Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1943 — Page 7

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Harold Clifton Feightner, executive ‘secretary of the Indiana Brewers, association, one-time ace political reporter, and probably the city's No. 1 cigar smoker, He's seldom seen without a White Owl cigar in his mouth. And the a . angle at which’ he holds it gives Rg > y a reliable clue as to his spirits. If the cigar is jutting at a 45 degree angle, he's at his best. And if he has his jaws clamped belligerently on it, give him a wide berth. Harold Feightner, at 50, Is a big, rawboned individual who looks like a former prize fighter. In fact, some years ago he was mistaken up in Michigan for Chuck Wiggins and had a dificult time i. proving he wasn't Chuck. stool © Mr. Pelghiner He's an inch under eet, ll ’ weighs about 185, and is proud of 12 pounds off his waist last summer pull weeds from his garden and

lawn. He has a large head and face, high cheekbones, a | pquare jaw, gray eyes and hair. Earnest, diplomatic and tolerant, he's likely to look for the best side in a person first. Fully conscious of his . own weaknesses, he's disarmingly honest about him-

"He lives and breathes politics, knows where the chips are, and he'll sit down and talk Democratic politics with you anywhere, any time.

Chases the Sparrows

" * AN OUTDOOR enthusiast, he worked hard this summer at his home, 7707 N. Meridian, fighting weeds, trimming shrubbery, making garden, etc. He likes to | have friends over for a meal cooked on his outdoor

oven, | He enjoys fishing but doesn't know anything about the sport. .And he enjoys it most when someone will hook and then remove the catch. He goes ‘hunting about once a year in northern Indiana, spends #8 lot of time fooling with his collection of guns. . Interested in birds, he built a feeding station for songbirds at his home, and he keeps field glasses and

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—~German morale may be bad as some of the allied prisoners report after their pelease from captivity, but we are fortunately basing 20 plans on an early end of the war. "Our preparations are on the basis of carry8 ing on the war indefinitely. We are sending not only finished war equipment to Russia, but also industrial plants, such as aviation fuel and synthetic rubber plants which will require a year or more to construct, We are expanding our own production facilities, especially in aviation fuel, so ‘as to meet a rate of consumption far heavier than at present. We _ are developing Middle ‘East oil | resources with facilities that will ; be ready in a year or so to the fuel supply for operations against Japan. Stockplles of critical and strategic. materials which . being accumulated by the United States are of enormous proportions, Purchases by the Metals Reserve Corp. have amounted to more than 12 million

those * materials and have sold about 000 of them to war industry. Jesse Jones 4 that not once has there been a delay in making single cartridge for lack of copper.

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Tried as Experiment

THIS JOB has created one distinction nobody can take away from me. And that is that I am probably the only solvent person in America (and I don't mean too solvent) who literally has no home, no place to hang his hat, no base to go back to and start away from. We have worked up a whole new continent-wide list of intimate friends, and we consequently keep up a personal correspondence with about 300 people. In these years we have worn out two cars, five sets of tires, three typewriters, and pretty soon I'm going to have to have a new pair of shoes. I love to drive, and never get tired of it, but on long days I do get to Hurting on the bottom. Where this wandering business will get us, or where it will all end, I have no idea. Five and a half years ago my boss in Washington got tired of me pestering him about the travel idea, so he said, “Oh all right, go on and get out. Try it a little while as an experiment, We'll see how it turns out.” . From that day to this he has never mentioned it again. That's all right with me, for I was never one to rush into hasty decisions, either. But if they don't make up their minds about my future within 15 or 20 Yeats, I'm going to begin to wonder,

a bird identification book in his breakfast nook. It keeps him busy running out the sparrows and blackbirds. He dislikes bridge and seldom will play it, likes poker but says he never gets good cards. He's fond of meat, especially wild game. He likes lots of clothing, wears a different suit every day in the week, and has as many hats as a woman. He has a vast number of ties, keeps them separated according to colors. ; The 35-mile speed limit is no punishment to him. For years before rationing, he rarely ever drove his car faster than 45. , ’

Ran a Threshing Machine

BORN ON A farm in Huntington county, he attended country school, was graduated from Union township high school, and in the summer used to help run a threshing machine. After attending Valparaiso university, he worked on the Huntington Press several years, became a second lieutenant of artillery in world war I. Returning after the armistice, he got a job on-the Star and had to wear his uniform a month or two while earning money to buy civvies. From the Star he came to The Times where he became managing editor, Later he went to the News and developed into a most astute political reporter. It'was in 1934 that he went with the brewers’ association. : It's one of his prides that, in all his newspaper career, he never scooped a cub reporter. He felt it might discourage the youngster and ruin a good newspaperman. * The son of a Civil war veteran, he became a student of history, especially of that war, On auto trips, he never misses a historical monument, and when he's in the state capitol of another state, he insists on inspecting the statehouse. . He's extremely fond of a cat he found in his yard one night. He named it Elmer. Now Elmer follows him all over the place, and he thinks Elmer is just the thing. His burning ambition is to acquire a little farm. But right now, he'd settle for a pawpaw tree. One was givefi to’ him a year ago but it died, leaving him disconsolate, .

By Raymond Clapper

the Lightning P-38 and the Mustang will be constantly improved. The petroleum administration says that production of high octane aviation gasoline is four times what it was early in 1942. Within a few months it will be eight times greater. Present production is larger than we had aimed at for next year when the schedule of requirements was made up in the spring of 1942, This week I spent a day around the new Marcus Hook refinery of the Sun Oil Co. Every week this maze of pipes, valves and giant “cat crackers” is producing enough aviation gasoline-to send 2000 Fortresses or Liberators from England to Berlin and back. This plant cost $13,000,000 and was a year building.

Doing Things to Gasoline WE USED more than a million gallons of aviation gasoline in one day's operations in North Africa Production necessary to sustain the large expansion air war that is coming in the next few months is prehension,

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GOP FAVORED T0 WIN RACE IN NEW YORK

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For ‘Stop FDR’ Drive, Party Leaders Hope.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer | ~ NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-~Three days before New York goes to the polls in its off-year lieutenant-governor-ship election, the odds favor a Republican victory which will light the bonfires for an intensified G. O. P. drive to “Stop Roosevelt in "44." The margin, in the opinion of political leaders, is slight.” Republican claims are cautious but Democrats are conceding the edge to State Senator Joe R. Hanley over their own candidate, Lt. Gen. Wil. liam N. Haskell, retired. 3 The campaign has been ho-hum, Senator Hanley, able legislator who for years has been attending county

has been stressing the importance of keeping Governor Thomas E. Dewey's “team” intact at Albany,

Haskell Is Quidt

Gen. Haskell hasn't found much in the way of campaign issues. The Democratic strategy has been to refrain from making the election a test of support for President Roosevelt, and there has been nothing in Governor Dewey's record to invite attack. There are some quantities in the campaign which even the politicians

‘are finding dificult. to assay—

whether the G. O. P, can get out its heavy rural vote in upstate New York, whether Democratic. Boss Frank V. Kelly can roll up a 200,000plus plurality in Brooklyn, and how great the pro-Haskell Labor party vote may be. The Manhattan campaign (as distinct from that in the other four boroughs of New York City) has been demoralized by disclosures this week that racketeers had been able to dictate to Tammany hall leaders on judicial nominations. Leaders in other boroughs also have reported resentment on this will cost them votes. : : Governor Dewey has made the most of this in charges that the Tammany Tiger “doesn’t change his} stripes,” and win or lose, there is pretty sure to be a reorganization of the Democratic party in Manhattan.

Preoccupied With War

Preoccupation of people with the war and its problems has been an obstacle to political leaders trying to create interest in the campaign. Some Democrats believe their biggest threat is dissatisfaction with Washington administration of wartime home-front policies. +The G. O. P. worried about. the possibility that bad weather on Tuesday might keep the farmers at home. There are 5000 election districts above the Bronx line which the G. O. P. hopes will return it a plurality of at least 400,000, but sleet or rain could upset this. The Demiocratic hope is to try to offset the upstate G. O. P, vote in New York City, where, in addition to & 200,000-plus Brooklyn plurality, a 150,000 plurality is hoped for in Boss Edward J. Flynn's Bronx and from 50,000 upward in Manhattan. Governor Dewey carried the state by about 200,000 in 1942, but the late Lt. Gov, Thomas Wallace, whose place is beinfrilied, won by only 28,000. Despite the Tammany scandal and anti-new deal sentiment, only the optimists believe Mr. Hanley's margin will be as great as was Governor Dewey's. Most G. O. P. leaders are saying “under 100,000.”

CORA ENDS 52 YEARS PHONE CO. SERVIGE

Ending a career which began in 1891,“ Charles A. Cora, directory manager for the Indiana Bell Tele-

~. phone Co., retired today after 52

years and four months of active service with the Bell telephone sys-

an oil refinery. Tt testifies to the appalling waste Bell.

of war. Yet it leaves me more hopeful of the future than does the senate's exhibition of futility over the Connally double-talk resolution on foreign policy.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

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1 | T0 SPEAK HERE ‘Last Man, off Bataan’ Lectures in City at ‘Open Forum, .

Col. Carlos P. Romulo, known as the “last man off Bataan,” will arrive here tomorrow to speak before the Indianapolis Open Forum at 8:15 p. m. at Kirshbaum center. As the opening lecturer for the forum's 18th an- . sy nual series, Col. Raomulo’s topi will be “The War ' in the Pacific To- | day.” The author of = “I Saw the Fal] of the Philippines,” he was personal aide to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Fa and his lecture a. tour was author- Cok Romule ized by the commander-in-chief of the southwest Pacific, C. Walter McCarty, managing editor of The Indianapolis News, will preside as chairman. Norman E. Isaacs is chairman of the Open Forum committee, Officers of the. association are Theodore R. Dann, president;- Charles 8. Rauh, vice president; jorie F. Kahn, secretary; Dr. Phillip Falender, treasurer, and Allan Bloom, general secretary.

Hold Truant Boy As Theft Suspect

A 14-YEAR-OLD BOY who has been a truant for two weeks was held today under suspicion of looting mail boxes at apartment buildings in _the 200 block of Massachusetts ave, 100 block of E. St. Joseph st. and 600 block of N. East st. He was caught by police at Park ave. and 13th st, yesterday by police after he had been chased by another boy on a bicycle. Police said the boy admitted taking $16 from letters. .

DR. FIFER TO SPEAK AT LODGE CEREMONY

Dr. Orien W. Fifer, retired Methodist minister, will address the

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CARLOS ROMULO Near Panic Sweeps Rumania

sia Threatens Crimea

By RICHARD MOWRER Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News, Ine.

ISTANBUL, Oct

to withdraw Rumania’s army homeward before it is lost. It is estimated that 60,000 of Rumania's best troops, stiffened . by interspersed German units, are in the Crimea whence evacuation has become difficult since the fall of Melitopol. Face Possible Trap If the Rumanians do not get out of the Crimea and across the Dnieper before the Russians reach Nikolaev, Rumania’s army will be trapped. There will be left only those Rumanian troops posted along the Hungarian border apf outnumbered three to one by Hurfgarian troops. Of all Germany's satellites, Rumania is the worst sufferer, Bulgaria, whose masses are proRussian, has never declared war upon Russia and has consistently refused to send troops to the Russian front. It has limited its military participation in the war to policing ‘the new territories of greater Bulgaria, Thrace and Macedonia. Bulgaria's army 1s, consequently, intact, Except for a period of a year ago when Hungarian units near Voronezh were annihilated by a Russian outflanking attack; Hungary's forces in Russia to date have limited their participation in the war to fighting partisans behind the front, - Keep Armies Intact Most of the remainder of the Hungarian army is facing the RuAlthough in. 1041 things looked good for Germany and for anybody

30 Near panic is gripping Rumania as the Russian army progresses toward the mouth of the Dnieper and threatens to cut off the last of Rumania’s army on the eastern front in the | Crimes, according to reports reaching here, Delegations representing many: parties, even those of the pro-axis group of Marshal Ton Antonescu, fiave been pleading with the premier

who jumped on the German bandwagon, Hungary and Bulgaria, unlike Rumania, realized that their small armies could not stand the wear and tear of prolonged war and preferred to keep their forces intact for a possible mixup in the Balkans later, Much to Hungary's satisfaction, Rumania, however, having been compelled to cede Transylvania to Hungary, was inspired by Germany to retake Bessarabia by driving out the Russians. Things went well with the Rumanian’ army as far as Odessa. There the Russians were tough, the Rumanians ran out of ammunition, suffered extremely heavy losses and had to appeal to the Germans for guns and tanks.

Germans Take Over From then on, the Germans virtually took over the Rumanian soldiery which had been unwilling cannon fodder. Even since they have been dependent on the Germans for tank and artillery support which has not always been quickly forthcoming. The Russians, knowing the Rumanian’s weakness, hit hardest on the front wherever they could find them, so the Germans had finally to intersperse German units in the now definitely groggy and unreliable Rumanian ranks. The Hungarians succeeded in not contributing troops for the Russian front in anything like the numbers sent there by Rumania, the idea being to hold Transylvania. strongly against Rumania's claims.

COUNTY GONSIDERS FIDELITY GO. OFFER

The. Marion county commissioners have offered to buy the former Fidelity Trust building at 148 E. Market st at a price of $210,000 for conversion into a court house annex, Addison J. Parry, county council president, said that body will meet within two weeks to approve the purchase, if the county’s offer to

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502,450 Ration Books Are Issued

More than 500,000 war ration books have beenl issued Marion county residents “without a single complaint.” !

Allied armies today were moving against the Nazis’ “Little Rommel” line as the battle for aly grew Increasingly bitter, Two months after the British invasion of the toe of Italy, the allies are a third of the way up the boot. The solid line shows the present German defenses

while the dotted Naples-Termoli line was the battle zone a month ago,

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WARFUNDDRIVE

NEAR 30% MARK | 0 Total of $570,532 Reported

By Division Leaders; | Need $1,404,467.

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The United War Fund drive to

cofintries almost reached the 30 per cent mark today, with a total of $570,532.35 reported by division leaders. Additional gifts of $207,879.92 to-. ward the $1,975,000 goal were reported yesterday at the second fund luncheon at the Claypool hotel, The third report luncheon on | “Home Front Day” will be held Monday, when Fermor 8. Cannon, president of the Rallroadmen's | Building & Loan association, will speak. Pleads for Refugees

Dr. Jean 8. Milner, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, who

free refugees of axis dominated