Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1944 — Page 17
pe a capital of the world. : When you drive along a Nor{4 y road just before dusk you'll " see dark columns extending 200 and 300 feet straight up into the : above a treetop. These are umns of mosquitoes swarming | Tike bees, each column composed of millions of them, : At first 1 thought they were gnats, but old mosquito people assure me they are genuine, all~wool © mosquitoes. In a half-mile drive Just before dusk you'll see 20 of these columns. ‘This is no cock and bull story, it’s the truth. Our troops are not equipped with mosquito nets, 80 they just have to scratch and scratch. The mosquitoes, fortunately, don’t give you malaria, they merely drive you crazy, One day at an ordn#éince comp. with a soldier scrubbing rusted rifie barrels in ‘a washtub of gasoline, His sléeves were rolled up and his arms were covered with great red bumps. They were mosquito bites, As we talked this man’ said, “Look at them mosquitoes hit that gasoline.” And sure enough the mosquitoes were diving Just like dive bombers, but once they hit the gasoline they Just folded up and died beautifully and floated on the surface,
Meets Professional Gun Collector
IN ONE small-arms repair section that I visited the only man who knew or cared anything about guns before the war was a professional gun collector. He was Sgt. Joseph Toth of Mansfield, O.- He was stripped down to hig undershirt as the day was warm for a change. He was washing the walnut stocks of damaged rifles in a tub of water with a sponge. Toth used to work at the Westinghouse -Electric plant if*Mansfield and he spent all his extra money”
¢ollecting guns, He. belongs Wo the Ohio Gun Collectors association.’
vy I was talking
io has a different specialty, = Some collect pistols; _ some muzziefoaders. _ His_own hobby was machine pistols. He has 35 in his collection, some o! them very expensive ones.
Ironically enough, he has not collected any* guns
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
~ TP YOU THINK you're too good a golfer to take lessons, maybe you are. But if so, why aren't you the champ? Anyway, in case you're interested, the young man taking golf lessons this week from George Soutar, the pro at Broadmoor, is none other than Dale Morey, the state amateur champ. .He said he was a little off his Fume and needed a lesson. ... oyd Farley, the Speedway funeral director, was interviewed on the Breakfast Club program over the air the other morning. He took a Jot of kidding about his profession. . . . Randolph LaSalle Coats, the artist, has improved ~~ the appearance of the Indianapolis Press club, of which he is a new member. Randy has an exhibit of four of his paintings in the club's Jounge, and has promised to hang fresh exhibits from time to time. ,,. Lt Don Kooken of the Indiana state police is still excited over becoming a grand. father. His first grandchild, an 8-pound girl, was born Friday at Columbia, Tenn, The infant's father,
¥ “Maj. John D. Kooken, is with an amphibious tank
battalion on Saipan. . . . Miss Blanche Tullis a secrefary at the water company, was one of the passengers in the rear of a Central trackless trolley. one hot evening this week. The heat was intense, and perspiration poured from the passengers. Finally, one passenger investigated and discovered the heat pouring from a beater under a seat. The operator was notified and turned the heater off, and the temperature of the car returned to a mere 95 or so. J, . An ancient Model T Ford, apparently of pre-world war I vintage but in tip top shape and spick and span, was parked on Iilinois at Washington yesterday. It attracted the at tention of passersby because of its resistance to the ravages of time. , . . The Red Cross now has both the
sould always have a new type he down and somebddy to listen same time, hea constantly be the hapbr man on earth, "Eggs are not plentiful enough in Normandy to! supply the whole army, but a good scrounger can dig up a few each day, We buy them from farmers’ wives for 6 and 8 cents aplece. We're hoping some ‘day to buy some from a farmer's daughter.
Normandy Eggs Are Fine Eggs
‘THESE NORMANDY eggs are fine eggs, and about every fourth one is as big 8s a dick egg. The five men in our tent are all egg conscious, so we make it a practice to shop for eggs as we go about the country. We pass up regular breakfast in the army mess and have our breakfast in our own tent every morning. By some inexplicable evolution of cruel fate I have become ihe chet for this four-man crew of breakfast gargantuans. Thoge four plutocrats lie in their cots and snore while I get out at the crack of dawn and slave over two Coleman stoves, cooking their eggs in real Normandy butter—Ifried, scrambled, boiled or poached, as suits the whims of their respective majesties. Except when I'm away with troops, I've been at this despicable occupation now for two months. And although my clients are smart enough to keep me always graciously flattered about my culinary genius, I'm getting damn sick of the job. So someday I'm going to carry out the most diabolical scheme, I'll prepare, with the greatest care, the most delicious breakfast ever known in France— I'll have shirred hummingbird eggs and crisp french fried potatoes and corn-fed bacon, done to a turn, and grape jelly and autumn-brown toast and gallons and gallons of thick, luscious coffee. Then I'll wake them up and I'l] serve it to all four of them on a red platter. I'll serve it with a bow to Mr. Whitehead, and a curts§ to Mr, Liebling, and a “good morning to you, sir,” long salute to Mr. Gorrell. And after I've served it,
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really became serious on Oct. 15, 1
Russ. Gains ite Foud And Increase Fuehrer’s | Dependence on Officers k
a Series)
By CURT REISS Written for NEA Service
, Frequent frictions between Hitler and some of Germany’s most gifted generals were ironed out in the early months of the war. But there can be no doubt that high- ; ranking officers had been conspiring against the fuehrerfor a long time before the recent assault on his life. Differences between Hitler and his army commanders
941, when military leaders on the
eastern front met to discuss the situation. What was this situation? The Russian army had not been crushed. It was becoming stronger each day and there was not the slightest ‘chance of finishing the Russian war in 1941 or early in 1942. generals felt that Hitler had betrayed them because the fuehrer had
The
assured them of the complete col- - lapse of Russia at an early stage of the war. His intelligence reports, he told them, came from very reliable sources. The generals decided that the
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pit-&n-ad inthe paper; and they I wither awiy to nothing from lack of ‘sustenance, and eventually they will starve plumb to death in this faraway and strangely beautiful land, Ha, Ha.
the church, still in his cassock, ang was greeted by a group of high school boys. They had a new car—at least it was new back in 1925—which five of them*had purchased for $11 each, and they insisted he take a ride with them, The car's horn was a little weak, so all the boys hammered on the sides of the noisy old Essex as they approached intersections, and pedestrians. Over on Central, a couple of other boys jumped on the rear bumper and added to the din by slapping the tin sides. As the boys stopped at the home of one of the group, a police squad car, giren screaming, pulled up. The boys were half scared to death as the cops started taking their names. And then it was the cops’ turn to be startled when they noticed’ the embarrassed priest in the rear seat. The incident wound up with the boys getting off with a lecture. . The next morning, Father Lynch spoke at a! communion breakfast for the high school club, men- | tioning the subject of juvenile delinquency. Alter the! breakfast, one of the lads stepped up to him and said: | “You're & fine one to be talking about juvenile de-| linquency, Pather—after practically getting arrested! yourself last night.”
Unfair to Snorers
MILES DRAKE snores, ‘and it's no use for him to! deny it. Mr. Drake, head of the city schools’ book and |
supply department, always has denied indignantly his | *
wife's accusations that he was one of the town's!
champion snorers. But she finally turned the tables!
on him: While home on vacation the other day, he lay | down on the davenport in the afternoon for a catnap. A couple hours later, when he awoke, Mrs. Drake told! him she had something very interesting that she! wisht4 him to hear. She started the phonograph, and | out came the finest example of plain and fancy snoring ever heard in Indianapolis. Mrs. Drake had obtained the buzzbomb effect with a home recording
f Tensive War. B Then Hitler : appeared at the Curt Reiss meeting. This was strange, for the generals had kept the gathering secret. The fuehrer made it clear he wanted no part of a plan to retreat. On the contrary, he demanded that the generals attack at any cost. The generals decided ’to meet again on Dec. 9, 1941. This time the fuehrer did not appear. Present were, among others, the com= mander-in-chief, Gen. Von Brauchitsch, as well as Gen. Von. Runstedt, Von Bock, Von Leeb, Von Kleist, Von Reichenau. They were pessimistic, for they knew when the extreme winter cold hit an unprepared German “army, losses in men and material would be terrific. Brauchitsch Decides to Quit Brauchitsch” no longer wanted the responsibility. He announced that he would resign. Those present pledged themselves that, if offered his post, they would decline it, A few weeks later a surprised world learned that Hitler had taken over the command on the eastern front himself and would win the war by his superior “intuition.” Many observers believed that this was another victory for Hitler over the generals. The truth was that he had not found any
| prominent general willing to take
over.
TWO MORE PROWLING
-planning passive resistance.
The Nazis did not take this re-. buke lying down. Heinrich Himmler, ‘chief of the intelligence zeryice of the party, had known for some time that the geherals were In fact, it was he who tipped off Hitler to their meeting of Oct. 15,
: 194), He decided to act now:
.» Hitler's congratulatery gioviimg masks the hand of death for Gen. Yon Reichenau, left. died in 1942. His sudden death was caused, according to official reports, by. “apaplexy.” .
aids had Yisited 2, and~ he was (dead when they. left. .
= Retenomas Slosorto- Party =a
One of the. generals. Reéichenas.
z “had been closer to. the party than - the others; indeed, closer than the
generals liked. Himmler now approached Reichenau with the de‘mand that he take over the command, and also that he give Himmier's own men, the elite corps and the SS a more prominent role in the German army. For once, Reichenau refused. On Jan. 16,.1942, he died suddenly. Officially it was termed apoplexy, though he was a man known for his virility and health. While the precise cause of his death has never been established, it is known that three of Himmler’s, aids visited him on Jan. 186, and that Reichenau was dead when they left. The generals were alarmed by such drastic action. Again they met; this time on March 10, 1942, in the army ministry in Berlin, to decide what steps to take.
Two-Fold Object
Their object was two-fold. “They wanted to protect themselves against the Nazis, and to find a way of saving as much as possible of the army from disaster. They knew that the victorious allies would never deal with the Nazis. If they wanted to deal with the allies, they would have to dissociate themselves as much as possible from Hitler. That was their only chance of surviving defeat and of rebuildMg the army, as they had done after the defeat of 1918.
DENTAL UNIT ELECTS DR. G. P. SILVER
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Himmler’s S. s., the Nazi elite guards shown marching here, were despised by the old-time generals. Himmler resented their habit of putting the 8, S. in particularly faugerons spots, where great numbers
of them were killed.
After this meeting the first emissaries of the generals went to neutral countries, particularly to Sweden and Spain, to seek contact with the allies. It can be assumed that Himmler and his gestapo intelligence knew all this. But for almost a year truce reigned between the Nazi party and the generals,
War Going Badly ‘
The war was going badly for Hitler and he could not dispense with ‘the services of experienced military leaders. On the other hand, there was almost daily friction between the generals and the high officers of the 8. S.
MINISTER SEIZES
The old-time generals did not believe the 8. B- men were good soldiers, and failed to-hjde their contempt for them and their leaders. Himmler resented the gen=< - erals’ arrogance and even more their habit of putting the S. S. in particularly dangerous spots where great numbers of them were killed. After all, the black-uniformed elite guards represented the entire military strength of the party— aside from the luftwaffe, Also during thjs year the spiit in the ranks of the generals became more visible. Hitler had promoted to high rank a number of officers on whom he could depend, among them Field Marshal
MRS. ANNA ANDERSON!
FUNERAL TOMORROW
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Reichenag But Himmler's
not-think maeh+of: this trig, pars: ticularly: -disHking Rommel and" missing no opportunity to let this be known.
Goebbels Boosts Rommel -- On the other hand, Dr. Goebbels missed no opportunity. of
playing up the achievements of
Rommel and the commanders friendly to Hitler, while the other side got almost no publicity. Early in 1943, after the German defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler once more was at the mercy of his generals. He had a nervous breakdown and could no longer give orders, let alone lead a retreat. Gen. Von Mannstein took over and saved what could be saved, under the humiliating condition that Hitler should not interfere. A number of generals who had retired, among them Gen. Von Halder, Beck's successor’ as chief of the general staff, and the former commander-in-chief, Von Brauchitggh, assisted Mannstein —who in spite of Goebbels be~ came popular in Germany as “the man who achieved. the miracle of the Donetz.” So Himmlers hands Were bound no matter how dangerous he considered the generals. He could not eliminate them without risking complete chaos in Germany.
NEXT: Who Attempted Hit ler's Assassination?
OPINION ASKED ON
MOTORCYCLE MIXUP
Deputy State Auditor Ross Teckemeyer today asked Atty. Gen. Jame
Rites for Mrs. Anna C. Anderson, SANTA ANA, Cal; Aug. 3 (U. P,).| V.1¢ of George M. Anderson, retired
machine. We hope no other wives adopt such unfair tactics. . . . Juliet Baker McLauchlin, daughter of the Thaddeus R. Bakers is working in an American war agency over in London. In a letter home, she said, she felt a bit closer home when she applied for the job, since the man avho interviewed her for the job was from Lafayette, Ind. Mrs. MclLauchlin married James Charles McLauchlin, Scottish exchange teacher at Shortridge five years ago. Mr. McLauchlin now is
dr G. P Silver was elected pred, popcorn machines it sought for convalescent soldiers nt of at Billings hospital. The second was donated by Harold Englehardt, 435 8. LaSalle st.
Embarrassing Moment
SPEAKING OF most embarrassing moments, the Rev. Pr. John Lynch, new assistant at St. Joan of Arc, had a dandy Saturday evening. About 9 p. m.,
INGIDENTS REPORTED oc » cover ac ccc pre
Prowlers were reported at a Narth| 4 ll golf tournament a {India liceman, side home and a downtown Motel | following the match at the High- |—The Rev. Wesley G. Edwards was | BAGH Jo own dieg 2 : land country club. Wir, Mich, Tuesday, will: be last night. yc | packing a shooting iron today while; held at 3 Somor t th Mrs. Marie Dailey, 1139 College! Dr. Thomas Leonard was named | the district attorney's office was de-|"® 1d » pm Ror Pi he ave, told police: she was in her, vice president and Dr. H. W. Mason, |; ging what to do about the Free! 2 Uber’ Boge bY © y
t -t S i | kitchen shortly after midnight when| CT gl% Treasurer | Methodist pastor's haul of 16 slot| BETRard W. Bash. Burial will be in
16 SLOT MACHINES
enapolis paid the state last month for 52 used state police motbreydies,
Dr. Harry Leer shot a 69 to win| | Memorial Park,’
after hearing confessions, Fr, Lynch stepped outside
Crucial Decision
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—The 1944 election campaign includes a factor thal never before figured in poiitical history: The President running for re-elec-tion will be called on, probably two or three weeks
% before the e bafioting. to decide whether a large group
oi his supporters shall get an increase in pay. This was the picture presented today at the War Labor Board through statemen®s that the fact finding panel in the “Big Steel” wage case is working to present its report before the end of August, That would give the board two months before the November election to prepare a recommendation ‘either that the Little Steel wage formula be continued or that it. be revised upward to meet the demands of the United Steelworkers and other C. I. 0. unions,
Up to President
ONLY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT can make the @ecision in the end, because under his orders defining the duties and jurisdiction of the WLB that agency must have White “Holise approval before it changes the wartime wage standard. The WLB states: “In a number of wage dispute cases pending before the War Labor Board and its agencies, including the dispute in’ the steel case, unions have presented demands for general wage increases admittedly
My Day
NEW YORK, Wednesday. fine afternoon ast week I spent three hours at Vassar college. I have been down often during their summer institute. But this session ‘was particularly interesting to me because
“& group of Chinese women, now in attendance, had charge of. the afternoon program, Five women recited some nursery rhymes, each one in her c¢wn particular Chinese dialect. A very interesting and artistic family had come up from New York City for the day. The young lady, who had danced with the Ballet Russe, ‘combined some of the charm and grace of the Chinese with the ex« pert toe-dancing of Russian ‘ballst, and we enjoyed hé tly,
in the British ministry of aircraft production.
By Fred W. Perkins
beyond the limits of the existing wage stabilization policy. The boar is, of course, without power to approve such demands.” The steel union, headed by C. I. O. President Philip Murray, 4s leading the attack on the administration wage policy. This union also is the keys stone of the C. I, O. Political Action Committee, which has announced its intention of spending large!’ sums in efforts to re-elect Mr. Roosevelt and to elect & congress in sympathy with his policies.
U. S. Treasury Will Pay
IF THE steel workers and other €. I. O. unionists get the wage boosts for which they have been battling, the costs will be paid first by the steel companies concerned, but eventually will come out of the U. 8. Treasury, because all the companies concerned are working on war contracts. Members of the unions involved are the source from which the Political Action Commitee, headed by Sidney Hillman, expects to collect several millions of dollars for use in the Roosevelt campaign. This wage-decision situaiion is an outgrowth of two factors: (1) The President's insistence on keeping all the strings of the labor situation in his own hands; (2); the dtive begun last Decemeber by the United Steelworkers to break the Little Steel formula. if Mr. Roosevelt ups the formula for the steel union, it will go up simultaneously for .all the other numerous unions, American Federation of Labor as
well as C. I, O, that have wage demands now. on
ice. It may mean a major operation on the administrations anti-inflation policies.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
you looked at them, and I was delighted when he presented them to me as a gift for a grandchild. Some of the older children at the institute were
The boy, who is only 15, had a Worth. He i
"children’s book on sale, written by ; most delightful one of which de-
de deserves 3 Next we have io Seyl
| ’GUIRE BECOMES
she saw a man standing in the doorway. He ran away immediately, she said. Morris Covis, bell captain at the Claypool hotel, summoned police to capture & man whom he said was cornered on the third floor of the, hotel. Police searched the floor, | found windows in two rooms openj and one screen torn; but the man was gone. Mr. Covis said the prowl-' er was dressed in white, | No reports were received of prowl ers in the vicinity of the 4800 and 4900 blockz on Young ave. or in the 1700 block on Spruce st., where resi-| dents had previously reported al-! most nightly visits by lurking men.
CLARK BLAMES C. 1. 0. | FOR PRIMARY DEFEAT
ST, LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 4 (U, P). — Democratic Senator Bennett Champ Clark, pre-war isolationist and New Deal critic, today “blamed the *Communist-controlled C. I. 0." for his defeat for renomination for a third term in the U. S. senate in Tuesday's primary election in| Missouri. So Unofficial returns from 4197 of Missouri's 4516 precincts gave State Atty, Gen. Roy McKittrick 161,056 | votes; Clark, 140,175. While McKittrick was defeating Clark in the Democratic primary, Republican Governor Forrest C. Donnell carried off the G. O. P. senatorial nomination against six opponents. With less than 300 precincts unreported, Donnell had amassed 135219 votes to 61,576 for his nearest competitor.
TOP PACIFIC ACE
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Aug. 3 (U. P).— .| Maj. B. Mc Jr, of
Dr. Frank Hughes,
the tourney followed by Dr. Silver machines from an impromptu swoop
with a 73; Dr. Earl Gilchrist, 79;! 83, and Dr. Or{ville Crawley, 84.
MRS. RUBY DUNN DIES
Mrs. Ruby Dunn, lifelong resident of Indianapolis, died yesterday at ‘her home, 4310 E. 38th st. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.!
C. Buddenbaum, she married Paul!
S. Dunn, in 1830. A Shortridge high school graduate, she was 51. In addition to Mr. Dunn, she is ‘survived -by a daughter, Mrs. William T. Shimer of Detroit, Mich.; a son, Willis William of Indianapolis; two sisters, Mrs. Ferdinand F. Landgraf and Miss Hilda S. Buddenbaum, and a brother, Carl H. Buddenbaum, all of Indianapolis.
{around Orange county,
The Rev. Mr. Edwards said he
{needed the gun to protect himself
' from reprisals.
Born in Sedgwick cotinty, Kansas, |
| Mrs. Anderson had lived here for 40
years and moved to Decatur four ;months ago. She was a member of
The police depart- the Broad Ripple chapter 315, O. E.
ment issued him a permit about the |S., M¢Grew camp 1, United Spanish HERE AT AGE OF 51 same time Sheriff Jesse L. Eiliott/ War Véterans and the Royal Neigh-
was lifting his special deputy badge. |
{bors of America. She was 70.
i Besides her husband, she is sur-! Tre crusading pastor hadn't in-| {vived by a fon, Harry H.,
in the
formed the sheriff's office in ad-' army; two sisters, Mrs. Lottie An-
vance about the raid, said, and therefore wasn't trusted with a badge.
the sheriff 'derson, of Wichita, Kas, and Mrs. to be Effie Malow, of Rapid City, S. D.; {two brothers, Neal He undertook the raid, the pastor Washington,
Whaley, of
D. C, and John
said, only after he was unable to) Whaley, of Coffeyville, Kas., and a get any co-operation from countyigrandson, H. Melvin Anderson, of authorities. Out of 11 places visited Indianapolis. last Thursday night, the Rev. Mr.|
Edwards and his helpers found eight |
with gambling controptions, which they loaded into their automobiles and took with them.
Up Front With Mauldin
O'Sullivan, aged 16
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HALVING OF HONEY OUTPUT IS FEARED
James E. Starkey, state apiary inspector, predicted today that Indiana bees would produce no more than one-half the normal yield of
honey this year unless the drought |
| bases, {Tabu in the South Pacific and the
ended. Starkey said that northwestern
Mr. O'Brien asked for & return of the money yesterday after it wis learned that under OPA regulations he could not sell the motorcycles for as much as he paid for them. Mr. Teckemeyer said that the OPA had ‘informed both him and State Police Superintendent Don Stiver in advance of the sale that there were no OPA price ceilings on used motorcycles, Later, however, he said the OPA explained that it was meant only that there were no regulations over the price that could be obtained by the state. Price regulations, how= ever, did govern the amount the purchaser could ask for the vehicles, the OPA said.
134TH BATTALION RETURNS 10 STATES
CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind, Allg —The 134th field artillery battalion or the 37th division has returned to Camp Atterpury from the South Pacific and will be stationed there The battalion, composed of men mainly from Ohio, was employed in the building and -defense of islapd -being stationed at Tonga
Woodlark islands in the Southwest
Indiana had the greatest promise | p00 for 22 months. They also |of producing a favorable supply of spent a short time in Australia. Lt. | honey, but that the colonies of bees | Col. Rex K. Miller of Dayton, O., is | in. the central portion were in grave commander, a ‘
{ danger because of a shortage of | ! nectar. The central region is known as a
“one~drop” or clover area, Starkey
said, adding that when the clover
HOLD EVERYTHING
failed there was little chance for: f§/
the bees to make a fill-up in the
fall. . Some commercial beekeepers may
‘move colonies to more prosperous
nectar areas for a fall fill-up, due to the spotted condition of favorable nectar areas, Starkey said.
GERMAN FUGITIVES
STILL AT LARGE
lif Jeter! wh of investigation
The PBI wid the tugs