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ARTILLERYMEN also are indifferent about their corporal’s and sergeant’s stripes. Everyeverybody else in the battery so it seems of time to put stripes on your ordinary work-

while * was with them an order came everybody had to get his stripes on, so during the lulls the men would be sitting on piles of shells or water cans sewing at their and jackets like a bunch of old women. e men don’t get a chance to take a bath very often. Once in a while the army gets some portable

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home. baths is just a habit,” said Pfc. Frank Helms. baths when we were babies we would never have known the difference.” So maybe what we're fighting for is the right to be as dirty as we please. It.suits me.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE you find a man Whose : are appropriate to his business. A case in polut ‘Is Louis Weiland. While his new commission 88 municipal court judge was being prepared over at thie governor's office, someone discovered that Judge ar Welland's initials spell LAW. An- - other case in point, as we've mentioned ‘before, is George A. Saas, who not only is public relations director for the GAS company but also is an excellent public speaker. « » « Arch Grossman, the town's No. 1 “share the ride” exponent, had a chance the other day to test out the results of his preaching. With their daughter, Mary, home from school for the holidays, the Grossmans have nioved from their home near Carmel to for a week or so. The first morning, Arch e corner of Meridian and Fall Creek blvd. a bus. to wait a minute “and took him

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A Victim of Telephonitis CHARLES R. ETTINGER, the realtor and former

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. . WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—The soldier-vote -ques~ . tion cannot be left where the senate has attempted to ive it. In effect the senate has said that the con‘stitution prevents the United States government from insuring that its soldiers have*the opportunity to vote. $= id 1 How does it come that the dis- ; tinguished ‘constitutional lawyers of the senate have so suddenly lost their ingenuity that no way can be found by which American soldiers can be guaranteed an op- ?

the programs for the last pair of Indianapolis Symphony. concerts carry the suggestion that “patrons afflicted with coughs (something no one can avoid forever in this climate) call at the telephone switchboard in the lobby where cough drops will be provided with the compliments of the management.” We. asked Dorothy Knisely, the orchestra's publicity director, whether many patrons availed themselves of the offer. The answer: No, most of them preferred to cough. . . . One of our agents reports that a big electric sign on the north side of the Wilmeth Ford agency wishes folks a “Merry Cristmas” Maybe it's been changed by now. . ;. The same agent reports that what appears to be a gun has been pressed into the asphalt in front of the drug store at St. Clair and Illinois,

Papa Needs a New Pair

JIM STRICKLAND, the OPA state director, was playing handball at the I-A. C. the other day when one of the players — J. Herbert. Smith, 3545 Washington blvd.—said: “Say, Strick; how will I go about getting a shoe stamp for my new baby?” Replied Jim: “Why, just go to one of the ration boards and get a ration -book for the youngster. But heck, that baby’s only two days old. It doesn't need shoes!” Mr. Smith came right back with: “No, but I do. I've been waiting for the youngster to arrive so I could get myself a pair of shoes.” , . . During his program here a week ago Monday, Dr. I. Q. offered one woman 11 silver dollars if she could tell him on which side of a cup the handle is. She guessed “the right side.” “Oh, no,” said Dr. I. Q. “I'm sorry but I think you'll ind the handle on the inside.” He started to talk to the next contestant, then realized what he'd sald. He corrected himself and said he had mean!

, The handle of a cup is on the inside, and here's one made especially for you to hools’ safety director,

By Raymond Clapper

E. Brooke Lee, says. in an editorial in the Maryland News, there senate, tha has or war, he comple

work at all, . the service channels. . His point, which many service men are making, is that no real opportunity to vote will be allowed those

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is a complete national effort. To adds, the method through which are to vote must flow along the same

voting. The reason is that the army and navy are far removed from the sphere of state government. Men not allocated to services, any regard for their states or The leadership of the army and navy have no whatever with state governments or election laws or voting procedure.

Weapon and Privilege of Citizen

AS COL, LEE says, the 48 states as individual agencies of local government can no more conduct ‘the armed f

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1043

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Administration Policies Put To Severe Test in Strike Threat.

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—President Roosevelt's most important home-front job during the holiday season will be to prevent the general railroad strike scheduled for Dec. 30, and it is now obvious that he intends to handle it in person. James F. Byrnes and Fred M. Vinson, respectively the di-

of economic stabut Mr. RooseExecutions. his clashing objectives must be: lion and a half railroad workers| concern over Nazi threats to take the line,” so far as possible, against credit to his administration, which

‘Members of New City Hospital Board

= Dr, L. A. Ensminger

Howard Griffith =

Double-Levy Slated After March 1 Unless =

Congress Acts.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt today signed 8 bill freezing social security taxes at present rates until March 1, as the senate finance committee urged passage of a $2,275,000000 tax bill containing an administration op« posed provision to freeze the secur. ity levies at present rates for a full year. , ; The President's action, which re= tains for two months past Jan, 1 the présent 1 per cent rate, will give

congress time to determine whether

|the rate should be allowed to in-

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Frank G. Laird rectors of war mobilization and bitization, will be Germans Warn They Will active as advisers, ‘Get Even’ for Russ velt will make the Mr. ins decisions, Among To keep the railroads running at WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (U. P). full capacity; to propitiate a mil-|— Official circles today expressed who have been numbered among re ; “ prisals against captured Amerna political supporters: to “hold ican and British filers as an answer wage increases his advisers have [to Russia's execution at Kharkov called inflationary; to. avoid dis-|of three German prisoners for is already being blamed for allowing the present situation to devel-

inary maneuvering.

atrocities against Soviet citizens, The threat was regarded primar-

lop through 16 months of prelim- | 11¥ as a German move to split the

united nations by holding AngloAmericans to answer for Nazi grievIt

These five persons have been appointed by Mayor Tyndall as a bi-partisan board to direct the policies at City hospital. Appointment | of the board, which will assume hospital control duties formerly held | by the health board, was authorized by the last legislature. |

| vention for treatment of war pris- oners on the idea that she now

|crease to 2 per cent as it would {under present laws, Increased reve(nue of more than $1,000,000,000 a year is involved. The finance committee, formally recommending to the senate the |$2 275,000,000 tax bill, said that full {attention to “the factors of infla{tion” had been given in revising { downward the administration's $10,« {500,000,000 tax program,

Budget Cut Reminder

| The treasury in opposing con- | gressional lowering of tax sights had urged adoption of its program As & protection against inflation The finance committee in its formal report on the bill justified the reduced revenue bill on the

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has been no talk, even in the United States |rahs

Lack of Uniformity ances against the Soviet Union. Part of the blame is being placed | Was seen also as a gesture to bolon the lack of uniformity and cen- [ster morale of the German people, tralization in the government's|Who might find some form of sathandling of labor problems. isfaction in seeing executions of

With several agencies of divided [the airmen who helped give the Reich the same type of aerial pun-

ishment that the Germans inflicted in London. But despite the Nazi motives, it was sald, the threat can precipitate a. breakdown in the Geneva con-

there is no single head except the President, and now he must take the timie to settle under a strike deadline a controversy that had become serious three months ago. Railway labor leaders—or the operating as well as non-operating brotherhoods — impress observers with their determination to go through with the strike threats, which have been developed formally under the prescribed procedures of the railway labor act. } But still the general feeling is that after all there will be no strike. This feeling is based partly on a realization of how damaging a railroad strike would be to the war ef- , And also on the fact that the

By WALTER P. CRONKITE United Press Staff Correspondent

Standing up in crowded trains, crawling over fog-shrouded roads in bouncing jeeps, riding bicycles over muddy lanes, American correspondents in Britain covering the air war are working night and- day to keep pace with the mounting round-the-clock allied aerial offensive, Will They Compromise? With airbases now scattered alThe President's method of com-{most the full length and breadth of promising the -row, according to his|England, the reporter's job involves press-conference statements, will be |hundreds of miles of arduous travelto initiate a new system of over-|ing—sometimes hundreds of miles time payment on the railroads’|within a single day—to report acwhich would give the employees|curately and effectively the story of approximately what they ask but! American and RAF air operations. involve no outright breakage of the!" These correspondents are “muslittle steel formula and of general|atts bag and typewriter” soldiers, wage-stabilization policies, The musette bag slung over their Up to today the President's ap-|shoulder contains their shaving kit, parent plan had provoked no hur-ia towel, a bar of soap and—with among union leaders. What|juck—q clean shirt. That and their they demand—and say they will|portable typewriter are “home.” get—is a straight raise for all concerned of 8 cents an hour’ Unshaven Faces They declare that qualified au-| And when the air war is at its thorities under the railway labor |peak—when the 8th is out day after act have said they are entitled to|/day and the RAF night after night this increase, that they do not want|—the unshaven faces and the redto trade away their future bargain-/ness of the sleepless eves of these ing power by accepting a mathe-|soldiers of the press match those of matical and indeterminate com-|the fliérs and ground crews thempromise, that the overtime-pay selves, scheme cannot ve applied to alll To report the air assault upon classes of railway workers, that any-| Germany, one of the great running thing other than a uniform pay|stories of the war, the United Press raise would disturb the differen-|nas mobilized the pick of its London tials now existing among the nu-|staff, Three members are assigned merous classes of railway workers. |to the job full-time. Two others

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interpret the air war in relation to the world-wide picture. And a host of desk men are always at hand to give intelligent, fast, accurate handling to the dispatches from the “alr bases somewhere in England.” Throughout last winter, when the o American air effort was as a moleless Eo ow Tears day wie hill to its present mountain, I was obtained. ’ able to cover the Fons 83 Sip With the coming of spring pyralidings also Il Side 88 miding of the American air force in open at 10 a, m, | Ensiand, 1 had to enlist help to 1 on other days|enable the United Press to continue Christmas vacation | breast oi developments. . = Plans Pay Dividends classes, craftwork programs| The full staff was assigned to the supervised group activities are|job sufficiently ahead of the need until Jan. 3 so that the!for it to enable its members to dig facilities may be used for|their roots firmly into the soll free play” all times. against the time when the speeded-

hristmas Money ~ Turns to Ashes

oners. Japan already has violated principles of the Geneva convention by executing some American pilots captured after the rald on Tokyo. Germany has threatened to follow sult—and has now renewed the threats in connection with the Kharkov executions, Germany, it was sald, may base the threat of executing allied pris

later to become known as “the

Small and Werner stop at each base first to tackle flying opera~ tions and intelligence commanders to get the basic facts of the day's mission, and then to get human, personal experience stories from the

men who have just returned from

fighting five miles high'in the skies for their countries and for their lives, After the fliers turn in to rest up for the next day's job, Small and Werner assemble and write their stories and send them, despite com~ munication ball-ups and hazy, dim transmission lines to “the desk” at the United Press bureau in London. There skilled desk men like William B. Dickinson, Phil Ault and Ed Murray—men whose names seldom appear over the air stories in the papers—assemble the Small and Werner reports into the factpacked, fast-moving account which United Press lays on clients’ desks within minutes, sometimes even before Small or Werner have hung up the receiver at their end.

Food Comes Late After telephoning, the correspondents may go around to the back door of the mess to beg a late meal from the chef-—perhaps their food that day. Later they grope their way to a strange barrack where they'll crawl in beside some weary flier or bomb loader or an intelligence officer destined to be awakened in an hour to plan the next day's mission.. If there is a mission the next day, Small and Werner are at the grind again. But even if there is no mission, their routine differs only ‘slightly, They take a little more time but they continue their un-

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holds more war prisoners than the allles and could therefore inflict the greater hurt. But new and larger allied operations are impending, and the German prisoner list may soon be dwarfed. All reports indicated the Rus{slans gave the German prisoners every legal consideration at the Kharkov trials—far more, in fact, than Nazl courts give foreigners.

Allied Aerial Offensive Paces Reporters In Gruelling Round-the-Clock News Race

Walter Cronkite is the youthful dean of American air-war writers in Londen. For a year, ever since his return to England from the American invasion of Africa, he has specialized in covering the allied aerial assault upon the Nazis. He was one of the eight correspondents

writing 60th"—who composed the

original group which qualified by rigorous training to accompany Flying Fortress high-altitude missions over the continent, and was one of the first newsmen to fly with American bombers which blasted the ports and inland cities of the reich.—~Editor’s note, :

ending tour of the bases, now to pick up the feature stories that come from reticent, modest fliers only on the “day after.” Yet all this effort and perseverance are tpt enough to achieve the complete coverage that United Press wants. Standing by: especially to give the folks back home intimate, personal glimpses of their men at war are top-flight feature writers Jim MeGlincy and Dudley Ann Harmon, Armed with tips from Small or Werner—-and with musette bags now swung over their shoulders they dash into the field to pick up any undeveloped angle for another United Press exclusive, In London, I am constantly kept busy assessing the facts, interviewing those “in the know” at the alr ministry and 8th air force headquarters, and seeking to interpret the developing air war, as well as call fyture plays so that Small, Werner and myself can be at the scene when the big story breaks.

Foreign Staff Stars

Even here UP's constant attention to the air war doesn’t emd. Longtime stars of the UP's foreign staff, such as Virgil Pinkley and Ed Beattie, frequently dip into the subJect to bring it into focus with the overall picture of the allled and enemy war efforts. : "Their interpretive dispatches a based on direct acquaintance with the generals and alr marshals who direct the war and on expert knowledge of the war itself, its battlefronts and the strengths and weaknesses of the armies there, With this cast—Pinkley, Beattie, Small, Werner, McGlincy, Harmon and myself—-United Press is cover-

ing the biggest aerial show on earth.

Tomorrow's Job—

By E. A. EVANS Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. — Department stores, resort hotels and

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Rush for Helicopter Permits Termed Unjustified by Tests

speech quoted by “American Avia-|, tion” magazine, bs It will be five to 10 years, he says,| ,

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grounds that budget estimates had been lowered by $11,000,000,000 since the treasury in September proposed its huge new tax requests, Chair(man Walter F. George also said the [committee gave special attention to | ‘the factors tending toward inflation, the mounting federal debt and the burden of present taxes imposed on the American people.” As passed by the house the bill carried $2,145,000,000 and only com« (paratively minor changes were ‘made ‘by the senate committee.

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The measure includes heavier individual and corporife come taxes, excise taxes on luxurie’ and higher postal rates for 1944, Tt will be one of the first matters before congress when it returns from the holiday recess Jan. 10. The new rates are expected to go Into effect the first day of February or March, For the first time In history the income tax rates will not be retroactive. The reason is that congress put the. nation's income taxoavers on a pav-as-you-go basis early this year, The new rates will apply to taxes due on 1944 income-—not on 1043 income. George recalled that the pay-as-you-go tax law imposes an extra burden on individual taxpayers for the next two years. Under that law individuals are required to pay—in equal installments March 15, 1044, and March 15, 1945-—one-fourth of the total they otherwise would have pald during the calendar year 1942 on their 1941 earnings, -

NEW GIANT BOMBER FOR U, S. REVEALED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (U. P) ~Rep. John J. Sparkman (D. Ala), declared today that the aviation industry was turning out a giant

Japanese, He sald most of the information gathered by his gix-man commit tee must remain secret, but added: “I wish everybody in the country could have seen what we did”

GARAGE FIRE TRAPS RABBITS IN CAGES

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new bomber—something better even