaging in target practice on the archery range.

beauty—to the war effort.

p. m. with an hour and a half for lunch at noon. From four till six physical education instructors take over, After evening mess the

program composed of about 100 girls are more than ready to be medical and dental students, was in bed by “lights out” at 9:30.

activated July 1. “© 2 =o Capt. W. E. A. Mullan, USN, of ARMY DISCIPLINE is severe, Baltimore, is commanding officer topo. There is no relaxation of of the naval training school. pressure in instruction or estabCapt. Mullan was the executive lished regulations. The weaklings officer aboard the USS Vincennes are dropped, the strong continue. which was sunk in the battle of But the percentage of “flunks” is Savo island. exceedingly low. Commanding officer of all the To note every war activity cararmy divisions is Col. R. E, Shoe- ried on by the university would remaker, a native of Washington, quire a pamphlet. But among the D. C. He has been at the uni-= more important which are a versity four years and thinks that definite aid to the war. effort are: the school's resources placed at The war information center— his command are excellent, which provides films, speakers and Dances given at the Blooming- libraries to study and correct ton U, 8. O. and also campus erroneous war reports: the office dances, called “mixers,” have pro- of military information—which vided the necessary social life. advises students, their parents, the All of the military units are faculty and general public as to tough to complete. For the wom- war service opportunities; coen's services, it's up at 5:30 a. m., operation with the army institute classes from 7:30 a. m. till 4:00 in arranging and making avail=

CHAOS REPORTED IN GERMAN INDUSTRY

THESE MEN will now complete their medical and dental education at the expense of the army. The navy specialized training

TOTALING 475, about.350 are engaged in engineering courses which will range in length from one semester to more than a year, Before the war a group of students from Turkey was studying at Indiana. The Turkish youths today instruct some 125 ASTP trainees in foreign languages and racial history of the Balkans and Central Europe. These men are being trained as occupational commanding officers who will govern conquered territory, R. O. T. C. training has been expanded to include advanced infantry, artillery, medical and quartermaster corps. A novel idea is the W. A. T. C. group. It was inaugurated in September, 1942, to prepare women students to enter any one of the various women's military reserves. There were 160 women students enrolled last fall, They studied map reading, military law, army regulations and history. Medical students numbering 434 who were enrolled under the ASTP were activated on June 25 and 26, 1943, Also included were 96 dental students,

Unites Catholic and Protestant Churches vom om Sn ere

(Seventh of a Series)

By NAT BARROWS

LONDON, July 13. — Holland

Catholic and Protestant churches,! |

united as never before in history, have joined their voices and

Every Dutch fugitive, escaping to

ment has given vigor to the underground resistance movement and added new courage to an overburdened nation. It is a bright and comforting light in the black-

which now enshrouds all Nazi Europe, Co-operation among the churches

mutual support for the under-

January. i Along with this united church] front against German oppression

told today of a chaotic industrial Holand and an increasing rise in passive resistance and important situation in Germany caused by the church attendance. ljobs of sabotage are now left to intensified allied bombings on the] Jointly, the two church groups are experts. | Ruhr valley and other centers of . : German war production, protesting more and more loudly

| : | | i i nder ews- | : . against sterilization and deportation Such leading underground news | The bombings, according to reof Jews, and enforced labor. Their Papers as Het Parool (The Watch-/ ports

received by the Fighting! pastoral letters reach all parts of word), De Oranjekrant (The! French delegation here, have caused |

| : Holland, passed from hand to hand Orange Paper) and Vrij Nederland | Severe dislosaliony A asin despite determined efforts of the| Pree Netherlands) repeatedly cau- my _Sanpower. A a ie gestapo to stamp out clandestine tj, against premature action, apg press and stenciled pamphlets with) (ack of nourishing food and Frenchinen who have escape dl torture und death for those caught|pjsery beyond belief are giving from German concentration camps handling these organs of intelli-|golland a sorry future but the|anq sent in their reports via Gen gence and morale, | Dutch can still find a spot of humor | charles de Gaulle's organization in Holland is being systematically in their sufferings. A current joke,|rondon said that German /industry emasculated through labor deporta- | now making the rounds of Rotter-| nas peen slowed down to a marked | tion into German factories, or into|dam and Amsterdam, goes like this: degree. the Todt organization tor slavery] “What's the shortest joke you

on fortifications inside and beyond hear from Berlin?” Op pT 1 a | the five-mile coastal strip, now| “That's easy: ‘Germany is win- | MORGENTHAU LAUDS i evacuated of all inhabitants. ning the war.” NAVY BOND BUYING

Yet resistance grows daily and cet Netherl PS }, ar idi 3 etherlanders somehow, are hiding CLUB’S OPEN HOUSE TE ASHINOTON, Jue Ja. om

FOR WAR WORKERS fleets were commended today by |

: | Secretary of Treasury Henry Mor-| The American Athletic club, 902-| genthau Jr. as being among the | cutions and at least 1000 deaths 912 N. Meridian st, will hold open “thriftiest of United States war {house for all war workers every | bond buyers.” Every night, the lowlands glow Tuesday night, Jack Ensley, execu-| “In three months they have inwith the fires of another batch of tive director, announced today. cregsed their number of war bond haystacks and farm Dbuildings,| Identification badges from war buyers by more than 500 per cent,” | touched off by Dutch patriots seek- ‘plants will admit workers for danc-| Rear Admiral W. B, Young, pay-|

ing to walk by other people's Yeht and in that way has come an inevitablg surge in| ing reprisal against Quislings. The!ing and swimming from 9 p. m. to | master general of the navy, reported |

the light of the whole world was retarded.

the influence of all churches in

Dutch have learned their lesson of 3 a. m. ’> .to Morgenthau.

| | |

| LCOPR.

From Jowa, WAVE Margie Hildebrand lends her efficiency—and She recently graduated from the naval storekeeper's school on the Indiana university campus where she was taught to take inventory as a part of the storekeeper’s course.

————————— pcs non pl .

able correspondence courses for men in the service, 4 u ” NURSES, dietitians, technicians, stenographers, skilled workers for industrial jobs are other products of the highly-in= tensified curriculum. Chemists and physicists burn the midnight oil working on secret experiments for the government. In January, 1943, general hose pital 32, composed of physicians, dentists, nurses and technicians from the Indianapolis medical center was formed and called to duty. This unit is now stationed at Camp Bowie, Texas, and the university considers this one of its most important contributions, Since that Sunday afternoon when students—and students all over the nation—were jarred by the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor, Indiana university has traversed a difficult and tedious path. Yet | it feels today that it has not swerved once from its basic ideal —1t0 teach Americans to be good sons, good brothers, good fathers, good neighbors, good citizens and good soldiers.

teachers,

TOUGH SAFE STOPS FRIENDLY BANDIT,

BUFFALO, July 13 (U. P).-A disappointed burglar, who unsuce attempted to solve the combinations of safes in two Buffae lo business houses, left a note,

cessfully,

signed “the friendly bandit,” which

read: “Your safe is too good an invene

von. I couldn't get in. I bettep gel myself a better racket.”

HOLD EVERYTHING

2-13

[RVICE, _M. REQ. U. §. PAT, OP.

“I told the draft board I had a kid, but they wouldn't listen!”