Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1944 — Page 17

IN NORMANDY (

50n is an unususl fellow with an unusual job. It has fallen to his er

ot to be the guy who goes in and brings

iin the Cherbourg area.

Capt. Jackson goes by the ; ima iame of “Brinck.” He is a bachelor, 32 years old. It is quite "a coincidence that he was born in: gvihe town of Dinard, abou’, 30 Miles ~ from Che . But he ny Wave sl generations ‘back, His folks just happened to be traveling over here at the time ~~ he showed up. Capt. Jackson's mother lives in New Canaan, Conn., but he likes to think of New Mexico as home. For several years he has been a rancher out there, and he loves it. His plade is near Wagon Mound and Klines Corners, about 40 miles east of Santa Fe. The war bas played hob with his business. Both he and hig partner are overseas, and there’s nobody left to look after the business. They lost money last year for the first time. : Capt. Jackson is- a short, dark man with a thin face. He wears a long trench coat with pack har~ ness, and his helmet comes down over his ears, giv ing him the appearance of a Russian soldier rather than an American. ;

Better Not to Speak Flawless German

E HE SPEAKS French, but he says his German is only s0-s50. He says it is actually better in his job not to speak flawless German, for then the German officers would think he was a German turned American and would be so contemptuous they wouldn't talk to him. :

Another remarkable character is Pfc. Ivan Sanders. Sanders is the “Mister Pixit" of the 9th division. His actual job is that of electrician, but his native knack for fixing things has led him into. s sort of

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE INDIANAPOLIS sales office of Seagram's, the distillers, telephoned the local U. 8. employment service Tuesday for help, There's nothing remarkable in that, except that Miss Booze of the distillery office placed the order, and Mr. Brewer of the employment ; office received it. . . . We've been scooped. by the New York Times. - The Times reports that “Roscoe ‘Turner, noted aviator of world war 1, suffered cuts on both hands and his left Jeg from metal fragments yesterday when a wheel on his

_ Guardia fleld” . .. J. W. Stickney, « president of the I. A. C,, was passing a set of scales downtown yesterday and saw & rather large t to weigh herself.

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Britain Bears Up By Fred s. Ferguson

(Last of a Series)

THE EXECUTIVES of a big industrial organization held an unusual meeting in London recently. They did not meet to discuss post-war business plans or conversion and there was no debate or discussion as when the war might be expected to end. . They met to discuss the best ways and means of guaranteeing ~ continuance of the business by safeguarding the lives of the executives from the fury of the German flying bombs. It was decided that it was a dangerous to endeavor to continue on a ness as usual” basis with all of the top men on the job daily. z ; : For the good of all, it was decided, the company could not take g the chance of having all of its executives wiped out by one bomb. A system of rotated absences was consequently adopted, and until the danger is passed one or two of the key men will always be out of the flying bomb area, ready to return in event those on the job are killed or injured. British ‘Stick It Qut’ THIS IS an example of the type of planning and readjustment British industry and all business is carrying out to strengthen the home front defenses * against the new menace. From top to bottom men and women are “sticking it out,” regardless of their jobs. A waiter in one badly shaken restaurant grasped a-table for support as shattered glass came showering from the windows when a bomb hit a hundred yards or so away and jarred the building like an: earthquake ‘while Tom Wolf, ‘Col. “Bill” Abel, of the Canadian army, and I were having lunch, . “I hope they are not following me,” the waiter said, as the dust cleared. “This is the second time I've been bombed out in two days.” Along with the other waiters, he began straightening up tables and

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‘physical education work—in New York's Bowery, in

haloed statis that keeps him working like a dog 34 hours a day, doing. things for other people. No matter hat gets Gut of 1. Sanders oan 2x It, es

commanding general yells for him when-

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t Sanders. Nobody can a sight to behold. Even the commanding general just threw up his hands : ‘ago and gave up. When distinguished visitors come; they try to hide Sanders, But the funny part about Sanders’ deplorable condition is that he is eager to be clean. They just never give him time to wash. They keep him too busy fixing things. . ?

Figures He Can’t Be Replaced

IN CIVIL life Sanders was an auto mechanic. He comes from Vinton, Towa. After the war he guesses he will set up another auto repair shop. He figures there will be enough veterans with cars to keep him busy.

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Another unusual thing about Sanders is that he}.

doesn’t have to be over here at all. He is 43, and he has had three chances to go home. And do you know why he turned them down? It’s because he’s.so conscientious he figures they couldn't get anybody to do his work properly! Small-world stuff: One evening I dropped past an ack-ack battery 1 know, and a Red Cross man who served in ‘this brigade came over and introduced himself. He did look vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t have told you who he was. And no wonder—it had been 21 years since I'd seen him. His name was Byron Wallace. He was a freshman at Indiana university when I was a senior.. He be-. longed to the Delta Upsilon fraternity, and lived just across the alley from us. His home then was at Washington, Ind. . s Ever since college he has been in recreational and

Los Angeles, in Pittsburgh, and now in Normandy. He came ashore on D-plus-one, He thinks he's going to like it here all right,

I can raise just one squash, I..will feel pretty much! elated” Well sir, we grabbed the phone, called Mr.! Grabill and explained Miss See's troubles. Harvey had a little trouble diagnosing the case. “Now, if it were pumpkins I might be more helpful,” he said.

He has become an in- gun

‘of the hotel's 3000 rooms.

CROWD-GETTER

You Can Rent a Room at Stevens’ Hotel Without

A Reservation.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY ' Scripps-Howard Staff Writer CHICAGO, July 20.—~The Republican convention three weeks ago was a pretty tame affair, and everyone said then: Wait until the Democrats get here—they always put on ‘a big show, : ~~ But jt hasn't happened. Even with Mayor Ed Kelly playing the genial host, it has been anything but a colorful performance. The wrangle over the vice presidency has pumped some life into it for bosses and delegates, but it hasn't brought out the crowds. You could walk into the Stevens hotel today and, without reservations or blue ribbon credentials of any kind, get a room. That wasn't possible during the G: O. P. meeting. ‘They filled everything but the halls and fire escapes, and short of a reservation made long in advance you couldn't have gotten a lease on cot space in any

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He explained that back around Piqua, O., where he; was reared, gardeners were noted for their immense’ pumpkins, The trick, he explained, was to put a pipe; or hollow reed in a hole in the ground, and then feed!

the pumpkin milk daily. We 'decided maybe we'd

better stick to the subject of squash, so we called 3 yp when the big moments come.

County Agent Horace Abbott. Horace said Miss See's trouble might be (a) too liberal use of fertilizer with heavy nitrogen content, or (b) thé blossoms arent being polienized. Too much nitrogen makes the plants (any plants) grow so much they're too busy to grow fruit. As for pollenization, ordinarily the bees and other insects—sometimes the wind-—take care of the Job. When they fail, the blossoms don't turn into fauit. So far as we can find, Miss See, there's no magic road to squash success. E -

An Oiling Bee

FOLKS LIVING in the 6100 block of Evanston ave. out in the Broad Ripple area, settled their own dust problem over the week-end. The center of the street is the city-county dividing line. Therefore, there's

always a lot of confusion over whether the city or -

county should oil it. This year, the neighbors gave

The boys running the show are aware of the fact that the crowds aren't here. They've passed out 10 per cent more tickets than there are seats in the Chicago stadium in an effort to get a full house to whoop

Special instructions in cheering, feet-stamping, etc, were put out. Ticket scalpers, who didn’t do so well at the G. O. P. meeting, have largely kept hands off this one. They saw no great demand and didn’t want to get stuck. Most of the big Loop district hotels were pretty well filled, but they are usually full without conventions. In most of them, however, there are no crowds as there were" three weeks ago, and the jostling and elbowing in the lobbies is of mild proportions indeed for a national convention. :

War Is Factor

up and decided to do the job themselves. They borrowed a pitcher pump, a truck and several empty drums. Visiting filling stations, they pumped up oil, drained from cars then spread it over their street.| Now they can keep their windows open. . . . A reader phones to inquire about the 50 or so new 1042 automobiles which have been parked near the state police broadcasting station at the state fairgrounds several weeks. The caller wanted to know if they were for sale. We phoned Don Stiver, state police superintendent. Don says the cars were some purchased by state police from the federal government as replacements for state police cars. They were stored at the fairground until garage space is available. P. 8 Don says that brown substance on the cars’ bumpers isn't rust: it's) a substance placed on them to prevent the bumpers; from rusting.

rearranging the scattered silver, Then the serving of luncheon proceeded. On the theory that he needed it, we bought an extra drink for the waiter, While these dispatches have had to do with the British civilians in the flying bomb area, American soldiers and civilians stationed in London are naturally enduring the same conditions. There have been casualties among Americans and the bombs thasihurtle over in the night have no more respect for American sleep than British. Many a newspaper correspondent or Red Cross worker reports for duty red-eyed after a gleepless night or a restless one in a shelter, ’

Americans Help THERE are acres of American army offices of various kinds scattered over London and many an officer eases himself down at his desk for a day's work

after a night of alternately diving under his bed or

dashing into an interior hall rather than hole up in a shelter, Many officers and correspondents share apartments, and virtually all have accumulated one or more personal thrilling stories to relate. Meanwhile American soldiers have been quick to turn their hands to rescue work when bombs have dropped near them. ‘ . Hotel dwellers—and all hotels in London are crowded—endeavor to develop more or less regular night schedules for bomb sleeping. You meet them on the “lifts” in their bathiobes, carrying their pillows and bed covering under their arms, They are headed. for the hotel shelter in the basement, or perhaps a cot in a hallway on a lower floor, Most of the inside hotel corridors-—those away from outside windows—are lined with gots. . . - Or you may,asI did, sleep on the floor of the room of a friend who was fortunate enough ‘to be located on the second floor instead- of the sixth. In the early days some hardy souls endeavored to stick it out sitting up and dozing in chairs in the hotel lobby all night, As the bombing continued, however, they surrendered and, joined the “stretched-out sleepers any place they could stretch out.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

did not live in an age when old, but a few of those who

The chief explanation, of course, is that with the nomination of a president merely a ratification, the show hasn't steamed up the interest. And the war, of course, is a restrictive factor. In most conventions of the past, there have been a half dozen or so headquarters putting on the big front—banners, bands, souvenirs for the ladies, delegates.and their wives pushing into look over the candidates. But all that is absent here, Vice President Wallace has a headquarters in the Sherman hotel, and the Iowa citizens are doing their best to enliven things. They had some help yesterday from a youth group from Chicago. campuses which made the lobby ring with a song about how “Wallace Fought the Battle of the Common Man” to the tune of “Jericho.” An irreverent listener wisecracked that the latest he'd heard was that Wallace fought the battle of the cameraman. .

Crowds Surround Wallace

About the only crowds that developed at all were around the vice ‘president's headquarters after his arrival from Washington. These headquarters consisted chiefly of two moderate sizéd rooms] and it needed only 200 or 300 people to enact something like a mob scene, When Mr. Wallace held a press conference, most of the Iowa delegation seemed to be present, and it cheered everything he said. But aside from the action, much of it confused, around Mr.” Wallace’s establishment, and at the convention hall there wasn't much to get excited about. James A. Farley, no longer in the driver's seat but now a delegate, could still gather a crowd about him whenever he moved out of his suite in the Blackstone, and Boss Kelly and Mayor Hague of Jersey. City cut a figure

alk Mayor Kelly packed the Ballroom of the Drake hotel last night with his quadrennial party for press and politicians, He also showed he can line up a capacity crowd for any convention session in packing the Chicago stadium to the roof. But, yet, there is a lot of apathy.

FOR AIDING CAPTIVE

CHICAGO, July 20 (U, P.) ~Two soldiers at Camp Ellis, Ill, con-

~ SECOND SECTION, |

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now and then, but that was about|

SOLDIERS SENTENCED /

~ By PETER EDSON 0 NEA Stall Writer CHICAGO, July 20.—Of all the characters to emerge in glory from the Democratic national convention, the Honorable Samuel Dillon Jackson emerges the farthest. Today He is permanent chairman of the convention, wielding the gavel over the 1178 delegates assembled here to select a vice presidential nominee, making an oration iin his own right. He is ‘the man who got that letter from the President, giving his views on Wallace. Others at this convention were afraid to be the recipient of that letter, fearing its kiss of death, its political dynamite. But Sam took it, and he stole the show when he gave it out, Seven months ago Sam Jackson was a political cocoon, retired from affairs of state; practicing law and waxing prospérous in his native Ft. Wayne; serving as an elder and. regular occupant of a pew in‘ the First Presbyterian church; active in York rite, Scottish rite and thirty-third degree Masonry; a good-natured, rotund, balding, cigar-smoking, tea-drink-ing citizen who could be counted on to deliver whenever asked to make a speech for the Isaak Walton league, the Quest club, or just a picnic, ‘ Named to Senate Then in January came his appointment to the U. S. senate, following the death of Indiana's Frederick VanNuys. On the very ‘day Sam Jackson came to Washington and was sworn in, he began to emerge. Vice President Wallace asked hifi to preside, and the baby senator of them all wielded the gavel over those elder statesmen. He didn’t think then there was a higher honor a man could have, But things began coming Sam's way fast. Senator Truman asked him to examine witnesses for the west coast liberty ship investigations. He became acting president of the senate, pro-tem. He delivered important party speeches—before the National Editorial association, campaigning for Harvey Kilgore against Rush Holt in West Virginia, giving Joe Guffey a hand as principal speak‘er at the Pennsylvania Jackson day dinner. As a spellbinding orator, Senator Jackson attracted the attention of National Chairman Bob Hannegan. For a time he was considered as a keynoter but they finally spotted him as permanent chairman, &hd he got to make a speech besides.

Always Wanted to Orate

Sam Jackson had always wanted to be an orator.” Thirty years ago, when he was in the Ft. Wayne high school, Sam Jackson entered his first oratorical contest. The subject was “A New Constitution for Indiana.” His oppon-. ent was Dave Erwin, the son of a judge, fullback on the football team, first tenor in the quartet. Serious Sam came from the other side of the tracks and he didn’t play football. Of course he lost the debate. But not so

Deliver

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent CONVENTION HEADQUARTERS, Chicago, July 20.—~War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds almost made the keynote address of the Demo® cratic national convention at the uest. of President Roosevelt—and thout any mention of politics. But Mr. Roosevelt's suggestion came tao late for Chairman Robert Hannegan already had arranged for Governor Robert S. Kerr to make the old-fashioned political address he delivered last night. That left Correspondent Reynolds as an added starter. “He talks to the Democrats tonight. “But don't get me wrong,” Reynolds said today. “I am not in politics. I just kind of got euchered into making speeches to politicians and one thing seemed to lead to

Orating Sam Jackson Emerges in Full ~~ Glory From Political Cocoon af Chicago

Democrats to Hear Quentin Reynolds Sidetracked 'Keynote' Speech

another. Only this morning I was

THURSDAY, JULY 20,1944

Senator Samuel Dillon Jackson

‘{boggans while we're JRilL"

Wallace Reported a Victim 0f Slogan Planted by

His Enemies.

By HENRY J. TAYLOR Scripps-Howard Staff Writer CHICAGO, July 20.—Democratic

[leaders here describe the sudden

boom for Senator Harry S. Truman as an arrangement made “stfictly at the top.” : “Pirst it was to be Byrnes,” said Mayor Prank Hague, chairman .of the New Jersey delegation, “Then it was to be Barkley. Now it’s to be Truman.” He spoke with the assurance of a father naming a newborn babe. Pieced together, here are the chief elements at work in this shifting sequence of affections within the back rooms of the Stevens, Blackstone and Ambassador hotels. First, Vice President Wallace was the victim of a slogan planted by his enemies: “We have ‘to change tosliding down

3 Hannegan ‘Wounded’ Senator Guffey and Sidney Hill-

‘| main, operating from a beige-car-

peted, red-draped suite in the Ambassador East, fought this flercely, shooting from the hip. The first man wounded was National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan, who had so far forgotten him-

long ago, at a political rally, Sam's old opponent in that debate, still a good tenor, but in another quartet now, led the singing in a little parody number with a refrain that went, “Jackson for governor, Jackson for governor. The boy who list the debate was now his party's choice for chief executive of the Hoosier state—was even being mentioned as a dark horse possibility for the vice presidency. i Sam Jackson's political rise is something of a paradox in that the only public office he was ever elected to was that of county prosecutor. - He ran for congress once, and asin his first oratorical contest, he lost.

Wife Is Michigan Girl

He was appointed attorney general of Indiana, could have had another term at it under Governor Henry F. Schricker, but gave it up to go back to his family and his law practice in Ft. Wayne. His wife is a Michigan girl. Their youngest son, Sam Jr., is 10. Two older sons of 25 and 20 are in the army. Sam Sr. was a captain in the last war but never got overseas. He is 49. Imagine his surprise when Governor Schricker appointed him to the United States senate. Jackson made few speeches in Washington as senator—one on peace, he recalls, and one on the hog situation, He dusted off one of his earlier masterpieces on “The Dignity of Man” which he

had prepared® originally . for the Quest club in ™t. Wayne, and his speech before the Pennsylvania Democrats, on “Prelude to Peace” did a lot to establish his reputation with the party leaders as an orator,

His Technique

Ordinarily, when he has to write a speech, he goes to bed at night, mulling the thing over in his mind. A couple of hours later he says he wakes up with the whole thing figured out. Sitting in his pajamas on the bed, he scribbles .it_out ig longhand on a big tab--let. Wext mortfling, he dictates the first draft to a secretary. His speech as permanent chairman of the Democratic convention, delivered Thursday, wasn’t prepared that way, however. He spent 10 days drafting that one. It is more restrained than many he has delivered, but it has its big moments and oratorical effects—notably in repetitions:

“We meet here in the “ie we meet here in the belief . . . jve meet in the conficznce . , /we

meet with the conviction.” And, toward the end, there are some rhetorical questions: “How long . . . how. long shall we keep the Democratic party in Washington? How long? Till the escutcheons of this government shall ‘have been cleansed of the debauchery of war , . . in the name of heaven, let us not take away

from the people their commander-in-chief.”

asked seriously whether I intended to run for United States senator

in’ New York state.” db the hit of th } ) jan e was to e evening. Reynolds said he ; ho such in | The politicians told him spoofingly tentions because, 1— e likes NEWS=| they -were instituting a stop-Rey-papering, and 2—he’ is a Giants'| nol4s movement. fan and eannot, therefore, live in Jolt to Reynolds

Washington. “So later on Mr. Roosevelt asked

He said hg made his first speech before politicians at the Jackson day Senator Robeit F. Wagner to phone

dinner last winter in. Washington, upon the request of Postmaster General ‘Frank Walker. The other

that. He told me to talk about anything I wanted.” : Reynolds made his dinner speech

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fore the convention,” he said.

speakers included Vice President | told the senator I'd be glad to do!

Henry A. Wallace and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. |

“So .I told the postmaster that I} ’ A had spent four years arguing with the United Press, Reynolds discovered that he was supposed to be

censors in Europe and I didn't in- | tend to have any politicians censor- | the keynoter, making a talk on soling my speech,” Reynolds said. “I|diers and their problems and ignortold him I didn’t like the way he|ing such usual convention subjects handled the Esquire magazine case|as rascals, Republicansand the price

and said I might even talk about of oats. That was a jolt td Rey-

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{nolds, but he wrote his speech (sans censorship), only to learn that Hannegan had rhade the deal with {Governor Kerr. ‘This was all right | with Reynolds. all right. He didn't mind doing things for {his friend, President, Roosevelt, but {making the keynote speech looked |like considerable responsibility to

{ him. . { “It is better this way,” he said. 1 “I am making the same speech and |I hope it gives 'em something to think about, but.’it is just a plain speech. It is not keynoting anything, except maybe my desire to get back to the Wars.”

RINGLING TO RESUME, BUT UNDER OPEN SKY

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self as to take sides within the par{ty and had sided against Mr. Wallace. Senator Guffey’s final opinion of i Chairman Hannegan was crystal{ized in a statement: “Mr. Hannegan should give some of his time to the party and not all of it entirely to the candidate of Hannegan, Kelly, Hague and Flynn.” The overt act which provoked this uncongenial observation occurred yesterday at a breakfast session in | Mr. Hillman’s suite. : Mr. Hannegan presented Himself to the leader of the C. I. O. political

James F. Byrnes, « He asked Hillman and Guffey, and Senator Claude Pepper, who was staying for an extra cup of coffee, whether ex-Justice Byrnes could obtain at least the silent treatment from the C. I. O.-P. A. C0.

Hillman Says ‘No’

When Mr. Hillman speaks he does not whisper, and he spoke plainly to Mr. Hannegan. He said “No.” { He volunteered to blast ex-Justice | Byrnes clear out of the race, “as- | sistant president” or not, and this | word went to President Roosevelt.

The reply came promptly from {the President to Justice Byrnes. | Mr. Byrnes then dictated his let- | ter of withdrawal. : i

MOVE TO AID TOWN REBUILD AFTER BLAST

| N { ‘SAN FRANCISCO, July 20 (U. PJ). —Civilian a n'd governmental { agencies moved today to aid the {citizens of liftle Port Chicago, Cal. i rebuild their shattered town, as a

{ naval court of inquiry prepared to meet tomorrow to investigate the | explosion of two ammunition ships {at the U. S. naval magazine that | claimed 322 lives. : | Two committees of the state war council meet at the state capitol {in Sacramento today at the call of | Governor Earl Warren to discuss means of state assistance to residents of the blasted area. , . Insurance companies established | a 17-man bureau at Martinez, coun-

me and ask me if I would talk be-| ty seat of Contra Costa county, to

receive claims for civilian damage, expected to millions of dollars. The Red Cross, which continued to feed several hundred residents of Port Chicago, sent 80,000 board feet. of lumber for emergency repairs and a citizens’ committee indicated the town would be rebuilt. Future status of the naval magazine, which the navy estimated suffered $2,000,000 damage in the ex- . plosion Monday night, will depend upon the findings of the board of inquiry.

URGE NEW MOTHERS TO GET UP 3D DAY

CHICAGO, July 20 (U, P.)—Mai ternity patients may get up the | third or fourth day after delivery, | relieving at least in part the short. {ages in maternity wards of hosJpitals, the Journal of the American Medical Association said today.

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