Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1944 — Page 11
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Hoosier Vagabond
By Ernie Pyle
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a dangers job but also because they are four of the most courteous and best-disposi-tioned men I've ever met. They are:
Cpl. Harold Gibson, of Boothbay Harbor, Me.; Pvt. Lloyd Farlee, of Pierce, Neb.;
Pvt. Herb Wullschleger, of Wichita, Kas., and Pvt. Charles
Roderick, of Salem, Mass.
Here is a sad story. It concerns a tank driver named Cpl. Donald Vore, a farm boy
from Auxvasse, Mo. came to Italy she sent a beau-
herself. Like most tank men,
tank. The other day a shell hit the tank. It caught fire, and the whole crew piled out and ran as fast as they could. Cpl. Vore had \ gone a little way when he sud- § denly stopped, & turned, and went dashing . back to the tank. 3
Flames were shooting out of it, and its heavy ammunition was beginning to go off. But he went right into the flaming tank, disappeared a moment, and came climbing ouj—~— with his girl's picture safely in his hand, A few hours later the crew came trudging back to home base. Mail had arrived during their absence. There was a letter for Cpl. Vore from his girl. He tore it open. The letter was merely to tell himr she had married somebody else,’ They said that if it hadn't been such a long walk back, and he hadn't been so tired, Cpl. Vore would have returned to his tank and deposited the picture in the flames. About a year ago I wrote an {tem about the numerous uses we'd found for the brushless shaving cream which is issued to front-line
minutes before.
Its virtues are legion. It ‘is perfect for sun- and windburn, nurses shampoo their hair in it, it soothes fleabites and softens chapped hands and cracked fingers. And now the soldiers have discovered that if they'll massage their feet with it once a day, it goes a long way toward preventing the dreaded trench-foot. It's a shame Sabeny 4 doesn’t shave wa it once in a while. - »” "
SOME SOLDIERS were telling me the other day about running onto another soldier stretched out in
The corporal had a girl back home he was crazy about. After he
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—Photo by YANK. T. Sgt. George Aarons seems to be pointing at Ernie Pyle in amazement that Ernie had escaped with his life from the bombing on the Anzio beachhead a-few weeks ago that brought tons of masonry tumbling dewn on a bed just vacated by the war correspondent a few
Sgt. Aarons, a photographer for Yank, the .army
weekly, was cut on the hand and forehead in the same bombing; a bandage is visible above his eye. through with only a scratch on his face.
“Old Indestructible” Ernie came
the back seat of a jeep, way up front, almost in No-
. Man's-Land.
His helmet was down over his eyes, and he had a half-smoked cigar in his mouth. They were in dangerous territory, and they went to take a closer look at a soldier so nonchalant, He was dead. A sniper had shot him through thé back of the helmet. He was lying there, looking perfectly relaxed, the cigar still in his mouth. He
‘had been dead two days.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
OCCUPANTS OF apartments across 38th st. from
the state fairground have been complaining for some time about smoke from the heating plant erected at the south end of the cattle barn this winter. Recently they thought their troubles from this source were about over when the big steel smokestack started buckling in the middle, But army engineers, or
erecting a telephone pole beside the stack to hold it up... . F. E. Glass, Crown Laundry vice president and chairman of the C. of C. safety committee, was driving on E. Washington st.,, near Gray st, the other evening when a “small boy, about 5, dashed out ‘ into the street. Mr. Glass barely was able to avoid striking him. - After driving on, his conscience got to hurting him. What if ‘the boy continue playing in the street and be run ? So Mr. Glass drove back, found the in the street, and led him to his home. He boy's father of the near accident. Instead at Mr. Glass, as the latter half ex-
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The Largest Cities
SOME OF THE REAR seat patrons of a Central bus got to talking the other morning and, after masterminding the war and other world problems, got around to the subject of the world's largest cities. Everyone agreed that London was the largest city and New York second largest. As for the third largest, there was some confusion. Karl Stegemeier said he thought it might be Tokyo, and someone else quipped that, “It won't be very long.” We got interested in the subject and looked it up in the World Almanac. We found greater London listed as 8,700,~ 000, with New York 7,454,000, but New York, metro-
Wallace's Trip
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Almost as intriguing politically as’ the letters Gen. MacArthur wrote to Congressman Miller is the trip to China and Russia which will remove Vice President Wallace for some time from the political scene and from the stump he mounts so readily. The vice president wouldn't discuss his trip beyond the mere announcement that he is going. The vice president's activities, and sayings are of particular political interest because of the ardent desire of lots of folks in the Democratic party to drop him from the ticket. Does this sending of Mr. Wallace to distant parts mean the President acquiesces? President Roosevelt forced the somiration of Mr. Wallace in 1940, single handedly; against the wishes of most of the convention. The vice president, himself, will agree that ‘it depends upon the President as to whether he is renominated this year.
Good-Will Ambassador IN THE ahsence of any enlightenment fromthe, President or vice president about the trip, it is only
My Day
WASHINGTON, Sunday.—On Friday evening, I spoke on the radio here for the treasury department, and then attended two celebrations of Pan-American: day. The first was held at the labor department auditorium. Many government workers who have an interest in South and Central pe America, because of their work in the. co-ordinator’s. office and the state department, were present.
someone, dashed their hopes by -
gift. Our OWE S60
politan area—11,690,000. That would make greater New York the world's largest, and gre~ter London second, Greater Tokyo is third, with 7,094,000; greater Paris, fourth, with 4,903,000; greater Chicago, fifth, 4,499,000; greater Berlin, sixth, 4,332,000; Moscow, sevenths, 4,137,000. Of course, that figure for Berlin was before our bombers started to work on it, and the actual population today probably is only a fraction of that listed. And just wait until we start whittling away at Tokyo.
Music for the Boys
EARLY LAST January, Pfc. Charles Bogden, of
Indianapolis, and 14 fellow members of an anti-
aircraft gun section -on the front lines in Italy sat down and wrote a V-mail letter to The Times saying they'd give their eyeteeth for a radio to provide a
little recreation. We mentioned their letter in this column and several sympathetic folks offered portables. Then we found that we'd have to have a letter from the boys’ commanding officer requesting the radio, in order to getsthe postoffice to accept it. So we wrote back. A couple of weeks ago we got a letter from the commanding officer. Then we learned that since all the radios available exceeded the 5-pound limit, we would have to have the permission of the third assistant postmaster general in Washington. Well, we now have that, and we find one of the offers of a radio still holds good, so it looks as if the boys eventually will have their recreation.” The donor of the radio is Cleo Adair, of the Center township assessor’s office. . . . The state highway commission, in the April issue of Outdoor Indiana, appeals to all Hoosiers
to help halt vandalism along the state highways.| Many beautiful trees planted along the highways have | been chopped down. A recent instance was on Road |
67 northeast of Indianapolis. And many roadsides have taken on the appearance of a public dump, as the result of motorists throwing boxes and packages of trash from moving cars. The commission asks all of us to help by reporting immediately any person observed cutting a tree or dumping trash on the highway right-of-way.
By Thomas L. Stokes
possible to put together the information and surmises
gleaned from persons who are usually well informed. |
The trip does have a definite diplomatic object. |
The vice president will go as a sort of good-will am-bassador-at-large to the Chinese and Russian people, just as he went some months ago to South America.
On the domestic political side, it is no secret that |
“the vice president has been irritating some of the
conservative business elements by his speeches. Conservatives Wooed Ca
IT IS surmised that the President would like ta put the quietus on the Wallace tub-thumping, at ledst until the convention, ends, and, if he decides on the ‘Vice president as his running-mate again, to make the vice president less objectionable to the conservatives and more palatable to the politicians in his party. The President has been wooing conservatives in recent months in numerous overtures. On the basis of the war, he expects to attract many who would not support the New Deal any longer, but for his foreign policy. If things look propitious, maybe the President will give Wallace the call again. It would be hazardous however, to predict.
By Eleanor Rone
Last evening the delegates to the Association for Childhood Education conference met in the east room, and I was very glad to hear Dr. Margaret Mead's address, She brought out a pelt which I think we must not forget.
She said that this country of ours is unique because we have always expected every generation of
i young people to do better than their nts. ThereAfterwards I went to a congert \ pare
fore, our approach to our schools has been somewhat
-different because it was through-the schools that we , expected this opportunity to come to our young ‘people.
In nearly all the countries of the world, parents
-| specifically
SEE ARTHUR AVAILABLE AS GOP NOMINEE
He
Statement Indicates Will Accept Draft If He Is Called.
. WASHINGTON, April 17 (U. PJ). —Gen. Douglas MacArthur's week-
end statement on American political affairs was interpreted here today as indicating his availability for a draft to the Republican presidential nomination despite his ‘decision not to press active candidacy. Political observers counted fit significant that MacArthur. did not eliminate himself for consideration as the G. O. P.’s 1944 standard bearer, although his statement could have been a vehicle for such an elimination. On the contrary, the general said that his sole ambition was to sssist in winning the war by fulfillment of duties already assigned him-—or duties that “may be assigned to me.” And a strong hint as to his availability for a draft came when he said that the clectoral processes of choosing and electing a president were of so imposing a nature as to be “beyond the sphere of any individual coercion or decision.”
Beside Dewey, Stassen The statement thus appeared to
nor Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Lt. Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen as “gvailables” for ‘the Repuplican nomination. Of the leading G. O. P. possibilities, only Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio is an announced candidate. MacArthur's statement was issued primarily to clear up his part in the _| publication of correspondence between him and Rep. A. L, Miller (R. Neb), an active MacArthur-for president supporter who released the-letters last week.
Vandenberg Is Silent 4
MacArthur asserted that the letters were neither intended for publication nor politically inspired, strongly implying that Miller had violated confidence by revealing them to the press. Miller urged MacArthur to run for the presidency and in one of the letters, said that the American way of life was “forever doomed” unless “this New Deal can be stopped.” MacArthur said in reply that he did “unreservedly agree with the complete wisdom and statesmanship of your comments.” Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.) a leading MacArthur supporter, declined to comment on the general's statement. Rep. Hamilton Fish (R. N. Y) said it “bears out Gen. MacArthur's earlier assertion that he is not a candidate for office. He might accept if it were offered to him—as anyone would.” Senator Styles Bridges (R. N. H) said he thought the letters made public by Miller “indicated MacArthur's availability, but,” he added, “his statement that he is interested solely in winning the war must be taken at face value because of the magnificent and courageous job that | he has done.”
‘My Sole Ambition
Is to Help Nation’
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, April 17 (U. PJ. —Gen. Douglas MacArthur said in a formal statement today that he does not “seek” the Republican nomination for president of the United States, but implied strongly
, [that he would accept it if drafted.
The electoral processes involved
[in the choice of a president “are lof so imposing a nature as to be
beyond the sphere of any individ'ual's coercion or decision,” he said in commenting on publication of his correspondence with Rep. A. L. Miller (R. Neb.) regarding the American. political situation. “My sole ambition is to assist our beloved country to win this vital
| struggle by the fulfillment of such
duty as has been or may be assigned to me,” MacArthur said.
Seen as Tacit Approval
“Some quarters here believed that MacArthur's disavowal of blanket
to serve his own political 4 poroval of Miller's political views
{could be discounted to some degree. { Certainly, these sources said, if
[MacArthur had not approved at
least by far the greater part of the letter, he would not have replied that it was “scholarly,” or that he did “unreservedly agree with the complete wisdom and statesmanship of your comments.”
ATKINS SUPPORTS BLUE'S CANDIDACY
Elias C. Atkins, vice president of E. C. Atkins & Co, has issued a statement, urging the renomination of Sherwood Blue for prosecutor on the Republican ticket. “I am urging the renomination of Mr. Blue because he is possessed of the qualities needed todsy to conduct the affairs of his office,” Mr Atkins said. “We must not permit illogical persons to advocate the overthrow of sound legal ‘processes for scme mew, mechanical fad that would toss justice out the window and place in jeopardy the lives and rights of all persons who are defendants in criminal gases.”
GANDHI HAS MALARIA
BOMBAY, India, April 17 (U. PJ. Mohandas K. Gandhi
place MacArthur alongside Gover-|
occurring on Friday, that day w and popular interest within the
quire a new title and will take up residence in’a state establishment of her own. At an age when girls of less exalted positions usually look forward to two or three carefree years before deciding serious questions of marriage or careers, Princess Elizaheth must shoulder the very real responsibilities of her new status. For some time now, official circles have been discussing “probe lems of precedence and etiquet relating to her position. King George, however, already has had
Princess Elizabeth, who likes theatricals, is shown as she appeared in the leading role of a Christmas pantomime last December.
Princess Elizabeth of England legally comes of age. and if the need arose she could assume sovereign power. As heir-presumptive to the throne of Great Britain, she will ac-
NEA Staff Writer LONDON, April 17.—No matter what international events may be
ill be one of special significance British empire. For then pretty She will be 18,
to face feur problems concerving his daughter. These are: 1, her future title; 2, the question of national service; 3, her higher education; 4, her public appearances. :
Study Title List
According to latest reports, King George and Prime Minister Churchill have decided that she will not be created Princess of Wales. There are six dukedoms at present in abeyance—those of Clarence, Edinburgh, Sussex, Albany, Cumberland and Connaught. But it has been suggested thet an entirely new titls should be bestowed upon Princess Elizabeth—one which would have a wider imperial significance and would emphasize the new, clcser relation of the dominions to the crown under the statute of Westminster. In all probability, however, she will be made a knight of the garter and thistle, the highest distinction in the land.
Could Don Uniform
So far as national service is concerned, at 18 the princess becomes eligible for service under the ministry of labor scheme, either in the forces or in industry. On this question the king will consult the cabinet, and it is possible that the ministers may recommend that her apprenticeship and training for the throne gre most important. Linked directly with this is the
education. So far, it has been entirely private, and in the last two years it has been decidedly more arduous than that of any girl of corresponding age. Perhaps because of this, it is felt that a period at university, where she would meet and contact other girls of her age, would be of great advantage. On coming-of-age,’ the princess will have her own- household, hich will include a comptroller, equerries, ladies-in-waiting and a private secretary; and she also will have her own court circular. So far she has only her own personal maid and her own suite in her father’s house which she shares with 15-year-old Princess Margaret Rose.
REPORT WOMEN PREFER KITCHEN
OWI Survey Shows Many Fail to Seek New War Jobs.
—Indications that a vast majority
to return to the en after the | war were set forth ay in an of-| fice of war informdtion report re-
because of reduced production work. Feminine workers, who hold one out of every three war jobs, are
position after once being released, even though in many cases other employment is offered them, the OWI report showed.
Based on Survey
The study was based principally on a labor department survey to determine ‘the impact of contract cancellations on communities in labor surplus areas. In virtually every case where there were layoffs because of cutbacks in army contracts, OWI said, a number of women released did not seek other work. Others did not immediately look for another ‘job but instead stayed at home to obtain “a muchneeded rest.” i But many of these never return to war plants. A month after being laid off at a Forest Park, Ill, war plant, 1000 women were notified that work was available at the same pay rates at another plant operated by the same management, Less than one out of four responded, OWI said. The U.S. employment service told OWI that some of the women who ‘ailed to return undoubtedly had sther jobs but that the majority “either had left the area or were no longer interested in wotking.”
CLEAN-UP, FIX-UP WEEK STARTS TODAY
Today is designated as “home and school clean up-fix up day,” in|troducing Indianapolis’ clean up-fix up week in which the city is given its spring scrubbing and scouring. City officials have urged organiza tion of family salvage squads to round up the rubbish in containers for city ¢ollections. Special emphasis is being placed on paper salvage. Those with scrap paper have been asked to call MArket 3321 for collection service. Tomorrow will be factory inspec-
WASHINGTON, April 17 (U. P.).!
of women war workers may prefer
vealing that many .of those laid off |
schedules do not seek other | war
generally reluctant to take another
annual}
question of Elizabeth’s higher -
1e Indianapolis Times
Princess Elizabeth Will Be Eligible on Her 18th Birthday -, For Marriage and Sovereign Power; Romances Ramored
By ROSETTE HARGROVE
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One of the first official titles assumed by Princess Elizabeth was that of colonel in chief of the Grenadier Guards. Here she shakes hands with an officer of the regiment during a review.
Princess Elizabeth already has had a foretaste of her many fu-
ture duties. On her sixteenth birthday she emerged {rom the seclusion of childhood by attending the first of the many public ceremonies which will be part of her job—she reviewed a battalion of the crack Grenadier Guards, of which she was made colonel-in-chief. ) " Romances Rumored
The education of their beloved princess and ultimately her marriage—for which she now is eligible—are matters of tremendous interest to the British public. For the last two years they have read that Elizabeth has been meeting various young men at , private parties, usually at Buckingham palace and at the royal country residence. Rumors linking her name with those of two English noblemen of ancient lineage—both of whom are officers in her own regiment —have been more readily accredited for the reason-that with the world at war there just isn’t an eligible consort to be found for
U. S.-British '29 Split Over World Navy Bases Revealed
WASHINGTON, April 17 (U. P). | —State department papers revealed today that British Prime .Minister Ramsay MacDonald, at the last minute of his 1929 conference with
President Herbert Hoover, eliminated from the final announcement the Hoover proposal to divide the | world into two hemispheres for purposes of naval base limitation. la MacDonald became “troubled t. public opinion” at home and or htened™ about possible reper{cussions of the naval base proposal which would have pledged the United States not to build new bases in the Far East and Great Britain not to build any in the western hemisphere. He also eliminated all reference to another Hoover proposal designed to eliminate starvation of civiiian populations by naval blockade as a weapon of war, Mr. Hoover wanted to grant food ships in wartime the same immunity from attack as hospital ships List Proposals
These hitherto unpublished proposals were made public by the state
ers on U. S. foreign relations for 1929. Each year the department publishes papers that are 15 years old. The documents showed that in 1929 the United States had few Japanese problems but was involved in major controversies with China and indirectly with Soviet Russia, and was plagued with a Mexican insurrection and problems created by the use of U. S. marines in Nicaragua to suppress the bandit activities of Gen. Augusto Sandino. Probably the most important papers included were the heretofore
DETAIL FOR TODAY Busted
Fa
Woo
WHEN A SOLDIER is busted, he is literally de-ranked. If a corporal or a sergeant commits a misdemeanor and is ordered to report to his commanding officer, he can usually figure on being busted. This is intended to keep the noncom on his toes, which it generally does. The usual procedure IF 5 Dusk 18 Jot he Rusied tg aft proach his C. O., who says, “Sit down, Corp. Jones; stand up, Pvt. Jones : Sd
department in two volumes of pap-|
secret memoranda of the HooverMacDonald conferences in Washington and at Mr. Hoover's retreat on the Bapidan river in Virginia. The conferences were .a prelude te the London naval conference of 1930. The memoranda of Mr. Hoover, his secretary of state, Henry L. Stimson, MacDonald,” and his private secretary, Sir Robert Vansittart, revealed that President Hoover's proposals included:
Britain will not hereafter establish any military, naval or military aviation stations in her possessions in the western hemisphere nor alter
A plan under "which “Great |
any existing stations in such a way as to become a menace to the United States,” and the United!
meridian in the Atlantic and the| 170th meridian in the Pacific.
2 should be made free of any interference in times of war, thus removing starvation of women and children from the weapons of warfare and decreasing the necessity
overseas lanes of food supplies.” . Those and other proposals on naval disarmament, liquor smuggling into the United States and possible amendment of the KelloggBriand, anti-war pact were discussed at length at Rapidan on the weekend Qf Oct. 5-7, 1929.
Came to Agreement
with Mr. Hoover's suggestions and on Oct. 7 appeared willing to go along with both the food ship and naval station proposals. He had tentatively written them into his memorandum of the conference, But the following night, Stimson wrote later, “he was getting more troubled about public opinion and getting frightened about the naval station point.” The next morning Stimson got up at 6 a, m. to revise those proposals so that MacDonald might still include them. But at
inoon that day the joint Hoover{MacDonald communique was issued
to the press and it did not mention them. © After MacDonald arrived in Ottawa, his secretary wrote Stimson that the prime minister would dis-
but added: “It is, I think, clear from fufther close examination that the :plan
two hemispheres will not be work-
out some other way of laying thé ‘ghost’ of the so-called menace of the naval stations.”
of a radically different era of U. S. foreign policy than the present. They were of a period when the United States re: to participate
for naval arms for protection of the
SHOTS HALT BOYS
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her in foreign courts. On the other hand, there is no law to prevent her from marrying a commoner. Although the princess’ fancies may necessarily be restricted, and perhaps even “directed,” she can, if she so - wishes, follow the dictates of her own heart,
Has Varied Talents
Intimates of Elizabeth all comment upon her charm of manner, her warm-heartedness and happy disposition. Like her famous ancestress, Queen Elizabeth, she loves to dance and act. Both princesses are excellent musicians, besides being good linguists and with a certain talent for painting. There will be no glittering court functions to mark the coming-of-agé of Princess Elizabeth in war-bound Great Britain, Such things are entirely in disaccord with the ideas of the king and queen, who have insisted on shdring the restrictions and regulations which war has brought to the country. Nowhere have clothing and food rationing been more strictly adhered to than in the royal household.
NO MEAT POINT BOOST IS SEEN
OPA Indicates Present Ration Values to Continue
Until June.
WASHINGTON, April 17 (U. PJ. —Meat ration point values will not be increased generally until June at the earliest and there is little chance that butter points will be cut in the immediate future, a high
| office of price administration official
said today. He also said the sugar outlook was not very bright but believed that supplies of processed foods will continue high, permitting OPA to keep some varieties off the ration list
States to make the same agree-| {and others low in point value, There ment as to the eastern hemisphere. may be more passenger car tires, he The western hemisphere was to be said, but heavy duty truck tires will defined as lying west of the 30th remain “tight.”
Meat point values will not be increased until the OPA is sure there
{is not enough beef to meet the de-
cuss the subjects further in Londons!”
for the division of the world into}.
able, and we shall have to think}
The 1929 papers generally were
A suggestion that “food ships mands of housewives with points to
spend. As long as the consumer can spend his alloted red points there is no reason for raising point values, the official said.
IN STOLEN AUTO
Residents of Mooresville were awakened about 6 a. m. yesterday by five booming shotgun discharges in rapid succession. The shots were fired by State Policemen William Kirkham and Robert Mason at a stolen car they had been chasing for two miles. After finally stopping the car, the officers found three youths, 15 and 16 years old, in it. The boys had escaped from the state boys’ school last week. The car in which they were riding had been stolen from Vean Zegler, R. R. 2, Moores= ville. It was full of shotgun pellets.
HOLD EVERYTHING
tions, but was seeking to get agreement on limitation of