Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1943 — Page 15

Hoosier Vagabond

SOMEWHERE IN SICILY (By Wireless) ~—Some ore shipboard sketches: Joe Talbot. He is an aviation ordnance man, first class, and since there is no aviation aboard his ship he is a round peg in a‘square

hole. Of course that isn’t his fault. What he actually does is a little bit of everything, when things are normal, and during battle? he is. the head of a crew down in a magazine. of big shells. He wears headphones, and upon orders he shoots more ammunition up to the gun .batteries above. Joe is a black-haired, straightshouldered Southerner from Co- . lumbus, Ga. In civil life he was a photographer on The Columbus Ledger-Inquirer. The last . big story he photographed was Eddie Rickenbackeér’s crash near Atlanta. Joe has been married four years. His wife works at Woolworth’s store in Columbus. This is his second time in the navy. He was in it from 1931 fo 1935, and he has been in two years this time. He has no intention of making it a career. .He has one great post-war ambition—he says he’s ing to do it in the first six months after he gets ut. He’s'going to buy a cabin cruiser big enough for four, get another couple, and ¢ruise down the Chattahochee river to the Gulf of Mexico, then up the Suwanee, making photos of the whole thing in color.

Initials Make T.N.T.

x TOM TEMPLE. His full name is Thomas Nicholas “Temple. His father deliberately put in the middle . name so his initials would make T. N. T. Tom is only 19. He is tall.and thin, and very grave and:analytical. oF talks so. slowly you think sometimes he’s going to wop altogether. After the war he wants to go-to - Harvard and then get into the : publishing business.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

ONE OF OUR agents called Harry H. Hartmann, ‘the’ upnolsterer, Tuesday to repair a broken bed. “Beds are breaking early this week,” Mr. Hartmann commented. “This makes four in two days. Usually they wait until Friday to break down, and then the owners all want them back Saturday. It's a tough life.” . . . The buzzer rang and the elevator stopped. at the fourth floor of the Hume-Mansur building. A woman stepped up. to the elevator and asked the operator: “Can you tell me where the doctor's office is?” The elevator operator looked puzzled, then said: “They’re all doctors on this floor. Which .one do you want?” “I don’t know,” responded the woman. The elevator moved on. , . . Sign on a / tavern window in the 2900 block, Central ave.: “In case of emergency, call Ta. -" Wonder if that means such STnetEenCies as a severe’ thirst? \

A Sad Si Huaibion of oo DEWEESE 1s having trouble. He wants to ove his family- up here from Bedford, but he can’t find a house anywhere. Nothing unusual in that, ex-

cept that Bob-happens. to be the OPA rent director.

. Activities: off thes internal revenooers catching A ks without auto use stamps proved highly enter-

tglining to the sidewalk. crowds. One of the high points vas when the assisting policemen stopped a car, minus stamp. but with several, policemen in it, The orowd cheered. Two policemen wearing gold badges, riding 4n the back seat, seemed to.enjoy it, too, and waved to the crowd. . . . Over at the federal building some of the boys were snickering over the report that among those hguleq: up for not having one of the auto use

In North Af IC: ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Aug, 5 (By Wireless)—~On behalf of the American men who are fighting «this war, risking and sometimes losing their lives, “Americans at home can well support the allied determination to punish war criminals, the shooting of Mussolini should be a sold-blooded aim of the allies. One would not think that ‘the matter of physically Mussolini needed to be. argued .in a country where we kill crim~_inals who murdér even one person, ‘not ‘hundreds of thousands ‘ “as Mussolini - has dope. Yet ‘at dinner ‘with a group of civilians “the ‘other night there was some ‘difference of opinion, so the same argument may be going on .in America for all I know. It would: be: a shame if any soft-hearted sentiment developed’; at ‘home such as was registered against the. ‘bombing of Rome, which in fact proved to be 8 very: practical military stroke.

fone P Favor Exile for Duce

THE DANGER is that some will argue it would _be better ta give Mussolini the exile treatment, such as Napoleon. received, on the theory that this would : be the more excruciating punishment. I do not think the paint is. ‘Whether we should torture Mussolini, and I would/not be in favor of any kind of torture. just believe that the inter: of civilization, peace Si mankind in general ‘would be served by standing this man up against a wall ‘and killing him. ‘President Roosevelt is wise, I think, in giving, reutral’ nations notice that the allies expect them give asylum to. criminals. When I was In Fesen ttfere was a widespread idea that Goering nd: possibly others had salted down handsome _coumtry villas in that country where they could live in fate comfort after they last the war.

My Day

NEW YORK, N. Y., Wednesday.—Monday afterhoon. 1 met ‘at. Greenwich house with a group of 30 “OF 40 young college ‘students, who are working. this er in New York City settlement houses. There

£. a at soarcity of social workers and these young people are getting some training in social work in connection: with courses they are taking in college. Some of the group had been

up in Harlem the night before and .

knew something of the sudden hysteria which swept this small area. They, of course, wanted fo “discuss it, but I knew too little about it." I am quite sure these summer months will be: of material value in broadening their views of the

‘problems of a. great city and a lagged

4 £5 nation » Where the social sciences: have hind the industrial and scientific ‘development. | In the evening I went toa meeting sponsored by assembly

destroying

pe il - By Ernie Pyle

Tom's mother is a high school teacher at Far Rockaway, L. I, and writes on the side. She used to write for Story Magazirie under the name Jean Temple. Tom's father was wounded in the’ last war, He'is now in the big veterans’ hospital at Albuquerque, only | a short way from my home. Tom says when he first came into the navy the sajlors’ profanity shocked him, but now it rolls off his back like water off a duck. Tom is a seaman second

class. He is very sincere and thoughtful and one of|

my favorites aboard ship. A Genuine Solt JOE EDERER. He is a lieutenant commander and

chief engineer of the ship, and he was my part-time:

host while I was aboard, since I did all my writing irl his cabin, Furthermore, I ate his candy, smoked his - cigarets, used his paper, and would have read his mail if I could have found it. Cmdr, Ederer has been at sea. for more ‘than a quarter of a century. He is out of the merchant service, and he indulges in constant pleasant feuds with his regular navy friends. His home is at (2724: Northeast 35th Pl.) Portland, Ore. His wife is used to waiting, so his absence is not as hard on her as it is on many wives. They have a 15-year-old boy upon whom the chief engineer dotes. He has two pictures of his family on his shelves. Ederer is one of the very few officers of this ship who are genuine salts. He is not exactly a. Colin Glencannon, but they have many things in common. Ederer spent many years on the Orient run and. has a personal hatred for the Japs. He has been with his present ship ever since she was commissioned two years ago, and he hopes this part of the war soon gets over so he can get to the Pacific. Like all sailors he wants some day to get five acres, preferably in the Oregon woods, build a cabin and have a creek running past his door. 'If he ever did he'd probably go nuts.

stamps was none other than a certain internal revenue agent. . . . Tsk! .

Around the Town

THERE'S A PARROT in a house in the 5900 block, Forest lane, that startles passersby with a: very human whistle. The men usually look around surprised. The girls blush a little and look straight ahead, . thinking it's a fresh tellow. . . . Monday mornings are an especial headache for streetcar and bus operators. hl that no one has anything smaller than a.dollar bill on Mondays.’ They must have left their change in théir other clothes. Several times on Mondays, operators of Central trolleys have turned around and asked: “Anyone here change a dollar bill for this man?” ... Add familiar scenes: Those two old cronies, Meredith Nicholson ‘and Dr. Carleton McCulloch, lunching together. at the I. A. C. It’s about as near as they can get to the site of the old University club.

Personal Ad Service

WALTER BROWN, classified ad salesman for The Times, took an ad for a lost cat—black and white with a bushy tail—one day a week or so ago. Six days later he and his small daughter, Susie, were walking in Marcy Village. Susie found a cat and insisted on gging it home. After it had been there an hour or so, it dawned on Walt that the cat resembled the one in the ad he had taken six days earlier. He looked up the ad, then phoned the woman who had adver‘tised. And sure enough—it was her cat. You just can’t beat that for advertising service. . . . Felix Adams, program director for WISH, read the suggestion for a “dime war stamp dance” party on Monument circle and thought it a good idea. He's going to talk with the war savings staff and see what can

Hoosier a

Secondary

the transformation of this: in

V-12 men in training here ‘marching to ' class along with the civilian students on the 14-acre. Teachers” campus in the heart of

Terre Haute.’ The V-12 program - established here-is the same one under. whicha four other Hoosier colleg serve the navy. The naval aviation. 1 cadet training s¢hool, inaugura in the fall of 1942, has about 100 trainees in the primary stage -of flight. training. Ground school classes are conducted by faculty members and flight instruction is in charge of naval instructors at Paul Cox field near Terre Haute. At present there are about 380 trainees in the V-12 contingent. ; They will continue to follow a course jointly planned by the navy and the college until ‘they are called to active duty or. until they are sent to naval ‘officers’ candidate school. » »

Nurses Use Labs

THE faculty war cheriihidy

planning committee, charged by President Ralph N. Tirey with. the’

be done about it. . . . Speaking of Felix, his pet peeve is women who get on busses and streetcars on sweltering days and shut the windows to keep their hair-do from being disarranged.

By Raymond Clapper

No doubt also similar preparations are being made for havens in Switzerland. But there is. no reason why Switzerland, Sweden or any other neutral should harbor criminals like Mussolini any -more than they would harbor a simple murderer, which they will not do. We send thousands of our young men into Africa, into ‘Sicily, perhaps into Italy, to shoot down Italian rouths' who were forced by Mussolini to be soldiers. Yet some people gag at using a gun on the man who was responsible. If éver one man was responsible it is Mussolini. His is even a clearer case than Hitler's, if that is possible. -Mussolini was out on a campaign of conquest in‘ Ethiopi4 in the middle 30's. He had a part in inciting a murderous war for Fascism in Spain. Finally he alone cast the die in throwing Italy into the war to stab France in the back ‘in the summer of 1940.

Urges Execution for Duce

ALTHOUGH I AM writing this from allied headquarters, gbviously I am speaking for myself as an American civilian, in no way representing allied military policy,” although I hope and expect that our “military will be ready to use a gun on Mussolini when- the opportunity offers. If anybody 2t home gags at such a measure then he should oppose the

continuation of the war, because there is no differ-|

ence between killing one big man and killing many of his little men. i I have not seen' very much of this war but 1 bave: seen enough to convince me more deeply ‘ than béfore, if that is possible, that war is an unnecessary surse, a waste of lives and resources, and that the airplane makes ‘it - possible for the allies to prevent aggressors from breaking loose again if we truly want’ to do it. * But I don’t want to ‘see any rathole left for the sscape of dictators.’ The best way to be safe.is to stand ‘Mussolini up against a wall.

By Eleanor a

rulers. has. made a profound impression. on the student world in this country and I hope that it will move them to participate actively in their own citizenship. Talking and meeting accomplishes little, but real participation in the local groups of their communities will make our young people as potent a force in the building of public opinion here as student groups today. are in other countries of the world. . I ended up the evening on Monday, by going to the Martin Beck ‘theater, where “The Army, Play by Play,” is running. John Golden asked me to came, since it was the dbening night at popular prices and he wanted me to wish the boys good luck. I think they must be a little tired of seeing me at their performances, but I was glad to be with them this last time and to tell them that my interest. was not only in them as soldiers, but ‘in all young people and - in} the work which they do. = ? hope that “The Army, Play by Play” will have a very successful run since the prices are the ordinary

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theater prices. ‘I am quite sure that everyone who| ‘The so

PRISONER'S - DEATH

MALTA ALLIED

Sicilian Congest Begun ‘There, Revealed for

First Time. ot

.VALETTA, Malta, Aug. 5; (U: Py. —Malta has had her revenge—she was the main base for the; altied In. vasion of Sicily. From’ her bomh-shattered lies, the . supreme commanders of the allied armies and air and séa armadas directed the invading forces; from her shores a.good part of the invasion: fleets. get out. The. people of the island ‘who ‘refused. to give in to two years of - axis bombardment stood. in’ the rubble, of their destroyed residences ta cheer at the departure of an offensive

army. : The commander. of” troops who

began ‘took: his. men ' to* He left this message for the \staria leader, Field Marshal Lord’ Gort:. “We leave with regret only -by the knowledge. that in‘ our little way we are carrying Malta’s| offensive spirit inte other theaters.” First came Air Marshal Sir Arthur | Tedder, Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, Gen. Sir Bernard ‘L. Montgomery and Sir Gen. Harold Alexander to wait at Malta for in-, vasion day. Then, when the. “plans were fully laid, came ‘the; e commander, Gen. Dwight D.. hower, to direct the Sn ‘The use of Malta the. aloe stepping stone for ‘the. invasion . of Sicily “was revealed ‘today for the nr ak ei oan t the preparations began as far back as. the ages of the‘ Tunisian st surface and -ajr forces. ‘began. massing for the war's greatest. amphibious operations.

BLAMED ON POISON

Dr.'R.N. ‘Harger, ‘state

INVASION BASE :

had been on Malta since’ ihe siege

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Sehodls

Direct Energies to Battle for Victory §

By RALPH HESLER THER SENERGIES of all Hoosier colleges today are welded into a strong chain which has no weak links. From Evansville college, in the pocket, to. Notre Dame, just inside the northern state line, each: institution has transformed its physical plant and educational facilities to the best interest of the nation at war. One of the more striking examples of the smaller college’s redirection. of its facilities in" wartime is Indiana State Teachers’ college at Terre Haute.’ ; Here: the intervals between classes provide the key to

stitution. It's a dramatic and

changed picture—that of the naval aviation cadets “and

general direction of war plans. a few days. after Pearl Harbor, has placed emphasis on Red Cross work, industrial * and - scientific courses and government and sociology. The - latter two fields of

: study, the war committee believes, are invaluable as aids to insuring a lasting peace when we have defeated the axis.’. Nurses: who are

, in training at the Terre Haute

hospitals use’ the. facilities of the Indiana State laboratories. Moving farther south of Evansville college at Evansville, you find that this college is engaged in two important: phases of war work. First, Evansville is currently : training’ 90 ‘naval aviation cadets in ground . school : courses, miliJay: discipline, and primary flying. Flight training is conducted at the city airport and an auxiliary Reld which was developed by the city. especially . for this pur= pose. . ‘These .men ‘are’ quartered in 2 former CCC. camp eight miles of ‘Evansville across the

_ soythOhio. river, ‘but the fine facilities have more than offset the short

distance the trainees must travel daily to ‘receive heir instruction.

Regular hours, plenty of strenuous drill and: physical exercise assure these navy flight trainees at. Evansville college hearty appetites.

WASHINGTON, “Aug. 5° (U.P). ~The ‘rough-handed. Weary Women who scrub the: «floors, empty. - the wastebaskets and. otherwise ‘re-

‘|'juvenate the bureau of engraving

each’ night while the capital - sleeps got a eratapully’ Teveived break today.

cease making deductions from: their | pay “checks “to correct s -clérical

[error asa result "of which, for near-

ly: a year; they .recéived 13 cents an hour njore “than. the Taw says is their due.’ “Rather: thin Bo on nibbling: away at “wages: averaging’ aboyt' $52" a month,’ the treasury will ask congress in the fall to forgive the charwomen. their “debt” to the government—a ‘debt"théy. had no part in Feontracting * and sthe existence . of which’ ‘they knew “nothing about until late ‘last “month. : For the: :80 scharwomen concsined the . breasiiry’s. Meeilion was provi-

“The treabury disclosed that it, will |

Intervals between classes, when marching platoons of the navy’s aviation cadets cross the campus, | provide a dramatic picture of the changes war has brought to Indiana State Teachers’ college at Terre Haute.

Get: Solo Flying

. IN GENERAL these men are trained to. be fighter pilots and théir courses include meteorology, navigation, aerodynamics, radio code and air regulations. Affer completing the 12-weeks course the cadets move on to preflight school at the University of Iowa with 30 hours of solo flight ! to their experience. Indiana State Teachers’ collége is the only other school in the state which has-a similaf contract. with the navy. - Second, Evansville college is the official representative: of the

United ‘States office of education -

and of Purdue university for the war management training program for thirteen counties ‘in : southern Indiana, Under this plan, - classes in engineering, sciences and: vital industrial training are given free at night. . The nen and women trained here.are helping to solve. the critical labor need for the -many war factories in ‘the “pocket.’ »” “Classes are held twice a. week’ for a period of three months and continue through the summer. Already 3400 persons have received the bénefit of this instruction. .- Evansville. also represents Indiana university in a parallel program for business management training: ‘ , : At Valparaiso university streamlining of its civilian program took place shortly after war started as it did in the majority of feiana;

Charwomen for Bureau of Engraving

May Keep All Their $52 a Month Now

dential: One of them, mother of six : children, sdid “I'm so glad; we need every penny ‘we get.”

‘On Aug. 1; 1942, someone misread |:

legislation governing’ federal wages. Somehow he got the impression that the charwomen’s scale ‘was 78 cents an hour for the four .hours they generally work each night. Since then, until the mistake was spotted ‘last month, the charwomen have. been, paid. at that rate, . But under. the law they are entitled only to ‘85 ‘cents an hour. It was duly announced that - the : charwomen’s wages would be “cut back and that they. would. have to return the amount they had been overpaid, roughly about . $5000 in the -aggregate. © ‘The treasury, however, decided to: make the restitution as easy as possible on: the women who, depending on how long they had been working, owed ' the government amounts ranging from $50 to ‘$100... The

treasury Filed: that the overpay.

_Asi the. Hn. can’ - collection. drive for or August prepares to swing into peration, Robert L. ‘Mobley, pubpir 2 director for the Indianapolis r Chamber of Commerce, sald “ that 50 per. cent ef: the -citizens of Marion county have not been coIf this

onan or ea t the be lapped, hele. Cy iri¢ wi when 16th st.con- Morcey ana fs

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|LEaioN FESTIVAL SET. AT. RIVERSIDE

A" display of Pt. Harrison army equipinent, i -of blood -|donat

sas Shute lays Wilk cue away biviue had net o5ly : Hunter. col af smusing but + flu

{Only 50 Per Cent of Count f |Co-operatesi inTin Can Drive

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and. south of "16th st. on Wednesday and next Thursday, Luther E. Tex. city street commissioner, will assign ‘24 thrée-man trucks for collection services. ¥ ‘Resident are asked to have. ‘their can containers on ‘the curb by: 7 a.m. on collection days. . The - schedule of collections follows:

10- of 16th Wednesday and it sna 12—south, of 16th

|FRIEND OF INDIANS

“BALTIMORE, Md. “Aug: 5:(U» P).

in Marine ~hospital. - "He Wes hanlis officer of the MNes-

P,). ~The ‘body of Lt. Col. Seward } mM Hulse; 29,"missing since July 26

‘Monday and id Tuesday, Aug. 9, and| A Eres Aug: ww!

‘DIES IN BALTIMORE

~or. HON Sisco, ( Baltimore. physi-| |

cian Prominent for his work ameng| - | American Indians, died ‘Jesterday

secondary colleges. Now a student can complete in. two years and eight months a college course which formerly required four years. ; ' » sn THE UNIVERSITY also offers special. courses for national ‘offense.” These essential courses include ‘chemistry, physics, . premedicine; ‘pre-dentistry, pre-nurs-“ing, civil, chemical, electrical engineering. They meet the demand of mén and women who are not broadly educated but who have particular skills necessary to industrial plants.

Although no military units are assigned to the Valparaiso campus, physical fitness. is stressed ‘as much as it would be under military discipline. Both male and female students are required, if able, to participate in a stringent . physical .education: program. -The university's facilities are

also’ in. use by adult classes being

. trained for specialized jobs In war . industries. ; One contribution to the armed services that is of great value has been made by St. Joseph's college. Many ‘of the priest-members of the faculty -have been granted leaves of “absence to serve as chaplains. Besides this, many

others have .been assisting on

week-ends with spiritual care of ' the - soldiers at. Rantoul, Ill (Chanute field). St. Joe also, has an abbreviated | college course which - saves ‘the civilian student

ments would be liquidated: through paycheck deductions of $8 to $9 a month. The story. got into, the newspapers. ‘Several persons sent small |

Post - with “fequests that they be placed in a fund to help reimburse the’ charwomen for the deductions. The United Federal Workers of America (C. I1.”'0.). made. representations to ‘the treasury, asserting: that the suprenie court had once ruled that persons affected by 'misinterpretation of legislation should not be made to suffer for it. * Alvin Ww. Hall, director of the buresu of engraving, said the: decision to cease deductions from the charwomen’s checks was reached at a meeting. of ‘executives of the bureau and approved by Undersecretary of

closed that legislation is being drafted and will ‘be presented to congress under which the overpayments would: be forgiven. :

SEEK FLIER'S BODY % MUSKEGON, Mich." Aug. 5 (U.

on. a" flight from Truax field, Madison, Wis., to Selfridge field, Mich., “Was sought today on the Lake Mich~

an army parachute was found washed up ‘on the sands.

HOLD ‘EVERYTHING

gifts of money to the Washington |

Treasury Daniel ‘Bell. He also dis-|®

igan . beaches ‘north of ‘here where|.-

much time ‘and money and allows" . him to offer his" abilities to" the nation sooner. »

"Others Serve, Too

TAYLOR UNIVERSITY is offer~ ing a special course in the Ameri= can way of life and is giving special ‘attention to pre-nursing. This

college, in ‘its 98th year, does not have any military divisions on its campus either, but it has several chaplains serving on the ~battlefronts. today. . At Pranklin college a special committee has been’ formed ‘to provide entertainment for soldiers stationed at Camp Atterbury on their off days. This has been. of great aid to ‘tHe camp's officers who show. their appreciation by co-operating with college :offic And ‘then there are Ball State Earlham, Manchester, Hanover a: all the other Indiana seconds fy _ colleges’ which “have done’ something, in: one: degree or another, to aid the state; the nation. Stepping back and looking: at our Hoosier colleges’ ‘ efforts “to * protect the doctrines of democracy you can see that those efforts are as great, ‘in ‘war as in peace, if not, greater. That top niche that Indiana has -had for the past decades as a leader in the. field of national ‘education ‘will still" be ours long after Hitler,” Mussolizii and Tojo are but: ‘scarlet names in history ‘books.

CLAIM HAMBURG NO LONGER CITY

Danish. Reports Say. Money ‘Is Not Used; Pale Sleép: Anywhere. -

STOCKHOLM, Aug, 8" (U. PY Hamburg no longer exists, -as an organized municipality,’ the. Copenhagen correspondent for the Stock holm. Tidningen reported today. = * Bveryone in the bomb-devastated German port, eats from: public Dela kitchens “and sleeps wherever placé can’be found: to lie-down,: re money has ceased “to. function, the correspondent reported. . The - dispatch’ ‘quoted a ‘Danish pastor and a physician who have just. arrived at the’ Danish . ‘border as saying: “A path has. been’ made. ‘through ald traffic arteries where: the busses now travel. One jumps on or off as he pleases and nobody pays or asks payment,

Money Not’ Used”

“Money is . not ‘funetioning in Hamburg just as its: normal life’ is not: functioning. One sleeps where one’ can find a place to lie down— mostly some huge concrete: shelters which surprisingly withstood the bs.” + d ‘Everyone . eats’ in public field kitchens: scattered throughbut the city ‘and no, one | needs pay there, either. eI ‘one’ wants to travel’ on a train, "he. does so without tickets. One sees firemen from all Germany, including Vienna and Tyrol, . “Outside the ‘modern, half-de-apartment. building, , one

BOY "FEARED DROWN ED

- NEW CASTLE, Ind., A = ‘w. P. )—Fears were: