Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1943 — Page 19
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ug and looked. The motor nacelle was covered with black oil. The passengers all looked, and the steward went forward into the pilots’ compart- _ Naturally, they already knew all about it. Had ‘known, even before we realizéd it. And in a half-
down slowly. Behind the town was a strip of desert sand, bare and empty. We figured that was the field. We circled so long and lost altitude so sjowly that we became uneasy, wondering what the pilot was going to do. And then we really headed down for the field. The plane descended so steeply that we slipped forward against our seat belts, i Then we were just a few feet from the ground,
sand then the wheels hit, and we bounced a little, and
you could feel them settle and roll smoothly, and feel the brakes go on, and we knew we were safe, and I'm telling you it was one great feeling. The average pil? would laugh at anyone being concerned over such an incident. We who know anything about aviation know that modern planes will fly a long time on one motor; and we know that even a deadstick landing is not especially dangerous. But when it actually happens to you, all those statistics you've read don't mean much, You're pretty worried, don't think you aren't. And when it's all over, you sure feel powerful good.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowel Nussbaum
| THE BIGGEST THRILL Dr. R. 8. Griffin, the
dentist, gets trese days is when the fire engines come shrieking “down Massachusetts ave. to Pennsylvania. Wheh they dc, he invariably rushes to the window of his office .in the Bankers Trust building, watches 3 ie closely, then ‘mutters: “Well, they made it that time” He's sure that one of the trucks will hit a streetcar one Watching fire engines must be a mild form of excitement for Doc. He spent from December, "1940,
until last spring in London and -
claims not to have missed a single air raid while working with a bomb demolition squad. . . . More "about Lt. Jim Tucker. His 3 “brother, Dr. Warren Tucker, reee ceived a letter from Jim saying arm wounds are coming alung fine and he hopes £0 be out of the hospital in a few weeks. Under former methods of treatment it would have taken six months. There's still no indication whether he'll be dispharged from the navy. Some of the Republican politicians would give a pretty penny to know. . . . A sign on the rear of a wedding party car yesterday read: "First draft—army; second draft—marriage.” «+» One of our agents reports seeing Mrs. James H. Ruddell hurrying down Pennsylvania at Market and carrying several large saws, sich as carpenters use. She- seemed abit self-conscious, “and remarked: “Bet you're wondering.” . . . Attention Frank E. Kaveney, of the Ft. Harrison Red Cross office! ‘The answer is: “Yes siree!™ yr
Some of This and That . A COUPLE of teachers from out of town were walking into tne Claypool and the following dialogue : d: “My isn’t it warm here in’ Indianapolis!” , well, we're dowr south now” They must have been from up north in Noblesville or Elwood. . . . One of our agents calls in to report, indignantly, a breach of flag etiquette. The custodian of a certain
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Dies.” A later dispatch, says the Nazis have him in ‘8 concentration camp, but that is only a worse kind ‘of death for a free spirit such as his. ; 3 3 TT It may mean nothing to you, and if so I'm sorry, but I have to talk about it because “Jean-Chris-tophe” was one of the most exThat's man’s
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whe few years ago. Red-Headed Colonel Talks Back THAT WAS at Rehoboth Beach, Det. in the days
of cur troubled peace when we thought war could be #yoided. All except a red-headed air corps colonel
of these days. Speaking of our mighty memory brings blushes.
firm (it wouldn't be fair to pame it) permits the flag to trail on the ground while preparing to raise it on the flagstaff. The flag never should touch the ground. . . ., Mike Morrissey, the former police chief, stopped off in town yesterday en route from E. St. Louis to Washington. His formal title now is: Chief »f the-Police Section of the Social Protective Divisicr of the Community War Service. There's some more to it but we've forgotten it. . , . In yesterday's co'ump- we called Jack Hatfield, of the Civie, “Dick” Hatfield. And we knew better, too Anyway, it made another item. . . Vincent Pullen, a new flute player with the symphony, went on a search for a room Tuesday and spent hours fruitiessly, He was too late everywhere he went. Then, while going past & house he saw & man walk out on the porch and hang a sign: “Room for rent.’ He dashed right
“in and rented it ‘The room is at 1221 N. Delaware,
Just Another Fire
HERBERT J) STEDFELD, chief clerk of rationing board 49-8, at 113 W. 30th, was standing at the counter talking to an applicant Monday when the fire trucks went by, shrieking and clanging. The applicant seemed interested, wondered where they were going “Oh, that’s nothing, they go by here every day,” replied Mr. Stedfeld. An hour later, after the trucks had returned, Mr. Stedfeld learned where the fire had been. His wife called and sald it was their home. . Incidentally, Mr. Stedfeld’s chow dog is a regu.ar weekly visitor at the rationing office. The dog walks’ from home=-24th and Illinois-to the board office, scratches on the door and begs a dog biscuit from one of the clerks who keeps a supply for him. After a while, Mr. Stedfeld orders the dog to “go home,” ana home it goes. ., Mrs. H. H. Arn+ holter. publicity director for the city civilian defense organization, i* much interested in home safety, When she attended a home, safety meeting at the C. of C, Tuesday, friends noticed she was limping. She explained hat she fell at her home when a rug on which she was standing slipped on the freshly
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By Raymond Clapper
That red-headed air corps colonel is now Lt, Gen, Carl A. Spaatz, and his job has been to command the American air force in North Africa, Just three months ago we sat in the evening on the shores of the Mediterranean near Carthage, talking about the war. And he stopped and asked if the time would come again when we could all go back to Rehoboth and enjoy the kind of vacations we used to enjoy with our friends there, Of course I don't think that a vacation at the beach is the goal. But it is part of it. That coast now is under armed patrol. Submarines cruised near it for many months sinking our ships. Europe's war edged over to that beach and wreckage sometimes floated up. Survivors .from torpedoed tankers were brought to the’ coast guard station nearby.
No Security Until Coast Is Clear THERE CAN be no security inside America un
up on an open page. Just three words Courage.” ) We have thousands of men age. We have too few who think with. courage.
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matter to sift down on its tile roofs, into its streets and over its fields. They fear that a whole winter- of wind-borne volcano dust may break down roofs and make the fown uninhabitable,
Mexico City ‘newspapers publish stories of the ‘troubles of inhabitants of the land in the path of the dust during the summer. Thousands are suffering from conjunctivitis because their eyes are irritated by the dust, There have been serious outbreaks of typhoid in some places, too, as water sources have been choked, Near the voloano, that is, withe in-a 10 or 20-mile radius, crops cannot be planted because the dust smothers the plants, The government has provided new lands for the “damnificados,” and mandy of them have been
moved, . " »
Black Snow Falls
But the villagers of San Juan de las Colchas are staying on, Their fields are covered as with black snow and all food has to be brought in, even forage for
the little ponies the government has given them to rent to tourists, They hope the voleano will subs side before their town is complete« ly doomed, Much of the farm land of the Mexican highlands ia of voleanio’ earth, but it cannot be
GROUP STUDIES WAR CRIMINALS
Fate "of Quarter Million Nazi Leaders Under London Probe.
LONDON, Oct. 31 (U, P)—A quarter-million German war criminals, the hatchet-men of Hitler's new order, stand open to indictment by the world today with the formation of the Allied War Criminals Commission which one day will prosecute the case of humanity against them, : Retribution for the crimes of these men, and thousands of equally-guilty Italians and Japanese, was yesterday when representatives of 17 of the united pations met under the chairman.
legal framework for dealing with Axis atrocities. In any civil court they would face
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By DON E. WEAVER Editor, The Ft. Worth Press
PARICUTIN, MEXICO'S new volcano, is only eight months old, but it has changed the way of life in hundreds of square miles, It threatens to affect many more before it is through erupting. The devastation, of course, is worst near the 1600foot cone, and diminishes with distance. But Uruapan, a nice little city 20 miles south, had a fall of eight inches of black sand between the time the volcano belched out its first eruption last Feb, 20 and the
The wind changes with the seasons in the Mexico highlands, It has been blowing north during the summer, but about November it will turn to the south again, and Uruapan can again expect th
e black snow of the volcanic farmed while it is still falling and piling up. The dust filters into everything. Take a photo of a snow scene and develop it in reverse, and you will have a picture of the countryside around Paricutin. The soft stuff clings to the pine trees and lies inches thick on their limbs, just like snow, only it is black and does not melt. . # . .
Hills, Valleys Covered
The rains wash some of it away, but the hills and valleys are covered with drifts and smooth unbroken expanses of the black show which sifts out of the constantly rising pillar of earth stuff that pours out of the volcano. The clouds of dust are fat and dark, like smoke from a burning oil well. From Uruapan, 30 miles away, the columns ‘looks close enough to be within a mile of the village. Most of the old people of Uruapan refuse to visit the volcano, It is the devil's work, they say, and will not go near. They go instead to the churches and pray. The church bells ring insistently at daybreak, and the attendance at mass is heavy. " . #
For some, like Antonio Rubio, a guide in Mexico City, the volcano has brought added income, for there are tourists to be taken by car at 200 pesos each from the
By ROBERT TAYLOR Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Ott. 321.—The prospect of a government tax-paid advertising campaign becoming a Iactor in the 1944 presidential campaign has been dangled before a senate committee by Republican opponents of the Bankhead newspaper subsidy bill, Exhibit A in the evidence of the opponents was a, model full-page newspaper advertisement, prepared by the treasury for the third war loan campaign, containing a picture of President Roosevelt and a message from him as commanderin=chief. ‘It was produced by Senator Dana~ her (R. Conn.), who denouncea it as an attempt to portray the president as commander-in-chief not only of the army and navy, but also of the civilian population. Nir. Danaher made a number of proposals for consideration by the senate banking and currency committee, now considering the subsidy bill. They included: Amendment of the bill to bar pictures of candidates, limitation on the type of advertisements paid for out of tax funds, submission of advertising copy to the majority and. minority leaders of both houses of congress, and postponement of the advertising campaign until after the presidential election, 2 “Don't you thipk you're getting into a purely administrative matter?” Senator Radcliffe (D. Md.), inquired.
Taft Voices Opinion
“Yous party probably will select a man who has had just as much advertising,”
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pillar climbing thousands of feet into the sky, mingling with the clouds and sifting a coating of black sandy lava ash over a wide area.. Uruapan had a fall of eight inches of the black sand during the sea son when the wind blew it in its direction. About November the wind will turn again toward Uriapan. Residents fear the weight of sand on the tile roofs may force them to abandon their homes and flea
capital city to visit the wonder mountain. . 3 And on the ridge close to the volcano, some enterprising natives have built little *“chositas,” huts where food and drink are sold. While you stand and watch the fireworks at close range, Andres Don Diego will sell you a drink of cheranda, a pleasant liquor Made in Uruapan of sugar. It costs 10 cents Mexican, or two cents U, 8. money, His wife, Maria Jesus, bakes tortillas on an earthen platter over a pine knot fire, In another earthen pot the ever pres. ent frijoles, or beans, are piping hot. 8he makes the tortilla cake smooth and creamy out of soft corn dough on her “metate"” which is of stone and'ls between a washboard and a platter. She mashes it with a "lemano;” a sort of stone rolling pin, Her great great grandmother; and hers before that, made tortillas in precisely the same way.
” » » Andres has a guitar, and while the tourists watch the blazing glory of the voleano after night-
. fall the men soothe the horses,
sing “songs like Rancho Grande and Le Feria de las Flores—all in
The hearing veered at one point to a discussion of what would happen if a politically-opposed newspaper refused to print an advertisment containing the president's pleture, but was willing to print other government advertisements. “If you sent a newspaper six ads and they refused to publish the first one but wanted to publish the rest, the government would say ‘you won't publish any’,” Senator Taft, (R. Ohio), predicted. : The bill of Senator Bankhead, (D. Ala), proposes to spend 25 to 30 million dollars to advertise the sale of war bonds during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1044, in place of the present system by which adver tising space is donated to the government by private advertisers and
newspapers. Half of the appropriation would be earmarked for newspapers-~ dailies, weeklies, semi-weeklies and tri-weeklies — in communities of 10,000 population or less.
Fight Expected
The measure is virtually certain to draw. increased -fire from Republicans and some Democrats. One of the developments was the withdrawal of an entire group of Indians publishers who had planned to suppart the bill but informed Senator Raymond E.. Willis (R. Ind), .they would decline to appear. Publishers who appeared before the committee yesterday resented implications that they were seeking a government handout and con? tended that, the way war bond ad-
a black world lighted only by fires of “el volcan.” And little Antonio; the toddling son of Maria Jesus and Andres, helps his mother by breaking up little sticks for the fire under the cooking pots, The government is building a road from the highway to the volcano, but until it is finished the trip must be made in jolting busses over a trail until one comes to San Juan where the horses are waiting. The bus drivers charge five pesos, or about a dollar, for the round trip, the horses cost three pesos, There are more horses than tourists, so the unsuspecting vis. itor who alights from a bus Is almost overwhelmed by milling horses as their owners try to persuade him to mount.
Water Supply Ruined
The dust has ruined the water supply, so water has been piped to San Juan by the government from a far-off stream. Parties of doctors and nurses are being sent from Mexico: City to attend the thousands who have infected eyes and lungs.
Newspaper Subsidy Bill Enemies Charge It Is Move to Finance Campaign in '44
lation Uving In communities of 10, 000 or léss, and in rural areas. | Under questioning, the publishers conceded that they now are carry: ing war bond advertising, either donated by themselves or paid for privately, but they argued that the
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on a war bond ad would carry far more weight with their subscribers
State Press Is
Skeptical
While officially maintaining a neutral position on the Bankhead bill, the Hoosier State Press association has been skeptical of certain of its provisions, W. Ray Fleming, the association's general counsel, said soda. Sdiasia’ sub He pointed out that ana - lishers: are foarmil that enactment of the bill might editorial policies through application of political pressure. He added that many members of the association are also opposed to placing newspapers in the “mercenary position” of being the only medium to accept government advertising. Points to “Jok “We feel that any program of this sort should at least include all advertising mediums in order to pre
favoritism toward newspapers,” Mr. Smith said. Another “joker,” he declared, is the fact that present clauses in the measure give no assurance that gov-
be “equally distributed” either small town papers or large dailies, Only 76 of 182 state publishers responded to a poll of sentiment on
“organized effort from Indiana to support ings.”
DIST. 24 MEDICAL UNIT
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the bill at the senate hear day.
Dr. Salvador Zubliran was quoted in a Mexico City newspaper after a visit to the voleano area: The entire nation should be concerned in the deep drama of sadness, misery and sickness of these unfortunates, The state ite self cannot resolve thes problem satisfactorily, and. in this grave situation, urgent attention Is needed.” The archbishop of Mexico di rected that a special mass be sald and an offering taken in all Catholic churches of the country for the aid of the distressed farms ers of the state of Michoacan . where Parifeutin is working - its havoe, : 3 The folk around the volcano are simple farmers, most of them Tare. asco Indians. They are attached to their land and their homes, and will leave only as a last resort, : Life was never easy there, and el volcan has made ‘it infinitely harder. But they do not coms °° plain and they wait patiently for the day when Parjcutin will have spent itself and they can go again into the fields and plow the earth for the corn Which makes their
REV, OFERRALL TO SPEAK HERE
Episcopalians and District Churchwomen to
Convene.
The Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall, DD, dean of St. Paul's Episcopal cathedral, Detroit, will address a mass meeting of Episcopalians and two district gatherings of the house of churchwomen, here, next week. In all three appearances, Dean O'Ferrall will present the current affairs and issues of the Protestant Episcopal church as embodied in the presiding bishop's report of the re ceht general, triennial convention in Cleveland, ;
Paul's church and district the same hour Wednesday noon, at St. Matthew's church.
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