Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1943 — Page 11

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TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1943

The Indianapolis Times

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The buildings are of local stone, dull gray and very old but very substantial. The city is so colorless it blends into the surrounding dry countryside and you can't see it a few miles away. A hill rises up right behind the city and there is a sort of fort on the top. When daylight came we looked at the city from the boat deck and could see the American flag flying from the top of this fort although the city itself had not yet surrendered. Some rangers had climbed up there before daylight and hoisted our flag. The city hadn't been bombed The only damage came from a few shells we threw into it from the ships just after daylight. The corners were knocked off a few buildings and some good-sized holes gouged in the streets but the city got off pretty nicely.

People Were Bomb i

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Jittery

APPARENTLY most of the people got out the night before although we did see two or three hundred on the streets during the day. All the stores had their Latin type shutters pulled down tightly. Although we hadn't bombed right around here the people were certainly bomb- jittery. During an air raid by the Germans I saw two soldiers herding about 190 civilians down the road to a prison camp and when the shooting started at the German planes overhead the people all took to an

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PVT. BILL, LOCHMAN and Pvt, Ed Hutchinson of the Ft. Harrison finance school had a dinner date Saturday evening at the Ken Mosiman home, 541 S. Central ct., with Marijane Mosiman and Margie Curle fs hostesses. En route into town. their taxicab had a tire blowout and the boys feared the;'d be late. But along came a big black sedan with a state trooper driving it. A slender man in a big white hat leaned out of the front seat and invited the boys and a couple of others to ride into town They accepted. En route, they heard the trooper call the white-hatted passenger in the front seat, “Governor.” Listening a bit, they figured out that he was Governor Schricker, They asked, and. vep—they were The governor inquired where they were headed, and then had his chauffeur drive them right up in front of the Mosiman’'s. Then he stepped out and opened the rear door for the boys and as they got out, he called to the girls, seated on the porch: “Here they are gills—as fast as I could drive them.” The slightly imazed soldiers agreed it wouldn't do to write home about the incident, because ‘no one would believe us.”

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right.

Lieutenant

AN M. P. WAS DOING a snappy job of directing traffic at Meridian and Washington about 8:15 the other morning when a feminine motorist signaled for 4 left turn. The M. P. attempted to head her off but was tco late. He blew his whistle and motioned her over to the curb. Then, drawing himself up to his most haughty pose, he stalked over to the car, peered snapped to attention, saluted stiffly and \v alked back to his post, swallowing the lecture he was all ready to deliver. In the car was a good looking nurse wearing a first lieutenant’s bars.

Over Rome

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go our crew told me. We saw black puffs up ahead. Some of them got up a little above our altitude which was about 25,000 feet. It looked like a bar- } rage of it just ahead of us as we were running for the bomb drop point but it never hit any of us. It was set too far ahead or broke too low. Our crew said it was not good aiming or fuse setting. That was all there was to the enemy opposition. The whole allied show, carefully arranged over a period of months, went clocking off on schedule. We were back over our field 15 minutes ahead of our estimated time of arrival, fixed when we left hours earlier. This raid says Italy is through. Our Fortress had bombs to drop at the extreme right hand corner of the railroad yards. For days the air force command had been working out bomb charts.

Crews Had Photographs

ALL CREWS were given a map and enlarged air photographs with the Vatican and other religious institutions marked out. The Vatican had a large line drawn around it. Each of several such locations had a warning in large letters: “Must on no account be damaged.” At briefing the bombs if there was any

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crews were doubt or

told not to drop if the target was

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been conscious of its responsibility in this matter. It considered Rome a military target becaue it was a bottleneck for rail traffic from Germany through Brenner pass to southern Italy and Sicily. The railroad

The command had

tracks were congested, making a

‘My Day

SEATTLE, Wash, Monday, July 19.—I must tell you a little about our day yesterday. It was one of those rare and wonderful days when the atmosphere was so clear that both Mt. Baker and Mt. Rainier could be seen in their full grandeur, snow covered and gleaming in the sun. The water was smooth and somewhere around 300 boats, members of the coast guard auxiliary, passed in review on Lake Washington. To me, the most impressive thing was the fact that all the men who worked on these boats gave hours of their time every week, in good weather and bad alike, after they had done their regular jobs, in this public service. They are volunteers and through their work ‘they have freed the regular coast guard ships for work near the combat zones. These boats carry a great responsibility, for they patrol the meny entrances to harbors where enemy ships could easily come in and lie in safety and cperate against this coast and our people. They tell me that groups like this are functioning on every coast, but I have not seen such a parade hefore. It certainly gave me a great sense of pride in the initiative and self-sacrifice shown by the pepole of these neighboring harbor cities. It is good for us who live so much of our time in Washington, D. C. io see first hand what the nation is do'ng in the war eifort. When vou are in the capital city you tend to think that everything centers there, that all the work is done there and you forget that Washington is only a center from which ideas and suggestions radiate. is the : who have

. poseful and as vigorous as it is today.

By Ernie Pyle

adjacent field and lay there cowering beside the little |

rows of grain that gave no protection at all. They looked terrified and wouldn't move when the soldiers ordered them up and finally one soldier had to fire into the ground beside them to make them move. Their defenses throughout our special sector were almost childish. They didn’t bother to mess up their harbor nor to blow out the two river bridges which would have cut our forces in half. They had only a few mines on the beaches and practically no barbed wire. We'd come prepared to fight our way through a solid wall of mines, machine guns, artillery, barbed wire and liquid fire and we even expected to hit some new fiendish devices. Yet there was almost nothing to it. It was like stepping into the ring to meet Joe Louis and finding Caspar Milquetoast waiting there. ’

Not Even Any Booby Traps

THE ITALIANS didn’t even leave any booby traps for us. I almost stepped into one walking through a field but it obviously had been dropped rather than planted. Down at the docks we found whole boxes full of them that hadn't even been opened. The road blocks outside town were laughable. They consisted merely of light wooden frameworks about the size of a kitchen table around which barbed wire had been wrapped. These sections were laid across the road and all we had to do was pick them up and lay them aside. They wouldn't have stopped a cow, let alone a tank. * The civilians in town told us they were sick of being starved by the Germans and didn’t want to | fight us. It was obvious that they didn’t but in these early days we have little contact with other American forces so it's possible maybe that the Italians laid down here in order to fight harder somewhere else.

George Diven, of the legal section of the state welfare department, has been named chief of the staff services. He replaces Max Sappenfield, new personnel director at the if. U. Medical center.

It Never Fails

DR. W. F. ROTHENBURGER, the retiring pastor of the Third Christian church, stepped into a restaurant the other day and, after ordering his meal, was a bit nonplussed to discover that instead of an ordinary restaurant, the place was a tavern. He was a little embarrassed about staying, and also about getting up| and going out. He decided to stay, hoping he would | not be recognized. But within five minutes, in came a church member and sat right beside him. Dr. Rothenburger wound up by inviting the tavern keeper to attand church. . , . Three boys, about 13 or 14, were enjoying a winter sport yesterday out on Martindale ave, north of 30th. They were throwing snowballs. The “snow” seemed to be frost or ice shavings.

Too Many Cooks

THE E. J. HANKEMEIERS, who have two cars, bought two auto use tax stamps just before the June 30 deadline. Mr. Hankemeier placed one stamp on the windshield of the coupe, gave the other to his wife, Mrs. Verna Hankemeier of the public library staff to place on the sedan. She got a razor blade and carefully removed the old pink stamp without damaging it, firmly affixed the new one, and put the old stamp in a drawer. Later in the day, her mother, Mrs. Harris, came across the old pink stamp and, seeking to be helpful, decided it must be placed on the sedan at once. Only by scraping the new yellow stamp to bits was she able to remove it. She felt very meritorious when she placed the pink stamp back on the windshield it had occupied the last year. As a result, the sedan still" bears the old pink sticker, though the Hankemeiers are armed with an affidavit declaring the new stamp was purchased and lost,

By Raymond Clapper

good target. Furthermore they were on the opposite side of the city from the Vatican and historic monuments. Even so there was much anxiety lest some enthusiastic pilot get out of hand. At the briefing of our crew, Col. Fay R. Upthegrove, the leader of our group, said, “I don’t want any individual hombing today.” I got along all right except that the hole in the nose compartment is not made for middle-age sizes. But once inside there was plenty of room. I wore an oxygen mask about two hours during the active part of the trip. No particular strain was evident

around the plane until the climb for bombing altitude started.

Machine Guns Were Ready

THEN THE crew adjusts their parachutes and oxygen masks. The bombardier settles down to an intensive study of his bombing chart because he must recognize the aiming point as it comes up in his bombsight. All crew members scan the sky everywhere, looking for enemy fighters. The machine guns are unstrapped, ready for use. As far as I was concerned the most tension .was just as we started down the bomb run but when we were over the target and also in the flak dealing with enemy fighters so much was happening that suddenly I realized it is all over and everything is all right. As soon as we were out of the enemy area an amazing quiet settled over the ship. Our co-pilot, Col. R. H. Smith, of Nashville, asked the waist gunner on the interphone how his watermelons were that the colonel had placed in the ship for cooling. The melons were nicely chilled but when the colonel cut them, back at the field, they had spoiled inside which was the only bad luck in our Fortress group all day long.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

the work and the results of their work are reflected! in Washington in news of good or bad morale, Seeing the Olympic shipyards in Port Angeles and | the people of that community was a tremendous inspiration also. Here are three young men, brothers,

all putting their best work into an effort to make a real contribution to our shipping facilities. Being older myself, I was interested in meeting the father and mother of this trio. The father, Miller Freeman, is still an adviser to his sons and I judge a very active one, Mrs. Freeman also seemed to me keenly interested and very helpful in important family arrangements. Kemper Freeman has transplanted his ‘whole family from Seattle to Port Angeles, quite an undertaking for his charming, pretty wife with her four small children. Most of the people of Port Angeles attended the launching. The population is some 8000 and many work in the yards and, therefore, it is not strange that the first launching created great excitement. I hope that all the others will be as successful and that the community spirit will remain as pur-

Mrs. Nan Wood Honeyman, from Portland, Ore. and a young friend of mine, who is in the army stationed in Portland, are both coming to lunch with us today. Reading the papers this morning I gathered that we are undertaking an appeal to the Italian people from the people in our country of Italian descent. I hope that our armies may be considered as armies of liberation, but I fear the German military establithment in Italy may still be too strong for this to be possible. At least this appeal may weaken resistance

and it may not be so determined nor so bloody, and

Purdue Turned Into Gigantic War Plant

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Trains Men And Women For Victory

By RALPH HESLER Times Staff Writer

LAFAYETTE, Ind, July 20.—Girding the vast Purdue university campus is a belt of educational industry studded with warvital gems. This belt extends from the southwest Purdue airport, to the northeast Ross- Ade stadium. It is humming with activity which directly aids the nation’s effort to triumph. One of the Midwest's biggest educational institutions of higher learning, Purdue has always taken its place in the front rank of the country's engineering and agricultural schools. Its background made it a “natural” for quickly and easily directing its resources to the war effort. Purdue s president, Edward C. Elliott, former director of the division of professional and technical employment and training of the war manpower commission, perhaps put Purdue's attitude best when he said, “Every one of us, both individually and as a complete unit, must give not 100 per cent—but 110 per cent of our effort for the success of Purdue's war program, which in turn will aid the nation's effort proportionately.” The bustle of many soldiers and sailors now on campus, the envious record set by those military men already graduated from Purdue, the attitude of the entire school, show that Purdue has given its “110 per cent.” It plans

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Change Was Quick

DURING THE holiday period of December and January, 1941 and 1942, the Purdue war council met to direct the transformation of the university from =a peacetime to a wartime basis. Step No. 1 was the lengthening of the academic year eight weeks and the inauguration of a threeterm system. Under this streamlining a student can now be graduated in two and a half calendar years from a course which would normally take four years. A plan was next conceived whereby a man called to military service would get full credit for his semester's work if he was in good standing. Outside of this civilian education speed-up, the war council realized that of tremendous strength to our country would be the actual training of military branches. It is this which today has gathered over 2000 soldiers, sailors and marines at the “Boilermaker” campus. On June 1, 1942 one of the school’s largest military training courses was inaugurated. Two hundred sailors arrived on the

WOMAN ASKS $6000 IN FURNITURE CASE

A suit demanding $6000 damages has been filed in superior court 4 against Al Feeney, former sheriff, and Charles Bitingek, former county clerk. The action was brought by Mrs. Mattie Pickrin, who charged that the former sheriff and his deputies broke into her home at 2213 Columbia ave. and removed all her household goods and placed them in a warehouse. The suit charged that the sheriff's office removed the goods under the direction of a “void writ of execution” issued by Mr. Ettinger’'s office in April, 1942 Mrs. Pickrin stated in her suit that she recovered her property through a writ of replevin issued in circuit court, but that some of the furniture was missing and dem-| aged. Mr. Feeney said his deputies in removing the property were merely carrying out the orders of a writ issued in connection ith some evil

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1. Marching across the Purdue campus to class goes a group of naval electrician trainees. The course is no “pipe” as proved by the

many books each sailor carries.

2. The Purdue university airport is one of the most modern col-

legiate flying fields in the nation. lined up awaiting refueling before taking off again.

campus to start a four-months naval course for electricians.

Graduate 200 a Month

WITHIN TWO months the complement was boosted to 800 men. Now, under the present system, 200 men are graduated each month, and 200 new trainees enter training. More than 1200 men have already been graduated from this school. These naval electricians are fed and housed in the Carey halls, former dormitories for men, Here .they observe the same naval regulations they would aboard ship. In fact, they call their quarters the USS Purdue. Commanding officer naval electricians’ school Cmdr. H. J. Bartley. Other naval units under his commard are the V-12 training program, recently inaugurated, and the naval officers’ flight training course. On July 3, just this summer, 1250 sailors and marines from colleges all over the country poured into the university. These were V-12 trainees. These lads pore over their books, with only time out for physical fitness work. Their courses parallel as nearly as possible the civilian courses, in length as well as in fields of study.

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Active Duty Imminent

SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY of the V-12 contingent will study engineering, 500 will study in other fields. All credits earned under this program will apply toward graduation from the university. These trainees, then, are getting a college education at the expense of the navy. But they are liable to be called to active duty at any time, which makes for intensive studying, officials believe. The smaller percentage of “flunks” bears out this theory. Lt. Cmdr. T. M. Kegley is the officer in charge of the naval V-12 detachment; Capt. E. M. Whipple heads the 450 marines. In December, 1938, President

Italian Officers Can't Be Chided

WASHINGTON, July 20 (U.P). Italian army officers can’t take it —even chiding by a bus cone ductor, The Fighting French headquarters today made public a re-

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"port from the French under-

ground telling of the arrest of a French bus conductor in the area occupied by Italy. He was arrested because of the way he talked to Italian officers who were blocking the aisles of his bus. All he said was: “Move forward. Please move forward. That will be quite a change for you.”

THREE G CLASS TO MEET

a modern, the Constitution,” but after the war l“the state must again be supreme

Here naval training planes are

Roosevelt asked for colleges and universities to start the training of student pilots under the civil aeronautics authority program. This request formally reached Purdue at 11 a. m. on Feb. 16, 1038, and the first student took off from Purdue airport at 1 p. m, just two hours after the order was received. This was three weeks ahead of any other institution in the nation,

Leadership Maintained

THAT LEADERSHIP in flight instruction has been maintained. Soon after the war started, the army and navy jointly used the airfield. Using Purdue instructors and mechanics, flight instructors were trained. Today the modern

alone utilizes and well-equipped airfield to train its flight instructors. At the rate of 30 graduates a month, about 40 planes are kept in constant use. These new pilots are sent out to naval training centers to train young combat pilots. Lt. Cmdr. Ernest G. Vetter has charge of the naval units at the airport. Many college students who received instruction at this field during peace today are aces in the army or navy air corps. Jimmy Doolittle Jr. obtained his wings at the university and then left to follow the example of his illustrious father, Brig. Gen. James H. Doolitle Sr. To think that Purdue is strictly “naval” school is wrong. Assigned from military camps in all parts of the U. S., 925 soldiers compose the 1545th service unit of the army specialized training program which started its actual class work July 12. Five hundred of the 925 are enrolled as freshmen, 300 as sophomores. The other 125 trainees are enrolled in a special advanced psychology course. The sdministration, mess facilities, housing and discipline were arranged under the general direction of Col. Donald M. Beere, commander of the ASTP and of the Purdue R. O. T. C. unit.

SUPREME STATE IS URGED BY WARING

CHICAGO, July 20 (U. P.).~—

the navy

a

Roane Waring, national gommander

of the American Legion, said yes-

terday that the post-war emphasis should be on sovereign individual states with only a limited federal government.

Mr. Waring told members of the

Executives club that a trend toward a strong federalized government began when states ceded their rights to the federal government in exchange for help during the depression.

“The tendency was furthered by streamlined version of

The Three G class of Garfield and limited only by its constituPark Baptist church will meet at | tion,” he said.

7:30 p. m. tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Laura Lich, 2906 Carson ave.

AUTO KILLS CHILD, 5 LaGRANGE, Ind., July 20 (U. P.).

GIRAUD ARRIVES IN LONDON | —yuneral arrangements will be LONDON, July 20 (U. P.).—Gen.| completed today for Caroline BillHenri Giraud, coleader ,of t h e/man, 5, who was killed yesterday

French committee of national lib-| when she ran in front of an auto-

engineering.

3. Purdue's R. O. T. C. unit is one of the snappiest field artillery

units in collegiate circles. Here a and the loader is really giving the 4. Girls from R. C. A,

gun crew goes through its routine shell a boost.

Wright field and Curtiss-Wright are

trained for specialized positions in the Purdue school of electrical

THE ASTP makes it possible to train soldiers for specific army needs, utilizing the faculty and other resources of the colleges and universities, Most of the men who complete the ASTP will be recommended for officers’ candidate school. But all the men are subject to active duty call at all times. The trainees’ weekly program consists of 60 hours of classroom, laboratory or prescribed study, five hours of military training and six hours of physical conditioning. Military prominence is not a new thing for Purdue. Every year since 1923 the war department has rated the Purdue field artillery unit of the R. O. T. C. as “excellent.”

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Unit Motorized

THE UNIT has numbered about 2500 men and has been the largest field artillery unit in any college in America. It has been completely motorized since world war 1. Under this R. O. T. C. program all freshmen and sophomores are required to take two years of training. Juniors and seniors may combine their training if they wish in conjunction with their regular classwork. As a result of this system, at the beginning of world war II Purdue had graduated one-eighth of all the artillery reserve officers produced through R. O. T. C. channels. In 1942, 176 male graduates received their degrees and at the same time were commissioned second lieutenants. All were called to active duty at once. One hundred twenty-three others from this '42 class were sworn in as ensigns in the navy and 30 others became naval flying cadets, forming the famed “Boilermaker Flying Squadron.” Hundreds of R. O. T. C. students from Purdue now serve the military ranks. A major general and a rear admiral top the list,

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BESIDES THE numerous warrelated courses given on the cam-

U.S. Prisoners Get ‘Gift’ From Japs

By UNITED PRESS A Japanese propaganda broadcast described at length today how American war prisoners at a Mukden camp expressed appre=ciation for a gift bestowed upon them. The note of thanks, broadcast in a Domei (Japanesf) news agency broadcast recorded by United Press in New York, was signed by “Major S. H. Hankins,” described as leader of tiie camp. Hankins said the camp come mander had shown by the gift to be greatly interested, “in our welfare.” The gift, the dispatch said, was a cemetery for the prisoners.

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pus, a state-wide program has been establistied. Factory workers totaling 22,600 enrolled in these special around-state courszs last year,

In 69 cities and towns evening classes were taught. Centers for this instruction have been established in East Chicago, Muncie, Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, Evansville and Jeffersonville, Ft. Wayne has led the cities in enrollment with 5000. Usually about one-fifth in the classes are women, Agricultural and home economic experts travel throughout the state holding meetings and classes instructing Hoosiers how best to produce crops and then to use them best after they are harvested.

Government experin.ents on rapid fire arms, on radar, radio and communication instruments have been and are currently being conducted by Purdue scientists,

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Train Women Experts

WOMEN SPECIALISTS from R. C. A, Curtiss-Wright and the army's Wright field at Dayton, O., are being trained to handle highly mechanical and scientific positions. Firemen are trained to fight sabotage and bombing fires. Seven hundred and five firemen attended this course. These men in turn have traincd over 7000 auxiliary firemen in the state on wartime fire fighting. In co-operation with the federal bureau of investigation, police and plant protection training schools have been set up. Physical preparedness has been stressed, war councils have been held to inform the public and the students, the war information center has been running full force and special studies to increase agricultural production have been introduced. All in all, Purdue is cne gigantic war plant, steadily turning out men and women into every channel of the war effort. When peace has come and Hoosiers proudly look back on their share of the victory, a large part of that pride should be heaped on the broad, strong shoulders of Purdue university.

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HOLD EVERYTHING

LOST TIRES PUT IN JAIL TERRE HAUTE, Ind. July 20 (U.

P.).—Two Vigo county deputy sher- | =

iffs knew where to take the two § tires they found yesterday along the | |. New York Central railroad tracks. ! They locked them up in a an cell ,Mdeutincation by the HORSE,

“He just inherited a million dollars!”