Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1943 — Page 9

SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1943

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had much the same surprising welcome

It was wonderful and vet it Even if the Italians did want

all was so illogical. to quit why did the Germans let them? What ned happened? Whitt did the enemy have up its sleeve? As this is written on the morning of the second day we dont vet know. Nobody is under any illusion that the battle of Sicily is over. Strong counter-attacks are mevitable. Already German dive bombings are coming at the scale of two per hour but whatever happens we've got a head start that 1s all in our favor ’ For this invasion I was accredited to the navy. I intended writing mainly about the seaborne aspect of the invasion and had not intended to go eshore at all for several days but the way things went I couldn't resist the chance to see What it was like over there on land so I hopped an ault barge and spent all the first day ashore. When we got our first look at Sicily we were all disappointed. I for one had always romanticized it

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Fred Gregory Appel, president of & Appel and several allied firms, hard-working member of the gasoline panel gentleman farmer, indecamera fan, hunting and enthusiast and self-pro-horseshoe pitching champion of Hamilton county. In fact, hes an all "round sportsman. In his youth, he was thrice the city tennis champion, he golfs in the low eighties. bowls in the insurance league gets a ig Kick out of ice hockey. But none of these compare with his twin “passions” —hunting and fishing. If he could arrange it. he'd hunt and fish all the ume, He has a couple of summer places mm Michigan where he fishes, with out as his favorite. He enjoys deep sea fishing, off » rida He also gets fun out of fishing in the White river, He has a home. “The Patch.” right on the banks of the river, near Noblesville, and he frequently fishes there. Right now, he's living in town, because of gas rationing, but he gets out to “The Patch” as often

as 1e can

Never Shot a Deer HIS FAVORITE quail hunting territory is an 830acre preserve near Treviac, on the banks of Bean Blossom creek in Brown county. The preserve once was Pased by a club of 10 men, but the others dropped oul. one by one, until only he is left. \ Hes never shot a deer; too tenderhearted. Fred Appel. now 57, is ruggedly built, has an athletic appearance. He stands erectly. His hair, which he wears pompadour fashion, is grayish, wiry and “thick as a mattress.” He has a longish face, his eyes are grav, and he's quite tanned He's cheerful. And hes exceedingly calm and col-

In Africa

ALLIED COMMAND POST. North Africa. July 17 By Wireles Out at a airfield I arrived just in time to see a squadron of A-36 light fighterbombers come in from good hunting over Sicily. One after another they landed on the converted goat pasture, converted, this is, to the extent of having a few feild tents put up for quarters. The small, trim, deadiy A-36s skimmed down. bounced over the rough ground. settling to a stop amid clouds of African dust. The pilots climb out wringing wet because it is hot flying just a couple of hundred feet above the surface. They throw off their fat Mae West life jackets, rub the dust off their eyes and the squadron leader. a lieutenant colonel, says: and get over to those Red Cross

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of rationing board 49-1 gardener, fishing claimed

fatigable victory

Mr. Appel

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Let's check in

doughiuts.” The biggest thing in their lives at the moment is

an American Red Cross girl under an olive tree serving coffee and doughnuts. Only after the second cup of coffee and the third doughnut do you begin to hear about what happened over Sicily a few minutes RRO,

Nqwadron Follows Chase

THE MOST popular man in the squadron had had his plane shot up by anti-aircraft fire and had to bale out. The formation, flying at only 300 feet, saw their pa! land in a town and start running up an aller. followed by several ‘Italians, The squadron ¢iclloved the chase. Every time the American fiyer dodged around a corner, his pals. 300 feet up. would let go with their machine guns on the pursuing Italians,

My Day

SEATTLE, Wash, Friday —Friday afternoon IT left with my daughter to go to Port Angeles by boat, she was going to the Olympic shipbuilding yard to christen a coal barge. I christened a small one of the same type on the Maine coast last winter and was interested to see this much B® Jarger variety. The yard, itself, is A interesting because it is a community project. Congressman Henry M. Jackson proposed to the citizens of Port Angeles, including particularly the officials of labor, that they unite in encouraging the construction of this yard. Ninetyfive per cent of the men and women working in the yard have never done this type of work before. This yard is privately financed, privately built and is on a fixed contract, which means the contractor furnishes the shipyard and takes all the risk. It is an interesting comxmunity experiment and shows that when people understand a need they can work together to accomplish results. A few davs ago. in San Francisco, I was struck the reading of an article in a newspaper, with a ading as follows: “Union rules slash war output ; per cent. Engineer declares silent strike injures hen at front, undermines home morale.” I looked it once for the name of the man making %these stategpnents and found that he was writing under a "nom

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Good-sized hills rise a half mile or so back of the beach and on the hillsides grass fires started by the shells of our gunboats burn smokily by day and famingiy by night.

It is cooler than North Africa; in fact it would be delightful were it not far the violent wind that

rises in the afternoon and blows so fiercely you can|

Fingers Fly |

barges about in the shallow water delayed us more

hardly talk in the open. This wind, whipping our

than the Italian soldiers did.

The people of Sicily on that first day seemed |

relieved and friendly. They seemed like people who bad just been liberated rather than conquered. Prisoners came in grinning, calling greetings to their captors. Civilians on the roads and in the towns] smiled and waved. Kids saluted. version of the V sign by holding up both arms.

By Ernie Byte. 1t'e Uniforms

Sa me Old Over Khaki

| By THEO WILSON |

For four decades skilful fingers, have been flying over seams and!

Many gave their pockets with needle and thread; The for nearly half a century nimble!

people told us they didn't want to fight. {hands have been cutting materials, ' §

Our soldiers weren't very responsive to the Sicil-| ians’ greetings. They were too busy getting all pos-| sible equipment ashore, rounding up the real enemies| and establishing a foothold to indulge in the hand-| waving monkey business.

‘We've Still at War | AFTER ALL we are still at war and these people though absurd and pathetic are enemies and caused |

us misery coming all this way to whip them. On the whole the people were a pretty third-rate] looking lot. They were poorly dressed and looked like they always had been. Most of them hadn't much expression at all and they kept getting in the way of trafic just like the Arabs. Most of our invading soldiers, at the end of the first day in Sicily. swunmed vp their impressions of their newiy-acquired soil and its meabitanis by saving “Hell, this is just as bad as Africa”

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lected as a rule. Preoccupied much of the time, he often passes up friends without seeing them.

Reads a Book, Then Digs

BORN HERE, he attended Shortridge, then Prince-

ton. After graduation, he returned here and entered |

his father’s firm, Gregory & Appel, later taking over | its management. | Mr. Appel gained nationwide attention once as the man who lost a million dollars worth of se-. curities. The incident occurred back before the depression. He was taking the securities to a New York bank. While he was in Grand Central station, some- | one picked up his grip and disappeared. Later it was returmed intact. He has been interested iit farming the last five or six vears, has more than 300 acres in Hamilton county. | Here in town he works in his victory garden. He] reads a book to learn what to do, then goes out! and does it. i He spends his mornings working for the rationing board, then picks up the loose ends of his own business in the afternoon. For the last year and a} half, he's been interested in the service men's center, | serving coffee at the paniry sheif most every Sun- | day night. | 1 Enjoys Card Games ONE OF HIS favorite hobbies is photography. He has several nice cameras and a well-equipped dark | room in which he enjoys working. He particularly | likes taking color shots with his Leica. When he’s out of town and has time on his hands, he enjoys movies. i He doesn't use tobacco in any form. | He fancies himself as a pretty good ¢ook, likes to put on an apron and cook his own quail, or maybe | a steak. | He enjoys cards and other games and usually is} pretty lucky. He lunches regularly at the University club and usually tops off lunch with a game of

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By Raymond Clapper

These fliers have been going out once or twice a! day during the height of the Sicilian campaign, prac-; tically seeing the whites of the enemy's eves in low ! strafing attacks on military trucks. railroad yards, radio stations and other targets. i One is apt to think of these boys in purple terms— | glittering knights of the skies—but the hard fact is they live with their heads in the skies but their feet six inches deep in dust. | All Sicily may be open to them in the air but on] the ground they lead isolated, dusty lives like desert) rats, too far from town to get in for a bath and recreation.

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THESE ARE the boys who are doing men’s work. who have saved thousands of lives of American ground troops, who are taking long chances to make | the war shorter for everyone else and their own] days fewer. They are the most spectacular figures | of war yet they have no gallery for which to strut! and only an hour or so at a time do they rise out of | their dust-bound life to play their parts in this revoutionary warfare. These are the real revolutionaries, these men and men like Arnold, Spaatz, Eaker and Harris. They would be horrified to think they are revolutionaries but they are showing how relatively few men with relatively few casualties can hop over defenses, changing the whole balance of forces in war. The real revolutionaries are these generals of the air and their fliers munching on Red Cross doughnuts! on a dusty African airfield. They are the vioneers who can make it possible to outlaw war and drive | it out of existence.

The Real Revolutionaries |

By Eleanor Roosevelt

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Sometimes, I wonder whether we have a right to indict a whole group of people without using our own names so that they may answer directly. Yesterday I saw another statement, this time by Mr. Donald Nelson. He was saying that production had fallen off and gave as the possible reason that we im this country were becoming too confident of victory. We thought it was “just around the corner” and so we slackened our efforts on the home front. I'm wondering if the first article and many similar ones, in addition to other actions that haves been taken in the past few months, may not have more to do with this slump in production, than over-confi-dence in victory. I would like to ask the mothers of the country if they ever remember a day when their youngsters told them “that the food wasn’t good, they didn't like what their mother was doing, that other youngsters’ mothers did things better than they did.” Wasn't the reaction a desire to go upstairs and sit in a comfortable chair and say, “Children. arrange your home, get your own supper, do your own disciplining. I am going to take a rest.”

pressing seams, basting collars, fit-| ting suits. These same fingers and hands | worked on the pants and coats of the gay 90's and the early 1900's . . « they made the khaki uniforms; for the Yanks in world war I . .. they produced the bell-bottomed trousers of the jazz-age , . . they cut peacetime uniforms of mailmen, ‘ Today, once more, they're making military uniforms, this time for the fighters of world war IT. | And unless the draft starts calling men in their 50's and 60's and 70's, the fingers will stay at their ware time job of making uniformsat the 3 Kahn Tailoring Co. for the dura-, § tion. |

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Company Is 5%

The company, in its big factory, on Capitol ave. at St. Clair st, is; 57 years old. The average age of! its 725 employees isn’t much lower, than that, and the top ages run! into the 80's. Youre a “baby” if you've worked | at Kahn's for a mere quarter of a} century. You can walk through the floors, through department after department, and ask any one of

the workers how long he's been | rn there. {

jerons tl ig| “Me? 38 years. 1 carried Wood] The Calderons are another big]

for the stoves at the old plant at, ‘amily at Kahn's. Joe is a trim- |

South and Meridian sts.” imer; his father, Louis, is a presser;

That was William Grottrup, now his father-in-law, Sam M. Calderon, | a trimmer, speaking. The place js a presser: his uncle, Sam Joseph, where he orks on Meridian WAS a collar-maker: his cousin, Rosie, a an expansion of the original factory, basting puller; hi ele. Jack. an Vip "i ; ¢ '; his u , Jack, an| which Hen y Kahn founded at 14 armhole presser i E. Washington st. in 1886. From ol there it enlarged to 16 E. Washing | John Mutschler, a foreman who's} v i. 29 on “ard > 3 ef | ton st. next went to the Lombard 2d 32 years of service, was the first|

‘ : {in his family to start working at] ildi , 22-24 E. Washington, ! S . . ! by DE es ae d to the tor {Kahn s, and then came his brothers|

. Prpir ..: land sisters, Rosie, Bertha, Gertie, | corner of Washington and Meritian, wy, Ruth, Adolph. He met his| ’ wife, Lula, at the plant, and his Sheps Expand {three brothers-in-law were fellow

It was in 1800 the shops expanded employees. : to the Meridian and South sts.| Going through the plant with

corner. | Mr. Furscott, who's been there 27

The present plant, measuring 200 Years himself, and the vice presiby 200 feet, has 100,000 square feet| dent, John Millar Smith, a “baby” of working space.

Rodgers was so young she needed later, she's a pocket maker,

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jof 24 years service, you can see how Mortimer C. Furscott, president,|the long years of work together still has the original salesbook,| lave built up an easy familiarity dated 1886, used at the first fac-|{nOt only between the employees tory. ja with their employers, too. Frank Marsella, another em-| Mr. Smith and Mr. Furscott can ployee, remembers the first day he! tell you the family connections of came to work at Kahn's. | practically everyone there. They “It was the day McKinley was know everybody's first names, too, shot, 42 years ago,” he says. {and a visit through the plant with pocket makers, was 14 years old) than an inspection. when he started at Kahn's, That] They pointed out Miss Ethel was 27 years ago. | Rodgers, who has been there 38 “I was still in short pants,” he re-| Years and now is a pocket-maker, members. “My job was to pullj one of the highest skilled jobs; Herbastings and I earned the money | bert Niebergall, 33 years an emfor my first suit with long pants. | Ployee, who followed two uncles I got it at Christmas, and I'll never, and now is head of the cutting deforget that suit. It was black.” | partment; Herman Cavanaugh, who The men and women have worked iS head examiner after 37 years; | so long at their jobs together that Mrs. Anna Bunge, whose, son, a they're like a huge family growing doctor, is Capt. Clarence E. Bunge | old together. And to make them|of San Antonio, Tex. in army closer still, many of them actually medical flight training: George do belong to the same family. | Schmalz, who came to the plant Like the Nahmias family, “all in 1901; Miss Mary and Miss Marmembers of the same lodge,” says garet, two white-haired friends Sam Nahmias. They're scattered who describe themselves as “spin. through the plant, Sylvia, Solomon, |sters” and who do hand-sewing. Jake and others. Hymie Nahmias| They pointed out, too, an oldwas the first Spanish Jew killed in| fashioned gas-iron useq for pressworld war II, Sam says. He died at|ing. New Guinea. “The presser started using this

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When she started working at the Kahn Tailoring Co., Miss Ethel

a work certificate. Now, 38 years

Chief Examiner Herman Cavanaugh

ing Co. here, looks over an army

Smith, vice president, aid and abet.

kind of an iron, years ago and he can't learn how to work the new ones. So we let him use what he wants to,” Mr. Smith explained. Mr. Furscott and Mrs. Smith said there are five mutes who work in the factory, and they could use more, “In fact, we could use legless workers if they needed a job,” they explained, “since most of our work is hand work. The instructions are written, so the employees who are mutes have no trouble.” One of their oldest employees, Murdoch McRae, a mute tailor, just retired this year. He is 79 and came to work in Feb. 1902. In the last war the company lost many draft-age employees to the

gain for the Tailors at Kahn's

William Grottrup, trimmer at the company, carried wood when he started working for Kahn's back in 1906. He made uniforms for world war I soldiers, too.

(right), an employee with 37 years service at the Kahn Tallorofficer's coat as Mortimer C. Furscott (left), president, and John Miller

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war, but they returned and now are! show, for servicemen, and the still at work. This tine the loss | plant has the enviable record of = gel. Staller, due to the ages| eine one of the first in the city In peacetime, 80 per cent of | t0 80 100 per cent on the sale of the campany’s production is civil-| war bonds, and also went 100 per ian suits, with 20 per cent uniforms. | cent on the United War fund, with Nows it's exactly opposite. Only| employees pledging one hour per officers uniforms are made. The | month as their contribution. company, besides distributing, The workers are members of the through about 2450 retails stores, Amalgamated Clothing Workers owns and operates stores in Cleve- | Union of America. ‘land, Detroit, Louisville, Columbus| The company officials, besides and Washington, D. C., and retails | Mr. Furscott and Mr. Smith, all at the factory also. | connected with the company for The employees have their own | more than 20 years, are: Jacob B. cafeteria where they can get a meal | Solomon, treasurer; Leonard A. with all the trimmings for about | Strauss, secretary; H. A. Rosener, 38 cents, The women, each month, | sales manager; Tom G. Smith, face have a dinner and dance, or floor | tory manager.

Still Need 121,704 Cigarets To Make a Million for July

Today is the last day of The Times Overseas Cigaret Fund drive for July—and to reach the goal of a million cigarets, 121704 still are needed, That means that today there must be contributed to the fund $304.25. The cigarets, through arrangements with major cigaret firms, are provided at a nickel a'or firm contributing $30 is atpackage. | tached to each cigaret container to Thank you notes which still come | in from men overseas who have received -cigarets show how much they are appreciated ard (he boys will be disappointed if the supply brought or sent to The Times Overdoesn't keep on coming. |seas Cigaret Fund, 214 W. Mary-| One card of thanks which came land st. TODAY! 4

The Times Overseas Cigaret Fund

DONORS Previously acknowledged Haag Drug Co. ............. Richardson Co. Employees. . ‘x Employees of Indianapolis Screw Employees of Ford Fence Co....... Beteiiiiiiy .

today from Sgt. Roger E. Deitz, home address not given, was in French, “Merci beau coup pour les cigarets,” or “Thanks very much for the cigarets.” The sergeant sent a second card in Spanish: “Muchas gracias, | amigos,” or “Many thanks, friends.” The name of any person, group

tell the boys who their benefactors |

are. |

Contributions of any amount! will! be appreciated and should be!

CIGARETS 786,096 50,800 25,200 14,000 2,200

Pere EAR RARER RRA ay

Total to date ... 878,296

ShEsaaistrI ERR IL, $2195.74

|any Japanese from the relocation

PARKER DAM NOT camp at Poston, Ariz, or any other ‘Japanese with the incident, Ickes ’ ! said. | Th

e reports of danger to the dam WASHINGTON, July 17 (U. P.).| were attributed to R. S. Stringstel—Secretary of Interior Harold L.| low, a special agent of the metroIckes said today a thorough investi- | politan water district of Southern gation failed to disclose any dan-|gajifornia. The investigation showed ger of Parker dam in Arizona being thay Stringstellow had no personal blown up. {knowledge of the alleged incident Witnesses were reported to have about which he testified, Ickes said.

Human nature is much the same, whether you are a mother at home or whether you are one of the great army of organized or unorganized labor in the United States. but a knowledge of human nature is its basis. If there are bad union rules, go to the leaders; and work with them to have them corrected, but don’t tell the workers as a whole that they are on a “silent” strike which injures their men at the front. It won't get you more less.

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Psychology may be a science, | In a letter to Rep. Martin Dies, serts that the statements sttributed |

production, it will only get | bY Japanese

said at a recent Dies subcommittee! In making public the results of hearing in Arizona that the dam the department's investigation, Ickes was in imminent danger. | told Dies that Stringstellow row as-

chairman of the house committee to him “are not complete state- | on un-American activities, Ickes ments and those statements, as well said his department had inquired as the inferences and implications into the authenticity of reports that of those statements, ead to a false dynamite and caps had been stolen and garbled picture of the testito blow up the dam. mony I gave before the subcommitwas no evidence to connect tee.” 2

GOVERNOR RENAMES 10 STATE TRUSTEES

Ten trustees of state institutions, two of them from Indianapolis, were re-appointed by Governor Schricker for a four-year term. The new trustees are Mrs. John W. Kern of Indianapolis, Indiana Girls’ school; Dr. Ralph S. Chappell of Indianapolis, Indiana State School for the Deaf; Curtis G. Hostetter of Rockville, Indiana State sanatorium, Rockville; William D Hardy of Evansville, Evansville State hospital; Miss Margaret M. Neeley of Martinsville, Indiana Women’s prison, Indianapolis; Jo-

|seph W. Verbarg of North Vernon,

Madison State hospital. Earl Leas of Waterloo, Ft. Wayne state school;

Fred Whitehouse of Columbus, Mus- |

catuck state school, Butlerville; Dr, A. P. Hauss Jr. of New Albany, Southern Indiana Tuberculosis hospital, New Albany, and Mrs. Mabel Young of Muncie, Richmond state hospital.

HOLD EVERYTHING

Men Without Names— Belgians, Even If It Means Death, Welcome Our Bombs

(Eleventh of a Series) | performance. They wait, as they | waited before—and they plan for

By NAT A. BARROWS | the day they know will come.

Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times | and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. If the Germans need any addie

LONDON, July 17.—The Germans tional indication of the unquenche in Belgium are infuriated over the | 20l€ spirit of Belgium, they get it reaction of the Belgians to Anglo. | Vien they try to impress the popu{lation by parading captured Ameri American bombing attacks. Next can combat crews through the to unfailing delivery of the clan- streets. Before these displays, they destine newspaper La Libre Bel- have built up a propaganda came gique to the desk of the German paign attempting to discredit occupation troops commander each American bombing results. fortnight, few expressions of re-| Every attempt has backfired. The sistance make Belgians have greeted the Amerthem spout anc {icans with such adoration and enfume more vio- |thusiasm that the Germans probe lently. ably will not try such tactics again. If bombs hit “I saw them marching along, their target, {i was an American or British raid of course, but ii {bombs go astray and civilians are killed, the Bel-| gians then pub- it licly spread the Nat. Barrows

was wonderful to see the way they held up their heads and grinned at |us,” related Monsieur X, one of the | Belgians in London who knows more than a few things about une (derground resistance. “Our people welcome Anglo American attacks against German-

those Americans of yours, and it .

story that it was a German raid. They build up their fiction from one end of the target city to the other until the Germans furiously exhibit fragments of allied bombs and say, “see the marks?” And the Belgians laugh and scoff, replying: “You can't fool us . . . we know it was German bombs that did it . . . the Yanks always hit their target.” Such is the spirit of Belgium today as its depresed and starving millions watch allied operations in Sicily and pray that their turn will come before they reach the limits of their endurance. In bondage which makes the sufferings of the last war seem almost elementary by comparison. they cling through their underground movement to unending but cun-

ningly directed resistance and fosabotage

occupied factories in Belgium and we learned years ago—when our adolescent minds were warped for ever by what the Germans did to us and our parents—we learned then that you cannot attack the enemy without expecting some losses on your own side. “So we welcome your bombing and spread the story that it was Germany when some bombs chance to go astray, as they sometimes will.”

PLANE KILLS 'CHUTING PILOT

AUGUSTA, Ga, July 17 (U, P.).— James H, Freer, Decatur, Ill, was killed Wednesday when the training plane he had bailed out of, spiraled down, hit his parachute and dragged him to death, army officials re vealed today. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Kelly Freer of

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