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held out his right arm, "and the doctor stuck a needle into the bend of the elbow. The pilot never flinched, but looked on al- - most gpprovingly. “You're in good condition,” “the doctor sad to him. "“Thig is just to make it easier for you when we start to pull you out. We'll wait a few minutes for it to take hold.” While we were sitting there on the ground beside the plane, waiting for the morphine to take effect, the

pilot said;

“I am delaying you from your work. I'm fright. fully sorry about it.” One of the soldiers, touched by the remark, blurted: “Good God, leftenant, you aren't delaying us. This is what we're here for, We're just sorry we've

been so long getting you out.”

The pilot momentarily closed his eyes and put his hand on his forehead. And then, as if in resignation at his own rudeness in bothering us, he said: “Well, I don’t know what I should do without you.” So incredibly strong was that pilot's comstitution that the morphine never put him out.

The ‘Pilot Helps Lift Himself

THEY WAITED about 16 minutes. Then two soldiers took off their web belts and looped them around the pilot's armpits. The: medics on the other side said they had hold of his trapped foot and could gradually free it. .

“It's my back that's weak,” the pilot said. “All the

‘strength seems to be gone from the small of my back.

You'll have to help me there.” They pulled. The pilot, although without food for eight-days; was tremendously strong, and he reached fy his head to the Planes Sramewerk and helped

AAC rar EE en A TS SE ER IT

EVERY ONCE in a while, someone expresses a fear of what this country will be like when the war's over and our service men--trained to kill—come home. Well, if you want our opinion, things will be

© pretty much like they were before the war. We base

our opinion partly on the case of Karl K. Tangeman. Karl, an honorably discharged marine, is 19, lives at 2714 N. Illinois and is working st Lilly's. He was on Guadalcanal back in 1942, and made several trips with Carlson's Raiders. He was discharged last . January after being wounded in the leg by shrapnel and in the arms by machine gun bullets. One ear drum fs paralyzed. Before he was wounded, he is credited with * having killed more than 50 Japs

«20 with his rifle, four with bayonet, two with a

knife and 32 with a tommy gun. After all that, But as soon as he received his discharge last January, Karl returned home and took up life where he had left off be. fore the war. One of the first things he did was to resume his Boy Scout activities with Troop 42, which is headed by Grant Hayes and meets at the Capitol Avenue Methodist church, Karl was a second class

scout when be went to war Soun he earned first class.

rank. And then he began working on the 10 merit badges required for life rank, He has nine now, and is ling. As soon as that's accomplished, he is starting on the 21 merit badges required for éagle rank—highest in scouting. These eall for such merit badges as cooking, bird study, civics, and pathfinding. Because of his enthusiasm, he has been made assistant scoutmaster, . No sir, we have no cause to fear for the future, .

Mystery Is Solved

THE MYSTERY,of “the young woman with lots of time on her hands” is a mystery no longer. In Tuesday's column we told how one of our feminine agents got on a New York st. bus and sat beside a nice looking girl who was wearing four wrist watches on one arm. A phone call yesterday afternoon solved the mystery. The girl wearing all the wrist watches was Miss Kitty Kistner, a stenographer for Rites Jewelry shop, 43 & Illinois. One of the watches was her own. . The other three were customers’ watches whith she was wearing. at the request of the store's

Hands-Off Letter By Charles T. Lucey

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—In blunt language, the senate commerce committee has served notice on President Roosevelt that congress, and not executive agencies, will determine this country’s policies in post= war international aviation, The state department has been holding exploratory conversations with the British, the Russians and the Chinese with regard to possible peace-time air agreements, and the civil aeronautics board is preparing to hold hearings on applications for overseas air operating rights. But the commerce committee told Mr. Roosevelt that. it feels that such hearings “should be with the full unde: by all concerned that certain changes in policy may occur and that no action should be taken which would complicate the situation or prejudice the ultimate decision by the legislative authorities concerned with policy.”

Berle Called on Carpet

EARLIER THE COMMITTEE had called Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle on the carpet after reports had come from London concerning under standings reached in his conversations on aviation with : Lord Beaverbrook. Assurance was given by the state department that these talks were purely exploratory. « a The senate committee, whose letter was signed by Chairman Bailey (D. N. C) and Senator Clark (D..Mo.), aviation subcommittee chdirman, has heen counted as generally favoring a “chosen instrument”

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HYDE PARK, Wednesday —Oné of the objections

raised by people who are afraid of universal military:

training is that this is a pattern which was followed by the Fascists in Germany and Italy, and by the

Communists in Russia. Such people are afraid of : — Laving girls Ingipded for any ging. 1 oatnal |

of training, or of going a step be“yond military training and giving i. training which might stimulate interest in government and par ticipation in it, because that would increase the parallel. When one says that the aid given to Russian youth in ob taining higher education is perhaps greater than anything we “have worked out here, and that

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we. SL might examine ‘what they 1 have faith in our people and in ous youth, and :

; ible lifeboat. doctor said, “Wel be as easy aa we can. Tell And the thie brave man said, “Go ahead, 11 stand it

as I eo pulled again. The pilot made » face and

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slowly.” They surv surveyed the possibilities a while, trying to figure a less painful way of getting him out. There wasn’t any, He said: “1 can’t raise my behind at all. If you could slide

something under me to carry the weight.”

Gradually He Was Rescued

A SOLDIER went running to the next field, looking for a board. We waited. In a few minutes he came back with a short, thick board. The pilot reached up with his strong arms, made a face, and lifted himself a little from the ground, and the doctor slid the board underneath him. Then the doctor, still kneeling, lifted one end of the board. Gradually the pilot came out. Twice he had to stop them while they rearranged his injured leg. He said it was twisted, But apparently it was largely the agony of suddenly straightening out a cramped knee that had lain bent for eight days. At last, in a sort of final surge, he came clear of the plane. hands and knees, struggling to hold his back off the ground, You could see that he was steeling himself fiercely. - “Quick! called. The pilot said, “My God, that air! That fresh air!” Three times in the next five minutes he mentioned the

Slide that litter under him,” the doctor

When they finally laid him tenderly onto the canvas litter and straightened his left leg, you could see the tendons relax and his facial muscles subside; and

And that was the one single sound of normal human weak; s_uttered. by. that man: of great cour<’

watchmaker, to regulate them. We know our agent will be glad to know she wasn't sitting beside a kieptomaniae, . . . The safety board went to a lot of trouble to paint pedestrian lanes across downtown intersections so pedestrians would know where to walk. But a lot of pedestrians are too independent to follow the regulations. Among these apparently is none other than Smiley Chambers, who happens to be one of the three members of the safety board. A little bird tells of seeing Smiley standing right out in the center of the Pennsylvania and Ohio intersection the other evening. Shame on you, Smiley! . .. Seen at St. Clair and Illinois Tuesday by one of our agents: | A Polk milk truck with a horse hitched to it. Saves gasoline, and oats aren't rationed. . . . Glen Steinhart of the Steinhart Grain Co. swings the conversation around to golf whenever he gets a chance. That's so h€ can tell you about the hole-in-one he made Sunday on the No, 5 hole at the Ken-vir course. He took Monday off work to celebrate and try to duplicate the feat—but no luck.

A Bone-us for Fido

IN THE DEPARTMENT of minding other people's business, we offer a suggestion to city council. Why not, we ask, pass an ordinance providing free dog tags for honorably discharged members of the K-9 corps? Quite a few dogs of war are being shipped home after valiant service with the army. At least two cities—Fresno, Cal, and Memphis—have adopted such laws. And a similar ordinance has been introduced by an Evansville councilman. How, &bout it, councilmen? Are we going to let Evansville get ahead of us? , ,. While we were away, our agent who looks after business news dug up quite a few items. For instance, Leonard Murchison, sales manager of Wasson's, is back on the job after being laid up with a bad case of poison ivy.... And Toner Overley 1s at the Veterans hospital. , , . And Meier 8. Block of Wm, H. Block & Co, is back on the job after being seriously ill at Methodist hospital several weeks, , .. Dorothy Darling, fashion advertising writer for Block's, left last Saturday to become advertising manager of Thalheimers, in Richmond, Va... . Jim Clements of Sears bought a small hotel in Michigan and moved up there. Al Kurker succeeded him as sales promotion manager. . . . Moke Davis, Ayres’ advertising director, has been in Chicago this week. Strictly business. . . . Herman Paris of The Times advertising department has resigned to take a job in Washington, D. C

policy which would have this country represented by a single flag airline in which many companies would be privileged to participate. The administra-; tion, on the other hand, has been regarded as favoring independent operation in overseas air traffic by a number of different airlines,

Steamship Lines Lose

THE LETTER indicated the senate committee apparently has reached a decision on the controversial question of whether steamship lines are to be allowed in overseas aviation, and that the decision is negative. The letter cited a past decision of the CAB was in line with the policy of keeping controls of different forms of transport separate and that this “seemed sound.” . Perhaps significantly, the letter traced development of international aviation to the beginning of the war, when, jt said, all the principal foreign trading nations “had merged their international air transport operations into single national airline systems -or chosen instruments to strengthen their competitive position in the field of international air transport.” ‘The letter pointed out that the same trend had developed in U. S. overseas aviation (though it did not mention Pan-American Airways by name), and it said that whether this trend is to be followed or changed after the war is a question “for legislative as well as executive consideration.” The committee asked that executive branches continue to advise it with regard to aviation matters and request that “no action be taken regarding inter- | national air transport applications for new routes or | alr acquisition of existing: services outside the continental U, 8. and ‘Canada until full consideration of government policy can be had by congress.”

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Photos Stir Memories of

First A. E F.

American soldiers who liberated Brittany and broke through German lines to reach Paris are fighting over ground their fathers knew well during the last war, Most of the meén in the AE. F. of 1917-18 entered and léft France through Brittany. All through the war this area was a vast training camp, supply depot and funnel for supplies going to the front.

Brittany are familiar to Hoosier veterans of the last war. When some of them saw postcards sent home by John Norris, a printer for Indianapolis Times, during the time he was overseas in 1917-18 they recognized some of the pictures of street scenes and buildings. Former Leave Center St. Malo, which was stubbornly defended by a German garrison until its capture recently, was a leave center and coal port during the other war,

A.EF. was at Chaumont, and headquarters for the services of supply were at. TQUISu.. ““Almost 1000 miles of Mandard gauge railway track were laid by

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18.000 cars. Lt. Col. Will H. Brown, military

units in Indianapolis high schools,

LOWELL CIVIC CLUB FORMED

Residents Band to Get What They Want, Keep Out What | They Don’t Want.

Yor years folks out in the Lowell ave, district have been waving “howdy” to each other across their suburban fields, then passing on. | Wednesday night at the Lowell school building, Hunter rd. and Raymond st., they got together for their first real, honest-to-goodness |. community chin-fest. Weary of unheeded petitioning for better roads, cleaner ditches and improved drainage facilities, 52/ neighbors in that territory decided to organize as the Lowell District Civic club; newest addition to the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic leagues.

What They Don’t Want

As the club's vice president, William Marshall of South Arlington ave. put it, they.banded together “not only to get what we wanted, but to keep out what we don't want.” By “what we don't want” Mr. Marshall said they meant ob-

jectionable features that might deteriorate property values “such as airports or noisy and odorous business enterprises.” Lester Driskell assured the group that the frozen locker plant he ine tends to construct in the 7500 block on Brookville road will be neither noisy nor odorous. Although he said the time might conceivably come when he would undertake to slaughter a little neighborhood meat, modern facilities would make the process “virtually unnoticeable,” Many of the Lowell ave. “gentlemen farmers” agreed that Mr. Driskell might have something there so the new-born civic club plunged boldly into the problem by appointing its first committee, entitled the frozen locker committee.

Driskell Waits Decision

Mr. Driskell, who has purchased 27 acres of land in the neighborhood, said he would await the] group's decision before taking an official step. Then Mrs. Pearl H. Brady, R. R. 10, the club president, observed that something ought to be done about those trashy and unkempt ditches on Rawls ave. between the Kitley and Shortridge roads. After that followed a unanimous adop-

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tion of a resolution stating that the objective of the club is to “ad- | vance,

imore useful citizenship and to cooperate in securing better public service.” Other officers second vice president; Mrs, Albert Michel, Silver Hills, secretary, and William Sewell, R. R. 10, treasurer.

elected were| The Braly Charles Cowan, Independence road, Ramona Grove,

The. main railway station at Tours, headquarters for service troops in 1917-18.

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during the last war.

world. war,

roads in Prance were good and well marked. In Brittany the roads are

those in the souith of France.

Street Commissioner Luther Tex today faced the almost {nsunmoi.] able problem of arranging 4 gala! city hall picnic at Garfield park for| Saturday afternoon—minus politics. | Scratching ‘his head perplexedly, he explained that park department rules prohibit political meetings in public parks: He then renewed his pondering over ways and means if rallying 2000 city employees togeth-

er for an ice cream and lemonade!

social without allowing politics to creep/into what promises to be a pretty loud group conversation. Finally he issued a proclamation: “This will in no sense be a political meeting, but just a get together,

3 DRIVERS HELD IN ‘CRACKDOWN'|

Rising Death Rate Spurs Police Campaign; 4 Hurt In Traffic. Three motorists were arrested last

night in the police “crack down” on reckless driving and disobedi-

ence to traffic Jaws that have sent| .

Indianapolis’ death rate to the highest point of any city its size in the country. The arrests were made in connection with four accidents in which four persons were injured. Harry D. Cooke, 50, of 2345 Broadway, was arrested on a charge of reckless driving after his car struck and slightly injured Mrs, Virginia Hesse, 80, of 1731 N. Capitol ave, at 16th st. and Central ave. last night.

Car Hit by Train

Charles Oliver, 1010 Park ave. was held by police on a charge of disobeying a railroad crossing signal after his car was struck by a New York Central freight train at the Madison ave. crossing of the Belt railroad. Mrs. Martha Oliver and her daughter, Peggy, 6, riding in the automobile were injured, but not seriously. Mrs. Gladys Watson, 202 McKim st., was arrested on a charge of reck-

| less driving and driving while drunk after her car collided with one

driven by Samuel DeBor, 1636 Spann ave. at Bates and Shelby sts. Mrs. Pauline Earlwine, 54, of 1402 N. Pennsylvania st., received a broken arm last night when she was thrown out of her car-as it collided with one driven by Joseph Shelling ton,-:23, of 730 N. Sheffield ave. at |Oriental and New York sts. Both

promote and co-ordinate | drivers accused the other of discommunity efforts; to encourage obeying a traffic isgnal.

DRILL TEAM MEETS

Guards’ drill team nf Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle, will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at the home of Mrs. Edith Lauder, 526 BE. 22d st.

{want the mayor to be there to say

§ Indianapolis ‘Times

THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1944 CER

Part of the sea wall

A maisteetvintersoction: at Bordeaux,"

at St. Malo with a cathedral spire in the back~ ground.

econd mosi important Amer-

ican port during the last war.

volunteers.

American soldiers in the last war, for the A EF. during the first the largest telephone and telegraph

switchboard in the world at Tours,

approximately 1500 locomotives and He said that most of the major which was also an aviation st,

tion center. There was a large training cenier

property custodian for the R.O.T.C. of somewhat better quality than composed of 17 different schools at

Langres, where the first brigade of

was chief motor transport officer At one time the signal corps had the tank corps was organized from City Hall Picnic 'Minus' Politics Set for Saturday

get-acquainted play period. s+ . « We

a word of greeting, but anyone who wants to make a speech will be told to hire a hall elsewhere. No one may bring & watermelon, That's against park rules.” Mr. Tex also advised everybody to “bring a lunch basket. Our free refreshments will be limited to ice cream, lemonade and coffee. There will be a baseball game, softball games, horse-shoe pitching and other diversions. Mr. Tex didn’t explain what he meant by “other diversions,” but he pointed out that Police Chief Clifford Beeker is on the picnic tommittee.

| Woolsey T Tokes Post at Butler

PROF. SAMUEL M. WOOLSEY, formerly of the faculty of Bowling Green, O., State university, will succeed Charles J. Anthony as associate professor of accounting and statistics in Butler university college of business administration, President M. O. Ross said today. Prof. Anthony, a member of the Butler faculty since 1940, tendered his resignation to accept a position as tax accountant in the Houston, Tex. office of the Arthur Anderson Co. Prof. Woolsey, who will assume his duties at the start of the fall term, holds an M. B. A. degree from the Harvard business school where he took graduate work, and M. B. A. and B. A. degrees from the University of Texas,

Prof. Woolsey

UNIT OF DEMOCRATS

Earl W. Collins of. Evansville, treasurer of local 242, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, was «.ppointed

the state Democratic committee during the fall campaign. In announcing the appointment, Fred F. Bays, state Democratic chairman, said the state committee also has organized a labor advisory committee which will advise party leaders in all labor activities. Mr, Collins will serve as full-time chairman of the advisory committee to outline labor policies for the campaign.

today to head the labor division of.

Over 2,500,000 tons of supplies for the. American army came in through St. Nazaire which was the principal port. Almost as much came in through Bordeaux. Both ports should be open to allied shipping before long. Many of the men came through

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Allied Engineers Repair Damage Done by Germans.

CHERBOURG, Aug. 1 (Delayed: by ‘Navy Censorship) France's great Atlantic port of) Cherbourg, blasted by the Germans and sown with a heavy concentration’ of mines, has been turned into an allied port and is receiving troops and war supplies. For security reasons operation of the port had been kept secret until now as it was considered undesirable to let the Germans know their attempts to demolish and block the harbor had failed, The first convoy, led by the liberty. ship, Nathaniel Bacon, dropped anchor inside the breakwater July 16. Within a matter of minutes, amphibious trucks set out from newly constructed concrete tracks to unload them.

Used Trick Mines

mines than any ever encountered ‘by allied forces in so small a space, according to the port commander, American naval Capt. Norman Ives

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The harbor had contained more |’

(later killed while leading a party to St. Malo).

Everything from concrete mines to trick combination delayed action types were found. One system of mines was found almost intact. Allied experts exploded them by throwing the Nazis’ own switches. Harborside work proceeded fast New pilings were sunk at some of the sections which the Germans had blasted. Concrete docks were built where LST's and LCT's could unload directly.

Army engineers and transportation corpsmen rebuilt railroads to

{advantageous spots, working. with

COLLINS TOPS LABOR

the navy which was sharing the job of rebuilding the portside. The unloading of the ships started squarely over mines which still lie in the harbor. Even as we were! in the harbor two sweepers continued their work of pulling out mines.

EDITOR WILL SPEAK: AT EXCHANGE CLUB

Walter Leckrone, editor of The Indianapolis Times, will discuss the task of handling the news in wartime at the meeting of the Exchange club tomorrow noon in the Claypool hotel. A dinner and party celebrating

MUNCIE FLIER KILLED PHOENIX, Ariz, Aug. 24 (U. P.). —Air Cadet William P. Morgan, Muncie; Ind., was killed yesterday

reoprted today.

when his training plane crashed | near Williams field, air base officials |

the 25th anniversary of the club (will be held at 6:30 p. m. Sept. 19 ‘at the Marott hotel. Dr. Stewart | Mr |W, McClelland, first vice president | ‘of the National Exchange club and

president of Lincoln Memorial university, Harrogate, Tenn. will | speak.

| tions,

Le Mans on the way home. There was a processing center there.capable of handling 230,000 soldiers at one time. Pontanezen barracks at Brest, famous among. veterans of the A. E. F. for its mud and duckboards, was the largest American camp in France,

HOLD EVERYTHING

“Find that squeak and oil it— it’s driving me nuts!”

JUVENILE HOME RULING AWAITED

Tax Board to Give Decision “On $76,000 Grant; Ne-

groes Protest Site.

The state tax board will rule next week on the proposed $76,000 appropriation for establishment of the Marion county juvenile detention home in the new quarters at 25th st. and Keystone ave. At a hearing yesterday on the appropriation, approved recently by the county council in a move to modernize detention home operaNegro groups, headed by Frank R. Beckwith, attorney, protested location of the home at 25th ste The attorney said the move would “create a bad racial situation” because that area “is the only community left in Indianapolis where a modern colored community can be built up.”

Plan Move in 2 Weeks

Under plans being completed by icounty commissioners the detention

(home, now housed in a condemned

building at 5338 E. New York st, will be moved to the 25th st. build. ings in the next two or three weeks. The $76,000 appropriation includes $30,000 additional funds to increase

{the pay scale and personnel of the

home to eliminate the type of management that caused the grand jury recently to recommend removal of present. detention home supervisors. Chairman Charles Bedwell of the tax board said a decision on’ the appropriation will be handed down Monday or Tuesday, :

WOMAN CARRIES MAIL ANSE Aug. 24 (U. P)~— Sylvia Gore, wife of a rural | mati carrier, was slated to become Vanderburgh county's first full-time rural carrier Sept. 1, it was revealed

today in an assignment of routes by Postmaster Henry M. Mayer.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

youth. As a matter of fact, it is highly unwise not to!

examine what was done in other countries. There is| no need to copy it, but we might Improve on it and adapt it to our own purposes. -

would want to see our young people subjected to the

kind of regimentation and instruction which was enforced in Germany and Italy, nor do I think that we would want to see our young people indoctrinated in| the way that the Russians indoctrinated their young

But why we should not take anything we find that|

is good, and use it in a way which will benefit our youth, is incomprehensible to me. It shows a kind of fear and uncertainty about ‘ourselves which is to

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Mr. O'Malley! Pop says you can’t possibly exist!

By Crockett Johnson

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