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FRENCH NORTH By now they were down to 900 i 10 men who brought’ wall of mountains shead barred leir Flying’ Fort, om a raid on Tripol, They tlew along parallel to these for a after they had been lost, undoubtedly will Jong time, but they were now ously Bet decorations, Nothing quite like it has happened : . Finally they got the thing to 1500 feet, en f before in this war. Here is. the The lowest pass is 1600 feet, but they came across storys’ : Bi at 1500, Explain that if you can! ; The Tripoli airdrome was heav- The air currents were bad. One wing was cocked fly def by both fighter way down. It was hard to hold. The pilots had a planes and anti-aircraft guns. Fiy- horrible fear that the low wing would drop ciear hg into 8s one down and they'd roll over and go into a spin. But Be id: vas lk mouse at- they didn’t. rh » aoThe Thunderbird—_tor that was Most Beautiful Sight rst Bie ft as 1 dropped ts THE NAVIGATOR came into the cock, and he eau load, One-sngive went gil and ths pilots Davigaied the plane home, Never 19.4 WW Then ea few moments later the second could they feel any real assurance bf making it. When. bots engines 0 out on. ihe same dg THEY Were practically rigid but they talked s bie ally And, therein lies the difference Streak all the time, and cussed, as airmen do. eat from other instances of bringing dam- Everything seemed against them. The gas conor lags behind, German fighters are on it like. The gas gauge went down a SO aly 40 ultures. The boys don’t know how many Germans ':G At last the navigator said they were 0 Miles the air, but they think there most have: from home, but those 40 miles passed as though they Our Lightning fighters, escorting the Fortresses, On the sandy haze, made t desert an instuck by the Thunderbird and fought as long as definite thing. One oasis looks exactly like another. they could, but Snally they had 10. leave or they; BUC they knew Vien they were near Home, Then wouldn't have had enough fuel to make it home. rom our one their 30d fase ang green flare ; Soir ror 0 : : ey gies lest the eq Forizaag about 4 ‘A mifiute later it came—the most beautiful sight man Aghters sited home) at ibe same. time, lor ts over seen, the ground they cut the Theis gs was low 0. ; ewitches and let it roll Por it had uo brakes. Al ' the end of the roll the big Fortress veered off Attacked by Fighter ‘of the runway. And then it climaxed its historic THE THUNDERBIRD flew on another 20 miles. home-coming by spinning madly around five times

Then a single German fighter appeared, and dived at them. Its guns did great damage to the already

_erippled plane, but simply couldn't knock it out of the air. ¥

Finally the fighter ran out of ammunition, and left, Our boys were alone now with their grave troubles. Two engines were.gone, most of the were out of commission, and “than 400 miles from home, The : were losing altitude, 500 feet a minute, and now were down to 2000, 2 The pilot called up his crew and held a consultation. Did they want to jump? would ride the plane as long as it was in the air. decided to keep going, The ship was completely out of trim, 8 terrible angle. But they gradually got it #0 that it stopped losing altitude.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowel Nussbaum

BILLY HANNA, 4031 Crittenden, has an enthusiastic assistant who helps him with his. Times route. The assistant is Sukie, a wise old parrot who has been in the family 26 or 27 years—more than twice as long as has 12-year-old Billy, The parrot 5 perches on the handiebars

among the pupils. Sukie, who won't talk much except when Billy's around,. and who often bites women, but not men,

LoD Wednesday night N. Hillside,” Service, heard a It was a scratching noise, and it so curiosity that finally he Jumped a half grown squirrel ran around the room-

squirrel’s eyes were filled wi exhausted from its ordeal Grannan youngsters, Freddie, 4, and Pattie, 2,

thinking it would : fixed it some breakiast food, out in the garage, leaving the still was there yesterday, apparently the service it had been

The Wrong. Place

THE COMMITTEE of the Junior C. of C. in charge of arrangements for the opera, “Aida.” given at the Murat theater the other evening, sent 33 tickets to the Service Men's Centers. And, as is cus-

World of Scienc

IF THE PLANET Mars is inhabited and equipped with telescopes as good as ours, the Martians are probably aware of Georges Claude's perfection of the

of the Nazis’ robot bomb. Martians looking at the earth would get no better result than “earthians” get of Mars. We see large areas that change from green to brown with the seasons and therefore appear to be vegetation. We are aware of white polar caps that expand in the Martian winter and shrink in the summer. But our view ‘of fine detail, the socalled “canals,” for example, tells us nothing. Similarly, Martians would see our continents and oceans, our polar caps and changing vegetation. They would note the clouds in our atmosphere. But they would see no significant detail.

Another Change

IF THEIR observing equipment was good enough, it may be that the first new feature they noted was a. faint change in night-time luminosity in certain areas. This would have been the adoption of electric lighting by. the big cities of the world. If they saw this, their spectroscopic studies might have noted another change when neon advertising signs blossomed all over the world. No doubt the Martians would have tied to explain this as a sud-

My Day

NEW YORK. Thursday.—I was reading a ietter the other day from an army boy in England. He had been thefe only a short time, and he was noticing the shortages in food and the fact that women on the streéts were poorly dressed. He was oo alittle critical at first, until some-

a collaborationist and the inventor

C. Miller had a set of Geissler tubes blow into the

d to the war than we.’ .

‘wonder why we talk about looking for peace-time Ld

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incredible time of 4; hours on one pair of motors. That night I was with the pilot and some of the crew and we drank a toast. One visitor raiseg his glass and said: “Here's to your safe return.” But the pilot raised his own glass and said instead: “Here's to a God-damned good airplane!” And the others of the crew raised their glasses and repeated: “Heres to a God-damned good airplane!” t And here is the climax. During that agonizing homeward crawl, this one crippled plane ‘shot down the fantastic total of six German fighters. These were officially confirmed. '

tomary, the passes were grabbed up by willing G. Ls. The opera hadn't been under way 10 minutes, however, until three of the service men came out of the theater. One of them remarked a getically to an usher: “We must have got in the wrong place.” Probably their first opera... . Incidentally, an agent discovered at the opera that there are some hal hangers on the wall of the Murat near the boxes. There was only one hat on the hangers Tuesday night—a familiar white ome. That's right; it was Governor Schricker's. . . . Dr. John Ray Newcomb, who practices medicine in the HumeMansur building when he isn't found dabbling around in amateur theatricals, is back from an trip to Canada. On the trip from Chicago to Toronto, Dr. Newcomb had the berth opposite Bob Hope. And he managed to talk Hope into agreeing to write something for Dr. Newcomb's regular letter to doctors in the armed forces. On the return trip, between Chicago and Indianapolis, Doc was a fellow passenger of Carmen Miranda. Carmen interested him, but she was a bit more uppish and harder to fe. acquainted with than Hope, Doc found.

What's in a Name?

WE JUST CANT pass up the opportunity to comment on the appropriateness of the governor's most recent appointment to the state conservation commission—John Trout of Columbus, Ind. First thing you know, the governor will be replacing the other members with a Mr. Bass, a Mr. Fox and Mr. Bird. Gosh, this could go on indefinitely, so we'll

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CHAPTER V By SIGRID SCHULTZ

world trends to camo their real intentions and merely exploiting and shaping them with propaganda, the Germans have already achieved a fair measure of success. One might call these propaganda carriers Trojan horses, The

of them.

First Trojan Horse:

We Want a Leader

THE EXASPERATED business or professional man who says, “What we need is a leader” is Calling for the death of his oher-

We enjoy as a republic the privilege of choosing our represehtatives freely every few years. If the men we elect annoy or disappoint us, then it is not the representative system which is at fault, but our own judgment. Would we want to exchange our systém for the public as opposed to the secret ballot, or for the single, party candidate? .

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Second Trojan Horse: Naziism Protects Pri-

vate Enterprise

THE NAZIS won capitalist support in Germany by claiming that they would protect private enterprise. Then they introduced a4 system more severely regimented than communism. Vast amounts of money have been made in Germany by enterprising men and women. But these deals were at the expense either of the masses or of conquered populations. And they were invariably somewhat crooked, placing the business man at the mercy of Nazi supervisors, for each transaction could be completed only with Nazi approval. And before giving its approval the party must not only have gotten “its share,” but the supervising Nazi official had to be rendered “co-operative.”

Third Trojan Horse:

Soviet Russian Danger

THEIR SYSTEM of frightening the western powers with the specter of bolshevism served the Nazis well during interwar days and during much of world war II. But

BY UTILIZING existing

Germans have a whole stable full -

GERMANY WILL TRY IT AGAIN—No. 5

Whole Stable of Trojan Horses Ready

movement.”

Many visitors fo Germany have been impressed by the Nasi

“youth Here's what happened to one youth: Only 16, he was captured by the allies in Cherbourg.”

As an American newspaper correspondent in Berlin from 1919 to 1941, Sigrid Schultz saw the behind-the-scenes preparation for the coming "war-in-peace” that she warns may culminate in world war lll. This is the story of Germany's plans to win the

no matter how serious our economic problems, there is no rea-

son for panic. . The international craving of the masses for security is greater than it has ever been before, and they look for protection to their unions, to business organizations, or to their governments. I believe that we have enough initiative, intelligence, and ability to safeguard the security of those who want to work, and at the same time to preserve our freedom,

Fourth Trojan Horse:

Racial Friction

THE MEN of the secret general staff rely on racial prejudice to provide a fine culture for the Nazi virus. . Race friction in the United States has delighted the Germans. Whether or not the friction’ is instigated or encouraged by disguised Nazi agents in the United States, as the Sojourner Truth riots were said be, every such racial rift is another wedge into the unity of the American people,

peace, plans that even now are being put into effect.

Fifth Trojan Horse: German Superiority

JUST AS the professional soldier could not but be impressed by German blitzkriegs, so the school teacher, the professor, who - went to Germany was often deeply impressed by the regimentation of youth which made the youth sub-leader and the Nazi teacher more powerful than the family. “Look at the great achievements of German scientists, German inventors,” we hear, from people who think of the other fellow before their duty to their own peo‘ple. Yes, one should look at German science and German universities and see what they have done in the last 20 years. They helped make naziism possible.

Sixth' Trojan Horse: We Must Be ‘Christian’

WE HAVE already been subjected to Nazi propaganda about who started the war; sometimes it is the Jews, then again British imperialism making us “pull English chestnuts out of the

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. main on guard for years to come.

fire”; it is often laid at the door f big business—but never, no, never is it the Germans. We heéar also a great deal about the difference between the Nazis and the Germans, But the secret general staff who spawned the Nazis, and the Nazis themselves," are Germans. And they have |

‘he population with cold precision.

There has been enough voluntary co-operation with the Nazis | unong the German people to | nake it imperative for us to re-

Any attempt to belittle or gloss | over the dark deeds of the Gernans against citizens of foreign jands, and against some of their

|< own countrymen, would be to

hrow away the peace in advance. » = »

~ Seventh Trojan Horse: Distrust of Our Allies

~~ WHEN WE hear this or that "supposedly well-informed person claim that the “British are ready to fight to the last American,” or that “the Russians are just wait-

ing to drive the Germans out, chew |

they'll sign a separate peace with them,” how many of us insist on learning our informant’s sources or evidence? Few of us bother io figure out the ultimate purpose of the claim, or what parallel line might be used in allied countries to discredit our own effort. It is only human for allies to mistrust each other. It has always been so. And the Germans can draw on years of experience and psychological training in that very subtle business of poisoning the minds of allies against each other, ”

Eighth Trojan Horse: Only German Industries Can Rebuild Europe

WHILE AMERICAN, British and Russian planes were bombing the industrial centers of Germany, one could hear well-meaning people urge that they must quickly be rebuilt for the rehabilitation of the rest of They were unwittingly furthering the pan-German cause. How many of us.said, “We must help the French to get back from the Germans the machinery stolen from their factories”? Or “We must help them rebuild their ruined industrial planfs”? Or the | Poles? And what about the Czech | industries? ‘ | Why must German industries | supply most of the manufactures for Europe? The very core of the Nazi plan to make Europe a German continent centered around domination by German industry, relegating all other countries to raw material or agricultural supply areas.

Tomorrow: Germany Must Have Chaos.

he Steel Case Makes Odd

Bedfellows

By FRED W. PERKINS

arguing here this week for main-. tenance of one of the Presdents important policies against the attacks of his political friends in the labor unions. The policy concerned is the one intended to hold wages to the Little Steel formula. The labor leaders, Mr. Perkins with constituencies in the millions, have been trying to break this yardstick ever since it was established by the war labor board in July, 1942. They are now moving in for “the kill” in the closing weeks of a campaign in which the only man who can change it is a candidate for re-election,

2 » POLITICAL implications of highest voltage are involved. Mr. Roosevelt, through acts of his own and of congress, has come into position where he can order a raise for several million workers, Nothing like this ever has been known in American politics. What Mr. Roosevelt does about it may turn out to be an important chapter in this country’s political history.

Mr. Roosevelt can make a decision just before election, but according to the evidence there is no proof that anybody planned it that way,

= ” FJ GEORGE MEANY, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, conducted a long list of A. F. of L. officials to the witness stand against the Little Steel formula. " He ended by saying, “we are asking this board for a chance for the workers of this country to’ enter a high-wage economy after the war.” ; . After the war it is presumed that workers will go back to the 40-hour week, with no allowance for the overtime pay that now boosts their incomes, unless hourly wage rates are raised in the meantime—a problem for either Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Dewey.

‘We, The Women Marriage Ban Unfair To Students

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quit now. ... John K. Jennings, the war commission director for Indiana, got his wallet back yesterday. It’s the one that was taken by a pickpocket early in September as Mr. Jennings boarded a train in Portland, Ore, for Indianapolis. The loss| was particularly annoying since he was left with less| than 35 in his’ pockets, and had to exist on candy bars and sandwiches for two days and three nights on the train. The thief placed the wallet in a mailbox at Spokane, Wash, and the postmaster there forwarded it to Mr. Jennings, after the latter had sent postage for it. Mr. Jennings’ identification papers were intact in the wallet. The only thing missing was the. money, something over $100.

e By David Dietz

den Increase in the amount of neon gas in parts of the earth’s atmosphere. But here on earth, there was no mistaking the neon signs. In all probability, these signs made the greatest change of the century in the outward appearance of the world Soon after their general adoption, I became aware of this on a transcontinental trip. At night, the

smallest town on the Arizona desert was a blaze of neon signs.

Perfected Old Device

THE NEON SIGN represented no fundamental invention on the part of Claude. but merely the perfection and commercialization of an old device. Back in the 1880's, Heinrich Geissler, a German instrument maker, created the Geissler tube. He sealed electrodes in the ends of a glass tube and extracted most-of the air. When an electric current passed through the tube, it glowed with a soft, colored light. Experiments with a modification of this tube made by Sir William Crookes led Prof. William Roentgen to the discovery of X-rays and other scientists to the discovery of the electron. But the Geissler tube itself remained a scientific toy. . At Case School of Applied Science, Prof. Dayton

proper shapes to spell the word “Case.” But neither the famous Dr. Miller or his students ever realized that they were playing with a $50,000,000 idea, Claude, whose early researches had been on liquid air and

the fixation of nitrogen, saw the possibilities of the old Geissler tube, :

* By Eleanor Roosevelt]

For the most part, however, the people who have been through several years of this war are gong to show signs of wear and tear, Complaints| about ‘civilian hardships in the United States must sound like luxury fo the people who have heen closer

Even though we read in the papers of the great Successes we achieve, we must not forget they: are achieved at a heavy cost. The men who are actually doing the fighting must sometimes jobs, when ‘there are still people needed in wartime A letter came to me the other day explaining that recent announcement ‘that it would ;

manpower HUMAN INTEREST—

‘Aging’ Chevalier | In Despair’ Over - Pro-Nazi Charge

PARIS, Sept. 29 (U. P).— Maurice Chevalier is. despondent and has aged measurably because of reports that he collaborated with the Germans, a Frenchman Just returned from visiting the former screen idol in Dordogne reported today. Chevalier denies he ever was Pro-Nazi, his friend said. The actor said he spent only two nights in and enter tained only French soldiers there. 3 ne friend quoted him as sayg:

“Collaborate? - Never! TI only appeared in Paris twice during the occupation—for two months each time. » r o F. P. A. WON'T TALK BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept. 29 (U. P.).—~Nominated by the Democrats for state senator from the 25th district, Franklin P. Adams, “Information Please” expert and former columnist, said today he planned a campaign “patterned after Calvin Coolidge. “I will campaign by keeping my trap shut.” Adams told the nominating convention that “my nomination; which has been predicted in the press for the past three weeks, is & giant surprise to me.” » ¥ » “WHAT THIS COUNTRY ,..?» SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29 (U.

San Francisco went the way of the nickel cigar today when riders on the municipal lines started paying seven cents. That sum already had .been charged on the Market st. system which was taken over today by the city.

» sg » : NAZI PLAN BACKFIRES LONDON, Sept. 29 (U, P.).—The Exchange Telegraph, quoting

Radio Paris, said today that the BARNABY

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Germans once tried to use 500 Russian war prisoners against the

‘Magquis, but the plan backfired.

Instead, the dispatch said, the Russians revolted and now are fighting with the French against the Germans.

- » TAG, YOU'RE IT PITTSBURGH, Sept. 29 (U. P.), —Traffic officers clamping down on parking violations went on a spree and tagged all vehicles parked illegally. » When the tags were checked, 12 of the cars were found to be cars belonging té police and members of the city law department.

How can | remain the big “power behind the scene” if everyone is fold about if?

found out we feed prisoners C-rations.”

STEEL EXECUTIVE DIES

GARY, Sept. 29 (U. P.).—Services will be held at Chesterton tomorrow for Edgar N. Yost, 57, Chesterton, division superintendent of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp.'s Gary armor plate plant.. Yost died of a heart attack .yesterday. He had been with Carnegie-Illinois since 1916.

LIBRARY HOURS CHANGED The Business Branch Library, at Ohio and Meridian sts. will resume {its winter hours next Monday. It (will be. open from 8:30 a. m. to 6 p. m. every day except Sunday,

5 “today at a joint meeting of the

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NEW EX-RAY USE—

Scientists Find Birth Marks Fade

Under Treatment

CHICAGO, Sept. 29 (U. P).— Disfiguring birth marks, the most common tumors among infants, respond well to X-ray treatment, if they are discovered and treated soon after birth, Dr.- James V. Prouty, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, said

American Roentgen Ray society and the Radiological Society of North America. Dr. Prouty said marks,”

“strawberry which occur a’ birth,

five years of life, but added that if all disfiguring blotches were treated as soon as discovered there would be very little scarring or ulcreation. tJ E » ANOTHER .doctor, Arthur W. Erskine, of Cedar Rapids, told the scientists that X-rays may destroy healthy as well as diseased tissue when non-experts attempt treatment of cancer. He warned that X-rays, which are net innocuous. must be administered : carefully in view of the fact that “medical distances are long and in many instances unchartered.”

MOFFETT TO HEAD GOP FARM DISTRICT

Rep. Paul Moffett, Marion county farmer and Republican nominee for state senator, has been named 1ltn: district chairman of the agriculture division of state G. O., P. headquarters. 3 This was announced today as Republican agriculture leaders from throughout the state gathered here at the call of House Speaker Hobart Creighton, head of the state G. O. P.

agriculture division. to map plans for

paign. Among those attending were editors of farm papers,

By Crosheil' Johnson

No, it's a secret. Except, of course, fo readers of ofl the “inside stuff” | | columns I've sent press releases fo

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the farm phase of the gtate cam-|!

tion weré several service wives — one the wile of a 11e u tenant - colonel.

It took a war to lift the ban---but once it hes been lifted there, and possibly in other cities, it should stay lifted.

2 » ” BECAUSE the girl who marries when young needs an education just as badly as do single girls her age. She needs to be educated so that she will be a better mother if she has children. . She needs an education as personal insurance ‘against the time when she might have to earn her own living. She needs an education in order io have a richer, fuller life of her own.

= ” » AND—AS is brougnt out in the case of the student married to a lieutenant colonel 'n the army— she may need an education in order to keep pace with her husband’s position in life. If a girl is kicked out of = public school simply because she has taken on the responsibilities of womanhood we aren't giving her a fair chance to make a success of her life and of her marriage, Such girls ought to be encouraged to go to school, and to specialize in homemaking courses, instead of being turned away.

9 KILLED, 50 HURT AS TRAINS CRASH MISSOURI VALLEY, Ia. Sept. 29 (U. P.).—A pile of smashed passenger cars sprinkled with the per sonal effects of passengers today marked the spot where a fast Chi-

Miss Millett

At least nine persons, Including a 16-months-old baby, were killed: and more than 50 others were injured when the speeding L