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nL to : ly even bring down the orchestra, and $0 around to the tables of all newlyweds on board and i ‘honeymoon pieces, and the victims smile and p silly. : It was the gayest captain's dinner I've seen in all 40 years behind the porthole, and ‘we should have

As Fun, It Was Great

"AFTER DINNER a good share of the crowd made for the baliroom, where the last night of dancing Was going on. = As dancing, it wasn't much. But as fun, it was great. The sea was very rough in a steady, far-over, pendulum-like roll. It was like trying to dance on a teeter-totter. > Whenever the ship hit top dead center on her wallow from one side to the other, you could work in a couple of quick steps. But the rest of the time you were simply sliding But now we are approaching the catastrophe, Be I am sliding gracefully from ane end of the floor fo the other, see? My partner is a navy man’s wife, and she’s about as skinny as I am, see? And it's all # lot of fun, see, until suddenly we start a roll, and I can’t explain how you could tell, but I knew the second that roll began that we were in for it,

IF SOME OF OUR agents don't get back in the groove, old Inside may have to emulate the example of Ollie M. Jamies, dolumnist on the Cincinnati Enquirer. In a recent edition, his column appeared with his half column picture at the top, as usual, but : i iss with the rest of the column nothing but blank white space, except for one line, reading: “I couldn't think of anyihing today.” We've been fempted several times to try that but haven't had the nerve, thus far. , . . Mary Jo Woods of the public library staf! was stand- ! Ing in the Claypool lobby the eve“ning of the dinner given -for' fhe four authors here for the book and author bond rally. An excited woman who evidently had oe Le heard that some famous authors ‘would be here rushed up to Mary Jo and exclaimed: excuse me, but ‘aren't you Cornelia Otis Skinner?” She seemed Very disappointed to learn other‘wise. Mary Jo felt flattered. . ,'. Fremont Power,

the one-time. tomato editor, was in town Friday on ; 0S. eAd. acist’s mate, second class, tries Friday. nights, he hops a. plane and. commutes) Of people.” Perhaps the delega-

S. marfime service, and is chafing considerably at being kept in “drydock” in New Haven, Conn. on recruiting duty. “I'll never get any pretty ribbons to wear oh my mahly chest this way,” he Mary Lesh, chairman of local Red | servives, inc New York sevShe was accompanied by her secretary—Jo Mohr. ¢ She's Smiling Again VIRGINIA BENJAMIN of the governor's secre-

tarial staff has been down in the dumps recently because she hadn't heard for some time from the one

sighed Cross

‘and only—Ensign Kenneth Steinmetz, somewhere . overseas. But she was all smiles Friday. The mall-

man brought -her seven letters all at once. . ..: Kenneth: M. Kunkel, the state rationing executive, finally has yielded to circumstances .and moved here from his beloved Brown county. The move resulted

partly from the increasing press of work and even

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18—The core of Wendell Willkie's thinking today is just the same it was long pefore he was nominated for president in 1940 and as it was throughout that campaign, He reiterated it at St. Louis: America must have a productivity big enough, expand- _ ing fast enough, to absorb the unleashed energies and aspirations of all our people. And such productivity can come into being only if America joins with other nations to establish a world at peace in which trade can flourish. That all seems so self-evident that it is hard to understand how there can be the violent argument about it. I suppose the ex- ! a planation is that prejudices, incomi y plete knowledge and natural fears and timidities about the future combine to prevent people sometimes from thinking clearly or from recognizing the obvious, Certainly Willkie has stated the obvious, but his words probably will be chewed over as if he had daringly voiced some new.and

G. 0. P. Needs Someone With Courage ". EVIDENTLY WHAT the Republican party needs .

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big round table screwed down with and glasses went flying. bones were broken, but people got and nasty cuts. The dector had a busy

‘Miraculously bad bruises ‘night, As for me, I fell for 30 feet and landed backwards, smack on the back of my head. During the last two feet of the fall I said a quick and quiet goodby to the world. I expected to wake up, if at all, in a San

But, Fate Saved Me ;

FATE SAVED ME. My head cracked like a shotgun when it hit the deck. But it didn’t seem to hurt, and I didn't even see stars. Personally, I feel that it was my reward for having lived a just and righteous life. : i The navy man's wife fell all around me. It is my impression that she fell mostly on top of me. But she says I fell on top of her and smashed the wind out of her and hurt her hip. It is my belief that she tripped me to begin with. But we've made it/ up and stopped quarreling. For after all we're both alive, even if we are so sore all over today we hardly dare touch ourselves. And we've got a rough-sea experience we can boast about for years. : Today we are on shore again. And all day things have been swaying and rolling. The sidewalks tilt up, the beds roll over, and this afternoon in the bath. tub I had to grab twice for that handle along the wall to keep from falling out, of the tub. I thought San Francisco was having an earthquake,

But I couldn't find anything about it in the’

evening papers.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

moré from the fact he got pretty tired of riding the bus between here and Nashville twice a day. He had to ride the bus because he wouldn't accept a B card although one of his duties is supervisor of pas rationing for the state. He found an apartment in the Charmwood apartments, on Pennsylvania near Shortridge. . . . Sidney McClellan, OPA slate enforcement attorney, has reported at Princeton as a naval Heutenant, funior grade. . . , Robert W, Crasher, the acting eHiéf enforcement attortiey for OPA, also goes into the navy as a lieutenant, junior grade, the first of November,

‘A Busy Man Is He

ONE OF THE BUSIEST men in. the state Is President Herman B Wells, of Indiana university, what with trying to keep the university on an even keel and at the same time attending to his government duties in Washington. He spends Mondays through Friday in Washington as a member of the vitally important three-member planning committee of the office for economic co-operation. The committee has the task of setting up the orgamzation to straighten put. the economic. affairs of occupied. couns

back fo Indiana to spend a busy Saturday and Sun. day on I. U. affairs. He's standing up under the strain pretty well, although influenza sent him to bed in the Hotel Mayflower for several days last

in the 6100 blo#k of Guilford ave. by two policemen in a squad car. The policemen, parked 20 feet or so from a street sign, asked first what street it was, then what viock. Then they said they wanted to get to the 800 block, E. 56th st. “Hope If isn't an emergency call,” quipped our agent. “But it is,” one of them said. They started on. . . . Our agen’ who- knows all about St. Louis (Lee Baker of the U. P.), says that the streetcar card one of our readers saw in an Illinois streetcar the other day evidently was meant for St. Louis, The card was a loan company ad and gave several addresses which Lee recognized as being in’ St. Louis, The street railway ofllcials here can’t figure out how:it gpt-in one of our local streetcars. .

By Raymond Clapper

It will be a question whether the country will care to change presidents while the war continues,

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By DAVID

power conference, scheduled

coming clear, to discuss them openly and make a real effort to reach under:

standing. a “To Nazi propagandists who are stressing the “impossibility” of any basic agreement between the. three powers, the government newspaper Izvestia declares that rs i AY the Germans

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have lived on such hopes be‘fore only to be disappointed. Izvestia repeats the arguments of Pravda, Communist party organ, that "the vonference cannot avoid discussion {& Mr: Nichol of the military { aspects of the war. The situation both in the Soviet Union and in the Mediterranean has altered the whole picture of the war, it says, until the problem of bringing about the speediest possible defeat of Hitler is paramount. It takes the realistic view that any discussion of post-war problems can only occur if the world is moving towards a post-war period, if joint efforts are being most fully expended toward vic tory.

¥ =» =» They May See Stalingrad Fallure of the allies to use the present favorable situation for new blows against the Germans would mean that political leaders must shoulder responsibility, Izvestia says, for the “immeasur..Able suffering of tens of milli

flons will gel & glimpse of Stalin: grad on the way there. It would be a helpful preliminary to their discussions, There are some questions which Just. as definitely will. not be talked about during the sessions here, and one of these seems to be the Soviet Union's boundaries. ‘There is absolutely no indication; however, that Moscow wants these any farther extended. The sole reference to theseproblems in today’s press occurs

Atmosphere of Hope Prevails in Moscow for Success of Conference

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MOSCOW, Oct. 18.—Moscow is approaching the three.

to open today, in an atmos-

phere of hope and apparent determination to do everything possible to make the meeting an unqualified success. There will be problems—it admits that—but Moscow seems prepared, within general limits which are now be-

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in a Pravda article about Rue mania, in which Rumanian leaders are accused of duplicity similar to that which has often been charged against Finnish leaders —playing Hitler's war game and trying at the same time to avold the consequences of defeat. Any hopes _ for a “trans Dniester empire,” about which the Rumanians earlier talked so much, ean certainly be completely discarded. » . »

Models of Reasonableness

These articles sometimes seem to have a stern uncompromising tone. | Actually, compared with earlier expressions, they are models of restraint and reasonableness,

The approach of the conference has been marked in Moscow by increased political and diplomatic activity, The visit seems unconnected, because Donald M. Nelson, for example, was received by Premier Stalin in one of his first in. terviews with a foreign visitor for an extended period. The new Turkish ambassador to Moscow, Huessein Ragib Baidur, arrived here Friday. China's national day and the Afghan holiday were both made occasions for diplomatic receptions this week on a scale exceeding anything since the evacuation of the diplomatic corps to Kuiby« shev two years ago.

Harmony Prevailed Before The American embassy recep=

Hon for Nelson brought out both...

‘Deputy Foreign Commissar Max«

“im M. Litvifiov and A. 3. Mikeyii

(commissar of foreign trade), one of Stalin's closest advisers, as well as a large number of Red army officers; The tri-partite conference leaders are to be V. M. Molotov, Russian foreign commissar, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. It is difficult to point out any single factor but the whole atmosphere seems to be one of co-op-eration, Much emphasis is given,

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for example, to the harmony In which it pow appears the Italian armistice negotiations were con« ducted as typical of what can be expected In future. It is also disclosed for the first time that the Soviet Union took the initiative in the formation of the miiltary-political commission which will shortly be operating in the Mediterranean,

By CLARK PORTEOUS Times Special Writer MEMFHIS, Oct. 18.—It's not only angels who sing high in the heavens. The boys who drop bombs on the

But if the country does change, it is not likely to! change to a ronentity, or a man of negative incli- |

enemy from five or six miles up also do a 16t of singing when their missions have been accomplished

nations who is able only to complain and eeiticize | and they are streaking homeward

and obstruct, and ‘who shows no sign of aggressiveness or intcrest in leading the country forward. It does not seem probable that people will be looking for one who is merely a competent bookkeeper, Not

fight for American interests as they fight for their respective interests,

Calls for Revival

WILLKIE CALLS for revival of the spirit of | American enterprise, the free use of risk capital which will back new inventions, organize new air routes and start other new enterprises. That, says Willkie, is what America and the ‘world will need most for growth and expansion in the tough and adventurous days certain to follow the war. As he

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through the sky. The army air forces is a singing outfit, always a sign of good morale.

{You can learn about the singing by when the complaint you hear about Roosevelt is that talking to combat he does not stand up to Churchill and Stalin and | Dyersburg

veterans at air base, near Halls, Tenn,, where they are instructing new B-1T crews. - Veterans of the bombing of Europe, those from the southwest Pacific, from Africa, from the fogveiled Aleutians—they all tell of singing on their way home in the flying fortresses or Liberators. Sometimes planes tune in on each others’ frequencies and serenade one another. The crews harmonize over the plane's phone system. Perhaps the lad singing bass will be the tail gunner, while the tenor may be the

- |ibombardier in the nose, with other

FOR THE PHILIPPINES

NEW DELHI, Oct. 18. (U, P)— Britian

the sound going to each other over the wires by throat Vibrations, “You get a good bubbly feeling when you know you're coming home again,” said Capt. Willlam D. Beasley, 28, Hazelhurst, Miss, veteran of 25 missions over Europe. He says that somehow songs just’ come *olling out when you head for home after a mission. Sometimes they sing the latest songs from home-—they learn them by radio, or from new crews coming td their bases. But more often they sing the old songs. Perhaps they'll harmonize on “Rock of Ages” or “It's the Old-Time Religion” or “Down bythe Old Mill Stream.”

Like ‘Wing and Prayer’

Capt. Howell McCorkle, 24, from | Comanche, Tex., who wears the air medal with three clusters, the distinguished flying cross with two clusters and the silver star for 35 missions over Europe, said “Coming In on a Wing and a Prayer” was one of their favorites.

Red Cross Holds

Internee's Letter

A LETTER from a mother possibly interned in Germany, addressed to Walter Lublitz, care of Yunker and Ruh, Indianapolis, is unclaimed at the local Red Cross office. | The message, dated Dec, 14, was sent by Mrs. Lublitz, 37 Burgdorf st, Herwest Dorsten. It says, “Dear children, I am still well. Please give mi¢ exact address of ‘each. Your mother

Army Air Force Crews Sing Favorite Tunes

As They Wing Back From Deadly Missions|

He saia morale was very good the first 30 missions but the last five, it wasn't so good. There wasn't so much singing then, either—the men were jittery, “If I had to go back I figure I wouldn't last over three missions” Capt. McCorkle sald. “I figure my luck has about run out. I was never brought down, but my plane often came back full of holes.”

Sang With Doolittle

Capt. Kendrick R. Bragg, 25, Bavannah, Ga, said his crew always sang “White Cliffs of Dover” as ‘hey camg back across the English channel. oe It was Capt. Bragg who brought back the “All-American,” a fortress, from a raid over Tunis when It theoretically coiid not fly, In the midst of fight, a Messerschmitt, out of ‘control, practically slashed the tail off. X He flew the plane back to his base, for an agonizing hour and 45 minutes, thinking every second that the tail might drop off. bs 1st. Lt. Eugene J. English, navigator,. sald he often flew from a Pacific island base with Lt, Jimmie Doolittle Jr. pilot son of the general, and he and Doolittle would sing duets after accomplishing their missions. He sald the boys of his base had a song “I Wanna Go Home,” which was very popular.

OFFICERS OF C. 1. 0, IN STATE ELECTED

PT. WAYNE, Oct. 18—All state officers of the Indiana Congress of Industrial Organizations were reelected at the closing session of the union’s sixth annual convention here yesterday.

The officers are James McEwan, South Bend, president; O. H. Mc~

apolis, secretary-treasurer,

The Moscow conference will take place mear Red Square, shown here when Russian tanks paraded

Anthony Eden VM. Molotov

Sumary. of Soviet D mands At Three-Power Conference

BERNE, Oct. 18 (C. D. N.).—Here are five main demands with which the Soviets will confront British- American envoys at the Moscow three-power conference, slated to open today: 1. Guarantee by the united nations of Russia's frontiers as they sinod on June 21, “I9fl—meaning integration inte Russia of all the Baltic states and part of Poland, ih : 2. Cession by Rumania to Bulgaria of Dobrudjs, 3. A democratic government to be established according to popular

will in Bulgaria, 4. Cession to Bulgaria of a harbor on the Aegean sea. 5. Direct land communication, under Bulgarian sovereignty, of such a harbor with Soviet Russia, : :

FINNS STRONG, | Scouts Want * NAZI REPORTS cr coro merece

BOY SCOUTS are scouring the county on a treasure hunt—for Jaloples. 2 Reich ‘Protection’ Credited For Growing Power; Support ‘Expected.’

The more aged, the: more comical, the more dilapidated, the better. Before they are salvaged for scrap, 173 Scout troops will parade them in the special jalopy section of the Navy Day parade

Ti Copyright, 1043, by The fly News. Ine, | the night of Oct, 21. BERNE, Oct. 18~"Pinland has| They will be judged, and win-

ning troops will receive $500 in bonds. ‘The Scouts are working with the Junior Chamber of Com~ merce in the jalopy drive.

PICTURES WILL SHOW " MISSIONARY’S TRIP

The W. 8. C. 8. of the West Michi« gan Street Methodist church will meet at.8 Pp. m. tomorrow at the

now reached the peak of its mili. tary strength and has gathered con. siderable striking power during the last 18 months, according to my thorough investigations.” So reports a Nazi correspondent, Count Kniphausen, just sent by the Stuttgart Kurier to Helsinki to make a report. This newspaper is the Nazi organ for southern Germany and often serves as Hitler's non-official mouthpiece, “This fact of paramount impor. tance was possible,” says Kniphausen, “only because German soldiers protected Finland with their lives when they were supported only by a few divisions of other friendly nations, the entire period from the winter of 1942 to the sum- |" mer of 1643, the German army bore the whole brunt of the Russian offensive while the Finnish army enjoyed a peaceful existence. 8 4 “It must be stressed that it was