Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1944 — Page 15

# itor Note: Fh he GF he ESAs Sapte, Yh us Wi vopriiittl while’ Ernie 1s on

leave. This one was written in England while he Was awaiting the invasion of France.

‘LONDON, June,. 1044. Lt. Gen... Jimmy Doolittle, . head of the 8th air force over here, noticed one-day in the foster of officers at his staff headquarters the

-pame of a Capt. Doolittle.

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wel HE name. 8.0 avery ordinary one, ‘and ‘he made. ) a mental note that some day he “would look up the fellow for a little chat. One day not long after that his phone rang and the voice at the other end said, “This is Capt. Doolit “Oh yes,” said the ‘general. “i had noticed your name and I meant. to call you up sometime.” “I'd like to come in and see you,” said the voice at the other end, . . “Why, yes, do that,” the general said; “I'm pretty busy these dors. “put m switch you to my aid and hell an appointment for you. Glad you called Cap I'll look forward to seeing you.” He was just ready to hang up when the voice

came back plaintively over the phone:

“But Dad, this is me. Don’t you recognize me? T've got a package for you from Mom.” The ‘general exploded: “Well why in hell didn't you say so in the first place!” «twas Capt. Jimmy Doolittle Jr, a B- 26 pilot in the 9th air force. The general hasn't got around yet to seeing the other Capt. Doolittle. It'll probably turn out to be his brother or something,

Entire Crew Killed

THE LAST TIME I had seen Gen. Doolittle was some 16 months ago, way down at the desert airdrome of Biskra on the edge of the Sahara. That was when he was running our African bomber force that was. plastering the Tunisian ports. . Gen. Doolittle flew in one afternoon from the far forward airdrome of Youks les Bains.. The night before his entire crew except for the co-pilot had been killed in a German bombing at the Youks field. .- His crew had manned their plane’s guns until it got too hot, and then made a run for an old homb crater 50 yards away. Jt was one of those heartbreaking freaks of hard luck. A bomb hit the crater . Just as they reached it, and blew them all to pieces. Gen.- Doolittle has written hundreds, -perhaps thousands, of letters to people who have lost sons or husbands in his air forces, But one of the men in

THE MAIL must go through, even though it might take 20 years. For proof; see. Glendon Hackney of the National Retail Hardware association. The as sociation has just received a business letter -postmarked:

“Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 11, 1924.” The letter was rubber- “Missent to Dayton, 0.” and on the back it is postmarked: “Dayton, Ohio,. 2:30 p. m;, Oct. 25, 1944.” There's no telling in. what pigeonhole it has been gathering dust -these 20 years. To add insult to injury, Uncle Sam insisted on collecting one-cent postage due on the letter. P, 8. Don’t get the idea we're criticizing the postoffice for los- * ing this letter. ‘This is just the exception that reminds us of the : postal workers normal efficiency. 3 oe ware Tag Al. Vegks all your mail would be 20 years late....The OPA publication, “Contact,” gave us a laugh with an item about a rugged individualist down in Owen county. The rationing board there received the following message: “Dear Sirs— Please make this application out yourselves, What I want is 10 gallons of kerosene for home cleaning. Ask me no questions and thanks for your service.”

Exhausted Roosters

THE CITY'S newest organization is the Indianapolis Roost of the Exhausted Roosters, formed Tues- ' day night at the Lincoln. Its members are former members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and who no. longer are eligible for . membership of the Jaycees because of the age limit—36. Purpose of the organization is to ae up with the associations formed through Jaycee membership.” Directors of the are known gas the Old Crows,

Exhausted Roosters | © They ate Harlan Livetigdod John Bruhn; Ed" Me~=3.aren,Sarry Coughlin - Claude Rich, Bob Kirby and -

‘Ralph: Swingley. Mr, Livengood is acting as the exuberant . gizzard—theé organization's name for presi- _ Gent.” The secretary, When named, Will bg known. 23

'America Flies

THREE THOUSAND new airports for the post-war firage. Cost—one billion dollars! This sort of stuff must stop. : * The airplane industry is a hardy enterprise, It started on shoe strings and learned to weather tough, lean times by pulling its belt tighter, but’ it can’t take much more of this chromium-plated stuff out of Washington, : Possibly the civil aeronaufics - administration might be as the bureaucracy. But it isn’t bureaucracy which causes the trouble in this instance, It is the inexperienced men who worm their way, by appointment, up around its neck and head. One wave after another of such people pop up in prominent positions around the top of the EV agency controlling Ameriean aviation, Why are such men appointed? Three thousand new airports and one billion dollars. Where are they going to get the billion dollars?

+ You know the federal government today owhs about

one-fifth of the land of this country. You know that every acre bought for county, state or federal government means just so much acreage removed from the tax books, representing a tax deficit which must

‘that crew was the hardest. subject he has ever had |

ta write home about. Here is the reason— When he led the famous raid on Tokyo, Doolittle Wad a mechanic who had been with him a long time. Doolittle was a colonel then. The mechanic went on thé Tokyo raid with him. * You remember the details of that raid, which have gradually seeped out. The planes were badly" scattered. Some Were shot down over Japanese territory,

‘Others ran out of gas. Some of the crews bailed out.

Others landed in Russia - The rémainder splattered themsglves all over the rice paddies of China.

The General Was Low

THAT NIGHT Doolittle was lower than he’ had ever been before in his life. There wasn't any humor ‘in the world forfhim that ‘night. He sat with his head down and thought to himself: “You have balled up the-biggest chance ‘anybody

"eould ever have. You have sure made a mess of this

affair. You've lost most of your planes. The .whole thing was a miserable failure. You'll spend the rest of your life in Leavenworth for this, and be lucky to get out of it that easy.” As he sat there this sergeant-mechanic came up and said: “Don't feel so bad about it, Colonel.” Doolittle paid no attention.. But the sergeant kept at him. > “It's not as bad as it seems. Why, I'll bet you that within a year you'll have a" Congressional Medal for it and be a brigadier general.” Doolittle just snorted. “Well, I'll bet you so,” the sergeant sald. “And Td like to ask one thing. As long as you're flying I'd like to be your mechanic.” That finally got inside Doolittle’s loot, .Somebody had confidence in him. He began to buck up. So he said: “Son, as long as I've got an airplane you're its mechanic; even if we livé 10 be a thousand years old.” As you know, he did get a Congressional Medal of Honor, and now he has not only one star but. the three of a lieutenant general. And that sergeant, who devoted himself to Col. Doolittle that miserable night out there in China, was still ‘Gen. Doolittle’s mechanic the night they landed at Youks les Bains in February of 1943. He was one of the men who ran for the shell hole that night. Gen, Doolittle had te write the Jettor to his parents. »

~ Inside Indianapolis By Lowe Nussbaum

the chief scrgtcher. The vice president as the capricious capon, and the treasurer as keeper of the corn. «+. A postcard from B., Wylie comments that a zoo would be fine for the city but what Indianapolis needs more than a 200 is a newsreel theater where people can go who don't care for most of the motion pic-

‘tures. Also an old people's .home where they don’t

have to pay $1000 to get in, *And how about an apartment building at reasonable rent for those of us alone ‘who can’t afford the high rent asked?” Why not all this and a zoo, too? . . , ‘We hope Indianapolis never loses its motor speedway. The oid speedway is one of the city’s best known features, and carries our name all over the world. For instance, M. Sgt. Theodore ‘Steele wrote his father, Roy W. Steele of the C. of C., that while General Patton’s tanks were racing through France, the “gossip” was that the tanks were manned with “former Indianapolis Speedway race drivers.”

How to Get Delivery

A N. MERIDIAN apartment dwelier stopped in Bloek’s the other day and bought a new mop. She asked to have it delivered, but was told she would Have to take it with her, since it was neither heavy enough or long enough to meet. delivery requirements, that she couldnt fight her way onto a N. Meridian bus the mop, she asked what they could sell her that was long enough for feet. ‘The clerk _Shought, and finally came forth with a brilliant t: Rake handles... The shopper bought one, and had it and the mop delivered. How’s that for using the old noodle? . . . Cousins who hadn't seen each other for many years were reunited Sunday night at the U. 8. O. supper at the Kirshbaum center. At the dinner, Pvt, Horace Waldman of Ft. Harrison, whose home is'in Newark, N. J, was awarded a book of war When Pvt. Waldman’s.

other end of-the table. ¥t-wes-his-cousin, Cpl. Harold F. Waldman, of Stout fleld. They stopped the “show” mm ecade. .

“By Maj. Al Williams|

collapse, that! boom aviation market was all set to stage a beauty on its own hook.. We are heading in that direction again. Spend, spend, spend—tax, tax, tax—with no plans for how to pay or with what, The current airport will be a monstrosity a few years hence, A new type landing gear would scrap this waste of runways overnight. The presentation of a government-paid-for airport to a community, involving the obligation of maintain. fe 7 yrs at 0 Vd ol B Youu, 4 wpuivelen, to presenting a friend with a zoo.

Revenue Depends on Buildings

WHILE THE flying field does not earn revenue, the buildings on that airport do earn. The community must erect the buildings. Space is rented to planes and this means some revenue, but nowhere near enough to pay for field maintenance.

of revenue to the agency operating an airport. It is true that the airlines pay landing fees for the use of the field and there also is the tax concession for the right to sell gas and oil. But, by and large, it is the indoor activities which earn the major portion of the revenue, And I know of no municipal airport, except those enjoying military upkeep, which is able to pay its overhead.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

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e Indianapolis

SECOND SECTION

To him, a gruelling campaign" covering each of the state's’ 92 counties is also (1) an edueational tour; (2) a sightseeing expedition and (3) a friend-making adventure that might prove more valuable in the long run than the governorship itself. : o - » IF SENATOR JACKSON is a politician, he’s a phifosopher too. Able to view electioneering in perspective with its relation to other matters, he has managed to maintain an- even blood pressure and a sharp sense of humor. While most candidates are extremely touchy about speech attendance, often claiming as many as 100 extra, non-existent listeners in their crowd estimates, the gubernatorial candidate confesses: “There are two things awfully easy to lie about. . . . The size of a fish and the size ‘of a crowd. Mine have been average, I guess.” ® 8 =» AN EXTEMPORANEOUS speaker, he's often carried away by his own high-flown oratory, nailing hjs points down with evangelistic phrasing. Senator Jackson likes to talk for the fun of it, and reflecting upon this glib verbosity, he observes? “I guess I sound as if I'm exhorting the populace to hit the sawdust trail, but you can never satisfy an audience until you pull the cork up into their throats at least once.” At Hanover college, he thought it imprudent to hammer away at politics, so he spoke to the student: body . on the “American Spiri L” Arriving late at the convocation, he got a ringing’ round of ap-. plause nevertheless, a fact which prompted one freshman to blurt loudly, “He must - have a lot of relatives around here.” Senator Jackson chuckled with the crowd.

AT. THE CONCLUSION of his speech a bevy of shrill-voiced coeds hemmed him in, only to be

bobby-sockegd coed was crestfallen. “Frankly, I'm disappointed,” she told her companion. “I wanted to hear a red-hot political speech and I know darn. well he can make one. I was at the Demo-. cratic nationgl convention.”

name. was.gslléd far! -o “ptesencatons of he Wamp, hie heard 4 yell from the “THe FEMETRYT TAT EINES

leisurely about the Hanover. camFour Yank Fliers Watched Their 2 Buddies Drown

EIGHTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS, England, Nov. 2 (U. P.)—~An American air force engineer disclosed today. how he .and three fellow fliers escaped from a sinking Liberator in the North sea. But they had to watch helplessly while two other guddies drowned screaming in the stormlashed waters, The 21-year-old engineer; Sgt. Warren J. Poland, is.a five-foot-11-inch former machinist of Ga=lion, O. He said the tragedy occurred while they were returning home in their bomber “Flak Hack” from a mission over Europe. ” » w » THE MAIN fuel tank of the plane, which still was carrying its bombs, was hit by flak and the instruments were shot up, They managed to locate Paris. But -they inadvertently flew northward about two hours when they ran into a snowstorm at 14,000 feet and were forced down in the North sea. A terrific rainstorm beat down on the waters and the wind whipped up waves 20 feet high. Poland was pinned berieath the turrent - when - the plane landed, but managed to free himself and climb aboard the wing. » " ~ DESPITE the rolling seas, he’ swam out to a dinghy where he found the pilot, co-pilot and the navigator, Two other men, the waist gunner and the radioman, were struggling in the water, The four were unable to rescue them and watched helplessly as they went down, screaming for help. The survivors later attracted

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ROSKIN T0 DIRECT *

Junot 8, Rockin will direct the

_ calls. 1 ) election strategy wherever he is

pu§ with President Albert Parker, who diplomatically sounded him out about state taxation of educational property. “I might add,”

‘confided the prexy as Senator

Jackson was about to leave, intended to vote for you too.” (Hanover is a Presbyterian college, and Senator Jdckson is a Presbyterian elder at Ft. Wayne.) » 2: 8 SEARCHING FOR Democratic headquarters at Madison, the senator found himself staring instead at posters on windows of ‘'Republican headquarters. In mock ab-sent-mindedness he made as if to open the car door, only to catch himself with a finger-snap. ‘Do it with Dewey? Let's see now , . . No, no, that’s the apposition isn't it? I'm getting mighty non-partisan lately.” Safe at last in Democratic headquarters - over Rogers’ drug store, the senator immediately became entangled literally and

“x

_ figuratively in telephone wires, calling Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne,.

Washington. He and Democratic party workers would no sooner warm up on politics “than the phone would interrupt their conversation, His entire campaign is sandwichéd hectically between phone He masterminds his own

through swift, incisive commands

into the mouthpiece.

» » » THE SENATOR flopped loosejointedly into a rocking chair and diagnosed the Jefferson county voting strength like a physician, shooting crisp questions at first one person, then another, On the surface at least he evinces more interest in Governor Schricker’s election chances than he does his own. Luncheon at Clifty Falls state park, and the senator, buttonholed and tugged at from all angles by the political crowd, turned instead to the panoramic vista looking out upon the Ohio Tver from the hotel veranda. - “Ahhh,” he sniffed, flexing his arms and taking a-deep breath. “I move we: establish Clifty Falls as the southern branch of the governor's mansion.” After lunch, State Fire Deputy Russell Johann suggested a“ drive

around the park and everybody,

including County . Chairman Bd : Banta, piled into the oar. Yoh

& rest, op down ad we'll. always have’

U. S. Casualties Nearing 500,000

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2° (U. P.) —Casualties in the U. 8. armed forces in World War II approached the half-mil-lion mark today.

The war department announced that through Oct. 31 the army had suffered 417,121 casualties, including 80,666 killed, 220,212 wounded, 53,622 missing and 53,621 prisoners of war. Navy, marine and coast guard casualties through Nov. 1 totaled 70,571, including 28,231 dead, 28,441 wounded, 9421 missing and 4478 prisoners of war, This- gave an overall total casualty list of 487,602, an increase of 14,803 over the 472, 799 figure reported a week ago.

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“You can’t

Senator Jackson . . . satisfy an:audience until you pull

the cork up into their throats at

least once.

room for you,” waved Clifty Fall Manager J. E. McDonald. “Stranger things have happened,” Senator Jackson shouted back. “I may want a retreat one of these days.”

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UNSTINTING IN his. eloquent praise of Jefferson county scenery, the senator saw everything. there was to see but a steambpat on the river. Frequently during the afternoon he expressed the desire to see®a river boat, a longing that usually precipitated eye-shading and neck-craning among the political gentry. Following this sightseeing jaunt," the senator returned to headquarters where he reeled off an impromptu address, relying heavily upon nostalgia occasioned by his recollections of William Jennings Bryan and the many old-time

tribulations of the Democratic

party. Several women dabbed furtively at their eyes and an elderly man sheepishly fumbled his handkerchief. When he mentioned his intimacy with the President and Cordell Hull the crowd was touched mightily. Before leaving, the senator insisted on meeting the editor of the Jefferson county Republican paper. While conferring with the newsman, Jackson toyed with an elephant-styled paperweight. “Well, regardless of how it

"turns out we're all Americans,”

sighed the editor. “I wish more politicians felt that way about it,” the- senator’ rejoined, ” ” » THEY COULD have driven a more direct route and lopped an hour off the Madison to Lawrenceburg schedule, - but Senator Jackson and Mr. Wichser wanted to take in the river scenery, so off they curved around a winding road bordering the Ohio. “ At Patriot, Ind. the senator instructed his driver to stop. while he lingered briefly in front of a

stags do the cutting in.

For two years the united nations poured the flower of their manhood inte England, and then on D-day some areas were turned into

a masculine desert. And the girls don't like it. They'd like to meet the militant feminists who once preached that a world without men would be Utopia. . . » . ~ AMERICAN girls, who aren't sitting under the apple tree with anyone else, may take some small comfort from the knowledge that British girls aren't sitting with him “either. .And a¥ for the French, Dutch or Belgian lassies, the boys have other, and less attractive pursuits

in the form of German soldiers,

"BETH-EL CHOIR.

Up Front With Mauldin

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1944 -

THE CANDIDATES YouLL- VOTE FOR AT NOV. 7 ELECTION — - NO. 9

~ Jackson—Senator, Politician; Philosopher

By SHERLEY UHL

HE s sun is shining, it's a glorious day and all God’ s ‘chillun’ should be at peace with each other. PE - Hatred can make a man physically ill.” “That's Senator Samuel D. Jackson rhaps. 1izing, momentarily at ease with the world, speeding through the dew-laden countryside toward a heavy day of campaigning in Southeastern Indira. : He and Julius Wichser, U. 8. marshal who is driving him over Indiana, sustain a running commentary on the state of the nation and the world in general, exchange quips and sometimes sing together as they go sailing from town to town. Senator Jackson 1s a very busy man but he's one of thosé rare individuals who can take their business with a grain of pleasure,

~Crimson-faced over the idea of

. the wrapt audience to “look up to

house. formerly. -oecupied by his *-harangue-s i Spostig te . building screamed, Se women whom He recognized, . h *“Dewe

British Bile Alene Under Anite Tree As Yanks Turn to Chasing Nazis

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 2.—A man-famine has left Britain's young ladies 80 high and dry that many dancehalls have organized “excuse me” adances, in which the feminine wallflowers instead of the proverbial

hopped. out of the car and asked her if she recalled his family. The elderly woman said yes, she" remembered ‘his mother, then croaked, “Are you running on the right “side of the house—Demo-~ crat?” “With a name like mine, what

else could it be?” the- senator |

grinned. » » ” JUST PAST Rising Sun, the senator yelled “Stop,” and Mr.

Wichser slammnied on the brakes. |

Mr. Jackson had seen a prize stock farm and, dashing out, raced up to-where two bulls were grazing in-a stockade. “Look out, boss,” Mr, Wichser admonished, but the senator. paid no. attention. “Watch that bull, hé'll go through that fence after you,” a man in a nearby barn warned. Sepator Jackson hustled into the ie and introduced himself.

having scolded a U, 8S. senator, the stockman, Lewis Johnson, complimented him on his job as chairman of the Democratic national convention, and conducted the senator and: Mr. Wichser through the farm, demonstrating among other things, his new, automatic milking apparatus. In a discussion on cattle breeding, MF. Johnson declared: “There's a society among chickens and cows, as well as people, . . On a farm like this you have bosses who dominate the entire herd, then second rate bosses and third rate bosses.” “Well, whatdaya know,” cracked the senator. “Politics in a barn~ yard.”

» ” » THE REMAINDER of the trip into Lawrenceburg was consumed with the senator and Mr. Wichser harmonizing on “The Bells of St. Mary's,” “Lookin’ for the Robert E. Lee” and “Oceana Roll.” Senator Jackson also peered hither and yon looking for a sign advertising catfish for sale, but to no avail, Then he discoursed at length on the beauty of the dull. orange moon rising majestically over the Kentucky hills. v3. At the Lawrenceburg school gymnasium he was by the high school band, all dolled up in orange and black

dates had been introduced, Senator Jackson plunged into a political sermon in which he ,

the progressive course of civilization.” Several times during this 5 outside

ey.”

American ermy camp once..was

courses.

The love-power shortage has hit England unevenly, leaving a surplus of men in some areas, but in most districts ‘a dearth of young eligibles has cheated a type of Wellsian fantasy in which girls are forced to rely upon their own.devices to fill leisure hours, » » » INSTEAD of indulging in the popular sport of “walking out” with & young man (who probably now is in Holland, Belgium or Germany), they must turn to the more cultural pursuits or else devise distribution schemes such as the “excuse me” dances, } Zena Arkus, attractive woman Journalist who keeps in touch with youth affairs, said there had been a definite reaction among non-uniformed girls since D-day. The general trend of thought is, “where are the men and how do we get there?” ” nr » “THERE is one huge dancehall in a London suburb, .Where_ an

situated,” Miss Arkus said, “Two days before D-day it was jammed w h Yank soldiers. ‘The next night there was not a soldfer in the place: and only half-a-dozen embarrassed civilians were left in town for several hundred girls.” Some girls migrate to centers where - men ares; more plentiful, traveling 10 or 20 miles to parties and dances. Others have found A‘ subsitute in the Y. W. C. A, which experienced a healthy post-D-day increase ‘in enrollment for cultural

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THE FAVORITE is a lecture

The national institute of girls’ clubs said that “normal” girls

outside thet “Hurrah for |

rently- hope to go as soldier-

Mine Votes

May Swing West Virginia By FRED W. PERKINS . HIGH COAL, W. Va., Nov. 2.—

~The meeting of the United Mine

Workers, called in ‘a school building near here to discuss whether the rank-and-file members should

“vote for President Roosevelt or

Governor Dewey, had hardly opened when 3 there was a terrific outburst of profanity from four men trying to drown out the speech of William Blizzard, vice president of District 17 of the Mine Workers. The four special. ized in a foghorn call of “DeWey phooey.” This Bill Blizzard has had a long career in Mine Worker affairs, including a course in the tactics\of how to break up meet ings’ of the opposition.. He could have instructed his friends to throw the disturbers out on their in accordance with Mine

"Mr, Perkins

ears, Worker routine, Instead, he outshouted the hecklers. And just before Mr. Blizzard got to the end of his reasons why coal miners ought to support John L. Lewis by voting for Mr. Dewey the disturbing quartet left the hall. Thus, there wasn't any fist fight, the lack of which apparently = disappointed some . of those in the meeting. - » .

« ~ BEAVING out the unprintable

words used by both sides in the

: heckling, the disturbers were de-

scribed variously - as “company stooges,” “Democratic -payrollers”

frei [il

We, the Women

Practical Wife ;

Fights Off

Loneliness

By RUTH MILLETT ONE WAR WIFE, depressed: by hearing other war wives complain that’ they were getting old while their husbands were away, says she decided to quit complaining and make the years count for something bé= sides a few “gray hairs, She made up her mind that her own, hus-

come. home to find her less attractive than when he left— but more.

After all, with her husRuth Millett, . away, she had more time to spend on herself than she had had since her baby was born. And she de-

- cided to do something worth

while with her Jong, lonesome evenings. s =» 8 “IT ALWAYS embarrassed her a little that, while she had as good a formal education as her hus band, he was better informed

* than she.

So she made a long list of all the books she feels she ought to read and is checking them off one by one. Furthermore, she realized that not since she was; a girl had she given a great deal of thought to how to make the most of her looks. ” ” » FOR YEARS she had been going around: looking like an older version of the prétty young girl she had been. Now she is experimenting with new hair styles, new makeup, new colors, more sophisticated clothes.

"She is putting as much thought

on ‘turning herself into an ats - good-looking young

tractive,

ttin

But he didn’t,

band wouldn't .

and