Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1944 — Page 7

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kept calling “Right” or the driver should turn to dodge.

But finally it got too hot for the Boys up front,

and they just bailed out and left the jeep running. That left our hero alone, riding backwards in driverless jeep, yelling “Right-Left” to nobody, while the bullets splattered around. Finally he looked around to see why the driver wasn't sheying. Then he too hit the dust.

Sand Hds Its Drawbacks

IN SOME PARTS of Tunisia the sand is soft and Yellow and moist, and it's almost a pleasure to dig . slit trenches in it, the digging is so easy. But it does have its drawbacks. I know of two cases where soldiers were sleeping in narrow slit trenches and the loose sand slid in on them without waking them up. Tey were smothered to death. Our tank warfare has shown two things—that ar farge number of our tanks catch fire when badly hit,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nusshaun

WAYNE WHIFFING, president of the C. of C. industrial safety club, was driving past 30th and Cornell the other day and saw a Colonial bread truck

with a sign on the side reading: “Share Your Car.”

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On the windshield was another sign: “No Riders.” A case of “Don’t do as I do— do as I say” ... Folks in the school board offices enjoy watch- * ing the city’s most urbane squirrel. The little critter appears in the alley back of the Epglish hotel—just a stone's throw from the monument—about 10 o'clock every morning and climbs a lad-der-type fire escape, then clambers onto a balcony and awaits a handout. Next thing you know, he'll be climbing the monument. ; « + » Last spring, Gen. Tyndall invited the mayor of Louisville to attend the opening ‘baseball game hele. The mayor of Louisville sent back word he couldn't come, that he had an opening game of his own to. attend there. Well, just the other day, the mayor of Louisville sent word to the mayor of Indianapolis that he would like to have a nice long talk with him about baseball Recalling that Louisville's ball team wound up the season near the top, while Indianapolis was near the cellar, the general declined. No use talking baseball, he replied, when we're in the midst of the football season, and getting ready for hockey and basketball, . . . Incidentally, the mayor must be working pretty hard these days. He showed up at the industrial fire demonstration at Lukas-Harold Tuesday about 3 p. m. and admitted he hadn't had lunch yet. - x

Around the Town

THE FOLKS out around Brookside park are fond of the many squirrels in the vicinity. And when one of them happens to lose its life in traffic, the children of the neighborhood shed tears. One of our readers was walking along Brookside pkwy. at Ewing st. the other day and noticed a tiny grave, complete with a “headstone.” On the “headstone” was written: “Squirrely--died Oct. 10, 1944.” , ,

America Flies

GLIDERS-—-both the heavy commercial type and light sports type—are going to fill an important spot in the post-war aviation picture. In discussing future aviation, most stress has been placed on power planes. Great success of the light g glider movement prior to the war, plus tremendous successful use of the heavy glider during the past two years have greatly changed the general picture. Colleges already are planning glider training and glider clubs, many of which sprung up in prewar days. They offer a cheap, easy and fairly safe means of flight training. Airlines, for months, have been studying use of towed gliders—in sky “trains”— to carry freight for five cents or

less per ton mile. Col. Edward 8. Evans, the “father” of gliding in this country, takes up the cudgels for post-war use of gliders in the September and August issues of Gliding magazine,

Studied German Gliders

IT WAS the colonel who cabled his son, Bob, in Europe in 1028, asking him to study Germany's gliders and glider training system and bring back details to the states. Bob Evans did, He instituted a glider club at the University of Michigan, organIzed the Glider Society of Michigan and, in 1929, 227 students including 12 girls were trained. In that same year ‘Col, Evans helped form the

My Day

\ WASHINGTON, Friday. — Yesterday afternoon, being Columbus day, the President gave a radio speech which was attended by the ambassadors and representatives of the various Latin-American republics. Then they joined us at tea. It was very pleasant to see familiar faces and to meet the new representatives, and I know that the President enjoyed it 4s much as I did. A young woman from India came to see me yesterday, a niece of Tagore, the Indian philosopher and poet. I have always loved

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that a truck arrived at the foot here came soldiers lugging up oy were getting thelr letters e. Near Ttalisn soldiers referred 40 a5 ther “Eyeties” or “Wops” or “Guineas.” the reason for abandoning “Italian” one. In this case a mountain lookout “Three Italians” were coming up the thought he said “three vy barrage dropped in

lookout called back to ask why such heavy shooting, the misunderstanding. was straightened out. But from-then on, all men in that outfit were instructed to refer to Italians as “Guineas.”

I saw the tragic remnants of a jeep that. got a direct hit from a 500-pound German bomb, Three soldiers were in it, and they were blown to .disintegration. Nothing was found of them to bury, But searchers did find scattered coins, knives and bits of clothing. One soldier had a pocket Bible, and about half of its sheets were found. Another had a large pad of currency—bills just

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One of our agents who is a little forgetful at times, thumbed through his calendar pad and found a note, under date of July 27, to tell us about Flight Officer James Lopp and the Kleenex. The flight officer and Mrs. Lopp, before he left for England, had had much trouble finding cleansing tissue. And then he crossed the ocean. Before long, back came a package from him, bearing $148 in postage. All the package contained was a 25-cent package of Kleenex. . . . Clare Boothe Luce will not be wearing | yocke a corsage when she appears on the platform at the Republican rally in Cadle tabernacle tonight. In a letter to Republican headquarters, she asked that no corsage be provided for her as she has a “superstition” about wearing corsages on the platform. She said, however that she had no superstition against wearing a small red rose—when not on the stage.

Watch Your Manners

FOR YEARS, George Saas, advertising manager of the gas company, has been preaching to employees the importance of courtesy to patrons, and he has emphasized “telephone manners,” One of the things he stresses is giving your name when answering a phone. George's phone rang the other day and, following his own preaching, George opened with: “Saas.” A volce with a deep southern accent spoke: “Ahedidn’t get the name.” Never one to take kidding without handing it right back, George “drawled: “Didn't yo', shore enough?” Back came the same southern accent: “No, ah didn't” And then, with a shock, George realized he was talking to a perfect stranger who by that timk was getting plenty irritated at the gas company. George's apologies were profuse, and the conversation then went along normally. . . . Add signs of winter: At Illinois and Washington, we saw the season's first Boston bull-

Ne « Mrs, Ira a Chappetl, 2212 Bethel ave. appealed to us to try to find a harmonica for her husband, Pvt. Ira Chappell, who is in a hospital in England. He wrote home for one, but they're practically unobtainable now. Her number is GA-7298, and she's home only in the evening.

By Max B. Cook

National Glider association of whith he was presi-

From that point on glider activities in the United

States boomed. By 1931, clubs had been formed in! | governor's commission on aviation |

at South Bend, Evansville and here, | beginning within the next few weeks, :

every state and in Panama and Hawaii. Elmira,! N. Y, was found to be the best glider flying site and activities have been centered there,

War Experience Helps

WAR EXPERIENCE has resulted in development of the heavy glider to a point where thousands will be available for post-war freights and express cdrrying. This writer saw 250 heavy gliders of the CG-4A type, towed by twos by C-47 transport planes, land in a large rough fleld in North Carolina recently during the Troop Carrier-Airborne Command maneuvers. Cutting loose near the field, the gliders made 90-degree turns and came in at about 65 miles per hour, Their Troop Carrier pilots brought them in smoothly and stopped them in straight parking lines, as neatly as one might handle automobiles. A loaded CG-4 A glider was “snatched” from a rough field by a fast-flying C-47. It took to the ajr with practically no rum, as the tow line was picked up from two polés by a pickup mechanism, It is: Col. Evans’ belief that several gliders can be used in sky trains “if the proper type of tow-plane can be developed,” thiis reducing carrying costs per ton mile to & minimum. Students and other air-minded citizens who cannot afford powered light planes are going to find light glider training and the gliding and soaring sport within their financial means,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

dustries were bringing them an influx of workers of various races, creeds and color, they feared that unless an attitude of tolerance and common sense was encouraged, some difficulties might arise. They therefore tried to have a clear understanding as to what are the ts” of citizens as distinct from the “pri and to see to it that the “rights” were assured to all. The pledge, which I give you in the hope that

as follows: “My country is ehgaged in total war to preserve itself and its ideals. We at home are as deeply involved as the man on the fighting front, and

BASE, U. 8. 15th AIRFORCE, Italy —Across the blue Italian sky, dirty with thotisands of puffs of viNazi flak, flying a and Liberators

led a cavalcade of allied

Mediterranean air power against Nazi emplacements around Bologna Thursday. It was the greatest number of heavy bombers ever directed against a single objective in the Mediterranean theater. As the only civilian correspondent participating in the raid, I rode in a Fortress which was among the earliest to run the bitter gantlet of German flak. oo» . » SCHEDULED to be the first over Bologna, our Fortress actually reached the well-camouflaged German bivouac area after two earlier waves had laid initial carpets of bombs. By that time German. flak (anti-aircraft fire) had found the range, too. A Fortress of the first wave caught fire from the flak. The pilot put it in a perpendicular dive to extinguish the

‘flames, pulled out miraculously "| without snapping the plane's back-

bone and finally disgorged seven parachutes. They floated down into the streets of Bologna. : .- . » OUR FORTRESS, too, was already in distress as it entered its bombing run. Though the flak until then had been light—German gunners were waiting until the giants had committed themselves on their final run—one engine suddenly died. “A small piece is torn from the left wing,” scribbled Navigator Lt. I. C. Heffron in his log as we exchanged glances over oxygen

mane was at that moment, when the inside engine on the same wing suddenly stopped. Its blackened propeller motionlessly confronted us from the side window as lst Pilot Lt. John Whedboe and co-pilot G. F. Cooley of Howell, Mich., fought to keep the ship in formation. -

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IN THIS case, it was necessary to hold formation, not only for protection against an unexpected fighter attack, but in order that our bombs should fall at the chosen point in the smoking carpet which had been German encampments. ’ Hardly had the affected engine been doctored and the ship begun to groan with an effort to hold

“its place, when three Messer-

schmitt-109's were reported climbing to attack. Though I have flown against Italian anti-aircraft fire, this was my first experience with the highpowered flak which today is Germany’s chief weapon of aerial defense, as its factories labor to replenish its fighter reserves. From the moment the first black blossom bloomed near us, it seemed as though the Nazi gunners had chosen this ship.

State Aviation

Hearings Listed

Public hearings on post-war avia- |

tion problems will be held by the!

The commission, at its meeting

here yesterday, decided, in addition] |

to holding the hearings, to ask members of the state legislature, mayors and other public officials for their views, Among the problems on which the commission will seek information at the hearings are: -What assistance should be rendered by the state to local communities planning and constructing airports; what responsibility has the state with reference to commercial air lines that serve state communities; what action is required to provide for the needs of private aviation; what methods of public financing are most desirable.

Capehart Election Vital, Willis Says

Times Special w SHELBYVILLE, Ind. Oct. 14— Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind) called for the election of

“It is vitally important’ that Governor Dewey as President have the support of a Republican senate to establish the unity needed in meeting the problems confronting

the country now and those of the.

immediate future,” he said. He sald that Governor Schricker, the Democratic senatorial nominee, had promised, if elected, “to give undivided support to the policies established by the New Deal”

| RAN THE GANTLET OF NAZIS DEADLY. BLACK AERIAL FISTS" —

eer a Carpet of Death at Bologna

“Not a “single bomb of thokundreds I saw r coasting down. from the yawning bomb-bays landed within the

DURING the long high = altitude ride—our . oxygen masks were on for more than four hours and this was only part of the flight—I had figured that our Fortress would be on the flank nearest and most exposed to the flak surrounding Bologna. This prediction unfortunately proved true. Though not a single black puff penetrated the heart of the formation, the sky ahead of us and beside the window was stippled with deadly black fists. The most menacing of all was a giant caulifiower-like cloud of hundreds of bursts which the Nazis erected over their troops as soon as the first Forts struck them. s ” » WITH SCANT regard for the fact that the constant winking of their flak might betray them to countersbattery fire by the artillery of Li. Gen. Mark W, Clark's 5th army, which was already rainirig shells into Bologna's outskirts, the Nazis kept up a thick, compact cloud of defiant smokepuffs. Here, once again, our bombers were able to sidle along its edge and yet adhere to the green checkerboard wheré the camouflaged Reichswehr crouched. As far as I could see behind us, stretched back columns of bombers, creeping like caterpillars against the cloudbanks.

THE MOMENT we were Crosse ing the Nazis’ hideout, the flak intensified. We crouched lower in our metal helmets. Almost as though the gunners were trying to throw black dust in our eyes, handfuls of thick smoke appeared ahead of the nose, seemingly as near as tobacco rings to a smoker's face. Others pockmarked the blue just above us while another set ran alongside us, appearing and

nearby yellow walls of Bologna

disappearing like black porpoises beside the ship.

OXYGEN USE is denotéd by a black-faced. dial. which has a semi-human mouth with cold white lips. These lips open and shut with each breath you draw through the mask, as though the instrument were also inhaling. As the flak bloomed around us, breaths came faster and white lips parted and closed even more rapidly. The heat of fear made our electrically heated flying suits sweaty and the rubber mask moist inside. We crouched low, so that fore and after, umpire style, the flak suits would protect as a skirt our legs and thighs as well as torsos. # s s AS OUR Fortress sped on past Bologna, I could see the brown cloud raised by the splintering and obliterative™ demolition bombs which the “heavies” carried. Suddenly through the rolling brown smoke, there appeared a bulge of white, like a pallid rose, on a brown flower box. Evidently, some hidden dump had been hit. Not a single bomb of the hundreds I saw cascading down through yawning bomb-bays landed in Bologna, a city of medieval skyscrapers, though. its yellow walls were close nearby and the Grand Piazzi was clearly visible, indenting its center.

THE MILITARY motive for this gigantic effort could be read easily from the skies. The 5th army's artillery, looking down from the Apennines, dominates the approaches to most of the Po valley. But these roads all intertwine at Bologna. And the area where the bulk of

Up Front With Mauldin

“Hell of a patrol.

We got shot at.”

Renovated Pound Slates Open House

It's to be a red letter day at the; the new pound room, once notorious

city dog pound tomorrow when that institution marks conversion of the old lethal chamber into a modern canine hospital with “open house” from 1 to 4 p. m. A group of the pound's “$4 dogs” will be on hand to greet visitors to

as a gas chamber for hapless inmates. Pound Supt. Leona Frankfort dedicated the “wing” to Mme. Oscar Hecker, former teacher of Miss Elizabeth Trotter, secretary to Booth Tarkington who bequeathed pound pooches vith the title of $4 dogs.

this bombing fell was between Gen. Clark and Bologna—a distance less than 10 miles broad. If the chief Nazi force entrenched between the two rivers and two roads entering Bologna is really deprived of a foothold by this carpet of death, the Nazis must either withdraw beyond Bologna or fight for the ancient city, house by house. If the latter should be the case, it is likely that Bologna's beauties may succumb to war's necessities as did those of Florence. = » 2

THE FORTRESS group which took me over Bologna was the same which saved Kassarine pass by destroying 70 per cent of Marshal Erwin Rommel's armor after his breakthrough. It was among those responsible for the similar-carpet-bombing at Anzio and the attempt—Iless successful—at Monte Cassino, to break the mountain deadlock. For this reason, the briefing crews—several of which have returned no more—in which I took part before dawn in the barn of an old Adriatic farmhouse, was particularly moving. s ” »

WHEN THE MEN shuffled in from the cold starlight, Briefing Officer Maj. George M. Sander of Spokane, greeted ven with the words: “Of all targets, this time we have the most ticklish one. If we hit our own troops we can cause disaster. “Never forget, when you are turning into a bombing run, that it is the 5th army that has called for our help and that is an American army. “Those kids down there are kids we went to school with, and kids we will have to live with after the war. Be careful.”

Jackson Urges State Progress

Times Special HUNTINGTON,

state leadership, Senator Samuel D. Jackson, Democratic gubernatorial nominee, declared in a speech here last night that “we must not revert to the D. C. Stephenson days in the state house.” “We must not,” he said, “return to the days of Ed Jackson. We dare not go back to the McOray administration.” “In short, we must not lower the present standard of state government. We must go forward, not backward.”

Times Special NEW ALBANY, Ind. Oct: 14— In an address here last night, Governor © Schricker, the Democratic nominee, reiterated his pledge to “exercise the same kind of oldtime. Hoosier economy” if sent to the U. S. senate as he has practiced in the governor's office.

ABC Asks V-E Day Liquor Ban

The state alcoholic beverages commission today appealed to state liquor permit holders to discontinue for 24 hours the sale of alcoholic beverages upon receipt of official word of the surrender of Germany. “V-E day,” said the commission, “is not a day for celebration or hilarity; rather it should be a day for

thankfulness and solemnity.” Most of the liquor industry throughout the state already has indorsed the proposal. The commission also advised permit Holders that under state law the sale of liquor must be stopped for the New Year's holiday from 1 a. m. Sunday, Dec. 31, until 6 a. m. Tuesday, Jan. 2.

By Crockett Johnson

CROCKETT, It's time to begin worrying JOHN = otimt ss bgivwar | (fire i in imaginary creatures he . Sets realize when it's

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compiling a huge mass of testimony and arguments on the question of revising the Little Steel formula which is the basis of : wartime wage Mr. Perkins control, now has disqualified | self, through the stand of 3 public members, from making recommendation to the Presider The effect is that Mr. Root velt, before or after election, w have to make a one-man dec sion affecting the incomes of : estimated 20,000,000 ‘Americal and with possible repercussio: on all other citizens. " EJ »

THROUGH the mechanics the stabilization program A Roosevelt could make this ¢ cision anyway, but he would helped in the public mind if |

agency that was appointed handle the wartime wage proble:

Thus “the heat” is applied Mr. Roosevelt, in the closing wee’ of his effort for a fourth term, ! an agency of his own creation and with the labor members « this agency announcing they w see that the question is before hi . weil in advance of Nov. 7. If Mr. Roosevelt decides tI issue before election, he will ha to choose between pleasing or di appointing the labor groups nc supporting him; and between risi ing a defection of labor votes « of choosing an inflationary rise

other groups. » » ” IF HE defers the question unt ifter election he will disappoir the labor spokesmen, includir Philip Murray of the C. I. O. ar George Meany of the A. F.of I who have shown a determinatic to get the issue on “he oresidentic desk by the end 2f next week.

The labor group of WLB hr declared it will not wait for tk lengthy processes of the boart. including consultation with: othe government bureaus concerne with stabilization, but will send i plea direct to the White House, This would be contrary bureau procedure, but would con centrate the heat where the labo

spokesmen think it would ha most effect.

Ind., Oct. 14— Hitting hard at the Republican!

We, The Women War Acquaints | Everyone With The Unfamiliar

By RUTH MILLETT WATCHING your friends who once thought they could smoke only their chosen kind of cigare smoking anything they can b have you been reminded of he many ways the war has forced = people to get acquainted with the unfamiliar? The Southerners who once swore they would never live anywhere but in the South are somehow managing to get 5 along in other. Ruth Millett parts of the country. Sheltered girls, following their young husbands to army camp find themselves living in o¢ shabby room and not even turning up their noses at their new

» EJ o WOMEN who haven't cooked honest meal in years getting quainted with recipes and d dishes. Neighbors who ‘never both to be neighborly borrowing la mowers and riding in one other’s cars.

Rich women and poor wom working side by side in Red Cro rooms and becoming interested one another's lives. » ” o CLINGING vines standing their own two feet and managh to be both mother and father their children for the dura

Ladies = getting on terms with their butchers, never before knew their te names. Maybe all this getting acqu ed with the unfamiilar will } lasting effects on our lives, .