Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1943 — Page 21

Army Develops Squadrons)ana To Leapfrog Fast Into indirectly, manpower.

Fpe Territory. Failure to join in‘the brown-out, : WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (U. PJ. officials warned, might mean a new =—The army has developed new|“dim-out” of non-essential lighting units known as “airdrome squad-| everywhere. rons” to assist the air forces leap- Coasts Breathe Easier

frogging into newly acquired enemy territory. Announcement that the dim-out . ‘The function of these squadrons along the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf

is to move into newly acquired airdromes as rapidly as possible and [c08sts will end next week was made provide service and maintenance for|last night by the war and navy deair force combat units before the|Partments and other government units’ own ground organizations are | Agencies. ready to do so. The reason given--the success of To an advancing army, ability to|the anti-submarine warfare which

utilize captured enemy airdromes to|has driven the wolf packs from the

production board, the petroleum solid fuels administrations and the office of defense transportation, was urged on the entire nation to save electricity, coal, other fuel and,

Sweet Christmas

FRUIT CAKES and Christmas candy should be a bit more abundant this year. Industrial users have been given another 10 per cent increase of sugar for the coming season. This brings their quota up from 80 per cent to 90 per cent of the 1941 quota, 80 there may still have to be some curbing of the sweet tooth. However, new sweets such as candy bars and “caramel chews,” made out of sweet potatoes, will help ll in.

Name-Calling

WOULD YOU use more dry skim milk if it were called dry milk solids? This question is being bandied about in the House committee on interstate and foreign commerce. Dry skim milk makers feel that many people who need milk would use more of their product if the name were not derogatory. Makers.of candy would be happier about printing it on labels. The Pure Food and Drug Administration officials are traditionalists in the matter of common food names, however, They have indicated their

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| Hit Show Pro- * ducer Says ‘Keep Pretty Girls Mysterious.’

NEW YORK, Oct. 28 (U, P.).—The way to have a hit show, according to Mike Todd who has three, is too cover the pretty girls—a little, “I haven't undressed a dame on the stage for years,” Todd said. “Stripteasing is old hat.” But, sald the man who got his start, directing a semi-nude dancer through flames, costuming should be & minor expense, “Never put enough clothes on a woman to smother her,” he sald. “Mystery, yes, but let's don't run a good thing too far. Let's don’t be too mysterious." Points to Joan

Todd pointed--figuratively—to the cellophane-thin negligee Joan Blondell wears in “The Naked Genius,” as an example, "Just something comfortable— nothing fancy—is needed,” he said. “I give the people what they want. Maybe the critics don't always like it. Maybe the authors don't. But the public stands up to get a peek ~80 I make money.”

‘Crities. Don't Like It’

In G. W, TW, caused hundreds of workers in uniform and mufti alike to jettison all thoughts of war. | He came, they saw and he con-| quered. All efforts to keep him under wraps proved fuMle. For days quick silver rumors had him in the capital. The war department finally cone ceded defeat and announced that the captain holder of thé air medal for “exceptionally meritorious achievement” in five bombing missions in the Eurgpean theater, would hold a press conference,

Scramble for Jobs

There was a scramble for the coveted jobs of taking the stenographic transcript and checking credentials as correspondents and photographers entered Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson's press conference room. Long before his scheduled appearance the room was filled and the corridors outside lined with whisper ing, excited women. There were uniformed men there, too, pretend ing nonchalance.

creator of the role of Rhett Butler

w the box office, now a bit the U, 8. army, He sat d turned on his special bry gharm. Once ‘again he had famous moustache he was forced shave off as an enlisted man. “Fire Away” : “Fire away,” he sald. “What you want to know?" 0 Under their questioning he told of directing the “reporting on se feet of color film the happenings of a Flying Fortress group in combat.® He told, too, of pe some of the scenes and of his camera to seize a fort gun and “shoot at everything that came to« wards us.” : hi He belittled any personal achieves ment, preferring to acclaim the men with whom he fought. gio a “I was seared,” he said. “When the fighters got close, certainly I was scared." "a His name? Captain Olark Cable,

rovide fighter cover is’ of extreme|COasts and removed for the present tactieal git In the Pacific the the need to darken cities, entire struggle has centered around| However, authorities warned all the seizure of forward air bases, |Cities now subject to the dim-out to The new “airdrome squadrons”|be ready to plunge back into darkclean as well. . . . England is now getting her first wartime

existence was revealed in the table respective sea frontier commanders. oranges. . . . Half » million radio tubei recently were reof equipment of these units pub-|Such orders would be issued only on leased to civilians. -

ini ~ NAME WOMAN HEAD OF ACCIDENT BOARD

was Sehr thus: fn Reduced Skyline Glare to ns pirogsing Sper] so| Dim-out regulations were imposed that flying echelons can move up|first in the California section of the and have essential service. West coast under the threat beth |of Japanese submarine activity and HARRISBURG, Pa, Oct. 38 (U. P.).—Mrs, Emma 8. Tousant, Bos ton, chairman of Massachusetts department of industrial accidents, today was the first woman to become president of the International As-

attack. Later they sociation of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions. Mrs, Tousant succeeds Willlam H. Chesnut, Pennsylvania's labor and industry secretary. : Other officers named at the convention's closing meeting yesterday were T. A. Wilson, Raleigh, N. C,, vice president, replacing Mrs. Tousant; Verne.A. Zimmer, Washington, D. C, re-elected secretarytreasurer, and these members of the executive committee: Maj, C. K. Newcombe, Manitoba, Canada; W. H. Nickels Jr, Richmond, Va.; L. O. Arens, Salem, Ore.; Boyce A. Williams, Tallahassee, Ma.; Voyta Wrabets, Madison, Wis, and Chesnut. :

preference for the established name of “dry skim milk."

Odds and Ends

MORE DOMESTIO rosin is going into soaps to replace needed fats and oils, The soap won't be as white, but will lather and

. Todd's money, now pushing toward a $3,000,000 gross for this season of “Star and Garter” and “Something forthe Boys,” will, he says, be augfented by returns on “Naked Genuis,” written by Gypsy Rose Lee, the former burlesque queen, and George Kaufman, “The critics don't like it, that's plain, but I don't care.” Todd said. {“We had 16 standees the night the reviews came out, It's more fun this way.” Next on Todd's list is a Cole Porter musical, to be followed by Mae West in a piece entitled “Men in My Life.” Both shows, he said, are “not Shakespeare, but laughs.” “Sure, there’ll be women and negilgees and gags in them,” he sald. “But no strip teases. No siree, Todd doesn't have to make money that way. Good entertainment. That's what I give the public

Monday and expire Dec. 20, ) —and if it isn't what they want, aguinst the company’s failure to what do they keep coming around!

give them a wage increase granted for?” Meat several months ago by the pr or | C, D2 an nie Sood labor board. The management con- RRR “All expire ay. K tended the increase had ‘not been) DENIES OWI CRITICISM. through Dec. 4. B becomes “valid authorized, . . | Sunday, J becomes good Nov, 7 ana NEW YORK, Oct. 28 (U. P).—'K. Nov. 14. All expire Dec. 4. Elmer Davis, director of the office : 8 of war information, told the Over- sugar seas Press club yesterday that some Stamp 14 Is good for five pounds of thd criticism directed at his through Monday. Stamp 20 in Book agency emanated from “small-time 4 becomes valid Monday for five Fascists” and that current critical| pounds through Jan, 15, 1044. stories were timed with the fact Applications may be made now congress is considering a $5,000,000] tor canning sugar. Allotments are appropriation for the OWI overseas! one pound of sugar for every four quarts of Truit canned with a maxi

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"RATIONING DATES

Ration Boards : mum alitment of 25 pounds per Marion county . rationing boards person which includes five pounds

for jellies, jams, preserves, ete, are closed to the public all day on Wednesdays, 4 Stamps 15 and 16 are each good for

{five pounds through Sunday. As War Ration’ Book 4

fruit ripens, application may be made at a local boards for addi Registration for Book 4 is this week at local school buildings. Ap~

tional allotments up to 15 pounds plicants must have Book 3 with

per person if needed. : them. Persons whose surnames begin with N—8, inclusive, register today; TZ, inclusive tomorrow,

Canned Goods

Stamps X, ¥Y and 2 are good through Nov. 20. Green stamps. A, B and O In Book 4 become valid

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3500 STRIKERS BACK AT JOBS IN MUNCIE

MUNCIE, Ind, Oct. 28 (U, P.)— Production of transmissions for Jeeps, tractors: and other ordnance Was underway today after a strike in four plants of the Warner Gear company here. Approximately 3500 workers returned yesterday after noon and last night after the management agreed to army supervision of the plant. The employees struck in protest

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Shoes

Stamp 18 in Book 1 good. for one pair until further notice” No, 1 ‘alrplane” stamp in Book 3 good for . 1 pair Nov. | and until further notice. - :

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which silhouetted merchant ships at sea, and made them prime targets for undersea raiders. Steps to take to get the brown-out

Gasoline

Stamp A-8 good for 3. gallons through Nov. 21. B and O stamps good for 2 gallons until used.

Tires

Next inspection due: A's by March 31, 1944, Bs, Sunday; Os, Nov, 30, and commercial vehicles, every sis months or every 5000 miles, which« ever is first. :

Fuel Oil

Period 1 coupons for the son are good now for 10 unit in all sobes through Jan, 1944, and should be used definite value coupons for tanks.

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WARNS OF ‘COMPROMISE’

- NEW YORK, Oct. 28 (U, P)— Joseph C. Grew, special assistant to the secretary of state, warned last night against any’tompromise of peace and demanded a total defeat

BENES REASSURES CZECHS

By UNITED PRESS Eduard Benes, president-in-exile of the Czechoslovah republic, said in a broadcast to his occupied homeland last night that allied armies soon will be at the frontiers of Germany and that the armistice terms were being drafted.

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