Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1943 — Page 9

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‘ (SOMEWHERE IN SICILY (By Wireless).—About o> only superstition Omar N, Bradley has ever was when he was promoted to lieutenant gen-

eral in June, just after the fall of Tunisia. He knew his promotion hdd gone to congress. He-

saw it published in the papers, and even received letters of congratulation from Washington—yet he wouldn't pin on his third star until the official orders were actually in his hands, some weeks later. Gen. Bradley seldom gets nervous, and he is never excited. Once, here in Sicily, a sniper took a pot shot at him as he was riding in a command car, whereupon the general and two enlisted men, armed only with carbines, got out of the car and started looking for the sniper. The sniper beat it, and they couldn’t find him. On the day we launched our final victorious attack west of Mateur last spring. the general suddenly had ‘nothing to do. He had plannea and worked sirenuously. for weeks to prepare for it; but once it was under way he could only wait in personal inaction. That day did make him a little nervous, so he called ty - young captains who were his aids and they started out for a long walk. Back in the hills, far away from everything, they stopped and the captains

threw rocks into the air while the general cracked

‘them with his rifle. the battle was on.

General Is Good Athlete

IN HIS younger days Gen, athletic. He was a second-stri ‘West Point, and a regular on Baseball is his greatest love. He thrée years at the Point, and b

That was what he did while

Bradley was very football man at e baseball team. layed left field for k in the states he

Inside In

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: President of the Board of Trade, the Furnas Icé Cream Co., and

' Clarence 2 Hill,

eats it every | day, orders it in restaurants in preference to the fanciest of other desserts. He even chooses it for a midnight snack. Incidentally, that J. in his name is just an initial, doesn’t stand for any particular name. C. J. Hill is a tall, dignified appearing man of 58. Almost six feet, he weighs about 160. ' His hair is gray and getting thin. ¥ Mr. Hill He has a long face, squarish chin, high cheekbones and deep-set blue eyes. When his face was thinner, people used to see in him a resemblance to Abraham Lincoln. ' ®His personality has been likened by friends to that of Will Rogers. He’s rather quiet, has a common touch and a droll sense of humor. He makes friends Without trying. And he’s pretty set in his views.

He Skips Formality

HE CALLS YOU by your first name a few minutes after he meets you, and his memory for names and is uncanny. He went to a business meeting n Columbus once and met a group of 20 that eve‘ning, Next morning he called every one of them by shame. His principal hobby is golf. He took up the game several years ago and developed his own style, which is highly unorthodox As a result, his playing is somewhat erratic. He got out and played 27 holes last Sunday. * He used to be a pretty good bowler. He's fond of fishing, used to go up to Canada to fish every summer, and carried fishing tackle in his car just case he might be driving past a likely looking

Washington

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—These frequent meetngs between Roosevelt and Churchill provide the

a headlines. and newspaper photographs to drive home a ‘to the most reluctant mind one of the chief realities

“about our national security. They provide the most personal evidence of how completely British and American affairs are mixed up together now in this war. Will it be equally clear in our country that this interdependence needs to continue? Is not that a question that congress and public discussion generally should answer? ' Why should not congress express its judgment about that? It will gain us nothing for Mr. Roosevelt to go on blissfully planning post-war co-operation with

«Britain if our congress is hostile, as it was when

‘Wilson proposed a close three-way arrangement with PBtan and France a quarter of a century ago. It is time now to face these questions. We ought know how America, how congress, as distinct from White House, feels. For we cannot go very far “on a foreign policy that does not have the solid support of the American people. We can argue with “people as to what the policy ought to be but unless they are convinced that it is wise and necessary to

_ American interests, not much will come of it. Mitual Future Interest

“CIRCUMSTANCES that make us joint operators : “now in war, will give us joint interests in the future oY] If we must combine forces now to canny’

ugh for our own best interests, would we not be nger if we kept that community of interest in ind from here on? If -Britain and ourselves need h other to win a war, we will need each other to

. Service.

lanapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

‘After farming a while, he got a job with the L. & N.

By Ernie Pyle

Gen. Bradley was born at Moberly, Mo., ‘on Lincoln’s birthday of 1893. hore Tov. hat recently hamied: is: airport after him, and while I was with him he received a letter from Moberly in an envelope all decorated with printed slogans about the ‘Dedication of Bradley Field —Home of Lt. Gen. Bradley.” And there was a picture of him on the envelope. Gen. Bradley looked at it and said, “It looks funny to get a letter with your own picture on it, doesn’t it?” Gen, Bradley graduated from West Point in 1915. He rose to the temporary rank of major in the last war, but. all his service was in the United States. Today he says: “I've spent 25 years trying to explain why I wasn’t overseas in the last war, so thank goodness I'll be spared that this time.”

He Wos Happy As a Boy

THEY SAY that when he got orders to come overseas last winter he was as happy as a bug. During his long army career Gen. Bradley served twice on the faculty at West Point, did one three-year hitch in Hawaii, spent many years at command schools

preparing for just such a wartime job as he has now, and wound up in 1941 as a brigadier general in command of Ft. Benning. There he expanded the officer training candidate school, which last year turned out 40,000 new army officers. In February of 1942 he was made a major general and assighed to the command of the 82d infantry division. Later he commanded the 28th infantry division, and he was on that command when ordered to Africa. His permanent army rank is that of colonel, and because of the fact that in achieving the wartime rank of lieutenant general he was passed over many en his senior, he leans over backward not to say do anything that would make it seem he felt in ith way above them,

He's not much of a card: player, doesn’t care about gambling, plays some bridge, but isn’t crazy about it. -

One of 11 Children

BORN ON A FARM in Harrison county, Kentucky, he was one of 11 children, attended country school.

railroad as a clerk. He was working in Dublin, Ind., when he read an ad for a handyman at the Furnas plant. One of more than 109 applicants, he was accepted. The job paid $12 a week and called for long hours, seven gays a week. He's been there ever since.

Aside from golf, his favorite recreation is piling onto his porch glider and taking a nap with the radio blaring full blast. He wouldn’t.take a million for that glider. Sometimes in hot weather he sleeps on it all night. He loves music, and is crazy about opera, especially enjoys’ Richard Crooks and Lily Pons. It upsets him when callers arrive and upset his Plans to hear some particular program.

Likes Train Riding

MR. HILL ENJOYS good food, especially fried chicken and hot cornbread. He likes a cigar after his meals, cigarets in between meals. He doesn’t care for sandwiches, and dislikes picnics; says he isn’t interested in bug and ant life. He dresses neatly, likes a little red in his .ties. Fomd of flowers, he likes to wear one in his buttonole. He has a victory garden at his home in Brendonwood, but he lost his ambition for it some weeks ago and refused. to bother with the weeds. Movies don’t interest him. He says there’s “nothing to them.” He's a member of the Broadway Methodist church. He likes horses, has a weakness for riding on trains, and his secret ambition is to own a farm some day. That’s C. J. Hill.

By Raymond Clapper

base much broader than Anglo-American relations. Among others, it must include Russia to be fully successful. But we don’t know what Russia is going to do. Any .expectations concerning relations with Russia must be highly speculative. But we know where the British ‘stand. Their self-interest needs America. The U. S.-U. K. supply line is the jugular vein of Britain. We have a traditional fear of being outsmarted by the British, and of thinking they will use us. It should be the other way around. They need us, and they are always fearful that we will run out as we did after the last war. We have most of the gold in the world. We will finish the war with the largest shipping fleet in the world. Our air force will probably outsize the rest of the world put together.

Hold Upper Hand

WE HAVE the big stack of blue chips. If our politicians who are always afraid of the British putting something over would only recognize that we have the chips, then we could go ahead on a regular horse trading basis with the British to the advantage of both of us. You have to admit that Churchill is a tough old ‘rooster and he can drive a hard bargain, Even Roosevelt may sometimes get buck fever as he goes into a big negotiation. But we have the chips to impress even Churchill if we play our hand well, Otherwise I am not at all concerned about Americans not being able to take care of themselves in negotiations with the British. After all, poker is the American national game. Anyway, with congress and public strongly recognizing a fundamental community of interest between Britain and ourselves, many of the specific adjustments between us in post-war matters will become much simpler to handle. The most dangerous thing.is to have no policy, and thereby to drive ourtbest friends shopping elsewhere, such as W Moscow.

By Eleanor Roosevelt |:

having attracted me towards him. “After the death of his gallant father, a position with the chief of ordnance of the army was offered him, which it was hoped he. would accept, but he preferred to remain with his associates in the ranks. “I think the position of a private soldier in the Confederate army is the most honorable in the

; "With Tesnect, I mn your kinsmass and obi; servant,

SOAP FOR CITY CAUSES RIFT I

By $8.75 Worth of Supplies.

‘A near fist-fight flared yesterday in the works board over the purchase of $8.75 worth of liquid soap. Council President Harmon Campbell and Deinocratic member Gideon Blain, balked vociferously at signing a voucher for the soap purchase, made from a firm in which Qity Halli Fat:onz5s Chairman Lee Emmelman has a finanicial interest.

plugging a move to oust Mr. Campbell from the works board presidency. - Is Sick of Squabbles

“I'm sick of seeing these petty]. political squabbles stymie more: important board business,” declared Dr. Walter Hemphill, board vice president. “You've agreed to our policy on these small purchases.” At this, Mr. Blain leaped to his feet and with doubled fists stomped around to the side of the table where Dr. Hemphill was sitting. “I did no such .thing,” he shouted. “I, for one, don't think these purchases are being investigated enough. Dr. "Hemphill, rising half-way from his chair, retorted: “Our purchasing agent in every case of purchases from this company has verified the validity of the price and the serviceability of the product.” Purchasing Agent Ed Hereth interjected: : Denies Political Implications

“I've been tiying to obtain the good faith of this board in my buying ability, but apparently: without success.” He explained that purchases under $100 do not require the taking of bids, but added that he has been requesting board’ approval of all bids, regardless of their value. After further hot-tempered discussions in which Mr. Campbell and

Mr. Blain ‘denied that their protests

had any political implications, Mr. Blain pointed accusingly at newspapermen, exclaiming: “You can say what you want to about me in the paper, but you have no right to publish board business such as this: Purchasing department officials said Mr. Campbell’s systematic objections to purchases from Mr. Emmelman’s chemical concern had previously held up the acquisition of $21 worth of priority listed buckets,

able elsewhere, and $5.75 worth of supplies for two comfort stations on Kentucky ave,

DENTIST SEVERELY BURNED IN BLAST

The condition of Dr. Eugene E. Bales, dentist, severely burned by a laboratory explosion at his office, 3414 Clifton st., Thursday, was reported as “fair” at St. Vincent's hospital today. While preparing to administer an anesthetic to a patient, Wayne Offenbauer, 1166 W. 32d st., Dr. Bales went into his laboratory and a moment later a terrific explosion occured. “Some alcohol exploded,” declared Dr. Bales as he ran into the patient’s room, his clothing aflame. Mr. Offenbauer grabbed a rug off the reception room floor and wrapped it around the doctor, putting out the flames, but not until they had seared his back, arms and face. Mr. Offenbauer escaped with only slight burns, Frank Lobraico, nearby druggist, heard the explosion and ran to the Bales office. He said he found Dr. Bales in a semi-conscious condition and rushed him to the hospital in his car.

REMY HELPS POLICE

William H. Remy, safety board presidént, directed police work from his home Thursday after Hearing short-wave - police radio reports of the capture of two ‘teen age boys accused of speeding through the city in a car, reported stolen. He immediately called juvenile aid division, instructing officers to confine the two boys, 15 and 17, in jail, and praised the work of Pa-

near North side streets. At New Jersey st. and Ft. Wayne

ave. one of the young suspects leaped out of the car and

SOS IS SOUNDED BY OPA MAILING CENTER

WORKS BOARD

Near Fist-Fight Fight Prompted

Mr. Emmelman has been spark-|.

which, they said, were not obtain-|

JAILING 2 YOUTHS|

and leisure time in the park. Shown, catchi non, Linton; Velma Hixon, Falmouth; Priscil The business college is on the second floor of the Architects and Builders building, across from the park.

D. Ward, Cartersburg,

Student Lu ch Hour In Park

With University park as their campus, students of Central Business college spend their lunch hours up on their studies are (left to right) Emma Hester Bran-

and Grayce Davis, Indianapolis.

By PAUL GHALI Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times d The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

BERN, Aug. 21.—French morale, bolstered to audacity by recent events, may cause the Nazis in France to apply their Norwegian methods” to quell resistance, observers here believe. The Quebec ‘conference and two allied announcements that the hour of liberation is near have stimulated French patriot resistance against the Nazi yoke and the Vichy henchmen to an unprecedented degree. «A : fortnight ago, learned, five French patriots were condemned by the Riom, court to

life for shooting at two mobile

guards in the village of Arlenc, in Correz department. Members of resistance groups decided to free their colleagues. as the: condemned were being transferred | from Clermont-Fer-rand to Aix-En-Province prison, a car with ‘police escort was attacked at a point between -Clermont and Nimes and the prisoners set free. Next day 10 French policemen were ‘found bound up in a ditch close to a road. In their hands

and a scrap of paper with the words, “with the compliments and thanks of the Algiers committee for national liberation.” Two. days ago patriots attacked

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own newspaper, Le Moniteur. = » ”

FRENCH PATRIOTS simply refuse to see their crops go to Germany to fatten the families of their “occupiers.” All over France, | destruction of crops is spreading. A Vichy communique yesterday indicated no less’ than six new cases of crop burning in one day. Patriots| also are especially sabomachines, most loaned by the Germans early in July in order to reap a quick harvest—and quick delivery of their| requisitions. It is clear that destruction of crops in such a peasant-minded country as France is a desperate gesture, indicating that in the

the Sis Clermont of Laval’s_

‘minds of French patriots France .

next year will receive food and supplies from the allies. Sensing the direction in which the wind is blowing, Vichy officialdom, never wholeheartly with Lavsl’s collaborationist policy, has now started a deliberate hoycotting campaign against German from the French. There is no question of refusal, but German demands are being pushed from one department to another —and so time passes. The Germans obviously are getting nervous, too. Their way of squashing resistance up to now has been to arrest recalcitrant

Patriots in France, Sensing the Hour of | train at Their Nazi Bonds

officials. But this does not get work. doae. Following the arrest of some 15 officials in the finance, industrial and production ministries in Paris, both . Finance Minister Pierre Cathala and Jean: Bichelonne, minister of industrial production ‘and communications are now for‘bidding their services to continue contact with the German -economic delegation at the Hotel Majestic in Paris.

This special form of strike will ' last, it appears, until the Nazis have released the officials or have given reasons for their arrest. WITH 200,000 countrymen hiding in the bush, ready to help the allies overthrow him, Laval well knows that his days are numbered if he does not change. his policy, The only way out for Laval today is to confirm that he has really given a complete veto to the new German demand for 500,000 men and 200,000 women workers to be delivered before the end of January. Simultaneously, Laval is trying desperately to induce democratic leaders in France to take part in the responsibilities of power. He continues to meet with the re=fusd} of all of them. It would surprise nobody here if the Nazis should take a sudden decision to dismiss Laval and replace him by a quisling of the (Jacques) Doriot type.

(This is the last of six articles about proposed social security legislation.)

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. — When congress gets around to

real work on the new Wagner-Mutray-Dingell bill for extension of social security it will expect a visit from state officials concerned about the bill's proposal to federalize the unemploy-ment-compensation system, which is now a federal-state enterprise. The state argument will be that federalization of unemployment compensation would mean a further . concentration of authority in Washington, and a corresponding decrease in the states’ authority. The American Federation of Labor, backing the new bill, is lined up with the social security board in advocating the shift to more federal authority. The SSB, however, recommends that actual administration be “strongly decentralized, - with representative advisory committees and appeals councils in all the states.” The A. F, of L. and the SSB join in the view that state administration of unemployment compensation is so lacking in uniformity that a central co-ordinat-ing agency .is demanded. 2 8 ” AFTER-WAR conditions are cited as probable reasons why the

Coming Up: A Fight for More Security—No. 6 Federal Control of Social Security Is Expected to Stir State Opposition

48 states should not attempt to handle unemployment compensation without regard to the rest of the country; a federal agency, it is argued, would have the broad view. The same line of thought is back of the proposal for a national system of employment offices, about which there is less argument. Less spending of public money is involved in this case. Numerous : points of possible controversy are involved in the new 1 security bill, which will come first before the House ways means committee. Final congressional action on all phases of the measure can hardly be expected | before ‘the congressional electi in November of 1944. Little if any opposition is - ex~ pected for the proposals to bring under the old-age pension system milli of agricultural and domestic now covered, ” ” »

WILL be much opposia proposal that medical attention and hospitals be placed under federal control. There will be congressional questioning, also, for proposals to set up a federal system | of payments for temporary or permanent disability of workers. : Despite the possible points of

objec A. F. of L. President Ww Green declared: is one of the most im-

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- WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 : PD.

|—Arthur Goodwyn Billings, who has

spent his entire army life in the

Army Objector in ‘Cooler’ Appeals to Sup eme Court

over to civil authorities for arrest

COTS s put Billings under guard v minutes later read him

workers and others not.

portant legislative proposals of our times. . It fortifies the American way of life against our great internal enemies—poverty, disease and economic dislocation. Coupled with a program for vast expansion of our acetime industries, it will constitute a guarantee that the American people will be spared from unnecessary suffering after the war is over. “The great. benefits of this bill are so manifest and so essential as to shame any petty, technical opposition into silence.” td " os

MUCH OPPOSITION is expecied to center around the objection that social security expansion ‘should not be attempted in wartime. “The answer to that,” says Arthur J. Altmeyer, social security board chairman, “is that unless action is taken now there is grave danger that the postwar period will arrive before a wellrounded social security system can be put into successful operation. It cannot be improvised overnight. “The extension of social secur ity now would not only not interfere with but would greatly aid in the successful prosecution of the war, The greater sense of security which would result would make the people of this great nation more effective defenders of democracy. This has been amply demonstrated in Great Britain.”

DENTAL GRADUATES GET SPEGIAL HONOR

Honors went to seven of the 42 graduates of the Indiana university school of dentistry at the school's pre-commencement honor day exercises yesterday at the I. U. medical

- special award for out-

. |standing ability in oral surgery,

and a similar honor was given Melvin A. Ritter of Morgantown for outstanding ability in dentistry. Five of the graduates were elected

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REJECTS 4 FOR WELFARE POST

Demand Showdown Seven-Year-0ld The Marion county welfare board yesterday demanded a final showdown on the seven-year-old question whether the welfare department is to be operated “for the people or for the politicians.” The board adopted a resolution rejecting a list of four merit system eligible candidates for appointment as county welfare director submitted by the state personnel department and asked that the list be reopened “to obtain the best available man for the job.” The resolution stated in part: “It is the opinion of this board that the best executive and administrative ability available in Marion ‘| county for the office of director has not found its way into the list recently cerfified to this board. Define Director's Duties

“Inasmuch as the duties of the director of public welfare embrace, among other things, the administration of approximately $4,000,000 annually to the deserving needy and organization and supervision of. a personnel force of about 150 assistants, there is required for this office a high order of executive ability - commensurate with the large public interests involved.” The list of four candidates certified to the hoard by the state personnel department recently included four persons out of the original field

on

lof 156 canditates who survived merit

system examination, Arthur L. Gilliom, welfare hoard member, said it was a consensus of board members that for some reason “the best talent for the job Sian get certified on the eligible “Our call for a new list can be taken as forcing a showdown on the question of whether we are to spend $4,000,000 annually for the benefit of the needy or for the benefit of the politicians,” Mr, Gilliom said. He indicated that political pressure had been brought on the board in connection with an appointment of a director from the certified list of candidates.

Politics Ruled Out

“We are serving notice that the politicians -had better ‘keep their" dirty, rotten hands off the welfare department activities in the future,” he said. Mr, Gilliom said the board members were not directing their attack against any of the: four individuals certified for the director job. “We merely are determined to see that the department is run for the people and not used to promote votes at the ballot boxes,” he said. The list of certified candidates rejected by the board included Evan L. Parker, a district representative of the state welfare board; Miss Helen Guynn, present acting county welfare director; William Ross Copeland, former NYA personnel officer, and Daily E. McCoy, Julietta . infirmary superintendent. Recommends McCoy

Board = members reported that Judge Mark W. Rhoads of juvenile court who appointed the board had approached them urging the appointment of Mr. McCoy who has been a Republican leader here for

{more than 20 years.

Appointive powers for the board membership was transferred from Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox, Democrat, to Judge Rhoads following repeated charges over a period of seven years that political motives were causing friction in the administration of the welfare department. Thomas L. Neal, former welfare director, resigned last Jan. 1 as the climax of more than five years of friction with the board appointed by Judge Cox.

FATHER OF 5 ASKS CHANGE FROM 1-A

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Aug. 21 (U. P.).—~Cambridge draft board No. 45 had under advisement yesterday the appeal of a 37-year-old father of five children who recently was reclassified from 3-A to 1-A. At an appeal hearing, Carl J, Jacobsen contended that his job as a production man at a candy facots was a war- job because the plant is under army supervision. Jacobsen, whose children range in age from 4 to 14, added that he would go into the army willingly if the board overruled his appeal.

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