Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1944 — Page 9
The German has two cholees—to dive them, or to wait until somebody is hit by has to drop back. Then they are on him in
Stay in Formation "WHEN THAT happens the fighters attack, but still in formation. Keeping that formation always
and forever tight is what. the flight leaders constantly drill into the boys’ heads. It is a great temptation
such action, FEA The result is that this war doesn’t have many individual air
heroes. A team may be a ¢omposite hero, but not an individual :
One group leader told me: “If everything went sccording "to schedule we'd never shoot down a German plane. We'd cover our bombers and keep ourselves covered and everybody would come home safe.” The fighter pilots seem a little different from the
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convoy and blew it to pieces. They'd laugh and get excited as they told about it. The trucks were all full of men, “they'd fly out like firecrackers.”
exactly as they would discuss lessons, Maybe they won't talk at all when they finally get home. If they don’t it will be this is a world apart and stand,
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
FERDINAND SCHAEFER, the white-bearded, pink-
just dummies,” she said. Ropas at 6 cents.” The day was ruined. , . . other occasion, he trudged, pack on back, into a town of 311 population and inquired where meal. He was directed to a place, note he was the only patron, was mercifully quiet. But not for couple of men, one of whom § |
the serisbiliiigs a ihe mL Jounter; But he it bravely, and heaved a of relief when the had gulped down their meal
. As he paid his check, one of and saw the white.
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A City Landmark
HOWARD H. BATES, 4015 N. Capitol, noticed remodeling work going on at the old Aetna 21 N. Pennsylvania st, and was reminded that it one of the oldest buildings in downtown Indianapolis. *It was built,” Mr. Bates said, “in 1858 or 1859 and was standing in its present state at the time of the Civil war. Early pictures taken at that time show that the exterior has not changed in all of that time” He adds that the study of did structures in the Mile
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World of Science
GEORGES CLAUDE'S attempt to harness the pow-
forces of nature to work for him. It may be that the last word has not yet been writx ten about it and that
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perimenters may return to the investigation after world war II. (Meanwhile, the report from Paris is that Claude, “the Edison of France” and the inventor of the neon advertising sign, has been collaborationist,
forth on the front pages of the
tween the surface waters of the tropical oceans and the deep waters.
Natural Field for Claude
THIS WAS a natural field for Claude to enter -
since his original invention, one of the methods for liquefying air still in use, made use of an ingenious metiiud Jor Sooling cempressed alr by using it to operate an % - Claude chose Matanzas Bay, Cuba, for his experi-
My Day
HYDE PARK, Sunday.~Friday morning in New
York. City I visited two studios to see portraits of my husband.’ The first portrait, done by J. W. Der
‘Square would make an interesting project for some of
the high school history classes. . .. The Aetna building is being remodel for use as an insurance center.
« +» « The traffic police wisecracks at pedestrians quite]
frequently stir up more resentment than they do good. A sample: One officer saw a countryish-looking man carrying a suitcase and jaywalking at Illinois and Washington. “Hey, you hick; look where you're going,” the officer yelled. , . . Lotys Benning Stewart is the proud author of an article on interior decorating, in the current issue of House Beautiful. It’s entitled: “Make Mine plain.” , . . A feminine reader postcards to rib us about the picture that accompanies this column. “For months, nay for years,” she writes, “I have been reading your column. I have no serious objections except that I get so tired of seeing that same old picture of you, day after day. Couldn't you manage to get a new one?” Gosh, no Georgia; a new one might show up old Inside’s wrinkles. Rather than that, we'd dig out that old picture of the monument that we used to run,
They're Doing Okay
THE INDIANAPOLIS Symphony orchestra has about 40 stars in its service flag. Franklin Miner, former manager, has been promoted recently to a navy lieutenant commander, Richard Powell, an assistant a major in the China-Burma-India the- ; Alan Meissner, another assistant, is a in the Pacific, and Leon Zawissa, con‘a chief -warrant officer in the Pacific.
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monica for Pfc. Joe Nesbit, in France. We may publish more for service men from time to time, but we can tell anyone right now that small radios are practically impossible to find. So are cameras.
By David Dietz
ments in 1930, The surface waters of this bay have
a temperature of 82 degrees, but the bottom of thei.
bay, a mile below, has a temperature of 48 degrees, only 16 degrees above freezing. His scheme was to introduce the surface waters ipto a chamber in which a vacuum had been created. The water as a result would immediately turn to steam, for the boiling point of water drops with the pressure. Travelers know that water boils on a mountain top at a temperature that is not sufficiently high to boil an egg.
Built Mile-Long Tube
THE STEAM thus generated would run a turbine. Then it would pass into a condenser. Cold water, brought up from the bottom of the bday, would then be turned upon the condenser, causing the steam to condense and at the same time creating a new vacuum
- that would cause more of the warm water to turn
to steam, The scheme required the sinking of a tube a mile long to the bottom of the bay. Claude built two
“such tubes in 1930 and lost both of them in. attempt-
ing to lower them to the bottom of the bay, the inchthick cables snapping, like threads. But this time, his experiments had t $1,000,000. But financial backers came to his rescue and a third tube was built and put in place. Claude's engine worked, lighting some 40 electric lights. However, the verdict of engineers was that the scheme was too expensive and that the amount of power generated did not justify the cost of the installation.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
Writer : PARIS, Oct, 2.—The G. I. who marches into Berlin and expects to find it an~ other St. Lo or Hamburg or Cassino—a horizontal monument to air power—is go- | ing to be disappointed. + A substantial portion of the city stands undamaged, its utili“ties continue to function fairly well, and some two million people continue to, live there—if not in comfort, at least with their minimum daily needs amply supplied. ; . = = . . THIS IS the picture of the Ger- : man capital just brought in to Paris by a man who was in Berlin only a few weeks ago and who undoubtedly is among the last dozen people who will reach France from Berlin for the rest of this war. “By and large the new buildings of the capital--and most of the important Nazi headquarters are new-—have stood up despite repeated bombings,” he said. Hitler's Reichschancellory, for example, shows cracks and pittings in its massive walls. But it is standing and is probably all right inside. The same is true of Goebbels’ propaganda ministry, x ” ” #» 34 THE CENTER of the city has been badly damaged, continued this informant, who prefers to remain anonymous even to nationality and profession. The Tiergarten, Berlin's great central park which the German's ‘camouflage, looks like a battlefel | bothered, or pettime, to pick up the airplanes, the bunpropaganda leaflets, led bits of camouflage nd the bases of the great flak towers which Herr Goering built in the park to reinforce his boast
that Berlin could never be bombed.
WAR SIDELIGHTS— Donkey Shadow Cast With Hands | Saves Two Yanks |
fallen f allied redded
The two had been pinned down together in a ditch by German
spotted for shelter when a tank shell set the building on fire. Afraid the Germans would spot
their silhouettes, Moore recalled the kid trick. “The fire cast the shadow of a donkey, big as a house, right in front of a German tank.” Moore said. * “If the Germans heard us, they must have thought it was a stray animal for they failed to inte. :
A little later Americans destroyed the tank and Moore and his companion reached safety. ” - »
Gls VOTE FIGHT TO END
PARIS, Oct. 2 (U, P). — The army newspaper Stars and Stripes published a full page of letters. today from American soldiers’ commenting on its recent editorial entitled, “So you wanna go home?” ‘What these letters boil down to,” the newspaper commented, “is this—to quote from Cp. Donald Gillespie of a combat engineer battalion: ‘Sure we wanna go home, but we don't want to 80 home until it’s over over here. We want to be here when Hitler and the rest of his mob are completely rubbed out.’ : “We didn’t offer war bonds for the best letters. ‘They were
erlin
Gate al the eastern end of the Tiergarten is somehow miraculougly untouched. : Just a few yards away from it, on the sides of the Paris square, the French and British embassies are completely destroyed. Most of the buildings of the
took such pains to cover with Wilhelmstrasse and Unter den
Linden are damaged, with the exception of the newest and strong-
est. Many of them, however, have
been patched up. » " » THE HOTEL Adlon, headquarters of Nazi big-wigs, and of foreigners in Nazi favor, has been damaged. But it has been reinforced with a ‘huge circle of concrete two yards thick at street level.
ND SECTIO! © MONDAY, OCT HOW BADLY HAVE ALLIED BOMBS DISRUPTED LIFE IN
Battered,
Weary Berliners clear wreckage afier allied bombers have passed. THE FAMOUS Brandénburg
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To enter the hotel you have fo go through what appears to be -8& huge fortress casemate. ‘The worst damage in the center of Berlin has been south of the Tiergarten in a shopping and residential district. ” » » IN THIS area my informant says that he walked for fifteen minutes without seeing one house capable of being lived in. The two million people currently living in Berlin are about half the capital's normal population. A very large number of them are foreigners — forced French and Czech and Polish and Belgian workers who have not been allowed to leave their capital war jobs. | : :
Up Front With Mauldin
Rss Coon. hiss
BERZ 1984 GERMAN CAPITAL? |
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+ “Gimme my canteen back, Willie. 1 see ya soakin’ yer beard full.”
On to Berlin
By UNITED PRESS
The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced allied lines today: : WESTERN FRONT—29T miles ‘(from point east of Nijmegen. Unchanged in week.) RUSSIA—-315 miles (from Warsaw. Unchanged in week.) ITALY--550 miles (from point northwest of Rimini. Unchanged in week)
Mickey Rooney And Bride of 17
End Honeymoon
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Oct. 2 (U. P.)~Blond and beautiful Mrs. Mickey Rooney, 17-year-old bride of Pvt. Mickey Rogney, 22, of movie fame, was at home with her parents here today, while her husband of two days went through
scrawled in a white heat by men who never dreamed the day would come when they would write a letter to the editor.” The letters will be pasted in a strapbook and sent. to Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower for relay to the war department. : : 2 =n = : SARONG EE NLIORTED HEADQUAR 8, 13th A. A,
Oct. 2 (U,
maid whip off and wave her
“Intelligence officers, however,
believed that this may have been
a case of wishful thinking" an®
that the item of clothing may well have been a shawl or an apron. A » » . NAZIS FINE NEW MOTHER MADRID, Oct. 2 (U. P)—A copy of a Germgn S. 8S. corps
publication received here today
said that a German woman was fined because she traveled three
kilometers farther in a train than .
the 100 kilometer legal limit, although she gave birth to a daughter at the 103 kilometer distance.
his army paces at Camp Sibert, near Gadsden, Ala. The week-end honeymoon of the Rooneys was almost as brief as their whirlwind week-long cdurtship, ending last night as the screen star's three-day pass expired. * ~The willowy Mrs. Rooney, tawny-haired Miss Birmingham of 1944, called off plans for Hol‘lywood screen tests which she had: considered after placing fifth in the Miss America beauty pageant at Atlantic City, N. J, last month, : Rooney and Miss Betty Jane Rase were married Saturday. It { was Rooney's second marriage.
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If you ask me, I think if'e=
but If Is No Shambles
BERLIN'S transportation situation is comparatively good. The subways and the El run (fairly well, "There are busses, but few trolleys. To get a taxi you must prove. that because of illness or some similar reason you are unable to reach your destination via public transportation. Before any" one goes anywhere in Berlin these days, my informant said, one checks with the hourly air raid information to see whether there are any enemy planes over German territory. »
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: THE RADIO broadcasts the in
formation every hour, including the location and strength of the bombers. My informant said that such has been the success of this system that fatalities have been re. duced to a minimum in Berlin in recent raids. As far as food goes, the: Germans have made it a point of pride to see that everyone gets what the ration calls for. It calls for far more than the people of Paris have eaten for the past three years. = # 2 RESTAURANTS are a different matter, They're almost impossible to find and meals are poor and expensive if you can find one. Super-swank restaurants like the famous Horcher (which owned Maxime's in Paris) have been closed under Goebbels’ order calling for total mobilization. ‘ This “off-with-their-heads” attiude, so far as luxuries go, has been extended to night clubs, and caharets—most, if not all, of which have been closed. 2 . = IT'S WHEN it comes to shopping that Berlin is really down and out. My informant says that if you took the mark equivalent of a five-dollar bill and walked through the streets yelling “1 want to buy something,” it might take you half an hour to find a seller—of anything. : Clothing is simply non-existent.
- As a result Berliners are badly
and shabbily dressed. HUMAN INTEREST— Found: An Ideal Campaign Button
For In-Betweens
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2 (U. P). —Draftsman Philip Irwin today
capped 18 years in the engineer-
ing field with what he says is his greatest invention—the campaign button for the “mugwump” or fence-sitter. The button, when pinned on to the lapel, reads “elect president.” A. slight maneuver inserts the name Roosevelt or Dewey, depending upon the current political mood of the wearer, & = » ‘HE'S GONNA JUMP DETROIT,. Oct. 2 (U. P).—Anthony G. Fisher, 34, a building electrician, leaned far out of a top window of a 16-story office building. “He's gonna jump,” someone yelled below. Within a few minutes, the street was filled with 8000 thrill-seekers. A fire crew quickly strung lifesnets, while police ran upstairs to dissuade Fisher. Then they reported: “He was just looking at the city, and the more people there were, the more interesting it was. He went back
to work when we asked him to.”
s = QUEEN GETS RELIEF
NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (U. P).— Today's beneficiary of the American relief for Italy, Inc, was Ttaly’s Queen Elena. The group said the queen had written a New: York friend asking for “some ‘spools of white thread because there is no mote here.” She needs it, she said, for “making clothes and embroidering bibs.” ; o - ”s YANKS GET DON'TS _SYDNEY, Oct. 2 (U. P.).—A list of “Don'ts,” aimed at improving the behavior of American servjcemen’ on leave in Australia, was issued teday by U. S. Provost Marshal Capt. Jack Chambers. They included: Don't hold girls’ hands in the streets. Don’t Walk with arms around girls. Don’t sit in the grass with girls when park benches are available. Don't rush ahead of Australians for taxicabs. : - Don’t carry liquor conspicuously through the streets. Don’t use official cars except for business.
SEIZE HOSTAGES IN ATHENS
A Moscow broadcast reported by|
the PEC today said German occupation authorities had taken 400 “distinguished Athens . citizens” as hostages recently.
~ By Crockett Johnson
Nothing's happenings +» .
Roosevelt's i Wage Ruling
in their wages—was apparently
. Among President Roosevelt's prin.
“tion: “On the whole the line has
Made Harder By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—An im~
portant question before President Roosevelt—whether several mil.
lion working men and women, shall have an immediate increase
made harder
John A Stéphens, a vice president of U. S. Steel
Mr. Perkins
Ip. appeared as the defender of the policy, and seemingly put up to the President the responsibility for any change which might encourage a rise in prices to make the dollar look like 30 cents, :
A lot of politics is involved.
cipal supporters are the C. I. O. unions foremost in the drive op organized labor to break the Little Steel formula. .The presidential campaign is now in full swing, and the C. 1. 0. leadership is pressing for recommendations from the war labor board to be ini the White House by: Oct. 15. ® nn TE THAT DATE would allow three weeks before the election for Mr, Roosevelt to make up his mind— through assaying the effect of possible discontent among his union supporters or of risking an inflationary move and also a charge from his Republican op= ponents of “using other people's money” to hold the labor vote. - Mr. Stephens used a simple device in defending the wage policy and of putting the responsibility for a change up fo Mr. Roosevelt. He merely cited the principal statements of the President and his economic aids on the neces sity of maintaining the stabilization plan until all danger of inflation is past. He noted that the war is not aver, and that recent news. indicates the end is not 4s close as.had been hoped. s ¥..9 % MR. STEPHENS quoted from a speech Wednesday by James PF, Byrnes, director of war mobiliza<
been held and government should continue to hold it until the dangers of inflation are past. If we do not preserve a. stable economy, post-war deflation will ruin all hopes of post-war prosperity.” : The distinctive feature of the present situation is that only one man can give the answer—Mr. Roosevelt.
We, The Women
Men Are Cause | Of Women's Clothes Spree By RUTH MILLETT AMERICAN WOMEN are on such’ a clothes buying spree that it is estimated the $2,923,000,000 they spent for clothes and acces-'
sories in 1943 will be upped by » 10 per cent in 1944. * Experts in
the trade believe women are putting such a large . bercentage of their money on their backs because they can’t put ig into their es. 3
That may be one of the reasons, of course. But women have more personal reasons for buying clothes these day than the fact they can’t buy electrig = ice boxes and washing machines, = » . AND WHEN you examine those reasons it is easier to pity woms + en than to hold them in scorn for spending so much money on clothes in war time. Look at a few cases—each of which can be multiplied by thousands, 4
There is Mrs. Jones whose hus band is coming home on leave
Ruth Millett