Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1943 — Page 5

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ABRAM H. BOWMAN DIES IN LOUISVILLE

| LOUISVILLE, Ky, July 20 (U, P.) -—Services will be held tomorrow for Abram H. Bowman, 68, father of Louisville aviation, who died of a heart ailment at his home here vesterday. Bowman, for whom the Bowman field army air base here is named, was president of the A. H. Bowman & Co.. a transfer concern, and was in civic affairs and

" THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ° FDR OPENS DRIVE | New Stretcher PULL INJURED MAN ! AGAINST ACCIDENTS [& - UP 2000-FT, CANYON

WASHINGTON, July 20 (U. P).! MONTROSE, Colo, July 20 (U.| —President Roosevelt last ol "| py. —Rescuers told today how they called upon management, labor, public officials and civilians to unite used ropes and a crude stretcher in stamping out accidents so “we: to lift Gordon Shipley, injured rancher, up the steep side of 2000-

may keep alive and fit for active | participation in Wie great struggle | foot Black canyon in which he had lain since early Sunday.

for the safety and security of our] LR : x ination.” | i 5 Shipley fractured an elbow and : ‘| both kneecaps when he fell from

The American Standard of Living’ Is Just a Phrase to Yanks Driving the Japs From Their | His message was read on a na-|tion-wide broadcast by Col. Pela 30-foot ledge while on a fishing E | trip. A companion, Carl Amsburg, |

TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1943

HOME WAS NEVER LIKE SOLOMONS

Ludwig Predicts Victory in Year

difference now,” Ludwig sald. “The Nazis will capitulate before any battles are fought on German soil.” The author forecast would be defeated in three months, and gave Germany nine months to yield to allied offensives. He also predicted Ius- | solini will be dead or a Cc man [Eonen) prisoner within three months

HOLLYWOOD, July 20 (U. P.). — Axis forees will be defeated within a year because they lack the nerve to carry on in the ace of adversity, biographer Emil Ludwig, intimate of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, predicted today. “I saw Germany lose its nerve 1918 when forsaken by its and there won't be any

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he American standard of living”—remember? | War_ Manpower Commissioner | ‘Paul V. McNutt, Rubber Director |

There is a standard of living—when it is not a stand-

zrd of dying—here in the pn ial Pacific.

there are many standards,

most of them bad.

I was sitting in a half-dug fox- |B |

hole in Rendova plantation and I} was the poorest of the poor. My coverall suit was mud caked and

my heavy marine gr... boots were soaked. ® (When these exaflient boots get ood and wet, and vou keep them on for several days, they stain your feet a fine, deep tan which apparghtly is irremovahle) My back ached from toting up Mr. McQuaid gear and equipment from the beach. I ‘had not shaved the poor old U. S. S. I had no intention of remedying the defect. But, bve and oye, I thought I would venture back into the jun find a fresh, running brook and take a bath I had had no several nights and 1 was wolfishly hung:y 1 remember stumbling back from the beach to the correspondents’ tent after going without breakfast and without lunch. A friend dug down into his jungle kit and brought out his precious box of ration K, which he insisted I accept.

X Delectable Morsel

I spread that pediculous pork paste on a hardtack biscuit and enjoved what seemed the finest and most delectable morsel I had tasted since last I ate Peg’s magnificent home cooking, some time back In February, 1942. Of course I had it I was not ing out on Rovana lagoon il ‘he darkness in a small boat as the troops were, to land on an unknown hostile shore and begin what, for all they knew, be anything from a two-day to 3 three-month siege of the Munda airfield. There’s the real fall guy 211 too many of falls literally ranerti — the little fellow who carries the rifle with the knife on the end of it and goes out to the ftont and digs out the Jap frem his rathole. ‘He is the jungle war's common man, and he gets what the common man has always gotten—at least up to now—the dirty end of the stick. I do not know what the FO of living is in Munda, but I ing to the front lines for a or i soon. It probably is much worse Shan I tasted briefly in Rendova.

Got on I. S. T.

I left Rendova to be in on the Rice Anchorage job (part of the Kula gulf operations). To accomplish this I first got on an .ST (landing ship tank) and my standard of living shot up faster than that of an Horatio Alger hero or of

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"MANY NEVER SUSPECT CAUSE | OF BACKACHES

This Old Treatment Often Brings Happy Relief

Many sufferers relieve n of their trouble may be tired kidneys. The kidneys are Nature's chief wa of ake fing the excess acids and waste out of eblood. “They help most people pass about3 pints aday When disorder of kidney function Sri [poisonous matter to remain in your b ay cause nagging backache, Ehewmatic

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la stock market manipulator in our glad, mad history. You might ask me and I might {tell you that an L. 8. T. is nothing] ‘much in the line of palatial ocean|going vessels. But, issuing from my abject poverty of the Ren|dova coconut grove into the lux-

ary of an L. S. T. 1 felt like a

{ millionaire—like a King. | An L. S. T. has bunks with sheets jon them. has neat, if gaudy, steel wardrooms. | | And this particular L. S. T, by! some magic which might not bear investigation, had got hold of some of the finest sirloin steak I ever ate. This L. S. T. navy is something | new under the sun. It is unques|tionably the wierdest navy the world has ever known,

Ugly Ducklings

Tts ships are the fattest, slowest, ugliest, and most ungainly objects afloat, but the theory of them— the pure, invincible theory—is the essence of the Island-by-island | strategy. Besides being pudgy, the LI. S. T's waddle and wallow along, hauling the most fantastic amounts of heavy cargo. The L. S. T. design was British. I suppose the Limeys wanted them | for channel-jumping purposes. They | have the design of such a concept | las well as of the incredible mass- | production rate at which Henry J. Kaiser and other shipbuilders we turning them out. Yet somehow they hold i Somehow, they groan, grunt, barrelroll through all these thousands of | miles of ocean journeying.

The essence of their usefulness, as |

{well as their principal protection, is their excellent camouflage, their masses of numbers (the Japs just ‘can't sink 'em all) and their cus-| |tom of voyaging whenever possible | under cover of darkness, | But while you lay in, unloading | at an advanced offensive base, you must do it in daylight,

So vou must not blame the L. 8S. T.!

boys for developing that naked feel-! ing. The miracle iz that they are so! game, calm and even enthusiastic! abot 3 it. Most of their crew men, a few] ago, were just ordinary | school kids, farm boys, shop appren-| tices and such, and most of their officers were young accountants and | junior business executives.

SAPPENFIELD GETS UNIVERSITY POST

Max M. Sappenfield, a staff mem\ber of the state public welfare de-| partment, has been made personnel director of thé Indiana university medical center to co-ordinate personnel work and physical plant maintenance with similar operations

on the campus, Paul D. Jackson, assistant super-

lintendent of buildings and grounds | the Bloomington campus since | to the |

11939, has been transferred Indianapolis campus to head the buildings and grounds staff and help in the co-ordination work.

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Even 'Ferdinand' Wrecked by Russ

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has proved no more immune to destruction by Red artillery than the giant German “Tiger” tanks, it was said.

| and 80 mm. at the side, was

| thrown in large numbers into the fighting on the Orel-Kursk and Belgorod sectors. “According to Hitlerite prisoners.” the bulletin said, “the Ger-

the invulnerability of the Ferdinands ... “But Soviet artillerymen soon dispelled the myth of the ‘invulnerability’ of this new Fascist weapon, : “Hundreds of Ferdinands, shattered by Soviet shells, are blazing on the battlefield, along with the | “Tigers.” ”

U. 8. TO BUY LESS

WASHINGTON, July 20 (U, P). —The war food administration announced yesterday that it will decrease the percentage of butter and cheese to be set aside for government purchase during August, |September and October.

per cent to 40 per cent the quantity | August,

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The embassy’s information bul- | letin said the Ferdinand carrier, | with armor 200 min. thick in front |

man command firmly counted on |

The new order reduces from 50

J putter to be set aside during and to 30 per cent. the

Frequent or | amount to be set aside during Sep-

scanty passages with smarting and burning | hing wrong

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The quota on cheese will be reduced from 70 to = pet cent durAugust and to

| William M. Jeffers, Maj. Gen. Henry '8. Aurand, commander of the 6th | service command; Assistant Secre- | tary of Labor Daniel W, Tracy and | | Clifton Fadiman, the radio master | ‘of ceremonies, also participated. McNutt said the “seventh column” —accidents caused by carelessness, | indifference and neglect—cost 400,- | 000.000 man-davs lost in work last year,

JAVA EXPECTS MUCH TEA

In times of peace, Java exports more tea than China, |

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All wrapped up in this “knapsack” is a new type litter designed for the medical corps by Lt. Col S. H. Bingham. It unfolds into a

stretcher, or may be used as a

one-man or two-man carry in re- {| moving casualties from the bat-

tlefield.

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| Amsburg then drove to Crawford | second party, | which reached Shipley the follow-

and organized a

! ing noon. Fastening ropes to the stretcher. carried the injured man up ridges and past dangerous rock slides, taking six hours to complete the ascent. An ambulance met the party at the top and took

Shipley to the hospital at Paonia.

Doctors said his injuries were agthe 26-hour exposure but that his condition was not

| critical.

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