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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum.

JACK KENNEDY, of Kennedy & Ragan, &cesountants, was driving his daughter, Ann, a Shortridge junior, to school the other day and en route picked up seme other students. Jack, whose hair is

turning gray, puffed out his chest and felt elated es when one of the youngsters asked

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A BRICKER FAN read about the Ohio governor speXking at the Press club, and sat right down and sent a postal card to the club expressing his views. The only message was: “God Bless John W. Bricker.” signed: “Edward M. Gerity, Philadelphia.”

garage advising motorists to have their battery checked because “frost is just around the corner” has

¥ Test of Democracy By S. Burton Heath

KALAMAZOO, Mich., April 13.—A test'of American democracy -is being conducted here, with the adjustment into the community of some 50 U. S.-borm persons of Japanese blood. There dre about 70,000 such citizens in the whole country, but the situation in Kalamazoo is significant because it shows what can be done. This is a rather conservative small industrial city, which until recently probably had scarcely . even seen a person of Japanese ancestry. Its record in connection with. the 50 evacuees has not been perfect, but it is very promising, and the case of a young Nisel named Tom Harada is an example. Harada is interesting both because of the impression made by : his personality and also because he once was fired by his employer by flat order of the army's provost marshal, and then rehired after his employer went with him to Washington and put up a successful fight in his behalf. 80 I went down to the Shakespeare company to talk it over with the president, Monroe Shakespeare, ‘and with Harada himself, ’ “I had heard that there were Japanese-Americans talented in engineering, designing and drafting,” Mr. Shakespeare explained, “so I asked the war relocation authority, which sent me the names and job qualifications of several. I selected three and offered them work. Two accepted. The other didn't want, to. come unless he could bring his father. Discharge Ordered “WE USED to manufacture fishing tackle, but now we're devoted exclusively to war work. I notified the army air forces that I was hiring these two Nisei, They wrote that we needed clearance, but that this could be optained after the men arrived. We filled out forms answering a wide variety of questions. Two representatives of the AAF came here and quizzed the men, and we received permission to employ them. : “They had been working five or six months when we were informed that control over them rested not with the AAF but with the provost marshal’s office.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday — With me on the Grandmothers’ War Bond league broadcast for the

treasury départment on Monday, were three very —P¢

interesting grandmothers, as you may have gathered. As T looked at Mrs. Low, the Chinese grandmother,

surely well over 70, The other two were very young grandmothers, and I feel sure they will put many of us to shame by their activity for quite a while, While we are talking about bonds, I must tell you that I have

* ties who thus far have found nothing to verify any

" ‘batch of doughnuts by the Campfire Girls, selling

Sleep Halfway sitting % 50; they take turns sleepAfter they've stayed at the front eight to ten days, company relieves them, and they move back miles, dig in, then clean up and relax for a few days, wii : “These medium tanks carry a five-man crew. This one was commanded by Sgt. Speros' Bakalos, a short, -nice-looking, ex-truck driver from Boston. Once the tank he was serving in was hit, and his tank commander’s head shot clear off. Stewart of Bristol, Va. he is in his middle 30s. He used to work for the state highway department. His assistant driver is Pvi. Donald Victorine of Crystal Lake, Ill. He, incidentally, is a friend of Capt. Max Kuehnert, whom I knew in Tunisia and whose baby I had the honor of naming Sandra, though Lord knows how I ever thought of that one,

Nickname Is ‘Hoagy’

THE GUNNER is Cpl. Bud Carmichael of Monterey, Cal, and his assistant is Pvt. George Everhart,

“Hoagy,” after the famous composer of “Stardust.” This Carmichael used to be a pipefitter for the gas company in Monterey. When I saw him he hadn't shaved or washed for a k. He wore a brown muffler around his neck, a roll stocking cap on his head, unbuckled overshoes, and was altogether the toughest-looking soldier I ever laid eyes on. But he belied his looks, for he was full of goud nature and dry wit. A few days later I saw the same gang again, and the other boys were saying that after I left that day they talked about me. I'd remarked upon-méeting them that I'd gone to college with the real Hoagy Carmichael, so this “Hoagy” told the boys that if he'd been thinking fast he would havve replied, “That's funny, Ernie. I don't remember you. What seat did you sit in?” Tlie men cook in a big aluminum pot they took out of an abandoned house, and on a huge iron skillet that Carmichael got in barter for the equivalent of $20. They call 4t their “$20 skillet,” and are careful of it, even washing it sometimes. |

SECOND SECTION

LEGISLATORS: ENIOY YOUR VISIT-MAYOR

‘Wholesome Recreation’ Is Available, State Law-

makers Told. -

Mayor Tyndall suggested to Indiana legislators today that they take advantage of Indianapolis’ many opportunities for “wholesome”

recreation during their visit here for |

the special session of the legislature . His suggestion followed adoption of a resolution by the house of representatives yesterday, requesting the mayor to instruct his chief of police to refrain from raiding rooms in the Claypool hotel while the solons were staying there this week. The resolution was introduced by Rep. Matthew Welsh (D. Vincennes), who explained the action was prompted by recent raiding policies of Indianapolis police and that he wanted to remind the mayor of the legislators’ constitutional im-

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munity to arrest for misdemeanors. The resolution was concurred in by the Republican majority of the house unanimously.

disappeared. Frank Dowling, general manager of the, (John K. Jennings, Indiana war Pennsylvania Tire Co. located in the garage, said| manpower director, and six of his he was flooded with clippings from our column injpoker-playing guests were raided at which we mentioned the sign. The new sign heralds|the Claypool hotel two weeks ago.) artha

the approach of the tennis season. .. . M Bradshaw, who is studying journalism at Manual, came down to the office yesterday and gave us an ‘expert interviewing. After “telling all,” we thought we'd turn the tables and help fill up this column by interviewing: Martha, But no luck. It seems she'd been warned in advance by her teacher, Miss Gretchen Kemp, She told us: “Miss Kemp

warned us not to wind up being interviewed instead valuable in these troubulous times, as shown in the adoption of the

of doing the interviewing.” Eureka! It's Winchester OUR SEARCH for the name of the capital of

tion open to visitors, England before London is énded. The town was S0me recrea Winchester. First to respond with the information including legislators, who desire to were Howard H. Bates, 2250 Park ave, a lieutenant [ease the burdens of their arduous

colonel in the state guard, and Wallace Weatherholt, deputy state treasurer. Both were quartered there in the last war, Mr. Bates recalled that it was the town's practice to take the soldiers on sightseeing tours, the

guides always stressing the fact that Winchester was| former public service commissioner the capital of England ahead of London. . . . One of in Indiana and now stationed with our readers who lives in Irvington wishes we'd say the army in Pittsburgh, Pa., in re-

Tyndall's Answer In reply to the resolution the imayor said: | *“I-wish to congratulate the members of the deliberating law body, 'the Indiana house of representa‘tives, on their sense of humor, so

resolution.

| “However, there are sufficient op-

portunities for all kinds of whole-

{ duties.”

| Mr. Jennings today received the | following letter from Hugh Dillon, Casualties approximate those of the

something about the boys and girls who ride their|gard to the poker party raid:

bicycles on the sidewalk, endangering pedestrians. The

something!

“This message is

5800 block of E. 10th st. Some low acreage on the Stokes and made mention of a re-

north side of 10th has been under water, providing al

nice little lake. From somewhere Jimmy Matthews,

"son of Dr. Bernird Matthews, acquired a rowboat and has been having a fine time playing “navy,” He has had no shortage of willing passengers in the boat. th

From there came a letter ordering us to discharge | Harada. I asked on what charges, ‘We don't make| any charges’ I was told. ‘We order you to let him | g0. If he wants to appear himself or with counsel] in Washington, he can, if he seeks permission.’ ” | Mr. Shakespeare got permission for Harada and| himself to appear. They spent three or four hours, | during which Harada’s life was reviewed in great | detail. They returned to Kalamazoo and Harada! worked at odd jobs. Then came a letter from the provost marshal’s office saying that Harada had been properly discharged, was not entitled to any back pay and could not be employed in war work.

No Reason Given

A WEEK later came a telephone call to the effect that Harada had been properly discharged, was not entitled to back pay, but that he could be employed in war work, and Shakespeare could give him a job which was done. The phone call was confirmed by letter, | Nothing in the procedure suggested why Harada | was discharged. In the summer of 1940, during vacation from the University of California, he had visited Japan as a tourist and had a very unpleasant time there. But it is said that no attempt was made in the questioning to develop this as suspicious. Harada has been with the Shakespeare company, except for his involuntary layoff, since January of 1943. There are about 800 employees. Two of them do not like him. One of these has been conducting a personal spy hunt in the plant since a year before Pearl Harbor, reporting suspicious to federal authori-

of them. The other is very frank about his prejudice. He says Harada is a fine fellow and he hasn't a thing in the world against him, but he hates the whole Japanese race so much he can't seem to let reason control him. Harada had to buy a house in order to find living accommodations. Harada says he doesn’t believe the trouble was primarily prejudice. He had a little girl, Susan, now 2, and was expecting another baby, born about three weeks ago and named Jane. He Is willing to believe that it was that, rather than racial feeling, that made it hard to find a home,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

their own communities. They might even have a greater feeling of security in their futures, because ey. would realize that the people at home were really thinking about them and their welfare when they bought bonds. : - While I was in New York City, I had hoped to see a play called “Mrs. January and Mr. X,” but that oroved impossible so I look forward to seeing it at some later time. However, I did see a preview of a new play which John Golden is producing called: “But Not Goodbye.” One of the people with me enJoyed .the play very much and kept saying: “I like it because I think I might almost have written it myself,” which was a tribute to the reality and naturalness of the situations. The fact that the characters were real people whom you might see in any one of our home towns deepened this impression. The idea is original, if somewhat uncomfortable to contemplate, and I think you will spend an amusing, evening and take away much food for thought! : In New York City I was also presented with a which they

for their annual fund

aforesaid Mr. Jennings and his five friends shouldn't happen to a dog.

“Lead All the Rest”

“You will understand that I am anxious to learn more of the details concerning this dastardly event and would welcome your comments on same. If as reported (and I do not doubt that it is true) you refused the anxious offers of an underestimated Gestapo to accept bond, choosing instead, even as early Christian martyrs, to endure the harsh fare of prison rather than compromise one whit with the intolerant, then, indeed, the name of Jennings should lead all the rest, yea, even, Hoyle, when the history of the great game of poker is finally writ. “You may consider my services and my fortune ever at the disposal of a move designed to smoke the perpetrators of this single outrage out of their foul dens and to mete out to them such punishment as they deserve.”

DEVAULT NAMED AS 41ST PROSECUTOR

Governor Schricker today made his 29th appointment of a prosecuting attorney. He named Ensyl B. DeVault, Kewanna, to succeed Jesse A. Brown, Rochester, as prosecutor of the 41st judicial circuit. Mr. Brown, who resigned, recommended the appointment of Mr. DeVault. Both are Republicans.

DETAIL FOR TODAY Cadet Widow

A CADET WIDOW is a girl living in a small town near an army flying field, and who has dated members of each class. The cadets come and go, but the CADET

probably be sent over

primarily sanie reader wishes someone would do something to prompted by an interesting item bring a newsreel movie here. Well, someone do which I noted in Sunday's Pitts- . « » The heavy rainfall has provided en-| burg Press. This item was authortertainment for some of the youngsters living near the ized by Columnist Thomas L.

cent unfortunate experience suffered 'by Mr, John K. Jennings and five (friends, also local big shots, ! “As I understood the substance of | mine-laying squadrons, whose job’

e article, what happened to the| demands minute training and un-

“| gist, will speak at noon tomorrow

THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1944

FORCE FARMER

old Pals Meet

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"An old army friend, Col. Robert H. Parham (left) pins the silver leaf on Lt. Col. Jack Harding, Indianapolis, at the 9th air force headquarters in England. Col. Harding, who was promoted from major, served on the same staff with Col. Parham in Tampa, Fla.,, and is now public relations executive officer overseas. His wife, Mrs. Bertita Harding, author and lecturer, formerly lived at 3545 Evergreen ave.

500 SHIPS SUNK BY R. A. F. MINES

‘Cinderella Service’ Claims nN Million Tons Have

Been Destroyed.

LONDON, April 13 (U. P.).—The Royal Air Force estimated today on the fourth anniversary of its “Cinderella service,” that its minelaying planes have destroyed more than 1,000,000 tons of axis shipping, sinking or damaging more than 500 ships.

The planes have flown 13,000 sorties on mining operations, which average about 10 per cent of the total effort of the bomber command

| ‘Their work has blocked some ports completely and has dislocated other ports and railways to delay German war production. The minelaying activities keep several hundred German mine-sweepers occupied. The R. A. F. said mine layers’

heavy bomber missions over Germany but that they are “enormously outweighed by casualties inflicted in offensive action on the enemy.” On occasion the weight of mines laid by a bomber command in a single night has exceeded the weight of bombs dropped by Germans in their heaviest air attacks on England. : : Reward Is Small

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{usual skill, usually draw only one | unadorned sentence in the communiques: “Our aircraft laid mines in enemy waters.” Behind that one line lie hundreds of hair-raising encounters with German night fighters, flak attacks from ships and shore defenses and thousands of hours of flying through the storms of north European winters, The squadrons began with Hampdens, which carried one mine each, and concentrated on the big and little belts through the Danish islands. Now sll classes of R. A. F. heavy bombers are used, loads have

T0-GET RID OF JAP WORKERS

Shed Burned and Threat Is Received Over Telephone. GREAT MEADOWS, N. J., April 13-(U. P.) .—Edward Kowalick, fear-

ing further trouble after a shed on his farm burned under mysterious

public protest today and discharge five Japanese-American laborers he had acquired as “share-croppers” through the war relocation authority. : The 23-year-old farmer, who lives with his wife, daughter and mother,- said “we can't’ sleep nights worrying about what is going to happen next. If it were only myself to worry about I wouldn't give up.” Sentiment of the Japanese was expressed by George Yamamoto. “We don’t want to stay and cause

circumstances, agreed to yield ‘to|

Two-Lip Time

Apparently spring

is two-lip time in the ever-lively imagination of New York's millinery

madcaps, John Fredericks, for they’ve just blossomed out with the creation above,’ called the “Kiss Hat,” consisting mainly of a giant pair of red felt lips. Actress Sunny O'Dea shows how it's worn.

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SWEDES OPEN NOURY INTO

PLANE BATTLE

Question of Neutrality Involved in Yank-Nazi Air Fight.

By NAT A. BARROWS : 1.mes Foreign Correspondent STOCKHOLM, April 13.—Sweden's military and foreign office staffs are making a thorough investigation to. determine if a German fighter plane—later shot down by Swedish anti-aircraft with the death of two crewmen — actually pursued an American 8th air force Flying Fortress over Sweden Tuesday. If shells from this Messerschmitt210 killed one American and wounded another while over Swedish territory, it constitutes a violation of neutrality which Sweden cannot ignore. Swedes See Fight

any trouble for Eddie (Kowalick).

burned, we don't want to be responsible for it.” Frank Kifagawka, anese worker, said: “If WRA says ‘retreat,’ we'll retreat.” ‘Plan Crop Sharing A contract between Kowalick and the Japanese was negotiated with WRA aid, and in effect set the workers up on the farm as “sharecroppers.” They were to farm 30 acres, for which Kowalick was to furnish the seed. After the crop was harvested they were supposed to reap half of the harvest. “They're good workers and I need them,” Kowalick said. “I don't know where I'm going to get any more hands.” . Jour of the five Japanese, from the relocation at Rivers, Ariz. arrived just three days ago. Tuesday night, farmers in the community, called together by signs in the general store and ’phone calls on the party line, held an indignation meeting. They formed a committee of 300 and announced that if the Japanese workers were not moved from the area, the committee would take action, It was while the meeting was in progress that a shed on Kowalick’s place caught fire and burned to the ground. “Give Up” “Maybe I don’t know exactly who did it,” Kowalick said, “but I know who was behind it, and I'll find out who did" it before the summer is over. If they stoop so low as to pus over a sneak attack like this, I give up.” Shortly after the shed burned, the farmer said he received an anonymous telephone call. “Get rid of them Japs if you know what's good for you,” g& voice said. Henry Patterson, of the regional office of the war relocation authority in Philadelphia, when advised of developments said, “WRA no longer will insist that the Japanese remain, and we'll try to place them some place else.” Apparently all that remained before the Japanese leave was a conference with Kowalick, Patterson and the workers-to abrogate the contract.

been multiplied and operations have! been extended from the Spanish! frontier to northern Norway. i The planes strike U-boats by lay- | ing mines at the approaches to sub-| marine bases on the west coast of France. One U-boat was sunk by an R. A. PF. mine as it slipped into dock while a welcoming band played “Deutschland Uber Alles.” In co-operation with the royal navy command coastal striking force —the latter alone accounted for 200,000 tons sunk or damaged last year—they have destroyed so much

months ago were forced to sacrifice arms production in favor of an increased merchant shipping pro-

(The Kiel canal has been blocked for the last three months due to R. A. F. mine laying operations, the British radio said last night in a broadcast recorded by N. B. C. in New York. Coal and iron shipments bound for Germany from Scandinavian ports also have been reduced, the broadcast said.)

PLAN REGISTRATION OF JUNIOR POLIGE

The Planning with Your Program and the Pals club will co-operate next week on the West and South sides for the registration of junior police. Registrations will be accepted at schools 18, 22, 31, 34, 35, 46, 49, St. Catherine's, Sacred Heart and Assumption. Swearing ceremonies will be held at 3:30 p. m. April 25 at the Howard theater, 1601 Howard st.

Pp. m. April 27 at the Garfield theater, 2203 Shelby st., for the Garfield Park district. Registration for Junior service cadettes will be set soon.

TORPEDO OUTPUT SOARS ‘WASHINGTON, April 13 (U. PJ. ~—More naval torpedoes now are being produced each month than during the entire period of the last war, the naval bureau of ordnance revealed today.

ALLACE IS SPEAKER

Frank N. Wallace, state entomolo-

| before the Exchange club at

the

shipping that Germans several :

for the Rhodius district, aod at 3:30]

HOLD EVERYTHING

4-13 “This war isn’t being run right —I do the paper work and he inspects the WACs!”

If he is going to have his buildings’

another Jap- |

PILOTS GOOD AT ‘BULL BOMBING’

Battlewagons Below Vital Waterline.

ELGIN FIELD, Fla, April 13 (U, P.).—The technique of “buzz bombing” has been developed until pilots are being taught how to drop bombs under the bottoms of battleships. Newsmen touring army installations .in..the South. were shown. a training film which disclosed a number of variations of “buzz bombing,” as the film called it.

Actually the technique is more popularly known as skip bombing. Bombing the bottom of a battleship is merely a development of the type. of bombing which has been employed successfully against Japanese vessels for the last two years.

Technique Changed

As originally practiced, bombs with delayed action fuses were dropped from low altitudes just short of their targets, riccochbted off the water and plunged through the sides of the target ships before

The technique failed on battfeships, however, because the bombs would not penétrate heavy armor. So new ratios were worked out between elevation and speed and it was found that heavy bombs dropped at the proper height would plow under water until they struck the side of the battleship, and then sink beneath before detonating. Battleships carry armor on their decks as well as their sides, so the “soft underbelly” of the big battlewagon is its most vulnerable point, reachable only by proper “buzz bombing.” This technique and many others have been developed here at the army air forces proving grounds. Planes, guns and bombs are all subjected to the severest tests. Many planes have been shot up on the ranges here to prove their qualities. .

Brings High Accuracy

“Buzz bombing” achieves high ac,curacy by employing a modified i gunsight. The sight is adjusted for |the speed and height of approach of {the plane by inclining jt at the i proper angle. When the target appears in the sight the pilot lets the bomb go. Even such fine matters | as the personal reaction of the pilot | is figured in. Among the planes lined up at the field for testing were various foreign combat planes—both allied and enemy. Most conspicuous on the field were: two of the new B-29 giant super-Fortresses which correspondents were permitted to inspect only at a distance. They look very much like the B-17s, but are much larger, however. The fuselage of the B-29 is smoother than the Flying Fortress’, and it has a tricycle landing gear,

Gives Brother Nautical Advice

‘New ‘Skip Shots’ Smack

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| Many eyewitnesses claim they |saw the Luftwaffe fighter engage this Fortress over the Baltic and ‘continue the attack over Sweden, {but the report is but one.of many | bewildering accounts surrounding the forced landings of nine more. | American heavy bombers in South Sweden Tuesday. The wounded American proved to {have been struck by a German 20-mm. shell when examined at Lund hospital and it appears that |his dead plane mate was killed by [the same type of shell. | The German plane was machine{gunned by Swedish ack-ack bat|teries before a direct hit sent it crashing’ into the country, killing a Swedish soldier on a bicycle.

i Lots of Excitement

| Between the forced landing of 10 {American bombers on Sunday and nine two days later, South Sweden has had more excitement this week than people here have known since the war started, with Swedish ackack batteries firing repeatedly, Swedish fighter. planes swarming and the home guard mustered. One Fortress was guided by fighters to the nearest field and there led into a safe-belly-landing. One grew of 10 men thought they had landed in Denmark and were trying to burn the plane when a Swede shouted in good Minnesota accent: “Hey, you guys, it's okay, don't bother to destroy that Fort, you're in Sweden.” He was Victor Svensson, who returned to Sweden two years ago. : Aboard a special train the Americans moved north of Stockholm

where the Swedes permit them a type of life that is like a vacation at a country resort.

FORMER REPORTERS ARE SENT OVERSEAS

Two Indianapolis rn#wspapermen, now serving inthe army, have left for overseas duty to act as service reporters for civilian newsmen and photographers. Assigned as infantry correspondents are Capt. Earl M. Hoff, {son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl D. Hoff, 5530 N. Illinois st., formerly with The Indianapolis Times; and Lt. Richard K. Tucker, former Indianapolis News reporter, Capt. Hbff attended Washington high school and was graduated from Indiana university in 1938. Em-, ployed by The Times until October, 1941, he entered service as a first lieutenant, a commission he held in the R. O. T. C. His wife, Marjorie, and baby daughter, Margaret Ellen, are in St. Augustine, Fla. A native of Ft. Madison, Iowa, Lt. Tucker entered the army two years ago and received his commission at Pt. Benning, Ga. While at the University of Iowa he served as managing editor of the student publication,

Find 2 Cities in Mexico Jungles

WASHINGTON, April 13 (U. P.).—Two ruined cities, containing stone platforms and large mounds with square stone facings, have been discovered deep in the jungles of Mexico's “waistline”— the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the National Geographic society announced today. One of the cities has a well-pre-served ball court, paved with flat stones and enclosed with stone embankments, The smaller of the two was abandoned over 200 years ago. The cities were unearthed by Dr. Matthew W, Stirling, leader of a joint expedition of the geographical society and the Smith--sonian institute.

CIVIC ORGANIZATION

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