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him. He couldn't see out-of his’ little prison. ‘He had -pot had a bite to eat or a drop of water, All this for eight days and nights.

Yet when we found him his phivsical condition was sugng, “and his mind was as calm and rational as

though he were sitting in a Lon"don club. He was in agony, yet in his correct Oxford accent he even | apologized for taking up our time to get ‘him out. The American soldiers of our rescue party cussed as they worked, cussed with open admiration for this British flier’s greatness of heart which had kept him alive and sane through his lonely and gradually hope-dimming ordeal. ~ One of them said, “God, but these limies have got guts!” It took us almost an hour to get him out. "We don't know whether he will live or not, but he has a chance. During the hour we were ripping the plane open to make a hole, he talked to us. And here, in the best nutshell I can devise from the conversation of a brave man whom you didn't want to badger with trivial questions, is what happened— He was an R. A. F. flight lieutenant, piloting a night fighter. Over a certain area the Germans began letting him have it from the ground with machinegun fire.

First Hit Knocks Out His Motor

THE FIRST hit knocked out his motor. He was too low to jump, so—foolishly, he said—he turned on his lights to try a crash landing. Then they really poured it on him. The second hit got him in the leg. And a third bullet cut right acress the balls of his right hand fore-fingers, clipping every one of them to the bone. He left his wheels up, and the plane's belly hit the ground solng uphill on a slight slope. We could see

“ sealed in there and it took men with tools half an

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

WELL, HERE WE ARE again busily pecking away a typewriter that’s rusty from a two-week vacation. We're more than a little” red-faced over the liberties Sohn Hillman (no relation to the C.I.0. chieftain) took with this column while we were away.- When

we read that profile, we decided that, if we ever go away again, we'll leave enough columns to last until we get back, or else just take the column head with us. Well, enough of that, except to enter a most * vigorous denial of John's libelous remark about our auto driving. T'ain’t so! And besides, what's he trying to do—ruin our prospects of ever getting a driver's license again? While we were away vacationing (honestly, we never worked harder in our life) some of our agents kept their respective noses to the

grindstone. And so we're able to report, for instance,”

the mysterious case of the young woman with lots of time on her hands. One of our agents climbed on a New York st. bus and sat next to a girl. Glancing at the girl's wrist, our agent noticed she was wearing not one, but four yellow gold wrist watches. Three were women's watches, the fourth a man’s. Our agent, 8 young woman, herself, had the curiosity but not the nerve to ask the girl why she was wearing so many wrist watches. Instead, she just kept a close watch on her own wrist watch, being a bit uncertain how any one girl would acquire four watches, Yap, Yap, Yap!!! ORDINARILY WE avoid politics in this column, but nevertheless we hate to disappoint Harry Hayes, the dog man. Harry listens to the yapping of the mutts left in his care until he gets dizzy. And while he's in a spin, he usually comes forth with a pun, which. as anyone knows. is the lowest form of humor. His latest dizzy spell produced the following: “We don't want an inexperienced President in the White House—or DEWEY????" Why don’t you try putting cotton in your ears, Harry? . .. Apparently the help

Our 2500 Ships

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—British shipping interests would be driven to dipsomania by nightmares of what the American Merchant Marine can do to the British carrying trade after the war if the islands hadn't already been denuded of Scoich for the bene- ' fit of American drinkers. There is no mirage about what the Britons see in their restless sleep. The United States is coming out of the war with some 2500 sleek, fast, economical, efficient cargo ships—the last word in ocean freighi-carriers. Great Britain is coming out with maybe 1500 vessels, most of which will be relatively old, slow and inefficient. . The small, densely-populated British isles cannot survive without & thriving world trade. Britain made herself queen of the seas because otherwise she would have She has to regain at least a considerable part of her maritime position. But how can she, competing with 1500 inferjor ships against the United States’ 2500 ultra-fine craft? When peacetime readjustments are made, it is a thousand to one bet that the British are going to demand some arrangement to compensate for the fact —and it is a fact—that Britain's weak maritime position is due to“her all-out defense of the world against Naziism,

British Get Liberty Ships.

TO BEGIN WITH, she was losing shipping from 1939 to 1941 while she alone of the great sea powers was fighting Germany. On top of that, she made a grand—and potentially suicidal—gesture when she agreed to concentrate on fighting craft while the .

My Day

HYDE PARK, Monday.—There are many arguments in favor of a year of national service. Many things would be accomplished even if it were just a year of military service, For instance, the nations of the world would know that we were never again going to be caught unprepared—that at all times the young manhood of our country ~ was in condition, with sufficient . training to protect the nation and to prevent any surprise attacks. Our. equipment would be modernized and adequate. There would also be the advantage, under any circumstances, that young men from all the different groups which make up the citizenship of the nation, at an early and impressionable age; would be thrown together. They would know each other, and differences in background and environment would melt away before the stark realities which close association soon brings out. «Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth. There is aiso the possibility of teaching young men how to Jae, care of themselves, in the open, i they hav 3 a

except at the expense of the government.

I believe, however that*it is worth thinking of _

the possibiiiy of gIVIng young men a new conception,

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absolutely sealed intd the upside-down cockpit.

surged back and forth between German. hands and

‘back in again.”

. There is the added Soran of seeing’ something of @& very great nation, which they might not do.

By Ernie Pyle]

the groove it had dug for about 50° vards. Then it

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flopped, tail over nose, onto its back. The pilot was

“That's all I remember for a while,” he told us. “When I came to, they were shelling all around me.” Thus began the eight days. He had crashed right between the Germans and Americans in a sort of pastoral nc-man’s land. For days afterwards the field in which he lay

ours, His pasture was pocked with nurdreds of shell craters. Many of them were only yards away. One was right at the end of his wing. The metal sides of the plane were speckled with hundreds of shrapnel holes,

Trapped in Inferno of Explosions

HE LAY there, trapped in the midst of this inferno of explosions. The fields around him gradually became littered with dead. At last American strength pushed the Germans back, and silence came. But no help. Because, you see, it was in that vacuum behind the battle, and only a few people were left, The days passed. He thirsted terribly. He slept some; part of the time he was unconscious; part of the time he undoubtedly was delirious. But he never gave up hope. After we had finally got him out, he said as he lay on the stretcher under a wing, “Is it possible that Fve been out of this plane since I crashed?” Everybody chuckled. The doctor who had arrived said, “Not the remotest possibility. You were

hour to make an opening. And your leg was broken and your foot was pinned there. No, you haven't been out.” “I didn’t think it was possible,” the pilot said, “and yet it seems in my mind that I was out once and

That little memory of delirium was the only word said by that remarkable man in the whole hour of his rescue thdt wasn't as dispassionate and matter-of-fact as though he had been sitting comfortably at the end of the day in front of his own fireplace.

situation didn’t get any better while we were away, judging from the experience of Bill Cooley, who runs the Wayside Gardens on the Pendleton pike. Mr. Cooley recently acquired the Fairfield Florist shop at 3502 College and, because of the help situation. was washing the windows himself. A nice looking woman saw him and walked up. After watching him work and apparently approving his diligence, she asked: “Are you pretty busy?” . Mr, Cooley grunted assent. “Are you going to be busy the rest of the week?” she asked hopefully. “Pretty busy,” Mr. Cooley said with finality. Sighing, the woman watched him work a minute or two longer, then walked regretfully away. . .. An article by an army correspondent in the current issue of Liberty magazine pays tribute to an incompletely identified Indianapolis soldier's marksmanship. - Describing ‘his experiences with an army patrol in Prance, he writes: “I looked in a ditch and started. Four dead Germans were lying on .their stomachs, each neatly shot through the head, They were still clutching their rifles. At the head of our

column was an ace marksman, a former Indianapolis |.

baker named Danforth, and he had carefully picked off each of the outpost guards of the garrison.”

Stop, Look, and Listep

ABOUT TWO WEEKS ago, Albert Wedeking of the state highway commission was driving along near his home town of Dale. It was familiar territory, and he was puzzled when he heard a locomotive whistling. There was no railroad anywhere néar, to his knowledge. Yet the train kept whistling. Then he looked up and saw a headlight bearing down on him about fifty feet away. He stepped on the accelerator and just got across the tracks, with nothing to spare. | Checking up on the phantom train, he found later] that a new spur track had recently been built and he | almost had been its first crossing casualty. . . Two, days later he was having lunch at Huntington, and | at the table was a man he'd known for years and vaguely remembered as having some kind of a job with the Southern railway. Mr. Wedeking mentioned his close shave, and his friend exclaimed, “Was that you? I was the engineer on that train.” Its a small world.

By S. Burton Heath

United States built merchantmen that can be used after the war, We are launching the C-types, Victory ships and fine new tankers for ourselves. We are turning a few | of them over to the Dutch and Norwegians, who have large pools of skilled seamen, but no ships for them. To the British we are giving the anachronistic Liberty ships, which are mighty useful in winning the war, but won't be worth whaltage space in post-war cargo competition. It is no ‘wonder, then, that the British are pessimistic about what may happen: to them if we use! our enormous fleet of efficient shipping ruthlessly |

-after the war to take and hold all the ocean cargo

business we can get.

The American Answer

BEFORE BRITAIN can replace much of her ob-: solete shipping with competitively capable new craft we could quite possibly sew up much of the world’ 's] carrying business. That problem was posed recently. to a representative of American ship operators. “Hell,” said he. “we don’t want the British carry-| ing trade. We don't need it. Give us a chance—work | out some method of overcoming the higher operating | costs we are up against—and we’ll keep our post-war fleet busy without interfering with the British at all.” “How do you figure that?” he was asked. ‘“We| didn't do it before the wer. We'll have to pick up! 10 to 15 million tons of business somewhere, or lay| up some of our nice new ships, or cut in on the| British, won't we?’ “Not at all,” said this expert. “Let our allies | have back their trade, All we ask is to take over the business that the allies can't possibly permit the | axis nations to regain.” If that is done, our shipping men’ say, we shall be able to utilize our huge post-war fleet without | interfering with Great Britain's maritime lifeline. | And the peace of the world will be promoted by hold- | ing down the axis powers.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

adding to the one that all men have had since time immemorial. | Every man in every nation has always felt that, in time of war, it was his duty to protect his country,

and the man who did not feel this "obligation was Jusually Jooked down upon by his compatriots. But many people in our country, as well as In other countries, have grown up with far less sense of obligation toward their peacetime citizenship. The statistics on voting alone prove this. The fact that over and over again you can ask a group of people to name their representative in| congress, and get no reply, shows that we, as citizens, are not aware of the same passionate patriotism which must be devoted to peace as it has been to war. | If we hope for peace in the future, this sense of knowing that we have an obligation as citizens to be responsible day by day for our representatives, to leave any community we are in the richer for our presence, must become evident to us all. Perhaps this knowledge might be ‘advanced if a year of service were not purely military, but included |

“a devélopment in the knowledge of conditions within |

the areas in which training was given, as well as an! understantiing of Soverniment problems in ose

o their Solution. ; These are. just things I Hope people will think about as they discuss the national service act. : | There is one more aspect of the subject Which 1 Would like o bring 1 to You tomorrow. .

Materials,

TRAFFIC INJURIES

| walking campaign, the report stated Petainists any more. They are all

SECOND SECTION

Junior Firms Face Grown- Up Company Problems

Manpower, | A Headache

By ROGER BUDROW

The Irving Chem-Co., which opened for business here last spring, has managed to overcome several: handicaps imposed by the war and is doing so well that stockholders may receive a 200 per cent or 300 per cent dividend by the end of the year. As with most businesses these days, finding customers presents no problem to the new East Side chemical company. Its products

are sold readily enough. But manpower, that's another question. “We just rap ‘out of manpower,” the production manager said, in explaining why so many ~ girls were in.evidence around the company. ; His only complaint about them was that they seemed to be more interested in other things than. in mixing chemicals.

This is the “production line” at bottles of “Icco” window cleaner.

Bayard Colgate, the soap manufacturer, and others including William A. Atkins, the Indianapolis -saw manufacturer, took an active interest in it. . There are five Irvington panies, others at Technical and Shortridge. Plans are under way to form more in other sections of the city.

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Each Group Sponsored

Materials Hard to Get Each company consists of 15 : ths, all boys, all girls, or And the war has made mate- youths, 7 ’ rials hard to get Had it not mixed. Each company has a been for some friends at the R. eras ot oR . A.-Vi 1 fledglin : sponsored by ¥. R. C. A.-Victor plant, the ang Mallory & Co., Fletcher Trust

company would have run out of grain alcohol. That would have been serious, for grain alcohol is one of the most important raw materials in the manufacture of “Icco window cleaner” and “Luvlee hand lotion,” the company's two specialties. Another problem has been absenteeism, especially at this time of year when so many of the workers are vacationing with their parents before the fall grind sets in with the opening of school. All in all, the problems of Irving Chem-Co. are little different from those of any concern, even though it is a miniature company

Co., Lukas-Harold Corp., International Harvester, and R. C. A.Victor. “ Each sponsor furnishes three advisers, specialists in production, bookkeeping and selling. After officers are elected, a meeting night picked, and a name chosen, there comes the business of choosing the product they will make, or the service they will offer to perform. There are all sorts of items, ash trays, belt initials, bookends, some 365 successful products to choose from. And there's nothing to prevent them from trying an original idea. In the case of the chemical

run by 15 boys and girls from company, they chose to make Howe high school. As a matter window cleaner, And, like scores of fact, that is just the point of of “grown-up” companies have the whole thing. done, they named it by using

their company initials—“Icco.” “It didn't take long,” says 15-year-old Bob Schwier, vice president, “for someone to think up the slogan ‘Get Icky with Icco’ but we kept the name anyway.”

Learn About Business

The purpose is not for the youngsters to make money, although they do make a little; nor to prevent juvenile delinquency, although it is a constructive outlet for the energies of teen-agers. The purpose is to teach the coming generation what makes the wheels of industry go around. They learn about business by running one.

Wages—15¢ an Hour

Then they figured how much it would cost to make, how much their equipment would cost, “token” rent for the upstairs room at the Irvington branch of the

The program is called Junior Fletcher Trust Co. lights, wages Achievement. It was started back (15 cents an hour), and then in 1819 by Horace A. Moses, head added 20 per cent for “inciof the Strathmore Paper Co, and dentals.”

the late Theodore N. Vail. It was confined to the East until recently when such big businessmen as Charles R. Hook, president of American Rolling Mill Co, 8S.

To obtain this capital, they did as many another business does— issued stock and sold it. Capital of most companies runs from $50, to $100." Stock is sold for 25 or 50

RISE 16 PER CENT]

Most pedestrian traffic victims are {injured in the immediate vicinity of i their homes and 66 per cent of the pedestrian accidents occur between {4 p. m, and midnight, a mid-year traffic report issued yesterday by | Police. Chief Clifford Beeker revealed. Although the number of traffic {the forces that were fighting in {mishaps this year shows a decline yr, when France fell. The offi{from the 1943 level, injuries have | \cers and men who escaped France increased by 16 per cent, the report to join their comrades-in-arms be- | disclosed. [tween the

Written for NEA Service The day which every French patriot has dreamed of and worked

The army has come back, after more than four years, to fight be;side its allies and drive the enemy from the soil of France.

| violations, as compared with 11,919 | Was poor.

year. creased 37 per cent over the same land their hatred of the Boche.

month a year ago. {They may have broomsticks instead of guns, but

Hope For Improvement {they also trained with courage and “Needless to say we hope to main- ‘determination. tain the accomplishments of the! After the allied landings in

Africa, the volunteers came by the ‘past month and improve the arrest thousands. American equipment

record to a point where it will show became available. The army grew a decided increase over ldst year,” to a strength of about 300,000 men. the report asserted. |The remnants of the disillusioned Failure to give right of way to forces of 1940, and the colonial another vehicle, following too close- | troops who had joined them, once ly, striking parked or stopped ve-|again exhibited the skill ‘and spirit hicles and driving onthe wrong |of the best French military traside of the street caused 153 out of |dition. 382 traffic accidents recorded last| One Frenchman who saw the month. army in Africa said, “They are Referring to the current anti- jay [not de Gaullists or Giraudists or

that “it is our belief that in the | Frenchmen and all good comfirst seven months of this year rades. The officers have great 250,000 of the 400,000 people in In- personal prestige. They are not dianapolis have been cautioned at|shifted from one outfit to another,

TUESDAY, AUGUST :

and suffered for is here at last.|

This army has been reborn from |‘

summer of 1940 and |: From Jan. 1 to July 1, 11,269 ar- November, 1942, could be counted |: rests were made for moving traffic in the hundreds. Their equipment * They did not agree on]: | arrests during the same period last Policies and politics. But they were: In July traffic arrests in-| ‘united in their loyalty to France

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The Indianapolis

the Irving Chem-Co., ‘busy filling

cents a share, with not more

than five shares to any one per-

son. Buyers are usually the parents, friends, local businessmen, and the young enterprisers themselves. “Selling the stock was easy” said Schwier, “anybody could afford to blow in 50 cents!” “Getting into production was fun,” he added, “running around buying stuff, finding where we could get the best price on labels and bottles and so on. We made one-half _ gross the first night.

Then we had to sell it. That was sort of hard. Took us two or three weeks, I guess. Then we

decided we ought to have another product because if we couldn't rope ’em into buying one thing, we should have something else to try. That's when we got into making hand lotion.”

Forgets to Bring Pans

As many other concerns have found, it takes some experimenting to get the “bugs” out of the product. To begin with, Jim Sommerville, the production boss, forgot to bring the mixing pans and so they had to borrow some from a nearby fire department station, } “Firemen kept coming over one by one all evening,” Bob says, “to look at the bubbly brew. They'd shake their heads and go back. We found out what they were worried about. They had to eat out of those pans. “And then we discovered we didn't have enough perfume in the stuff. It smelled—but not the way it should. After we got that taken care of, we found that it was too thin. Instead of coming out of the bottle in a slow drip the way it was supposed to, it poured out in a steady stream. So we had to fix that, too.” Bob Wells, a discharged sailor who is only 18, is in another Junior ' Achievement company, Tech's Teen Age Pioneers, which printed graduation cards for the seniors. “What I like about it is that you get a chance to know a lot of people, how to get along with

French Army, Once Broken in

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Gen. heads the first vision to join in the battle of France. His men aid in surrounding and destroying the German 7th army.

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family, with a family’s loyalty.” French soldiers once again proved themselves in the Italian campaign, where the troops from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia dispelled any doubts about desert fighters as mountain campaigners. And in Corsica the liberating force first co-operated with civilian compatriots in a preview of

2, 1944

Decorated glassware is the product manufictured by the L-H Widgets, Junior Achievement company Corp.

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