Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1943 — Page 9

MONDAY, JULY 19, 1943

The Indianapolis Times

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Je ocean liners and we had none of these in our ‘ special fleet. Actually every ship in our fleet, except the gun boats, were capable of landing right on the beach. They were flat bottomed and could beach themselves anywhere, When daylight came this immense fleet lav like a blanket out over the water extending as far out in the Mediterranean as you could see. There wasn’t room to handie them all on the beach at once so they'd come in at sighals from the cominand ship, unload, and steam back out to wait until enough were unloaded from the convoy to go back for a second load. Little craft, carrving about 200 soldiers, could unload in a few minutes, but the bigger ones with tanks and trucks and heavy guns took much longer. It was not an especially good beach for our purposes for it sloped off too gradually, making the boats ground 50 yards or more from shore,

Yiey Waded Into Shore

MOST OF the men had to jump into waist deep water and wade in. The water was cold but a high wind dried off your clothes in less than half an hour. Your shoes kept squishing inside for the rest of the day. As far as I know not a man was lost ¥ drowning in the whole operation. ! The beach itself was immediately organized into a great metropolitan-like docks extending for miles.

Hundreds of soldiers wearing black and yellow arm bands with the letters “S. P.” police directed traffic off the in-coming boats, Big white silken banners about five feet square tied to two poles and with colored symbols on them gave the ships at sea the spot where they should jand. On the shore painted wooden markers were immediately set up directing various units to designated rendezvous areas. There were almost no traffic jams or road blocking. Engineers had hit the beach right behind the assault troops. They laid down hundreds of vards of burlap and laid chicken wire on top of it making a firm roadbed up and down the beach. Our whole vast organization on shore took form so quickly it just left you aghast. By midafternoon the countryside extending far inland was packed with vehicles and troops of every description. There were enough tanks sitting on the hillside to fight a big battle. Jeeps were dashing everywhere.

Field Kitchens Were Set Up

PHONE WIRES were laid on the ground and command posts set up in orchards and old buildings. Medical units worked under trees or in abandoned stone sheds. The fields were stacked with thousands of boxes of ammunition. Field kitchens were being set up to replace the K rations the soldiers had carried on with throughout that first day. The Americans worked grimly and with great speed. I saw a few cases of officers being rather excited, but mostly it was a calm, determined, efficient horde of men who descended on this strange jand. The amazed Sicilians just stood and stared in wonder at the swift precision of it all.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

MAYOR TYNDALL, we hear, is a bit annoyed at a story Charley Jewett and Roy Hickman are telling about him. Charley and Roy were talking to a feminine friend on the street when the mavor approached. The woman, the boys swear, saw him and cooed: "Ooh, there's the general. I think he's so cute.” One of our agents reports that a certain North side air raid warden blew his whistle Wednesday night in front of a home where a light was burning and was greeted by a kid who yelled: “Oh, dainty man; bring me some ice cream.” . Mrs. John Bookwalter is recovering from an appendectomy at St. Vincent's. Lt. william L. Hanning (the dentist) has returned to duty with the General Hospital 32 at Brownwood, Tex., after a visit here. He says golfing down there is not without its hazards. While poking through the rough looking for his ball, he stirred up a large tarantula. He quit searching.

Wat Do Moles

OUR READERS rallied nobly to our request Thursday for information on how Warfleigh gardeners can kill the moles that have been annoying them. It seems there's no limit to the ways of killing the little pests, or making their lives so miserable that they take off for parts unknown. Charles A. Layvmon, 6026 Indiafola, says it's simple: “Just use cyvanogas—it's cheap and effective.” Mrs. Stanley Smith, 35 S. Chester, reca visiting a fishing worn farm near Manitou thev'd had mole trouble. The trouble there was solved, de farmer told her, by poking holes about ey three feet in the mole’s runways, then dropping a. moistened mothball in each hole and covering it. The moles are allergic to mothballs and go far away. At man who didn't leave his name phoned in and to pour a tablespoon of common lye into the mole hills. Mrs. John 8S. Kittle has a pet remedy, too She tried everything, finally found the most effective remedy to be a preparation known as T. A. T. It's peanuts treated with something that makes the

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asion of Sicily it might be supposed that the

around. a great moment in history

because the allies at last are carrying the war to Europe. Furthermore, this is a gigantic operation with 3000 ships involved and it might be expected that the commanding general would be jumping all over the place issuing orders right and left. But Gen. Eisenhower returned from the beaches of Sicily looking as if he had just come from a ball game which broke right for the home team, He was more like a big industrial executive who, on the day when the plant is breaking production records. will sho wvisitors around the mill as if he had nothing else to do fact is. Eisenhower's main work was done weeks and month ago. When the time came for the move to Sicily everything that he could do about the avasion had already been done and the rest was in 4 ¢ hands of others.

I'wvo weeks before the attack I saw him one afternoon and he talked for nearly two hours, with his time seemingly completely clear, as probably it was because at that late date all plans were made.

Chief Welcomes

4 THE HARBOR with transports and with troops assembling for loadIf Fisenhower, before. had overlooked something it was too late now. He was like the coach

My Day

SEATTLE, Wash, Sunday, Julv 18.—Yesterday morning mv daughter took me to a meeting of the Pacific Northwest Trade association in the chamber of commerce auditorium. This meeting was held in the interest of further developing the military communication and trade routes between this part of our country and Alaska. The obvious first step is another road, the present one having been built for military reasons to tie up the existing airports. This proposed new road would be a more direct way from the west coast states through British Columbia to Alaska. The meeting was attended by representatives from British Columbia, who are naturally deeply interested in the development of better transportation in this part I the country. The plan was discussed first from the military point of view and it seemed to me to have obvious interest for the army. But I think it also has distinct interest in the post-war period from & fommercial point of view, In all probability, many of the people taking part in this discussion yesterday have not been enthusiastically backing the national resources planning board, and vet T noticed that the information contained in the boards latest report on the future possibilities of development ¢ fous lines in Alaska, was

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moles disappear like magic. She said it costs 35 cents and is obtainable at the Kenney Machinery Co., Senate and Maryland. And then there's Bob Kyle, whe's talking currently about starting a skunk ranch up at Culver. Bob says to attach a hose to the exhaust pipe of your car and exhaust them with carbon monoxide. That gives you an ldea.

Coreful, Home Canners

IF ANY OF YOU victory gardeners have read a | home-canning booklet issued by a certain large elec- |

trical company, be careful about following too literally the instructions in the booklet about oven canning. The instructions, we're told, say that the “filled and sealed jar” should be placed in the pre-heated oven. At least one local home canner sealed the jar too tightly, and the jar blew up, ruining the oven but fortunately injuring no one. The lid must be left loose enough to let the steam out. . The I. A, C. has started a campaign to buy a war plane for Uncle Sam. Theyre trying to sell $100,000 in war bonds between now and Aug. 15. Bowman Elder is chairman of the committee. Other members are Roy Adams, C. Harvey Bradley, Ralph Reahard and Joseph W. Stickney.

They Still Look Nice

OUR AGENTS report (we don’t notice such things ourself) that more and more girls are being seen on

the street barelegged and minus leg makeup. Too much trouble and takes too much time to apply properly, we're told. A soldier relays an allegedly true incident out at Ft. Harrison: A brand new inductee at the fort was passed by a second lieutenant, and saluted. A captain followed, a hundred feet behind the second looev, but the inductee failed to salute, The captain stopped the raw recruit and asked why he didn't salute. “I don't see any gold bars on you,” the inductee said. The captain explained that silver bars indicated a higher rank than gold and the soldier saluted. A reader phones to complain about the ‘poison ivy and high weeds” at 56th and College. He was outraged because the board of health hadn't done anything about it.

By Raymond Clapper

who had done all he could for the team and had to sit, waiting to see what happened. Eisenhower went over to the beaches, not to direct operations, but to welcome the Canadians who were in action under him for the first time, also to call on various American generals conducting operations, to get a look at the end product of his months of hard work on infinite details and, finally, to give his aide, Naval Cmdr, Harry Butcher, an opportunity take two rolls of snapshots for their scrap books.

At this stage, Gen. Eisenhwer was watching chiefly | for deficiencies in planning which can be corrected |

for future actions, noting messages that come in reporting the capture of new places. hearing reports of subordinates, attending to complaints. He hates the standard communique phrase “according to plan,” but vet that's about the way it has been going thus far.

Neat in Shirtsleeives

SO INSTEAD of seeing a dust-covered. motorized version of Gen. Grant at Shiloh, you see Eisenhower in neat shirtsleeves, with just one dudish touch—he wears a regulation army necktie whereas everyone else in this area keeps their shirt collars open, even generals at dinner. Air force men, up to and including Gen. Tooey Spaatz, keep their sleeves rolled up, which you won't find authorized in the regulations. Except for that necktie touch, Eisenhower is informal, very much Kansas folks, although he's had occasion before this to make it clear who's boss. Eisenhower doesn’t seem to be a person who runs war by intuition. From what an outsider can observe

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it seems as if the allied invasion wag the result of

than fiction story war, Yet as it comes out there has been nothing more spectacular in history than this gigantic armada landing a mechanized army on the ancient shores of Sicily.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

tial to prove the value of the road which this group wished to have built. Quite obviously, this proposed road to Alaska can be urged now on purely military grounds. Just as the first one was built to increase the protection of this coast, the second road can be built for that reason, and that alone. But I think the gentlemen I saw yesterday are thinking beyond the war period. They know that the development of Alaska is valuable to the whole west coast. In addition, they know that it is possible in the future that this will be one of the quickest routes to reach parts of Russia and China. . Anyone with imagination today, who has watched the Russian experiment and realizes what they have done in industrial development in the past few years for purposes of war, must also realize that they will do much in the years to come for purposes of peace. Siberia has been an undeveloped land, ‘but much more is being done there today than ever before. Much will undoubtedly be done for the industrial and agricultural development of China after the war. Millions of people in China have had very few

years ment channels.

Rootin’, Tootin’, Money Jingling Crowd Sold on Bush-Schlensker & Co.

HELEN RUEGAMER

wartime wealthy citizens are

jingling and billfolds bulging, and for the first time in the flow of gold is pouring into the city’s

own amuse-

Out at Victory field, the Indianapolis baseball club is in its heyday as gas-festricted citizens turn out to see the

Indians win or lose. It's dians play at home. The field's parking lots are jammed. Automobiles line the side streets. “Baseball” busses leaving the

Circle bulge with fans from babes

in arms to doddering oldsters, soldiers and sailors who formerly

out to the ball game for everybody w vhen the In-

pulled for the Brooklyn Dodgers or the Chicage Cubs, and giggling teen-age girls who never saw a ball game before. Paving customers form in long queues outside the ticket windows, as the thriving war workers reck-

lessly demand the best seats available.

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Box Seats Popular

GRANDSTAND and box seats go first, and only the habitually thrifty take to the not-so-com-

fortable bleachers. Pop frequently treats the wife and all the kids to box seats at $1.25 a throw, where in previous years they'd watch from the top row of the bleachers, if at all. Hot dogs and pop. peanuts and popcorn vanish at an astonishing rate, and the fans go home stuffed but happy. Thus the owners of the Indianapolis ball club struck gold when they took over last year. Their attendance is likely to double that of previous years, and many of the monev-spenders will turn into rabid Indian fans. During its 41 years, American association team has had its ups and downs, winning four league pennants and placing anywhere from the cellar to second place in other years. Fickle baseball fans would turn out when

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the local

TRUMAN WAS GOING /talian Opera Singer

T0 INVESTIGATE FEUD

WASHINGTON, July 19 (U. P.).—| slide rule planning. more like a big engineering job There were indications today that! the senate Truman committee was)

getting ready to investigate at least

both the

Wallace-Jones bout before fighters were disqualified by presidential referee. ‘An official spokesman for the committee said it “was not planning an investigation<immediately,” with heavy oral ‘underscoring beneath “immediately.” He said that the committee had discussed, and was still discussing, plans to study the charges. An investigation by the committee would deal specifically with charges that the reconstruction finance corporation, under Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones, and the now-defunct. board of economic warfare ‘which was headed by Vice President Henry. A. Wallace, rad Jn he purchase of

Be agencies.” the committee spo an said. “They spend a lot of money, and we want to know where it is going.”

K. OF C. TO HOLD PICNIC The Knights of Columbus will

of what we consider the comforts of life. Once given

an opportunity to increase their own earning power, |hold their annual picnic next Sun-

we shall have an opportunity to find out whether the things we have found desirable can be made desirable to them. The plans will have to go to Washington and the representatives of the country as a whole will have to see the vision which the people of this coast see so

IN Meridian sts.

|day at the Gregg farms, 106th and Charles A. Clark land Claude Shover aré co-chair-

men of the program. Members are

‘avited to br'ng their families. Com-

‘relled out

Warbles as He Trucks

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a trip over his tonsils. The overhead cranes and rivetting|

obligato. The lyrics, “Man is saturated with the clash of steel upon steel. “Hey, Caruso! worker.

y elled a fellow

ARMY SAYS FLIERS THROWN FROM HATCH

MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 19 (U. P| —Clearing up the mystery of the two army men who fell to their! deaths from a Flying Fortress Mon- | day near Covington, Tenn. officials] at Dyersburg army air base, Halls, Tenn, said that the two were] thrown from an open top hatch on the plane when it went into a sudden dive. Witnesses on the ground had said that the pair fell from the bomb bay. Sgts. Arthur Del Principe, gunner, Waterbury, Conn, and Kenneth J. Ishmael, 23 radio operator, of Laredo, Mo., were killed. Neither was wearing a parachute. Officers said the hatch of a ship is usually kept open during prac-

will meet at the club house today. :

tice bombing sessions to simulate

18 (U. P.).—De-| metrio Bellan clutched the handle of his three-ton Hoisting truck, bar- | Italian chest and polishes off aria after some of the charges in the recent|treated the prolog to “Pagliacci” to piloting his truck up and down the | |assembly lines. |with the Chicago Opera company |‘ machines of the Amertorp Corp. and on concert tours, some times cast last night over a national nettorpedo plant roared an industrial making as much as $500 a week. work (N. B. C.), which included anmade | His manager, he sorrowed, took 60 nouncement that the funds would of meat and bone, not steel,” were

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“Good: Good!” he grinned. “Abslutely!” A former opera singer, aria while

He spent one year

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per cent of his earnings. Sam treats him much better.

he males yey a week.

es NALIS INVITE NEWS OF U, S. 'HIGH-JINKS'

NEW YORK, July 19 (U, P).— German propaganda

want news of “the high-jinks of

| high society” in the United States land have been particularly inter|athed in any reports of dominance

|of women over men in this country,

| the FBI announced today.

Disclosure of the arrest of 10 German aliens was contained in an announcement which said that one of those seized, & woman, had been employed by the Sherl company, one of Berlin's largest publishing houses, and also had been paid by the Nazi government. Her job, the announcement said, was to relay to Germany stories of “high society” antics, of “American wothen who marry barons,” “mils Honairesses marrying boxers,” and news of “dominance of Ar

authorities |

. | » By Ernie Pyle Fans Jam Ball Park to See War-Time

Indians

1. Al Schlensker, the Tribe secretary, Al does everything but don a uniform He hits the ball hard in his job. 2. The fans who drive these cars are in the stands, rootin’, It's a typical scene in the parking lot when

gun—the bats in this case. and play.

for the old home team. the Indians are at home,

=5F is the man behind the

tootin’

3. You've seen him at longer range, but here's a closeup of Rooter

No. 1. the Tribe. Name? All through the gate without ticket institution. 4. be at any.

5. What's a ball game without a hot dog and “pop”?

al that well-filled coffee pot.

the Hoosiers were winning. but the park would be almost empty

when the team lost. ” ”

Still They Go

THIS YEAR the Indians are winning at home, losing a few on the road, and the fans still go. With the season half completed, paid admissions totaled 137,075, while some 20,000 women have attended on ladies’ nights and 14,000 passes have been issued to service men, Last year at the half-way mark paid attendance was only 107,325, and the year before the entire season drew only 88263 paying customers. Compared with the home drawing power of the other league teams, Indianapolis is second only to Milwaukee where the home attendance is 2 per cent more than that of our Indians. Although much of this success can be attributed to the winning ways of the Indians and the surplus of the filthy lucre, some credit goes to the two men running the show. ”

Favorite Sons

THEY ARE TWO of Indianapolis' favorite sons — O we n (Ownie) J. Bush, president and field manager of the club, and Al Schlensker, secretary, The club's vice president is Lt. Col. Frank McKinney, former local banker

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A F. L STARTS NEW

WAR BOND CAMPAIGN

WASHINGTON, July 19 (U. P.) — Members of the American Federa-

[tion of Labor were called upon toDemetrio |

day to buy $500,000,000 worth of war bonds by Labor day. The drive was launched by A. F.

{of L. President William Green in a

‘labor for victory” program broad-

be earmarked for purchase of varilous pieces to war equipment to be

linseribed with the names of spon-

|soring unions. Green pointed out that $600,000 jfeceniy raised in New York City | go for purchase of two flying oe > to be named the “Spirit of the A. F. of L.” and the other to be named after the Central Trades and Labor council of New

| ‘The drive is in addition to regus

lar purchases through payroll al lotment plans in which most A. F. of L. members are enrolled.

‘REPORT CHURCHILL IN OPTIMISTIC MOOD

LONDON, July 19 (U, P.) —Prime Minister Winston Churchill was re= ported today to have given “a most encouraging picture of recent war development” to conservative members of parliament last week, telling them: “The war is going well. I'm almost afraid to sey how well.” The Sunday Dispatch quoted J. H. Wootton Davies, Ee

An exciting moment on the base paths. What game?

He's always back of first base, heckling the enemy, encouraging anvone knows is

Goes field

“Boom ze-Boom.” or “paper.” He's a Victory Could

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and now with the army in New York, while John Ohleyer of Ine dianapolis is treasurer. Short, stocky, 55-year-old Man ager Bush is a career ball player and manager. He started out on the East side sandlots, played his first professional game at short= stop for a Dayton, O., team in 1905. For the next 18 years he played with South Bend, the In dians, the Detroit Tigers and the Washington Senators. In 1924, too old to continue playing, he came home to mane age the Indians. Then between 1927 and 1938 he managed the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox, Minneapolis Millers and Cin= cimnati Reds. In 1939 he said he was either going to have his own ball club or quit the game, With Mr. McKin« ney he bought the Louisville Colonels and sold them when they took over the Indians last year, “Ownie” Bush is a lenient mans= ager, but no player ever gets the best. of him. He's regarded as one of the boys and he pounds into his players a hustling spirit. He takes his baseball seriously, ade mits he's a hard loser. ” n

‘Holy Toledo’

SECRETARY SCHLENSKER, slender, blue-eyed and efficient, has been taking worries off other people's shoulders for some time, He was secretary to former Police Chief Michael Morrissey from 1932 to 1939, and joined the Bush= McKinney partnership when they bought the Louisville club. He takes care of the myriad details connected with running a ball team and a ball park. He's easy-going but gets things done, exclaiming “Holy Toledo” mean= while. This year the team is come posed of fathers, ranging in age from 40 to 24. If the fathers are drafted, baseball's future looks dark and Victory field may become a ghost park. But until that day, Indianapolis workers

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are finding it a good place te spend time and money and still get their money's worth.

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