Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1944 — Page 7

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE WIFE of a certain Allison night shift worker never has gotten accustomed to staying alone at

night, and lives in fear that a burglar will break °

“nto the house some night. Just recently she thought

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other day, Ginger found the family ration books ate up most of the points, He showed a partic. ular preference for the red meat points. If Ginger

America Flies

THE NAVAL ACADEMY at Annapolis is the capi. of the United States navy. I was there recently and the stately gray build-

. too wore that uniform once and I'still know the thrill of that fdealism.

Nursery of “Air Warfare

OFF BEYOND the buildings and the grounds the warm sun shimmered on the smooth waters of the Severn and the Chesapeake. - It was out there that I had tried to get a special

- must have sensed what the failure of

: My Day

NEW YORK, Friday—I did find time yesterday, in Buffalo, to go to the factory where pnly handicapped people are employed. It is still not established financially and. its founders need some help; but I believe that eventually it can pay for itself, because

_ Tltor's Note: This fs the 334 of the Erule Prle war ~~, leave of absence. In it he fells of the start of the § ae E> : Ee x a 5 “

“besides moving the stock of shoes, the

All Set. to Shoot

WE GOT all set. to shoot at the lights but then we| 2

n't see us,

thus compel return fire; to up anchor and run for it; { or to sit quiet like a mouse and wait in terror. Wwe “did the latter. ER lar L : : I don’t know how long the five lights were on us. i, seemed ks hours Jo.may have beets five minutes, At any rate st the end of some unbelievably long time one of them suddenly blinked out. Then one by one, seemingly erratically and with no purpose in mind, the ‘others went out, too. The last one held us a long time as though playing with us. Then it too went openly; the other half out and we were once again alone in’ the blessed it up. You're a bunch darkness. Not a shot had been fired. tr of play-actors!” Assault boats had been speeding past us‘all the] The young Pilipino duly re‘time and a few minutes later they hit the beach.| ported this by grapevine to the” © The searchlights flashed on again but from then on| Americans, then preparing for they’ were busy fanning the beach itself. 'It'didn’t| D-day. = =~ take our attacking troops long to shoot the lghts| ° a Ea. out from close range, Fr \ FOR, . ALTHOUGH. the JapaI'm not sure same of them weren't just turned out| nese have * promised the islands and left off for good. We've never yet found out for| their fréedom some day, 99 of 100 sure why the Italian big guns on the shore didn’t| Filipinos know that our promise let us have it. Several of us inquired around when| is the real thing, that D-day virwe got ashore after daylight. We never found the! tually will‘ also be I-day. “I* searchlight men themselves, but from other Italian| means “Independenc: " real ine * soldiers and citizens of the town we learned that the dependence, not only from harsh people ashore were so scared at whatever was about| Jap rule but easy American suto attack them from out there on the water that they!| pervision. 2 § were afraid to start anything. * So that day found the Filipinos I guess I'm always going to have to love the| ready to fight for their freedom Italians, for anybody else behind these searchlights| and our friendship as they did at and guns that night and we of this ship would be telling our searchlight yarn to St. Peter by now. . 8."

doesn’t look out, folks will be saying: “Dog-gone!” . + . Folks out around 54th and Haverford thought

dog at large in the community. Twice recently, the dog has cleaned out chicken pens in the neighborhood. In one instance it killed 32, in the other, 24. The owners of the chickens killed thought that if we mentioned their loss, the owner of any dog that came home with feathers in its mouth or fur would pen it up so it could do no more such damage. + + + Members of the Ipalco club, composed of light company employees had a’ dinner at Ipalco hall 16th and Alabama, the other evening and called on their bosses to serve as waiters. President Harry Pritchard and Vice Presidents A. C. Crandall and Wallace O. Lee put on aprons and dished out slumgullion to 200 hungry men. They gave such large portions that they were offered .the job permanently,

Hooray—53 Paydays!

IF YOU GET PAID on Saturdays, you're lucky this year. George Cafouros has discovered that 1944 has the usual 52 weeks, but it has 53 Saturdays and Sundays. That's something, apparently, that doesn't happen often—at least often énough to suit us. It's the result ‘of the year starting on. Saturday and ending on a Sunday. Leap year has nothing to do with it. ‘Phe extra payday occufs in the third quarter of the year—just past. . . . The appearance of the corner of Washington and changed in the last few days. store there between Hook's and Stewart's moved around the corner onto Pennsylvania. : company along the green glass block store front. sudden change is a bit startling to persons accustomed to the former front. . .., Our Speedway agent is getting just like the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He reports that on the morning the smog was at its worst here in Indianapolis, it was clear and sunny out there. Fact is, he says, that Mrs. Virgil Gebauer, wife of the manager of Marott's third floor, called a friend living near Woodruff place and remarked about the nice sunny morning. “What do You mean, nice morning?” asked the Woodruff place fiend. “We can't even see the sun.”

By Maj. Al Williams

racing plane off the water in preparation for the Schneider Trophy race—the world speed event for which England and Italy fought so bitterly. Both these nations knew that out of such speed competition would come the fighters for the next war (and that i$ the origin of the British “Spitfire”).

This. Moment Will Pass

JI HAD BEGGED and borrowed money all over the country to build that racing plane. One hundred and Sixteen miles an hour, and still the pontoons persisted in barely creasing the water. The plane was too heavy and the experimental engine just Hidn't come through. And the “gassing” in the cockpit. We didn't know about the deadly chance of engine exhaust gasses being driven into the cockpit in those days. My fading senses merely led me to believe that as the engine sound decreased the engine was losing its power and the plane was slowing down. I awakened later in a rescue boat. . ‘That ship really should have flown and flown fast. I was heart-broken. Adm. Rodman, the commandant, of the ship meant to me. He sent for me ahd said: Sy “My boy, a-good naval officer never incurs reckless risks--I urge you not to try to fly that ship again. This moment will pass and then you will see the wisdom of my advice,” He was right, but I couldn't see it then.

starting something Which may take a great many people off the city’s welfare rolls, as well as’ create an amount of happiness which

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FILIPINO

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blade—to elp Gen. MacArthur's landing. 3 he

THERE, beside “14,000 Ameri- ' cans, fought 92,000 Filipinos. More of them than is realized

I-day. For two and a half years they have been preparing, in two

[FIT FOR RATS Shattered Aachen An Object Lesson

For Hitler Pawns

Py WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Times Foreign Correspondent AACHEN, Germany, Oct. 21.— This scene will serve as a well-

mans: Aachen, a city the size of Grand Rapids, Mich., is now fit for rats to live in. :

SOLDIERS | FOF A WOR Knives Aided

Ty back! Filipinos themselves were | ready and. waiting—some od with guns, some With only down. Then I realized there wasn't-anyone standing}. Je wicked bolo

earned lesson to all thinking Ger- |

day, are now with their ancestors. | This is the first time it has 1

_ To’ this country came Filipino.

i thousands living here. = *

Fort "Ord, ©€8l, under American and Filipifte officers. -. They ‘were unique for their ‘good condiict and neatness, and

for their “Oath to Bataan,” sworn upon .the bolos which. they all swing, gleefully yet. grimly practicing” to split Jap skulls, 6S ” ® = + THEIR enthusiasm swelled the I, battalion to two regi-

3 Recently “the 1st Philippine regiment. &nd the 2d Philippine

“battalion were ready for services -

Many volunteered for extra dangerous duty and affer special training were ready to act as links

between their erstwhile comrades

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VORLD'S BEST UNDERGROUND ARMY—

MacArthur's Landing ||

Members of an all-Filipino regiment, shown in training somewhere In California, swing ‘their bolo knives, which have been made authorized e quipment for this unit,

WITHIN the Philippines lurks an underground army that is perhaps the most effective in the

world.

Its members are largely trained soldiers, some Americans, but mostmostly Filipinos, who either escaped Bataan or, on many of the 7000 islands smaller than Luzon, took to the jungle in a body. They have been so active that Japanese control is often limited to cities. Lately one sizable city was delighted at the apparition of a truck displaying Filipino and “American flags filled with uniformed soldiers crying: “Independencia!” Then the truck dashed away. After it dashed the Japs, straight into an ambush.

= = Ed WORD of this exploit and others quickly has reached Gen. MacArthur and Maj. Gen. Basilio J. :- Valdez, who heads defense in the Philippine government in Wash-

ington. Its members left here some time

_ since to return to the islands on “I-day.” They have been in con-

inte action with . stant touch with what goes on under the Japanese. Contact has been closer since our recent naval and air victories forced the Japanese to withdraw many ships from Philippine waters. That allowed us to land more supplies for the guerrillas, especially Tommy guns, rifles and ammunition. oy Also lately they have got arms from members of the *‘Constabulary” formed by the Quisling Laurel government. = » »

EVEN the Quislings find that the more they ste of the Japs, the less they like them. Some Filipinos have been executed for distributing leaflets saying so—on the emperor’s birthday. Which made the remainder like Americans better than ever. So say the grapevine reports reaching here. Before I-day so many had joined the guerrillas there were not guns enough to go around. But every Filipino had his bolo —he would fight!

ELECTION GADGET—

‘Up Front With Mauldin

Rehearsals Aim To Lessen Awe

‘Of Vote Machine

By LOUISE FLETCHER Times Woman's Editor THE MAN LOOKED at the big block of gleaming gray enamel and chromium with its rows of levers and keys. Standing there in the lobby at the central library, the machine looked a little like a streamlined stove for one of those post-war kitchens—and it even had royal blue curtains in case you wanted to move it into the living room. " ” ” IN A SENSE, the contraption was a stove. Officially it's a vot-

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Davis gave out ‘that in 722

‘Chaitman William H.

figures showing

cases during three months ending Sept. 13 the public and management members otutvoted the labor ' members in 315 instances, while Mr. Perkins

members against members. Mr. Davis interpreted the survey as evidence that there is no com~ = bination of two groups om t board consistently prevailing over a minority. He hailed it ! “vindicating the tri-partite meth of resolving conflicts in w between labor and management. o = ”

THE FIGURES, however, » subject to certain qualifications 1. The management members opposed the public-labor group in major cases involving the cone troversial maintenance-of-mem= bership plan for labor unions, but have voted for this plan when ib included an “escape clause” for workers not desiring to be union members. 3 2. The high proportion of public - management combinations against the labor members is due. largely to the many cases in

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freeze” policy of the administration. The tri-partite setup — equal representation for the publ labor and management—is advocated by Chairman Davis d others as a plan that could be continued permanently in the exs plosive field of labor relations. = = = & ANOTHER school of thought holds that such a board should be composed only of members sponsible to the public, and with no special groups having votihg privileges, althougliithey could be present for advisory or consultative functions. i If Mr. Roosevelt wins a fourth term the tri-partite idea is m likely to be made a permane part of government than if Mr. Dewey is the people’s choice. T h e Republican candidate would bé expected to follow @ his campaign statements in favor of concentrating the dozen ; more federal labor agencies under one authority—apparently a seg: retary of labor chosen from th ranks of labor.

ing machine, but come Nov. 7, it

undoubtedly will help to cook someone's political hash. “Look,” the man said, “this may sound funny but I've never lived in any one place long enough to vote. How do you shift gears on this thing?” Beginning Monday and continuing through Nov. 2, the Indianapolis League of Women Voters will offer a short course in “shifting gears” on the voting

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it was on May 1 this year.

to continue the war much longer. In modern mechanized warfare, Napoleon's maxim that an army travels on its stomach can be i amended to read that an army |. travels — and | fights — on oil. "Deprived of oil, ' collapse of the’ Lair arm, tanks and mechanized . forces, and vital . transport becomes automatic. : » The luftwaffe . has unquestionably been hit hard by the Shortage, and there is growing evidence that it has contributed more than the loss of . machines and men to the increas- .

divisions. EG The Germans have not put on a tank show of any consequence since the height of the Normandy As to the luftwaffe, its strength is

being hoarded for the most vital which

“ing ineffectiveness of the panzer |

Acute Gas Shortage in Germany Shown by Fast Ebbing Air Powe

: . By LOUIS F. KEEMLE : ; United Press War Editer : GERMANY'S DESPERATE shortage of gasoline and lubricants is emphasized by an ‘authoritative London estimate that the enemy’s refining capacity had been cut by 77 per cent up to Oct. 1 from what

It is a sitiation which, more than the shortage of manpower or any other factor, might make it impossible for the wehrmacht

GADGET-SHY individuals, | particularly those voting for the | first time and those ‘who have used only the Australian ballot in past elections, will have the mystery of the voting device dispelled. The fully set-up machine, with its lineup of Republican, Democratic, Prohibition and Socialist tickets, has been obtained from the Marion county election commissioners and during the 11day period starting Monday,

and communications targets with in the Reich. Enemy reconnaissance, the eyes of the army, is woefully inadequate. Gen. H. H. Arnold, commander of the United States army air forces, declared in Washington last week that although bombing has cut German aircraft production to about 800 a month, the enemy still has plenty of planes. “The luftwaffe has plenty of planes,” he said, “but no gasoline and no one to fly them.” By the latter, he explained, he meant that there is no new pilot {raining - because of the lack of gasoline. ‘The disastrous drop. in German oil production has been -brought about mostly by the strategic bombing of refineries and storage centers, but also in part to the loss of refineries and fields, such as the Romanian, by allied advances in Europe. ', The remaining 23 per cent of production is the primary tar

get now of the allied strategic air forces. '

league members will give instructions to voters. = - » + LEAGUE officers, firm in maintaining their organization's nonpartisan character, point out that none of the “students” will be

advised HOW to vote—he will just be helped through a rehearsal

of his own Nov. 7 perforsgance. Mrs. C. D. Vawter—who “jth Mrs. Clarence Merrell heads

voting machine information. booth—says, “With about 40 offi--cers to be voted upon, the average person, like myself, becomes somewhat awed when shut into that curtained sanctum and faced by the weird apparatus which records his individual convictions. » » sg - “IT IS to be hoped that these ‘rehearsals’ will eliminate the element of stage fright and that each voter will feel that«he has, in fact, expressed his opinions at the polls.” Two members of the league will be on duty each day atthe library, from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. on weekdays and from 2 to 6 p. m. on Sunday. *

By Crockett Johnson

+" Know what false

|| Next time, mister, investigate before you cost ill

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We, The Women — Service Wives : Gain New

“Perspectives

By RUTH MILLETT i IN BATON ROUGE, La. there is an‘ organization called “Care of Postmaster Club” whose membership is limited—as you might surmise—to wives whose husbands

Ruth Millets = = =

FOR THE men who have served together overseas aren’t the only ones who are going to be a group apart. Their wives who stayed home alone, waiting, are going to feel a strong bond that will hold them together, : » - .

NO WIFE who has had her husband with her throughout he war is likely to understand the new sets of values war wives are making for themselves, Mrs. Jones, whose husba : hasn't left her side during the war, may go right on through the