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there. o ~~ They are pretty veteran now, and have been under fire a "lot. They've served the hot beaches | of Sicily, Salerno and Anzio. They . know a gun fired in anger when they hear one, : On the whole, "although the boys who man these beachhead supply ships are frequently in _danger, they do live fairly comfortably. Their food is good, facilities ‘as hot baths, new magazines, 1¢ sailors sleep in folding bunks with springs d mattresses. The officers sleep in cabins, two or $0 & cabin, the same as on bigger ships. An LST isn’t such a glorious ship to look at—it is either sleek nor fast nor impressively big—and yet Even Roll in Drydock THE LSTs are great rollers—the sailors say : even roll in drydock.” They have flat toms and consequently they roll when there is no at all, They roll fast, too. Their usual tempo is round-trip roll ever six seconds. The boys say that a really heavy sea you can stand on the bridge actually see the bow of the ship twist, like a turning its head. It isn’t an optical illusion , but a result of the “give” in these ships. The sailors say that when they run across a sand the ship seems to work its way across like an worm, proceeding forward section by section, The LST has handled every conceivable type of cargo. It has carried a whole shipload of used shells, the most dangerous kind. Among the rs of many nationalities that my LST had carthe crew found the Indian troops of Jahore the interesting, The Indians were friendly, and as
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
SHADES OF CHIC SALE! A typographical error # Times classified ad Monday had El Lilly & Co. g “lavatory, office and production openings.” first word, naturally, should have been “labora-
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MRS. EDYTHE CANTWELL suggests that in connection with the movie, “The Song of Bernadette,”
the hospital have wondered what was in the small
New Weapons
+ NEW YORK, March 24. ~— There's nothing new about pilotiess airplanes guided by radio control, It's only a slight stretch of what we already know
equipping rocket projectiles with radio controls, Short-wave electrical impulses sight guns far more effectively than human vision. The appearance of a new wea-
what everyone knows into a new combination and put it to work. It is possible to lay from the alr a vast smokescreen composed of inflammable gases to be ignited by a flame-producing bomb. But 3 there are variables to be considered, variables over which man has no control. The
On still, windless days a smoke cloud of combustible gases could be a terrible weapon, with no presently known defense or protection available.
Limit of Effectiveness IF THE Nazis contemplate any such trick, I am {inclined to think they will use a new type of bomb rather than attempt to cover a whole area with gas. I believe we've got about all we can get out of the old-time explosives—TNT, dynamite, cordite. The best proof of that is that we have increased the amounts we use until any greater sizes would be impracticable, "Gunpowder, cordite and dynamite burn them-
_gelves, and that’s all. Some day we will wonder why
My Day
CARACAS, Venezuela, Thursday.—The people of Venezuela seemed very friendly. They waved and made us feel most welcome. Venezuela now has a very progressive government. They are clearing away slums and have started on a low cost hcusing program in the heart of the city of Caracas. They are training teachers and building new primary schools. A system of maternal and infancy care in which ladies’ groups are much interested is being tried here. -
are having a hard time, though wages are fairly
SR o” oll fields and off government work, und have risen in
full an Am pan, the - Even “them. : ously : more think of an unflushed toilet than you ‘wopld think of committing murder, - Frightfulness of War — CAPT, AHRS told me of one touching
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By THOMAS L. STOKES Scripps-Howard Staff Writer MILWAUKEE, March 24—A human interest drama, as old as men and politics, is being played here as
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gasoline. One officer sald, “At home, where gas is rationed, that would seem like an awful lot, but up here it's just a drop in the bucket and makes no
fleet of supply ships is manned by Americans, and Greeks.
stone building at the north end of the hospital grounds. It is a lovely spot for a quiet repose and a few moments of prayers in these busy, troubled days.” . « + Plc. Charles D, (Jack) Gehring, who formerly worked at the I. A. C, writes back from New Delhi, Jndia, that he received no mail for several months.
And then came the deluge—101 letters, all at the same, ++ This war is helping some of our boys to get acquainted with relatives they might never have
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seen otherwise. For instance, Lt. John Kiernan writes home that while in England he hunted up his uncle, James Kiernan, in Radcliffe, and an aunt in another city. . . . Probably the most surprised man in Indianapolis yesterday afternoon was Joe Keegan, who has been carrying the mail to the statehouse the last 11 years. Joe, who knows everyone in the statehouse by his or her first name, is going into the navy soon. So the statehouse folk raised a purse of more than $100. Yesterday afternoon while he was making his rounds, they surrounded Joe and gave him the purse. He was both embarrassed and pleased,
Yep, Spring Is Here!
WELL, SPRING really is here, We weren't sure of it until Mrs. Easley Blackwood called to tell us about the inevitable robin seeing his reflection in a basement window of the Herman Metzel home, 4143 Central. Mrs. Blackwood, who lives next door, reports that the robin started in fighting “that other bird" in the window Wednesday morning. By afternoon, it had taken another look and decided the other bird was a lady friend. Since then it has been standing in front of the window preening its feathers and singing
- a Httle chirping song. . . . Add signs of spring: The
bullfrogs have started their annual chorus, at least out in the Broad Ripple swamp. A fat, lazy fly has taken up residence in The Times city room. We've killed a couple of mosquitoes already. And the Murphy store is removing the storm doors on its Market st. entrance, replacing them with new awnings. . , . Have you contributed yet to the 40 & 8 campaign to provide free playing cards for overseas service men? A dime buys a deck of cards. The organization is collecting funds on the downtown streets, using the old “wishing well” booths. . Legion auxiliary members are manning the booths,
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we stuck to them for so long while there are other)
chemical combinations which burn themselves and far greater quantities of atmosphere, such as liquified gases launched via the rocket principle. Then well also wonder why we stuck to big guns so long. One of the most interesting stories of the employment of “tamed” explosives is that of the Coffmann aircraft engine starter, a develppment of the Federal Laboratories of Pittsburgh and the navy. The old electric starters required storage batteries weighing 100 pounds, along with a large generator,
Slow-Burning Charge
THE COFFMANN starter is a simple affair, weighing about-30 pounds. Each cartridge weighs only a few ounces. The cartridge, which contains slowburning powder, is placed in a breech and fired electrically. The slow-burning charge travels through a steel tube to the rear of the engine where is exerts pressure against a piston. The piston moves forward and by means of a double-splined shaft, the forward motion of the piston is transferred into circular motion, This shaft is fitted with teeth which engage other teeth on the end of the crankshaft. And as the
. charge continues to burn, the pressure on the piston
increases until it reaches a point where its energy is sufficient to whirl the crankshaft at a speed of about 200 revolutions per minute, This fast turning of the crankshaft is conducive to easy starting. I placed the breech in the cockpit of my Grumman fighter and can place the cartridge myself and handle the starting without help. It's a gadget of inestimable value. The secret lies in the chemical development which
makes it possible to control burning rate of the
By Eleanor Roosevelt
on Mme. Medifia Angarita, the wife of the president .
of Venezuela. The president and Mme. Medina Angarita received us on our arrival at Mr. Phelp’s house, and that night we dined at their home. At 4 o'clock we reached the headquarters of the American. society, where I met first with the ladies belonging to various organizations and answered some questions which they had prepared for me. Then 1 met the press, went through’ the building and
"back to our embassy for a reception for American
women in Caracas. To my surprise, there must be several hundred here, which I think surprised even the ambassador! : Quite a number of our boys come to Caracas on short leaves and the American ladies have formed themselves into a committee of hostesses, instead of starting a USO. Whenever they hear that either officers or enlisted men have arrived, the acting
As we lay at the dock before! , a British LST was on one side of us and a Harold Stassen—he is 36—thrice-
It concerns the relations of two prominent’ political figures, once staunch allies, now divided by ambition. J One is Wendell L. Willkie, who is moving about this state, like a cirevangelist, seeking to people to elect his slate of delegates in the April 4 primary jo that he may continue to seek re‘nomination as Republican presiden{tial candidate. He is warming up. The hair is beginning to fall down over his eyes. ‘ The other is the much younger
elected governor of neighboring Minnesota, now a lieutenant commander on the staff of Adm. Halsey {in the Pacific.
| Wendell Willkie is the once-de-
| feated presidential candidate whois | trying to stage a comeback. Thinks It's His Turn Lt. Cmdr. Stassen is the younger man who, like youth forever, thinks it is now his turn. With that idea his friends entered him in this primary against the older man he helped four years ago, despite the fact that he had removed himself from politics to go into the service. The story begins back in the spring of 1940 when the strapping {governor of Minnesota became interested in the aspirations of Wendell Willkie to become president. Stassen had been selected as keynote speaker of the 1940 convention and he became a figure in the convention. At the appropriate, dramatic moment he came out for Mr. Willkie. His skill as floor manager in the Willkie campaign was quite a factor, it was generally recognized, in the victory against some of the shrewdest political operators in the party. In the campaign that followed Governor Stassen did yeoman service. Re-elected Governor
He was re-elected governor. There began to be talk of him for 1044. A perceptible coolness developed between the two men. Mr. Willkie never for a moment gave up the idea of renomination and he worked at it constantly, But the young man had ideas of his own. He let Mr. Willkie know that he now was on his own.
when he was re-elected a third time, revealing vote-getting ability which the party so needs. He announced during the campaign that he was going to resign after his legislature adjourned and go into the navy, which he did. Meanwhile, with the aim of building up a national reputation, he made speeches and wrote magazine articles. He developed a plan of post-war organization with a very specific blueprint, that attracted national attention. It was reflected in the Ball-Burton-Hill-Hatch postwar resolution in the U. S. senate. Then he left for the service. His friends did not give up their dreams of him as President, nor, it seems, did he,’for just the other day he put himself into the running by his letter to Secretary of Navy Knox, saying he would accept the nomination, though he is not a candidate, and he would ask to be retired to make a campaign if the convention picked him. This gave a lift to his campaign here. Mr. Willkie resented this show of ambition by his one-time ally, and revealed it in his statement of reaction.
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TWO INDIANAPOLIS war workers and another Hoosier from Cynthiana will leave their civilian jobs next month to do marine work on the home front. The three new recruits, sworn in at the local recruiting office March 8, are Pvt. Bette W. Allen, 1128 N. Alabama st.; Pvt. Betty Jean French, 2230 N. Talbot ave, and Pvt. Helen M. Martin, Cynthiana.
The women behind the men who'are first fo fight . . . marine recruiting officer; Pvt. Bette W. Allen and Pvt. Betty Jean French, both of Indianapolis, and Pvt. Helen M. Martin, Cynthiana, new marine recruits.
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Pvt. Allen, daughter of Mrs. Mae Albright, is employed at P. R. Mallory Co., Inc., in the office and her husband, Sgt. W. K. (Woody) Allen is in England with the army. 3 She will be instructed by her cousin, Marine Lt. Claudine Harris at Camp Lejeune, N. C., Col. A, P. Sullivan, Pvt. Allen’s uncle, is with an anti-aircraft division in Italy.
Air Photos Show Destruction Wrought by Bombers; Center Wiped Out. :
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, March 24.~Little more i than fire-whitened walls, hollow il shells of buildings and heaps of i rubble remain of Unter den Linden, once Berlin's proudest street and the scene of countless triumphal Nazi parades, the first complete air = reconnaissance photographs of the d devastated German capital revealed i: today. =~ The great mausoleum-like chan- 7 cellory which Adolf Hitler built in 4 1938 to perpetuate himself in ugly cement and yellow stucco apparently has escaped British and American bombs, perhaps saved by its concrete roof—nine feet thick. But
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An assembler at R. C, A., Pvt. French has three brothers in the army and wants “to get in the .thick of the war.” Pvt. Wilbur French is in the southwest Pacific, Pvt. Paul French with the infantry in Oregon and Cpl. Dale W. French with the air forces in England. All three of the recruits will take basic training at Camp Lejeune.
GROUP LAUDS BOYS SCHOOL
Probe of Institution at Plainfield. .
Phe state boys’ school at Plainfield was given a clean bill of health by the legislative welfare investigating committee which inspected the institution recently, it was learned today. ; The commission viewed with special favor the system employed by the school in releasing boys on parole. Decisions regarding eligibility of boys .for placement are made by the superintendent, Dr. E. Millard Dill, and the board of trustees and are not subject to review and possible revocation by the state welfare department's board of parole review, The commission in one of its recent reports recommended that the parole review board be abolished, thus giving complete parole powers to the boards of trustees of the various institutions, Act Deemed Wise
Boys’ school officials at the time of passage of the law setting up the parole review board succeeding in! getting their institution exempted from its provisions, an act which the legislative committee deemed “wise.” Committee members said that as a
Governor Stassen’s stature grew, result the boys’ school superinten-
dent and members of the board of trustees have freedom of action which makes it possible for them to deal with the boys confidently and with the assurance that whatever decision is reached as to their parole will not be revoked by the welfare parole review board, as happens in other institutions, The legislative committee found that most of the escapes or run-
slowness in effecting transfers of incorrigible boys to the reforma-
tory. Explains Delay
There is a delay of from six weeks to two months in making a transfer because such transfers must be routed through the welfare department, the committee found. The escapees, the committee said, are usually the incorrigible boys who know they are to be transferred and who take advantage of the des lay caused by red tape to escape. A boy found to be unfit or unsuited for the boys school environ. ment should be transferred immediately and the welfare department should speed up its handling of these matters, the committee said. The committee found the educational and work facilities of the school to be “excellent” and said that the cottage type of housing creates more of a home atmosphere than does the barracks type which usually prevails in a correctional institution of this type.
ee ——————————— PAPER SHORTAGE GROWING
WASHINGTON, March 24 (U. P.) ~The office of war information
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tion of paper still continues to ex-
{ceed the supply, and called for in-
creased production combined with more drastic savings, including a step-up in the waste paper salvage
Legislative Unit Conducts]
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Betty Ann Dorn
.Queen of Juniors
MISS BETTY ANNE DORN, 20-year-old blond education major, will reign as queen of the Butler university junior prom from 9 to 12 p. m. tomorrow in the social room of Murat temple. The daughter | of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Dorn, 3130 Central ave, Miss Dorn was named to the prom throne i n by vote of Butler men stu- Miss Dorn dents. She is a member of Alpha Chi Omega--sorority, the Pan Hellenic association, the Sociology club and the Elementary Education students’ organization. She will be presented with a trophy and a garland of roses at the dance where she will be at-
Mary Lu Marshall, Jane Sniffin, Marilyn Behymer, Ruth Downey, Betty Martin and Nell Nickell.
$565,000 GIVEN FOR RED CROSS
County at Half-Way Mark To Goal in Drive Ending March 31.
With less than a week to go in the Red Cross war fund campaign, a total of $565,000 or approximately half of the $1,146,000 goal has been reached, Harry Reid, county drive chairman, announced today.
The bulk of the collected amount has come from the big gifts division which has turned in 85 per cent of their $550,000 quota since the drive started, March 1. It is scheduled to end March 31. “It is a case of so far so good, with our hardest work ahead of us,” Mr. Reid said. “There must be increased giving from everyone if we are to succeed.” Red Cross officials stated that the success of the drive depends upon the generosity of some 200,000 citizens who are .gainfully employed, including approximately 133,000 industrial workers. Employees of the Lilly Varnish Co. have subscribed an average of $12 per employee and employees of the Indianapolis Paper Container Co. have subscribed an average of more than $1 over a day's pay.
‘UNHEROIC’ HEROISM SUBJECT OF SERMON
“God comes into man’s life, not with a flash out of Heaven, but in ordinary, unspectacular ways,” was the thought stressed by the Rev. James M. Lichliter in his noonday sermon on “The Heroism of the Unheroic” at Christ Episcopal church. “Little quiet things shape history,” said the Rev. Mr. Lichliter of Webster Groves, Mo. “Better tiny idealism in practice than vast idealism in theory. Nazareth once was dwarfed by Rome, but now it's clear that in Nazareth, and not in
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Pvt. Tony N. Francescon, Indianapolis infantryman, was wounded last month in Italy but
tive of Italy, went to Venice to visit her parents in 1939 but was “trapped” there when the war broke out and a American harbors yA were closed to Pvt. Francescon
Italian ships. Her husband, who
Yank Hurt in Italy, but His Mother, Nearby, Doesn't Know
year for news from home to' reach his wife, : Territory in northern Italy under German Occupation, Mr. Francescon explained, and letters must go “through Switzerland and
| Entering the army in July, 1943, Pvt. Francescon went overseas last On Feb. 28 the purple
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STATE'S WOMAN OFFICIAL FILES
Mrs. Gundersen Running For Renomination as Court Reporter.
Mrs. Marjorie Roemler Gundersen, the only woman state official, yesterday announced her candidacy for renomination as reporter of the
on the Republican ticket. Mrs. Gundersen long has been active in Republican affairs, serving as a precinct worker for many years. She was admitted to the practice of law in 1932 and is a member of the law firmi of Roemler, Chamberlin & Gundersen. She was admitted to G vd practice before Mrs. the U. 8S. supreme court in May, 1941. She is a graduate of Vassar college and the Indiana Law school. For one year she was assistant to Will H. Hayes, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributers of America, Inc, with offices in New York.
Many Affiliations
She was the first vice chairman of the Marion County Young Republican organization. She is member of the Indiana and Indianapolis Women’s Republican clubs, the Indianapolis, Indiana - and American Bar associations and the National and Indiana Associations of Women Lawyers. She is married to Einar K A. Gundersen Jr. and has a son 11 years old. She lives at 1501 E. Maple Road blvd. Mrs.: Gundersen said that she would seek renomination on her record in administering the reporter’s office during the past three years.
GOUNTY NEARS VOTE ON SCHOOL FUND
A proposed ordinance submitted to the county council today authorizing county commissioners to borrow $48,000 from the county school fund reserve may bring to a showdown the long-debated question on the $300,000 school fund balance. The council deferred action on the ordinance until Monday, indicating that some decision may be made by them whether or not to turn the whole school fund over to the state and thus avoid paying the state 4 per cent interest on it as provided by law. The commissioners proposed borrowing the money from the school fund to finance construction of several bridges and roads in the county that have deteriorated in the last several years. The council also deferred action on requests for additional appropriations totaling $55,218. One request of $15,000 was made by county commissioners for the purchase of new automobiles to-replace several fleets of cars that are worn out. Commissioners also asked $10,000 additional appropriation from the gasoline tax money to buy black top materials for county highways.
TITO SAYS HUNGARY SOLDIERS CONFUSED
LONDON, March 24 (U. P).— Marshal Josip (Tito) Brozovich reported today that confusion had broken out among Hungarian soldiers in occupied Jugoslavia as the result of events in Hungary. His announcement: came as the
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the fuehrer’s capital virtually has been ‘wiped out. Berlin no longer exists as I knew it. The United office at 43 to 45 Unter den Linden, from which I covered the first two and a half years of the war, the swank Bristol hotel, the historic Russian embassy building and many others have been destroyed completely or are mere hollow shells, standing stark and naked in the winter sunshine. ?
326 Factories Destroyed
In releasing the photographs, the air ministry disclosed that the devastating toll of the 15 major royal air force attacks during the three months beginning Nov, 18 included:
or damaged, including four of Berlin’s eight “priority 1-plus” war plants very severely damaged. 2. The main offices of 21 government departments damaged--most of them severely. 3. The Lehrter and Potsdamer railroad stations and other com-
: | munications hit very severely.
4. Critical damage to many of the capital's vital public utilities. The photographs showed that fire
(had swept like a tornado through
block after block of the once stylish Tiergarten district, which had dignified stone houses and many foreign - embassies and legations, leaving nothing but gaunt, burnedout honéycombs and streets almost devoid of Another great fire had wiped out something like 15 blocks in the so-called “Hansa” quarters northwest of the Tiergarten near the river Spree,
Repair Goebbel's Home
Propaganda Minister Paul Goebbels’ ornate home in Hermanngoeringstrasse, built with tens of thousands of dollars taken from German
2 taxpayers, had its top floor burned
out, but the roof has been repaired. The former presidential palace in the Wilhelmstrasse, where President Paul von Hindenburg lived—occupied until recently by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop—showed signs of damage but repairs already are under way, although many important factories have been left ruined and abandoned. The foreign office next door also was damaged considerably, but is being repaired. Across Wilhelmsplats from Hitler’s chancellory, the famous Kaiserhot hotel, used by Nazi big shots on visits to Berlin, had all of its top floors burned out. But Hermann Goering’s immense granite air ministry, on the corner of Wilhelmstrasse and Leipzigstrasse, appears undamaged. One whole wing of the Reichstag building was demolished, adding to the destruction of the fire set by the Nazis themselves "In 1933. The French embassy on Pariserplatz, next to the Brandenburger Tor, and the British embassy, just around the corner in Wilhelmstrasse, were destroyed by direct hits. The American embassy, opposite the French on Pariserplatz, apparently has escaped damage. ~
‘BLUEBEARD’ LURE CITED
LONDON, March 24 (U. P.).— Dr. Marcel Petiot, the Perisian “Bluebeard” accused of scores of for ture killings, lured his victims to the murder house at 21 Rue Leseur by promising to arrange their escape from Occupied France to the United States, the Paris radio said today.
2,820,000 DRAW U. §. PAY | WASHINGTON, March 24 (U.P). ~The civil service commission reported today that there were 2.820,000 civilian employees on the payroll of the. federal government as of Jan. 31, 1944.
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