Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1944 — Page 21
of mine, Lt. Col. Ken Campbell, captured
French soldiers with a pack of cigarets. It was
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
A SIGN ON a N. Capitol ave. store window adver-
. expression, and it kept coming to
look dignified, despite. his undignified
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THE WORLD'S purest iron is now being produced in. the Westinghouse Research Laboratories in East
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Sell flowers for any and all occasions.
World of Science
Children Tag Along ALL THROUUGH the advance the troops were followed in almost comic-opera fashion by hordes of.
soldiers. say they didn’t mind machine-gun fire so much, but it was the awful noise accuracy of the 75's that made their
portation. A year or two ago, he probably thought his old Model A was just the thing. But the army that. After all, a Model A must a B-29, or even a mere Milby of the Naval Inspection New York st. recently when a policewoman for a minor infracstarted to lecture him, his naval uniform, said: “Oh, sorry, sir— military police.” . . . Capt.
comes from Kentucky. And he's forto arguments involving his home state
as bad as us Hoosiers when we're away from home. Why Not Plain English?
IN RECENT NEWS stofies about the trial in this country of a British army officer charged with being too gabby with military secrets, we've noticed refercamera” We'd never heard that particular legal and annoying us. So,'%bn the bus coming to work, we asked a couple of well-informed lawyers who were fellow passengers, and neither knew, what it meant. ‘We tried Webster, and found it merely is a legal phrase meaning trial in the judge's chambers—thus not open to the public. Why in heck don't they say so in plain English? .. . If you want to be militarily correct, refer to aifcraft as planes—not ships. The September issue of the Indiana C. A. P, Sky Patrol quotes a war department. memo as follows: “Use of the word ‘ship’ to designate aircraft has led to serious confusion between personnel of the army and personnel of the navy, marine corps and coast guard, All army personne] will discontinue use of the word ‘ship’ to designate aircraft.” « ++ One of our agents sends us a clipping of a florist’s advertisement: “Wedding Flowers” It doesn’t necessarily mean what it says—flowers for weddings. It's the ad of G. O. and P. I. Wedding, who presumably
By David Dietz
The present method of producing ultrapure iron was developed by Dr. T. D. Yensen manager of the magnetic department of the Westinghouse Research Laboratories. It is probably difficult for the layman to appreciate the difficulties of getting all the impurities out of a
Until Dr, Yensen developed his method the best samples of iron available were 90.90 per cent pure. In other words, one part in every thousand of a sample was an impurity,
99.99 Per Cent Pre
DR. YENSEN'S method produces iron which is 99.99 per cent pure. In other words, only one part in 10,000 is now an impurity. This means that the stand spectrum produced with the aid of pencils of this new iron is far superior to any previously available, The process by which the iron is produced is a twofold one, the first part consisting of electrolysis, the second of “cooking” by radio waves in a hydrogen a ere. "In the first step a bar of high-grade iron and a
bar of lead are placed in ‘a solution of iron salts and:
an electric current passed through the solution. This causes the bar of iron to dissolve and to be deposited a5 & spongy mass of near] iron on the lead bar, This spongy mass is then placed in 8 furnace filled
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Written for N. E. A. Service
* black market, which for the four years of the occupation starved and robbed the people of Paris, was 3 legal business
established, licensed by ‘the German government. They were German directed and dominated, although a few of them maintained
PARIS, Sept. 22. — The .
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1044
IN HITLER'S GRAY PAREE—NO. 2°
Gleaned Fortune in Black
‘must be withheld,
This is the last of two arficles on life in Paris during the German occupation. .These articles were written by an emi“nent journalist who lived in Paris during the entire occupation.
Since he has relatives in German-occupied countries, his name
Ea m fa
some. French agents on their
Convict Small Fry There was no need to fear legal
ERNIE'S BOOK— G. L's Overseas Will Get 40,000 As Yule Gifts
NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (U. P.).— By request of the author and of troops overseas, publishers of Ernie Pyle’s book, “Brave Men,”
decided today to jump the gun on the publication date to permit the sale of 40,000 first editions ex-
WHILE official publication will take place Nov. 20, from Oct. 3
Market
single Frenchman was 70 francs: of a single Frenchwoman, 53 francs, At this tithe a pound of potatoes cost 5-7 francs officially, | and 15-20 francs on the black market. The official’ fat fation was only 150-200 grams per month, so that even the poorest had to go to the black market to obtain sufficient fats to live. Fat on the black market cost from 100 to 150 francs a pound. ; The only alleviation of this starvation were free lunches given by Vichy to the Paris school children, In January, 1943, Vichy also started some communal res-’
- ‘taurants, where* one could buy a
meal for from 8 to 18 francs, de-
| pending on the size of one'® in- .. come, The meals were edible at
first but later became a scandal of unsanitary slop. One dish was
a “pate de poisson,” consisting of
A commen scene during the German occupation of Paris: school children collecting old clothes to be sent to French soldiers imprisoned
in camps in France and Germany,
dal become known. And, anyway, ft was profitable for the Vichy government to allow “settlements” —in which it took an illegal cut. For example, in June, 1043, Food Minister Bonnafous published some statistics: In 1942 about 100000 food black market cases were discovered. Of these only 12.461 were fined and 4500 were jailed. The fines totaled only 108 million francs. But income from “settlements” with black marketeers totaled somewhere over a billion francs. It is interesting to note that for each “settlement” he arranged, the price control enforcement officer received 10 per cent of the amount involved.
Anything in which the Germans were interested came outside the law. Thus, by 1041 the Germans had already , decreed that about half a dozen Paris restaurants and a dozen night clubs were “hors-class”—ie, they need not submit to price control.
Trance
to Oct. 7, 10,000 books a day will | |
be rushed through the presses and to booksellers in an unprecedented merchandising plan. The
4 copies will be sold sight unseen,
and mailed directly to the soldier overseas, no copies being allowed for general sale. The book, which is expected to surpass the 1,000,000 sales of Pyles first volume, “Here Is Your War,” has been chosen as the book of the month club selection for Tr,
New U.S. Bullet
Ignites Gasoline |
WASHINGTON, Sept, 21 (U. P.) ~—~American airmen in all theaters are firing. an armor piercing incendiary
By Science Service UPPER DARBY, Pa.—The great fireball of Aug. 18 that streaked across Indiana and Ohio in daylight has had its path traced, thanks to about 150 reports sent in .by readers of newspapers served by Science Service, including The Indianapolis Times.
Maxime'’s, Fouquet’s, Rotisserie Perigourdine, etc., led the way in prices which jumped from about 1000 francs (currently $20) a head in 1942 to 10,000 a head in 1944,
Seize Food Stores
At the same time, the Germans requisitioned 40 per cent of all food sent to Paris from the coun» try. Beside this official gequisition, about half of the remaining food was sold to the black market, leaving about 30 per cent of the “official ration” available to the population through official channels. No wonder the people of
Paris seldom. saw meat, fats, milk -
or fruits. To appreciate the hardship of the bIACE “Market, look at these figures obtained by the Foundation for the Study of Human Problems, directed by Dr. Alexis Carrel, in the autumn of 1943. About 10,000 French workmen
were surveyed: The average daily income of a
Up Front \ With Mauldin
’ th’ fever, Joe. Now let ‘im edge in a little.”
Path of That Fireball Traced With Help of Times Readers
heaven” should be sought in that
Loud sound effects have been re-
ported from places. A smoke train, along the latter part of the path, lasted fully’ 10 minutes and drifted southward, 3
Anyone in Southeastern Iilinois
putrid fish waste pulverized into a paste,
: Germans Lived Well
Against this background, the German living in Paris had tickets which permitted: him to buy monthly, at legal prices, 2% pounds, of butter, (against less than half a pound of all fats for the French); three pounds of meat (against half a pound for the French), and additional ra~ tions of six pounds of bread, one of sugar, cheese, and preserves. Throughoub the occupation German soldiers had milk in their coffee in Paris. Most of the time Paris children got none. The condensed milk sent from Switzer land and the United States for the children mysteriously vanished, reappearing, if at all, on the black market. By a strange coincidence quantities of empty milk boxes could be found near the airfields around Paris from time to time.
Help From Country
Without help from friends and relatives who sent food from the country, Paris would indeed have completely starved during the occupation. * To the Parisians themselves, however, many of the changes came so slowly as to be hardly noticeable, One small restriction gradually was enlarged . . . an- - other small restriction was added, and it in time ‘was enlarged. Eventually life was bound up in a maze of rules and regulations of which the average Parisian was often searcely conscious. * To the Parisian, there was lit~ tle gaiety in Gay Paree during the four endless years of the occupation. -
HUMAN INTEREST— Bull Hides Out After Escaping Trip to Packer
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 22 (U. P.). —It might be a lot of bull but the Baldwin township police are look.ing for just that. Two . days ago an 850-pound steer escaped from a truck headed for a meat packing plant. The animal fled to a wooded section where it spparently is the bull of the woods, 4. » » ¥ YANK ON LEAVE CAPTURES 4
LONDON, Sept. 22 (U. P).~— Lt. J. A. de la Paulle, an American member of the R, C. A. F, of Washington, D. C., went to France - recently on a 10-day leave and inadvertently captured four Germans while cycling. He said he was riding along a road not far from Caen when four German soldiers rushed out of the woods and surrendered. He turned them over to the French forces of the interior and then rode on, arriving at Paris Just in time to enter the city with the liberating American troops.
Socialist Labor Choice to Speak
Edward A. Teichert, presidential candidate of the Socialist Labor party, will speak over WIRE from 6:30 to 6:45 p. m. tomorrow and at 8 p. m. will address a meeting in the Holliday building. Mr. Teichert is making a tour of 25 states and has speaking engagements in 60 cities. His platform holds that war is “evidence of the breakdown of the capitalist system” and describes socialism as the
Lewis Hints Of Strike Next April By FRED W. PERKINS , CINCINNATI, Sept. 31.—Delegates to the United Mine Workers convention here carried home with them, back to half a million men in thousands of coal towns In 32 states, what amounted ts word direct from John L.
Lewis ‘to be teady for a
~~ possible general strike next April _ ‘When the presi. ent contract
tioned how the strike machinery works in this powerful union without the need for a strike call by the leadership. It has operated effectively, as was shown several times last year, even in wartime when there is a law supposed to prevent such interruptions to production. The, rank and file of the union simply follows the historic policy of “no contract, no work,” and they don't enter the mines until Mr. Lewis tells them he has obtained a signed agreement or its equivalent from the mine owners or the government—according to who is operating the workings at the time. : » » o SN PENALTIES are provided Connally-Smith act for those who lead or encourage strikes in mines and factories that have been seized by the government, and a number of local leaders have been prosecuted and a few have been punished for last year’s coal strikes. : No effort has been m to prosecute district or In - tional officers of this union.
Mr. Lewis’ practical threat of a great coal strike next spring if wage negotiations scheduled for March do not work out satis-
battles of 1943 and 1944.”
“You knew what to do and when to do it,” he continued. “And in 1945 you will know the same things again. I'm going to rely on you in 1945—just as I re. lied on you in 1943 and 1944.” » - o THE UNION’S wage demands for "the two-year period begin= ning next April are indefinite as to the size of wage increase to be sought. That decision will be delayed until the leaders know the conditions of next year, including the status of the war.
Also, the leadership is aware that it may have to deal with the government rather than with the coal operators. They prefer the latter.
We, The Women It's About As Far As | It Can Go
By RUTH MILLETT ONCE UPON a time when a woman was going to have a baby the news was kept strictly within the family circle until nature itself announced the fact. Then it became a common practice for a couple fo tell their friends and relatives about an expected “blessed event” soon after they knew about it themselves.
The next
Miss Millett
that movie folk and other famous people were “imaging.” » # # It WAS the modern version of the old-fashioned behind hands, “Isn't Mrs. Jones expecting?” gos sip.
Preity soon the public an-
who saw the object about 8:15 a.m. C. W.T. on Aug. 18 who has not yet reported his obsérvation is urged by Dr. Olivier to. do so in order that more accurate and complete heights and orbit can be determined. The height and rate of drift of the 8 train are of great value to scientists, since ' this information will give facts about the upper atmosphere that can be obtained in no other way.
50-caliber hydrogen, leaving iron that is 99.99 per cent pure. | bullet which rendexs obsolete selfthat impurities are not Subsequently introduced into ‘the iron,
By Eleanor Roosevelt Restrictions are plentiful, and there 1§ much work be done around the place; but at least the menace | death is 50.3
“hope of humanity.” Programs f Dr. Charles P. Olivier, director of a o
the Flower observatory here and president of the American Meteor society, has traced the fireballs path back to near the Indiana-Ohio border southeast of Portland, Ind. 4 ‘The meteor exploded over Wabash height of 10 to 20
The new bullet was devised by army ordnance to penetrate fuel tanks which are safe from ordi-
. feounty, IL, at a les.
Mr, Teichert, a 40-year-old steelworker from Greensburg, Pa., has been a member of the Socialist Labor party 14 years. “He was elected state secretary in Pennsylvanaia three years after joining the party has held since. By