Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1943 — Page 19

Deplored but Never Reformed

[1 THIS. 18 the prerogative of the state bosses, shrewd fellows, some of them shifty, ready to negotiate on the basis of present favors or promises

from the meagerness of the Republican in the South. Though the quality of people who vote ‘Republican has improved con- ~ siderably in recent years, few of these have filtered, | or cared to filter, into party leadership. *- Herbert Hoover carried four southern states in 1928 and had a splendid opportunity‘to destroy the

n Santa's eeve pull DR. C. A. MPHEETERS who will preach his farer blue in well sermon at North Methodist church Sunday had

several baptisms last Sunday. Among them was a _ golden-haired girl, about "2, wearing a pink diess.

“When the child’s father attempted to hand her to Dt, McPheeters, she drew back in fright’ and clung to her father. After talking soothingly to her, Dr. McPheeters won her over enough that she let him hold her, but she still watched him warily. Then he dipped his fingers in thé baptismal font, touched her head and blessed her.: As he did so, she threw her little arms around his neck and, all restraint gone, “gave him a ‘great “hig” bear hug.” “The congregation loved it. So did Lo Dr. McPheeters. . A feminine motorist who doesn’t want her name used complains about parked cars on the west side of Central .ive. during the morning rush hour. She said she counted 11 between 34th and 10th sts. Wednesday morning, and wonders what has happened to the motorcycle police. We don’t knaw about Central, but we do know they do a pretty good job on College most -mornings. . . . One of our agents was in Craig's on Washington st. the other evening when a woman ~ walked in, looked over everything in the show case, then ordered some candy. As an afterthought, she asked: “Are you sure this isn't stale?” The clerk smiled, then replied: "We don't “have candy long enough thesé days to get stale. We're just lucky “when we have some to Sev

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" A READER on Bradbury st. asks. us to’ inform her “about the ¢ity's altitude—sea level .and lake i 3 Ty — level. “Also “percentage of city’s colored population.” RINAS “She #iso asks why, in Indianapolis; it's always" south side, or north side, instead of south or north

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ll cut and choice of : an, green, WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—When men are left to just talk as they do in Washington, they seem unable to act, and the debate tends to become more ingrown. But team up men and machines, and give them a Pa Job to do, and your faith in the capacity of the human ers - race rises:

Near Pittsburgh, on a river bank that was a swamp, the American Bridge Co., which never built a ship before, is turning out a yard full of landing ships for tanks— the LST’s, known by soldiers in Sicily as large, slow targets. They are finishing more than one a .week. Difficulties seemed almost limitless in the beginning. The navy went $0 these bridge builders and said they must build ships. The navy broke down the LST design so that except for the bow and the stern the rest of the hull was straight and consisted of box sections welded together. That eliminated much fancy * shipbuilding and made it a box car job. In fact, freight car manufacturers are making sections for these ships.

Get Buildings From Gary

BUILDINGS IN the yard are secondhand. They were scavenged from as far away as Gary, Ind. Cranes were cadged from other plants. Out of odds and ends, shipworks with 10 berths was biilt on the swampy river bank. Piling for it was driven-in January after Pearl Harbor. The first keel was laid Labor day of © 1042. The 30th ship was launched when I was there a few days ago. 1 wondered about building these ships inland on . a river near Pittsburgh. I was aboard some of them during the invasion of Sicily last summer and they seemed like very large craft.- They are, of course, ocean-going. It was almost-like the man who built the boat in his basement and then could not get it __out. Almost, but not quite, oecause the navy had it

Landing ships. could clear the Ohio river and out

My Day

for : : WASHINGTON, Thursday. —On Tuesday, in WashFor cold - ington, on their first birthday, I reviewed the SPARS from the ellipse back of the White House. As Adm. Russell R. Waesche and I stood watching them a go by, I had a great pride in what these girls are : : : achieving. “They looked smart and 4 = _— are doing a good job. I keep megtb ing the boys from the coast guard

schools also, and I must say their spirit is perfectly grand. : . A number of wives of officers who are overseas, came to lunch - with me as well as some of my ‘old friends. In the evening, I went for the second tithe to Walter Reed hospital, this time to show my film and to Jak to the Patients,

Sumbiling black there, 4 a yeir ago at thie 8. Louis meeting of the Republican national committee that

Senator Taft of Ohio controlled most of the southern |

bosses, Taft Keeping a Close Watch

IT IS PRESUMED that Mr, Taft is still- the predominant influence among them and hopes to deliver southern delegates for Governor Bricker of Ohio, or to some other candidate, perhaps himself, against Mr. Willkie at thé convention. Senator Taft keeps a close watch on the southern situation, Joseph E. Pew, the wealthy Pennsylvania oil man, a leader in the anti-Willkie forces, is also influential with the southern bosses. R, B. Creager, Texas Republican national committeeman, the kingpin among southern Republican bosses, was Taft's floor manager at the 1940 convention. Five southern committee grr refused at the -8t. Louis meeting to go along with the Taft forces. They have resisted the system and his domination of it. But they are in the minority.’ The five were Mrs. Pearl Wates, Alabama; Wilson Williams and Mrs. Bertha M. Field, Georgia; Mrs. Myra Fairfield Brown, Florida, and Stuart Kramer, who was voting a proxy from North Carolina.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

end. Well, the altitude varies. It's 718 feet above sea level at the Federal building and 708 at Union depot. The highest spot listed by the weather bureau is the Pennsy tracks in Irvington-—82¢ feet. As for lake level, the level of lakes in Indiana varies greatly. -The city directory quotes the 1940 census as showing 51,142 Negroes in the city, or 11 per cent of the population at that time. As for “end” versus “side,” that just a matter of custom. Both are used ‘here, but “side” predominates for no reason, , . . Carl Thomas, former pressman at The Times, visited friends here this week, while on furlough. He's a gun pointer on a destroyer and has seen service in the Mediterranean theater of war, .., . A downtown salvage office is being opened at 148 E: Market st. and among the equipment needed is a counter or showgase—to lean on and write on and “to form a dividing Tire. Know anyone who might |

lerid- them one? If you do, phone Mrs. C. R. Guter- |

muth (Ta. 3493) or Mrs. Ava Daniéls: (Hu. 8955),

House Numbers in Alleys

L. E. WHITSETT, 119 E. 25th, has a suggestion designed to help out in the wartime transportation situation. His idea is for householders to paint their house numbers on their garages—if the garages

are on alleys—so deliverymen can save time and tires hy taking short cuts through the alleys to make deliveries, . . . Cy Latta, projectionist at the Indiana theater, thinks the postmaster at Vermontville, Mich., must have had a bad night recently. Mr. Latta received a letter frem Vermontville postmarked “Nov. 61, 1943.5, When we were in school, they always insisted The af. “Thirty. days. hath. Septembery- April, Juste" and “November.” JMS. Walter ‘Haggerty, |" R. R. 6, Box 494, has a rose | bush that's a little mixed in its seasons, It has a rose, half way out, on it. . . Someone, probably using a razor blade, scraped “the federal use tax stamp’ from -the windshield of the car of Theodore Groce, 33-8. Bradley. ~Probably just. plain vandalism.

‘By Raymond Clapper

the Mississippi by leaving the mast down, and shifting |

the load toward the bow, and not putting ammunition aboard, The river trip is made by daylight because of the danger of grounding on bends. Flood: coritrol has been a lifesaver to the navy. It makes itpossible to build ships inland where manpower and materials are convenient. Without flood control the ships could not at some times get down the river to the sea. When the river is normal, the landing craft must pass more than 40 dams between Pittsburgh and Cairo, Ill, where the Ohio goes into the Mississippi.

Utilizes Lake Michigan, Too

THE NAVY also rung ships down from construétion yards on Lake Michigan. Water released from Pt. Peck dam in Montana makes it possible to clear the shoals above St. Louis. The navy had to put in drawbridge equipment on 19 bridges over the Chicago river and the drainage canal. Near the American Bridge Works Is another shipyard, the Dravo works, where destroyer escoms are built. ‘They have more draft than the LST’s and to

‘get them down the river pontoons have to be attached

to take off one-third of the weight. That makes a floating combination with a 100-foot beam which allows just five feet clearance on each side going through river locks. sy I saw one of the Dravo yards which in March, 1942, was a weed patch. Its 51st destroyer estort was -delivered the day I was there. Both of the yards I visited were under water during

the last Ohio river flood. The cranes were chained|

down and holes were cut in the hulls on the berths 80 they would not float away. Such work is possible because of ingenious co-op-eration between the navy, the manufacturers and the working force. Workmen do some dumb things such as the crane operators’ strike at Mesta just as the navy inspectors arrived from Washington. But on the whole they must have produced. I saw where a workman had chalked his indignation on one defective welding job as follows: “This- fit is lowzzy, Helping Hitler, Please try again” ~

By Eleanor Roosevelt |

It certainly is a}

picked up in an Italian paper. roundabout way of getting news of one's children and, at that, probably untrue news.

had no official information. : I have had two things Suggested lo me = | whole subsidy question, which I think ought to ‘cleared up in people’s minds. One is that the sum of money, $800,000,000, which is asked to continue. the subsidy program, is se large that it worries

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1043

Is Still Same Good Fellow’

By MILDRED REIMER BURIED AWAY among keepsakes of 1923 Indiana university graduates is the story of a now world famous classmate . . . a curly red-haired student who 20 years after leaving the I. U. campus was invited to have tea at the White House with the first lady of the United States. That “modest” student, now a modest celebrity, is

—Name Heads the Class]

But, like all} other mothers in the United States, I had to say I

the Hoosier Vagabond from Dana, who today is on his way back to the Mediterranean theater of war, He's Indiana's Ernie Pyle, a graduate of the Cream and Crimson college just 20 years ago. Ernest T. Pyle, Dana, Ind, is the way he is listed in the Indiana class records. And then behind his name strings more than a dozen activities in which he - took part. His picture's printed on 11 pages. He had a hand in three sports on the campus .-... football baseball and’ auto polo. “As student

Ernie won the varsity “I” and made all trips with the team. Dr. Byron K. Rust of Indianapolis. assisted him as sophomore manager. Co. om» } AND THEN there was Ernie's baseball career . . . not as a player though. It was his trip to Japan with the I. U. nine that | began. lis days.as & globe totter. i The 1922 baseball team completed its season and then accepted an invitation with expenses paid to come to Japan for series with Waseda teams in the Orient. The Arbutus doesn’t say whether Ernie was one of the seasick college boys but the rough trip over kept many of the Hoosiers off the deck and also prevented

and other

Harry L. Gause, local attorney, was on the I. U. lineup. . The Hoosier boys traveled 14,000

senior manager of the grid squad,’

a 10-game

practice sessions by the players.

miles and had no bad luck until _a freight wreck held up the IliPAS a whith: anes oen, 0 He SR sie a asi is’ wiki. I Pee ThA hE Pika

team was riding, six miles from Bloomington. : » ” ” But Dana was represented in one sport , . . auto polo. Ernie and another student, Bill Pierce, rode in an old car (all that was left of the contraption was four wheels, the motor and driver's seat) named Methuselah. The score stood 1-1.on Jordan field, Nov, 18, 1923, when the Pyle« Pierce car had to withdraw be« cause of engine difMculties. Bare ret Woodsmall, vice president of

the H. H. Woodsmall - insurance agency here, was Ernie's compe= A

Ution,

the Hoosier Vagabond ‘was. kept busy with fraternity and club duties. He belonged to Sigma Alpha Epsilon, social fraternity; Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalistic fraternity; the Boosters, student representative body; Sphinx, junior men’s honorary organization; the Cootie club, composed of world war I veterans and campus leaders; the

“Travelers club, a group “Whose

parents were: members of the Masonic order, and the Aeons, leaders in scholarship and activities. . sn = THE MOTTO for the Aeons was, “They are the men who have

done things or are doing things"

Right now and 20 years ago, ‘Ernie qualified for the “have done” and the “are-doing™ classification. } In the journalistic field, Ernie

was a member of the Indiana -

Daily Student staff . . . summer editor and eity editor in 1922, He was editor of gE

Aside from the field of sports,

* The Hoosier Vagabond and BAI Pierce warm up for » game of wut o-polo-tn-“Methuielah®

you figure out which one is Ernie.

Ernie Pyle . . . college commencement in 1923,

In his college days, Ernie had

quite -a few Indianapolis nen . Tor ‘ClASSIATeN CUT HOARY CRYST michael of "Star Dust” fame,

Prosecutor Sherwood Blue Wile ~

Ham A. Evans of the school board; Dick Heller, secretary to the former Gov,” M. Clifford Townsend, and Russell Campbell, public relations director of OPA here.” When all the I. U. seniors lined up for commencement and when the 1923 arbutus made its debut, Ernie headed the list in popuJarity and ladership. » . n "THE SCHOOL of- the Cream and Crimson will always remember him “wearing the same old hat"” just as people today remem-

TESHLL LESS “FATHER-SON EVENT)

Eight hundred R. O: T: C. cadets of Tech high school, their fathers and special guests will attend the 10th annual R. ©. T. C. father-son banquet at 6:15 p. m. Wednesday in the Tech lunchroom. Among the guests will be Governor Schricker; Mayor Tyndall; DeWitt 8, Morgan, superintendent of schools; Roscoe Conkle, president of the city school board; Maj. Clyde Lyon, representative from Ft. Harrison; Lt. Cmdr. L. F. Brozo of the naval armory; Maj. Floyd L. Car-

in the city; Col. Robert S. Harsh Columbus, Q., head of the R,T. C. section of the 5th -service

mer head of the city R. O. T. C. units. Following the ‘banquet, commissions will be presented in the school gymnasium to cadet officers recently named by 8S. Sgt. Ernest L. Stringfield, military instructor at Tech. Cadet Lt. Cmdr. Robert 8. Smith, representing the cadets, will speak.

CATHOLIC GROUP HITS FAMILY LIFE ‘DECAY’

—The board of directors of the-Na-tional Council of Catholic Women today singled out ‘as “the .crying need of the day” a rebirth of “rethe dignity of

In a resolution at its annual meeting here, the board noted the “continued decay of our American family life” due to war conditions, The board also went on record as approving the principles of federal food rationing and grade labeling and called on members of the council not to patronize black markets which “undermine the whole structure of price control and fair distribution and thus lead to inflation.”

liste, head of the R. O.T. C. units|

command, and Col. L. D. Macy, for-]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (U. P.).:

~ marriage and for the sanctity of the family.”

-By A. T. STEELE

AT A BASE IN INDIA One of the first truths the Japanese learned

pine islands is that you cannot’ “win the affection of the Filipinos by slapping their faces. Face-slapping THRE © 1 standard Japa- ~~ nese practice, even 4 in Japan. -fn China, {t Is the common resort of Japanese sentries in vent. ing their displeasure on coolies who don't respond quickly enough to 3 Japanese commands. But the Mr. Steele. Filipinos have inherited from the Americans certain ideas. about the individual rights of man, When the Japanese began. slapping Filipino faces they were surprised and angered when their victims reacted sharply with the Filipino equivalent of: “Say, what's the big idea?” Face-slapping is now prohibited in the Philippines except in extreme cases, and the Japanese have made a few other concessions to the Piliipino spirit: but not enough to do them much good. They allowed the ‘Philippines declare their “freedom” and to set up a government which has been advertised as independent and democratic, In point of faet, the new’ government of the Philippines is a Fascist regime, with an imitation Nazi party (the Kalibapi). Both the government and the party are under the thumb of a {Filipino chief executive who is in turn compliant to the Japanese,

IN SPITE of phese superficial political reforms; persons who know | oe {the Philippiries are unanimous in the view that well over 90 per cent of thé population of the country, in-

after their invasion of the Philip-icluding a large part of the person-

nel of the new government, remain pro-American in their attitude and are eagerly awaiting the return of General MacArthur and his army, There are among the government leaders, however, several who have been discredited because of their close affiliation with the Japanese. One of them is Jose Laurel, the ex-judge who is president of the new Philippine government, and Benignos Aquino, the secretary-gen-eral of the Kalibapi party, There are plenty of reasons why the Filipinos dislike the Japs, hut the most potent of them are economic ones. Rising prices, extreme scarcities and growing regimentation ‘are making many Filipinos wonder whether the greater East Asia sphere of co-prosperity is not just a nice name for a glorified concentration camp, Though rice, the staple article of the Filipino diet, is rationed at a fixed price, other comnmodities have gone way out of reach of the general public, with no proportionate increase in wages, : s 8 8 - HERE ARE some sample prices, Matches, formerly two centavos a box, today sell for, 41 eentavos,

to| Coconuts, once dirt cheap at two

centavos each are now bringing. 20 centavos. Avocados used to be five centavos apiece; now they are one peso, 20 centavos, Beef costs three and a half pesos ($1.75 at prewar exchange rates) a pound. A spool of thread, formerly worth a-few centavos, is quoted at six

Reliable information on guerrilla

Local

VE Gets Chilly Reception

activity in the Philippines is hard |

iana U. Had Ernie's Number in. ‘Still Wears Same Old Hat,

This is the way the L U.

. Attired In a sult coat with ragged

elbows, And featured pages of the yearbook, this verse about our Ernic: “This brilliant iin)

stands

which

to get. An American who came recently from-the- islands estimates that approximately 20,000 guerrillas are still at large, including more than 1000 Americans. He concedes this may be high, He told how in a hospital In Manila he was approached by a Filipino who had heard that he was broke and insisted on giving him 100 pesos with which to pay his bill. The American had never seen the Filipino in his life and asked him to identify himself, Whereupon the man reached into

Pilot Preferred

-Maj. Ralph Chell, Bethlehem,

continued to lead a formation of army bombers on a successful attack on Dagua airdrome, near Wewak, New Guinea, and finally crashed into the sea. For this act, which ‘occurred Aug. 18, 1043, he has been awarded the congressional medal of honor, highest award for valor, the war department announced ay. Cheli, 24, has been listed as missing in action. Fellow fliers said he could ‘have left the formation and parachuted to safety, but that would have disorganized the attack: So he chose to press it home. Prom 25 to 30 enemy aircraft at-

Marines Choose ‘Rugged Cross’

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (U. P.). —Marines at Johnson. island in the Pacific chose “The Old Rugged Cross” as their favorite hymn at a poll taken recently, the navy revealed today. Next in popularity was “God .Be With You Till We Meet Again.” The poll was conducted by Chaplain Lt. Edwin T. Anthony, of Brighton, Mass., a graduate of Yale Divinity school. Johnston island is hear the Has walian islands.

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‘AUTHOR WOUNDED

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Alglers, Nov. 26 (U. P.).~Eleven borie

Arbutus staff pictured Ernie is “doing things.”

in the closing”

RE the Jp Lise

{attack on the target.

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Lorig since globe trotter, Stue dent Ed, Aeon and who-knowse what, . “Bill wears the ‘same old hat, is still the same good fellow, . Lo, this man's Dame heads

PRN AIC Croat

How’ Long Can Japan Last? Nips Learn Slowly, but : - Discover That the Once Free Filipinos Can't Be Slapped

his watch pocket . and extracted a crumpled plece of paper on which was reproduced a radioed message sent by Gen. MacArthur to the guerrillas in the Philippines. As the American remembered it, the mes« sage read something like this: “My congratulations to all guers rillas for their recent successes and the spirit shown, Movement in the South Pacific is proceeding accord«

ing to our established plan. The

outcome is not in doubt.”

The Filipino had come from s :

guerrilla camp near Manila:

Death to

Endangering His Comrades

WASHINGTON, Nov, 26 (U. P.).|tacked the. American formation |while it was in a dive from 3500 et

Their fire centered on the {major'’s plane which Jurst into flames about two miles from the airdrome,

"His speed would have enabled

{him to gain necessary altitude to

parachute to safety, but this action {would have resulted i his formae !tion becoming disorganized and exe posed to the enemy,” the citation said. “Although a crash was ine evitable, he courageously elected to continue leading the attack in his blazing plane. From a minimum altitude the squadron made ® devastating bombing and strafing The mission completed, Maj. Chell instructed his wing man to lead the formation and crashed into the sea.” A fellow pilot said: “I believe this action of continue ing on the run, while fully realizing his critical condition, constituted