Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1943 — Page 13

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Somebody New to Talk To WHEN I CAME puffing tp the muddy hillside late sit-

' one afternoon between showers, the colonel

ting in a canvas chair in the door of his tent, 8 magazine. When I got within about 50 looked up, let out a yell, and called out, be damned if it ain't my old friend, Pyle! Goshamighty, am I glad to see you! Ansel, this calls for a drink. :

| ~~ He reached under his cot and brought out a @quare bottle of some white Italian fluid all full of

What looked like sugar Christmas trees. It was a very I thick, sweetish substance, which shows what a South- _ 8TNor can come to who's been without mint juleps for a year. This colonels tentmate is Lt. Col. Ansel Godfrey,

It wound up that I stayed three days an nights with these boys and got so I felt | noneer myself. Only once did I hear anybody singing the famous artillery song about the caissons rolling along. One cannoneer hummed it one day during a lull. You could recreate the words ifi your mind as he was humming, “Over hill, over dale, as we hit the dusty trail . , ” What a sardonic line that is in Italy, with our guns hub-deep in black, sloshy, gooey, all-encom-passing mud &nd not a grain of that longed-for dust within a thousand miles,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

AN EMPLOYEE of a local war plant where some ve to measure right down to a few 10,000ths sent a pair of trousers back to Richman’s

: the trousers specified ~ that they be lengthened exactly 11 sixteenths of an inch. Probably felt he was giving the tailor-a world of leeway. . . . Louis Carow, the state war bond press agent, paid a gas bill of $3.22 last month, and then this month received a bill more than double that amount. According to the bill, he was delinquent in his payment for last month, Louie began to see red. He phoned the gas company and was referred to George Saas: George investigated, then told Louie there was no record of his having paid a gas bill last month. “I've got the receipted bill right here,” said Louie, as he began thumbing through a stack. “Let's see—L. Strauss, Power & Light; oh, here it is—$3.22." There followed a moment of silence, and then: “Oh, my gosh; I paid a neighbor's bill.” In some manner he had gotten the bill for his next door neighbor and paid-it without looking. . . . Have you seen one of the new small size war bonds? If you haven't, It only takes $18.75 to get a look.

Notes From Home

CAPT. BILL ENGLER of The Times’ advertising staff writes of an interesting experience in an army camp over in England: “I had the radio on and 1 heard the announcer say: ‘We take you now to the Murat theater in Indianapolis where you will hear the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra under the baton

In Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—No doubt President Roosevelt will make a frank report on the Cairo and Tehran conferences when he appears before con-

gress on his return. It is due thé American people, especially in view of the repressive measures taken iy the press in connection - . with those conferences. But even so, in a country gov-

now forced to accept in contion with these conferences. President Roosevelt has his own special reporter along with } his party, Maj. George E. Durno, ~~ former International News Service correspondent at the White House. We all kno George Durno and he is an excellent reporter. Why couldn't we have George Durno, working for the ‘International News Service, along as a reporter, in-

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of Dr, Fabien Sevitzky,’ So I listened to a concert from home. It was a recording, one of a series made by American symphonies and played here over the BBC. Naturally I got a big kick out of it.” Who wouldn't~-3500 miles or more from home. Incidentally, Capt. Engler has been promoted recently from squadron intelligence officer to group intelligence officer. . +. » Christmas greetings in just about all the languages there are—except the German and the Japanese—are beginning to pour in from the fellows in the armed forces overseas, For example, here's one from Capt. Vladimir Posvar, the reporter, who's over in Italy. It reads: “Buon Natale.” From Sgt. John L. Butler, the photographer, over in Hawaii comes a greeting reading: “Mele Kalikimaka, Makahiki Hou.” In the same mail was an amusing comic greeting from Lt. W. G. Nichols, who is in Africa." }

Teachers Wield Brooms

A MINOR CRISIS developed yesterday. at school 44-2033 Sugar Grove ave.—when the flu reduced the staff of custodians to one, But the matter was solved, partially, when teachers grabbed brooms and swept out their own classrooms after school hours. Members of the Parent-Teacher association also helped by cleaning the school assembly hall today in preparation for an entertainment. . , . All schools on the west side of the city, and county schools, will observe Fat Friday this week. . . . Lt. (jg) James Tidball, employed in the state welfare department, is home on survivor's leave. He was burned in the naval landing at Lae in which his LCI boat was sunk, While here, he’s getting acquainted with his young son, Jimmy, who was born last March but whom he never had seen. , , . The Marion County Salvage headquarters at 148 E. Market is in the market for some large size women's clothing, especially sizes 54, 56 and 58, They particularly need a coat for a woman weighing 280 pounds

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Showdown Within 100 Days May Come as Hitler Shifts Troops.

LONDON, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—Mili-

dicated today that the next 100 days will see the allies and Ger many poised for, if not engaged in, the battles that will decide the European war, . Both sides appeared equally intent on clearing away all obstacles barring the way to the titanic clashes that will be touched off by the promised by the Tehran conference “from the east, west and south.” Among the developments were: 1. Germany was replacing junkers generals with political generals pledged to support Adolf Hitler to the end to guard against any repetition of the Prussian military

climactic allied offensives|

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1943

p Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind, Dec. 15.—Will G. Irwin, native of Columbus and nationally - known as financier and philanthropist, who died in Indian-

apolis yesterday, leaves at least three monuments in Columbus

which will perpetuate the memory of the Irwin family. These are the $750,000 Christian church building, recognized as the outstanding modern church. structure in the world; the Irwin gardens, a scenic spot for beauty lovers, and the Cummins Engine Co. one of the city’s leading industries. The Tabernacle church, which during the past two years has been visited. by persons from 47 states and a dozen foreign countries, was designed by Eliel Saarinen, famous Finnish architect. .

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clique’s surrender of 1918. 2. Germany reportedly dispatched 40,000 reserves from Austria and Finland and an air squadron intended for Italy to the Balkans in an attempt to wipe out partisan

vasion. Other Developments

3. The Bulgarian cabinet held a seven-hour meeting on “current affairs” yesterday. 4. Radio Vichy said the Rumanian government was considering

90 miles to the north, because of the growing danger of air raids. 5. King Peter of Jugoslavia was reported ready to make peace with Marshal Josiy (Tito) Brozovich, partisan leader, 6. British Foreign Secretary Ane thony Eden was believed about to take over the job of convincing the Polish exile government of the wisdom of resuming relations with Russia. (A Hungarian MTI agency dispatch reported to the office of war information said Count Anton Sigray told the Hungarian parliament that Hungary always had pur sued a “democratic policy” and “invoked providence in securing an honorable peace.”) : : .

Peace Moves Hinged ;

The German tendency to replace junkers generals with those known to be loyal to Hitler first was seen

von Rundstedt, commander in France, by Murshp) Erwin Rommel ense of westeth

“ | Europe. against invasion,

By Raymond Clapper

boats. They waded ashore, with marines being shot down all around them. Their accounts of the heroism of the marinés has gone far toward .comforting a nation shocked by the high percentage of casualties, Only when we get into the politics of the war, it seems, does the sign go up, “reporters keep out.” They tried it at the Hot Springs food conference and at the Atlantic City relief conference. At the Quebec conference it would have been worse except for the battle put up by Stephen T. Early, who won the oc-operation of President Roosevelt. Some others therp took a high and contemptuous attitude that it would be degrading to be questioned by the press. Finally a compromise was reached under which

- Roosevelt and Churchill met the press but permitted

no questions.

Cameras Were Welcome

““_“I'BHKAN IS an ugly story so far as the press is concerned. Accredited American war correspondents were held in Cairo under military orders according to Gault MacGowan of the New York Sun. One or two correspondents got out of Cairo before travel was restricted and reached Tehran. Yet cameras were welcome at Tehran. You can see long news reels showing the leaders of the democratic cause, with a heavy dose of military gold braid, posing and looking very pleased for the eyes of posterity. Cameras can't say anything, and the public sees only the pose that has been struck for the lens. Even during the so-called Cairo conference, which was held at Mena House near the Pyramids about 10 miles from the heart of the ‘city, accredited correspondents were kept away by barbed wire and We should be forgotten. This is Bill of Rights week, commemorating the historic fight for democratic freedom by Editor John ‘Peter Zenger. In political conferences after the war for freedom is won, are the people to depend not on independent eyes and ears of the press, but on communiques, on official reporters, and on the private memoirs of the participants published years afterward? ; Precedents being set now should not be allowed to survive after the war. .

not allow “this strange treatment to

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Later reports reaching London said Gen. Richard Jungklaus, an 8.8. leader and intimate friend of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, had taken over the Belgian command from Gen. Alexander von Faukenhausen, a career officer. The London Daily Express relayed a rumor that Rundstedt had gone to Lisbon in an attempt to estabish contact with allied diplomats for peace feeler purposes while reports were published elsewhere that Falkenhausen's aide - de - camp, Ma}. Hertberg-Harbou, had gone to Portugal on a similar mission, None of the peace feeler rumors was confirmed and it appeared certain that Germany would disown the peace feelers and that the allies would hold out for unconditional surrender.

JUGOSLAVS REPORT NAZI DEFEAT AT ZARA

LONDON, Dec. 15 (U. P.) —Allied air raids that Killed 450 Germans and wounded 1500 others have forced the axis to evacuate Uljan island off the Dalmatian coast and enabled Jugoslav partisans to inflict a “heavy defeat” on the enemy at the nearby mainland port of Zara, Jugoslav circles said today. The Germans suffered “great losses” at Italian-owned, Germanoccupied Zara, a partisan communique said, tit gave no details of the engagement. Partisan forces have been active in the Zara area for severa! months and once broke into the city itself.

BEEFSTEAK OUTLOOK BRIGHTER FOR 1944

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U, P). ~The agriculture department said [today that prospectes for more beefsteaks next year are somewhat

partment sald, “is a result, largely, of the heavy movement of stocker and feeder cattle into the corn belt states and into feed lots in other tates.”

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William G. Irwin with Andre Citreon, who was recognized as the Henry Ford of France a decade ago.

Columbus, Residence of Will Irwin, | Stands as Monument to His Name

The 1500 members of the con. gregation of the church contributed to the building fund. When their part was raised, Mr, Irwin and his

sister, Miss Linnie I. Sweeney, contributed the balance necessary to give the community the unusual monument, The Irwin Gardens, located at the Irwin estate in the heart of Columbus, are open to the public during the spring and summer. His love of flowers was responsible for his decision to build the sunken gardens. The Cummins Engine Co., headed by Clessie L. Cummins, was financed by Mr. Irwin, This concern was nursed along through its hard, early and expensive years until it has become one of the City's prin-

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Indianapolis Meeting Next February.

By DAN KIDNEY. Times Stall Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, — Plans for a state-wide Republican rally to be held in Indianapolis Feb, 3 with

| Representative Clare Booth Luce

(R. Conn.) as speaker, will be worked out here next Monday at an Indiana G. O. P. congressional luncheon to be attended by State Chairman Ralph Gates. Plans for the luncheon, with Mrs, Luce attending were made here by Henry E. Ostrom, Marion Cetinty Republican chairman. Mr. Ostrom left for home last night but will re. turn for the Monday meeting according to present plans.

Willis Invited

The nine Republican representa tives and Sen. Raymond E. Willis

| (R. Ind.) have been invited to the

luncheon, where preview pictures for the Indiana rally will be taken. Coming here to testify for north-

{south alr line service for Indian-

of the Irwin family.

Mr, Irwin is behind the wheel of a Cumming diesel powered automobile on a four of Europe in 1932.

apolis as a Chamber of Commerce | official, Mr. Ostrom remained over yesterday to talk polities on capltol hill, He sald that 90 per ¢ent of the [Marion county precinct. committee{men and women favor Mr. Gates for {the 1044 Republican gubernatorial

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the Gallup poll showing Dewey sentiment ahead of that of Willkie for presidential nomination is correct. “The Republican senatorial noms« ination likely will go to Lt, James Tucker, if he is discharged from the navy due to his Salerno wounds,” Mr. Ostrom declared,

HOOSIER MAIL MEN RE-ELECT S. SHEARD

Stanley B. Sheard has been reelected president of Hoosier City branch 39, National Association of Letter Carriers, Other officers are John Nice, vice

retary; Charles E. Mills, financial secretary; Paul Wagner, treasurer; Walter Sutton, sergeant at arms, and Elmer Delong, trustee, . Raymond Landers was named president of the organization's sick benefit fund, and Walter A. Clark, clerk of the mutual benefit associntion, Other officers of the sick fund

and Charles Brammell, clerk,

ARMY OFFICER PROMOTED Maj. Forman Dobbins McCurdy, 750 N. Dequincy st., has been pro. moted to lieutenant colonel in the army infantry,

Indiana Churches, Leaders and Businessmen Pay Tribute

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A resolution commemorating the beneficence of Will G. Irwin to Butler university and churches of the Disciples of Christ was adopted by directors of the university at a special meeting late yesterday. The resolution follows: “William G. Irwin was one of the oldest of the members of the board in continuous service. From the first he followed in the footsteps of his distinguished father, Joseph 1. Irwin, in seeking ways to promote the welfare of the college and of

the Disciples: Church which had sponsored the course of religious education in Indiana. Both father and son regarded themselves as stewards of the wealth that they had earned and dedicated very large sums to the advancement of the educational interest of the church, Mr. Will Irwin, supplementing the generous acts of his family, has recently created a trust fund to which he gave without stint, From this trust fund and from the individual gifts of himself and members of his family the college

Tomorrow’s Job—

Disposal of Military Stocks After War Causing Concern

. By E. A. EVANS Seripps-Howard Stall Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—War's end will signal the real start of one of history's biggest “bargain sales,” as the government disposes of its surplus military stocks—au-~ tomobiles, airplanes, canned food, clothing, machine tools, raw materials, ships, shoes, woolen cloth and countless other items.

facturers are worrying over what may happen to their own markets when the government's offerings mount into multi-billions.

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money? ' How to prevent indiscriminate dumping? How to insure that small manufacturers and

of religion of Butler university has been fostered and endowed, Other departments of the university have also been promoted through his benefactions, especially in the construction of the new plant at Fair. view, Though primarily interested in religious education, his contributions were by no means restricted to this field. The arts and sciences, athletics and campus development all concerned him. We do not here attempt to enumerate all of the gifts which have come from his hands, but await a fuller expression when the entire board next meets, Meantime we seck to express in this first shock of grief over Mr. Irwin's death our desire to make known to the family our wish in every way to do honor to the memory of our deceased associate. We rejoice that for years we have had the good fortune to. be associated with him personally and to have had the supreme advantage of his counsel and advice.” :

CHARLES 8. RAUH, president of

merchants will have equal opportunity to buy? How to keep fly-by-night stores from using surplus military goods as “bait” in unfair competition with established merchants? How to insure that the selling of war stocks won't inter-

productiof of new civilian goods? One obvious need is for congress down policies to govern the the surpluses. Another centralized government carry out the policies. suthority is divided beween the treasury department, the e war production 8. There is no

of practice, and it's almost

what the governsale, where and on

MERRY NAZI CHRISTMAS

NEW YORK, Dec. 15 (U, P)—~

fere unduly with the job-creating|’

the Union railroad and stockyards, said that the board of directors were awaiting Mr. Irwin's arrival at the meeting when they learned of his death, ..

Greatly Shocked

“We were all greatly shocked,” he said. Among those present at the annual Christmas meeting and luncheon at the stockyards were other directors, E. Clifford Barrett, Mrs. Mary H. Carey, -Willlam V. Kingdon, Harvey D. Melvin, Dr.

and John J. Weldon.

“Mr. Irwin and I were elected to the board together in 1922 and have been closely connected since them,” Mr. Rauh said. Mr. Irwin was elect~ ed vice president of the company in 1937, “I rode home with him from New York Sunday and he seeemed in the best of health,” Mr. Rauh said, |

Loss to Party

Jean 8. Milner, Walter A. Swartz |and

"To the Memory and Accomplishments of Will G. Irwin

his wise advice was often sought and generously given.” JAMES E. WATSON, former U, 8. senator: “The country would be better off if more businessmen would follow the example of Will Irwin and give attention to sound government principles.” SENATOR RAYMOND E. WIL. LIS: “He represented the highest type of citizenship.” Evans Woollen Jr, president of the Pletcher Trust Co., said, “Mr,

nity to the business of banking in - Indiana. As president of the Indi+ ana National bank, he has treated acquaintances and friends in other Indianapolis banks with unfailing courtesy and consideration.”

Gov. Schricker said of Mr. Ir« win's death, “Indiana has lost one of her great industrial and civic leaders. He has been a liberal benefactor in shari his fortune with Hoosier educafional and religious institutions.” : W. R. Sinclair, president of {Kingan & Co, sald, “Mr. Irwin's {death is a great sheck. miss his wise counsel and his friendly helpfulness.” ; : George A. Kuhn of Klein & Kuhn real estate’ company, said the news came as a great shock to him, * loss of an outstanding ci Indianapolis and Indiana not only a loss to the

large. His influence

LT. GOV. CHARLES M. DAWSON: | L .| “His passing means a great loss to the state and to the Republican)

party. : JOSEPH J. DANIELS, a Repub-|

president; Earl Dieck, recording se¢-.

lafe John W. Rentchler, secretary,

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