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§ Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

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World of Science - By David Dietz|

? Ocean Crossi

of the army air

MEEKS FIELD, U. S. Ary Alr Transport Command Base, Iceland, Nov, 30.—A second lieutenant

pilot with his crew of equally-young mechanics, radio

man, gunner and bombardier, set their Flying Fortress

down en the runway of this most important last stop on the North Atlantic air route to Europe and the war, In the whole crew there will be only one man who has ever flown the Atlantic before—an old man navigator of 23 or 24 from the air transport command, who guides “the new ship in its first crossing. The oth ers are all green kids of 19 and 20, This is no rare event. It has happened dozens of times nearly every day for the past year and a half, It as an old story. But you have to see it to appreciate that this aerial Christopher Columbusing in reverse has now become such a routine business that no one thinks it unusual, This typical bomber erew will taxi its ship to one of the many parking strips on this tremendously big and beautifully dispersed air base. A bus or station wagon will meet the ship to carry the crew into temporary quarters in Nissen huts for rest, While ‘they sleep their plane will be serviced. If the weather is clear into the British Isles next day, the crew will be awakened at 2.a. m. They will be given breakfast, then carried to the briefing room, a big Nissen hut with an enormous map of the North Atlantic on one end wall. They will be shown a movie that runs 50 minutes and gives them a preview of the route ‘they are going to fly into the British Isles, the bases they may be ordered into as optional landing fields, Then veteran pilots and navigators who have gone over this last lap many times will give the crews special suggestions on radio signals, weather and fly~ ing conditions they are likely to encounted.

Get Early Start

BY 4:30 OR 5 and on up to 10 a. m., the crew will be ready to take off and will be taken to their plane. Leaving at these early. morning hours enables the new planes to arrive over England with a couple of hours of daylight “to play around in” in case they should become lost, and still be able to land before dark. Thousands of U. S. planes have made this crossing successfully and without imcident—a remarkable tribute to the organization which has been built up

LIT'STABOUT TIME we got around to mentioning a news item right under our nose. Earl Richert, The Times’ political writer for the last several years, is leaving for Washington Dec. 15. There hell work for the Scripps-Howard Newsgapers, covering Washington for the Scripps-Howard newspapers in Ohio, just as Dan Kidney does for The Times. It's a nice break, and one that’s well deserved. As a farewell, the Indianapolis Press club, of which Ear] is vice president, is. giving a party in his honor Saturday night. , . . Chief Beeker is proud of .a newly erected flagpole on the curb in front of police headquarters, To protect it from the bumpers of police cars parking at an angle, the chief had a guard made of concrete. Before the concrete could dry, an unidentified police car smashed it. So the chief had some heavy iron pipes set in concrete in front of the . polé. And woe betide the unlucky cop that knocks it over. . , . The chief also has installed a new. honor roll for policemen in the service. , . . We hear Steve Nola#id, editor of the News, is scheduled to go to a hospital Friday to have his appendix whittled out. Good luck, Steve. ‘Love Birds’ Are Buck ’ ANOTHER SET of “love birds” has started perching on the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument, our circle agent informs us. These “birds” arrive about 11:30 a. m. daily and stand at the parapet over the east fountain, occasionally holding hands. Ain't love grand? , , . A man walked up to Mrs, Madge Harrison, secretary to Governor-elect Ralph Gates, the other day and said he'd ‘like to place his application for a state job. Asked what job he wanted, he said:

THE FOURTH DIMENSION held no terrors for Sir Arthur Eddington. According to the great British savant, whose death last week took away one of the world's greatest intellects, space consisted of

four dimensions. Eddington believed that space was curved so that if you trav_eled long enough into space in a given direction you would find yourself back where you had started. Just as the surface of the earth is a two-dimensional area curved into the third, so space, in Eddington’s view, was a three-dimensional affair with a curvature into the fourth. He also believed that the universe was expanding like a gi- : .-gantic soap bubble into which air is blown. But again, in his view, this expansion was much more complicated than our ordinary measurements in .three dimensions indicate. He dealt with it .in mathematical equations that involved the fourth dimension, ~

Eddington Stood Out

. THE MOST INTERESTING conversation I ever had with Eddington involved the subject of the . fourth dimension. It took place in 1936 during the “arvard University tercentenary celebration. President Conant of Harvard had invited 75 of Europe's most distinguished scientists to be the guests of _ honor at that celebration. But even among that select group it was evident that Eddington occupied a special place of distinction/ > I bumped intb Eddington one sunny, pleasant afternoon as I strolled through the Harvard yard and we perched ourselves on the sunlit steps of the li-

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday—Yesterday morning

1’ received a memorandum on conditions existing ~notes that he was in the North Atlantic convoy work

among the civilian population of Yugoslavia at the

'T only wish that more people in this country might hs >have a real knowledge of these ' conditions.

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tions officers at the fields have their troubles in

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Mr, Pyle’s

to get these planes ferried safely across” 3000 miles or more of ocean, : Weather may force a pilot off cofirse. Or a young navigator may become confused and get his plane located in wrong position, Or a young radio operator may misread radio range signals intended to guide the plane to its true destination, Operations officers at both Meeks fleld in Iceland and at bases in the United Kingdom may be able to locate the plane exactly and tell the pilot and navigator where they are so as to put the plane on true course. For 150 miles or so to the east, they keep in touch with Iceland by voice. Then they go on code communication with their destination. When they'ré 150 miles out, they report in to the U. K. again, and are supposed to keep in communication with their landing field at regular intervals. But their is the peculiar trait of cocky young fliers that makes them reluctant to admit they've made a mistake, so they won't check in with their, base to confess they're lost. When that does happen, opera-

getting planes headed in the right direction,

Germdns Fake Signals SE

To make matters worse, the Germans on Norway have set up a radio range station sending fake signals on the same frequency as allied stations "in the United Kingdom. The idea, of course, is to lure planes over towards Norway and shoot them down there. To guard against it, a squadron of fast fighter planes has been based on the northern coast of Scotland just to chase after planes off course and get the wandering pilots headed back towards where they're supposed to be going. All these aids of communications, direction findings and navigation are of course intended to make veteran transport pilots out of young “crews flying the ocean for the first time. The old hands at the business—the transport pilots operating for A. T. C, or for Northeast, American, and Transcontinental and Western Airlines which operate ‘as contract carriers on this northern route, and have crossed the ocean as often as twice a month or even more—don’t have to be briefed in this elaborate fashion. They brief themselves, make their own weather charts and their crossings as regulafly as the milk trains in suburban railroading. That marks the difference between experience and making a transocean flight for the first time. But you have to hand it to the youngsters who fly ‘ém across even when they’ve never before even seen an ocean.

“1 want to be top man on a truek.” That had Mrs. Harrison stumped, until he explained. It seems there

are several men. assigned to state highway trucks,|:

one of whom stays on the truck while the others get off and shovel when shoveling’s necessary. The one who sits there and waits is the “top man.” . ,. One of our readers calls to praise the thoughtfulness of a couple of deliverymen—one for Ayres’, the other for Block’s. Instead of just lugging packages—obviously Christmas gifts—right up to the door at this season, as most deliverymen do, these two knock at the front door first and ask if it’s for Christmas, and

if sor whether they should put-it in the garage where|

juvenile eyes won't spot it.

Turn Off the Heat

ONE OF OUR agents inquired yesterday what had happened to the quaint old custom of picking up persons waiting for busses and streetcars. “I stood at 52d and Central yesterday,” he said, “and counted 157 cars passing with no one in them but the’ driver.” He finally got a foothold in a crowded bus. . .. While we're on the subject of busses, we and a lot of other passengers wish some of the bus drivers would pay closer attention to their bus heaters during moderate weather. Some of them have a habit of turning the heaters on and letting them run while the overcoated passengers in the back of the bus swelter and bake. Just a suggestion, that’s all. . . . In the display window of the Shaw-Walker store on the southeast segment of the Circle is an illuminated globe of the world that’s upside down. Oh, well, it's a topsy turvy world, after all. . . . We noticed a sign in the window of the Good Housekeeping store on N, Pennsylvania, opposite Keith's, that said: “Give Dad a cigaret dispenser for Christmas.” Beneath it were some little elephants with cigaret-holding howdahs on their backs. We can imagine all the wisecracks made by passersby who can't find any cigarets to put in the dispenser.

brary while he puffed on the pipe that he loved so well. I told Eddington that I had no difficulty in understanding what he had written of four-dimensional space but that I could not visualize four-dimensional space. I asked him if he could. : He replied that by shutting his eyes and thinking real hard about it he thought that he could.

Four Dimensional Doughnut

THE UNIVERSE, he said, was a four-dimen-sional hypersphere, the four dimensional equivalent more familiar = three-dimensional sphere. Pressed for a pore popular description of a hypersphere, he said $hat it might be visualized as a fourdimensional doughnut. By concentrating on it with all his might, he said, he could visualize this doughnut in three dimensions revolving around its axis in the fourth dimension. But in the next breath Eddington admitted that the fourth dimension differed from the three familiar dimensions, differed to such an extent that it might be regarded more as a property of space—like a magnetic field, for example—rather than an actual dimension. i Thinking of it as a fourth dimension made it easier to picture what went on in space. From this point of view, he said, the fourth dimension might be regarded as the creation of the mathematician. Dealing with the more involved properties of space he said that he found it helpful in writing his equations to ascribe six dimensions to space. He said that he thought a complete description of space would require the assumption of ten dimensions, I think the reader will understand if I say that 1 treasyre the memory of” that bright -af! n when I sailed the four-dimensional hype ere with Eddington as the pilot.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

ing on his yellow ribbon the insignia “A” which de-

before Pearl Harbor, ; There were also several marines who had served in the Pacific, some on Guadalcanal. Later in thé afternoon Miss Agnes Inglis came tell me about the very unusual little school which : and which in a very unique way

- By Peter Edson

(Mr. Edson, Washington columnist for The Times who is now making a tour of North, Atlantic bases transport command, is substituting today for Ernie Pyle who is on vacation. dispatches from the fighting. fronts will be resumed in the near future.)

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SECOND SECTION

IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING— SS 'Wolves' To Fight On _After Defeat

By NAT A. BARROWS Times Foreign Correspondent

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 30, —Allied military occupation of Nazi Germany will not enable our soldiers to lay down their weapons

peacefully. * Instead, we will face continued resistance from fanatical Nazis cunningly entrenched under-

ground. . It will take weeks, perhaps months, to mop up these guer- ; rillas. Beyond any doubt Heinrich Himmler, the real boss of Germany today, has laid down careful and exacting plans for taking his gestapo agents, S. 8. soldiers, and other fanatics into hidIng after the formal military collapse, They will fight on in the ruins , of bombed cities, in mountains, in mountain retreats, and worst of all, in sheep’s clothing as ostensibly subdued civilians, » 5 s NO ATTEMPT at peering “Inside Germany” today can be complete without realizing that this state of affairs lurks just under the surface of the Nazi facade. The Hitler-Himmler gang will not give up until they are actually caught. And after that, they have laid plans © for carrying on their Nazified political ideas. This is not fanciful drama, but hard, cold fact. Our military leaders long have had sufficient evidence to ‘appreciate the seriousness of these preparations for continued Nazi resistance underground, » : ” » THEY KNOW that special units of fanatical’ young Nazis have been given concentrated training in guerrilla warfare. They know that stores of food, ammunition and fuel have been earmarked for post - armistice fighting, and are hidden away at strategic points. y Additional information reaching Stockholm only serves to bear out the fact that we have got to deal with suicidal desperadoes operating underground and willing to accept any risk or hardship if it pleases der fuehrer — and Himmler. Some estimates from pro-allied sources place the number of these potential snipers at “500,000. «a = =» WHAT OTHER choice have the Nazi bosses? They have become involved too deeply in their own snares of murder and brutality; they have got themselves too fully compromised. And beyond planning every devious scheme for saving their own scalps, they hope somehow to leave enough of Nazi foundations lingering underground for future revival, for future budding into another attempt at domination 29 years or so hence. Meanwhile they will every trick to. soothe us. » - » RUMORS OF false peace demonstrations will be spread abroad. “False deaths of Nazi leaders will be announced so these leaders can disappear quietly, both to escape punishment wand. to carry out Nazi post-armistice plans, They will even pretend to disband the ‘National Socialistic party organization. : » » » THEY WILL overlook not the slightest opportunity to embarrass and provoke our occupying troops. » Youthful martyrs will gladly throw their lives away to create incidents. . Nazi agents disguised as simple townspeople will attempt to mingle among allied soldiers, spreading rumors of discontent, malicious gossip and trying to invoke sympathy for Germany. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's order forbidding American soldiers even to speak with German civilfans without written permission is based on a sound and realistic appreciation of this future came paign aimed at upsetting morale. Anything less than an utterly realistic approach to Nazi designs and cunning means future trouble—and plenty of it.

| ~ Barnaby will be found ro on page 31,

Mr. Barrows

utilize confuse and

THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS—

. Tanks Join Yank Infantry Drive on Nazi Town -

Tomorrow's Jo 1 Extension of 1 | | Social Security |- Is Probable a

e Indianapolis Times

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 80, 1944

. Acme Telephoto American tanks support an infantry drive on the Nazi town of Huchin, Germany, previously softened up by dive bombers. Stiff resistance was encountered despite air and ground bombardment,

GHOST TOWN— Only 11,000 of 175,000 People Still in Aachen

By JACK FLEISCHER United Press Staff Correspondent

AACHEN, Nov, 30. — Imagine an industrial city about the size of Reading, Pa. devastated by a tornado. . .. With only 11,000 bewildered, largely homeless survivors, , , . With all public utilities and mechanisms of law and order vanished, . .. Imagine this and you can get a pretty good picture of what Aachen was like when the Americans moved in. Once a city of 175000, Aachen is a ghost town today with only about 11,000 persons left. But it is a good sample of things to come for the allied military government. . - . » Maj. William E, Hurlbert, Jacksonville, Fla.,, fromer * assistant chief of detectives, is the military governor “of Aachen and he described the city as a “terrific challenge.” He estimated that at best not more than one-quarter of Aachen’s industrial production could be restored. Lt. George J. Buchholz, Kansas City, Mo, economic expert of the A. M. G. team, pointed out that only five of the city’s 156 textile factories can 'be-restored and only one of these had a chance of getting Inte production at any early date, . 2 » = THE A. M. G. TEAM'S job is biggér and more complex than that of any relief agency. It represents the military vice tors and it doesn’t speak the-lan« guage of the conquered. It's first job largely was to get the city to make the best of its fate, The team included 16 officers, two warrant officers and 25 enlisted men, M. P.s are provided by the provost marshal so the first job of the A. M. G. was to organize a German police" unit. It picked 147 civilians for the task, including some of the old Aachen police force. They were sent to a training school but A. M. G. frankly doesn’t know what luck they will have in-remolding the Nazis in so short a time. . ‘a =» a HURLBERT said some Germang selected to work under him were Nazi party members, But the lord mayor is not, “In selecting them,” he said, “we simply have to try to weed

out the least bad ones and when |

we come to party members we have to try to decide on those we think nay have been doing lip rather than heart service to Hitler.” - He sald A. M. G. already knew of some bad choices that had been made. n » n “WE HAD the case of a man put on the police force,” he said, “whom we soon suspected. We fired him but didn’t have enough on him to arrest him as a war criminal, “So we gave him a street cleaner’s job, “Shortly, -we caught him destroying German records and Jailed him. “As soon as we had the ‘goods on him he became arrogant and declared he was still a Nazi.”’

BRUSSELS STRIKES EASE BRUSSELS, Nov. 30 (U. P.). =

| Strikes resulting from political and

economic unrest dwindled today with the government of Premier Hu-

bert Pierlot- still firmly in office.

By ANN STRINGER United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 30. — Britain's No. 1 warrior — Prime Minister Winston Churchill — observed his 70th birthday today far healthier and happier than on that gloomy day in 1940 when he took the leadership of his 1 country to start it on the road to victory. There were no festivities, for Churchill was far too busy. Churchill loves a good fight and he had waged a mighty one. The war effort is the mainspring of his life and people close to him say: “As long as the war lasts, Winnie will not die.” Even his closest friends are amazed at his stamina and boundless will for work, at the

Mr, Churchill

TOO BUSY FOR FESTIVITIES—

Churchill Is 70 Today

Broom Wielder Averts Wreck

CHARLOTTE, N, C, Nov. 30 (U. P.) —~They were congratulating pretty Peggy Parsley, air lines employee today for stopping a speeding passenger train with a broom before it collided with a B-17 bomber that had crash landed on the tracks. } The train was unharmed, but the broom was something “of a mess. She saw-the plane, on a routine training flight from McDill field, Tampa, Fla, to Morris field in Charlotte circle low over a runway, then plop down on the rail~ road tracks. The train's mourn< ful whistle came through the rain and mist that limited visibility. Miss Parsley darted into a mili~ tary guardhouse at the field, grabbed a broom. dipped it in gasoline, and ran to the tracks with the blazing torch. The train ground to a stop. “There wasn’t the thickness of my finger between my train and that plane,” said Engineer J. C. Milton,

change in him during the last decade. » » » “IN 1934 he was so ill he could scarcely see and walked leaning heavily on a cane,” one friend said: “Today he is in buoyant good health.” . In the past two years he has suffered two serious illnesses, but he recovered from both in record time, never losing for a moment his intense mental curiosity. d Churchill's day begins at 17 a. m. He lies in bed for the next three hours—not sleeping or resting—but - working, telephoning; reading or dictating, and all the time smoking like mad, » ” .

THEN HE goes to the office where he starts a constant stream - of conferences. Come what may, he takes a nap every afternoon for at least an hour, It is often said it is worth your life to drop a pin when he is sleeping. He rarely goes to bed before 12 or one o'clock, sometimes not until two. He can be seen wan dering around in a violent-col-ored dressing gown, usually gare ish red or blue, » » » ” HE IS NOT a heavy eater bu does have whisky with his meals, He is fond of champagne; especially likes brandy after dinner with a cigar. Churchill's speeches for which he has become famous are dic tated anywhere. any anytime— the mood catches him — sometimes while he is in the bath. Those_pauses and hesitations in his speeches are mostly deliberate, Many editors have had a

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By S. BURTON HEATH WASHINGTON, Nov, 30.~The argument whether to take up to $60 out of your wages for social security next year, or only up to $30, has nothing to do with the arguments whether you should

be given com-~ Ee pulsory health iJ and hospital insurance or whether the whole social Fi security pro=gram should be extended to § perhaps 20 millions now excluded from it. Inclusion of those now left out won't affect you, who are in, at all, Addition of health and hos pitalization insurance will have to be financed by a tax raise quite independent of the rate on old age insurance, Both parties and their leaders— President Roosevelt and Govers nor Dewey—are agreed that. old age insurance and unemployment compensation should be given to farmers and farm workers, domestic workers, employees of none profit enterprises and many gove ernment employees, and old age insurance to the self-employed. ® 5 =

THESE were omitted from the

Mr. Heath

+ 1935 law and the 1939 amendment

on the ostensible theory that it would be unworkably difficult to collect the necessary taxes and reports from farmers, household« ers and the self-employed. Some, cynics perhaps, wondered whether there was also a dread

that farmers and householders— _

very numerous classes—might resent having to pay the fax and make reports, and might take revenge at the polis. ; It now seems agreed that it is safe, desirable and administratively feasible to bring in these forgotten men and women. Gove ernor Dewey's strong advocacy of the step removes likelihood of a partisan split. It's probable that the new congress next year will make the change,

” PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, Governor Dewey and both their parties agree, . too, upon desire ability of a program of health ine surance,

And if a health and insurance measure providing benefits pro posed by the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill is adopted, you must pay for your share in it with a tax increase that won't be far from 3 per cent. - That is, if reserve-protected old age insurance is retained, plus health and hospitalization insure ance, the amount deducted from each dollar of your wage is going to be nearer 6 cents than the 1 cent you have been contributing up to now, ?

quiet laugh as they listened to Churchill over the radio “groping” for a word which they knew was typed in the manuscript before him, . s xn »

CHURCHILL and King George get along very well and have sort of a “mutual admiration society.” The king admires Churchill's oratory and- the prime minister admires the king's integrity and common sense. Churchill and President Roosevelt have a great mutual regard. Roosevelt presented the prime minister with a transport plane six months ago, and Churchill was one of the first to congratulate the President on his election to a fourth term.

U. S. Casualty List Mounts to 536,950

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (U. P). —Announced casualties of the U. 8. armed forces today reached the total of 536,950, an increase of 8155 in the past week. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson told a news conference that the total of announced army casualties now stands at 461,058. This figure includes 89,840 killed, 258,106 wounded, 57,514 missing and 55,508 prisoners of war. He addéd ‘that 124,533 of the wounded already have returned to duty. A navy casualty list released today showed 75802 casualties among navy, marine and coast guard persontiel. The total included 29,480 dead, 32,600 wounded,

9326 missing and 4486 prisoners, T-

‘DAM-BUSTER' MISSING LONDON, Nov. 30 (U. P.) —Wing

Cmdr, Guy P, Gibson, who led thel*

daring raids on -Germany’'s Mohne and Eder dams in May, 19043, was officially listed as missing in action today. J

gy By Laurene Rose Diehl

: We, the Women Maybe Hubby's Changes Will

Improve Him

By RUTH MILLETT DORA isn't what you'd call a deep thinker, And maybe her opinions arem’t worth repeating. But her attitude toward men coming home from the war “changed” is at least refreshing, and maybe you'd like to hear it. Dora says:

of me 1 can’

see why wome en are sitting ? around worrye pera Ing for fear ; . their men will 4 come home changed. They are the same Miss Millett ~~ en who used to sit around bridge tables before they started rolling bande ages. They tried to figure out all kinds of ways their husbands might change for the better, » » »

“NOW it never occurs to them that the changes might be ime provements in some instances, To hear them talk you'd think they thought their men were perfect when they used to live with them.

“But I can remember differ ently. “Personally, I hope Jim comes home a very changed man, in some respects, Maybe he won't carry on the way he used “10; every {ime T shifted the living room furniture, - . “I hope the army will have taught him to hang up his clothes. I hope he'll compare my cooking with the army's—instead of with his mother’s. X hope he'll take as much interest in fixing up the house as he has - taken in fixing up his fox holes, ” " ”

“For the life