Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1944 — Page 9

anapolis reserve, entered active mber, 1940, and rbor at the time Ltack.

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Indiana women ll-Indiana platoon luty at the Pacific ice command are vomen, Maj. Lawistrict commander 1g, announced to-

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TO DINE 30 a. m, tonforrow ° will be given by nderson Women's 44, followed by the

Mrs. Cora Anwill preside,

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NORTHERN TUNISIA, April, 1043. =I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living

“with other troops, and considerable fighting took place

while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends-at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them. I did, and definitely. The most vivid change is the casual and workshop manner in which they now talk about killing. ~They have made the psychological _iransition from the normal belief

over to a new professional outlook where killing is a craft. To them now there is nothing morally wrong about killing. _an admirable thing. I think I am so impressed by this new attitude because it hasn't been necessary for me to'make this change along with them. As a noncombatant, my own life is in danger only by occasional chance or circumstance. Consequently I need not think of killing in personal terms, and killing to me is still murder. Even after a winter of living with wholesale death and vile destruction, it is only spasmodically that 1 seem capable of realizing how real and how awful this war Is. My emotions seem dead and crusty when presented with the tangibles of war. I find I can look on rows of fresh graves without a lump in my throat, Somehow I can look on multilated bodies without flinching or feeling deeply.

That's All Behind for G. 1s

IT IS ONLY when I sit alone away from it all, or fle at night in my bedroll re-creating with closed eyes what I have seen, thinking and thinking and thinking, that at last the enormity of all these newly »dead strikes like a living nightmare. And there are times when I feel that I can't stand it and will have to leave. But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.

Bditor's Note: This 4 the 18th of thy Exile Pils war colimams ws fue reprinting leave, It was this dispatch, incidentally, which suggested the title of Einie's forthcoming book, “Brave Men.”

that taking human life is sinful,

while Erie Is on

He wants to Neat individually or in vast numbers. He wants to see the Germans overrun, mangled, butchered in the Tunisian trap. . He speaks excitedly of seeing great heaps of dead, of our bombers sinking whole shiploads fleeing men, of Germans by the thousands dying miserably in a final Tunisian holocaust of his own creation. In this one respect the front-line soldier differs from all the rest of us. All the rest of us—you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines of Africa—we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over. The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The resf of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

Battle Experience Essential ‘SAY WHAT you will, nothing can make a com-

In fact it is

plete soldier except batile experience.

In the semifinals of this campaign—the cleaning out of Central Tunisia—we had large units in battle for the first time. Frankly, they didn't all excel. Their own commanders admit it, and admirably they don’t try to alibi. The British had to help us out a few times, but neither American nor British commanders are worried about that, for there was no lack of bravery. There was only lack of experience. They all know we will do better next time. The 1st infantry division is an example of what our American untis can be after they have gone through the mill of experience. Those boys did themselves proud in the semi-finals, Everybody speaks about it. Our casualties included few taken prisoners. All the other casualties were wounded or died fighting. “They never gave an inch,” a general says. “They dled right in theri foxholes.” 1 heard of a high British officer who went over this battlefield just after the action was over. Amer-lcan-boys were still lying dead in théir foxholes, their rifies still grasped in firing position in their dead hands. And the veteran English soldier remarked time and again, in a sort of hushed eulogy spoken only to himself:

“Brave men. Brave men!”

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

EVERY MONTH, members of the School 80 P.-T, A. out in Broad Ripple, put on their aprons and tyn out some of the tastiest cakes and cookies you ever tasted. These cakes and cookies then are taken down to one of the service men's centers, where they are

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devoured eagerly by ever-famished. G. L's. The ladies did their usual stint the other day, turning out four or five cakes and about 70 dozen cookies. Mrs. Jerry Beldon, the recieation chairman, was assigned to take the food down to the Canteen at the Union station. When she got there, she found no parking space adjacent to the station and had to park half a block or so away. Seeing four G. L's passing. she hailed them and asked if thev'd help her carry the cakes and cookles to the Cunteen. They agreed readily. Mrs, Beldon started walking to the canteen, followed by the G. L's, their arms loaded. When she got there, she found there were only three G. L's in the line. One soldier was missing, and so was the cake he was carrying. There wasn't anything to do about it, so Mrs Beldon went on and delivered what was left. Then she got in her car and started home, About a block away, she saw the missing soldier. He and a companion were scated on the curb, eating chocolate cake. She stopped and smilingly asked how they liked the cake. “Best damn cake I've bad since I Jeft Salem,” replied one. Mrs, Beldon went on. And then, a day or so later, Mrs, Frank Walker, president of the P-T. A, received a letter from two G. L's signing themselves “Fred and All," and again praising the cake. They apparently had learned in the canteen that the cake came from School 80. Incidentally, ft was baked by Mrs. Jim Strickland. So never turn down the invitation if she offers you cake.

Appropriate Names

O. G. SMITH, of the OPA restaurant regulations staff, thought he was being kidded, or something, when he noticed the signatures on a couple of letters

1S THIS war-torn earth the only inhabited globe fn the universe or are there other worlds than ours? The question has troubled astronomers ever since Giordano Bruno, contemporary. of Galileo, was burned at the stake for insisting upon a belief in “the plurality of worlds.” 2 Brung, we now know, was very wrong in thinking life as we know it might exist upon the moon, the sun and the stars, The moon is cold and lifeless and the sun and “stars are great glowing globes of incandescent gases, Twentieth cent@iry astronomers are interested in two possibilities, namely, that of life on some other planet in our solar system and that of fife on some planet circling a distant star. It is hoped that post-war researches in astronomy will throw additional light on this subject since the situation in 1939 was by no means clear with sharp differences of opinion separating the views of eminent authorities.

Opinion Swings to Mars

IN THE 1920's there was tendency to. ri Venus as the planet: in our solar:system most to be inhabited bub. the pendulum gradually wats in the opposite direction during the 1930's. Many astronomers: regard Mars as the only possibility, They are fairly certain that plant life exists on the planet d, therefore, see no reason why animal life shaulds ‘not. be there also,

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‘My Day

WASHINGTON, .. Sunday. —The news . from the Pacific is so startling these days that one holds one's breath. It was to be ‘expected that once German territory was reacted the adyance in Europe would be slowed up. - But there is so much to be covered in the Pacific, one never knows where the néws will come fron, and lately it has been so much good news, ~The distance to and from the areas where we are now operating is 50 great. that I think few people in this’ country realize what it meahs to supply | our: ships and armed forces,

This question of geographical

more in the next few months we will have to study and understand, because the, better we do in the

J Pacific the farther away we get, and the greater is our

supply task, This will mean that ‘the déniands made on people at home will be just as great, or greater, in the months to come, and unless they realize the distances they will wonder why is this the case. .- The American Library association has just sent me a release which will bring joy to a great many people, especially to some. of the school people in rural com=munities. oy If this plan, which was announced by the council

World of Science

distance is one which more and

merican Library association at their meeting surplus cls-

that came in the samé mail. One letter was from Anna L. Spoon, manager of a club restaurant. The other was from Pauline Platter, who was opening a restaurant at Mt, Vernon. . . . A mative of Germany called on Robert B. Eckles, OPA district price economist, on a matter of business recently. The visitor had difficulty in speaking English. So the obliging Mr. Eckles just switched to German and finished the business in that language which he speaks rather flueatly—along with several others. . OPA officials here have learned of a comedy of errors that occurred down in Evansville. A woman living in Dixon, Ky., had some correspondence with the Evansville rationing board, No, 82-1. She decided to phone the board. Noticing the board number, she assumed that was its phone number and told the operator she wanted to talk “to 82 blank 1” at Evansville, The operator assumed that by “blank” she meant “nought,” and gave her phone number: 2-8201, That happens 10 be the number of the Evansville price board which is separate from the ration board there. The price, clerk, Sabra George, quickly referred the call over to! the ration hoard. Thus the woman got the number she wanted—by mistake,

He Wants a Zoo

A RECENT ITEM mentioning our future Indianapolis zoo (it’s still in the dream stage) struck a responsive chord with Coast Guardsman John F. Carson, down at Ft. Lauderdale, Pla. He writes: interest in animals has taken me to several 200s, cluding the Cincinnati, St. Louis, Philadelphia and

played by the large crowds. Science and art classes convene at the 200s. Truly, a zoo is a worthy project | from several viewpoints. One of my adolescent | dreams was to be instrumental in founding an Indi-| anapolis Zoological Park.” Okay, John; you are hereby enrolled as a charter member of Inside’s Indianapolis Zoological society. We hope to get the society out of the dream stage when the war is over, and we'll need your help. Another charter member is Wilbur Fuller, maestro of Fuller's Friendly Barber shops. He's an ardent supporter.

By David Dietz

Much of the controversy about Mars has raged over the fine structure on the planet's surface, the so-called “canals.” These are difficult to see, being Just on the edge of the limit of visibility and some astronomers even malnianed that they were an optical illusion. However, in the summer of 1939 Dr. E. C. Stipher of the Lowell observatory succeeded in photographing them for the first time in history. He used new equipment and new types of films and took advantage of. the close approach of the planet in that summer, There is reason to hope, therefore, that post-war studies of Mars may be significant.

Nature Always Prodigal

THE QUESTION of inhabited planets surrounding the distant stars is involved with many other considerations and, therefore, almost any study of the stellar universe in postwar days may throw significant light upon it. There seems little hope of a direct approach since no telescope is powerful enough to settle the question. The nearest star is 25 trillion miles away. If we were to assume that only one out of every million stars our Milky Way was surrounded by planets, that “Would still permit of 100,000 planetary systems in our galaxy. This does not seem like an unreasonable assumption. But, on the other hand, we must remember Sir Arthur Eddington's warning that nature is always prodigal and it would be in Keeping with its ways to create 100,000,000,000 stars to achieve one inhabited earth,

By I, Roosevelt

todian, then on demobilization when army camps are closed, millions of books which have been provided for the soldiers will be turned over to the libraries in smal] towns througout the country. "The library equipment and materials are included in the proposal. It is suggested that these items of surplus property be turned over to the U. S. office of education and allotted to each state in proportion to its rural population. I hope very much that if this plan goes through, school and traveling libraries will be included, since so many. children use exclusively the library in their school and: have little access to the public library. When I was at Mitchell field, the other day, I saw how much pleasure their set-up for telephone calls gave to the wounded boys Just returning from overseds, Portable telephones were carried to the boys’ bedside by girls assigned to this job. The girls put in the calls, and even held the telephone if the boys was not strong enough. The boys get these telephone calls free, because the commanding officer has raised a fund to pay for them. I can't help thinking, however, that this same service should available in every hospital where boys are landed from any overseas area.

It should not fall upon the commanding: officer “

alone, in any hospital to raise the money. It seems

‘My| In i chain of perhaps 100 theaters Sommmnding a total of several New York zoos. Much interest has always been dis-|

~ SECOND SECTION

"MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1944

GREAT EVENTS. DIRECT TO YOU AT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIE —

Will Television Doom the Double Feature?

.By JAMES LEAMAN Written for NEA Service

NEW YORK.—Television after the war may reach the average family not in its

‘living room but as an added

attraction in neighborhood

movie houses. Television in the home has many barriers to hurdle before it becomes the practical day-to-day reality that it promises to be within a few years, ‘The most serious barrier is the difficulty of finding room in the radio spectrum for all the television stations that may be built. » = » ALSO SINCE television uses such large pieces of the air, it has been necessary to make frequency allocations = compatible with requirements of other communication media like FM, short wave radio and ultfa FM, short quency message transmissions. ‘Theater television, on the other hand, has little more than a time barrier to overcome. Theater television will be realized by means of television wire transmission, permitting a group of theaters to be linked together by ordinary telephone wires 30 ° that all may receive the same television program at the same time. » 2 » THIS MEANS that theaters in larger metropolitan areas couid be equipped for large screen television service as soon as reconversion to peace-time manufacturing pursuits permit the manu-

facture of already designed pro- .

jector units which can be installed in virtually the same length of time required to install a 35 mm. motion picture proJector. This new type. of large screen television projection unit is of British design and was actvaliy in successful operation in London Just prior to the war. Since that’ time refinements and a) i have been made. Fe ‘uw ~~. “FROM A Heat standpoint, the adyantages of theater television over telgvision in the home are manifold. « Theaters, commanding a known audience group based on known bex office receipts, can determine beforehand what they may safely offer for sponsorship of a desifable attraction—like a topnotch sports event in Madison Square Garden. In: other words, an exhibifor's

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FRED AS ERNIE? Director Favors

Astaire fo Play Pyle Movie Lead

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 16 (U. P.). —Film Director William A. Wellman today picked Fred Astaire as the actor he'd like to portray Ernie: Pyle, Indianapolis Times war correspondent, in the film story of Pyle's war experiences and a said a visit with the “home-/ spun” writer cpused him to scrap seven months’. work on the picture and make a fresh start. Wellman visited Pyle at the latter's home ‘dn. Albuquerque, N. M., after Pyle, teturned from the European War. ‘Jfront, which he quit because he said, “I couldn't stomach any more right now.” * = =

“EVERYBODY thinks of | Astaire as a *hoofer’ but he's also |

a good actor. He looks somes thing like Pyle and I think he could do the job,” Wellman said. “Pyle is a sensitive guy and we've got to have an actor who

not only resembles him physically | but who can portray that sensi- |] tiveness. The actor has to have |

the right speaking manner, too.”

It was the ordinary guy that | Wellman learned about in his !

visit with Pyle, he said.

“I came away .with an entirely |

new concept of the purpose of this film. I found out just how Ernié wants the public to see our soldiers.” t J ® a. WHILE THE research and background material collected for the Lester Cowan production would be used, the main story is. being revamped, Willman said. “Ernie has always written about the soldier and not about the battle and that's how we are going to film his story.” The motion picture, temporarily titled “G. I. Joe," will have only one major war scene, the storming and shelling of the monastery on Mt. Cassino.

G. A. R, UNIT TO MEET T. W. Bennett circle No. 23, Ladies of the G. A. R.,, will hold a called meeting at 1 p. m. Thursday in Ft. Friendly. Applications will be read, followed by annual inspection.

-BARNABY

other labor controversy not likely

Whether employers are to be given

- act by the national labor

Television promises to be a lucrative new field both for established stage and screen stars and for

new theatrical talent,

The author of this article has pioneered in the preparation of motion picture and live programs for. television. -Formerly a director in the television program department of CBS, he now ‘is program: manager of Cine-Television in New York.

million admissions can afford to offer an amount: far in excess of the amount ‘that a radio sponsor could afford to pay. s = . THE EXHIBITOR who wishes to link his theaters by means of telephone wires to present felevision attractions has no fear of government interventiom .or necessity for adhering to the rigid standards of broadcast television transmission. An actual television service is Propose for metropolitan New York theaters by RKO, who have made plans to link 100 or more theaters by wires and to bid for championship bouts, basket ball games, track meets, wrestling and other interesting events, plus any other unusual event with drawing

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power to augment box office receipts. 8 nN SPECIAL EVENTS obviously cannot be repeated, except by means of film (like present-day newsreel coverage); but with programs planned and presented by the theaters themselves, television entertainment may well supplant the double feature and provide a more ‘interesting type of additional entertairtment to accompany a feature : tHollywoon production.

Old-time vaudeville may Yeally come ‘into its own again by achieving new favor in the neighborhood theaters of tomorrow, thanks to television. “An exhibitor's television group could very well develop new stars to entertain in theater-linked

Up Front With Mauldin

Cope. 1944 by Dnited Pesture Syndicate. Tae.

“Has this fruit been washed?”

television, or secure the services of existing radio or theatrical talent and pay them more money than radio-sponsored television could afford to pay for their services. 2 8 = LEADERSHIP in television is expected from the broadcasting’ industry because of television's close relationship to radio and, naturally, commercial development of the art would be advanced by advertising carried over from radio. Movies will continue to be important to television principally hecause of the need for motion picture technique and methods in television. These film techniques ave, in many cases, already been borrowed lock, stock and barrel by television because of the “similarity of the two media. . And, too, the influence of the motion picture on the entertainment habits of the nation is reflected in the reaction of the potential television public, conditioned by real screen showmanship.

G. ls VS. FILMDOM— Soldiers in India

Eager to Battle Ann Sheridan

NEW DELHI, Oct. 16 (U. P.).— The G. 1s of the China-Burma-India theater said today there was nothing they'd enjoy more than a chance to fight Ann Sheridan “boy fashion.” Ann offered to take on the C. B. I. G. 1's “boy fashion" after the C. B. I. Roundup, army news= paper of New Delhi, criticized the Hollywood actress along with other stars who have apepared in the C. B. I. theater. The C. B. I. lads said they would be delighted to meet Miss Sheridan “boy fashion’ ‘either in the Lodi tombs, New Delhi, Wilshire Bowl, Los Angeles or “her own apartment.” * » s ”

SGT. JOHN DERR, sports editor of The Roundup who is in the United States on leave, cabled Editor Editor Floyd Walters suggesting that he be authorized to “call up Mike Jacobs and see if we can use Madison Square Garden.” -. The C. B. I. Roundup was deluged with G. IL letters support ing their attatk on Miss Sheridan, Paulette Goddard, Al Jolson and Joel McCrea who were charged

Goon the Coon Comes Cropper Under Pots and Pans Barrage

DENVER, Colo., Oct. 16 (U. P.). —Goon the Coon is dead. Goon came to a sad end under a barrage of pots and pans in a kitchen where he had gone to get warm. But his passing left residents of the neighborhood dry eyed. They said Goon the Coon got what was coming to him, for they knew him as the midnight marauder of Montrose street who had made a habit of eating the shingles from their well-kept roofs, * For weeks more than one householder, awakened by a crunching noise, has discovered a hole in

his roof and Goon the Coon scur-

rying away with a mouthful of splinters. But last night Goon, apparently flushed with his victories over police, trappers, and the harried residents of Montrose street, grew too bold. He scratched at the door of George Goldberg's house, Mrs. Goldberg, believing the scratching came from their dog, opened the door and in sauntered Goon. He made a beeline for the kitchen stove. Curled up on top and went to sleep. “It's Goon the Coon,” Mrs, Goldberg excitedly told police. Two policemen responded and killed Goon the Coon.

with dogging it” by cutting short or eliminating morale tours of the China-Burma-India theater. » = =

ONE G. I. said Ann had done more good for C. B. I. morale by her “boy fashion” challenge than by her periormances in the war theater. On one point G. I's took issue with the Roundup. Several wrote into support Joe E. Brown who had been named with the others in the critical editorial. One private wrote: “I feel you've done an injustice to that great showman, Joe E. Brown. We've seen his show here and even when his

entertaining in the true American spirit.”

0.E.S. TO MEET A meeting of Brightwood chapter 399, O.E.S., will be held at 8

o'clock tonight.

By Crockett Johnson

Copyright 1944 Field Publiconom

Isn't your conference taking a Jot

will be here pretty soon, won't it?

&| of time, Mr. O'Malley? Election Day

It's Autumn 1943 by my wristwatch. -

His watch runs backwards. Bit even | so, it's a lof of time. You began the meeting in 1944, didn't you? And—

We've accomplished a great deal.) And in less than no time, foo. . .

Yes, Barnaby.

[rer—— " But our agenda is still

Wr ith. " < aby sone] = rier

own son was killed he kept on®

pushed around,

Decision on Rules Splits WLB, NLRB

By FRED W. PERKINS . WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—An-

to be settled before

a share of the rights now enjoyed by unions under administration

of the Wagner

relations board, The question has been pending since May 19, when NLRB held a hearing in which spokesmen for all branches practically - all branches of Wr. Perking organized labor opposed vigor X ously a suggested change in the board's rules to grant employers the right, on expiration of a con tract with a labor union, and in the absence of a contest by an. other union, to petition for a collective bargaining election to determine whether the certified union still has a majority in the plant,

s 2 = NLRB's five months’ delay in deciding the question, it Was learned today, is due partly to its inability to reach an ggreement on the general question with the : war labor board.

Wayne L. Morse, former public member of the war labor board, now a Republican nominee for the U. S. senate fror Oregon, has attacked exclusion of employers from rights under the Wagner act as it is now administered.

He has declared for legislative revision of this act, but the particular point now long-pending could be handled without any more law—merely by a change in regulations, 2 = = DENIAL to employers of the right to petition for an election (which the national labor rela tions board would reserve the right to deny) has been charged with bringing on the Mont-gomery-Ward seizure last spring.

‘Gerard V. Reilly, member of NLRB, proposed the change in the board's rules, without refer ence to the Montgomery-Ward case. In a recent opinion dissenting with the other two \ members, he upheld the princi of his proposal.

Correspondence between Mr. Reilly and William H. Davis, chairman of the war labor d, shows the conflict between the two agencies. ; 2 - 2 THE WLB by a majority vo of its public and labor members is disposed to recognize a union certification as continuous di the war period.

The NLRB, under the Reilly proposal, would require periodic proofs that a majority of the employees want the union to continue as bargaining agent,

NLRB is a permanent government agency, under the law, but WLB, a temporary agency, ap= pears to be the dominant organization in labor-regulatory circles. The present government set-up provides no way out of the stalemate when these two agencies are in disagreement—except through presidential action. ;

We, the Women Customer Isn't | Always Wrong | Nowadays

By RUTH MILLETT ; : THE MIDDLE - AGED man walked into a coffee shop and started to sit down in a vacant booth. Along came a hostess and said without a smile, a please, Eo or an apology, “You'll have to sit over there.” “No, Miss, I don’t,” said the middle - aged man. “I dont even have to eat. lunch In here.” And with that he put his

Ruth Millett

hat on his head and walked out of the place. * = =»

THE PEOPLE who heard that man assert his independence were startled. Apparently it had never oe‘curred to any of them that y don’t have to meekly accept courtesy, sloppy service or pla disinterest when you are ing your money. We've become so used to bel

ignored, a talked down to when we go to out cash we no longer make