Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1944 — Page 11

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I rode with the convoy commander, who was an old friend. We were in an open jeep. It was just starting to get daylight when we pulled out. And just as we left it began raining—that dismal, cold, cruel rain that England is so capable of. 1t rained like that a year and a ‘half ago when we left for Africa, We drove all day, Motorcycles nursed each of our three sections along. We would halt every two hours for a stretch. At noon we opened K rations. It was bitter cold.

Seemed Wonderful to Be a Dog

ENLISTED MEN had brought along a wire-haired terrier which belonged to one of the sergeants. We couldn't have an invasion without a few dogs along. At the rest halts the terrier ‘would get out in the fields to play and chase rocks with never any worry. It seemed wonderful to be a dog. The English roads had been almost wholly cleared of normal traffic. British civil and army police were at every crossing. As we neared the embarkation

Inside Indianapolis By Lowel! Nussbaum)

SCHOOL 15, which won the home safety award in the C. of C. contest, owed its high standing to the fact there had been no accidents in the pupils’ homes during the winter months, The grandmother of a first grader fell and broke her arm recently, Thinking of the safety award, the youngster exclaimed: “My goodness, grandmother; I'm glad you didn't fall and break your arm last winter.” . . . Marie Brown of the C. of C. staff received a postcard the other day with this query: “Can you tell me if John Dillinger was buried under an assumed name?” ... Joe Rimstidt, the OPA mileage rationing representative, was pretty worried when he failed to get into the army. He was told that he was rejected because of pes planus and rotation os calcis. “Sounds pretty bad,” said Joe. And then the friend called a doctor to see what it ‘was. “Oh,” replied the doctor, “he'll probably survive." Pes planus, he explained, has something to do with the feet—maybe flat feet— while rotation os calcis relates to the heel bones. Why didn’t they say so in the first place! ... Walter J. Brown, who sold classified advertising for The Times before he joined the navy, is down in Puerto Rico. Walt felt pretty lonely uniil he looked at the U. 8. O. roster and found quite a few listed from the home town. Included were Thomas P. Flanagan, Joseph P. Roberts, Walter M. Stewart, Richard C. Thompson, John O..McKinney, Claude G. Richie, Harold Manuel, James R. Jones, J. A. Craig and John 8. Pargo. They ought to have a convention,

One Pitch and Out

INDIANA AND BUTLER chapters of Sigma Chi had a baseball game during an outing Saturday at Fred Millis’ estate north of town. Tom Batchelor, the attorney, was managing the Butler team and serving as its catcher, The Butler pitcher joaded the bases, so Tom exercised his prerogative as manager and sent himself in as a relief pitcher. He wound up and sent one across the plate. Wham-m-m! The batter knocked it over the fence, for a home run that brought four tallies. Acting as. manager, Tom

New Weapons

(First of a Series)

WASHINGTON, June 13—Types of ships, guns and planes, identical in many instances to those used in the invasion armada, were exhibited to newspapermen in this country a week or more in advance and the reports on them can now be made public. How each of the categories— ships, guns, planes—have been and are being perfected under the exigencies of war was demonstrated. Secretary of Navy Forrestal and Assistant Secretary Gates arranged the program. The trip was made in a navy airliner, Included were shipyards in the Philadelphia and New York areas, Washington naval gun factories; naval proving grounds, Dahlgren, Va, and naval air station, Patuxent, Md. The new battlewagons—U. 8. 8S. Wisconsin and Missourt~—were hoarded. Compared to the old broadboweds boats, these great new ships look like the modern streamlined miss compared with her fat old"fashioned grandmother, Approaching these ships from the front is extremely deceptive. They are as slinkly-prowed as cruisers, But they are 45,000 tons, 880 feet long with 200,000-horsepower engines, developing a speed in excess of 30 knots. Firepower of these modern battleships is “100 times greater than three years ago,” according to Rear Adm. Harold G. Bowen. Armament includes nine 16-inch guns, 20 S-inch 38s and more than 125 anti-aircraft guns. Each ship carries airplanes and two catapults.

First Battle Cruiser

A NEW TYPE craft visited was the U. 8. S. Alaska —our first battle cruiser. She is 27.000 tons with an over-all length of approximately 750-feet, designed to do about 35 knots. There are nine 12-inch guns and other armament, including 5-inch, 20-mm and

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday—The more 1 observe human nature, the more I feel we are all of us perverse! When it does not rain, we want it to rain. When ft is cool, we wish it were warm, and when it is warm, we wish it were cooler! When we are the

when we are completely overlooked, we feel rather deflated. "This is observable at our earliest

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own part would precarious. with as few casualties as possible, but there would be casualties, From a vague anticipatory dread the invasion now turned into a horrible reality for me. In a matter of hours this holocaust of our own planning would swirl over us. No man could guarantee his own fate. It was almost too much for me. A feeling of utter desperation obsessed me throughout the night. I: was nearly 4 a. m. before I got wo sleep, and then it was a sleep harassed and torn by an awful knowledge.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1944

Germans’ Fall to Speed Our, Victory Over Japs, President Says.

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 13.—President Roosevelt left with the nation today a heartening forecast that

pressed simultaneously from three directions, will make it possible “to force the Japanese to unconditional surrender or to national suicide much more rapidly than hag been thought possible.” In a nationally broadcast address opening the $16,000,000,000 fifth war loan drive, Mr. Roosevelt last night gave ah up-to-the-minute review of the global war in which he acknowledged that the start of the northern arm of the allied drive against Germany—the invasion of France—had been costly. “From the standpoint of our enemy we have achieved the impos-

again made a change, going back to catching, and Butler finally won the game. ... Ernie Lundgren, of the Bozell and Jacobs advertising agency, is on the sick list. He's been at home several days... | Portia Christian, of the Caldwell-Baker advertising agency, has joined the WAC, reports at Ft. Des Moines June 20. ... Maj. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, home town boy who is making good in a big way as chief! of staff to Gen. Eisenhower, is the subject-of an eight-| page spread in the current issie of Life magazine. The magazine says Gen. Smith, whose family lives here, “made all but the last, most important decision,” in preparation for the European invasion. It added that “when a definite history of the operation can

be written, it will be discovered that Gen. Smith {he European invasion, Mr. Roose- —— was the man who saw it most clearly, from its in-|

ception to the recent fateful Monday morning when the actual moment for assault was set.” With Lt. Gen. Mark Clark kicking the Nazis around in Italy and Gen. Smith doing the brain work on the invasion of France, the home town has every right to be proud.

A Long, Long Ride

THE STOUT FIELD Fielder reports that Pvt. Nathan (Flash) Ginsberg almost went “over the hill” without knowing it the ether night. As he was standing on a downtown corner, an air corps officer came along in a car and offered him a ride. Pvt. Ginsberg, accepted, settled himself comfortably and dozed off,! expecting to be awakened when he reached Stout, field. After traveling what seemed a long time, he awoke, asking: “Say, aren't we at Stout field yet?" “Stout field?” exclaimed the officer, “I'm on my way to California™ Pvt. Ginsberg unloaded hastily and started hoofing it back to the field. He made it by 4:30 a. m. . .. Several days ago, Effie Poe, a bus girl employed in the Hotel Washington's Sapphire room, had the misfortune to lose her purse, containing a half month's wages, in the hotel. The finder kept it.| It was a severe blow. But yesterday, when Effie found a woman patron's purse (with quite a bit of] money in it) on the floor, she didn't hesitate. She turned it in to the management, and the rightful owner claimed it a short while later, claimant neglected even to say thanks to Effie. . .. Don't forget to display Old Glory tomorrow, Flag day.

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By Daniel M. Kidney

{ 40-mm guns. Aircraft includes regular cruiser type planes for scouting and observation. Her class is between the big battleship and the

cruisers. The latter mounts 8-inch guns in the heavy north of Rome “in ever growing, right to vote. Another is the right

cruiser class and 6-inch in the light. Although the British navy have battle cruisers, the idea for this ship came largely from the German pocket-battleship. However, she is considerably heavier than the pocket battleship. A super Shangri-La of 45,000 tons, built to handle larger aircraft, also is under construction at the New

Yord yard. Carriers of this class have been unoffi-! chow that the war on Ja h prohibitions against the free excially called the “largest in naval history, faster than been neglected by oR Pan 125 Dok! ercise of the voting franchise, the

any now in service, and able to take a lot of punishment above and below the waterline.” i One of the new 2200-ton destroyers, U. S. S. Ault, | was visited at the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock | Co., Kearney, N. J, Experts contend that these new “tin cans” can do anything the big battleships can do —except sail as steady in a rough sea.

‘80 Feet of Fighting Fury

A NIGHT LANDING from Chesapeake Bay was demonstrated, with combined air and tank operations from LSM (landing ship, medium) and LSI (landing ship, infantry). Air support was confined to para-| chute flares, making the beach as bright as Broadway. | Tanks shot down the bow-door gangplanks amd] slithered across the sand. Properly beached, the infantry ships can land swarms of soldiers without even | getting their feet wet. ‘ : Most exciting of the short sea trips was a dashing, | darting, almost spinning drive through jampacked New York harbor on mile-a-minute PT boats. This “80 feet of fighting fury” has rightly been called “the skimming dish from.hell.” It was the boat used to rescue Gen, MacArthur from the Philippines! and now is making hit-and-run missions on the invasion waterfront and throughout the South Pacific. The ships visited were fair samples of Uncle Sam's new navy. There were bik ships and little ships, all! fitted with intricate mechanisms as puzzling to the! layman as the Einstein theory.

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ministration should be the objectives of the Repub-

lican party, but that adminstratively, they should be |;

carried out with greater efficiency and that the Republican party, if led by the proper people who believe in the same objectives, would undoubtedly prove more. efficient in administration. we will have to study

sible,” he said. “We have broken through their supposedly impregnabie wall in noritnern France. But the assault has been costly in men and materials. Desperate Adventures “Some of our landings were: des-| perate adventures; but from advices received so far, losses were lower | than our commanders had estimat- | ed would occur. We have estab-| lished a firm foothold and now are prepared to meet the inevitable counterattacks of the Germans— with power and confidence.” | While chief interest now is

velt said, “We must not lose sight | of the fact that our armed forces | are engaged on other battlefronts all over the world and that no one} front can be considered alone with- | out its proper relation to all.” He then turned to a review of the Pacific war and said that “we have deprived the Japs of the | power to check the momentum of our ever-growing and ever-advanc- | ing military forces.” | Long Way to Tokyo “True,” he warned, “we still have a long way to Tokyo. But, carry-| ing out our original strategy of | eliminating our European: enemy first and then turning all our, strength to the Pacific, we can force the Japanese to unconditional sur- | render or to national suicide much more rapidly than has been thought | possible.” The President struck out at the “amateur strategists and political | critics” who two years ago criticized |

the allied strategy of going after rights as every other citizen of the P. S. The Germany first, saying that some of United States.

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It's good for Hitler than for the United ' publicans, year after year, yield

States.” Germany today, he said, “has her

walls at once.” For besides the newly launched French invasion, he continued, Germany faces in the east the “crushing blows” being initiated by the Russian armies and in the south the might of allied armies forcing the Nazis to retreat

confusion.” | Air War Continues Al the while, he said, the allied ,air war over Europe is. continuing and will continue—“with increasing, power.”

Mr. Roosevelt cited figures

first strategy. “We have reduced the Japanese shipping by more than 3,000,000 tons,” he said. “We have overcome their original advantage in the air.| We have cut off from a return to the homeland of tens of thousands of beleaguered Japanese troops who

{now face starvation or surrender.! Cally to federal anti-poll tax and

We have cut down their naval strength so that for many months they have avoided all risk of encounter with our naval forces.” | As in his other public utterances | in recent weeks, the chief execu-!

| tive warngd that while the signs of | bills, or even the sincere ‘claims

victory were plain, there was still “a major task” in forging the weapons to make this possible.

Must Be No Letdown

“This is the very worst time for. any war worker to think of leaving his machine or to look for a peacetime job,” he said. Mr. Roosevelt emphasized the tremendous cost of all weapons of war, saying that "everything we send! to our fighting allies costs money— | a lot of money.” Urging his fellow Americans to back up their troops with heavy! bond-buying, he said: i

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nvasion 5th

“The Fighting Fifth” war lean drive officially opened at the Coliseum last might with one of the nation’s top fighter pilots, Maj. Walker (Bud) Mahurin, Ft. Wayne, calling on his fellow Hoosiers to back the invasion. With him are (left) his sweetheart, Miss Patricia Sweet, and his mo

ther, Mrs. Guy Mahurin.

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A galaxy of stars sparked the start of the drive.

Among them where (left fo right) band leader {n' Paul Whiteman, academy award winner Paul Lukas, Ingrid Bergman and her manager, Joseph Steele.

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tioned for Vice President If Idea Fakes Hold.

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

may belong in the “believe-it-ore vice president.

apolis, significance is that probably for the first time in American political history a labor leader is mentioned even for vice president. The idea among those Republicans who are party to it is that the inclusion of a labor man in the national ticket might throw a monkey wrench into the C. 1. O. political action committee, which has placed its chips on Mr. Roosevelt for a fourth term and is promoting Henry A. Wallace for a second term as a throttlebottom sympathetie @8 She C. 1. O. The Republicans would like to eut into that labor vote, which has been heavily pro-Roosevelt on three oce casions.

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Wendell L. Willkie is writing a series of articles on what he believes the Republican party should consider in the 1944 national platform. w.In his second article, he discusses “The Negro.”

of constitutionalism which prevent such measures from becoming law. And the very fact that the Republican party was the instrumentality’ ‘through which the Negroes were given freédom makes’ them the more resentful that if should join in acts which prevent them from obtaining the substance of freedom. Nor will they be satisfied by the counsels of patience and the assurances of kindly men that progress has been made, that eventually, through fair treatment and lamation and by amendments to co-operative effort, Negroes will the federal constitution, under jin some distant day obtain the Republicari leadership, the Negro rights fhich jhe consttytign itgelt,

By WENDELL L. WILLKIE (Distributed by the United Press) Under the leadership of Lincoln, in the fires of civil war, the Republican party's struggle to save the union was transposed into the great moral issue of human freedom. By the emancipation proe-

was legally and constitutionally raritees t& them. guaranteed exactly the same 13,000,000 United

No one who has not stopped seeing and thinking could have missed the events of the past few years that have drawn together 13,000,000 Americans — one-tenth of the nation—into a determined

sage of federal statutes which Purposeful unit. constitute the only practical In that time Negroes have method by which the Negros known the bitter humiliation of rights can be assured him. seeing their men and women, eager to serve in the nation’s Calls For Statutes armed forces, excluded from some branches of the service or often relegated to menial jobs in the branches to which they have been admitted. They have witnessed the ugly and tragic results of race hatred and riots. - They have known the brief security of good jobs at decent wages while their help was needed in order to make the tools of war, only to be filled with deep anxiety for fear that other only by a federal statute in the readjustments of peace making the crime of lynching try- they will be shuffled off into unable in federal courts and punish- employment and poverty.

able by federal law, The Republican party in its Distrust Democrats At the same time, from the

platform and in the declarations of its candidates should commit battlefields of Italy to the golditself unequivocally and specifi- star homes here in America they have learned that there is nothing more democratic than a bullet or a splinter of steel. They want now to see some political democracy as well. Millions of them distrust the Democratic party which for years has deprived the Negro of his

It is therefore strange the Re-

to the old states rights argument and a narrow interpretation of

One of these basic rights is the

to live free of the haunting fear and the too-frequent actuality of mob violence. The first can be guaranteed, under the circumstances existing today, only by a federal statute eliminating state poll taxes and other arbitrary

anti-lynching statutes. The Negro people of the United States understandably refuse to accept the techmical arguments against cloture in the debates on anti-poll tax and anti-lynching

{opening of the fifth war loan drive here last night and estimated the

said, in opening the drive for $16,-

CHURCH WOMEN | | MEET THURSDAY

Mr. Hutcheson—“Big Bill’ he’s { called among those who know him { well—is the 70-year-old president of {the United Brotherhood of Carpens ters and Joiners. He is also the first vice president of the American Federation of Labor, and in several campaigns he has been the labor director of the Republican national committee. His “who's who” shows that he is not only a Republican but a member of the

Advices from Indianapolis are

WASHINGTON, June 13,~This not” column—but anyway some Re= 3 publicans are flirting with the idea of nominating a labor" leader for *

| It probably wont get to first base, but nevertheless the name of William L. Hutcheson, of Indian is being mentioned. The

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right to vote in Atlanta while seeking his vote as the friend of his race in Harlem. But in view of the past advances and social gains which have tome to Negroes during the past 12 years, they will not leave that party for vague assurances of future action ex-

that “there is such a movement (Hutcheson for vice president), but the backing seems not very serious, = and may be intended for trading * purposes at the Republican national convention. Hutcheson will not be an avowed :candidate, but will be on hand hoping for lightning to

pressed in pious platitudes, or serine?

for a 1944 version of the states rights doctrine, or even for procedures which, however legally correct, in practical effect indefinitely. postpone correction of sore and desperate abuses. Negro leaders are alert and educated and sophisticated. They &nqw $ problem is a part ‘af the warld s@ruggle for human freédom. * Fog their people they ask only their rights—rights to which they are entitled. The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. They are entitled to the same opportunity to acquire an education—an education of the same quality—as that given to other sitizens. ‘Right to Work’ Their right to work must equal that of any citizen and their reward should be the same as the reward of any other citizen for

prominent.

The talk of the Hufcheson pose sibility is part of a Washington week in which labor politics will be Sidney Hillman, chair= man of the C. I. O. political action {committee will be questioned today |by a senate committee on whether his activities, are within federal laws.

C. L O. to Map Campaign Later in the week the C. 1. O. political action committee will bring {about 300 delegates here to plan its campaign and policies—according to indications, all in favor of a fourth term for President Roosevelt, : Meanwhile, Washington members of the A. F. of L. executive coun= cil will be going over labor proposals to be presented by President William Green to the Republican platform committee June 23.

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the same job.

Their economic opportunity should not be limited by their color,

The same proposals will be placed in July before the Democratic platform framers—this being part of the A. P. of L.'s policy of working through both major political parties,

And last, they should have the {in contrast to the C. I. O.’s current right of every citizen to fight for |practice of tying up with just one.

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his country in any branch of her | armed services without discrimination and with equality of opportunity. These are merely rights that the Negro of our communities is entitled to share with other citizens. Republicans should see to it that he gets them, For all of these reasonable demands are consistent with the very principles upon which the Republican party was founded. All of them are a part of the freedom for which men of every color and race are dying. Our adoption or rejection of them will be the test of our sine cerity and of our moral leadership in the eyes of hundreds of . millions all over the world,

Tomorrow: “Social Security.”

‘PRICE TAG’ OF WAR

TEXARKANA, U. 8. A, June 13

(U. P.).—Secretary of the Treasury| U. S. District Attorney B. Howard | Morgenthau put a dollars-and- Caughran said the jury’s action will

cents price tag on the R be confined chiefly to cases in P . e cost of € | which defendants were unable to provide bond. He added that the

jury will probably remain in session

and the Marshalls islands at. the!

war would cost an additional $95,000,000,000 by the end of 1944. The march from Naples to Rome cost $6,700,000,000 and it cost $6,000,000,000 to capture the Marshall islands in the Southwest Pacific, he

000,000,000 in bonds—the largest loan of this war. The war already has cost $200,-

The Women's Society for Chris-

‘SCHOOL 50 GIVEN MINUTE MAN FLAG

School 50 at 75 N. Belle Vieu pl. was presented the Minute Man flag at services yesterday on the school playgrounds. Robert Adams of the war finance committee made the presentation, 3 During the school year pupils and teachers at the school bought $15, 754 in war stamps and bonds and $2024 for the fifth war loan drive. The Minute Man flag was won for 90 per cent participation of pupils ° in war stamp and bond sales. A

FEDERAL COURT GETS | DRAFT EVASION CASES |

Several cases involving persons

| {charged with ‘draft evasion are | MORGENTHAU BARES |scheduled for presentation before a grand jury summoned by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell to convenes

Monday.

three days.

tian Service will meet in an

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