Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1944 — Page 11
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. LONDON, June 7 (By Wireless) —Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, head of the 8th air force over here, noticed ne day in the roster of officers at his staff head-
quarters the The name is not a very ordinary one, and he made a bios a mental note that some day he would look the fellow up for a little chat. One day not long after that his phone rang and the voice | at the other end said, “This is . Capt. Doolittle.” “Oh, yes,” said the general. “I had noticed your name and I meant to call you up sometime.” “1d like to come in and see you,” said the voice at the other end. “Why yes, do that,” the general said. “I'm pretty busy these days, I switch you to my aide and he'll make an apoe for you. Glad you called, Captain. IT Jook forward to seeing you.” He was just ready to hang up when the voice came plaintively over the phone: Ba a is me. Don't you recognize me? I've a package for you from mom.” FEN a In. exploded: “Well, why in hell didn’t you say so in the first place!” It was Capt. Jimmy Doodlittle Jr, a B-26 pilot in the 9th air force. The general hasn't got around yet to seeing the other Capt. Doolittle. It'll probably turn out to be his brother or something.
His Hardest Letter
THE LAST TIME I had seen Gen. Doolittle was some 18 months ago, way down at the desert airdrome of Biskra on the edge of the Sahara. That was when he was running our African bomber force that was plastering the Tunisian ports. Gen. Doolittle flew in one afternoon from the far forward airdrome of Youks les Bains. The night before his entire crew except for the co-pilot had been killed in a German bombing at the Youks field. His crew had manned their planes’ guns until it got too hot, and then made a run for an old bomb crater 50 yards away. It was one of those heartbreaking freaks of hard luck. A bomb hit the crater
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‘Don’t Feel So Bad
THAT NIGHT Doolittle was lower than he had ever been before in his life, There wasn't any humor in the world for him that night. head down and thought to himself: “You have balled up the biggest chance anybody could ever have. You have sure made a mess of this affair. You've lost most of your planes. The whole thing was a miserable failure. You'll spend the rest of your life in Leavenworth for this, and be lucky to United Press Staff Correspondent get out of it that easy.” WASHINGTON, June 7.—Premier | As he sat there this sergeant-mechanic came UP| jeer stalin is spotlighted today by | and said: ig President Roosevelt as the forceful “Don’t feel so bad about it, colonel. man who brought British and , Doolittle paid no attention. But the sergeant, ican jeaders to agreement on kept at him. ertak: - “It’s not as bad as it seems. Why, I'll bet you that oy Faking the invasion of west within a year you'll have a Congressional Medal f0r| carefy] examination of D-day it and be a brigadier general.” statement by Mr. Roosevelt and Doolittle just snorted. waa | Prime Minister Winston churchill “Well, I'll bet you so,” the sergeant said. “Andlrevea] much of the background and T'd like to ask one thing. As long as you're flying I'd some of the future of the great like to be your mechanic.” military advantures begun yesterThat finally got inside Doolittle’s gloom. Some- gay on the coasts of France. body had confidence in him. He began to buck. “80| Churchill chose to look ahead. he said: In contrast with Mr. Roosevelt's “Son, as long as I've got an airplane you're i8|p.day news conference parrying of mechanic, even if we live to be a thousand years old.” {forward looking questions oft As you know, he did get a Congressional Medal of (grounds that they were improper Honor, and now he has not only one star but theifor reasons of military security, three of a lieutenant general. And that sergeant, Churchill frankly advised the house who devoted himself to Col. Doolittle that miserable of commons that more than one night out there in China, was still Gen. Doolittle’s|landing in Europe was contemmechanic the night they landed at Youks les Bainspjated, in February of 1943. He was one of the men who ran for the shell hole that night. Gen. Doolittle had to write the letter to his
President Explains Qelay in Answering Soviet Plea
To Invade. By LYLE C. WILSON
Surprises Forecast “During the night and early hours
gland and on the Home Front
This paratrooper was the first American casualty to reach England after the great offensive began. He : was returned by plane after receiving a head wound from enemy small arms,
TAXI
Reveal Overcharges By Meters.
City officials moved today to draft a comprehensive taxicab control ordinance giving the safety board power to pass on the merits of In- | dianapolis’ 400 cab drivers through la drastic revision of taxi licensing : jurisdiction. § | Decision to impose tighter ad- 5 ministration regulations on cab companies followed a weights end 3 ' measures department report yester= 4 {day that 70 per cent of the city’s ; | taxi meters are “off” on the over- | charge side. | Safety Board President Will H. Remy said he has requested the |city legal department to prepare an 'ordinance centralizing authority over tax firms, drivers, insurance, zones and related matters in the safety board. At present, the city controller issues licenses to cab companies and drivers, but has- no way of co-ordinating enforcement of fi scattered and varied taxi ordinances 3 ‘already on the law books. 5
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| Cab company officials, as well as city spokesmen, were inclined to blame taxi irregularities on individual drivers who, weights and ‘measures tests indicated, sometimes set their meters as high as 10 cents / over the regular 25 cents a mile b | rate. | Mrs, Maude Hobson, chief weights 4] and measures inspector, charged | drivers with “tampering with meters {and gypping the companies as well | as the public.” | John K. Ruckelshaus, attorney a for Red Cab, Inc. operators of 241 3 taxis, deplored wartime conditions necessitating “a rapid turnover of | employees which makes our problem a very serious one.” Roscoe M. Hardwick, president of the United Taxicab Co., doubted the accuracy of Mrs. Hobsons statistics, but i il promised “immediate remedial ac- q iq tion” 1 ¥ In all, 327 cabs were checked by the weights and measures department on a one-mile course on Illinois st. between 13th and 23d sts. The chief inspector said some ‘meters clicked off the first mile charge after traveling only as far
las “two or three blocks.” For the first {ime since U. S. |
entry into the war, the Statue of
of this-morning,” he said, “the first of a series of landings of forces upon the European continent has taken place. In this case the liber-
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum si =i ii ous
‘ ‘enemy with a successipn of surTHE ALMOST FORGOTTEN art of panhandling night” * “How much do you want to bet?” asked prises” seems to be undergoing a revival. Maybe It isn't pe, unbellevingly. + oh, 1 Sony wart » be ol That language sufficiently indi- : “ " i ust happen now it will be tonight, cates the broa 0 general, but we've been touched a couple of times = “ot cuy must be psychic. Or maybe, like a sate broad scale of blows to in the last few days by furtive pedestrians. One §8Y€ lot of others, he's been making similar predictions ~The President dealt with the past, a touching story about just being out of the hospital every day and thus was bound to “click” eventually.’ passing over that part of it in which and being hungry. We dipped , . Vie Peterson, Times photographer, picked Up & he met with Russian Foreign Mininto a pocket and found nothing phone at 4 a. m. yesterday and gave the operator (it ister V. M. Molotov in May of 1942 but a few pennies and a dollar bill. was the Cherry exchange) The Times’ number. Re-ifor conversations which evidently We gave him the pennies, a bit plied the operator: “Thank you—Lord, we're busy.” convinced the Russians they had a apologetically. “Say,” he sug- ..,.,At 3:23 p. m. yesterday, almost 13 hours after second (western) front promise for gested, “couldn't we go somewhere the invasion story broke, the city desk phone rang.’ that year. and get that dollar bill broken?” “Say.” said a man's voice, “I guess I've been asleep. | . +» It wasn’t until after we had What's this I hear about an invasion of France.” He walked on that we began to won-
was grateful for a fill-in. A his day and , it yy * Se in ig S for as to Goin q Too F ar western front operation to demonbeg on the street. Next time, we're AN UNUSUAL request was made to a rationing pate hic we iivgsion could not going to remember to 8SK.... poard the other day. A Crothersville woman wrote: ave :. heen Siderya ma yea 9 Folks in the vicinity of Delaware .piaase send me an application for a baby,” Baby? more 559 at t : Spd © hose and Washington sts. got a big laugh the other daY Aren't they carrying this rationing business pretty then clamoring for it. a or when a male policeman bawled out a woman pedes- ¢ar7 Jim Farley, the former Democratic na- Sue In its mest Sidorout A wi trian for starting across the street against the red gional chairman, took a ribbing when he made his he language fy dosoow, light. It happened that the woman was one of OUT headquarters at the Columbia club while here for a Yaa Se vi re To make his lady cops. She flushed, smiled sheepishly and stepped meeting Sunday. With a grin, he denied having =8¢ gl I ck led th back to the curb. ... We had an item Friday about ynown that he was in a Republican stronghold, but point, the - i wr i € Dick Lewis, over in England, and mentioned that, “in- made no move to get out. . . . Incidentally, one of the statement of i a Ee cidentally, folks at the Civic theater got a letter from gre things he asked for when he arrived at the club Bryan, Secaeiary of state Je a Dick in which, etc.” Next day we got a phone call gunday was a barber, None was available. For a son cabinet in whic 5 sev 3 from one of the ladies at the Civic, saying some people ¢ime 3 crisis impended. And then Merlin M. Dunbar, | *7V 84 as undersecretary o pi had read the item and thought we were referring 0 th, tax attorney, came to his rescue. Mr. Dunbar, | Opposing the Sompara MYSlY feeble Sgt. Dick Hoover, the former Civic director. Sgt. gh is living temporarily at the club, has arrange- armament Stier o the 3 on 20.. Hoover is not in England. He's soldiering down at ments for a daily shave by Sam (Red J e. of the ministration—the 756 0 & for 30Columbia, 8. C. His wife and son, Richard, are with gins shop in the Union Title 2d) 20 y And c,| 3% etal heliets vas et on y after him. learning of Mr. Farley's plight, he “loaned” Mr. Bogue pr ut lq nat 1 000,000 men would The In vasion to him. Questioned afterward, the barber said that| no 15 arms overnight for the de-
about the only comment he drew from Mr. Farley was a . y fense their country. DON KELLER, district representative of Purdue that he didn't think any more favorably of a fourth| oe oO Taide asked
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Mr. Roosevelt now expects the events and developments of the
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A happy President Roosevelt manifests his unqualified approval of the way the invasion is progressing. Like Prime Minister Churchill, the President receives a minute-by-minute report of the fighting from allied commanders, He does not expect to get much rest in the next few days. He was sleepy at his press conference yesterday.
Oe ensue 0 am K: OF P. WILL ELECT lean boys Invaded Frac. CHAMBERS TOMORROW yr So ag Boosters of Boys' Group CHONEST JOHN’ eros ovis . | Tndiana tomorrow morning in the Make Plans to Aid Club MULLIN RETIRES =z m= ........ | lade lodge No. 63 of Bloomfield, is
i > WIDE t Boys’ club at 1400 English | university, established a reputation as a prophet, or term than he did of the third term idea... . Among _| ‘The first meeting of the auxiliary Avenue Boys’ ciub a : IR university, asabliehod 8 TePUIOL He Et war are bushes pases, one of the (le, conference Yoterday. He exc, pons Club association was|¥e, and the Lauter Memorial Bays | oor et With Police pected fo win the highest pot with. | i ings y ’ i : i lub at 1309 W. Market st. ere - A noon. In here on business, he casually remarked to handiest things around any household. They're about =~ ont that made it nec v to de-| hel 4 in the English Avenue club Shit y Ee a Noble | out opposition. He will succeed |
as scarce as hen's teeth.
By Fred W. Perkins
The invasion will be to- Clarence R. Hole of Muncie.
Y r For 41 ears Th ough The 76th annual convention of the K. of P. opened this morning Ups and Downs. in the K. of P. building. Business John W. Mullin, known as “Honest Sessions are on the program during | John” to fellow officers during his the day, with the annual banquet 41 years with the Indianapolis '0 be at 6:30 p.m. in the Claypool
City Editor Ed Heinke;
Unfounded Fears
lay the opening of the Western pouee today under the direction of ville. Membership in Indianapolis) front so long and that men might | i | Harry G. Gorman, director of the|is about 1000 boys. spring, but arms had to be made. | Th lubs ia asi Within a month of Pearl Harbor, association in Indianapolis. . Clu proyice fT | however, he said, American military! The auxiliary was formed by the game rooms, Cra } Shops anc many | ’ | | | other constructive activities for un- : {leaders and later the eombined | voluntess leadership committee of | gerprivileged boys. the management-labor committee of the war man- British and American chiefs of | the board of directors to foster in-
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WASHINGTON, June 7.—Reports to headquarters
Sette of the war manpower commission show that Chair- power commission, has for some time been success- staffs were studying the possibilities ) ) 3 hotel , “ » ; © . i oad tment, has retired after . man Paul V. McNutt's new “priority referral” order fully carried on in areas of acute labor shortage. It|of invading Europe. (terest a the aes iation and be en FT. WAYNE PLANS police depar o - has elf ‘er Mr. Hole will speak at tonight's has caused a fear among the nation's rank-and-file is now being extended to the entire nation after con- Molotov’s Visit its work in community. Mem-= ing : yl | dinner meeting. Lieut. Gov. John workers that they are now subject to some sort of an sultation with the representatives of labor and man-| _ = oo oes later ¢ pers Le re Ws, Wo MAHURIN WELCOME every position on Lee Smith of Te grand chan- ; its | that! liam W. , . : ; Xas, . AE or totalitarian control in Sgement who have made a thorough study of its | Molotov here on & secret mis-| G. Appel, Miss Eldena Lauter and| FT. WAYNE, Ind. June 7 (U. p). the force. f ‘cellor, was scheduled to address the eir jobs. operations. lsion. As he left the White House Mr DP Ross ial : His retirement :% meeting, but was called to Austin That isn't true, according to Philip. Murray, president of the C. I. O., was re- | 5 : | —Plans for the official homecoming| i otion was i+ on state business
: | : ported to be preparing a Statement, Clinton S. Gold- issued a joint communique which| Charter member of the suxiliary or uy walker M. Mahurin, 25, presented by: | en, Mr." Murray's representative in the war manpower contained this language: |are Mrs. Otto Bakemeir, Mrs. Frank | one-time leading ace of the Poli Chief commission took part in the labor-management con- In the course of these conversa- Fairchild, Mrs. Reginald W. Gars- s 1 i OL, th £3 ferences that preceded announcement of the new HONS full understanding was reached tang, Mrs. Harry G. Gorman, Mrs. | European theater, were still in the Beeker tothe. . order. with regard to the urgent task of George M. Halverson, Mrs. Harold tentative stage today. | safety board Ye ol : creating a second front in Europe L. Martin, Mrs. Harry C. May, Mrs.| Pt. Wayne Mayor Harry W. Baals ©27C% et or AR ) in 1942." | Donald Morris, Mrs. Robert Par-ignq city civilian defense council, A A. F. of L., C. I. 0. Acquiesce When no European landings ma-|lette, Mrs. James Ruddell, Mrs.| hi in charge of the program health. Mr. Mullin BOTH THE A. F. of Land C. I. O. have resisted terialized the Russians became.angry John Shirley, Mrs. Henry B. Steeg,| ~~. .~ =. o 1 pio n' Jones Bhs 14, 1903, Sgt 3 . . % ~ - 1 lans, 1 . y , . . i DAUONAL service of “labor drafl” Jagisiation, Lis their tnd _— I ond igo “the wor pr {rly Weight. a | Bats : nat ea Mullin has been promoted and de- Years of service at a meeting last ! ublic. Is. ac v 1 A . oo . representatives acquiesced in extension of the McNutt a conference _— December. | ona : ¢ might be the day of the official moted as political administrations week in Cincinnati Members of policy. Mr. Ri velt said yesterday, that Thousands Aided Welcome. | changed and several times was con- the sales force from 25 branches The Boys Club association was
i | i ia] sidered for chief. were present, A summary of the situation, as it applies to the the time and approximate place of | Mahurin, who holds 21 aerial Mr. Ries started with the coms
men in the McNutt agency who have the duty of translating bureaucratic language into words the people can understand. But so far, none of these men has attempted to give a clear statement of what the McNutt order means to the average worker, Their failure in this respect is attributed by them to the difficulty of inter preting an order at the “Washington level” so that it will apply to an individual in Oshkosh, Orlando, or Okmulgee,
RIES IS HONORED AT KROGER FETE
George Ries, meat merchandiser of the Indianapolis branch of the Kroger Co. was honored after 38
The confusion is illustrated by two statements, : : ] CL Pai said James L. McDevitt, president of the Pennsyl- individual, is that in areas where the policy is placed |the invasion was mutually agreed founded in 1898 and thousands of victories and wears the distin- Lifelong Democrat pany in 1907 at Cincinnati and was vania state federation of labor, soon after promulga- in effect (subject to the judgment of the regional war \upon. In Tehran the three men— boys have taken part in its activi- guished service cross, arrived quietly] A lifelong Democrat and active in the Madison, Wis., branch before tion of the McNutt order: ’ manpower director) after July 1 a male worker must | the President, the premier and the ties since that time. with his mother from New York the gone he was inspector and coming to In dian apolis in 1930 “If the whole plan is placed in operation it will get approval of the U. S. employment service before | Prime mitister. Rely ef together. The Ssnplsier oy on Sh yesterday, OKiy 8 BN y afi then captain during the most recent 2 oe Is Long create the greatest bottleneck in the war production he can be hired into a new job. Te a ry wagon houses in Indianapolis, the Eng e beginning of the allied invasion. | Jot. administration. He was| ~~ GAS COUPONS STOLEN
rable eggshell autifully. It is wide ruffle. It
effort. It has everything a labor draft calls for. There is no reason for such a stringent regulation over jobs in industry.”
“No Basic Departure’ .
THEN WILLIAM GREEN, president of the American Federation of Labor, added: “This program is not new and it represents no
The foregoing does not apply to farm workers, those to be hired by employers of less than nine workers, and those to be employed by government agencies. Women workers are in somewhat different class, according to rulings of area directors. In some areas they have been placed under the requirement of getting official approval before transferring from essential to other essential work, or to non-essential work.
May or the first days of June.
It was no more definite than that until very recently, the President explained, when D-Day was fixed— | June 5. Bad weather in the English channel caused 24 hours of un-
D-Day Fixed Em ——————_
Up Front With Mauldin
sergeant. »
S<_A®| | police annals. v A little
retired in the grade of detective
During his career Mr. » 'made hundreds of friends on his \ | beat in the Indiana ave. district and \ also participated in famous manhunts which have gone down in
on the blunt,
Willard Dunbar, manager of a motor company at 2401 English ave., told police today burglars broke into = the company garage last night and = stole bulk gas coupons worth 588 = gallons. A, B and C coupons worth = 50 gallons, and $5 in cash.
Mullin
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foreseen delay. Only the actual date and the name of the com- | manding general remained to be decided when the three men parted at Tehran. | One of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s, yprized possessions is a soiled memorandum written by Mr. Roosevelt to Stalin from Cairo three days after the Tehran meeting. The President and Churchill had agreed | at Cairo upon the man to lead the! attack. The memo to Stalin read!
cheer charm. basic departure from the voluntary system which has enabled American workers to surpass all others in production output. . , . This system involves no force and no compulsion.
“This emergency manpower program, developed by
- My Day
WASHINGTON, Tuesday—So at last we have come to D-Day, or rather, the news of it reached us over the radio in the early hours of the morning on June' 6. The first people I saw seemed very much excited. Curiously enough, I have no sense of excitement whatsoever. It seems as .though we have been waiting for this day for weeks, and dreading it, and now all emotion is drained away. ! § All the preparation that has -- gone on, the endless photographing, the endless air-raids, the constant practice of the men in landing, or in whatever their specialty may be—this is now ended. The ~ fact that boys you know have been waiting with an almost desperate
Part of the McNutt plan is for imposition of “ceiling” on employers, which means the number of men they can hire. This may bring about the employment of more women, on who there is as yet no official limit,
ligerent side, “Honest John” never| Rol : 3 ZA | minced words or pulled & punch M e W. 8. C. 8. of Park : ethodist church will hold their = and was recognized by those who| at 2:30 p. : worked under him as a “square egular meeting ’ m. to 4 morrow after a business meeting =
shooter.” 4 ; and luncheon beginning at 11:30 a. Residing at 119 W. 28th st., Sgt. at the churcl 3
‘Mullin has served as captain of the HOLD EVERYTHING
| {uniform room and the detective de- | partment and as inspector of police.
| TIN CAN PICKUP SET NEXT WEEK
Another tin can salvage pick-up for next week was announced today by James B. Clements, county “tin salvage chairman. Cans should be stripped of paper labels, both ends cut out, mashed flat and placed in containers at the , he said. Trucks will cover the north of 16th st. on Monday Tuesday, and scuth of 16th st. on Wednesday and Thursday.
EWING BOY KILLED
BEDFORD, Ind., June 7 (U. P)— arranged to-|
By Eleanor Roosevelt
the beaches of France, which we once knew, are now places from which, in days to come, boys in hospitals over here will tell us that they have returned. They |as follows: may never go beyond the water or the beach, but all; “Immediate appointment of Gen. their lives, perhaps, they will bear the marks of this{ Eisenhower to command of opera-! A day. At that, they will be fortunate, for many tions has been decided upon” # others won't return. The word “immediate” was writ-| / This is the beginning of a long, hard fight, a fight| ten above the others as further NJN for ports where heavy materials of war must be) reassurance to Stalin that no delay ‘landed, a fight for airfields in the countries in which |was contemplated this time. The we must operate. Day by day, miles of country may scribbled note was handed to 8 be taken, lost and retaken. That is what we have to| Cairo conference aide for tranface, what the boys who are over there have been scription and Was given by the aide| preparing for and what must be done before the day|to Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of victory. That day is coming surely. It will be a'of staff. Marshall gave it to Eisen- | happy and glorious day. How can we hasten it? hower who might ‘reg ~The best way in which we can help is by doing our jobs here better than ever before, no matter what { these jobs may be. Every unauthorized and unwar-| Mr, } feeling for this day, when all their ranted strike is an added danger to the boys over
training would be tested, made you dread it and yet there, and a man or woman leaving a war plant today