Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1943 — Page 15

jer before we get home” ur troops are living in & way almost inconceivable 10 you In the States. The fertile black valleys are ee deep in mud. Thousands of the men have not ~ © ¥ been dry for weeks. Other thou-

times, and more machine gun. How they winter misery at all who have the oppor-

there ‘were no German fighting troops in Italy, merely German engineers to blow the - bridges in. passes, if never a shot were fired at all, our northward march would still be slow.

Cavalry-Used-in Mountains

~~ THE COUNTRY over here is so difficult we've created a great deal of cavalry for use in the mountains. Each division has hundreds of horses and mules to carry it beyond the point where vehicles can go no farther. On beyond the mules’ ability, mere men— “ American men-—take it on their backs. Here is a little clue to the war over here. I flew #cross the Mediterranean in a cargo plane weighted

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

MERLIN M. DUNBAR, the tax attorney, had car trouble on road 67 (south) the other night. A soldier . passing in an old model Ford with bad tires pulled up and offered his services in fixing the car. He had no flashlight and couldn't see to find the trouble, so he Cr : pushed Mr. Dunbar’s Chrysler to a de filling station. There, with plenty of light, the soldier found and repaired the trouble. Inquiry elicited the information

his home in Akron, O., to get his wife and baby and take them to George field, Ill, where he was stationed. “That's a pretty long trip in that car of yours,” Mr. Dunbar said. “Follow me and you can take my car to make the trip on to Akron.” The soldier did, Dunbar gave him $10 for gasolihe. Early day state police called and, describing the Mr. Dunbar ex-

‘next , asked if it had been stolen.

plained. The police then told Mr. Dunbar the soldier had been killed in an accident near Mansfield, ©. The car struck a culvert and was demolished

when the driver apparently ‘fell asleep, worn out from the long trip.

The Wrong Farm

s MAN VISITED the U.S. employment service the othér day, seeking a certificate of availability for 8 job. Asked where he had been working, he said "he'd been on “the farm.” Under the regulations, all "agricultural workers have to be referred to the county agent's office, and so the man was sent there. In a short while he was back. “They sent me back,” he said embarrassedly. “It was the er-er- penal farm 1 was on.” ,.. A feminine optimist was seen buying stamps iti ‘Haag’s at. 34th and Illinois and then _ placing in the mail box a package tastefully but inadequately wrapped in tissue paper and red cello-

In Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14~—It is almost a certainty that the Republican presidential candidate will be ¢ither Dewey or Willkie. For more than a year those two men have been far ahead of all others in polls, such as Gallup's, and in the amount of news and radio attention they have commanded, as well as in the way they dominate the discussions, public and private, of politicians, Most political reporters talk chiefly about . those two in their As the nominating convention is little more than six months away, ‘it seems hardly likely that the leading position which those two have had for ‘so long will be materially affected in the relatively short time left. Likewise,

have been talked about for so long, such

who MacArthur and Governor Bricker, and for-

Governor Stasse out of the low brackets where they have remained the many months of build-up effort by their

_ Bricker Makes Little Headway _ PORMER GOVERNOR LANDON reported on his pecent trip here that there were more pictures of Gen. MacArthur in Kansas homes than he had seen of anybody Gland” Brinkley who won enormous popularity for reasons far removed from politics. The difficulty of conducting a campaign with Gen. MacArthur as the candidate causes doubts among many politicians as fo the practicability of nominating him. 1t is possible that Governor Bricker will strike fire and come rapidly to the front although in a year of _ effort he has made little, if any, headway. Some prominent Republicans were saying a few days ago “that his last chance would be to ring the bell in his Pennsylvania society speech at- New York last Satur-

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at a time, and they skedaddled in a hurry.

Just as Miserable for Germans FURTHER, OUR ARTILLERY prevails and how!

little, the fiendish rain of explosives upon the hillsides softens the Gernians. They've always been impressed by, and afraid of, our artillery and we have concentrations of it here that are demoralizing. And lastly no matter how cold the mountains, or how wet the snow, or how sticky the mud, it's just as miserable for the German soldier as for the American. - Our men will get to Rome all right. There's no question about that. But the way is cruel. Right bis minute some of them are fighting hand-to-hand up there in fog and clouds so dense they can barely see each other—one man against another. No one who has seen this mud, these dark skies, these forbidding ridges and ghost-like clouds that unveil and then quickly hide your killer, should have the right to be impatient with the progress slong the road to Rome.

phane ribbon. Wonder if it survived even the trip to the post office. . . . Mrs, Peggy Holiday, 1511 Park ave., received a letter the other day from her husband, Maj. William Holiday, who is over in New Guinea. In it was a five-pound Australian note autographed by Gary Cooper, Phyllis Brooks and Una Merkel. . . . The water company’s big Christmas candle has been erected above the utility offices on the circle, It was unlighted last year because of blackout regulations. It's unlighted again this year, this time, they say, to

that the soldier was en route tO conserve electricity. Or maybe theyre just trying to

beat the light company out of some money... ... The Barnes-Wolfe Press has published a pocket-sized postal delivery zone guide for Indianapolis that is pretty handy.

Bathing Can Be Dangerous

MISS MARY FOSTER, secretary to the Red Cross camp. and hospital committee, was ill with the flu last week. This week she’s back on the job but can’t use the typewriter because of a home accident, While in the bathtub, she held onto the porcelain faucet. It broke, severely cutting a finger. She had to have several stitches taken to close the wound. . . . The long-suffering Indianapolis Clearing House, which has the function of exchanging checks between banks, is having its annual trouble, Its phones are kept busy by folks wanting the Christmas Clearing House, which clears information on Christmas charities. The Christmas Clearing House number is MA-2401. . . . Capt. Fred E. Shick, the lawyer and former chief deputy secretary of state and securities commissioner under Jim Tucker, is due home on leave Monday. . . . Santa Claus at Sears asked us to try to find the address of a little girl named Wanda who wrote in telling what she wanted for Christmas. The child, aged 10, said she has suffered from infantile paralysis three years and wrote the note to Santa by holding the pencil in her teeth. She has two sisters, Santa would like to answer her letter. If you know her, write Santa at Sears and give him her address.

By Raymond Clapper

day night. From the accounts published the next morning, it did not appear that he said anything sensational or that he shed any new.light as a leader on the nation’s political and international problems. Former Governor Stassen of Minnesota, as a lieutenant commander on Admiral Halsey's staff in the South Pacific. is not in a position to campaign, or even to reply to attacks. His friends are, however, insisting on entering him in primaries where the chief effect will be to take votes away from Willkie. Cmdr. Stassen may come home on leave in a few weeks and if he, does, he may be persuaded not to allow his name to be used to split Willkie’s vote,

Willkie Must Demonstrate Strength

WILLKIE'S CHIEF CHANCE now is to demonstrate strength. It will be done not alone through speeches, but by going into primaries, especially the ‘ primary in April where he must make an outstanding showing are free to make the decision, will nominate Dewey.

_ are not likely to advance very Only a commanding demonstration of popularity by

Willkie can prevent it, it seems to me. But perhaps events will play a part more decisive than any of the circumstances I have mentioned. By early next summer we may have suffered the most severe casualties and no one can say what efféct that will have on the public mind. No one can know what stage the war will be in, nor what the psychological changes in the country will be. Some anti-Roosevelt Democrats say the President will not run, but will put up Gen. Marshall. But if, as the more likely, Roosevelt runs for a fourth term, and particularly if he pick up as a running-mate a more conservative Democrat, such as Justice James

kind of home tor, the Republicans may not be in election in. the bag~—far from it. pects in the northern states, and of congress, look better every day. want to win the presidency as well, they need to consider which candidate will make against Roosevelt.

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Settlement of Problem May Affect All the Nations

In Future.

(Second of a series on post-war > 2 air policies.)

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—The international horse-trading is about to begin over a set of principles which, next to the peace conference itself, may have more to do with world affairs in decades ahead than any other single factor—the issues involved in “freedom of the air” Establishment of policy on this'is fundamental to all post-war commercial air planning. ‘A committee representing the state, war and navy departments, the civil areonautics board and other agencies has wrestled with it. A senate committee headed by Senator Clark (D. Mo.) is exploring the subject. And Lord Beaverbrook is here to dicker with government heads on it, “Freedom of the. air,” a loose, catch-all term, that means many things to many men. But basically it would wipe out the idea that each nation has sovereignty over the air space above its own territory. In extreme, it would mean that

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Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt during her recent tour of

airplanes of any country could operate over the United States, for example, any time and without thought of boundaries. It goes beyond the.freedom-of-the-seas concept, which stops at water's edge. It goes too far toward internationalization to suit most people In commercial aviation.

Go Part Way

Short of this, there are those who believe the U. 8. should go part way toward “freedom of the air,” and another group which wants no part of it. “Part way” in most cases would mean what is called “right of transit.” This would allow planes of foreign nations to fly over another nation, make mechanically-neces-sary stops and refuel, but carry on no business within the country. This also is called “innocent flight.” To go a step beyond this would involve granting what are called “commercial outlets” —That is, the right to land and do business at certain points, probably includin inland cities, : 2 One side in the controversy argues that it would be suicide, in a more

country to close its frontiers to foreign airlines; that if we wish to run our airplanes all over the world we must grant reciprocal rights to other nations. “Little to Gain” The other side says this country has little to gain from the freedomof -the-air and right-of -transit ideas. They say it is promoted by small countries like England and Holland, which are without the geographical size necessary to make interior operations worthwhile, but which would like to get into and across the United States. They say foreign planes should stop at our shoreline. | Sixteen major domestic airlines] which have joined in common cause in seeking post-war air rights favor right-of-transit reciprocity with other nations, but insist that “a clear distinction must be made at all times between the right of innocent flight. as distinguished from the right to engage in commerce by air.” : They oppose “cabotage”—carrying of domestic passengers or cargo by foreign airlines—but believe it all right for foreign airlines to have commercial outlets in the interior of the U. 8. i Unions Opposed ~The interdepartmental committee, headed by- Assistant Secretary of State Adolph Berle, 18 understood to favor reciprocity for commercial

the U, 8. and its allies, and obtaining of similar rights in major

them reciprocal rights In major|.

-t0 keep our men supplied.

ealand, Mrs. R. Does as New Zealanders Do

X oR ho > a , New Zealand met her Maorl guide with the traditional gesture which is the Maori custom of greeting. The photo has been copyrighted by Look Magazine.

Army Air Forces Transport Command Wins Battle Against

Disease in Cleaning Infested Jungles for Cargo Line Bases

The army air forces air transport command, in supplying men and materiel to all fighting fronts the world over, has 2stablished,

By MAX B, COOK Seripps-Howard Aviation Editer

SOMEWHERE IN CENTRAL AMERICA, Dec. 14. — Near this jungle base of the air transport command is a small town. Seventy per cent of its natives are infected with malaria. Other large percentages are suffering from varicus diseases typical of the jungle, and social diseases. This constitutes a definite danger to the many servicemen who come from the States, pass through or remain on assignments, . Still, under the expert direction of Capt. Fred W. Rulander, in charge of the well-supplied post dispensary, not one case of malaria or =~ ER other disease has marred quito net head-dress which drops th t health d around the shoulders, Guards e posts health record year white gloves. during the many months it

Natives continually are at work has been in operation. cleaning the ground of all leaves This despite the swarms of mos- and debris. Otherwise, snakes quitoes which infest the post at bushmasters, rattlers and the like nightfall. A mosquito, having con. —Would be enabled to hide betacted a. malaria-laden native, ‘neath them and attack. can pass the dread disease along Other natives daily scoop the with one bite. \

top from the nearby creek water. The clear health record of the This scum is taken to the dispost is a tribute to the thorough pensary and. carefully analyzed manner in which our air forces for signs of malaria - bearing are dealing with all problems

mosquitoes. which might in any way hinder The mess hall is kept as clean the steady flow of vital war mate-

as a Dutch kitchen. A refrigerrials to the fighting fronts, ator keeps food and meat in con- » » »

dition. Water-filled cans hold the Visit Jungle Post

IT SERVES as an illustration of the difficulties faced all over the world as ATC has fought

may not climb up. . The small but well patronized PX is tightly ‘screened against both mosquitoes, scorpions and snakes. 7 A crash ambulance is kept everready for®the crackups that thus far have never occurred, Hanging on the dispensary wall is a stretcher-boat which, with a heavy rubber lining, ean be towed through water with ease. This same stretcher, with the injured man strapped in, can be lifted or lowered by the top end— a tremendous improvement over the fleld litter formerly in use. This one had just been used to remove an {ll.sallor from a ship in the Pacific whose captain had called for aid. The sailor was treated in the post dispensary and then shipped far inland to a

"We toured the natural-camou-flaged, extensive jungle post with Capt. Rulander as he told the story of a tough battle won, He pointed out-that similar, tougher battles are being waged the world over. In a one-story, neat junglegreen building that cannot be observed from the air, the fight against disease is being carried on. . The main room, about 12 feet square, comprises the recelving room, clinic, research laboratory and medicine cabinet, Two small bedrooms adjoin it, Mosquito net tings, neatly folded above, can be

let down and fastened securely hospital. to the bed. ra “« x» Special easures ill k mosquitoes off for about three BUZZards Do Duty

hours. This equipment also is supplied pilots and crews’ passing through and who remain overnight in the spick and span offi. cers’ quarters located a bit fur. . ther along in the jungle.

Take Precautions

AFTER § P. M. no men are allowed to remain in the town, Everyone is equipped with a mos-

WHILE SANITARY conditions at the base are near perfect, one

notes a strange contrast in a visit to the nearby town. : Drinking water is not what it should be. Natives use clubs -to knock down green coconuts from -the thriving palms. With huge sharp bolo knives they chop off the top. Drinking the coconut milk, they toss the green shell to one side.

huge bread box legs so that ants.

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through necessity, global air cargo predicted In pre-war days, Max

routes which dwarf anything even B. Cook, Seripps-Howard aviation

editor, has been riding ATC cargo planes to ascertain something

of what the future may hold and This Is the second of a series.

Garbage is thrown into the yard where the native sanitation brigade of huge buzzards go about the job of cleaning it up. Buzzards, looking much like thin hungry turkeys as they stalk about among the playing children, are protected by law against injury or death. It's a crime to kill one or molest it. After all, the buzzard is a swell cleaner-

upper. : » » .

Sleep by Road

A TOUGH, dusty, bumpy ride in an army truck takes us many miles high up in the mountains for the night. Native women, barefooted and carrying huge vases or baskets on their heads, scurry to ene side, never losing balance, as the truck speeds past, Barefooted, darkskinned men, wearing long sharp bolos hanging at the back of their belts, stride stolidly to one side, never looking about to see what's approaching. As we speed back along that “ winding, dangerous road at. 3 o'clock in the morning to make the early cargo plane bound southward, many of these natives show up in the headlights, reclining in blankets along the roadsides. s Most of them are bound for some place, either in the lowlands or mountains, walking miles on a

what the pioneering has been like.

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Many of the men are bound for their day's work on the roads, in: lieu of tax payments.

Materials Go Through

This is old stuff to our driver, Corp. Wilbur Kelley, a short,

wiry, keen-eyed youth of Newark, . =

N. J. If his wife and 3-year-old son could see him twisting that

"lumbering army truck around

mountain roads in the dark they'd get a real thrill, Ces “I eould drive this blindfolded,” remarked the corporal, as he swung to within inches of a. 1000 foot drop. And he undoubtedly could, Arrived at the base, a hot cup of coffee, toast and jelly warmed us up as we prepared to board another ATC plane “on time.” * Possibly it's hard to believe, but ATC, without beams, flying over mountains and jungle and water in all kinds of weather, maintains its schedules almost on the minute, * Its veteran crews know instrument flying and weather. They come through--regardless. As yet. they have had no accidents ih over a year's operation over this route. ‘Like the mail,” war materials must go through.

NEXT~Another base far down in the Caribbean,

mission of trading or selling

Ship Loses 20

each member of the crew, ’

nights their ship was under attack, the members of the gun crew shot down two German bombers and prevented other aerial attackers from making a close approach. The navy quoted Lt. Ralph E. Boucher, the gun crew's skipper, as saying that, “their endurance without sleep was largely a matter of guts. The suffering they endured is beyond my power to express.” Boucher received the silver star medal for his services and his men received the official commendation of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. The unidentified 7300-ton Liberty

Gun Crew on Murmansk-Bound

Pounds Apiece

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. (U. P.).—~The navy told today how a gun crew aboard a Murmansk-bound cargo ship went through a 41-day ordeal of submarines, enemy bombers, stormy seas and numbing cold winds—an ordeal which knocked from 10 to 20 pounds off the weight of

Strapped. to their guns and sleepless for most. of the 41-days and

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shot down tis second German plane

land Boucher reported, “The men.

are strapped to their guns, and have been ever since our arrival.” What a grind!” When the convoy finally sailed again, they were greeted by -waiting enemy submarines and were ate tacked “almost all day and night." Then planes moved in to rescue the ° convoy. It sailed on—into & 60-

mile-an hour gale.

|ship ran into bad weather early on sng

ing, the crew had shot down one German plane and successfully beaten off the attack. A few hours later, the merchant-

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