Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1944 — Page 9

oosier Vagabond

ITALY; April 10 (By Wireless) —In our old gang of Tunisian tankmen of a year and more ago there was Capt. Jed Dailey, who comes from Sharon, Mass., near Boston, Jed was through that battle at Sidi : a bou Zid, and it was he who was “furious about losing his camera and his bedroll and all his films to the Germans, I wrote about him at the time, saying he bet the Germans would develop those films eagerly, thinking they'd reveal some military secrets, but all they'd find would be a picture of a man in a silly pose with Tunisian flowers suck behind his ears. Jed says that after that column he got dozens of letters kidding him avout putting flowers behind his ears, but he didn’t care. He has avenged the loss of his camera, too. Since then he has personally captured from the Germans an even better one to replace it, and has added a Luger and a fine pair of binoculars for good measure, | Jed Dalley is an unusual person. I think I like him about as much as anybody I know. He is a pure Bostonian. He talks with a Harvard broad “A.” He is a far cry from the farm boy of the Kentucky hills, ‘yet he commands a company of such boys and they love him.

Greatest Job in Army

FOLLOWING THE battle at Kasserine, Jed Dailey was switched from a desk job to the command of a company of tanks. The job of company commander, whether it’s infantry or tanks or what, is the greatest job in the army—the greatest and the toughest. The boys themselves have told me what they think of Jed Dailey. When he first arrived, they were contemptuous of that cultured accent and had little faith in him. They laugh now and tell how he tries to speak a flat accent whenever he gives them a talk, but without realizing it lapees back into his broad “A.”

But he has lived that down, and all their other jokes about him. They'd go anywhere with him now, or for him. He has proved, himself in many ways. Whenever there is a battle he is in his own tank, directing his company. I just had the pleasure of seeing him get the silver star for gallantry in action. He has been wounded twice since I saw him in Tunisia. Whenever his company pulls backs from battle, Jed Dailey throws the small details of army discipline out the back door and the men really get a rest. As they say, “He fights hard and he rests hard.” That's the way the boys get the most out of it)and they appreciate it. I

Shell Holes in Jacket

CAPT. DAILEY is tall and his black hair stands up and roaches back and you'd have to call him goodlooking. He nearly always goes bareheaded even in the danger zone. It is not an affection; he simply likes to go bareheaded. He usually wears an air corps fleecelined leather jacket that he once haggled out of some flier friend. At the left shoulder of the jacket are two holes— one in front ot the shoulder, one in back. The first hoie is where a piece of, shell fragment went in. The back hole is where it came out after going through

‘his arm. They took a piece out of his leg to patch

up his wounded shoulder. The other officers laugh and say, “Jed wouldn't sew those holes up for $10,000.” And another one says, “Not only that, but you can see where he has taken his knife and made them bigger.” You don’t talk like that in front of a man when you mean -it. Jed just grins and says, “Sure.” Before that he was wounded in the face from an air burst. When he got out of the hospital from his second wound he had a week’s leave at Sorrento, the beautiful resort city below Naples. He stayed one night and then returned to his company. Everybody at the rest camp thought he was crazy, “It isn’t that I am anxious to fight,” Jed said, ot when you are commanding a combat outfit your place is with your outfit. You feel like a heel if you are able to be there and aren't. I feel lots better since I got back.”

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nusshaum

A LARGE SIGN in the display window of the Meridian garage, opposite the Federal building, still advises motorists to get their batteries checked because “Prost is just around the corner.” Well, well! 80 that’s why it was so cold last week. . . . Ever since he sold a story to Warner Bros. last year, G. T. Fleming Roberts, 6137 N. Meridian, has been wondering when the story would be made into a movie. And while - he was wondering, the brothers Warner got busy, flimed the novel and exhibited the movie right here in town at Keith's without the author being aware of it. Mr. Roberts, a highly successful writer of stories for mystery magazines, didn't learn the 2 < movie had been shown here until he heard from a relative who had seen it in Michi. gan. He checked up and found it is due to hit the neighborhood houses soon. It's entitled, “Find the Blackmailer.,” When it does, the author will be in the audience to see if he can recognize the plot. . . . The Indianapolis local of the International Typographical Union receives many calls intended for the Federal building. The local’s phone number is MAB161—similar to the Federal building's MA-1561.

Second Childhood

" ED FERREE, whose job it is to keep Ayres’ up to date on all the muititudinous and complex regulations, phoned the store Friday and reported he was confined to his home with chickenpox. His office associates are threatening to send him some crayons, coloring books and other children’s toys. ¢« + « Two Indianapolis men serving in the navy met each other in the South Pacific through letters of introduction sent them by their wives—stenographers in the local FBI office. The wives, Mrs. Helen QGainey and Mrs. Virginia Deckard, met each other through their work, and they wrote their husbands, telling them to get acquainted if thelr ships ever

‘All or Nothing’

COLUMBUS, O! April 10.—John W. Bricker, Ohio's first Republican three-term governor, says that he is after all or nothing. He isn't interested in the G. O. P's vice presidential nomination, “I'm a candidate for the nomination for president —and nothing else,” he told me in a recent interview. Leaning back in his chair, puffing a light briar pipe, he was deliberately positive in expressing dislike for the entire New Deal philosophy, to which, he said, everything that has been is wrong, and should be changed. But he declined absolutely to discuss his rivals for the Republican nomination, or their qualifications or their philosophies. “I'm concerned only with % own effort to build up. the Republican party, to ihe i its position, to implant my ideas in the ranks of the party's leadership,” he said. “I'm more concerned over defeating the New Deal and its trend toward absolutism than I am in becoming president myself. I'l join any of the other candidates for the nomination in building up the party and carrying its position to the country.”

Platform in Tabloid

THAT WAS when—reminding him of a Washington news poll that counted him out for the presidential nomination, but mildly suggested his availability for second place—I inquired if he would consent. The

answer was calm but firm. In an attempt to get Governor Bricker's platform

boiled down into tabloid, I asked him if he would

tell me first, in 1, 2, 3 order of importance, the. things be had against the Roosevelt administration, and then, as to each, what he would do to rectify the conditions of which he disapproves. “There's too much concentration of power in the federal government,” was his first complaint, “That takes in blanket authorizations to administrative boards, blank check appropriations, ‘expansion of regimentation, etc. “In the second place, too much power has been taken over by the executive, subordinating congress, relegating the states to an inferior role, and there he been too much reckless expenditure of money

_ WASHINGTON, Sunday.~This is Easter Sunday and the touch of spring I was looking for has really Togun | to appear in Washington. This is the season when we are reminded that faith and hope are a part of our religion. And surely this year, and at this particular season, we need both as part of our everyday consciousness. The other day, some ministers of the church asked me, and 1 i guess asked themselves, what lead- "= ership the church could or should take in the post-wd¥ period. How should or could it be defined, where should it begin, where should: it end? It is probably not possible for uestions,

hit the same port at the same time. Both wives received V-mail letters Friday saying the husbands had met. Harold L. Deckard, chief pharmacists mate aboard a destroyer, learned he was near the battleship on which Lt. Wesley Gaiasy has a dental office. So he went aboard, met the lieutenght and, while he was at it, got sce free dental work done. . Dr. Paul Weatherwax, professor of botany at Indiana university, has been awarded a Guggenheim foundation fellowship. He will go to the highlands of Peru and Bolivia to study the origin of corn and tomatoes.

Jungle Nightmare

LIFE ON NEW GUINEA may be unpleasant, but we'll bet it's never monotonous. Here's an excerpt

from a letter received by Mrs. J. L. Bugbee, 622 W.

30th, from her son, Pvt. Donald J. Bugbee: “A few of us were at an outpost not far from the Jap lines, guarding a trail. It was raining and literally so dark you couldn't see your hand before your face. It wasn't yet my turn to go on guard so I was lying in my hammock waiting for the sand man to come in on the beam. Finally I dozed off. Just a short time later I awoke with a start to find a hand exploring my boudoir. Having Nasty Nips on my mind, I jumped at the obvious conclusion—and at the hand. I grabbed the hand with my left hand and reached for my jungle knife with my right. The hand jerked away and footsteps could be heard racing down the trail. Since they went toward the guard post and I heard no shots, I figured it must have been one of our men. I went to the guard post, calling the guard's name as I went, for I have not acquired a taste for hot lead. At the post I learned the details. The man who slept next to me had merely come to the wrong hammock in the darkness. My lightning grab from a supposedly empty bunk surprised and scared him so badly he didn’t think to say anything. As for me, I was too scared to ask who was there. He and I stayed at the guard post most of the night.” Makes our hair stand on end just to read about it.

By S. Burton Heath

on non-war purposes. The great number of appoint-|

By Ernie Pyle

SECOND SECTION

TOP ACE AIMS 10 BEAT OWN MARK OF 27

As Feud Brews Over

Scoring System.

U. 8. AAF FIGHTER STATION, England, April 10 (U. P.).—The official records listed Capt. Don. Gentile today as the all-time leading United States flier with 27 German planes to his credit, one more than the old mark, but the personal books of the 23-year-old Mustang pilot left him far from satisfied. While they showed that his shooting destroyed 30°German planes,

confirmation, they also noted that seven of the planes were destroyed on the ground. The other 23 he shot down in actual combat. “It is nice, but it isn’t good enough,” said Gentile, who has been flying over Europe for two and a half years and can cover almost all the German territory without a map. Downs Three More “I got three in the air last Saturday and that boosted me to 23 shot down,” he explained. “The other seven in my total were sifalihg jobs. I'll never be satisfied until I can get four more in the air and make it 27 destroyed upstairs—then I'll be happy.” The former record of 28 enemy planes was set by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker in the first world war, and equaled by two marine fliers in the Pacific area in this war. They are Majs. Joe Foss of Sioux

of Okanoga#, Wash., who has been listed officially as missing since he shot. down his 26th plane. The manner of crediting the number of planes, which gave Gentile the title has precipitated a little civil war between the fighter commands of the 8th and 9th air forces. While the 8th now includes the destruction of planes on the ground in the belief strafing requires as much skill as aerial combat, the 8th adheres to the old system of listing only flying victories.

Early Scores Cited

Airmen from the 9th and also the R. A. F. explained that if strafed aircraft are going to be counted in aces’ records, all previous claims of the top fliers will have to be Teexamined. : They point out some strafing R. A P. Mosquito pilots or perhaps some unidentified Kittyhawk pilots from the early days of the African campaign might rate above any of the present leaders and certainly above the world war I aces who ccunted only those planes they shot down in combat. The record under the new system, although official, brought no particular thrill to Gentile, a darkeved youth from Piqua, O., who started fying with the American

ments by one man to the federal bench, for adher-| Eagle squadron two and a half

ence to the New Deal philosophy of government, creates a tendency to overbalance the judgment of the courts in favor of a particular party and a par-

Hcular philosophy of government.

"Tn international affairs, the people have been kept in the dark—were before the days of the war—as to the seriousness of the situation in the Pacific, which it now appears the administration knew something If the American people had known, they would have demanded that we make Japan comply with her international obligations, and that we stop selling muni-

about and should have known completely.

tions to those who would use them ggainst us.

Would Cut Personnel

“WHAT CAN be done about it? ‘T'd cut the expanded personnel of bureaucracy.

I'd call into service in the various divisions of the government the best men of the nation. The administration of domestic affairs ought to be carried out

through the various cabinet departments. “I would do away with censorship except insofar as it affects the conduct of the war, and then take the judgment of military leaders and not of politicians.” As for the New Deal social program, Governor Bricker sald that the SEC, should be continued, but made into an agency for helping good business while restricting bad business; that he would not touch either the Wagner act nor social security at present, though the former, he thinks, may have to be amended after the war. He would resist any further attempts to put social security on a national basis, because he believes that the closer it is kept to the people, the better it will function. “There will have to be a stable financial basis after the. war, with a balanced budget as soon as possible. Control over the value of the dollar must be taken from the hands of the executive. Business ought to be given some protection in a stable currency and stable taxation, to make possible its return to a peacetime basis.” And, finally: “The first duty of any administration

is to prosecute the war. So far as I am concerned;

there would be no shift in leadership. I have the greatest confidence in Adm. King, and in Gen. Marshall, whom I know very well. There must be no politics in the conduct of the war.”

By Eleanor Roosevelt

people, the hopes for the present and future had seemed to die, and then suddenly came to life again, to live eternally in the hearts of mén who believe

in the story of Christ as a symbol of what all of us|

must go through and can go through and still come out triumphant, Men’ on the field of battle and men and women at-home are going through daily crucifixion, and only. faith and hope can make their victory sure. We don’t know when an invasion of Europe will begin, but we do know that when it does begin it will be the great test, not only of our men in the field, but of us at home, What we have given our men to live for is what they will fight for. Everyone who has a man in the fighting area must carry his share of responsibility for a particular individual when crucial days come. All of us, however, a responsibilities

use aany the the

vears ago in the R. A. F. He said his greatest thrill came the same day he passed Rickenbacker's record, “but it wasn’t from shooting up five JU-88's.”

Plane Scatters Nazis

“Tt sounds funny,” he added, “but it was from looking out my canopy when we slammed across that airdrome and seeing German pilots standing around in the sun. One bunch of fellows were standing under a big red flag with a swastika in the center, They had on blue uniforms. We were going across pretty fast, but by the time we had crossed the field, they had scattered like rabbits.” Asked if he had shot at the Germans, Gentile replied: “Hell, no.” “I could have strafed them, but it would not have been fair,” he explained. “They couldn't fight back and I don't like to fight or shoot anybody who hasn't a sporting chance. That's why I've never shot anybody parachuting. It just isn't fair.”

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Home ‘Town Seeks

Furlough for Hero

PIQUA, O, April 10 (U. P.).—~The city commissioners of this typically small Midwestern town today telegraphed President Roosevelt expressing the ‘wish that if war department regulations permit, that Capt. .Don Gentile, their ace of aces, be returned to the United States {for a “much deserved rest.” “Piqua is justly proud of all its men and women in the armed services, including the men of the 37th Ohio division who: are doing a magnificent job in the: Pacific theater and Capt. Don Gentile of the 8th army air forces whose outstanding record is the subject of much note at this time,” the telegram said.

SIX STUDENTS WIN IN SPEECH CONTEST

Six Indianapolis high school students, three from Ben Davis and three from Shortridge, won places in'the annual individual speech and public discussion contest held Saturday at Indiana university. The Ben Davis student winners were John Soucie who placed third in dramatic declamation; Moore,. second in humorous declamation, and Ernest Grosdidier, second in radio

3 More Await Confirmation |

three of which still need official

Falls, 8S. D., and Gregory Boyinton|

announcing. Shortridge’ students, cited for| their efforts in the panel discussion|. - Bernard Landman,|

Indianapolis Times

MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1944

two score worshipers were injured.

HEALTH EXPERTS BEGIN SESSION

State T. B. Group, Trudeau Society to Study New Methods.

| treatment of tuberculosis, including {the use of new drugs, will be outlined by nationally known health experts at the 33d annual confer-

ence of the Indiana Tuberculosis association and the Indiana Trudeau society, opening at the Lincoln hotel today. Post-war health problems, especially those affecting members of the armed services who will be hospitalized with tuberculosis, will be discussed Wednesday by Jack Oakley, director of the national field service of the American Legion.

Discuss Use of Drugs

tendent of Sunnyside Sanatorium, will deliver an address Wednesday on new developments in drug treat{ments as a preventive measure. “Post war planning,” will be the subject of an address by Dr. Robert G. Paterson, executive secretary of the Ohio Public Health association. The conference opened this morning with panel discussions on the annual seal sale campaigns, led by Charles Newcomb, seal sale director of the National Tuberculosis association, New York. ) Workers’ conferences were to be continued this afternoon on association administrative activities.

Plan Roundtable Talks

Tomorrow's program will be confined to roundtable discussions on improved methods in spending association money to the best advantage. The annual banquet will be held at the Lincoln hotel tomorrow night with Dr. Robert E. Plunkett, superintendent of tuberculosis hospitals in New York state, making the principal address. Other speakers at the Wednesday sessions will include Miss Mary Dempsey, of the National Tuberculosis association; Dr. Charles C. Wilson, professor of health, Columbia university; Prof. Frederick B. Knight, of Purdue university; and Dr. Holland Thompson, tuberculosis control director of the Indiana board of health.

MRS. BAIN RE-ELECTED Mrs. William Bain, 1204 Evison st., has been re-elected president of the Fountain Square War Bond and Stamp unit. Other officers are Mrs. Fred Kokemiller, R. R. 1, vice president; Mrs. Carl Joyce, 1529 Dawson st., secretary; and Mrs. William Acton, 1627 Villa st., treasurer.

DETAIL FOR TODAY Eagle Day

EAGLE DAY is payday in the army. It comes once a month and is the only day when every memsber of the outfit is present for roll call. Men who have a ‘way of disappearing when a detail is wanted, appear as if by magic on EAGLE DAY. On this day there. are more monetary transactions in one outfit than there are on Wall Street in a week. All debts are paid (it says here), haircuts

The newest developments in the|

Dr. Frank L. Jennings, superin-

Two Score Hurt in r Church as Ceiling Falls

Metal mesh and plaster rubble litter the northwest end of the Centegary Christian church, 11th and Oxford sts., following the collapse of the baleny ceiling Suring services Easter night in which at least |

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AUTO CRASHES TIN AREA KIL

FOUR PERSONS

Indianapolis High School Boy, Pedestrian Die; Truck Wreck Fatal.

A 14-year-old high school boy and a middle-aged pedestrian lost their lives in Indianapolis traffic accidents this week-end, and Indianapolis institutions were caring for 11 Mexican men, women and children, who were recovering from injuries received in an out-of-town truck accident when one man and a baby were fatally injured. The Indianapolis residents who died yesterday after they were injured Saturday were: __ John Mitchell, 14, son of Dr. and Mrs. Edward L. Mitchell, 3710 Washington blvd. James E. Levells, 54, of 117 Arch

st. . | The Mitchell youth, a freshman at Shortridge high school, died at

* | Methodist hospital from injuries re-

on | ceived when

the automobile in | which he was riding and which was | driven by his father, crashed into 'a tree on Kessler blvd. near Meiridian st. Dr. Mitchell, suffering from head

-I'and facial cuts and a broken arm,

Twisted grotesquely, the plaster ceiling laps over back pews and

spews out over the floor in the southwest end of the church. Many crawled beneath the pews to safety.

TOMORROW'S JOB—

By EDWARD A. EVANS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, April 10.—Department stores plan to spend a billion dollars on expansions and improvements in the immediate post-war period, according to the trade magazine, Department Store Economist.

reports. on a survey, conducted through questionnaires to stores of various sizes and considered representative. of the entire field. Of those replying, 93 per cent said they intend to undertake remodeling or enlargements. or to add new equipment, and 15 per cent said they will build or open new branch stores.

Among things for which the Economist predicts a big department store market are escalators, elevators, fluorescent lights, air conditioning, display fixtures, fur storage vaults, lunch counters, soda fountains, restaurant equipment, cash registers, typewriters and other office machines. No other department store, so far, has indicated intention of following the example of Macy's, in New York, which now has cows, sheep, pigs, goats and donkeys for sale in a glass-fronted, air-conditioned barn on its fifth floor. :

Connecticut's progressive highway department—first in the country to adopt permanent au-tomobile-license tags instead of annual models—is making some other interesting experiments. It's trying steel mat, like that used for quick construction of military landing fields, on a short stretch of road. And, with the idea of making night driving safer, it's testing highway markings of luminous paint, which stores up sunlight and glows in darkness. » ” ”

William McCready, Boston, has patented an electrically-heated overcoat. It's wired and the wearer is supposed to carry a case of batteries, plugging in when he wants extra warmth, But army researchers believe civilians will find it more practical to adopt ideas developed for the greater comfort of fighting Americans. Present army ¢lothing for cold climates, for instance, reverses former practice to provide more warmth with less weight. Outer

garments of tightly-woven cotton,

‘sometimes water-proofed by a

Department Stores Plan Billion-Dollar Expansion

The magazine's current issue

tween them, have proved best for conserving body heat.

2 s 8 Another trade-magazine survey, by “Steel” of Cleveland, undertakes to ascertain post-war plans and prospects of companies in the metal-working industry, which employed 3,327,000 persons in peacetime 1939, Most of them will have no serious

physical problems of reconversion, ’

About half of the firms replying are making the same products as before the war, and another third are making some of the same products. Thirty-six per cent have de= veloped new products for postwar; 40 per cent more are “thinking about” new products; and more than 60 per cent expect to be able to maintain their present wartime levels of employment when they get back into production for the civilian market. s o s Those honorable-discharge buttons worn by men who have served in the army, navy and marine corps are made of cellulose acetate plastic with gold—a good example, says the plastics industry, of the fact that plastics and metals can usefully complement each other instead of being competitors. Feathers may play a growingly important role in post-war industry. Agriculture department scientists and private researchers are developing new uses for them in transparent plastics, surgical thread, glue, sound-proofiing material, fertilizers—and some believe their protein content could even be converted into food for human beings. This country produces some 50,« 000 tons of poultry feathers a year, of which four-fifths probably aren't put to any commercial use at present.

MAN IS OVERCOME BY FUMES IN HOME

Alvin Macha, 53, of 540 N. Belmont ave, is in a serious condition in City hospital foday after being overcome by carbon monoxide fumes in his home. Mr, Macha was found uncomsgious by his wife, Mary, early this morning. The fumes were caused by a

heating stove in one pf the down-|

stairs rooms.

. PLANS TOUR OF JAIL Sherif Otto Petit has issued in-

: deep out biting

| passengers were

: {remained in a serious condition at : | the Methodist hospital.

On Easter Mission

The father and son were en route to the home of Dr. and Mrs. B. K, Westfall near Lebanon to spend Easter when the accident occurred. Mrs. Mitchell and a daughter, Miss Sally Mitchell, returned by plane from New York yesterday where they were spending Easter with Dr, Mitchell's brother. John Mitchell had attended School 66 and Park school before entering Shortridge. He was a member of the Boy Scouts. The body was taken to Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Mr. Levells died in City hospital after he was struck by a car at Michigan st. and Indiana ave., drive en by James Wooten, 881 Torbett st. The two deaths raised the city’s 1944 traffic toll to 25 as compared with 19 last year.

Careens Off Road

The 11 Mexicans, brought to Indianapolis for treatment, were ine jured when the truck in which they

near Paragon late last night. Four others were taken to the Morgan

11 were uninjured. Killed in the accident was Jose Servantes of Eagle Pass, Tex. and the 4-months-old daughter of Mr. {and Mrs. Lucian Garcia. The bus traveling from Eagle Pass, Tex., to Saginaw, Mich., presumably ‘to work in the Michigan canning factories. Two passing motorists, including Robert Maas, 3926 Graceland ave, brought the 11 injured persons and the dead baby to Indianapolis, The child's mother remained in the City hospital with a broken left shoulder, while the father was taken to Wheeler Mission. Two other children, Beatrice, 3, and George 5, were taken to the board of children's guardians home, Treated at the hospital and taken to the Theodora home was Julia Duram, 39, and Selvario Gloria, 38, was sent to Wheeler Mission. Mr. Gloria's wife, Berta, 30, remained in the City hospital, and their four children were at the children's guardians home,

Youth Hit by Auto

In other Indianapolis traffic accidents 10-year-old Charles Julian, 242 N. Rural st., was found lying in the street near his home by two passersby. He said he had been hit by an automobile. He was in a fair condition at the City hospital. Dudley Grubbs, 65, of 1625 Milburn st, was in City hospital after he was struck by an automobile at Indiana and Senate aves. The car was driven by Harold B. Smith, 1531 E. Market st. James Ryan, 63, of 804 W. New York st, was in a fair condition at the City hospital after he was struck by an automobile at West and Washington sts. A train-automobile crash at North st. and the Big Four railroad tracks resulted in the injury of Miss Caroline. Thompson, 707% N. West st. Miss Thompson was a passenger in a car driven by Eddie B. Morrow, 741 Center st., Apt. 3.

HOLD EVERYTHING

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county hospital in Martinsville,and .

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