Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1944 — Page 7

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SATURDAY, DEC. 16, 1044 —

Shoestring War

(Ernie Pyle is

AT A CHINESE-AMERICAN AIRBASE IN WESTERN CHINA, Dec. 16—If you want to. know what it means to. fight a war on a shoestring, ask any American at. this base in rainsodden Szechuan province. ¢ These “fellows not only are at the outer extremity of’ the tall end of the world's longest supply

would be a better word—in a climate which certainly is among the world’s worst. Almost the only pleasure they get is in fighting the Japanese and the weather makes that less frequent. than they would like. Day in and day out, for weeks on end, the boys never see the sun. There is a chronic drizzle. Mud is everywhere. The clammy -cold . sinks into their hones and refuses to be dislodged. Fuel is scarce and some of the boys are sleeping in unheafed waite Today\l flew on-a mission with Capt. 8. B. Brown of West Palm Beach, Fla. ‘We were searching not for Japs but for a stovepipe. We dropped in at a There was no stovepipe to be had. It was Bomber Pilot Brown's first unsuccessful mission.

They Need ‘Everything’ THIS 1S typical.

Compared With well-supplied

“American bases elsewhere, the men here are getting

along on next to nothing. They have cigarets to smoke, occasional magazines to read, and see movies three times a eck agers there is nothing to do but work, eat, sleep and try to keep warm. There is no Red Cross canteen ang the dispensary serves as a recreation room. So great are the demands op airplane space for gasoline and equipment

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

AFTER SLAVING “over a hat desk” all day getting out a newspaper, City Editor Ed Heinke put on his hat and coat about 4 o'clock yesterday. Just as he was heading out the door for home, the phone rang. It was his young son, Edwin, 12, on the line. “How many pages in the paper today?” asked Edwin. “Forty,” replied Ed. “Why do you ask? “Well, will you hurry home and help me deliver and collect?” asked Ed-

win. “No. I got it i. Now you deliver it,” was papa’s very final answer. . . . Sgt.~Mattie Brescia

reminds us ‘that Capt. Louis C. Wolf isn’t the only Wolf in the

WAC recruiting office. There's also Sgt. Rodger. Wolf. Gosh, a whole pack of em. . . . Law=-

rence Rial, 2624 Manker st., has learned that you still can use 1!:-cent postage to mail unsealed Christinas greeting cards in or out of the city. He thought some of you readers might be interested in knowing it, too. . . . We received a letter from Capt. Richard E. Randall, who has a New York APO number. He asked us to send him a

“copy of the paper (Aug. 2) announcing the death

of Lt. George W. Stahley. “I was his commanding officer,” writes the captain. “The only picture I had

of him became unrecognizable from usage and wet in

France. He was a fine man and an efficient soldier, loved by his men—and I am proud to have called him friend.” He willreceive the paper with a picture of Lt. Stahley.

See You in 19,V CITY COUNCILMEN are looking for most anything to happen at their Christmas party next Friday in the Athenaeum. In order to have all factions

represented, they've invited Henry Ostrom, G. O. P.

county chairman, representing the regular Republican organization; Mayor Tyndall, representing the City Hall Victory group, and even Jim Beattey, the

America Flies

I AM CURIOUS as to why the order was given that our forces must “walk” into Germahy. There was a reasor- for the invasion of Europe and the dash to the Cerman border. We had been hammering Germany from afar by intensive bombardment. That we injured her war effort is unquestioned. That we were able to provide the material and trained manpower for that job, is a miracle. But to win against Germany with airpower alone was asking too much of even a miracle. But now when we have an iron ring around Germany, and dominate the air, we are right back in the war game of 1917 employing masses of men and gaining yards at great losses. I wonder why our men must march into Germany to break the fighting strength of the Nazis. Isn't this the time when we should be using our airpower strategically instead of tactically? Isn't this the time to hold our ground positions and turn all our airpower loose on destroying the lines of communication of the German forces in front of us?

Strongest Strategically

AJRPOWER 1s at its weakest potential when employed against fortifications and against entrenched enemy positions. It works at ts full potential only when used strategically to destroy enemy back-area installations such as ammunition dymps, supply lines and supply depots. Especially is this strategical em-

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday.~Do you ever reach a point where you have so many new books piled up on your table that you feel almost desperate about ever finding the time to. delve inside them? Last night I spent a little time looking thfough Margaret Bourke-White's “They Called It Puyple Heart Valley." The pictures are, of course, wonderfully interesting. They “could mot fail to be because of their subjects. I have not yet read the story that goes with the pictures, but anything about the Italian . front must have ‘enough of the ‘heroic to make it vastly interesting to an American citizen, There is another shart book on « a subject in which every ene of us Is interested at the is called “What Tp Do With GerNizer. ~ :

think everyone shad read i It eS 4 pity o the youth.

line, but they are living—existing,

- By A. T. Steele

Jon Vacation)

that mail is¥necessarily infrequent and scanty. One officer told me that of the 2 packages mailed to him from the United States ‘in the. past year and a half, only ohe had arrived. I asked the|men what they needed. most. Their answer was “everything”—everything, that is, except eggs. It seems that some correspondent recently wrote a story ‘about how the Yanks in. China were hankering for eggs. The\ result was tha several men here got word that th wives were them parcels of hard-boiled hey fruit. happens that this base is right in tye center 6f one of China's most productive egg belts™—

Little Things Count

THE HAPPIEST GUY around here today is Capt. Jack Doorty, whose family lives in Floshmoor, Ill. He is, going home. Doorty piled most of his remaining posséssions on the table and said to his four room-

mates, “Boys, help yourselvés.”. The little heap disappeared in nothing flat as though a tornado had hit it. Little things count for a lot around here. Paper Is so scarce that the commanding officer is obliged to post a notice warning that “the practice of using mimeégraph paper and typewriting paper for sanitary purposes must stop.” A minor scandal was created when an officer purloined a few wooden splints from the dispensary to make a couple of boxes for his desk. “Gosh,” said Capt. Dan Bulfor, Milwaukee, Wis. “I even find myself picking up bits of string. You never know when it's going to come in handy.” A single bottle of beer, which showed up here a few months ago, is still talked of reverently. The men here are worse off for supplies and amenities than those at most bases in China, but there is less complaint than you would expect. The men admit that war needs must come first.

Democratic county chairman. . . . John Kleinhenz of the water company had a bfainstorm one day re-| cently and came up with a brilliant idea, “Why not,” | asks John, “refer to next year as 194V—instead of | 1945 ” His idea saw the light of day in a letter he

TESTIMONIAL— Death Parts ‘Inseparable

War Buddies

By ¥IRGIL PINKLEY United Press War Correspondent A “FRONTLINE EVACUATION HOSPITAL 10 MILES INSIDE GERMANY, Dec. 16.—This story didn't rate mention in the communiques. } No important hill was stormed. Not a town was captured. No enemy column was annihilated. No battle was won. It's just a simple testimonial to tenderness of an American soldjer who tried to erase from his emory the picture of what sudden, violent death did to his best friend. A medical captain at this advanced hospital told me the story with the stipulation that all names would be left out. “You will understand why,” said.

” » ~ Travel Same Path

The story began three years ago when a medical staff sergeant and an infantry sergeant, both 23, came into an armored infantry regiment. Through French Morocco, Sicily, Normandy, north France, Belgiun, Holland and Germany they had been inseparable. They took their passes together, drank heer together, went to the same bull Sessions. They shared parcels from home, showed each pictures of their mothers, sweethearts and “that little French gal in Oran.” . In combat they sort of looked out for one another. The medic always inquired from other boys in the company where his friend's squad had gone into action. And the ser|geant always ‘made certain that the

wrote to the magazine, Printers Ink. John suggests | medic approached the wounded by

his idea he used on eyery letter—and. even at the] top of each’ page of newspapers—as a means of expressing our hope for victory in “Nineteen forty V.”

Why Not Try Your Hand?

IF YOU'VE looked over the toys .for sale in the stores and don’t like the quality or price, or both,

way of the best “covered” routes. ” » » Dodge Heavy Shelling In a mopping-up operation in | Merzenhausen, Germany, on Dec. 1,

|the sergeant’s squad, which had | been following some tanks, was part

here's a tip you might be able to use: Why not, asks ‘of a group that took shelter in a|

John Longsdorf of the light company, get busy and make some toys yourself? You could make a good | start over the week-end. Sit down and think of some of the simple toys you enjoyed as a child. How about a jumping rope? We hear theyre hard to find in stores, but they ought to be easy to make. You| might make the handles out of a piece of broomstick | with ‘a hole bored in it. And then you could make] and paint a neat pair of stilts. Wooden blocks out of | two-hy-fours shouldn't be too difficult. And sonie] very cute rag dolls can be fashioned out of several! pieces of colored cloth, some yarn for trimming, and | small buttons for eyes. If you have the tools and ingenuity, you can go _.on from there and figure out some other worth- while toys that aren't too difficult to make. . Jascha Heifetz, who is playing here with the Indianapolis Symphony tonight and tomorrow afternoon, returned recently from a tour overseas during which he played before service groups. Upon landing in this country, he wired the parents of Pvt. Peter Obermeyer—Mrs. Fred Obermeyer, 4001 Central. He said he had seen their sen—serving with the 7th army-—~and that he was well and in good spirits. The wire did much for the parents’ spirits, as you can imagine. Peter's .presence in Europe, we're told by Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt, is by way of being a return trip. The young soldier, together with his parents and younger sister, was among those who fled from Germany to escape Nazi intolerance.

. . . By Maj. Al Williams | ployment effective when air ‘forces are concentrated on rail and highway transportation. With complete domination of the war over Germany, our air forces can now wander anywhere and attack any objective with far lower manpower losses and with far greater effect than the surface forces standing toe to toe with the enemy and battling it out. on a manpower attrition basis. At least that's the way I see it,

The Key Question |

IT 18 ALMOST beyond comprehension as to how the Nazis manage to keep going in view of the terrific| air hammering they have had. And it is a foregone conclusion that if all airpower were concentrated against the weakest part of Germany—the areas be- | hind the front lines—no humans could continue to! stand up under the strain, Holding our iron ring around Germany and turning loose our entire air forces on highways, railroads, canals, ammunition dumps, factories and supply | depots, the ultimate victory would be somewhat delayed. But the saving in manpower must be the controll-| ing factor, unless, of course, time-is of the essence] and we must win this war within a certain date. In several instances our air forces were employed tactically on .a large scale against ground enemy combat forces and positions, notably at Cassino. The losses to us were high and the military divi-| dend low. But the key question throughout this war has been “when to march apd when to fly.” And may this not be just the time to fly, with the marching to come later?

By Eleanor Roosevelt

This system came to its highest development in ‘Wo MEN HURT WHEN Nazi Germany and in Japan. If we are successful TRAIN STRIKES AUTO

there, we will be successful in other places as well. | This book of Mr. Nizer's seems to me one of the. “must” books for us all. Then there is alittle book by E. Stanley Jones, called “The Christ of the American Road,” which I think we might keep on our bedside tables to réad a chapter at a time just before we go to sleep. | Each chapter requires a little reflection, since it is not just a book ‘to read, but a book which shou. affect our way of living. Lastly, I have just finished Gwethalyn Graham's “Earth and High Heaven." I do not recommend it. for the very young, but I do recommend it for the! mature who know human nature and its evils as well 4s its virtues, 1 recommend it because it deals with iious-o in this case with only one particular prejudice, but the pattern rpals Heels wherever Prejudices are allgwed to flourish. We

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ing and mortar fire.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

“Shortridge Flies New Wat Bond Flag

THE SHORTRIDGE high school R. O. T. C. color guard recently took down the minute-man which has flown in front of the school since January and hoisted a brand new one in its place.

Awarded to the students because 91 per cent of them bought war bonds and stamps last De-

cember, the soiled flag’ was to he put on display in the school building.

Shortridgers have set 100 per cent participation as their goal. Last month 97.5 per. cent of the pupils purchased stamps and bonds. ’

THEY’ RE AFTER YOUR MONEY .. . .

No. 3

SWINDLE WAVE SEEN

By ALBERT FANCHER Scripps-Howard Special Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—Locked in Perge metal cabinets in the state attorney general's department is the largest rogues’ gallery of investment swindlers in the country. 1t is used by the three detectives assigned to the department, and frequently consulted by other local, state ment agencies.

) | But its most urgent visitors are |

those who have been victimized by someone whose record they hope to find in the files.

u 8 n “I REMEMBER particularly one woman who came in here,” said Edward J, Hindley, custodian of the gallery. “She was terribly upset. Some man had swindled her out of $35,000. She wanted to find him, and her money,

and national law enforce- | ; | the man they want has not yet

“All she had to go on was the phony name he'd given her, and a description of him. “We looked through our cards— and there his record was. We caught up with him after a while, and he was convicted, but her money was gone.” o » »

THE ROGUES’ gallery has many visitors like her, but sometimes

been listed. In the gallery are dossiers on the best known fraud artists in the country, many with coast-to- 4 coast and even international rec= ords. A glance through the thousands of cards, with their profile and full-view photographs, many of them taken in prison, reveals little uniformity in appearance of the subjects. They range from the crude oper-

Then a terfific explosion blew out| WAR | AFTERMATH—

|the side of &*booby-trapped house. |

The tank platoon commander ra-.

dioed immediately for medics.

Despite heavy, continuous mortar |

and artillery fire on the town, the | medical sergeant and half a dozen istretcher bearers went forward.

| They recovered from the debris the!

bodies of six dead and brought back 15 wounded. » ” ”

Pleads to Make Search

From the wounded the medical | sergeant learned that the other ser-

geant had heen among those who!

entered the building. Still hopeful, he pleaded with his captain for permission to go back alone to search. “He's beyond help,” the captain told him. “I know,” the medic replied, “but I want to make sure.” Hours later he found the broken body of his friend under a pile of rubble 20 yards away, With the aid of another soldier he tenderly brought the body back to an empty room at the shell-ripped house that served as an aid station. There he wiped away the blood, set the broken bones and dressed the dead sergeant in one of, his own clean uniformps. He even combed (and “brushed his hair. Then he picked up a field telephone.

“There's a dead soldier at the dis- |

pensary,” he told the captain. “He always lived clean. I always want to remember him peaceful and

quietly at rest.”

| Speedway Lodge

To Install Chiefs

NEW OFFICERS of the Speedway Masonic lodge will be installed at 8 p. m. Thursday at ceremonies at North, Park temple. The staff in- . cludes Samuel L. Parke, master; 8. Arthur Gummere, senior warden: Charles F. 7 Langwell, junjor warden; Charles Dickerson, treasurer; Ernest A. Welty, secretary; Hamilton Powell, senior dea-

Mr. Parke

| con; Evan J. Hughes, junior dea-

con; Clyde Smith, senior steward; Ivan H. Chambers, junior steward, George A. Anderson, chaplain, and Albert H. Hussung, Tyler. Carroll H. Hole, past master, will officiate.

Two men were hurt today after

their car was struck and carried for |

| 60 feet hy a Monon railroad freight |

train at New York st.

Roosevelt Signs Broader

Widows and Orphans’ Bill

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt has approved . legislation providing pensions for widows and children of world war 1 veterans who®*were not suffering a service-connected disability at the time of

death.

Under a former law, only dependents of veterans with service-connected deaths or disabilities were eligible for

pensions.

To be eligible under the new law, a widow must have an income of less than $1000 a year, if childless, and less than $2500 if she has children.

The law provides the following monthly pensions for: A WIDOW without a child ..... A WIDOW with one child .

EACH additional child

" EACH additional child

June 26, 1905.

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ONE child and no widow ,. TWO children and no widow THREE children and no widow .. President Roosevelt approved a bill last week liberal1zing pensions for widows of civil war veterans by permitting payment to those who married the veterans after

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All He Wanted Was Ride Home

CHICAGO, Dec. 16 (U. P).— All he wanted was a ride home. But Corby Baker stepped into the wrong taxicab early today and spent every second of the next 15 minutes dodging bullets. The cab Baker hailed was stolen and every police squad car in the city was on the lookout for it. Baker thought all of them found it when four police cars started chasing it on the West side. Baker huddled down on floor of the cab while police riddled it with bullets, 42 of them. Baker escaped unscathed. But the driver, Thomas Hand, 19, who po-

lice said was A. W. O. L. from |

Marks 33d Year

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Denzel Dearinger, 32, of 2266 N.|

Hamilton ave, with broken ribs and his passenger, Lowell Wooten, was treated but not admitted.

is in City hospital

10, of Greenfield, | with

With Lilly Firm

THIRTY - THREE YEARS |

with the Eli Lilly Co. is the record of Miss Loulse A. Smith, supervisor of a finishing department,

Miss Smith recently was feted by her associates who presented her with . a bouquet- of 33 flowers. Miss Smith She lives her sister, Teresa, at 422 N. LaBalle st.

| Camp Hood, Tex., was wounded in

| of $30 and his cap before

the |

the arm and back. Police said Hand had held up John Pilot,"40, driver of the cab, with a toy pistol, and relieved him he picked up Baker. | Hand surrendered sullenly when police finally cornered him. The frightened Baker crawled out of the cab. He was unable to | | helieve he had no holes in him. | “Am I shot?” he asked police. |

200 TEACHERS MEET FOR PROGRAM HERE

More than 200 teachers attended | the December meeting of the Indi- | ana State Federation of Public School Teachers at the Lincoln hotel today, Rowland Allen,

the luncheon meeting on

la film produced by the Michigan Education assoclation Schools Make Better Citizens” was shown following discussion conferences this morning. L. “TF. Buck, Evansville, led a dlis:ussion of “Legislative Progedures uid Desirable Legislation” at this Jdlernoon’s session, dpecial guest of the federation was Miss Hilda Maehling, Washington, D. C, executive secretary of |the Classroom Teachers department lof the National Education assocla- | | tion.

personnel manager of L. 8. Ayres & Co, addressed | “What Business Expects of Education” and

‘Better

BREWING

ator who looks like a thug to che suave and distinguished-appearing “Wallingford” who closely resem-

bles the important executive, banker or lawyer he impersonates. » » »

THE STATE'S records tell another story. It is one of fraud and deceit; of larcenous operations in one city after another; of arrest

and conviction and of prison terms served. The rogues’ gallery is an object lesson in caution to the 80,000,000 people who own War Bonds; to returning servicemen and women with their pay, savings and potential G. 1. benefits; to war workers with their money; to everyone in war-rich America. For this rogues’ gallery, and others like it throughout the nation, may soon expand. y . » RECONVERSION, according to Assistant Attorney General Wil. liam PF, McNulty, will bring a “tremendous influx of new capital into private business enterprise.”

-Many problems will arise, but in his opinion “the greatest ‘will be the reappearance of the fly-by-night type of promotion that characterized the era between the close of world war I and the crash of 1920. “The small, middle-class investor may be content to ride along on the return from his War Bonds and other conservative investments. But I am afraid that the lure of these fly-by-night promoters will be too much for many people who for the first time have managed to accumulate nest eggs of a few hundred or a few thousand dollars

“In the past we have been able to scotch a lot of fly-by-night operators before the public had been victimized, merely by keeping a close check on the men behind them. I only hope that we can continue to be as successful.”

INVESTMENT swindlers go wherever the money is. Today there is money all over America. Before the sixth war loan started, Americans had more than $21,000,000,000 in “E” bonds alone. That figure has since increased, yet it is only part of the story. Bank savings accounts, checking

accounts and individual incomes

are at an all-time peak. Government and other authorities are working on a program to

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Kaiser Shows. The Way for "U.S. Business

. By EDWARD A. EVANS WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. ~Henry J. Kaiser says he wants to ‘stiniye late post-war building by holding” construction oosts down, and te combat the belief that post-war . price inflation is inescapable, 80, he cuts 20 cents a barrel off the price of cement made at his Permanente ™ plant near San Francisco, doing this just after cement com panies in Southern Cali-~ fornia have raised their prices by that same amount. : lose money as a result—but he

his competitors a good many times beforg this by cutting ces ment prices, and prospering. s ” »

reduced the cost of making ce« ment by constantly improving the

eration. He considers that truly remark« able plant a prime. demonstration of his theory that lower costs and lower prices mean higher produc~ tion, wider markets, a larger volume of business and larger to“al profits.

formula, Mr. Kaiser's competie tors are free to follow it. Lo. om» IF THEY follow it as vigorously as. he does—if they use methods as efficient, if they are as de=

ting wages, if they are as ready lie in lower prices—they can profit does.

er, more people can build and there will be more jobs for constvuction workers, of other products. If .the Kaiser dustry and business we can escape can have high employment at high wages made possible because

goods efficiently produced are sold in high volume at fair profits,

We, the Women—,

Chatterboxes Will Irritate

War Veterans

By RUTH MILLETT IF THE MEN come home from

predicting, American women had

their conversations, They'll have to give up the idea that there is something wrong with silence. They'll have to learn how to come to a point quickly and not let their gonversations wander off vaguely on first one side track and then another,

s x 2 AND THEY'LL have to learn

protect investors against swindlers,

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THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS

ta follow up a topie, exhausting not only all of its possibilities but the patience of the man forced to

listen—s0 that what started as a .

comment on the cigaret short= age, for instance, becomes a ree cital of the experiences of every person the woman knows who ever hunted for a package of cigarets. And they'll have to learn not to tell the same story twice, If they can, they ought to go easy on “woman” talk before the ware weary serviceman—even if there is another in the room to whom they can direet their conversa« tion. In short, they ought to remems ber every crack they ever heard a man make about women's cone versation in general, os » » IF THEY aren't willing to give that much thought to the matter, there is one rule that will help te keep them out of trouble. And that is simply to cut down on their talking the way they would cut down on food if they were re ducing. Because you ean't possibly say the wrong thing if you aren’ talking and the less you talk the more you reduce the chance of irritating men by your chatter. Cutting down on their chatter won't be easy for most womenbut they'll have to do it, if they are going to get along with reste less, Tervous 1 men,

WOUNDED MAN “HELD AS ‘PEEPING TOM’

Jesse Mabry, 28, of 1419 Williams st., is in the detention ward at City hospital today with a bullet wound in his neck. be in fair condition, is charged with

Mr. Kaiser may | don’t think he will. He has shocked .

HE HAS prospered because he

efficiency of the permanent op-

There is nq copyright on that

termined to cut costs without cuts to pass the savings on to the pub~ ~

by higher sales volume, just as he

And, because cement is cheap-. What's true of cement is true -

theory prevails throughout in. | post-war price inflation, and we

war as restless as psychiatrists are

better learn right now to control

Mabry, who is said to by