Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1944 — Page 11
as though tossing hair out of his eyes. His he used to be 6 feet tall but has in the past five months. Jimmy Doolittle has more gifts than any one man hak a right to be blessed with. He has been one of America's greatest pilots for more than 25 years. He is bold and completely fearless. Along with that he has a great technical mind and a highly perfected educatiod in engineering. In addition to his professional skill he is one of the most engaging humans you ever ran across. His voice is clear and keen, he talks with animation, and his tone carries a sense of quick and right decision.
Loves to Tell Stories
HE IS one of the greatest of storytellers. He is the only man I've ever known who can tell stories all evening long and never tell one you've already heard before. He can tell them in any dialect, from Swedish to Chinese, Above all he loves to tell stories on himself. Here is an example: The other day he had his plane set up for a flight to Northern England. The weather turned awful, and one of his crew suggested that they cancel the trip. As Jimmy said, he would probably have cancelled it himself, but when the junior officer suggested it he sort of had to go ahead and go. They were hanging around the operations room, getting the latest reports. The crew thought Gen. Doolittle had left the room. The junior officers were talking about the dangers of making the trip in such weather. They didn't think the general ought to take the chance, and then he overheard one of them say:
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
AROUND THE TOWN: A mother possum and three baby possums, unaware of the dangers of our eity traffic, started across Illinois in the 4800 block sometime Sunday night and met with a fatal accident,
They should have gcossed at the intersection. +s There were many Democrats scattered through the Coliseum last Friday during the Republican state convention. Among them was that Democratic stalwart, Frank McCarthy. Spotted by City Clerk Prank Noil Jr, McCarthy denied he was “spying.” explaining, “It just happens that attending conventions is one of my hobhies.” . . . Mrs. Jack Weissman, of Chicago, here visiting her brother,
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compliment. “But only one thing saved. him,” Doolittle says. had used the word ‘old’ in front of b...... 1 ‘ve had him hung.” .
Gunner Was Annoyed -
HE TELLS another one. He was at a Flying Fortress base one afternoon when the planes were coming back in. Many of them had been pretty badly £hot up and had wounded men aboard. The general walked up to one plane which the crew had just got out. The upper part of the tail gun turret was shot away. tail-gunner:: : “Were you in there when it Jpappened?” . “Yes, sir.” As the general walked away the annoyed gunner turned to a fellow crewman and said in a loud voice: “Where in the hell did he think I was, out buying a ham sandwich?” A frightened junior officer, fearing the general might have overheard, said: “My God, man, don't you know who that was?” “Sure I know,” the tail-gunner snapped, “and I don’t give a damn. That was a stupid question.” With which; Jimmy Doolittle, the least stupid of people, fully agrees when he tells the story.
Another time the general went with his chief, Lt.|'
Gen. Spaatz, to visit a bomber station which had been having very bad luck and heavy losses. They thought maybe their presence would pick the boys up a bit. So they visited around awhile. And when they got ready to leave a veteran Fortress pilot
Gen. Doolittle said to the Io»
‘Liberty Bell Tolls, Churches Throw Open Doors to . Praying Populace.
By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent The waiting was over. In’ city and town, village and farm, Americans looked at each other and said, “This is it.” In many places church bells pealed and sirens screamed the news that the battle for Europe was on.’ The Liberty bell, cherished symbol of American freedom, rang again in Philadelphia for liberation. : But mostly the people were quiet. They had waited a long time. The waiting for the invasion was over. Now the people would wait a while longer, anxiously - and prayerfully, to see how it turned
walked up to them.
“I know why you're out here,” he said. “You
think our morale is shot because we've been taking it on the nose. Well, I can tell you our morale is all right. There is only one thing that hurts our
morale, and thats having three-star generals coming around to see what's the matter with it” Jimmy tells these stories wonderfully, with moré gest and humor than I can put into them second-
handed. “As he says, the heartbreaks and tragedies of war sometimes push all your gaiety down into the depths. But if a man can keep a sense of the
ridiculous about himself he is all right. Jimmy Doolittle can.
unless parents consent. Some of us can Sew, too. planned in advance for those who President, James Wescott, Vice, Jack Stolar, Secretary, would have time to attend them. Harry Wescott, 3140 Forest Manor.” Marjorie Bruner, [Thi with work to do did it. They caught a radio bulletin or two, will be sent. | scanned the headlines, and went to show | their jobs, If they prayed, they did Saturday with strong mental reservations, but came so silently, perhaps subconsciously.
one of the volunteers at the headquarters, said a letter gratefully accepting the proffered help . .. Among those who went to see the Dunninger
away convinced, was Melvin Atlass, men's furnishing
buyer for H P. Wasson & Co. Mr. Atlass was con- government vinced all the talk about Dunninger’s mind reading the servicemen and women, the was the bunk. So before going to one of the per- | ‘teen-age girls — queued up for formances, he secretly wrote a message on a sheet of breakfast at the cafeterias just as paper and hid it in his pocket, telling no one what he they did yesterday.
had done. During the show, Dunninger said: “Someone has written the words ‘Manhattan shirts’” Mr. Atlass admitted that he had done so. “You wrote] something else,” added Dunninger. by H. P. Wasson & Co.” and even your phone number,
men.”
«Sold exclusively girls were not giggling. had little to say.
out.
{told of a common impulse—an im{pulse to prayer.
People Pray
In metropolitan temples, in try, in synagogs and cathedrals people prayed for the men storming Europe's beaches and flying Europe's skies, On the eve of invasion, President
Reports from all over the country
steepled white churches in the coun- | <4
Churches the city over threw wide their doors today to lend com-
fort to the worried as their loved omes battled on the shores of
France. Prépared for D-day was church in front of which this notice bulletin beard.
Roosevelt, knowing what was coming a few hours hence, said: “May God bless and watch over . . all of our gallant fighting
The D-day prayer services were,
In Washington, the thousands of workers—the clerks,
en Are Silent
NAZIS PURSUED
NORTH OF ROME
Retreat Nears Rout as 5th Presses Across Tiber For Kill.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NAPLES, June 6 (U. P.).—The allied 5th army drove the battered Germans in disorderly retreat
But there was a difference. The
‘RI. 7441" Mr. Atlass was convinced.
Harry Marer, and father, Adolph Marer, 1020 E. Market, ran out on the front porch last Thursday to rescue the porch pillows when the big rainstorm came up. While she was on the porch, the wind slammed the front door. The rain came down in torrents. Mrs. Weissman ran to the back door, found that locked, too. Finally, thoroughly drenched, she managed to get the attention of her father, and got back in the house. , .. A big overland truck, passing through the downtown section the other day had on its big rear doors, fingered in the dust, two signs, On the right half of the door was an arrow pointing to the right, and the word, “Suicide.” On tHe left side, an arrow peinting left and the words: “Passing side.”
A Gift for Mother
STEVE SMITH, 10-year-old son of the Dudley 8miths, had been wanting a dog for a long time, but his mother refused to let him have one. Along came Mother's day, and with it a bright idea. Steve showed up with a setter pup. It was his present to his mother for Mother's day. “And mother, it didn't cost me a penny,” Steve insisted. The pup stayed. They named it “Penny.” . .. Russian War Relief headquarters, 1409 N. Illinois, where help is needed desperately to prepare for shipment the clothing collected several weeks ago, received a letter in childish handwriting yesterday. It read: ‘Dear Madam: The Win War Club will come over and help you if you want us. There are seven of us, ages 9 to 12. Won't come
C.I1.0O. Complies
WASHINGTON, June 6—The C. I. O. has announced its compliance with a postoffice department finding that it had been violating postal regulations, This arose from publication and distribution with the C. I. O. News of a “Servicemen's Edition"—the at a latter a separate periodical for mailing to servicemen overseas. Officials under Third Assistant Postmaster General Ramsey 8. Black ruled the two could not be distributed together under second. class mailing privileges, because dwo publications were being granted the cheaper rate under a license issued for only one, The C. I.-O, News stated today that it was carrying the “Servicemen's Edition” for the last time free with the parent publi eation, and that hereafter, according to postal regulations,. the servicemen's edition must be sold as a separate paper, This involves a separate permission to use second-class mailing privileges, Postal officials said the publication was “rather
technical,” would not have occurred if the term.
*section” had been used in place of “edition,” and that the C, I. O. had been given time to make the change. No fine or other penalty was ordered.
Committee Will Meet
THE C. I. O. POLITICAL ACTION committee will meet here June 16, according to another announcement, “to map out plans for the coming
My Day
WASHINGTON, Monday.—I spent a great deal of
" time at the Beltsville Agricultura] Experimental sta-
tion yesterday, a few miles outside of Washington. I always like to go to this section of the department of agriculture, because while I am not a farmer, and
on the tables, hard by the plastic ashtrays.
Still a Marine BOB OHLEYER, a marine corps veteran who re-
ceived a medical discharge a month or so ago, got_a (gested industrial centers kept at| Pront dispatches said Nazi Field Saturday, | their work. At Douglas and Lock-{yr, cha) Albert Kesslering's broken
job with WISH recently as a script writer.
cafeteria placed little American flags | "War workers in*hundreds of ow)
he awoke at 8:30 a. m. With a start. he recalled that heed in Los Angeles workers listened
Then |
he was due at the office at 9 a. m. It was too late to Silently to the loudspeaker,
get dressed and make it clear downtown by 9 via streetcar from 35th and College. So Bob hastily dug | out his marine uniform, put it on, ran out to the street and looked for a ride. picked him up and took him downtown. And he got to work exactly on time. Leave it to the marines! . «+ In at least one home, after the war, there won't be any arguments over whether husband or wife, promised: “I do.” Whenever there's an argument brewing, all theyll have to do is to turn on the phono-| graph. The couple, Ensign Paul B. Hoefer Jr, sta-| tioned on the East coast, and Miss Jean Belcher, of | Los Angeles, came here as a convenient spot for their | marriage, which took place last night at the Church of the Advent. And they had the ceremony recorded by! the Roger Beane Recording studio, 136 N. Delaware. | Now their vows are a matter of record. . . . Mr. and | Mrs. R. P. Woolf, 2305 Adams st, had bee trouble} Friday afternoon. A swarm of bees took over their | back porch. Finally, the insects crawled through two small holes in the weather boarding on the house, and Mr. Woolf pasted paper over the holes to keep the bees inside, Now he doesn't know what to do with them.
By Fred W. Perkins
campaigning and the re-election of President Roosevelt’ to take stock of its accomplishments so far, and to give labor's answer in term8 of concrete planning and program to the reactionaries.” The meeting, under leadership of C.I.O. President Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman, chairman of the Political Action committee, will be 10 days in advance of the Republican national comvention in Chicago, and some of the actions may be aimed toward infiuencing the G. O. P. platform pronouncements, particularly those dealing with labor. Some attention is forecast for an attack made by Thomas F. Patton, counsel for the Republic Steel Corp, on the use of checked-off union dues in financing the C. I. O. Political Action committee. The lawyer, in an argument before the war labor board panel hearing the wage case of the C. I. O. United Steelworkers, disclosed reports from steel companies representing four-fifths of employment in the industry that last year they had. turned over to the union $3,709,975 in dues checked-off from wages of 301,417 workers,
‘Forced Contributions’
“A SUBSTANTIAL portion,” he asserted, “is to be poured into the funds of the Political Action committee which will use its political influence in the coming national elections. The result will be to place potent financial backing behind some political party, based on forced contributions, to a previously unheard of extent. No citizen should be forced against his will to contribute, directly or indirectly, to any political party or movement.”
By Eleanor Roosevelt
1 have long been searching for and which I shall try ut. .
The first car that came along | Such a fury as foremen said they
they went back to work. They went back to work, the report from the west coast said, “with | never before had observed.” New York, the nation's largest and most mercurial city, took the| invasion news in stride. No sirens greeted the first communique and | no crowds gathered. Newsstand) sales were brisk, however, and throngs in restaurants avidly read all the bulletins in the papers. In Hollywood, a marine who had just won a nightclub jitterbug contest, heard the invasion announcement and said, “I feel kind of silly.” The movie colony went sheepishly
Special prayers were said in Columbus, O., as elsewhere, and Ohio Gov. John W: Bricker proclaimed the “beginning of the end of the forces of evil.” At Harrisburg, Gov. Edward Martin of Pennsylvania dedicated the day to “work and prayer.”
“Most Solemn Law”
Governor Earl Warren of California said that in this “most solemn hour in. the history of our country all we can do here at home is send all we can, and pray for the safety of those in the battle.” President. Roosevelt slept through the early hours of the invasion, he had known it was coming.. He had helped to plan it. Secretary of War Stimson set an example of confidence by staying at home during the small hours when the news was being flashed
news conference days ago that “We won't start the invasion until] we are sure of success.” In Tacoma, Wash, E. N. Eisenhower, lawyer brother of “General Ike,” said he was “as certain of success as I am of anything.”
on with its work of making canned |
all over the world. He had told a
The general's wife, Mrs, Mamie
across the Tiber river on a 17-mile
The men {front from Rome to the Tyrrhenian | The factories and the fire depart-| nocturnal spot. And a populares ‘and sent powerful armored ment turned on the noise at dawn, |
columns five miles beyond the river
the New Jersey Street Methodist has stood for days on the outdoor
In the blackness of doubt as to the safety of her son in England,
Mrs. Frank Schwermin seeks solace John’s Catholic church on D-day.
in prayer in the darkness of St.
On the way to visit a daughter in
Louisville from Effingham, Ill, Mrs. Schwermin heard the invasion
news as her train stopped here,
Indianapolis Slept as D-Day |INVASION SPURS News Flashed Around World PLANT WORKERS
Indianapolis slept as one of the world's greatest stories cracked Serious Work Marks D-Day,
about ears that heard nothing. Employees Listen to
No screaming sirens or blasts of whistles as on a New Year's eve up and down every neighborhood street, in street cars, busses and share- v the-ride automobiles as war work- | War Bulletins. ed there be no big local ohservance, |marked by whistle tooting. But in Shots Fired at Prowler plant news broadcasts brought them { Several shots were fired at. the the latest reports on the progress | crazy. wood ave. this morning, his favorite| 1here was no evidence of excite- 1 | ment or celebration among the
disturbed their slumber. ers went to work as usual. | prowlings which have terrorized the . Indianapolis war workers kept on {some other Indiana towns, such as] There was no telephone service| Workers; they were serious and
But throughout the town this morning the electrifying news flashed Indianapolis officials had request- | North side. turning out war materials today as little Wabash, the residents went|prowler in the 2600 block on Ken- 0f the invasion. {and residents got up and started to here as there was in other cities| thoughtful as they concentrated on
| decorate the town with flags and to inform clients that this day of| their war jobs, pausing momentarily
under orders to destroy the fleeing | hunting which they hoped would all days was here. Some folks had | t0 listen to the news broadcasts.
enemy.
14th army was offering only the feeblest sort .of rear. guard resistance as the allied tanks and rifllemen burst across the winding Tiber at a score of points north and west of Rome. . At many points the enemy retreat had turned into a disorganized rout under the raking fire of allied planes and tanks, and 2000 Naxis threw down their arms and surrendered to a fast-rolling British column that trapped them on the east bank of the river, near the seacoast. Every bridge across the Tiber below Rome had been blown up by the fleeing Germans, but 11 of the 14 main spans inside the capital were intact and allied troops were crossing in a steady stream.
Battle at Airport
Only in the northeastern outskirts of Rome did the Germans offer any determined resistance. A force of enemy tanks was reported battling desperately around the Littoria airport in an attempt to stem the swift allied advance long enough for the main body of Kesselring's troops to escape. Official sources said the Vatican had been by-passed in all allied operations in and around the city.
GIVES GERMANS 60 DAYS
JAMESTOWN, Tenn., June 6 (U. P.).—Sgt. Alvin C. York, “one-man army” of world war I fame who says he's just itching to take another crack at the Germans, today gave
stay in thé war now that the inva-
Hitler and his gang just 60 days to
be completed by 9 a. at the!
latest.
m.
Cathedral Bell Rings
At Vincennes, the historic bell} of the old Vincennes cathedral rang out the news just before sunrise and residents immediately began to
the candle lit alter.
toric event as it did when Rogers Clark in the early days of the Colonization of the middlewest. The plans of the Linton Citizen to put out an early morning extra went awry when a power failure occured in the plant. Indianapolis was grim, seething with a fierce, yet controlled excitement. There was no jollity. The Indianapolis scene was to be laid later in the day with silent, reverent worshipers in the many churches which the Church Federation said would be open with continuous service on D-day. People Awe-Struck Most Indianapolis pebble could register nothing but awe when informed the great day finally was at hand. Mothers and fathers who had boys in England had prayers on their lips and fought to dispel the gnawing terror that naturally was in their hearts. Those whose sons were still in the U. S. A. couldn't help but have a feeling of relief that their loved ones were not in that first invasion crossing. The news of the invasion found Indianapolis with cooler weather, a fight in the inner councils of the Republican party over the sweep of control by the faction headed by powerful Robert Lyons, and the
sion has started.
capture of a suspect in the
Up Front With Mauldin
{get them all up to listen in on the
| part was not disturbed, gather in the church to pray before | pa :
The church bell marked the his-| Red Cross Issues the | British surrendered to George!
Eisenhower, observed the biggest day in her husband's life by being with their son John at West Point on what was perhaps the biggest day thus far in “young Ike's” life— his graduation from the U. 8. military academy as a second lieutenant.
Churches Open
* Cleveland, the nation's fifth largest city and one of its largest war producers, threw open its churches, and from Mayor Frank J. Lausche came the words: “The command to us is to stand forth and stay at our civilian posts with increased vigor and devotion. We must humbly and pray for our youth.” : Governor Harry Kelley asked alll citizens of Michigan to pause a mo-
ment in prayer. In Miami, Fla, churches opened while newsboys shouted “extra.” / . The graveyard shift at Boeing's Seattle aircraft plant—home of Flying Fortresses—“went back to work —maybe a little harder than usual,” a company official said.
organized neighborhood clubs, in| which one neighbor who got the) news would immediately telephone
At the Curtiss-Wright propeller plant, the invasion bulletin was flashed to the night shift workers
the rest of his “invasion club” and 2! 2:35 a. m. and later bulletins are
radios. 4 But the city's sleep for the most
Donor Appeal
The Red Cross today issued this statement: “The military situation makes the need for life-saving blood plasma and serum albumin urgent. Emergency transfusions of these two derivatives of civilian blood are credited with saving thousands of wounded men. “Make—and keep—an appointment to give a pint of your blood for the armed forces. Call LI. 1441, Red Cross blood donor center, seventh floor of the Chamber of Commerce ‘building.
‘Butler Air Cadets To Hold Retreat
Approximately 800 air crew students of the 52d college training detachment at Butler university will hold retreat at 5 p. m. today in the Butler fleldhouse when the Rev. Virgil Ragan of the Fairview Presbyterian church will say a special invasion prayer. The air crew band and glee club will participate.
‘Judge Johnson
‘Proves a Prophet
Judge Emsley Johnson Jr. of superior court 2 is one Indianapolis resident who made an accurate prediction on the invasion. . A month ago Judge Johnson wrote out and sealed a prophecy that the invasion would be on the Cherbourg penirisula. As his reason, he explained that in 1937 when he was in Cherbourg, he noticed that the ocean liners came very close to ishore, indicating that there was deep water up close to the beach. He also noticed that the beaches there were low and flat and reasoned that it would be a good landing area. Last week Judge Johnson added
6 or June 28. He chose June § be-
the highest tide.
WIFE OF GEN. PATTON
to this prophecy the prediction that the Invasion would be on June
cause it would be the time of the full moon, giving the allies good visibility and preventing accidents. He selected June 28 as the time of i
OLLOWS WAR NEWS
HAMILTON, Mass, June 6 (U. ||P.) ~Throughout the early mornhours, the wife of Lt. Gen. rge 8. Patton Jr. sat beside a
being read as they are received,
Offer Prayer In a brief program broadcast through the plant, H. A. Woosley, office manager, offered a prayer for the success of the invasion, and B. F. Theis, manager, said, “Now the products of our hands, of our minds will be put to the test. No one can say how long the fight in Europe will last. We do know that our armed forces will fight on until victory is achieved. We here on the home front can do no less. Carrying the attack to Hitler will cost us heavily in equipment as well as men. Our job is to replace that equipment—to give our fighters everything they need and more.” Transcribe News The first workers to arrive at the RCA plant at 6 a. m. were greeted by direct radio broadcasts of the invasion. Broadcasts will continue all day, and workers are being asked to pray for the fighting men. The Allison News office was transcribing the news broadcasts and playing them back in the cafeterias during the Allison workers’ lunch hours. Plant foremen were being notified by phone of invasion developments to pass on to their workers. The public address system at Lukas-Harold was carrying the news flashes to workers, and at P. R. Mailory & Co. newspaper extras were being posted on the bulletin boards. Marmon-Herrington and Bridgeport Brass Co. officials reporied business as usual.
GENERALS IN ITALY ARE CONGRATULATED
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, June 6 (U, P.).—President Roosevelt and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson sent messages of congratulation yesterday to Gen, Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Gen, Sir Harold L. G, Alexander, Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers and Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark on the triumph of their allied armies in Italy. “We are all thrilled by your splendid success in Italy. My very warm congratulations to you,” Mr. Roosevelt's message said.
HOLD EVERYTHING