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By Peter Edson

ai (Mr. Edson, Washington columnist for The Times who is now on a tour of North Atiantie bases

of the Army Air Transport Command, is substituting today for

pects to resume his dispatches from the war fronts

'BLUIE WEST ONE, Army Air Base in Southern Greenland, Nov. 28.—The way some people tell it, it’s almost & pleasure to be forced down on the Greenland ice cap, and rescued. It Isn't a pleasure, of tourse, and the ones who aren’t rescued can't tell their side of the story. But of approximately 26 planes that have been forced down on . the Greenland ice since the start of the war, all were tactical aircraft which have to fly under conditions that would ground civilian transport planes. And of the army personnel which went down with the planes, 90 per cent have been rescued. Bernt ‘Balchen has told the early stories of this rescue work y in his “War Below Zero.” But he was transferred to another command over a year 2go and since that time there have been some other rescues which make good listening, ' Take, for instance, the story of Capt. Joseph A. Burns of Pasadena, Cal, pilot and present head of , Search and rescue activities at this BW-1 base for the army air forces. Capt. Burns rescued the crew of a Flying Fortress which was forced down on the Greenland ice, and he says the 20 to 22-year-old kids of that crew enjoyed the experience, thoroughly, Burns himself is an old man of 24. It happened last Easter Sunday, but Capt. Burns Just got around to’telling it—outside of official reports.

Sweet Charity

THE BIG FORTRESS was en route from Goose Bay, Newfoundland, to Iceland and England. It ran out of gas over Greenland and set down on a fjord, belly landing so successfully that not even the radio was knocked out. Communications were thus maintained throughout rescue operations, which added to the fun.

A transport dropped the: stranded crew of 10 men emergency supplies. The transport, a C-46, was piloted by Capt.—now Maj. —Benjamin Shiffrin of Hyannis, Mass. Maj. Shiffrin had been flying from BW-1 and BE-2, up the east coast of Greenland, when ha heard the distress signals. He located the plane and intended to lead it back to a safe landing, but there just wasn't enough gas. Maj. Shiffrin stayed in the air for 11 or 12 hours

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that day, giving them directions and dropping them what supplies he had and could bring in. Among the supplies were 10 bottles of liquor, ‘one for each man in the crew. Maj. Shiffrin had been taking this to his original destination, but he sacrificed it in the interests of sweet charity, first aid and rescue work befitting any upstanding aerial St. Bernard dog. Two of the ‘bottles were broken, however, and the fliers on the ground demanded replacements. Maj. Shiffrin brought them in.” The youngsters got a big kick out of this and demanded a chaser. On a later trip they were brought canned grapefruit juice. Red Cross supplies dropped included reading matters, and even candy, chewing gum, cigarets and cigars made famous by the news butchers. Sleeping bags were dropped,*too, but when some of the Fortress men complained that they hadn't slept well, air mattresses were flown in to make things easier, And tents to keep off the snow.

Sank Through Ice

IT WAS three days before tHe weather cleared enough on the fjord for a plane to get in and land. Then Capt. Burns took off in a little C-64 Norseman, a single-engined, high-wing plane equipped with skis for landing on the ice. He got away at 4 a. m,, long before the northern sunrise, and when he landed his little Plane on the ice alongside the crippled Fortress, some of the men were still in the now quite-comfortable sleeping bags. They still had one bottle gf the whisky left, Capt, Burns brought out five of the men on his first trip and then'went back after the other five and some of the equipment, which he brought out on his second trip. In all, he made 900 miles in his two mercy flights that day, The intention was to come back later to salvage the plane. The, scheme was to bring in Jacks, raise the plane so that the wheels could be lowered, put on new propellers and recondition the engines in an effort to fly the ship off the ice. But they never got the chance, for the big plane sank through the ice, and on the bottom of a Greenland fjord, any plan is beyond salvage. 3 As for the crewmen, they all went back to the States, and in time got another plane which they flew across successfully and into combat. Greenland doesn’t want to list their names now, for publication, because where they all are now, Greenland doesn’t know,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

MRS. DOROTHY STRAWMYER, 5336 Broadway, received a letter the other day from her son, T-5 William §trawmyer, in Belgium, saying how much he would enjoy some home cooking," especially some of his mother’s pie, So, what do you suppose Mrs. Strawmyer did? She did just what any mother would do. Obtaining a couple of pie tin8, she baked a mince pie, packed it carefully and mailed it. On the outside of the package, she wrote: “This is a pie for a soldier.” She hoped that would cause the package to receive special handling en route, but we have our doubts. As an afterthought, Mrs. Strawmyer sent her son a letter télling him’ not to eat the pie if it is moldy when it arrives, , , . In a note Thursday, we referred to Cpl. Sexson Humphreys being in England. That was a geographical error. We meant to say Italy. ... Gray, Gribben & Gray, 103 N. Illinois, are getting a new sidewalk clock—or at least new works in the old clock. The new works are electrical. We hope the clock keeps good time. If it does, it will be one of the few sidewalk clocks in town to do so. Most of them are hopelessly out of order because of the difficulty in obtaining repair parts. But we've noticed lately that every once in a while, the courthouse tower clock catches up with itself and gets on the beam. :

100 Make a Dollar

ONE OF OUR agents was aboard a Brookside trackless trolley Sunday eveiiing and noticed a penny on the seat just back of the operator. He didn’t bother about the penny. But it interested a woman passenger. As she passed the seat, she looked at the ‘penny, stood there a minute, then sat down on the penny. After trying to look unconcerned for a minute or two, she slid over, surreptitiously picked up the penny, and then moved on to another seat, .... Governor Schricker received -an ovation that must have been heart warming for a defeated candidate

World of Scienc

OUR PRESENT concept of the physical nature of the world owes more to the thinking of Sir Arthur Eddington than to that of any other single individual. His untimely death last week at the age

of 61, robs the world-of one of its greatest intellects. fis Not only did Eddington make prolific contributions to a wide range of astrondmical fields, but he popularized and developed the significant work of other great scientists and synthesized all of it into a unified picture. > For example, he was the first to recognize the importance of the Einstein theory of relativity, and it was because of his sponsorship that the British in 1919 organized the two eclipse expeditions which verified Einstein's predic-

, tion that the sun's gravitational field would bend ,

the rays of light coming from the stdrs. : Eddington led one of these expeditions in per-. son, and it was his report that catapulted Einstein into world-wide fame. But the great British astronproponent of relativity in astronomy and developed the implications of the theory as they applied to the nature’ of the universe, .

- Developed Lemaitre Theory

IN SIMILAR FASHION he seized upon the Abbe Lemaitre’s idea of an expanding universe and became the leader in developing the implications of this theory. To In my library at home, it has been my habit for a long time to keep together on the shelves at the

“WASHINGTON, Monday —Yesterday we had a rather quiet morning. The afternoon was fairly busy, we had to meet people at trains and get them off

others. There were a few guests for tea who must have thought we were a constantly moving group!

. paratrooper, Stanley recovering from a lang convalescence after a para-|

when he gave a brief talk yesterday at the luncheon of the Indianapolis Committee for Economic Development. The governor was introduced by Joseph E. Cain, executive vice president of P. R. Mallofy and chairman of the C. E. D, as “the person who made it acceptable and popular for Republicans to scratch their ticket.” At this, the several hundred business executives present—and it's a good guess Republicans were in the preponderance—cheered so lustily the governor had to fake a second bow. Toward the end of the ovation, the huge audience stood in tribute to the governor. .., We noticed an appropriate name in the story about the annual “hanging of the greens” ceremony to be held at the Y. W. C. A. Dec. 10. Miss Ida Pretti is the decorations chairman. Not for a Million! IF YOU'VE TRIED to take a train trip recently, you probably can sympathize with Howard Harrington, manager of the Indianapolis Symphony. To him fell the monumental task of arranging hotel and train accommodations not for just one person but for the entire orchestra, which yesterday started a road tour of 13 one-night stands. Just arranging for the handling of the orchestra’s trunks was enough to turn his hdir gray. Yesterday, a few minutes before the orchestra was to take off for union station, he was a nervous wreck. And then the postman arrived with a letter asking him to manage a traveling show known as Hawaiian Paradise. That was too much. Mr, Harrington whooped and then he hol-

“ lered. It was the first time he hdd laughed in 48

hours. . , , Old Inside receives quite a few odd requests for information, but here’s one that outdoes most of the rest. Phil Davis, who runs a liquor store at 308 E 16th, called and asked how to get a hird out of his store. This bird was a sparrow, and for two days it had been flying around, batting customers in the face with its wings, and otherwise annoying Mr. Davis. “Try the Humane society,” we suggested. He did and siys he was told: “Wait until it goes to sleep,” then nab it.” Mr. Davis snorted. Finally a young woman in the neighborhood learned of his plight and lured the bird out the open door by whistling bird calls. So that was that. |

e By David Dietz

left of my desk those books that deal with the modern concept of the universe. Glancing at them now, I see that five books by Eddington are the very nucleus of this collection. They are: Stars and Atoms,” published in 1927; “The Nature of the Physical World,” 1928; “The Expanding Universe,” 1933; “New Pathways in Science,” 1835, and “The Philosophy of Physical Science,” 1938.

Master of Exposition

AS WORLD. WAR II draws to a close, public inter-est-in thesé matters will again increase, and I can make no better recommendation to the reader than that he make the acquaintance of these hooks, if he has not already done so. I would urge that they be read in the order of their publication. Eddington was a master of exposition, and while they contain difficult passages, the intelligent layman can understand them, Eddington, as many readers know, had‘ a strong religious bent and found a basis for religious belief in science, He was a Quaker, somewhat of a mystic, and a bachelor, My good friend, Dr. J. J, Nassau, director of the Warner & Swasey Observatory of .Case School of Applied Science, who spent 1927 and 1928 as a research fellow in Eddington’s observatory at Cambridge, tells me that the great savant was completely engrossed in his work. Astronomy, says Dr. Nassau, was his occupation, and the philosophy of science was his hobby. Though Eddington had -the reputation of an austere person, Dr. Nassau says that he always found him pleasant and sociable. This was the opinion that I had formed from my briefer contacts with him. It alway$.seemed to me that a great deal of his austerity was really a kind of shyness, Lr

By Eleanor Roosevelt

In Hartford, Conn., the chairman of the salvage committee is Edward Browh, who is promotion manager of the Hartford Courant, He felt that.in his position he could not do as much actual leg work as needed to be done, nd so he took his problem to the U. 8, employment Si the answer for him. A young exKrasnicki, 24 years old, was just

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POISONED MINDS—

Hitler Pawns - Ready to Die Clubbing Foe

By NAT A. BARROWS Times Foreign Correspondent STOCKHOLM, Nov. 28.—Across the Rhine, inside Germany, awaits a nation of suicidal fanatics. Himmler, Goebbels, Ley, Bor man and all the rest of the mad Nazi gang have administe r e d their propaganda stimulants cleverly + + + + 80 Cleverly that the average civilian’s feat of Nazi terrorism against pro- ; he allied sympa thizers or pare Mr. Barrows ans overshadow everything. The Nazis have tried to inculcate into every home front brain their ghastly version of the consequences fol lowing German defeat. From all the evidence I have been ‘able to appraise as provid ed by- deserters, war prisoners, impartial travelers and other eyewitnesses, they have succeeded only too well. . » » TODAY most Germans think that they would rather die fight ing with clubs than submit to what Goebbels tells them will be § a fate worse than death, A year a go the Germans thought they had touched rock bottom in privations and restric. tions, but as they look back now, { out from their daze of claustrophobia, they realize that they were having incredible luxuries then. Life could hardly be more regimented; no man can -call his soul his own—or anything else. Everything must be sacrificed in the interests of what Dr. Robert Ley, labor front leader, calls the “Holy German National War,” » » » FOOD GETS scarcer and black market prices soar astronomically, despite brutal punishment or death for both buyers and operators, No one can travel more than 18 miles without written permission. No one can utter the slightest anti-Nazi criticism or hint about defeat without risking execution. EE I AS NEVER before Himmler's gestapo and SS spies are trying to’ catch listeners to the BBC, American army broadcasts, and other radio stations. Nazi terror psychology tactigs spread the rumor of a new device enabling the gestapo to identify such listeners in a few seconds. 2 8° x THE IMPACT of saturation bombings touches every phase of life inside Germay, to say nothing of the millions who have been uprooted and obliged to. take improvised shelter in barracks and half-repaired houses, or to lodge with strangers. It is going to be a bitterly cold winter for the Germans, ' If present predictions of the coldest winter in a century are anywhere near correct, the growing shortage of all kinds of fuel portends a taste of some of the misery the Germans have inflicted upon so many innocent millions in other winters, Thé sugar ration has just been reduced again; sugar is needed for industry. The Hitler jugend, those fanatical, frenzied teen-age Nazis, now beyond all hope of redemp- | tion, must practice fencing with canes’ instead of rapiers; all | swords have been thrown in the maw of the steel mills, » ” ” DR. LEY, writing in Der Angrift a few days ago, summed up the national = socialist philosophy of sacrifice thus: “If there is justice and a Lord in heaven, then this sacrifice, which is the greatest any nation ever made, will be placed on the scales of justice, Victory is linked with sacrifices, hence, victory must be ours because Germany has made the greatest sacrifices.” ® 8 =» JUST WHAT the average, mature German beyond, say 30 years of age, thinks of such rubbish— Is not on the record. Himmler's brutish, unmerciful * reign of terror and Gobbels' un-~ ending propaganda hypodermicg have reduced the average German to a mere robot, overstrained, un-der-nourished, unable to think clearly for himself, i Each new allied advance only intensifies the cleverly directed fanaticism bolling inside Germany today.

ONE — First get a pack of cigaret paper and the proper kind of loose tobacco. Then hold paper and pour in tobacco as above,

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rolling,

THREE — Now grip between thumb and forefinger, or index finger, and roll thumb slowly and gently toward finger. Keep thumbs and ‘fingers steady without outward pull. Otherwise you'll tear paper in the middle,

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FOUR~— As roll is completed 's slight edge should remain at top. This you wet and a flip of the fingers completes sealing.

before lighting, twisting school.

HOW TO 'BUILD' A CIGARET , . . By An Expert

Roll Your Own, and Like It

. H™=s how to roll your own in these days of cigaret shortages—and the pictorial instructions are by an expert. J. R. (Jim) Williams, who draws that famous comic, “Out Our Way,” was a cowboy, long before he was an artist, and many’s the cigaret he has rolled while riding along horseback on the range or resting in a bit of friendly shade. So a Times photographer caught up with Jim at his home in California : and asked him to come to the ald of suffering smokers and show them how to roll their own.

Smooth out tobacco carefully and then bring up inner edge of paper with thumbs as first step in

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nd smoke. There are two schools of thought on what should be done just before the match is applied. Some old-timers twisted the end of the paper to hold the tobacco in. Others saw that the end of the cigaret was kept elevated at such an angle that the tobacco wouldn't spill out Jim, it appears, is of the non-

By. ROBERT. J. MANNING United Press Star Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—The

ident Roosevelt, who nominated him, and Mr. Hull himself, s » »

Stettinius Cuts Red Tape Along His Path From Big Business to State Department

eyes of a world weary with war will be upon Edward Reilly Stet tinius Jr, when he takes over as 'U. 8. secretary of state. As the leader of American foreign policy, Mr. Stettinius will in herit the task of completing the project launched by retiring Secretary Cordell Hull—the forming of a world organization, with American participation, to foster

ONLY ONE secretary of state has been younger than Mr, Stettinius, That goes back to 1794, when President George Washington named Edmund Randolph to the pos: Mr. Stettinius, son of a partner in the, banking firm. of J. P. Morgen and himself a leader in business, will take into his job a penchant for cutting red-tape

' Tomorrow's Jo More Pay Granted to Steel Workers

By EDWARD A. EVANS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. —After long study, the War Labor: Board has figured out a way to give steel workers. more pay “without even bending”-—so Chairman Da- . wage

vis says—the Little Steel formula, - Various ine i creases or- | dered, with de= tails of some of them to be worked out through col=lective bargaining, include premium pay for work- ey ers on night shifts, liberal. Mr Evans ized vacation and holiday sched ules, elimination of inequalities among workers: in the same plants. They are said to mean benefits averaging 5 to 7 cents an hour for some 400,000 em= ployees of 88 companies. The C. I. O. Steel Workers’ union had demanded much more, Among other things, it wanted a general wage boost of 17 cents an hour... That would ‘have smashed the Little Steel formula and opened the way for a wave of large: increases in other ine dustries, » . ” THE War Labor Board's action seems to be another indication

that the administration wants to.

“hold the line” against wageat least until Germany is defeated. Spokesmen for steel companies say they need higher prices to offset the pay raises now in prospect, and those that have gone before, Our guess is that the govern. ment will sist on holding the price of steel where it is. The steel companies have been able to operate at pre-war prices, while paying much higher wages and other production costs, bee cause they have been producing in huge volume and because they have greatly increased the effi« ciency of their methods, » : ” » ” ; WHAT the steel compan and other companies, will be able to do after the war is another question. For coal minérs and many other workers, as well as for steel workers, ways have been found to insure wage increases in spite of the Little Steel fore mula. The C. I. O. wants a guar« anteed annual wage, and the War Labor Board has recommended

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pay for a post-war 40-hour week as for a wartime 48-hour week. Well, perhaps industry can pay high wages, maintain lqw prices and achieve high efmployment. But there is only one sound way to do that. It is to keep down unit costs of production and dis tribution, by using more efficient machines and more efficient methods,

international good will and prevent another world conflict. And many officials here are confident the 44-year-old nominee for secretary of state can fulfill the

and an air of informality almost strange to the protocoliced corridors of the state depart ment, . Even his critics, and there are some, look somewhat in amazement at the phenomenon that

inheritance—officials such as Preshas made an outstanding “big businessman” (U, 8, Steel, Gen-

* HANNAH < eral Motors) the confidante of a

v New Deal President and a friend of Communist Russia, of a sensitive congress—and of big busi« hess itself,

. ¥: » MR. STETTINIUS attended the University of Virginia, serving as president of the campus Y. M. C. A, teaching Sunday school and running a campus employment’ bureau for needy students, His ability attracted John Lee Pratt, a Virginia graduate and vice president of General Motors, who teamed with Mr. Stettinius Br, to steer the younger Stettinius away from a ministerial career and into industry, After a short hitch as a 40-cent-an-hour worker in one .of G. M's ball bearing plants, he moved to a vice presidency of the huge automobile concern to handle employee relations, In the early days of the New Deal, he performed liaison between ipdus~ try and the NRA,

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AT 38, he stepped into one of the biggest industrial jobs in the world—chalirmanship of the board of U. 8B. Steel. In 1939, he came to Washington to begin a series of government assignments. He was lend-lease administrator prior to his appointment as undersecre-

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Edward R. Stettinius Jr,

Stettinius won the administration of many of his colleagues by his ability to get along with congress. Lt. Gen, Willlam S, Knudsen once said: “That fellow Stettinius can run the bases faster than any man I've seen.” . » » MR. STETTINIUS’ dislike of severe formality was apparent during the Dumbarton Oaks talks on world security, Many of the foreign officials epresent found themselves being called by their first names: Sir Alexander Cadogan, British undersecretary for foreign affairs, was “Alex.” When China's senior diplomat, Dri Wellington Koo, arrived here by plane, formally dressed diplomats stood in line to greet him, A pattily dressed stranger was noticed in line and nobody knew him but Mr, Stettinius. The undersecretary, it: appeared, had brought his cook to the ceremony. “He always wanted to meet Koo,” Mr, Stettinius explained,

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T—We, the Women___ Inferiority Develops

Superior Traits

By RUTH MILLETT A WAR PLANT doctor in Seate tlé claims that women tire less easily than men, learn faster, live longer, endure routine more cheerfully and take orders better, Assuming that the doctor is right (and it's a pleasant assumpt ion), how come? The doctor | didn’t, say. But maybe: Women tire less easily than men because, there isalways some woman to say ‘“You poor dear” to the man who

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» = » MAYBE the reason women learn faster is because they meet life's greatest challenge when they are young. A man works up gradually te becoming an important person or a man of responsibility, but » woman has her main job in life thrust on her when she becomes a “Mama,” and that is usually when she is just a girl her self. To handle that job she has to learn fast.

Why they live longer is easy,

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