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SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Dec. 18.—Here are some of the lighter aspects of 'F. F: IL history, picked up on a 1200-mile tour of southeastern France. During its maquis days, the F. F. I. adopted an argot of its own which is colorful and expressive, One of its most expressive words is the verb “piquer,” which has come to mean to steal something from the enemy, ¢ It has a past tense and is also used as a noun. Thus when a maquisard “piqued” — something, the property thus obtained was " piquage.” - Biggest single haul of piquage was made by an F. F. I. unit in the Dordogne, one of the. half dozen French departnfents where the ; maquis was strongest and most active. The Germans were sending a trainload of two billion francs, part of France's weekly payment of thie cost of the becupation, to a bank. The F, F. I, arranged to hold up the train and “piquer” some 50 sacks containing the'two billion. Just to make things® legal, the treasurer of this maquis sent a requisition to the Bank of France accounting for this piquage. He kept carefully itemized accounts and has since returned all of the money except that needed to pay his men, buy provisions, ete. It's all repaid or accounted for—except for a mere two million francs, which seems to have gotten lost somewhere in the shuffle.

Thousands Lose Bosom Friends

ONE OF THE human tragedies involved in legaligation of the resistance into the F. F. I. is that thousands of maquisards have forever lost bosom friends. During maquis days, 95 per cent of the maquisards adopted “resistance names.” One never revealed his

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

IT HAPPENED in Block's Friday afternoon, Jammed in with hundreds of other shoppers were a man, woman and child: The man and woman were talking. Suddenly, the man hauled off and slapped the woman. He split her lip and she bumped her head when she fell. A soldier and x a civilian, we're told, grabbed-the man’s arm. The woman was taken to the store nurse to be patched up. The spectators were greatly interested in the performance. More than one wondered what the woman had said that provoked the. incident, Maybe she wouldn't tell him what she wanted for Christmas. . . . On the lighter side, one of our agents was in the Indiana Trust Co. at noon Saturday and saw a crowd inspecting the big Allison engine displayed there. Probably the most interested spectator was a good looking, red-haired young woman, She was virtually standing on her head, attempting to point out to a slightly embarrassed girl companion a certain part on the bottom of the engine which she had made. . . . We heard an amusing story about a mechanic — we know him only as Mike — who was working on a P-38 fighter plane out at Municipal airport. While in the cockpit, he accidentally tripped a lever. And then he went sailing about 10 feet up in the air. He was more annoyed than hurt by the incident. What happened was that he flipped the lever that released a powerful spring under the pilot's seat. The spring is used to flip the pilot out of the plane when he has to bail out. If*he tried to bail out in the -normal manner, chances are he'd get fouled in one of the plane's twin tails. But the spring throws him clear.

Persistent Uncle Sam

IT MAY TAKE a long time, but eventually Uncle Sam usually manages to deliver the mail to his

World of Science

““ THE CHIEF DISEASE that produces aging in man is arteriosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, Dr. Howard T. Karsner, director of the Western Reserve University Institute of Pathology. As 1 pointed out previously, Dr. Karsner is inclined to view the ravages of old age as pathological rather than physiological. That is, he believes they are due to disease processes rather than to the natural course of growing old. Hardening of the arteries is rare in animals, both domestic and wild, but in man it is almost constant after he reaches the age of 30. “However, there are people who live to be 80 or 90 with practically ; no arteriosclerosis,” Dr, Karsner says. “Are these people constitutionally different’ from others? It is almost impossible to answer that question. It is impossible to analyze this difference on the basis of the number of attacks of infectious diseases to which they have been subjected.”

Man Most Susceptible

IN THIS CONNECTION Dr. Karsner points out that man suffers from a great variety of infectious diseases whereas few germs attack the other animals. The great problem is to know what damage a given infection has done to the human system. The fact that the person has recovered does not tell the whole story. This view of Dr. Karsner's puts a new light on the diseases of childhood and youth.

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My Day

WASHINGTON, Sunday.—A few days ago I had the pleasure of having my old friends, Mr. and Mrs,

. Adolph Miller, lunch with me.

"Also with us were Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bracken . Jr, and their two children. The children were such delightful young guests, and I was interested ‘in the poise of the 6-year-old boy. He had some difficulty in keeping up with the but he never complained when his mother wanted him to leave what was unfinished on his plate in order to catch up

grown-ups,

with the rest of us.

liked his lunch!

(Ernie Pyle is on vacation)

true identity even to real friends, friends made through common suffering, danger and aspiration.

' changed his name once more, retaking their real name, to find his best friend is riow stymied. by a trail of perhaps half a dozen false names, plus the real one.

laborating with the Germans asked the F. F. I. to wreck their plants. Manufacturers figured. that if they showed the F. F. I. how, the maquisards could wreck one machine which would put them out of production for perhaps six. months. . .

that their factory wasn’t producing, allied bombers would riot be wasted on such a target. Thus, by a lit-

dustrialists saved- the bulk of their machinery from

two young German women. Shortly after D-day this F. F. 1 unit, sweeping forward at an unexpectedly

I think that was showing great self-control,” particularly if he

On Friday I went to a lunch-

J By Tom Wolf.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1944

Today, with the Germans gone, every one has the large majority Thus a maquisard trying

Incredible as it seems, many manufacturers col-

They knew that when allied intelligence got word

tle careful sabotage of their own factories, some inbombings.

Women Captives Cook and Sew

BY AND LARGE the F. F. I is incredibly badly off for tiniforms and insignia. There's at least one

its insignia nice, neat and proper ever since the early days of the. liberation. wo — Responsible for the admirable state of affairs are

rapid pace, came upon a party of two German colonels and their army-telephonist girl friends swimming nude in a. river close to a highway. The French captured the four, The women offered to stay with the F. F. I. and perform such domestic duties as they could. They've sewed and cooked and washed for the F. F. I— always under strick surveillance and always with the understanding that they get all courtesies and privileges accorded prisoners of war by the Geneva convention,

servicemen. Mrs. Peggie Holiday, 1511 Park ave, has received a letter from her husband, Lt. Col. William G. Holiday, in New Guinea. The letter, dated Dec. 1, 1944, reports that Col. Holiday had just received a package from her, dated Dec. 1, 1943. A year in the mails, but still very welcome. The patkage contained several pocket edition novels and other books he had asked. Included was the book, “9% Postmaster, San Francisco.” The package bore almost every APO number in the Pacific theater of war—an example of the bulldoggish tenacity of the army postal service. . , . Mrs, Mildred Rumbold, who was among the army wives evacuated from the Philippines in the spring of 1941, was digging through some odds and ends the other day when she discovered an uncashed check. It was made out on a bank in Manila, and was for about 20 Philippine pesos. She's going to keep it in the expectation of cashing it one of these days. Her husband, Maj. Ralph Rumbold, is a prisoner of war of the Japanese.

Too Much of a Goad Thing

EMPLOYEES of the State Chamber of Commerce have a cutsom of observing the anniversary of their employment by providing candy for their fellow workers. There are about 35 employees now, and the frequency with which the candy is being passed around is more than some of the help’s tummies can stand. . . .,The young son of a serviceman friend of ours gave his mother a most embarrassing moment recently. took the escalator upstairs at Ayres. At the top of the landing stood a WAVE, standing trimfy erect and not moving. The youngster assumed it was merely a mannikin. And feeling frolicsome, he ran up, grabbed the skirt of the WAVE and lifted it above the knee. To his mother's horror, the “mannikin” came to life, and the embarrassed WAVE grabbed wildly for the hem of her skirt and pushed the boy away. The mother lost no time in dragging her young son away from there,

By David Dietz

“Suppose & person has the measles and recovers,” Dr. Karsner says. “We do not know how virulent the disease was in his case. It may have seriously damaged his liver or his aorta. But we do not know how much damage is actually caused to these organs.”

Dietary Factor Considered

ANOTHER PACTOR, according to Dr. Karsner, 1s the dietary one, and he hastens to add that he is not thinking in terms of severe vitamin deficiencies. “Man is subject to weaknesses as a result of his diet which do not occur in either the herbivorous or carnivorous animals, that is, the strictly vegetation eaters or the strictly meat eaters. “On top of this, man drinks alcoholic beverages and smokes, and during the course of his life may take different forms of medication, It is not necessarily true that alcohol and tobacco need be harmful, but in excess may lead to digestive disturbances. He also is the only animal that protects himself with clothing and is less able than other animals to meet variations in climatic conditions. “It is, therefore, very reasonable to suppose that man’s actual span of life would be much greater if all these factors of infection, diet, tobacco, alcohol, drugs, and clothing did not enter into the picture. “Heredity may be a principal factor. It is often said that if you want to live a long life select for your grandparents people who attained a ripe old age. But long life that appears to be inherited may be due to hereditary factors that give rise to greater resistance to disease in earlier life.”

By Eleanor Roosevelt

level of education varies and their experiences have been different. Among them all I find, as a whole, however, one very interesting similarity. I have yet to talk to a young veteran of this war who does not recognize the fact that unless the things he works for will benefit the country as a whole, they will not benefit him, There is a profound desire among them to continue to serve the country and its people, have béen overseas, they have a tremendous appre-

ciation of what this country means to the ‘average citizen in the opportunities it affords. They want to

be worthy of the opportunity which is theirs,

I went to New York city late Priday afternoon and

afternoon party for the Walter Reed patients,

and than I can say for myself.

symbol, the first archbishop of

conditions. such significance that its history

is worth recounting. of the vestments of the Pope, | patriarchs and archbishops.

If they

Today is a quiet day, with a few people at lunch and at supper and the usual

One of our grandsons is home from school, 'He straighter and taller, but as slim as

SECOND SECTION

"OUR TOWN ..... BY ANTON SCHERRER

a solemn ceremony the

like of which has never been

seen around here, the Most Rev. Joseph E. Ritter will have a crozier placed in his

hand. Thus invested with this sacred

Indiana will rise from a kneeling position ‘and bless his flock, The pallium usually placed over the head of the arch- . bishop did. not arrive in time for the ceremony because of wartime But the pallium has

It is part

The pallium is a band of white wool, some three inches wide, with two narrower bands of the same material, = one of which hangs down the back of the wearer and the other over his breast. Except for four embroidered purple crosses, it is unadorned. The sacred pallium is made from the wool of two lambs annually presented in the Church of St. Agnes, Rome, by the apostolic subdeacons. It is woven by the nuns of Torre de Specchi, to whom alone belongs the privilege. » » .

LITTLE is known of the his torical origin of the pallium. Possibly, it was first conferred upon high dignitaries of the church by .the emperors as a mark of respect and then passed over to a purely ecclesiastical usage, (If this is too sketchy, read Vespasiani’s opus, “De Sacri Palli Origine.) Equally tantalizing, but somewhat more definite, is the origin of the archbishopric. Gifted readers, who have learned to read between the lines of the Acts of the Apostles, suspect that it was the result of St. Paul's zeal and migsionary work. A close reading of the lines reveals, for instance, that St. Paul had only enough time to convert the cities and big towns, leaving the villages to remain in ignorance, St. Paul's followers took care of the villages. They did such a complete job that eventually (A. D. 340) every country district had an underground church headed by a bishop. The great number of bishops brought about an administrative tangle. To unravel the tangle, somebody proposed having a brand new official to whom the bishops could go with their problems. The new official was given the title of “archiepiscopus.” Rendered realistically, the Greek word means a regional leader of bishops. » » 8 BE THAT as it may, the first archbishopric reflected the growth of the church. The same may be said for every archbishopric founded in the course of the last 1600 years. Tomorrow's ceremony is a case in point. The need for a Hoosier archbishopric calls for a review of the phenomenal growth of Catholicism in Indianapolis (and Indiana). To start at the beginning: The first Roman Catholic church in Indianapolis was a little frame structure, built in 1840, on the northeast corner of Washington and California sts. It was known as Holy Cross. The priest was the Rev. Fr. Vincent Bacquelin, who lived near Shelbyville. Services at Holy Cross depended altogether on the condition of the road between here and Shelby county, Two services a month were considered a triumph for the priest and his horse. In 1846, the « horse threw and fatally injured its rider. Holy Cross lamented the death of its beloved priest, but kept right on growing. So much so that in no time at all a bigger and more centrally located church was necessary. » » ” IN 1850, the Rev. Fr. John Gueguin replaced Holy Cross with St. John's church, a frame structure

tween Illinois st. and what is now known as Capitol ave. Don't confuse it with the present St. John's church which was built in 1867 by the Rev. Fr. August Bessonies. The present St. John's cost $100,000, at a time when eggs brought a penny a dozen, Legend has it that Father Bessonie§ dug deep into his own pocket to build his church. Father Bessonles arrived in In dianapolis in 1857 and almost im~ mediately the Catholic church expanded. Like his predecessors, he too was a Frenchman. Indeed, he belonged to the French nobility. His full name was Jean Francis

“The First Archb

’ "TOMORROW niorning in

on the north side of Georgia be- _

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SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, scene of tomorrow’s ceremony.

August de Bessonies, but he never used the “de” all the time he was in Indianapolis. He explained the deletion by saying that his grandfather had to hide during the French revolution. When he came out of hiding and caught the drift of things, he lost all interest in titles and aristocracy. Father Bessonies was born the day after the battle of Waterloo. n s o IN ADDITION to building St. John's church (to this day one of the biggest in Indianapolis) Father Bessonies also erected the parsonage and St. John’s academy, where the Sisters of Providence opened a school in 1859. All these build-

ings are still standing in the block bounded by Capitol ave and Maryland and Georgia sts. He also brought the Sisters of the Good Shepherd and the Little Sisters of the Poor to Indianapolis and he bought the ground (again out of his own pocket) for the first Catholic cemetery. His very first act after arriving in Indianapolis was to put a cross atop Father Guenguin's church. Up until then no Indianapolis church carried the cross. Father Bessonies lived to be 84 years old. The affection everybody had for him may be attributed to his ability to integrate the Catholic church with the community. Up until the time he. came the.leaders of the city's various religious bodies had little to do with one another with the result that their congregations sometimes actually despised one another. Father Bessonies went out of his way to correct this unseemly way of liv; ing. He had the support of a Jew and a Congregationalist.

” ” o ONE DAY in the Eighties, the people on Washington st. couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw Father Bessonies walking arm in arm with Rabbi Mass~ ing and the Reverend Oscar McCulloch. All three were on a mission of mercy. After that, it was a common sight. It gave Indianapolis a new slant on religion. Father Ressonies was succeeded by the Rev. Fr. Prancis H. Gavisk, who perpetuated the tradition of brotherly love. When Father Bessonies came to Indianapolis in 1857 there was only one Catholic church. In the course of his 36 years’ stay the number had jumped to nine, including the little chapel of SS. Peter and Paul near Meridian and Fourteenth sts. It was the smallest parish of all, possibly not more than 50 families. There was ' another great change., When Father Bessonies arrived, Indianapolis belonged to the Diocese of Vincennes. When

ishop of Indianapol

he died in 1893, Indianapolis was the seat of a diocese. The Diocese of Vincennes was dissolved sometime around 1877, following the death of Bishop Maurice de St. Palais, the fourth of the great French bishops of Vincennes. To him, Indiana owes the first orphan asylum and the Benedictine monks whose house is at St. Meinrad. » ” .

* THE FIRST bishop of the Diocese of Indianapolis was the Most Reverend Francis Silas Chatard, a native of Baltimore. He arrived in 1878 and established himself in the parsonage on Georgia st, the one Father Bessonies had built. St. John's church served as his cathedral. There is reason to believe, however, that very early in his career he had his eyes fixed on the little chapel of SS. Peter and Paul as the future site of a great cathedral. That's just the way it turned out, too. In 1905, Bishop Chatard started a cathadral on the site he had in mind. Within a year he had the edifice completed—all except an ecclesiastical facade, “He died without getting a facade. His successor, Bishop Joseph E. Chartrand, didn't get a facade, either. This is explained. by the fact that Bishop Chartrand was more interested in building schools than church facades. Every new parish in Bishop Chartrand’s administration, it is now recalled, started witha school, one floor of which was a church. ” » EJ

AS A MATTER of fact, Bishop Chatard's cathedral didn't get an ecclesiastical facade until 30 years after it was built, By that time (1936) Bishop Joseph E. Ritter was head of the Diocese of Indianapolis. By that time, too, the Catholics had enough schools to meet, their needs for a while. Anyway, Bishop Ritter commissioned the Rt. Rev. Raymond R. Noll, rector of the cathedral, to provide him with a facade. Msgr. Noll made up for the lost 30 years. He .provided Bishop Ritter with a facade of four Corinthian columns, every one of which is 50 feet high (more or less). The capitals alone are five feet high and 7'2 feet across. There is nothing like it in all Indiana. ' He didn't stop with the columns. He ornamented the church, inside and out, with symbols of the faith, And finally, he ordered a big and gorgeous glass mosaic mural to be placed back of the high altar. It would have tickled Bishop Chatard had be been alive, Msgr. Noll accomplished all tiis while the rest of us were wasting our time electing a President (F.D.R. for the second time).

IT IS IN this completed cathedral that tomorrow's ceremony

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will take place. Even more extraordinary is the part that this cathedral has played in the career of Joseph E. Ritter. With the exception of six months as assistant pastor of St. Patrick's, down near Fountain Square, he has spent his entire career in the Indianapolis cathedral. In 1920 he was named first assistant to Bishop Chartrand; five years later he was appointed rector of the parish; in 1934 he was enthroned as bishop, the first native of Indiana to be bishop of the Diocese of Indianapolis. Tomorrow he will be elevated to archbishop of Indiana. All of this was accomplished in the course of 27 years, figured from the day he was ordained as priest. The rest of his life, em~ bracing his boyhood in New Albany and the time spent at St, Meinrad as student, amounts to 24 years. Add the two and you have Bishop Ritter’s age — 51.

‘RED CROSS AIDS NORWAY WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (U. P.). —The American Red Cross announced today that it is sending more than $141,000 worth of hospital equipment to Norway. Epidemic diseases and war casualties in

caused critical shortages of medical supplies.

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Norway in the last four years have|

Lab : Wolchok Seeks To Put Screws: On Avery

By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.-It's only a week until Christmas, but: you can’t find much of the yuletide feeling of brotherly love around the war labor board where Sam Wolchok is trying to put the screws ’ on Sewell Av- . i

ry. Sam {is the stocky, swarthy president of the C. 1. O. Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees of Am=erica. Sewell is the tall, slender 70-year-old head of .Montgomery Ward & Co., who up to now has been telling both the union and the War Labor Board, and various other agencies, where

to go. ° The tides may be running out on Mr. Avery. . n » THE war labor board has

compiled a long lst of his re fusals to comply With its orders respecting working conditions and wages of employees in the na-tion-wide operations of his company. "Or it may be that Mr. Avery has a trick or two yet to pull from his bag. This is the same Mr. Avery who achieved wide publicity last spring when he was’ carried out of his Chicago retail store by two soldiers. ” ” » LATER there were two congressional investigations, but nothing came of them, except that the government seizure was suddenly terminated, Mr. Avery went back to his office—still defying the govern. ment and the union. The complaint of the union is that after all the hullabaloo it still has not been able to get Mr. Avery's signature to a collective bargaining contract.

» » ” MR. WOLCHOK mentioned that “now the election's over” there might be some action. He did not believe that Mr. Avery had been converted by the election result, but that federal agencies such as the war labor board might be more disposed to enforce their orders. Thus Mr. Wolchok appeared to take little stock in the theory that C. L. O. unions can get anything they want from the Roosevelt administration. Several days ago Mr. .Wolchok was quoted from New York as advocating a third political party, on the ground that labor could not obtain its “just dues” under the present two-party system.

We, the Wome Should Lonely War Wife Have Dates?

By RUTH MILLETT

A SOLDIER about to go home on leave has sent me a letter written to him by his wife. She tells him that before he gets home and hears it from gossips she wants him to know she has been dating. The wife's embarrasse d, apologetic letter and the husband’s hurt and bewilderment - as reflected in his letter to” me _° would make profitable d reading for 5 any ‘war wife. The wife in this case says “I was lonely”—as all war wives are lonely. She says the dating was entirely harmless—but. that there are people in the town who are sure ‘to believe otherwise—as = there are always people ready to believe the worst. ” » » SHE SAYS she loves her hus band and is anxious for him to come home. Most wives, even many of those who decide they = can't get along without dating, do love their husbands. But right now she is on the spot. Her husband is coming home— = and it isn’t a completely joyful occasion for her or for him, be cause she has had to make ex. planations. A Maybe there wouldn't be such an unpleasant situation now if the wife had faced all this in ad= vance, .before she ever accepted a date in her husband's absence. Then she could have written

. to ask-him if he objected to her accepting a man’s invitation ted

" dinner and an evening of dancing

THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS—

WHY, THE DUCKS, OF Sumse. TRY SAN ON LAND

ACROSS . THE WATER!

or a movie—and let his verdict stand. ; os Wn OR SHE could have gone inte “ dating with her eyes open, Knows: ing that she would eventually have to do one of two things: