Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1943 — Page 7

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d of the hockey Intam and the 1d war year of

defensive game 1 more pleasing v other changes that likes speed Or rather, the deals with the , popular minor

existence, if you efensemen were Jleghorn, Newsy \d Lionel Hitchee were won at yardiner won in o turn the trick ind immediately n guiding teams

s famous as the rbie Lewis and

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vling association, smber. © He said a sanction and The 161 leagues vidual members, pason’s members

jer last year's is y it. With close w in the armed

he great number ents of the vari t and practically isited a bowling

the Indianapolis number of femi ,3050 women are xpected to enroll he 3500 member= war has evidently as the men, Als s is scant, many be on their jobs

1 alleys open for erating until the idnight, morning

business houses, any independent thought in mind,

erything! s, Watches uments Cameras Jhotguns, Ete. | JEWELRY CO. ine.

"in. We have the

trary, it means we

a closely knit bunch, but transfers and illnesses over the ‘months have whittled the Carolinians down to five. People from such - strange and unorthodox places as California and Missouri : have infiltrated. But Carolina still sets the pace, and a year of rassling with French and Italian hasn't changed their accent’ & bit. Practically everybody has a nickname. You hear such odd ones as “Rabbit” and “Wartime” and “Tamper” and “Mote.” I've noticed that most of the crew call their gun “howzer” . fnstead of “howitzer,” and they say “far” instead of “fire” : The officers are mostly Southern, too, and I must say this outfit comes the nearest to being a real democracy of any I've seen in the army. The battery officers work, live and play with their men. It is a’ team, rather than a case of somebody above giving

orders and somebody below taking them,

Fundamentally Fine and Sourd

MOST OF THE MEN are from small towns or farms. They are mostly hill people. As I wrote of them more than a year ago in England, there is

_ something fundamentally fine and sound about their

character that must have been put there by a closemess to their hills and their trees and their soil. They are natively courteous. Most of them have little education, and their grammar is atrocious, but their thinking* is clear and they seem to have a friendliness toward all people that much of America doesn't have. They have an acceptance of their miserable fate and a sense of galety and good humor, despite their hardships, that you ‘seldom “find in other army outfits, The artillery lives tough, but it, too, like nearly every other branch of the army, bows in sympathy

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

He's also been on

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Frank Bates Flanner, president of Flanner & Buchanan, Inc, treasurer of Mystic Tie lodge for many years, former newspaper advertising man, an active supporter of the Animal Welfare league, a lover of nature and a poet of no mean ability. Writing verse has been one of his favorite hobbies for years. He has a whole volume, It's on varying subjects, but mostly on the sentimental side, He's likely to grab a pencil and jot one down on the back of an envelope most any time. Recently he dashed off an amusing one about Sonja Henle and her fall at the Coliseum. He's crazy about dogs, has three of own—two cocker spaniels named Betty and Bufly, and a hunting dog named Lucky. He also has a cat which is very fond of Lucky, and the cat and dog pal around together... .. w Buffy is a highly accomplished canine, and takes a role in the family tableau each Christmas. Besides howling a solo to a piano accompaniment, he delivers the Christmas presents and entertains otherwise. : Eight or 10 year ago Mr. Flariner gave in to a long suppressed desire -and took up the study of violin. His friends say he's definitely no “Fritz Kreisler,” but he gets a lot of pleasure out of playing.

Interested in People

FRANK FLANNER is a slender, wide-awake indl-

vidual with a lot of nervous energy. He hasn't changed much in appearance in the last 20 years or so. About 65 or 66 now, he's 5 feet 8 or 9 inches tall, weighs probably 145, His hair is gray, his eyes blue, and he has a hearty laugh. He's generous to a fault, Hell do most anything for folks, then perhaps turn around and give them the dickens about something the next minute. He has high_ ideals, is interested in people and their welfare and likes to help them to help theme selves. This is evidenced by his long standing support of Flanner House, which Was named in honor

‘In Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—We shouldn't get the wrong idea from reports that the Jap fleet won't come out to fight, The Japs are sitting back with the idea that if we want what they have, we must go An and take it by-hard fighting. -. Recently Capt. John H. Cas. sady took the Saratoga and an other carrier fairly near to Truk, the Japanese Pearl Harbor. The purpose was to draw the Japs out for a fight with our forces, which we believe superior. But the Japs stayed behind their nets in the harbor, Capt. Cassady said. That is likely .to be the way "with a good deal of it in the Pacific. Japan is entrenched. The Jap game is what it was at Tara‘wa—sit tight and force us to come advantage in naval and air strength, The Japs have the advantage of position,

Barrier Reef Is Fearful

TRUK 18 ONE of the finest natural fortresses In the world, It is an atoll, a group of islands surrounder by a circular barrier reef some thirty miles

* in diameter. A barrier reef is something fearful to

penetrate, as we learned at Tarawa. .Only in the central Pacific is this strange coral parrier reef found. The Truk: reef, partly under water and partly. exposed, completely encircles the islands with only a few natural gateways, "These have presumably been heavily defended by the Japs. L ie attack with big ships through those entrances be almost impossible. So the Japs sit tight wait. - what they are doing in the Marshall in the other stromg points. When you the Japs will not come out and fight, it 4 they

are softening up. On the con

are having trouble getting at

aircraft concentrations to drive off German bombers. But casualties are bound to happen regardless. Tragedy has struck twice in my battery of four guns since it came from Italy only a few weeks ago. No. 2 gun blew up from a premature explosion as they were putting in a shell. Three men were killed .and

half a dozen wounded. 2 ‘Don’t Waste Time On Me

~~, NOT LONG BEFORE THAT some German raiders did get through and a bomb explosion. killed three men and wounded nearly a dozen others. I was told over and over the story of one of the three who died.

His legs were blown off clear up to his body. stayed conscious, but couldn't possibly live long.

“I'm done for, so don't waste time on. me.

* help the other boys.” He lived seven minutes, conscious all the time. Things like that knock the boys down for a few gested the surface ship parallel of days. But if they don't come ‘too often they can allowing foreign vessels to come take it without serious damage to their fighting only to our ocean ports.

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It's when casualties become so great that those prospects, Mr, Hoover also prowho remain feel they have no chance to live, if they

must go on and on, that morale in an army gets low. |

The morale is excellent in this battery I've’ been to living with, They gripe, of course, but they are at never grim or even mad about the toughness of bases their Jife. The only thing is theyre impatient for | cost of movement—they'd fire «ll day and move all night | ta

every day and every night if they could only keep | {be allowed to develop aviation for

going forward swiftly. Because everywhere in our army “forward,” matter what direction, is toward home.

of his uncle, Frank W. Flanner. the Salvation Army advisory board for years.

Proposes Nation Keep the

: {President Herbert Hoover said toWhen the medical men went to help him he raised | 45 that “we should ge very slow” what was left of himself up on his elbows and said: lin relaxing sovereignty over the air- | space above the United States for

| post-war aviation purposes and sug-

| posed:

'at least a generation because of the [need to uproot militarism in these

1.5. AR SPA

Bases Built With

American Money.

Last of a Series on Post-war Air Policies.)

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, Dec.. 18-~Former

Reviewing post-war world air

That this country should move obtain outright possession, or least 999-year leases, for military built around the world at a hundreds of millions in U. 8. xpayers' money. That enemy nations should not

nations.

He walks fast, frequently starts running upstairs ly v a but usually slows down to a walk before he gets to «chief objection to right of fight|

over the United States would arise

the top.

ner now heads. He's been there ever since.

Weakness for Ties HIS NO. 1 HOBBY is his home.

tions would be prepared to give that

Survey of Plants Shows Many

That mandated territories which]

Sees Difficulties Mr. Hoover said he believed the]

“I doubt whether the greater na-

ish planes over Soviet territory. Any such right would have to be universal.”

It's built.on a}

The former President pointed out

high bluff on the bend of the White river north of that not only had we limited the Riverside park, and overlooks a large section of the right of foreign ships at our borders | river valley. The grounds have been the ‘scene of but we have confined shipping in!of an attempt to determine the ex-| 169 industries in 32 states, Of the

hundreds of picnics by Boy Scouts and other youth {

organizations, He has had hundreds of tons of rocks hauled 1

strengthen the retaining wall beside his property, but overall world freedom of the air,”

n to)

even 50, a section of his hiliside, shrubbery and all, Mr. Hoover said.

slides into the river once in a while.

Mr. Flanner enjoys ambling through the countryt He over land ay not have their own aviation] vice—in Latin America, perhaps] s | —where landings at interior air-! ports would be with the consent of these countries.

side near his home, accompanied by his dogs.

used to fish, back in the horse and buggy days, and m occasionally would drive up to the Broad Ripple da to try his luck. He doesn’t fish any more, but doe

enjoy getting out on the water in his rowboat.

Fond of taking long trips in his car, he has gone | to Florida and the east coast numerous times, mostly |

just for the ride.

a tie buying jag five or six times a year. friends their pick first, then wears what's left. Breakfast is his favorite meal.

He has a weakness for buying pretty ties, goes on He gives

He likes stacks of

wheat cakes, ham and eggs, and all the trimmings. Also two or three cups of syrupy coffee—boiled untill oun d-the-world bases, Mr. Hoover

it's thick and bitter, He enjoys the movies, Sunday—is the “sacred hour” at the Flanners, If

you

want to keep his friendship, don't phone him between | 6 and 6:30 p. m. and interrupt him during the Jack

Benny program.

By Raymond Clapper

them. It means probably that another job of hand-|

to-hand fighting on the beaches is necessary, And -another thing about Truk. After you

get |

inside the reef, the islands are almost without sandy | beaches. They are mountainous and heavy mangrove |

jungle growth extends down into the water,

makes it easier. But some navy hands, who

been in the Pacific, say that Guadalcanal can be counted among the easiest of our Pacific landings.

No Other Way to Do Job

NOBODY WANTS to do this job island by island, but there is no way ‘to avoid a considerable amount

ofthat. We must get rid of Japanese air fields

Japanese harbors on our routes to Tokyo. We®can bypass some of them. But we cannot bypass all of

them. We cannot leave the enemy strong in

rear. Men back from out there see no way to avoid considerable hard infantry fighting, because they- do

not think Jap positions can be taken any other

We can now see how blind we have been as com-

pared with other powers.: We thought these

worthless islands, but other powers struggled hard to , Nearly 75 years ago Spain and Germany contested for possession of the Caroline islands which include the Truk group and Spain got them through an arbitration award. But Germany never took her

get them,

eves off of them. After the Spanish-American

whén Spain was liquidating, Germany bought them

at the bargain price of $4,200,000. But within two months after the first world

began, Japan leaped like a vulture on these islands, and took them and the Marshalls and the Marianas under control. At the end of the war she got a “mandate” from the League of Nations, = Germany and Japan always knew the value of these islands. Yet they got them for nothing, Why? Because we

were asleep. Now we shall have to buy them

of work which he will find on his

That makes the hardest possible kind of landing coast, At Tarawa, at Salerno and at Guadalcanal, as In Sicily, there was beach on which to land. That

By Eleanor Roosevelt

we shall ply him with questions at dinner. But we _know_quite well that, because of the accumulation}

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m | Ser

| munications, {just as we maintain such services |for sea navigation, he suggested.

{ Mr. Hoover suggested settling by| {agreement the navigation rights| Questionnaires were sent to top areas of nations which executives of 4044 manufacturing panies

There should be international

co-operation in weather and com-

and other services

Ports are Vital

On the matter of U. S.-built

l “ And 6 p. m. Sunday--any | asserted that “our part in this war

warrants the cession of those ports to us without any qualifications whatever. We should have had those rights at the beginning. Some of these ports are vital to our development, and for defense protection.” Outright = ownership, he said, would pe cqmparable to China's cession of port rights to the Russians. Where such ownership is not feasible, possession through 999-year leases, to satisfy sovereignty questions might be acceptable, he added. We should make our own agreements wita Egypt, get Iceland »)ases through

Azores should be free commercial territory,” he said. :

break up the military castes in these countries, he said.

world.”

nations. Need Defense

{tually making

agreement with Denmark, and “the

Depriving enemy nations of aviation development would help to

“I think the hope of peace is that we interrupt the inheritance of military power in a class or caste as has gone on in Japan, Germany and Italy for generations,” Mr. Hoover said. “The mistake after the last war was to allow Germany a general staff and a skeleton army and navy. Suppression of aviation development should be a penalty for what they've done to the

Mr. Hoover raised the question of the advisability of this country going in for pooling the resources of particular industries (urged in foreign aviation by Juan Trippe, president of Pan-American airways) to meet the competition of government monopolies and cartels in other

“We're going to have to deal with a good bit of totalitarian foreign trade after the war,” he commented. “It’s certainly true as to Russia, and the British have concluded that their only protection is in cartels, in ‘which the whole industry organizes for foreign competition under one hat. I do not advocate any

~ Our Foes;

The photos above, received in this country from. neutral sources, show Germans at home, as in-

at Their

Home and Abroad

Democrat Indicates Support

uphold Democratic

Of Minority Interests; Elected Friday.

Assurance that he will strive to minority ine terests in a city council tap-heavy with Republicans was given by Willlam . A. Brown, newly elected council member wha will be sworn into office today. Chosen unanimously by the council yesterday to fill the vacancy left by the death Dec. 3 of Willie B. Sullivan, Mr. Brown describes himself as “an old line Democrat with a firm belief in- principies.of party organization. > “In all my 30-year affiliation with the Democratic party here, ['ve never left the organization fold,” he added.” Never Met Mayor

While stressing that he is “no Tyndall Democrat,” when asked to express his sentiments on the cur rent factional rift vetween regular county organization Republicans and the city hall G. O, P. “off« shoots,” he replied: “I've never had the pleasure of meeting Mayor Tyndall, I'll withhold judgment on that question’

vaders and as guests of their “honorary Aryan” brothers-in-crime, the Japs. At upper left, Jap officers lead a party of German soldiers on sight-seeing tour of the former British naval base at Singapore, where Nazi troops form part of garrison; upper right, backgrounded by debris of broken buildings, a young girl air raid warden rides through Berlin's blitzed streets; lower left, a German heavy antiaircraft gun crew on alert against attacking American bombers in Italy's Appenine mountains; lower right, Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering (left). surrounded by Berliners after an R. A. F. raid, and, pre-

Tomorrow's Job—

sumably, trying to explain how such things can be,

Born in DeGraft, Minn, he came here as a young- | , —~ ster, helped support the family when he was about 13| fom eifeuitios we would have with by working as a messenger boy. As a young man hej Other _nalions, { went south for his health, worked on newspapers in| Birmingham, Ala, and Jackson, Miss. About 1905 or | " . : |same right,” he said. “I'm wonder1906, his uncle Frank sent for him to come back and ling whether Russia would ever con-

go to work for him in the mortuary which Mr. Flan- |sent to free flight of U. 8. or Brit-

Will Not Need Reconversion

By E. A. EVANS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

ceived from

concerns, Usable replies were re726 firms emplaying|

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Results g4q 600 workers and representing

coastal trade between our own ports tent to which industries are ac-| to U. S.-owned vessels, | “I don’t think there can be any {announced by the trade magazine, products other than their regular

|lines.? More than aif of the food

high production after the war are

“Factory Management and Maintenance.”

U.S

For

pioneering necessitated by war, Most of our domestic airlines, flying for army air force air transport command and navy air transport service, have become used to flying the oceans. One line alone has made more than 5000 crossings. Another line has completed 1100 crossings although, in peacetime, its crews had flown only crosscountry United States routes, Domestic airline crews, under contract with army and: navy, have gained invaluable experience, The list of experienced pilots who will be available for all types of flying after the war totals thousands because of the interisive army and navy training programs. Backing them up will be at least 2,000,000 trained army and navy specialists on airplane maintenance, radio, navigation and the like, plus the thousands of airplane industry workers who now know how to build planes, engines and parts. The manpower problem will be solved in so far as supply is concerned. Demand is something else. ” Over-Optimism Feared

THE QUESTION of how. soon extensive world-wide cargo, passenger and mail transport will be in daily operation after the war inn so far as this nation is con-

FUNNY BUSINESS

Tad

{ definite plans for 726 firms—

331 said they plan to market new

(Last of a Series)

By MAX B. COOK Scripps-Howard Aviation Editor, NEW YORK, Dec. 18 —Aviation's greatest job {s-—ahead. When war ends the first move of the industry and airlines will be

to readjust themselves to peacetime operation, In the opinion of industrial and airline leaders, however, aviation will be years ahead of its 1939 program because of the world-wide

cerned — depends upon many things. It is easy to look at the available manpower, huge wartime production of planes and equip ment and the vast wartime global air transport setup and become over-optimistic, The aviation industry fears over-optimism more than anything else, while agreeing that tremendous strides will be made as the result of wartime experience and pioneering, Let's look at the facts: Wartime world-wide air transport—under direction of army and navy and utilizing peacetime commercial airlines personnel—is being ‘operated successfully over more than 100,000 miles of routes over all continents and seas, Before the war, many of these routes were being flown regularly, over land and sea. When war ends it is understandable that the former peace~ time routes, including many developed during wartime as extensions of these routes, will resume operations without delay. » » . SCORES OF routes, however, now being flown by army and navy air transport commands and services will not be flown regularly, commercially, until: 1..-All governments concerned

told of intention to put out new issue

products. Only 08 sald their plants or processes will have to be reconverted

to produce regular peacetime products, 440 sald they were planning to buy new equipment or to modernize present equipment, and 401 to build new plant structures or repair existing ones, Detailed figures of actual amounts they intend to spend for equipment were provided by 219 companies, and totaled $42,277,226 an average of $103,000 per plant, The survey “strongly indicates

| that Industry has gone a long way {on the road to post-war planning.” companies and of the metal com- | says H. FE. Hilty, the magazine's

,other than iron and steel’

sales manager.

pass upon and act upon the several hundred applications of individual airlines fo. thess

routes, 2. Individual airlines complete important surveys on availability of payload cargo, passenger and mail along these new routes, 3. Contracts with governments along these routes are drawn and signed by the individual airlines, including the all-vital mall contracts. : 4. It is determined whether this nation is to have one big international airline, composed of its individual airlines, or all airlines are to compete everywhere, as in prewar days. 5. Proper airport facilities, “peams” and other flying devices have been installed along each route to bring flying standards up to peacetime stringent regulations. 8. The airplane ndustry is enabled to convert “its operations from a wartime basis to manufac ture of peacetime Cargo, .passenger and mail-carrying planes with all the changes in plant setup that it involves. . ” # Cost Considerations ALL; OF THIS is going to require time but, despite it, steady and rapid growth should result, In pace with this growth, employment of thousands of available aviation specialists now in war services shovid result. Close to 300 applications for routes and expansions of routes have been filed in Washington by airlines, } As airline personnel is perfo ing a big part of the tremendous air transport job, together with the military, the airlines should have an abundance of survey ma= terial that will aid them greatly ‘in determining what routes can be made to pay. Right now, no thought can be given to the payload problem when vital war materiel is being flown to war fronts, This materiel has to go through regardless. Cost cannot be considered. _ Airlines cannot operate in that way. They cannot overload a

| Brown

Nevertheless, selection of Mr, is expected to reinforce | what up to now has been solid councilmanic independence of the municipal administration, Couns cil Republicans, all mempers of ithe county organization, have been [at odds with Mayor Tyndall's re|gime over patronage ard budget

! $ | Native of Indianapolis Nominated by Council Democrat Otto Worley, Mr. Bréwn has the | support of other Democratic politi |cos in the second district where he is sixth ward chairman. The six | Republican members respected the { wishes of the other: two Democratic {components in agreeing on Mr. | Brown, ' | The new councttman, who is 49, | lives at 1517 W. Pruitt st. An ¢m- | ployee of the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. for the past 30 years, he

has previously been a county coun

[cllman and a county commissioner, |A lifelong resident of Indianapolis, {he is a member of the council of {8t. Marks Lutheran church and of | Evergreen lodge, FP. and A. M.

_ Accumulates Wealth of Experience and Facilities Operation of Post-War Globe Circling Air Lines

produetion, it ‘has been pointed. out that the end of the war will see it drop from its present 100 per cend to a low slightly above that of 1039. The reason is that the innumers able automobile and other industries now turning out complete war planes and parts will resume, as soon as is possible, manufac~ ture of their own goods. Thus the airplane industry will be centered mostly in the actual aire plane factories, although these have been greatly enlarged and the number has increased during the war, 3 Production in these airplane plants will have ta depend upon the peacetime orders which should pyramid rapidly because of the demand, but not beginning to ap’ proach the wartime production. This pyramiding of orders should, within months, begin to speed the aviation industry on its way to new peacetime records.

FJ » ” rrr BUSY AS they are with war. ! time flying, the major airlines already are doing something about the future. Several already are flying their own cargo-express planes over domestic routes. Applications to fly routes in Mexico, Central and South Amer= fica have been filed and the lines, on A. T. C. experience, have a fair idea of available payloads along these routes, Competition; which undoubtedly will be the heaviest in the history of any past industry, already is well under way. And this despite the fact that all airlines are cooperating with the armed forces to do an amazing, tremendous job of supplying men, mail and materiel from factory and training © camp directly to the far-flung

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