Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1944 — Page 9

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Private Lives

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By Jack Bell|T

(Mr. Bell is fibstituting today for Ernie Pyle who Is on vacation but expects fo Teturn to sn assign-

ment in the Pacific war front in the near future.)

WITH THE 5TH ARMY IN NORTHERN ITALY = This is the story of a day in the life of Pfe. Jack Green—just another American, of Seattle. One October morning Pvt, Green's E company of the 362d infantry was ordered to protect the left

flank of the 2d battdlion near Monghidere, Italy. The krauts resisted fiercely until E company faced a fierce

counter-attack and became disorganized, Pvt. Green

saw what was happening, picked up his machinegun moved to.a forward position and opened fire, He kilied seven of the advancing Germans and his steady fire soon had .the enemy pinned down in that sector, stopping a serious threat. Then Pvt. Green noticed that the other machinegun of his section was jammed. He turned his gun over to a comrade, calmly went over and fixed the other gun, He got it fixed just in time to open up on another flock of attacking Germans, He killed five of them but two got so close he couldn't fire at them. He leaped from the gun, grabbed a rifle and killed both of them. But things were happening fast. The German fire was heavy and Green saw a squad grow panicky when its leader was killed, He went to the men, calmed them and got them back at their guns.

Handy Man On the Job

THEN GREEN got his~a rifle bullet through his

‘arm. He refused to evacuate, sat behind his gun

through all the pain and kept firing, A few minutes

later he saw more of his own company wandering -

aimlessly in an exposed position. The busiest soldier of them all—yes, Pvt. Jack Green—went to them, got them back where they belefiged, thus saving their lives and also filling a gap in the company line, Soon the Germans, unable .to disorganize and geatter E company, wilted under steady fire, and the company advanced. Pvt. Jack Green, doing his daily chore as a soldier, has turned in a record seldom equaled in our army . which is saying a lot. His fighting saved his com=pany and also prevented the 2d battalion from being

routed, .No wonder his officers united in recommending that he be given the distinguished service cross. Sgt. Carroll Eggers, Viles, N, C., was ina hot spot. His heavy machinegun squad was on the left flank of the second battalion of the 362d infantry one morning in July. The Germans were coming strong and his squad had been pretty well shot up. He sat behind his machinegun, facing a determined attack. His gun poured fire on the foe and they were forced to retreat. But they were many, and well armed. Soon they were attacking again, this time after plastering Sgt. Eggers’ position with heavy mortar fire.

They Couldn't Stop Him

ONCE MORE the sergeant’s gun poured withering! fire and once more the Germans had to drop to earth ‘and crawl back. They poured more mortar fire and moved again. This time, almost as soon as the attack started, a German bullet struck Sgt. Eggers in the jaw, a severe, painful wound that knocked him from his gun. His crew was at a loss without him and the situation was desperate. But Sgt. Eggers wasn’t through. The Carolina boy called an ammunition carrier and ordered the man to hold him up. So, resting in the arms of a comrade, Sgt. Eggers once more fired with deadly ss, finally driving back the third attack. hen came the tragedy. After driving‘off dozens of Germans three times, Sgt. Eggers slumped to the ground and lay still. A sniper's bullet had gone through his brain. ’ There is a Distinguished Service Cross for. this lad, too, who died a real hero. It developed that his work had been of utmost importance. The Germans were unusually determined that morning. He had driven them back: three times, attacks the Americans hadn't expected in such force. His efforts held them long enough for Lt. Louis Gele, New Orleans, crack mortar officer, to bring up his 81-mm. guns and repel two more desperate attacks. It was one of they hardest battles of the campaign.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

REPORTERS COVERING the visit of Henry Kaiger, the big industrialist, here yesterday were ime pressed more than ever with the truth of the old journalistic axiom that “the bigger the man, the more approachable he is.” Mr. Kaiser is an agreeable contrast to the “two-bit” type of “big shots” who feel they have to act disagreeable and play “hard to get” in order to impress newspapermen and others. Instead of appearing impressive, they're usually just boring in. The famous west coast shipbuilder exhibited none of the signs of being a publicity seeker—signs that any reporter can spot a mile away. Rather, he seemed to take a detached view of himself, recognizing the fact he is “news” and doing everything possible to make the reporters’ task easy. To show you how accommodating he is, after staying up until 3:30 a. m., he took it good naturedly when a reporter - for another paper got him out of bed at 8:30 for an interview he could have gotten the night before. Yes, sir; that Kaiser is asgreat. guy. And it wouldn't hurt a few people we could mention .to follow his example.

It's Still a Mystery

WONDER WHAT ever happened to that wildcat, or bobcat, or whatever it was, that was seen near

_ Eagle creek at 42d st. It's been more than a month

since the sight of the animal made Paul Denny's hair stand on end. And, so far as we know, it hasn't been seen since. Maybe the reason it hasn't been seen is that the neighbors have been staying away from its haunts. A few days ago, we thought we had the answer when Mrs. John Hillman (the Hillmans live near the scene of the animal's activities) walked into the office wearing a fur coat. But we found the coat wasn’t bobcat—merely leopard. And not even a domestic leopard, at that. . . . R. E. Waldo, of the telephone company’s accounting department,

World of Science

ALTHOUGH THE nearest star is 25,000,000,000,000 miles away, we have a remarkable picture of what the interior of a star is like. We owe that picture chiefly to the late Sir Arthur Eddington, the great

‘British astronomer who pioneered in applying the

findings of modern atomic physics to the problems of astronomy. ~ We know from spectroscopic observations that the surface temperature of stars ranges from about 2000 degrees, centigrade, for a red star to about 10,000 degrees for a bluish-white one. (Our own sun, fairly yellow in color, has a surface temperature of 6000 degrees.) From Eddington’s calculations we know that the temperature at . the center of a star is about 100,000,000 degrees, It was my good fortune to attend one of the lectures at which Eddington first advanced his views on stellar construction. It was at the meeting of the - British .Association for the Advancement of Science in Liverpool in 1023,

Quarrelsome-Program

"IN A CONVERSATION after the lecture I asked Eddington what his program for the next year was and he replied with a laugh, “Quarreling with the physicists.” But actually there wasn't much of a quarrel for the whole of the world of science came around to Eddington's way of thinking without much difficulty. According to Eddington's view, a star is a great globe_of gas that exists by reason of the equilibrium between two opposing forces.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday—I- find in my mail an increasing interest in the problems of individuals living in farm communities, who feel that it is easier for the larger farm owners to get consideration for their needs than it is for the farmer with a small acreage, The knowledge of the disparity of opportunity for the child living in some of our mountain states, or in some of the poorer agricultural states where the average holdings are small, is gradually becoming a real concern to people here and there throughout .the nation, It seems to be recognized that the farm security administration - has done more than any other

showed up for work the other day wearing a gaudy silk shirt. He said it's one he has saved since world war I days. The idea of paying $10 and $15 for silk shirts seems silly to us now. But one of these days some of the things we're doing now will look just as silly. We could (but won’t) name a few. . .. Don't forget—the city-wide paper salvage campaign starts Monday. The paper is needed badly to keep the paper mills running and prevent the paper shortage from getting any worse. Put your papers, securely tied, at the curb. The salvagers will collect south of 16th, west of Meridign Monday; northwest of 16th and Meridian Tuésday, Northeast Wednesday and southwest Thursday. The proceeds will go to a very worthwhile cause, the post-war fund of the Children’s Museum. Let's make the campaign a success.

Here's Your Chance

+ WE NOTICE Paul Brown, the parks superintendent, has decided something ought to be done about the pigeon situation. More power to him. Something should have been done years ago, but every attempt failed because of resistance by a few individuals who enjoy feeding the birds en masse. It's this feeding, Mr. Brown says, that keeps the huge flock in the downtown area. If they weren't provided with cafeteria service, most of them would have to scatter to the neighborhoods apd to the country, where they'd be less objectionable. A bit wary from previous encounters with the pigeon supporters, Paul qualified his “declaration of war” with the statement he'd do something pid given sufficient public support. What he plans to do is to seek city council action authorizing the trapping of pigeons. They wouldn't have to be destroyed—they could be released in one afithe state. parks, or somewhere else. Here's your chance, all you folks who have been complaining to us about pigeons. If you really mean it, write Mr. Brown a letter or postcard supporting the plan. That will give him something to show city council. If you'r¢ too busy to write him, then you'd better resign yourselves 3 Jeng divebombed. Address Mr. Brown at the city a

By David Dietz

One of these forces is gravity. Its action is to collapse a star, to pull all the material together into a tight knot. The other force is radiatioh pressure, the outward pressure of the energy released in the form of heat and light by the star. Its tendency is to blow the star apart, scattering its gases into space. The star exists, Eddington said, only because of the balance between these two forces.

Showed Direct Relationship

ONE OF the most important contributions Eddington made to the progress of astronomy was to show that there was a direct relationship between the amount of matter in a star and its brightness. This is known as the mass-luminosity relationship. Thus if we know the luminosity of a star we can calculate its mass and vice versa.

Dr. J. J. Nassau, director of the Warner & Swasey observatory of Case School of Applied Science, points out that Eddington was prolific in ‘almost every field of astronomical research. In this regard he resembled Dr. Henry Norris Russell, the dean of American astronomers, Dr. Nassau says that he thinks Eddington might fairly have been regarded as the dean of the world’s astronomers, During 1827 and 1928, as a research fellow in Edadington’s observatory, Dr. Nassau had unusual opportunity to form an estimate of. Eddington. It was apparent at meetings of the Royal Astronomical society and other important organizations, Dr. Nassau .tells, that the astronomers present regarded Eddington as the court of last authority. Astronomers presenting new theories virtually addressed their remarks to Eddington. If he could be won over, the day was won,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

to fit them more adequately to welcome the veterans home. Since the numbers are going to Increase month by month, more people will be in need of help and advice, and frequently they do not know where to And it, In the afternoon Lt. Col. Sir Willlam and Lady Fraser-Tytler and Mr. and Mrs. Hans Sulzer came to tea. Mr, Sulzer is hére from Switzerland for the economic conference. It seems a long while—25 years, I think Mr. Sulzer said—since we had been together in’ Washington in our more youthful days. Some young people came to dinner with me, and 1 worked until late on the mail: : I think that I have really succeeded in complying with the request that all Christmas packages go out .by mail before Dec. 1. I still have one or two which must go today, but if I slip up, I can take them in my- hands to New York and deliver them myself, It has been quite a struggle to get everything off, but it is a great pleasure to have most of the Christ-

By ROBERT rox

TwVo Technical - high school students, one of whom came here with his. family before Hitler's armies’ engulfed Europe, have taken the competitive examination for the fourth annual Science Talent Search scholarships. They are Donald E. Keyt, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Keyt, 3224 Langley ave, and Adolph Weiss, 16, son of Mr, and Mrs. Velo Weiss, 611 E. 32d st. Both boys intend to go to Purdue university next year where they will study mechanical Jane. bg » . »

THE TALENT Search scholar ships, which are sponsored by the Science Clubs of America and the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., are open to any Migh school senior in the country who will be qualified for college entrance on graduation. Two grand scholarships worth $2400 each are awarded to the boy and girl placing highest in the national competition. There are eight other scholarships valued at $400 each and another $3000 which may be awarded at the discretion of the judges. In ‘addition the expenses of the 40 finalists are paid for a trip to Washington where they attend the sessions of the Science Talent Institute. » » .

THE ONLY condition attached to the scholarships is that they must be used at a university for the study of science or engineer= ing. If a winner enters military service the money is held until his return. In addition to taking the test both students had to prepare a project and write a 1000-word essay on it. Donald, who won't be 18 until Oct. 30, took physics last year and is taking chemistry now. In both courses he had an A or A-plus average—“mostly A-plus.” ” ” 8

IN ADDITION he has taken most of, if not all the mathemat~ lcs offered him. He's taking solid geometry now and plans to. take analyletic geometry and trignom-

Benny Silent On

Keep Him Off Air

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2 (U. P.). —Comedian Jack Benny, unlike

had nothing to say today about the threat of James -Petrillo’s American Federation of Musi-

; clans to keep i his regular : Sunday program off the N. B. C. net~ work. Instead, Benny seemed inclined to wait and see which way the wind ke blowing. But Jocal N. B. C. officials said the “show would go on” despite the union announcement that it would put the wraps on it because of a dispute over non-union engineers employed by the studio. The network spokesman they based their announcement on information from the New York office that new action had been taken. !

Mr. Benny

s ” . LOCAL A. F, M. Presidént Spike Wallace said he didn't

know anything about that, but heguessed somebody had gotten together with somebody in the East, Earlier he had said no deadline for settlement of the dispute had been set by his union. “All I know is,” he said, “that thé Benny show won't go on the alr with non-union engineers in the studio.” Network officials declined to explain the exact nature of the A. F. M. complaint or how many employees were involved, » ” . BUT AT Chicago, Fredenall, National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians, sald he had been informed of the A. F. M. move and that it was prompted by the “fact that the technician responsible for the proper broadcast of the show is not a union man-—that' he is a N. A. B. E. T. man” Predenall suggested N.A. B.E. T. members be recruited to appear on the show if the A. FP. M. re~ fused to take part.

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THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS—

_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ ; TECH HIGH YOUTHS TAKE TESTS. FOR SCHOLARSHIPS

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Parts. of a telescope which Donald Keyt (right) is making for his science project are examined by his friend, Adolph Weiss (left), and their physics teacher, Ereie 8. Martin. Donald is grinding a mirror

for use as a reflector.

etry next term. As he will start his college work soon after

graduation Donald expects to get

in at least one semester before becoming eligible for the draft. Adolph, who was born in Austria, left there in 1938 and came here with his family after living in France for about eight months. When he graduates from Technical high school next spring he will have completed the course in three years. ro” » » A RELIEF MAP of Mt, Shasta took him about 75 hours to make —building it up from pieces of cardboard. The horizontal scale is one inch to the mile and the vertical scale is one inch to 3200

Maj. Williams Back With 'Y'

MAJ. ARTHUR PF. WILLIAMS, a member of the staff of Central Y. M. C. A before entering the army, has been reappointed to the stafl of the Central Y as program secretary. Mal. Williams has resumed his Y work, while on a leave pre ng his dischayge from the army Dec. 31. Before enters ing the army two “years ago he served as educational program and business sebretary of the Y, and organized the Indianapolis Y Men's club and the first Toastmaster club here. He .gerved in world war I, winning the purple heart, and with the air force in this country in this war. .

He is a member of the United Brethren church, Masonic lodge, Personnel association and the American Legion, and resides with his family at 44 N. Sherman dr,

Maj, Williams

feet. The percentage of error is 38.6 per cent. Adolph started the map last June as a project for the scholare ship contest. Several weeks ago he delivered a paper on it to the Indiana Junior Academy of Science at Butler university which he says he will expand to use for his essay. Of the 120 finalists during the three years the search has been in operation 88 were boys and 32 were girls. . 2 =»

LATEST reports show that 47 had entered the armed forces and that 24 of them had been assigned to colleges for further study by the army or navy, The others are still college,

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Blind Newsie Realizes His Dream—Gets Indoor Job

A BLIND NEWSDEALER who has sold newspapers on Indianapolis street corners for 17 years -—come heat or cold, rain or shine —at last has realized his ambition to move to the protection of an indoors job. He's Carl A. Guthrie, 40, of 614 N. East st., who. yesterday took over the food and soft drinks concession in the state office building at 141 8. Meridian st. “Sure I'm happy,” he declared. “Getting off the street in this weather is like going to Florida for the winter.” But he emphasized that he was happy not just for himself, » s » “THIS represents a victory for the blind,” he explained. “I hope that more blind men are awarded jebs in public-owned buildings.” Then he hastened to add that he was one of the sponsors of a bill passed by the state legislature in 1937 giving the blind permission to operate stands in buildings under their jurisdiction. “Belling newspapers is one job that the blind can do,” Mr. Guthrie asserted. “I hope more and more people will realize this.” ® 8 =» GRATEFUL that Governor Schricker had obtained the concession post for him, he said his organization, the Workers for the Blind, is anxious to place more of its members in similar jobs. Mr. Guthrie has sold papers outside the Circle Tower building for nine years, and for seven years before that at the southwest corner of Illinois and Washington sts. Friends reported he cried when informed of the appointment. Besides taking him off the cold streets it will mean more money for him and his wife, the former Mary Bullock, of 8helborn, whom he married 13 years ago. » y y

THE GUTHRIES met at the Indiana School for the Blind where * both graduated June 4, 1027. Two days later he took up his post at Illinois and Washington sts, Born at Bedford, he is one of four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Guthrie. The father i8 a retired locomotive engineer for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad. The other sons are Hugh I, Cpl. Doyle E., a radio-gunner for the army air forces, stationed at

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Alice Brown, 8 Technical graduate of last year; won honorable mention in the Talent Search and is now studying chemistry at Indiana university where she was awarded the State scholarship, Her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Richard Brown, live at 4414 E. Michi. gan st, . . » » ADDITIONAL "scholarships are awarded to all of the finalists by colleges and universities. One girl said that if she had been able to accept them all she would have had- scholarships worth - $36,000. Both boys are very quiet and soft-spoken. When they brought out some of the equipment to show us they were more interested in their work than anything else,

i Aha Carl A, Guthrie

Lincoln, Neb., air base, and Clyde E., a first class petty officer with the navy, studying radar at Corpus Christi, Tex. Mr. Guthrie, the only one of the sons without his sight, has been blind since he was a year old.

Victim of Mine Honored by FDR

A CERTIFICATE of appreciation signed by President Roosevelt and jthe certificate of award for the purple. heart have been presented to the parents of T. 5 Edward B. Boswell w h o was killed by a land mine ex-

plosion in Burope Aug. lst. Mr. and Mrs, C. N. Boswell, 1235 Sharon ave.,, to whom the certificates were sent, have FB: Boswell three other sons in service: First Lt. Charles Boswell in Nofth Africa, Flectrician’s Mate 2.¢c Richard Boswell in the BSouthwest Pacific, and Second Lt.

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Tomorrow's Peacetime Tax Policy: Is Needed

Ey EDWARD A, EVANS WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.~Com~ gress has already approved the principle of federal loans to states, counties and cities for the plan= ning of post-war public works and should now vote promptly the $75,900,000 appropriation asked by Presjdent Roosevelt fgr that purpose. Nobody

"large a public~ works program may be neces sary or desir- : able after the war, But, as Mr. Evans the Baruch-Hancock report said nine months ago, state and local governments ought to have plenty of sound projects on a reserve

* ghelf, ready to start in a hurry

if they are needed to provide jobs. Otherwise the federal gove ernment may be forced to ime provise hasty, wasteful make-work schemes. Thus far, however, state and focal blueprints for only about a billion dollars’ worth of prejects have been brought to a point where actual construction could begin within 60 days. Some states have done a good deal, but others are handicapped by constitutional restrictions,

The Baruch- Hancock “reporg suggested that Congress might want to provide funds to help with planning, but should do so only “with full recognition of the fact that the debt burden of many communities, cities and states ig far lighter than that of the fede eral government.” o n n AND SO congress has authore ized planning loans, instead of outright gifts, and has declared that it is assuming no obligation to provide construction cash from the federal treasury. That, of course, is no guarantee that Uncle Sam won't be called upon later to pay for local improvements, but at least it doesn’t commit him to do so. And the $75,900,000 loan fund asked by Mr. Roosevelt would come plete plans for about a billion and a half dollars’ worth of additional projects. s Tax legislation ready on a post-war shelf was another Bare uch-Hancock recommendatidn, ” ” 2

PRIVATE industry creates jobs by starting ‘new enterprises or expanding old ones, building new plants or enlarging old ones, buy« ing new machinery and equipe ment, . undertaking sales came paigns to win larger markets for goods. All this activity is financed by capital taking calculated risks in hope of profits. And risks can't be calculated until it is known how much the government's take will be and under what rules it will be taken, x

There should be no reduction of taxes during the war. But

congress should—and the sooner

the better—decide what peacetime taxes -are to be. ‘That decision made and announced, business and industry, can plan to pros duce and to employ.

We, the Women Home Letter Writers Face Stresses, Too

By RUTH MILLETT EVERYONE is impressed when the soldier overseas breaks in on a letter home to describe the difficulties under which it is be= ing written. But do you suppose it ever oce curs to anybody that many of the . letters from home to the servicemen abroad are written under stress and strain, too? Sue may be writing propped up in bed with the flu which she can't mention, for a follow-up letter saying she is well might be lost or delayed. So she writes along trying to sound as bright and perky as she doesn’t feel,

Miss Millett

su 8 JANE'S letters are -a triumph over of kids saying “Mommy” every two minutes by the clock. Madge has to find time to write every day even though she is nursing a sick baby through an illness she doesn’t dare mention, but which has left her haggard with work and worry. '

And Marge has the problem of

trying to find some. news to write about when she never goes anys where or does anything because she can't afford a baby sitter, and probably couldn't find one if she could. ® a 8 AND Betty, whose husband has been gone for more than two years, feels so out of touch with him. that létters have become a duty, rather than a pleasure, It's hard after such a long separation to keep letters on-an easy, intl

mate plane, yet she feels that is

what she must do. The problems of the abhome letter wriier aren't as dramatig |

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