Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1944 — Page 17

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guns than they know what to do with, All the guns in any one sector can be centered to shoot at one spot. And when we lay the whole bust-

and dirt, Veteran German soldiers say they have never been through anything like it. Now to the infantry—the Ggd-damned infantry, as es, .

I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They

8 CHUCK HARING, 2620 E. Northgate, is taking a ribbing from some of his neighbors. Chuck wanted to see the Purdue football game last Saturday, but Souldn’t get out of town, Getting home in the after-

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Pe charged with that responsibility for & national air policy so a national air i commission is the answer. : There's no need” to sell airpower, either” military or com-

It was American airpower which started jabbing Japan and Germany long before the other ’ forces of the nation were ready to undertake offensive conquest. We had a blessed breathing spell after the disastrous Pearl Harbor. It is most unlikely destiny will ever be so kind to us again, especially since <aviation development clearly indicates that the future may scrap the whole of military airpower as we know it today. That can only mean faster and more conclusive action in a shorter space of time. Sg we must be ready with airpower for the next war. Why must we blunder into each war unprepared? Why must we face fully equipped enemies without weapons of comparable military efficiency?

Policy Should Be Balanced

WE GOT into.this war without fighters,comparsble to those of other major nations, without sealed tanks, without armored aircraft, without anti-aircraft guns, without warships adequately armed for air

- warfare over the sea, without tanks, and without

anti-tank guns, Must we always go on like this tempting fate with our unpreparedness? Probably yes, unless ‘we adopt a balanced policy. It required more than four million manhours of

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—I was particularly happy yesterday to welcome here Lord and Lady Gowrie. Lord Gowrie is just returning to England, after serving in Australia as governor-general. * were more than kind to me when I was in Australia, om or and I am delighted to have this

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you, but if you could instant, you would know people work back home they with these infantrymen in Tunisia.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

the Circuit courtroom, and what do you suppose he saw? Nothing elise but hizzoner, Judge Cox, puffing away contentedly on a cigaret. The spirit is willing, but - = - , . , Fireman Jesse Hutsell of Engine

. House 5 got his fireman's coat back as a result of the

and picked it up. Mr. Bowman read the item Tuesday evening: and delivered the coat to its owner bright early yesterday. Mr. Hutsell was delighted to it back, as it was new and had been worn only

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to another service man overseas, uniess Mr. St. Clair wants them back, :

Ahcays in Trouble

OLD INSIDE is catching the dickens for being “too obliging.” A week or so 8g0, a woman phoned ask which state east of the Mississippi had the greatest area. We looked it up and told her. And then,

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expert engineering to design the B-29. That means

~ time—time that may not be allowed us again. In

fact, had we been on Dec. 7 in the geographical position of France we might well have suffered the same fate, A national air policy may teach us to regard vigorous peacetime research and its cost as insurance

unless it is guided by a national policy. The term “commercial airpower” is used to denote the peacetime half of national airpower. What does the term really mean? Does it mean thousands of the biggest and fastest air transports? It does not, any more than thousands of military planes mean military airpower. Air Experience Is Individual AN AIRPLANE can be built in 8000 to 20,000 manhours of labor, the aggregate efforts of thousands of men. But air experience is something an individual must earn all alone, i enced men can teach a handling an aircraft in the

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those assets he must We must remain nation, and to do this as well as the Indians rode their horses. . ’ Americans have little faith in any scheme involving government wet-nursing. We didn’t become the world’s motor-car drivers that way. It, was American competitive enterprise which made that possible, with state and federal governments providing: the suitable roads and highways. So outside the air training programs to be maintained by our armed forces, we must establish a permanent policy for building an air-wise citizenry. This job must be left to American free enterprise with federal and state governments providing the air highways—with the aids to navigation necessarily a part of such highways, °

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Mrs. Watt, and in the evening we went to the concert given by the Philadelphia orchestra under Eugene

Ormandy. . I had a most in letter recently from William H. Dennis, who is with the science, education » art division of the department of state, | He wrote me from Ann Harbor; Mich., where he had been meeting with the there, who invited him day with them. Something Arhich fe very important, y Sechiniciuns, gud Gitinens . :

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_bany, they are still admir- _ ing the manner in which Governor Dewey, after 20 years of Democratic con-

» trol of the executive branch

of the state government, stepped: into office with a liberal program and speedily carried out his campaign

His success was not founded on a “rubber-stamp” legislature. On the contrary, even though his

party controlled the senate and

the assembly, Republican legislators were not compelled to go along with everything he proposed.

At times, there were sharp disagreements—as in the case of the reapportionment fight.

LATE IN 1942, on the eve of his

inauguration as Governor, Republican leaders of the legislature werg invited to confer with the governor-elect. He placed before them two documents, with this explanation: a “Here are my inauguration ad-

dress and my first message to the

, I should appreciate it if you would read them and give me the benefit of your views and criticisms. Then let us together work oul a legislative program for the coming week.” }

“Well, sir,” said one of those .

leaders, recalling that conference,’ “nothing Dewey could have done

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to that way. But more, we did have advice to offer. He listened courteously. accepted some of it and made us see very clearly his side of certain matters.” And this practice of conferring regularly with the leaders has persisted. Every Sunday night during the legislative session, Governor Dewey calls in the speaker, the majority leader and one or two other members of the assembly, together with the lieutenant governor, senate leader and the state chairman, Then, with their aid, he maps out a program for each succeeding week.

WARTIME NOTABLES—

| Clapper and Pyle

Statues Placed

In Smithsonian |

Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Ernie Pyle and the laté Raymond Clapper, Scripps-Howard columnists, are among the 53 “notable public men of wartime,” whose likenesses in bronze are being presented to the Smithsonian institution. ‘The statues, which will be known collectively as “the living hall of Washington, 1944." are the work of the sculptor Max Kalish. » » J THEY WERE-financed by a private committee headed by W. M. Kiplinger, editor of the “Kiplinger letter.” The committee selected the subjects. The Smithsonian opened the exhibit to the public today—minus a few of the figures, including that of Ernie Pyle, which have not yet been completed. The bronze figures are about two feet high. Besides Mr. Clapper and Mr. Pyle, a third newspaperman, Walter Lippmann, is included. 2 = -

THE COMPLETE list: dent Roosevelt, Vice President Wallace, Chief Justice Stone, Speaker Rayburn, Secretary Hull, Secretary Morgenthau, Secretary Stimson, Atty. Gen. Biddle, Postmaster General Walker, the late Secretary Knox, Secretary For-

Presi-

Undersecretary of War Patterson,

Adm, Leahy, Gen. Marshall, Adm. King, Gen. Arnold, Gen. Mac-

Hopkins, James F. Byrnes, Donald M. Nelson, Charles E, Wilson, Adm. Emory 8. Land, Chester Bowles, Vannevar Bush, Paul V. McNutt, Marvin Jones, Bernard M. Baruch, William M. Jeffers, J. Edgar Hoover, Elmer Davis, Byron Price, Nelson A._ Rockefeller, Thomas E. Dewey, John W. Bricker, the late Wendell Willkie, Truman, William Green, Philip Murray, John IL. Lewis, Henry J. Raiser, Eric A. John-

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Who's this guy Fala? . . . Tom Dewey's Great Dane might well be asking that of his master in this |

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A DEWEY AS NEW YORK GOVERNOR—NO. 3

reat T eamwork With the Legislature

By ROGER W. STUART

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1944

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domestic setting in the governor's mansion at Albany.

GOVERNOR DEWEY has faced some criticism as a “too-domi-nant chief executive.” . There are those, for instance, who say he rules the legislature as well as his own executive divi-

_ sions with an iron hand, and it

is a fact that some of his severest critics during the reapportionment fight were Republicans. ; Nevertheless, some of those who fought him the hardest are today among his stanchest supporters. One example of how the team< work insisted upon by Governor Dewey makes for an efficient, swift-moving administration is presented in the case of a firm which was building condensers for an oil refinery in the Southwest for high octane aviation gasoline, Even a day’s delay meant a loss in fuel vitally needed by the armed forces. ” = » STILL, the refinery was standing idle due to lack of condensers,

and in order to complete production of them the manufacturer

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needed the use of a steel-rolling machine. . The case canmie to Governor Dewey's attention. Learning that the only steel roiler in the vicinity

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moned the legislative leaders. He explained that, although the roller was located in Syracuse, the same city in which the manufacturing plant wa$ situated, it could not be used hy the company, since under the law stateowned equipment could not be

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“industry. “But there's nothing to prevent our having the law changed,” declared the governor. = ” »

AN AGREEMENT was drawn, renting the steel roller to the manufacturer. That was on a Friday. ia ' Early Saturday morning the unfinished condensers were moved into the Barge Canal Terminal in Syracuse, where the roller was stationed, and were completed. The following Monday the legislature changed the law. The soldier vote law is an ex-

“Seen any signs of partisan activity.”

Last Letter: 'It May Be Hill No. 731 To Others, to Us It's Suicide Hill'

THE LAST LETTER that Pvt. Bruno Floreancig wrote home before being killed in Italy told of the grim fight for Suicide Hill—a German strong point in the Gothic line. “To others it may be Hill No. 731 or No. 732, but to me and the boys who fought for it, it will always be Suicide! Hill. To tell you the truth I thought I'd never see

this place again.”

® = ” IT IS not known where Pvt Floreancig, who was 19, was killed on Oct. 2, but the letter he wrote on Sept. 25 to his family at 1024 N. Holmes ave., tells the story of a desperate bloody battle for another few yards of soil. ’ Another company had taken the first ridge and been driven off with: heavy casualties. “Our turn

was next. We went up the hill and took the ridge back and secured it for .the night.” They were ordered to advance at 9:30 the next morning and told to “keep firing as you move.” “The order struck me kind of silly because it was. just like basic training where nobody shoots back at you.” 2 » PVT. FLOREANCIG with about 12 other men held the flank for

several days before the outfit ‘broke off the ridge. “We couldn't afford to give any ground. If we ~had been pushed back we would ‘have “been slaughtered while we were withdrawing,” he said, It was after they had been relieved and gone to a rear area that this letter was written,

ample.Qf constructive but highly controversial legislation which resulted from. discussion among the governor and leaders of the legislature. And, despite the charges of Dewey's opposition that the law is not a good one, the fact is that, in the way it is working out, it appears to be the best of all.

2 » » FOR IT is a simple law, assuring every New York state member of the armed services a chance to vote not only for federal offices but also for state and local candidates. And what of the returns? Although this state has only onetenth of the nation’s population, of all the ballot applications already received from American service men, one-fifth have come from New Yorkers. More than 500,000 applications have come to the Nem. York state war ballot commision So far; or -approximately 75 péf ent of the estimated 765,000 qualified voters in service (1,165,000 less 400,000

minors, aliens and other non- |

voters). —— THE END.

ALSO IN THE NEWS— Will Liberty Bell Once More Ring Out for Victory?

CLEVELAND, Oct. 19 (U. P).—

The crack in the famed Liberty Bell, which pealed out American independence in 1776, should be welded so that it can ring out in full tone on V-day, the Lincoln Electric Co., of Cleveland, urged here today. The historic bell, housed in Philadelphia's Independence Hall where America’s founding fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence, has not sounded a note since 1935 when a large crack weakened its copper and tin structure. The suggestion to repair the bell was made in a letter to Rep. Sam Rayburn, speaker of the se of representatives in ashington, by W. J. Conley, consulting engineer for the com-

pany. “A study indicated that full tone can be restored to the Liberty Bell by arc welding,” Conley said. “The longShushed symbol of liberty could again pro~ claim liberty throughout the land on V-day by the miracle of radio.” Conley urged congress to appoint a special committee of experts from the American Welding Society to take “appropriate action” to fix the bell, which is 12 feet in circumference at its

base and weighs more than a ton. :

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ELKTON, Md. Oct. 19 (U. P).’

—John Henry Titus, 97, New York poet who never satisfactorily set-

tled his claim to authorship of “The Face on the Bar-Robm Floor” today held the distinction of being the first nonagenerian married at Elkton. i Titus and Elizabeth Pfliderer, 54, New York, were married yesterday in the home of Rev. William F. Hopkins. Titus, whose claim to authorship of the famous “Balmy Summer's Evening” verse is disputed by followers of Hugh Antoine D'Arcy, retired several years ago after

lecturing in barrooms for 70 years.

After Election ;

By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.=No that the presidential candidates

lowing facts with regard to whether President Roosevelt will feel it his duty to order an upward revision of wage stand~ 3 ards before i election day. a A week ago

the public Mr Perkins members of .

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would make no recommendation to the President on this dynamic question, but would merely present a factual report on the situ- | ation "and let him make the decision. . » = » WHEREUPON the labor members of the board roundly condemned the public members. Two C. I. O. representatives an- | nounced a determination to get the question to the President by, next Saturday, about two weeks: before the election. :

But yesterday the labor members, C. I. O. as well as A. F. of L., went along with the public WLB members in deciding that the latter should have until af. week from today to submit to the full board their ideas on what should be contained in their report to the President. i = = ”

THE LABOR members’ determination for a quick presidential decision has cooled off. Under the schedule to which they agreed there will be hardly any chance for a ruling by Mr. Roosevelt before the Nov. 7 balloting, ‘So ‘the union members and other wage earners who have been looking for an early and final presidential decision on the case will have to wait until after Nov. 7. Mr. Roosevelt will be spared the embarrassment of making a decision (a) wouid alienate some of his labor support, or (b) risk upsetting the anti-inflationary applecart. Friel A

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By Crockett Johnson

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We, The Women How to Write

Letters That

Please Wives

By RUTH MILLETT

WHY DOESN'T somebody put ' an end to all this heckling of the man overseas about the KIND of letters to write his wife back home and just give him a sample copy? Well, on second thought, here it is: Dear Agatha: 1 was sure glad to get. your letter and the snapshot. Baby, you get better looking every day— and I would have said that Ruth Millett was impossible, just yesterday. The girls in this country sure aren't much on looks. | As for those WACs you wanted to know about—the boys say there isn’t a good looking ene in the bunch. I wouldn't know—as I haven't been to any of the dances or parties. The food is okay—but it isn’t like what you feed me. Boy, oh boy, what I wouldn't give for some of your fried chicken right now,

ss = THERE'S NOTHING meen] around here to spend money for —-s0 I'm enclosing a money order for 50 dollars. oe Get yourself a new dress, honey —and be sure it's blue. : They can't end this war too soon to suit me, I love you baby and how I'd like to get home, Be good,

» J » A . NOW THAT—in basic English is a letter that includes every thing a woman wants to hear from her man overseas. -