Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1943 — Page 9

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WHERE IN SICILY~—(By Wireless). —Army Ambulances carry four stretchers each, or nine sitting ded. ‘When they reach a clearing station they pick up to the surgical tent and unload. : ~The men lie there on their stretchers on the floor ati of the tent while the aid men look at their tags to see how severe the wounds are, in order to handle the worst ones first. Those who don't need further attention are carried right on through to the ward tents _ to wait for the next ambulance on back to a hospital. ; Those who have graver wounds are carried into the operating room. Two big army trunks sit up-ended there on the dirt floor. The trunks contain all kinds of ~ surgical ‘supplies, in drawers. On is fastened a steel rod which curves ; each end. The wounded man is carried in his Lter and set on these two trunks. The curved rods feep him from sliding off. His litter thus forms his pperating” table. .. A portable surgical lamp stands in a tripod over the wounded man. A little motor and generator outside the tent furnish power, but usually they just use flashlights,

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© ONE: OR two surgeons in coveralls or ordinary uniform bend cver the man ard remove his dressings. Medical-aid men crowd around behind them, handing them compresses or bandages with steel forceps from a sterile cabinet. Other aid men give the patient an- [ r shot of morphine or inject blood plasma or give Ba drink of water from a tin cup through a rubber tube they put in his mouth. “Incidentally, one of the duties of the surgical ward boys is to keep the sweat wiped off the surgeon’s face sot won't drop down onto the wound. “Just outside the surgical tent is a small trench filled with bloody shirt sleeves and pant legs the surgeons ‘have’ snipped off wounded men in ‘order to get. at the wounds more quickly. The surgeons re-

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE COMMITTEE in charge of ‘arrangements for the premiere of the movie, “This Is the Army,” sat down to eat at the I. A. C. Friday, which happened to be. the 13th. And then they noticed there were 43 present. Things looked gloomy for the premiere BRN. iii : (8 p. m. tomorrow at the Indiana) until Wallace O. Lee walked in - and broke the jinx by making it 14. . . . Speaking of Wallace, he was among those attending the “willkie reception at thes Press club Thursday evening. So was Clarence A. Jackson, state civilian defense director. - Clarence was introducing Congressman Wilson around and suddenly he leaned over and asked one of our agents: , “pst, what's that fellow’s name— was none other than Wal wasn't ‘the only one present having name uble. Mr; Willkie kept calling Governor Schricker “Harry,” ad of Henry. In fact, he always does, even autortkphed. a copy of his book, “One World,” to “My snd Harry Schricker.” . . . Incidentally, the Governor’s son, Sgt. Henry F. Schricker Jr., blew in uny from. Daytona Beach several days ago on ® 14-day furlough and surprised the folks, He's fine. | ;

Imbarrassing M oments

A WELL KNOWN advertising man walked into the Thomas restaurant in the Murphy building and sat down in a booth with a brown-eyed young woman who was sipping coffee and correcting the manuscript of a short story. He started a conversation, asking if she were a writer and mentioning that he was. interested in song writing and hoped to write J great war song some day. She expressed interest, mentiofing casually that she had a brother who had written several songs. “Is that so?” asked our "friend patronizingly. “Has he ever had any pubfished?” “Oh, a few,” she replied. “What's your brother’s name,” the fellow persisted. The answer: “Hoagy Carmichael.” The young lady was Hoagy’s

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| : » Wise Assurance ASHINGTON, Aug. 16.~With every large break of news from the war front there is a natural tendency on the part of both management and workers inf war inidustzies to start thinking about how to 2 hedge against’ the future. s One thing they know for = sure is’ that when the war ends : the government will no longer have any use for the goods they "are - producing, and wil cancel contracts wholesale. So both employers and employees worry about how to move quickly into enterprises and jobs of some permanence. One great factor of uncertainty has ‘been the question of what

would be the government's policy’

1 : in reimbursing losses that arise from cancelation of contracts. "After -the ‘last war, months and in some : cases years were required in settling claims, On the’ whole ‘in the last war were better able to withstand delays, for they had been permitted to retain # larger share of their war-production earnings. "This time taxes have been so high that most companies have been unable to build up reserves adequate to finance conversion to peacetime production. Budden termination of contracts will find them with

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By Ernie Pyle dress the wounds, and sprinkle on'sulfanilmadie as though it were ant powder. ¢ : Sometimes they poke for compress broken arteries to stop the flow of blood, or inject plasma if the patient is turning pale. They don’t give general anaesthetics here. Occa-

sionally they give a local, but usually the wounded]

man is so doped up with morphine by the time he’ reaches here he doesn’t’ feel much pain. On my third day at the clearing station, when I was beginning to. feel better, I spent most of my time around this”operating table. As they would undress each new wound I held firmly to a lamp bracket above my head, for I was still weak and I didn’t want to disgrace myself by suddenly keeling over at the sight of a bad wound.

Most Wounded Say Little

MANY OF the wounds were hard to look at, and yet Lt. Michael de Giorgio said he had never seen a human body as badly smashed up here as he had in Seallle accidents back in New York, where he pracced. : : One stalwart fellow had caught a machine-gun bullet right alongside his nose. It had made a small clean hole and gone clear through his cheek, leaving a larger hole just beneath his ear as it came out. It gave you the willies to look at it, yet the doctors said it wasn’t serious at all and would heal with no bad effects. The nerviest fellow I saw had two big holes in his back: You could have put your whole hand in either one of them. As the surgeons worked on him he lay on his stomach and talked a blue streak. “I killed five of them with a hand grenade just before they got me,” he said. “What made me so damn mad was that I was just out of reach of my rifle and couldn’t crawl over to it, or I'd a got five more of them. Jeez, I'm hungry! - I aint had nothing to eat since yesterday morning.” . But most of the wounded say nothing at all when brought in—either because they see no acquaintances to talk to, or because theyre too weak from their wounds or too dopey from morphine. Of the hundreds that passed through while IT was there I never heard but one man'groaning with pain.

sister, Martha, who works for the Western Newspaper Union.

No ‘Weak Sister’ THE QUESTION as to what the new ‘women bus and streetcar operators would do about an obstre-

perous passenger finally has been settled. A large and very drunk man rode a College ave. streetcar

in the aisle, tripping other passengers, and he was making himself obnoxious with his remarks. The woman operator told him that if he didn’t straighten up, she would have to put him off the car. He made a smart remark to her. She stopped the car at the next corner—59th st.—walked ~ back, ‘grabbed the drunk by the belt and unceremoniously - helped him off the car. She went back and got his sailor straw hat, threw it out after him, and then went back to operating her streetcar.

Around the Town

OUR NOMINATION for the city’s most unselfish’

citizen is the unidentified donor of an electric fan last Thursday (remember how hot it was?) to the Red Cross camp and hospital committee. The committee has received numerous contributions of new and old musical instruments and furniture for military camp hospitals, but.still needs more.’ The number is LI. 1441. . . . Clay Jones, R. R. 1, Box 53, went hunting at Yellowwood ldke down in Brown county last week and brought home a rattlesnake 51 inches: long and with 10 rattles on it. He almost stepped on the snake, which was coiled ready to strike. He shot it twice through the head, and is having it mounted for a souvenir. P. 8. He. got one squirrel. . .« There are still quite a few motorists ignoring the plea for salvage of their front license plates. Among the heedless is a certain building materials company. with front plates left on at least two of its trucks. .. . Girls at the Girl Scout camp dined Thursday on tomatoes grown by the boys at the Boy Scout camp. The gift was presented by Skipper Wilson, executive of the Boy Scouts, to Mrs. Tom Blackwell, head of the: girls. ES :

‘By Walker Stone

what money they have tied up in materials they can no longer use. Need Speedy Conversion IT IS SAID of one airplane plant that its pay roll

is so high and its reserves so low that it would be) bankrupt in a week if its war contracts were sud-{;

denly terminated. ’ E Obviously it is not to the country’s advantage to bankrupt industries that have gone all-out in war production, or to cause wholesale lay-offs of workers. " Rather the effort should be to enable industries to convert speedily to the production of peace goods, giving the widest possible continuing employment,

Removal of Fear

THE WAR DEPARTMENT this week took a long step in giving assurance that this would be possible, in a policy enunciated by Gen. Corbin, of the army quartermaster corps, to the effect that no cancellation of existing contracts is contemplated, and that if any contract is cancelled because of a sudden end of hostilities, energetic measures will be taken to settle promptly all. contractors’ claims. , © With this fear removed, as it can be if other contracting agencies announce a similar policy, both management and workers can continue giving all their

thoughts and energies to maximum war production}

now, leaving future worries to the future,

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Non-Nazi Regions” Regard

With Grave Concern. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard ‘Foreign Editor ‘TORONTO. : Aug. 16—From one of the most distinguished and bestinformed Europeans on this side of the ocean I learn that Russo-Brit-ish-American relations are now a matter of grave concern throughout non-Nazi Europe. : The chronic aloofness of Marshal Stalin from the meetings of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, according to a steady flow of well-organized intelligence reaching my informant, is regarded as having passed from the realm of remarkable coincidences into one of sinister implications if not actual menace. . Europeans believe that Stalin has gained the whip hand over Roosevelt and Churchill. Stalin, they say, has grabbed the peace initiative away from his Anglo-American partners. Whereas Roosevelt and Churchill are committed to uncon-~ ditional surrender, Stalin is not. He is therefore in a position to offer more attractive terms—even to Germany. He can make it appear to the peace-hungry masses - of Europe that Soviet Russia is their real friend whereas the --western democracies, from which they had expected much, want nothing less than the total destruction of their countries and "the subjugation -of their peoples.

Russian Advantage

This, - said my informant, gives Moscow a tremendous moral and political advantage, and that is why Stalin has so persistently refrained from attending the Roosevelt~ Churchill conferences. Until the last minute, it is said, the British and American statesmen fully expected Stalin to be present at their meeting in North Africa and to join .in their edict of Casablanca. But they were disappointed in both respects. Stalin, by remaining away, gained a free hand for himself in dealing with the axis. Stalin is not committed to the unconditional - surrender formula even in the case of Germany. He is committed only to the unconditional surrender of Hitlerite Germany—something entirely different. His speeches, orders of the day and other pronouncements all make a distinction between the German people and the Hitlerites, But most conclusive of all is the Kremlin's sponsorship of the Free Germany committee, whose standing offer of péace to Germany is generosity itself compared with our dictum of unconditional surrender, While we talk of dismemberment of Germany, with control of the pieces afterwards, including their schools and texthooks, the Moscowinspired Free Germany committee promises the people a government of their own choosing — even a capitalistic one—if they will only overthrow Hitler ‘and his gang.

* Formidable Setup

“Marshal Stalin, therefore, can outbid Roosevelt and Churchill. He has more to offer. According to. my informant, other governments or national committees have already been set up in Moscow, where they are ready to move at the psychological moment. There are ready-made governments for Poland, Rumania, Hun-

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Johan Kopling, Vienna-born chairman of the Communist party of Austria, ‘who is highly regarded even by his opponents. He is in

end. , One of these alternatives is unconditional sirrender and whatever future ‘the allies may offer them. The other is to grab at the seemingly more attractive terms held out

His Absence From Quebec |

| administration in charge of price : “James Hilton. In recent months,

1S (Rev. Meinzen Marks 50 Years of Service

by Fy Pra 3 I ay 1 (4d ‘ "ee Ws |

8 THE REV. W. C. MEINZEN

“the ordination of the pastor to Lutheran ministry, For 31 years, the Rev. Mr. Meinzen has been the minister of the

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will ‘continue to fill the pulpit until his successor is chosen.

brate their golden : anni~ versary next May. ‘The Meinzens have nine children, eight of whom are living, and their grandchildren are an even dczen. Ede Lee Se

THE CHILDREN who were here for the golden jubilee are the

Alfred Meinzen, Ft. Wayne druggist; Miss Erna Meinzen, business

A. H. Feldscher of Cleveland; Mrs. R. G. Bernecker, Saginaw, Mich, and Mrs. Arthur Amt, Aurora, Il. Lt. Col. Lawrence Meinzen of Camp Doren, Miss. and the Rev. Richard Meinzen of Winnipeg, Canada, are other children. A ninth child died at the ° age of 14. . : ; In addition to being: the wife of a preacher and the mother of two, Mrs. Meinzen is also the daughter of one. SE Friday night, a banquet was held by the congregation in honor of the 50th anniversary of the

Asa Pasto

though he resigned recently, he

He and Mrs. Meinzen will cele-

ioners and friends are this month ' - marking the 50th anniversary of

Rev. Erwin Meinzen of Chicago,

woman, also of Ft. Wayne; Mrs.

The Rev..and Mrs. W. C. Meinzen.

and a jubilee service was held at the church yesterday. The. Rev. Robert .G¢ Trautman, whom the

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| Garrett Man Elected on

4th Ballot in Close ~~ 3-Way Race. | F. Dean Bechtol, Garrett, began

his duties today as state commender of ‘the American Legion after one

of the closest races in ‘years,

He defeated Wayne L. Lowe, Terre Haute, and Patrick Maloney

“fot Crown Point on the’ fourth bal-

lot of the election yesterday. Mr. Bechtol, former northern vice commander, succeeded Clarence U. Gramelspacher of Jasper, : * Other officers elected at closing sessions of the 25th annual conven=tion at the Claypool hotel include H. E. Siebenmark,. South Bend, northern: vice commander; ‘V. M.: Armstrong, Indianapolis, state na-

J tional executive committeeman; W.

E [1 Brunton, * Scottsburg, southern

Boer

30 years ago, gave the -address. Edward Rothkopf, congregation chairman, presided at’ the banquet. ®one® oY

‘PARTY IS TOLD

Election of Schricker to Senate Urged to Assure . FDR Support.

KOKOMO, Ind., Aug. 16 (U.P.) — State : Democratic | Chairman Fred Bays told the Indiana Pioneer Dem ocrat 2000 club yesterday that Gov ernor Schricker should be sent to

be upheld. The seat now held by Democratic Senator Frederick Van Nuys, who said he would run again if “the real Democrats want me,” comes up for election in. 1944. gL Bays did not mention Van Nuys in his Kokomo speech, but enthusiastically proposed Schricker for - In his speech yesterday, Bays also endorsed a fourth term for Presitient Roosevelt and said there should be no change until a just peace is assured. ; ;

MUNCIE, Ind, Aug. 16 (U.P.).— The district council of the United Automobile Workers (C. I. O.), representing workers in Indiana, northern Kentucky and eastern Illinois, were on record today as opposing the candidacy of Senator Frederick Van Nuys (D. Ind.) for re-election. At a meeting of representatives resolutions were ‘adopted opposing - “representatives and senators who have spent more time and energy fighting labor than in the program of winning the war.” The meeting scheduled the next district session at Indianapolis Sept. 25-26. : :

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BROWNLEE TO GET POSITION WITH OPA

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P.). —James Brownlee, director of transportation for the war food administration, will be named deputy administrator of the office of price

} Rev. Mr. Meinzen’s ordination

BACK GOVERNOR,

Washington as senator from Indiana |: so that the president’s policies would

Rev. Mr. Meinzen ordained about

Ration Clerk

Arthur J. Orr’ (above) has been appointed ‘ chief ' clerk of Ration board ‘49-5, it was announced today by Alex L. Taggart, Marion county rationing administrator. The boundary lines of board 49-5 and 49-6 have been, changed to equalize the work between the two boards. Each board will serve a population of about ‘85,000.

Headquarters of 49-6 will remain at 1105 Prospect st. = The new boundaries of 49-5 are: Northern, ‘Pennsylvania tracks; eastern, Shelby st.; western and southern, - county . lines. = Boundaries of 49-6 are east from Shelby st. along the Pennsylvania tracks to’ Sherman drive; ‘south to ‘Raymond st.; east to county line; south fo -county line; west to Shelby st. and north to Pennsylvania. tracks.

U.S. S.. SHANGRI-LA UNDER CONSTRUCTION

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P.). ~The navy announced today that the name U. S. S. Shangri-La has been assigned ' to. a new aircraft carrier now under construction. at he U, S. navy yard in Portsmouth, Va. xe : ‘President Roosevelt identified the take-off spot of the planes which raided Tokyo as Shangri-La—a fictitious Utopian valley in a novel by

the treasury has been using the

"NAZIS RAID' CONVOY ' "LONDON, Aug. 18. (U. P)— Thirty-two _ ‘allied. ships totaling

{4 ARE KILLED OVER WEEK-END

Two Drown. Fourteen persons met violent

deaths in Indiana. over the week-

end. : i Nine died in traffic. Two were drowned. One was killed by: a train’ and ‘another was killed by a falling log. Two-year-old Pauline Rexrue, Floyd Knobs, died of -injuries suf-

| fered when she was struck by an

automobile near New Albany. Five Die in Wrecks Denver Stewart, 22, and his brother, Charles Henry Stewart, 20, Yyles - Station, were killed near Princeton when they attempted to stop for a parked car and overturned. : yd William McClean, 44, and Andrew Otyepko, both of Chicago, were killed when they were struck by a truck ‘near Gary. They were as-

{sisting in clearing road: 12 of the

wreckage of two other trucks which

{had collided,

Mildred Nelson, French: Lick, and Russell. Butler, Shoals tax driver, were killed in the head-on crash of two cars near Shoals. Eight other persons were injured. : Henry E. Noah, 50, Davison, Mich., was killed when he fell from a moving: car : and ‘a trailer tipped over .on him. = | Five-year-old Dale Vroman, Grand Rapids, ‘Mich., was killed. at «Ft. Wayne when he was struck by an automobile. pls nre ls Robert ‘Graham, 28, announcer at radio station WKMO at Kokomo, was drowned when ‘an outboard motor boat he was attempting to start on Lake Manitou near Rochester. capsized. Zink James Schroer, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Schroer of

Charles’ Reel, 48, a Noblesville factory: worker, was killed when he

vice commander; B. W. Breedlove,

: | Indianapolis, treasurer; Ralph E. | Klare, Indianapolis, chaplain, and

H. Haworth Smith, Liberty, ser-

| geant-at-arms,

Universal War Training Among resolutions pgssed by the Legionnaires .was one advocating continuation of military training for American males after the war, They also adopted a resolution: for=bidding any former servicemen or government «official : of the axis country ever to become a resident of the U. 8. or apply for citizenship. Other axis nationals could not apply for citizenship until 25 years after . the war. Legionnaires also demanded that prisoners of war be returned to their own countries after the conflict to prevent movements against our form of governmerit. The Legionnaires went on record as ‘opposing employment . of Japanese in American industry and asked that relocation centers be put under military: supervision. #1 Less Lenient Deferments Draft boards were urged in another resolution to discontinue deferring men in defense. industries unless they are indispensable. 'Le= gionnaires charged’ that single men of draft age occupy administrative jobs in Washington and “are being deferred because of pressure and influence.” : The Legion: also; wishes to place service men, paid by the Legion, in discharge centers to assist men with papers: and .claims.. It also voted to establish a . postwar planning committee to rehabilitate disab veterans. Legionnaires said the. sale of military equipment, should not be delegated to a government bureau unless authorized by congress. # Additional Legion officials elected include district commitfeemen for next year: First district, Byron E. Waggoner, Hammond; second, H. J. Halsted, Rochester; third, Philip R. Melangton, Plymouth; fourth, Dan Munson, Angola; fifth, George E. Hayes, on; sixth,” William Woodward, Terre Haute; seventh; Frank Ellingsworth, Worthington; eighth, Ray 'B. Resch, Lanesville; A ninth, Roscoe Mount, Bedford; 10th, Ora : Sanders, Muncie, and 11th, Willard Thomas, Indianapolis. Mr. Bechtol, Mr. Breedlove, Mr,

Gramelspacher will be delegates at large to the national convention, Sept. 21 and 22, at Omaha, Neb, ' Mrs. Carl McMann of South Bend