Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1944 — Page 13
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How to Be a General
SGT. KENNETH BROWN, of Elwood City, Pa. is one of two men in my barracks who have the Purple Heart. He was hit in the back and arm by flak several months ago. He is a good-natured guy, and he has the next war figured out. ~ He isn’t going to go hide in a cave or on a desert island, as so many jokingly threaten to do. He thinks he has a better way. The minute the war starts he's a sandtable and start making humps valleys and drawing lines in the sand. He figures that will automatically make him a general and then he'll be all right.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
SEEN ON monument circle about 6 p. m. Tuesday: A tramp police dog yapping at a motorcycle cop as he sat on his cycle talking to a citizen in front of English's. When the policeman started up, the dog gleefully took up the chase and pursued him yappingly for a complete circuit of a the circle, and then west on Market. Both seemed to be enjoying the chase. So were the spectators. . . . Seen at 42d and Central Wednesday morning:* Red-haired Patrolman Gerald Haugh shepherding a group of St. Joan of Are pupils across the street. As he " started back, a little girl, about 7, wearing a red beret, stood on the curb and called him. He turned around and went back to the curb, then leaned over’ while she put fier arms around his neck and kissed him. He's quite a fayorite with the youngsters that get off the Cen-
tral busses on their way to the school: He treats them
all like favorite grandchildren. . .. Robert T. Kelly, who works at the Indianapolis Water Co.'s W. Washington st. pumping station, met up with a coincidence recently. On May 8, he stepped to the door, and there on the doorstep was a letter, He picked it up, saw it had been opened. And then he noticed that ft was postmarked the same day—22 yedrs ago. The date was May 8, 1022. It had been written by John H. Kingsbury, an attorney, now deceased, to a businessman. No telling how it happened to land on the pumping station doorstep just 23 years later to the very day. Irvington’s Wild Life WILD LIFE in Irvington is on the increase, While shaving yesterday, Ralph Husted, 727 N. Audubon rd, Jooked out the window and saw a possum coming out of his garage with a tiny offspring on its back. When Mr. Husfed and some of the neighbors went out to investigate, the mother possum became frightened and attempted to go through a fence. The baby possum was knocked off her back. To get it up there again, she rooted her nose in the ground under her
Strike Situation
WASHINGTON, May 25.—A government authority told this writer today, “The labor strike situation is much worse than the public realizes, and the trend
: is toward the opposite of improvement.”
Every day, he said, betweén 30 and 40 strikes are
engaging the attention of agencies concerned : with their settlement, mainly the war labor board and the labor department’s conciliation service. The average strike length is three or four days, so there are about 10 new ones every day. A reason for public ignorance on the number of strikes is that only the bigger ones get into the newspapers. Formegly there were current statistics on the number of these work stoppages, but they were discontinued by the government with the statement that it had been found impossible to draw a line between the strikes directly affecting the war effort and those that apparently had no such effect. In recent months the war labor board has extended its jurisdiction to include all kinds of labor controversies, indicating an official belief that every work stoppage has some repercussion on production or distribution of the materials for war making.
Strikes Occur Steadily
THE STRIKES are occurring steadily despite the no-strike pledges of the larger labor organizations,
the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L, and in all cases are
called unauthorized by these organizations. They are going on, also, when military and naval authorities
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allotted number of combat missions, flying.
Sgt. Hanson is 37 and therefore is automa known in the army as Pappy. Any soldi is almost always called Pop or Pappy. Sgt. H doesn't care. He likes his work and has a job to and wants to get if done. : “I know what I'm fighting for,” he says. “Here's what.” And he hands you a snapshot of his family —wife, girl and boy. The girl is almost grown and the boy is in the uniform of a prep school. Hanson's home is at Topeka, Kas. Pappy used to be in the motor freight business before the war. I suppose in a way you could say he’s still in the motor freight business. Kind of ticklish freight, though.
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Miracle Man of Burma Makes Very Little Do the Work of Very Much.
By A. T. STEELE
Times Foreign Correspondent WITH STILWELL'S ARMY, in
THURSDAY, MAY 25,
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Northern Burma, May 25.—The remarkable thing about Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's campaign in northern Burma is that he has gone so far with so little.
together in their best show form are these coy does of
the silver marten rabbit breed, three
of 1000 entries to be displayed tomorrow through Sunday at the Indianapolis Coliseum. Robert M. Dodd owns this flock.
If ever a campaign was run on a shoestring this is it. Compared with the vast strength the allies have thrown into higher priority fronts like Europe and the South Pacific, the quantities of men and materials assigned to Stilwell have been small indeed. Yet, by making the maximum
utilization of available resources, Dr, Morgan Outlines Plans
Stilwell has pushed more than 200 miles into the vitals of northern Burma and today is hitting at the biggest town yet reached by allied forces anywhere in the Pacific area since we began to take the offen-
MAP FIGHT ON
Edison to Speak
RODENTS HERE
To Enforce Sanitation
Measures in City. Enlargement of the rat eradica-
in the war memorial, The meeting
On China Tonight
CHINA'S FIGHTING spirit in the war against Japan will be discussed by Charles Edison, national chairman of -United China GET 1 Relief, at 8:30 | o'clock tonight
which is open
3-DAY EXHIBIT ON TOMORROW
More Than 1000 Bunnies to Make Coliseum Contest Biggest of Kind.
sive against Japan.
Though Myitykinag has a population of only 10,000, it exceeds in size
tion staffl—augmented by soldiers
ing crews—and more rigid enforce-
any of the villages captured by our| ment of the state Ratts act com-
troops in the islands of the Pacific. Comparison With MacArthur If Stilwell could throw against Myitkyina anything like the power
to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, for instance, the fate of the
available
prise a three-point sanitation program announced today by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, health board secretary. Dr. Morgan's decision to reinvigorate his anti-rat efforts fol-
1 tion. yesterday of head for a ramp. Mother and infant—along With jane would Jong since have been owed the resignation. ye y
some others in the marsupial pouch—now are occupying a nest in the Husted No visitors are allowed. . . . Overheard in the Charles Mayer & Co. | toy department: * Fabien Sevitzky and Mr. Mayer arguing spiritedly about the store's overhead sprinkler! system. The orchestra director was trying to get Mr.! Mayer to turn on the sprinkler system to see if it would | work. “Of course it will work® Mr. Mayer insisted. “But how do you know it will work? Have you ever| trjed it?” queried Mr. Sevitzky: This went on and on. Finally, Mr. Sevitzky gave in and left with his purchases—chess and backgammon sets to take along, with him to the lake this summer... . Lt. Cmdr.! Samuel E. Dinnin, formerly with Tanner & Co. and Mrs. Dinnin are home for a few days visiting his mother, Mrs. Mary Dinnin. He's stationed at Floyd Bennett field in the army ferry command. All His Eggs + OUR AGENT who rides the Pennsylvania trackless trolley tipped us off to the fact that G. O. P. County
was seen aboard the trolley about 1:30 p. m. with 8 mistakes and setbacks. The urg- consulted army officials on the!
his two-man eradication staff.
sealed. As things are, however, it|Charles Griggs, $2400 a year chief
will be a hard and expensive job.
rat-killer and Eugene Tanner, his
Stilwell has a number of special $1200 assistant, said they were leav-
| problems, which make his task more complex than that of other Amer-
ican generals.
| Insufficient material is only one
of them,
Another unique one is that there is only one road and that he has been obliged to build it as he goes. He has had also to do what no other general has attempted to do— utilize Chinese troops in close cooperation with American troops and equip them with American arms to carry out a major offensive against
a powerful enemy. Experiments a Success
ing to found a private eradication concern, but the doctor thinks they had become discouraged by “what appears to be an insurmountable problem.” :
Seeks Army Help
The chief health officer intends to request additional funds with which to employ perhaps a six-man crew of professionals “who know more about rats than the rats do themselves. . . . You can’t attack rats unscientifically or haphazardly.” High hopes that he could secure the aid of Camp Atterbury soldiers,
In general, these experiments skilled in rat eradication, to augChairman Henry Ostrom “carries all his eggs in One nave been a success, but as with!ment his“own staff were expressed basket.” Last Sunday, weTe told, Chairman Ostrom mqgt experiments there have been by Dr. Morgan, who already has|
basket on his arm. In the basket were three or four eney of the situation has made it|problem. The soldiers may be
dozen eggs. And they weren't political eggs, either. necessary to send numbers of green
+++ Some of our sharp-eyed readers phoned in to
comment on “the many fine suggestions found in ‘The | troops, for instance, have been raw As an example, they cited the “Wartime cphinese talent with only a few,
Times.” Living” story by Ann Stevick on Page 3 of Tuesday's Times. One paragraph read: “Office of price ad-|
ing trouble making wartime leather soles do for hard | wear to try the rubber holes that are being used on! heavier shoes.” Rubber holes? Sounds like a fine| material. Ought to last forever. day special,” Earl Beyer, local artist will be at the service men’s center, 502 N. Illinois, ‘from 7 to 10 to-| morrow night to cut silhouettes of fathers to be sent to men in the service. Father's day is Sunday, June 11. ... And don't forget: Saturday will be Poppy! day, in memory of veterans of world wars I and II
families.
By Fred W. Perkins
front can give them, and that the war with Japan is far from won.
the administration's labor policies are confused and | uncertain, because authority has been scattered between half a dozen major agencies.
Maze of Red Tdpe
A CLEAR CASE of jurisdictional trouble between the war labor board and the national labor relations board was uncovered by the Montgomery Ward case. Each of these boards has f8rmulated an extensive set of rules and regulations and procedures, with the result that unions as well as employers find themselves caught in a baffling maze of bureaucratic red tape. There is no boss over the WLB and NLRB except the President, who appears in the picture when controversies reach the critical stage. There is no lower official with authority to handle threatening situations before they become dangerous. The official who normally would work out and administer a clearcut labor policy, with no conflicts
long-time uplift of working people than to the day-to-day difficulties between employers and unions. This problem of scattered authority has existed for a long time. The war brought it into focus.- A house committee, headed by Representative Ramspeck (D. Ga), which is investigating the Montgomery Ward seizure, is expected to find that most wartime labor difficulties could be prevented through 2 Detter organization of the agencies dealing with
consult and which shows where similar clubs can be found throughout the world. ‘It took my breath away to realize how many there are, as I remember when I opened the first one in Glasgow, Scotland, in November, 1942. In the evening I spoke at the meeting of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. They were
“loaned” to scour restaurants fre-
into action. Late-arrivali quented by servicemen.
months training.
But despite these handicaps the ministration shoe experts advise people who are hav-| spines have moved steadily for-
The Ratts law was promoted in the early 1900's by Senater Oscar Ratts. The statute makes it oblig-
ward, making up in courage for their own homes and yards,
what they lack in experience.
Marauders Go Far
Brig. Gen. - Frank Merrill's marauding force of American infantrymen has served a use and purpose far out of proportion to its
small size,
There is a limit to the endurAll of the blame does not go to the labor unions, | 3nce of these Merrill men, however, inthe opinion of government officials. They say that 20d they are showing the effects some strikes are incited by shortsighted employers Of their long, hard campaign. Towho presume on the union's no-strike pledge. And a |day that force is co-operating with major share of the blame is charged to the fact that 3 large detachment of Chinese in
the push on Myitkyina.
Americans are good on quick, hard attack; Chinese are good in holding ground after it has been
taken.
Yanks Advance in Dutch New Guinea
By UNITED PRESS
. Gen. Stilwell's accomplishments! -- «As a “father's, face of the numerous limitations kf 10 TAKE TESTS surrounding him have surprised everyone. They only go to show that the reconguest of Burma will present no insuperable obstacles
{when the united nations are able
Proceeds of the poppy sale go to veterans and their{ ro Avert real might in this direc-
FOR LIFE GUARDS
A competition for the appointments as life guards at city park pools will be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Indianapolis Athletic club. Six of the 34 competitors served as life guards last year, and the rest have recently completed the Red Cross life-saving course. Harold Geisel, city recreation director, said that 16 of the group would be appointed as guards. The judges will be William Mer-
rill, former assistant director of water safety for the Indianapolis chapter of the Red Cross; M. L Lehman, director of physical education ‘at the Central Y.M.C.A,, and George Sprague, who is director of water safety for the Red Cross in Indianapolis this summer: The six guards from last lear who are again seeking appointment are Violet Shoemake, Lyle Hiatt Jr, Robert L. Riesen, Mary Haney, Wil-
American bridgehead troops liam Thompson and Paul Yanich.
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to the public, is sponsored by the Indianapolis War and Com- | munity Fund and the Indianapolis commit-
Mr. Edison
China Relief. Evans Woollen Jr. is chairman of the Indianapolis committee and will preside. Gov. Schricker will introduce Mr. Edison. Assisting Mr. Woollen with arrangements are Eli Lilly, Harold B. West, Dr. K. K. Chen, Dr. George A. Frantz, Hugh McK. Landon, Paul P. Chung, Kenneth W. Miller, W. C. Griffith, Thomas D. Sheerin, Calvin C. Chang, Harold B. Tharp and | and Wilbur D. Peat.
{by { tee of United | Breeders association.
Rabbits galore will parade their better qualities before discriminating judges while proud owners smilingly look on at an unusual exhibit at the Indianapolis Coliseum tomorrow through Sunday, spensored the Marion County Rabbit
More than 1000 nose-twitching, long-eared entries, representing 30 breeds and every color of the rain{bow, will make this the biggest show of its kind ever held in Indiana, say the association officers. Although the sponsors insist that the show's primary purpose is to impress spectators with the wartime value of the bunny, competition among the breeders is running extremely high, what with professional prestige and $500 in cash and merchandise prizes hang-
ling in the balance.
Start Judging at 8 A. M.
MAP PLATFORM FOR DEMOCRATS,
15-Member Committee to Submit Draft at June 16 Parley.
Judging will get under way at 8 a. m. Saturday and continue all day. On hand to measure earlengths and prod fattened does and bucks will be two licensed judges of the American Rabbit and Cavy Breeders association—L. C. Wells of Indianapolis and Carl Gaddis of Richmond, Admittance is free and the reception committee plans to pep up the show with impromptu lectures on the care and: feeding of their timid
Appointment of a 15-member entries. Advance information ven-
committee, representative of all interests in Indiana, to draft a party platform to be submitted to the
Chairman Fred PF. Bays. The committee will begin its hear-
| tured by Robert M. Dodd, show {committee chairman, discloses that | domestic rabbit breeding is definite-
atory for property owners to do all Democratic state convention June ¥ on the upswing, from both the they can to eliminate rat nests from 16, was announced today by State Meat and fur supply angles.
So convinced are association of|ficers of the value of tame rabbits
lings June 5 in the Empire room of | that they intend to launch an earn-
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{New Guinea mainland have ad-
across the Tor river on the Dutch
vanced to within three and one-
CANNED MILK PRODUCTION MADISON — The production of
the Claypool hotel. The various groups and organizations in the state interested in legislative matters will be invited to appear before the committee, and any citizen interested is welcome to appear, "Mr. Bays said, Committee members are William J. Harrigan, Hammond; Frank M. McHale, Logansport; Maurice Cohen, South Bend; Joseph Suelzer, Ft. Wayne; M. Clifford Townsend, Hartford City; Dr. O. G. Jamison, Terre Haute; Judge John W. Baumunk, Brazil; Dr. J. Leonard Axby, Lawrenceburg; Walter 8. Chambers, New Castle; Ray C. Gilbert, Seymour; Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Mrs. Edna A. Bingham, Prof. Lucille Calvert and Mrs. Clara Ward, all of Indianapolis. “The personnel of this committee is so outstanding and so completely representative of a cross-section of Indiana citizens that we are assured of a constructive program which will embody the finest principles of good government,” Mr. Bays said.
PINS FOR 4-Fs CHICAGO (U. P.).—The public administration clearing house reports a plan under way in Pottsville, Pa., to present each 4-F citizen with a badge. “The pins are intended to
lest promotion of domestic rabbit | marketing through butcher shops |and restaurants. The officers are Larry Bivins, president; C. E. Ross, vice president; Helen Burgmann, secretary, and Charles Waite, treasurer.
MEMORIAL RITES FOR 4 ARRANGED
Memorial services for four members of the Irvington Presbyterian church who lost their lives in training or combat will be held at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the church. Men to be memorailized are Lit. Col. J. W. McPheeters, Lt. Robert {M. Stultz, Lt. John Paul Ragsdale
Jr. and Lt. Lawrence Abrams. Lt. McPheeters, whose wife lives at 45 S. Ritter ave, was killed in Italy, March 25, 1944, and has been posthumously awarded the purple heart. Other survivors are his father, T. H. McPheeters, and two sisters, Mrs. Robert Moor and Mrs. Clell T. Rice.
‘Sponsors Hope Program at
Garfield Will Be Popular.
The inaugural step in a longenvisioned plan to establish light opera as a summer institution in Indianapolis will be a three night presentation on July 21, 22 and 23 of “The Pirates of Penzance” at the Garfield park band shell. Sponsorship of the initial light opera performance will be undertaken by a special committee in cooperation with the Indianapolis park department. Formation of an ex-officio civic group to start the summer opera ball rolling was decided upon after it was pointed out that the park department has no funds designated for such projects. : “Trial Balloon” That the abbreviated three-day season is to be closely studied as a “trial balloon” providing information for possible expansion of the program to an all-summer duration, perhaps the following year, was made plain by Joseph M. Bloch, Indianapolis park commissioner, “The Pirates of Penzance” will be presented by the same professional cast which broke box-office records at the Indianapolis Civic theater when the Gilbert and Sullivan opus was produced there last wine ter by the Jordan Civic Operetta Guild under the direction of Charles Hedley, Already, considerable financial backing of this summer's production has been obtained from interested private sources, Mr. Bloch said. Additional contributions may be submitted to the Indianapolis department of Public Parks summer opera fund. Plans Await Test Should the fund be oversubscribed, over-quota money will be returned to the donors on a prorata basis, Mr, Bloch asserted. Tentative plans to organize a permanent summer opera association are awaiting the outcome of this season's “test” performances, he added. The possibility of construct ing & modern outdoor amphitheater in connection with such an associa tion has been discussed also. As many as 6000 persons may view the Garfield park presentations on any single night, Park Superintendent Paul V. Brown declared. There are permanent seating facilities for 1200, temporary accommodations for 2000 more and enough lawn space for 3000 additional, he pointed out. Mr. Brown also voiced hopes that the Indianapolis venture “will grow into something as permanent and celebrated as the St. Louis Municipal opera begun under inauspicious conditions 25 years ago.” He emphasized that the initial light opera program will supplement the park department's regular summer music schedule,
DENIES POLITICS IN $2,800,000 DEAL
WASHINGTON, May 25 (U.P.).— A rural electrification administra tion allotment of $2,800,000 for purchase of the Alabama Water Serve ice Co.—announced just before the recent Alabama state primaries— was not motivated by political cone siderations, according to REA Chief Harry J. Slattery, The timing of the announcement, sent in a telegram to Senator Lister Hill (D. Ala) a primary candidate, was a coincidence, he told a senate committee yesterday. . ete eee
NINE-YEAR-OLD STRUCK BY AUTO
Nine-year-old Jimmy Linchinger, 3702 Graceland ave., was recovering today from injuries he received last
Killed Over Holland
On his 28th mission over Holland,
i afin airdrome condensed and evaporated milk in ines of Ym Munn artillery, | the United States was over 4,000,mortar, machine-gun and rifle fire| 000.000 pounds in 1941.
which has caused some U. 8. casualties, it was announced today. Meanwhile, in the air war against the Japanese, army and navy planes pounded Paramushiro and Shu-
bombs on Truk, JE
Forty fighter planes interce the Truk raiders, but two were shot
mayor said.
Up Front With Mauldin
save these men embarrassment,” the
Aug. 17, 1943, Lt. Stultz lost his life. Survivors are his wife, Mary Carr Stultz, 102 E. 50th st.; his parents,
koneta, O., and two aunts, Mrs. T. J. Cornwell and Mrs. C. 1. Carey of Indianapolis.
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Lt. Ragsdale was on his ninth mission over Germany when he was killed, March 23, 1943, He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Rumpler. A crash landing of a B-24 bomber at Lakeland, Fla, May 27, 1942, took the life of Lt. Lawrence Abrams. Surviving are his wife, Norma; a
father, Otha Abrams and two sisters, Miss Evalene Abrams and Mrs. Lloyd Hudson, both ‘of Salsbury.
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Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Stultz of Wapa-
night when he was struck by a car driven by Rosemary Carson, 22, of 601 Parker ave. at 38th and Illinois sts. Miss Carson swerved her car in a futile attempt to miss the boy and crashed into a parked car owned by Dr. Robert Jewett of Noblesville. The boy, who had run out into the street in front of the car, was not seriously hurt. ,
1500 HOMELESS IN FLOOD DES MOINES, Iowa, May 25 (U. P.).—More than 1500 persons were
; {homeless in the flood-stricken Ot-
tumwa area today as the rampant waters of the swollen Des Moines river rushed down the Mississippi, adding new threats to life and property in the southehstern sections of the state. ! :
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