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flabbergasting to lie among a tentful of wounded sol-

not all of them do. It depends on the gro severity of their wounds, and on a their individual peronalities, just

as it were, in some strange faraway place like The men of Oklahma are drawling and softspoken . They are not smart-alecks. Something of

- the purity of the soil seems to be in them. Even their

cussing, is ‘simpler ahd more profound than the tor-

- rential obscenities of Eastern city men. An Okla-

homan of the plains is straight and direct. He is slow to criticize and hard to anger, but once he is convinced of the wrong of something, brother, watch out. These wounded men of Oklahoma have got madder about the war than anybody I have seen on this side of the ocean. They weren't so mad before they got into action, but now they are. And these quiet men of the 45th, the newest diviglon over here, have already fought so well they have drawn the high praise of the commanding general of the corps of which the division is a part.

She Missed Again

IT WAS these men from the farms, ranches and small towns of Oklahoma who poured through my tent with their wounds. I lay there and listened to what each one would say first. One fellow, seeing a friend, called out, “I think I'm gonna make her.” Meaning he was going to pull, through. Another sald, “Have they got beds in the hospital? Lord how I want to go to bed.”

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Another \said, “I'm hungry, but I can't eat anything. I keep getting sick at my stomach.” | Another as he winced from their probing for a deeply piece of shrapnel in his leg, “Go head, you're I can stand it.” Another said, have to write the old lady to-

Awful Aloneness

DYING MEN were brought into our tent, men whose death rattle silenced the conversation and made all the rest of us grave. When a man was almost gone the surgeons would put a piece of gauze over his face, He could breathe through it but we couldn't see his face well. Twice within five minutes. chaplains came running. One of these occasions haunted me for hours, The man was still semi-conscious, The chaplain knelt down beside him and two ward boys squatted alongside. The chaplain said: ‘ “John, I'm going to say a prayer for you.” Somehow this stark announcement hit me like a hammer. He didn't say, “I'm going to pray for you to get well,” he just said he was going to say a prayer, and it was obvious he meant the final prayer. It was as though he had said, “Brother, you may not know it, but your goose is cooked.” He said a short prayer, and the weak, gasping man tried In vain to repeat the words after him. The dying man was left utterly alone, just lying there on his litter on the ground, lying in an aisle,

because the tent was full. Of course, it couldn't be otherwise, but the awful aloneness of that man as he went through the last few minutes of his life was what tormented me. I felt like going over and at é least holding his hand while he died, but it would have been out of order and I didn't do it. I wish now I had.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

REPORTS OF A mysterious animal — possibly a bobcat — roaming the countryside have discouraged folks living northeast of Clermont from being outdoors at night any more than necessary. All last Minter, vagde reports of such an animal were heard, ) and occasionally dogs would go whimpering home licking their wounds and looking as if they had tangled with the granddaddy of all tomeats. Most everyone had heard rumors, but you couldn't find any one person who had seen the animal. The reports were confirmed, however, Saturday eve-

While searching for a missing dog, Paul C. Denny, of the Indianapolis Paper Container Co, saw the animal. He was walking along Eagle creek, just below 42d, at dusk, when he saw it approaching him. Paul, who admits he drinks nothing stronger than cokes, swears it was almost as large as a sheep, and had a long tail. It was definitely a feline. When it saw him, it turned and ran, bounding away with 10-foot leaps. Paul went away, too. If we only had a bale or two of catnip, maybe we could capture the bobcat to start an Indianapolis 200. , . » That reminds us: Old Inside is going to have some interesting news before long for you folks who think our fair city needs a 200. We aren't going to say too much about it now, but you'll be hearing more from us.

It Rained Ducks

BERT LAY, formerly operator of 38th and College, is getting to -throw a duck dinner, we hear. Bert spent this and fall at his cottage on Lake Manitou, He doesn't hunt, but he decided to stay over there just to witness the recent opening of the duck season. He sat out in his front yard and watched the hunters get all set for the opening gun, Bang! went the first gun. Bang! went a hundred others. Plop, plop, plop, piop went the dead ducks as they fell in Bert's yard.

America Flies

THE AIRCRAFT engineers have performed near miracles. They gave us high cruising speed and low landing speed, Now facing them is the task of building planes to operate on one-runway airports. We cannot continue to build airports to fit airplanes any longer, and I doubt if we can afford to maintain those airports already built under such careless specifications. I am sure the engineers can build airplanes that can operate off one-runway airports, irrespective of the wind direction. . The first step in such a program is to build a plane that can safely be landed and taken off crosswind. The current plane, with its rigid landing year, renders such operation extremely dangerous. Landing a plane crosswind necessitates fighting the tendency of the plane to “weather vane” into the wind. The moment the wheels touch the ground they are subjected to a dangerously high side thrust, the result of which fis usually a collapsed wheel and a nose-over or ground loop.

Suppose the plane were provided with a landing gear which could be adjusted, a controllable swivel affair to permit the pilot to estimate the ground drift due to the cross wind, set his angle for the landing gear, and hold his plane at the necessary angle into the wind.

Too Much Daydreaming

EXPERIMENTS have been conducted with such a landing gear and it seems to hold great promise. But neither this development nor its necessity seems to have been sufficiently impressed on the leaders of aviation nor upon the taxpayer who has to foot the

My Day

HYDE PARK, Monday.—I have a lettes from one of our American military officers in France which 1 am going to reprint exactly as it came to me. . ° It is an appeal to a special group in this country, but it is Sypieal of what I think will be asked of many other cities throughout the nation; and 1 am. hoping that it will meet with a response in the hearts of the American people, and that they will find out what they fall do, Anny to do It. The letter follows: “I am one of the American

Finders keepers, in a case like that. They went on ice. And thats the reason for the duck dinner. ... The state welfare department's division of corrections wanted to hire a typist the other day, so they sent her down to Dudley Smith's personnel division to take a 10-minute typing speed test. They put the girl over in a corner, started her, and then forgot all about her. The poor girl typed furiously for 49 minutes before someone remembered to stop her. When it was over, she was a nervous wreck from the strain, and they had to let her go home to get over her nerves. But she passBd the test. . . . Ruth Manning, 724 N. Graham, sends us a beauty shop ad clipped from the Irvington Review. Under the heading: “Special ” it lists: “$20.00 for $18.00: $18 for $15; $15 for $12.50," etc. Maybe it referred to permanent waves, but didn't say so. Anyway, we wouldn't mind buying $18 for $15. Who wouldn't?

How to Make Money

WE MADE THE not-to-be-sneezed-at sum of 12 cents by our recent remark that “for 2 cents” we'd print the answer to a radio quiz question—the fength of a fathom? Besides J. G. Moffitt, whose 2-cents worth we mentioned yesterday, pennies showered down on us from Morris E Ferguson, Al Trinkle, an anonymous gent who sent four pennies, and another whose letter we seem to have mislaid. This is all a bit out of date, though, since we're told a woman correctly answered the question over the radio Saturday. Prom now on, we're going to try to keep out of trouble in this column. . . . Harry Kennedy, 1518 Tabor st., read about the folks who had trouble getting a sealer for tin cans in which to send Hoosier fried chicken to service men overseas. So he called us to say tin cans aren't necessary. He and Mrs. Kennedy have been packing chicken in regular fruit jars, filling the jars with sWortening, turning them upside down until the shortening congeals, and then shipping them overseas to their son, Pvt, Harry Kennedy. They get there in fine shape. too. The Kennedys pack the fruit jars in cotton. They got the idea from

. reading Ernie Pyle’s story about a group of Ken-

tuckians in Italy getting chicken that way regularly.

By Maj. Al Williams

bill for the miles of concrete runways decorating]

orthodox airports. There is a lot of daydreaming about a golden air age soon to burst on us. At first, it was millions of putt-putts—light lowpowered airplanes—some with folding wings to be fitted into a garage, run along the highways, and flown all over the place. Then it was helicopters which upset the country. Maybe the country is just determined to be upset about aviation and flying, and any excuse serves as a priming charge for an emotional bonfire.

One Thing Certain

THERE'S ONE THING certain, whether the current emotional wave of enthusiasm for aviation makes sense or not—America is going to fly. Of that 1 am convinced. What they are going to fly in, what they are going to fly for, or what they are going to pay tor the flying with, is beyond me. But they are going to fly. Every day my desk is flooded with questions about the extent of the post-war air market, airports, planes, instruments, air schools, landing strips, engines, gas and oil. No one knows the answers to those questions. There are, of course, regiments of self -ordained prophets who know all these answers. There are only a mighty few lucky guessers who made real fortunes out of aviation, and they all made their killings in the 1920's. It takes money to fly. And if you have the money. to buy the plane, you had better have some mighty sensible ideas about how you

are going to earn money enough flying,to pay for

plane and engine upkeep and maintenance, The only answer I feel safe in making to questions about the post-war aviation market is another question: You tell me what our post-war economic setup will be, and I'll tell you something about post-war aviation.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

recent damage was simply terrific. Nevertheless, the people have taken it magnificently, and are very friendly and co-operative. They: are very bravely and sturdily going about the rebuilding of the city—a city of some 30,000 people normally, mostly coal miners, and highly important to the war effort and to the economy of France, now and in the future. “Monsieur Sion told me that the city of Lens was planning to build, with its own funds and labor, a large municipal center for welfare, medical, dental,

Mrs. Wyatt Rev. Banks

(Demoerat)

(Republican)

KATHARINE W. ATKINS Mrs. Katharine W. Atkins, Republican nominee for state representative, has long been active in G. O. P. women's affairs. She was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1940 and served as co-chairman of the Marion county Landon-Knox club in 1936 and as executive director of the Marion Willkie club in 1940. - A founder of the Indianapolis Junior League, she is the mother of Sgt. Ellas Atkins III and Miss Ann Atkins, HAROLD OTIS BURNETT Harold Otis Burnett, G. O. P. nominee for state representative, is a professional tax consultant. A life-long resident of. Perry township, he’ attended Southport high school and the. University of Michigan. Active in Republican politics here for many years, Mr. Burnett is now a G. O. P. precinct committeeman. He lives on R. R. 6.

GLEN L. CAMPBELL Glen L. Campbell, Republican nominee for state representative, has operated his own printing plant here since 1929, Connected with the printing industry for 25 years, Mr. Campbell has served as secretary and president of the Lions club, and is a member of Lodge No. 669, FP. & A. M. Sahara Grotto, Scottish Rite, Murat Shrine, Philoxenian lodge No. 4,1. O O. F, the Optimist club and the Methodist church.

MRS. NELLE B. DOWNEY Mrs. Nelle B. Downey, Republican nominee for re-election as state representative, is a former Indianapolis school teacher. Mrs. Downey served in the legislature during the 1041-1943 sessions. She is a member of the Central Avenue Methodist church, the D. A. R., the Indianapolis Church Federation and the Community Fund board.

SUB WITH WINGS— Navy Can Match, Perhaps Surpass, Nippon Tall Tales

By WILLIAM McGAFFIN Times Foreign Correspondent ABOARD ADM. MITSCHER’S FLAGSHIP, Task Force, Satur day, Oct. 21 (Delayed).—The Japanese radio has announced that Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitsche er's flagship has been sunk. So this comes to you from the crowded bottom of Davey Jones locker. Perhaps you would like to know what it is like down here, some 30,000 feet below the surface. » s #4 FIRST OF ALL, our typewriter works fine in salt water. Secondly, the food is excellent. We had hot cakes with maple syrup for breakfast. Maybe you wonder how we manage to get a plane off our flight deck when we are lying

down. = s " WELL—SH-H-H—don’t repeat this to a soul: But we have a new secret weapon. We have a submarine with wings. It gurgles to the surface with its wings folded. ; » o 2

THE HOOTS that went up from our carrier when Jap reports came in could have been heard in Tokyo. “Hey, fellows, we've ‘been sunk

: THIS IS the second of a series of articles by The Indianapolis Times to acquaint voters of Marion county with candidates seeking election Nov. 17. Presented today are pictures and accompanying biographical sketches of 24 candidates

on the bottom some six miles’

Mrs. Atkins Mr. Burnett Mr. Campbell Mrs. Downey (Republican) (Republican) (Republican) (Republican) I 4 aE am TN

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Mr. Burkert (Democrat)

Mr. Delaney (Democrat)

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Mr. Schlosser

Dr. Silver (Democrat) (Democrat)

DAVID M. SILVER Dr. David M. Silver, Democratic candidate for state representative, is assistant professor of history and political science at Butler university. A graduate of Shortridge high school and Butler, Dr. Silver holds the master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees from the University of Illinois where he served two years on a history fellowship. He's a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi fraternities.

CHALMER SCHLOSSER

Chalmer Schlosser, Democratic nomine for state representative, has practiced law fh Indianapolis for 42 years. Mr. Schlosser, although he has never ‘held public office, has volunteered much time in assisting local courts, serving as judge pro tem and as special judge. A member of the Methodist church and

56, he lives at 2440 Park ave.

WILBUR H. GRANT Wilbur H. Grant, Republican nominee for re-election as state representative, served in the 1943 legislature as a member of the city affairs committee. A graduate of the Indiana university law school, Mr. Grant is a member of the Baptist church, the Y. M. C. A. post of the American Legion and the Marion county bar. He's been active in G. O. P. politics for 20 years.

RUSSELL FORTUNE JR. Russell Fortune Jr., R. R. 17, Box 144, is a newcomer on the county G. O. P. ticket. He is a real estate dealer. He is a member of the national, state and Indianapolis real estate boards, the Associated North Side Realtors, and the Episcopal church.

RAE W. POWELL Rae W. Powell, attorney who has been active in the last several G. O. P. campaigns, is 43 years old, and resides at 5312 Riverview dr. He is a member of Beech Grove

Shrine, 101 Men's Bible class of Broadway Baptist church, Moose

the Knights of Pythias lodge No.|-

Masonic lodge, Scottish Rite and!

for the Indiana house of representatives, 11 Republicans and 11 Democrats from Marion county and one Republican and one Democrat for joint representative from Marion and Johnson counties. Many new names and faces are in the leg-

Mr. Fortune

(Republican)

Mr. Grant (Republican)

Mr. Dorn Mr. Dowd

(Democrat)

EARL B. TECKEMEYER Earl B. Teckemeyer,

(Democrat)

He is

of the committee which inquired

linto administration of public wel-|

fare. | He is a member of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Indiana Civic league, Sigma Delta Kappa fraternity, All Souls Unitanan church and Oriental Masonic lodge.

MARGARET L. WYATT Mrs. Margaret L. Wyatt, Republican nominee for state representative, is an active worker in the

county G. O. P. organization and the Parent-Teacher association. Formerly an assistant in the state department of public instruction, Mrs. Wyatt is the wife of Robert H. Wyatt, executive secretary of the Indiana State Teachers association. She is now secretary of the Washington Township Republican club and lives at 4500 Allisonville rd.

REV. ORLANDO H. BANKS The Rev. Orlando H. Banks, Democratic candidate for state representative, was a circuit minister for the Lexington Conference Methodist church until his retirement last April. For 14 years the Rev. Mr. Banks was a city sanitary inspector and was a familiar figure around City hall. During the last few months he has been employed at the state house. He lives with his wife at 921 W. 26th st.

BERT C. McCAMMON Bert C. McCammon, seeking election as state representative on the G. O. P. ticket, lives at 1001 E. 58th st. LHe is a teacher of salesmanship, effective speaking and human relations. Mr. McCammon is a member of the Meridian Heights Presbyterian church, Mystic Tie Masonic lodge, Scottish Rite and Shrine, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Sales Executives council and Indianapolis Speakers club, Kiwanis club, Athenaeum Turners and Junta club.

PATRICK J. DELANEY

Patrick J. Delaney, Democratic candidate for state representative, has been an employee of the safety division of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. many years. His campaign platform includes support for a bill legalizing the pariImutuel system for horse racing and bingo. He is a member of the SS. Peter and Paul Catholic church, Knights of Columbus, Moose and

and Kappa Sigma, Theta Phi and Delta Sigma Nu fraternities.

Eagles lodges. He lives at 2712 N. Illinois.

Up Front With Mauldin

THE CANDIDATES YOU'LL VOTE FOR AT THE ELECTION, NOV. 7 NO. 2

islative lineup this

Mr. McCammon

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Mr. Lee

Mr. Fox

(Democrat)

Mr. Miller

(Democrat)

7032 War-| {wick rd, is secretary-manager of 4 {Schmid & Smith Realtors. lalso an attorney and as a member {of the 1943 legislature, to which {he seeks re-election on the G. O.! | P. ticket, he was named chairman

Mr. Blackwell Mr. Murphy (Republican)

KENNETH F. BLACKWELL Kenneth PF. Blackwell, R. R. 1,

(Democrat)

Franklin, Ind, is prominent in Indiana farm activities. A Republican, he served in the 1943 state legislature and is a candidate for joint representative from Marion and Johnson counties. He won the 1942 Indiana corn crown and is a former president of the Indiana Corn Growers association. He is a director of the. Indianapolis Dairymen’s Cooperative. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, American Legion, Franklin commandery and Kiwanis club at Franklin,

JOHN W. MURPHY JR. * John W. Murphy Jr., Democratic candidate for joint state representative from Marion and Johnson counties, has been a building contractor at Greenwood most of his life, associated in business with his

féther, John W. Murphy Sr.

For the last year he has been employed in the financial responsibility division of the state public safety department. He is a member of the Christian church, Masonic lodge, Shrine and the Knights of Pythias lodge. He lives at Greenwood with his wife and two sons.

EUGENE W. DORN Eugene W. Dorn, Democratic nominee for state representative, has been an Indianapolis druggist for 20 years. A former member of the park board, Mr. Dorn, with his brother, Leo A. Dorn, operates drug stores at 572 Massachusetts ave. and 1301 N. Pennsylvania st. Married, he has one son and lives at 325 E. 47th st.

FRANK B, DOWD Frank B. Dowd, Democratic candidate for state representative, served in the navy nearly two years, receiving an honorable discharge only last August, He is now affiliated with the Ace Household Removal system and formerly worked at the Allison plant of General Motors here. , He is a graduate of Cathedral high school and attended Indiana university, He is a member of the United Automobile Workers of America, C. I. O. He has been active several years in Democratic politics serving as precinct committeeman in the third ward. He is married and lives i at 3360 N. Meridian st.

VIRGIL H. FOX Virgil H. Fox, Democratic candidate for state representative, has lived in Indianapolis for 28 years and is a life insurance salesman. He was a candidate for city council in 1934 and Marion county sheriff Hin 1936. A member of the Masonic lodge and the Christian church, Mr, Fox lives at 629 Holly ave. and has three children.

CLYDE P. MILLER Clyde P. Miller, Democratic candidate for state representative, has been an Indianapolis attorney since 1904. A resident of Washington township, Mr. Miller attended Indiana university and the Indiana law school. He is a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, the Methodist church,

material is published to give voters some information that may help them decide. Pictures and reviews of candidates running for congress (11th district) and 10 for the state senate will appear tomorrow,

‘didate for state representative, has

‘is a member of St. Thomas Aquinas

year and the accompanying

Mr. Teckemeyer (Republican)

Mrs. Morrissey

Mr. Ryan

(Democrat) (Democrat)

EDWIN J. RYAN Edwin J. Ryan, Democratic can-

been a practicing attorney here foe many years, specializing in crime inal law. He has been a Democrat precinct committeeman several years and served as pauper attorney in criminal court from 1928 fo 1942. He

church and lives at 3828 Graceland ave.

EDWARD C. BURKERT Edward C. Burkert, Democratic candidate for state representative, has been in the insurance business here for many years. : He served as a supervisor during the 1940 federal census here and has been active in Democratic politics many years. He is a member of SS. Peter and Paul Catholic church and lives at the Spink-Arms hotel.

J. OTTO LEE J. Otto Lee, G. O. P. candidate

for re-election as state representative, is a printer and has been re= cording secretary of the Indian apolis Typographical union since 1835. Mr. Lee was elected to the legis lature in 1941. A precinct commit= teeman since 1920, he is a member of the Masonic lodge, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Presbyterian church. He lives at 550 N. Dearborn st. We, The Women Boys May Be Surprised After the War By RUTH MILLETT wi A RECENT comic cartoon shows a returned soldier with his eye on a girl filling a gas tank, saying to the owner of a filling station, “Yes, 1 appreciate your offering me my job back, but I never realized I was was only doing a woman's work before.” A lot of res turned veter= ans are probably going to wi get the same 3 kind of shock when they 3 come home to : ow find that the Ruth Millett job they once supposed required masculine brawn or brains has been adequately handled in their absence by some sweet young thing in overalls or a well-tailored business suit. ” » s THE KNOWLEDGE that it isn't necessarily “man’s work” is bound to detract a little from a job from the masculine point of view. Let’s hope the men never real-

Because it will be a real blow to their egoes if they stop to think

time. .

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North Park Masonic lodge, Scot tish Rite and the Murat Shrine.

MRS. MAY C. MORRISSEY Mrs, May C. Morrissey, Demo-

A |cratic candidate for state repre-| rion" county” Demosratio. poles