Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1945 — Page 13

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_ ABOARD U. 8. 8/ BENNINGTON, ESSEX -CLASS CARRIER, SOMEWHERE AT SEA (Delayed)—The navy's newest type $60,000,000 fighting ship, bristling, with guns and fighting planes—a fortified eity within {tself—sped at close to 30 knots through a turhu- : i ne lent - sea today, as smoothly . as = an Indian canoe on the quiet waters of an inland lake, © A complete city it is, and even more so, for it can go on its own for months at a time, supplying _ itself with water, feeding its large crew of mote than 2000 with evcellent food.and-its fighters, torpedo and dive bombers (number= ing over 80) with plenty of highoctane gas. Then there's its coms plete airport with control tower, the huge flight deck and “island.” Japan already has felt the power of these “greatest battleships of all time.” They have been largely instrumental in the success of the “leap-frogging” tactics which Have isolated ‘hundreds of the Japs’.

"highly prized islands and brought Gen. MacArthur's

forces once again into’ the Philippines.

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“BEST of battleships can send shells something over a score of miles at most. This aircraft carrier can deposit heavy, destructive bombs—and accurately — hundreds of miles away through its bombers, And, when attacked, it can fill the air with an almost impregnable screen of hot steel and lead from its fast-firing five-inch guns and its multitude of anti-aircraft machine guns. No football team ever accomplished the co-or-dination and teamwork displayed hour by hour every day by the officers and crew of the Carrieg Ben Its skipper, Capt. J. B. Sykes, a typical naval officer with years of experience, directs the ship iike a quarterback, from his post on the bridge of the “island” high above the flight deck. - His '“backfield” ‘comprises three squadrons of fighting planes ~famed Hellcat: F6F fighters, Avenger. TBM torpedo bombers and Helldiver SB2C dive bombers. The

fighter squadron Is commanded by slim, red-headed

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum,

WE CAN SEE right now that the boys over in the

: legislature are going to have some fun everytime the

roll is called up yonder in the house. Everything is likely to go along in a routine manner half way through the roll call. But when the clerk calls “Kreft” (Henry A, of La Porte county), and then follows with a loud “Kwiat"—pronounced QUIET —we can just hear the laughs. Rep. Stanley Kwiat, a Democrat, hails from Lake county. He's listed as a steelworker and grocer. .. . Bill Cosgrove, the former state examiner and now field examiner for the state accounts board, is at home waiting for a bone in his leg to knit. He broke his leg New Year's day wher he tripped on the - stairway at his home. . . . Now that Henry Manz has succeeded Mark Ferree as busi1145s manager of The Times, we've come to the conclusion that the only way to be a business manager on The Times is to hail from Marion. It doesn’t seem to matter which Marion. - Mr. Ferree, who becomes assistant general business manager for all the Scripps-

. Howard newspapers, was born in Marion, Ind. our

own home town, His successor, Mr. Manz, was born in Marion, O. . . . During the holidays, four girls from the telephone company went out to Billings hospital to do some caroling. The boys enjoyed their singing pe in their applause. Finally, the boys sugges front of a certain door, and then sing the song, “Don't Fence Me In.” The girls did. And then they learned they were singing in front of the detention rooms

Ode to a Noblesvillain

WELL, WE'VE finally had the pleasure of reading a couple of copies of the Noblesville Lédger, in which its editor, Everett E. Neal, the Republican politician, takes some cracks at this column. Incidentally, he also takes some cracks at the character of our Indian-

apolis citizenry, inferring that we're a bunch of

World of Science

NEW TYPES of plastics known as silicones, created from sand, salt, coal and oil, bay become as famous in post-war days as nylon did before the war, according to, Walter J. Murphy. of Washington, D. C, American Chemical Society editor. . . The silicones, Mr. Murphy points out; represent a whole new field of chemistry just as does nylon. Af the present time the new plastics are being used entirely for war purposes, notably electrical insulation in radars, walkie-talkies, etc. But many new uses are envisioned after the war. These will be but-a few of many new and startling innovations of

when the veil. of secrecy is lifted at the end of world war II, a¢-

cording to Mr. that will float, will not burn or warp, laminations of plastics and wood that will compete with steel and other structural metals, shoes that contain no leather, window screens of plastics and machinery bearings that contain no

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glass that is unbreakable, wood that

Foresees New Surfaces

HE LIKEWISE looks forward to great developments in the fleld powder metallurgy in Which articles are cast by placing powdered metals in a mold and ke#ting

em. In addition, he predicts new surface coatings for furniture, refrigerators, washing machines and other household. appliances that will be “as hard: as the Rock of Gibraltar.” Apparently it's going to be all

‘My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday—We had a real treat

yesterday. A young man now in the army had writ-

ten to me about some writing which he hoped to do in the future, and sent me copies of the camp paper

" he is editing. As he wag home on furlough, 1 invited

him to lunch.

it turned out that he had worked with Paderewski, and so we asked

on which thig great artist practiced when he stayed hére.

- man to play on the piano in the East room, which is so rarely used nowadays since we no longer have . musicales or evening entertainments. :

It was really a treat. It. was of my other guests, a boy back

“fpucn enjoyed by one’ m the Pacific who brought the President a war

club which was "8 gift'from the head of .one of the villages in British Samoa. 6 In the evening young Col. Hoover, who is one ot

our son Elliott's pilots,~brought his new wife to dine

with us. The colonel had not gone back with the rest of the crew because he decided to get married, _ but he will follow them after a brief leave. . + Out of the whole" crew only oné enlisted man and

tal Ae rel Zo : ;

.officer drops his arm,

‘couldn't get us to say one word against the Hamilton

“man in the WMC. Mr. Jennings assured her that he ‘was just that. “Well, just let me tell you one thing,”

the girls go down the Hall, stop in"

& chemical origin which are due.

Murphy. Among these he lists glass:

- materials and methods.

In the course of conversation if he would like to see the piano !

Afterward 1 asked our young,

Lt. Cmdr, £. W, Hélsel, of Cincinnati, ©, a smiling fight-loving ‘leader. - The bombing squadgon is commanded by Cmdr. S. R. Bren Jr, a dark-haired,

*soft-spoken veteran who knows his Helldivers like a

book. And commanding the torpedo squadron is the far-famed Cmdr. W. F. Eadie, who risked his life in saving Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker and his companioms ini the far Pacific by landing a small Navy rescue plane in a rough sea. One might designate the flying veterang who make

up the ship's staff as-the assistant coaches of this],

war-time aerial football team, for they operate much like their football counterparts. They are the stocky Cmdr. E. J. Drew, executive. officer of the garrier; Cmdr. E E. Colestock, the tall, slim air officer, and Cmdr. G. L. Heap, commanding the entire air group, who, despite his weight, height and age, hops into a fighter and leads his boys whenever he gets the opportunity, ! A

Teamwork Is Important

AS IT IS an aircraft carrier's job to attack by planes, the teamwogk on. the flight deck probably is the most importdnt. Scores of plane handlers, chock handlers, yvellow-sweatered traffic men swarm over the vast flight deck, ducking ‘the whirling propeders of fighters and bombers as they carry out orders in precision style. ’ a Teams—of-the—trafiic.- men, spaced—the-length—of. the deck, motion the pléries up forward, one by one for the takeoff. Plane pushers swing the holded wings forward in place, chock handlers slip in and place the chocks around “the wheels as the pilots “rev” up engines. : Hangar deck elevators pop up, with a shrill whistle, bringing other fighting planes, props already whirling. The 18unching officer whirls his right arm speedily, signaling the pilot to give the plane full ‘throttle. The air officer in the bridge replaces his red flag with the while “commence launching” flag. The launching pQinting over the bow and the chocks are pulled, theé\ plane gains momentum and takes off gracefully. - : On return to. the carrier, the-landing signal officer, Lt. B. A. Bell, standing alert -on the catwalk on the stern with his aides, uses colored signal paddles to bring in or wave away the planes as they speed toward the deck. : .

crooks. He goes so far as to hint that, if we'd stay out of Hamilton county, they wouldn't need any courts or jails up there. Everett seems to have had a little difficulty with. our name, referring to us as “Nurse Bum, or Nurse Balm, whichever it may be.” Now, lookee here, Everett; you know better than that. If you want to play rough, all right. But we don’t like to indulge in recriminations. For instance, you

county residents. They're fine folks, those Hamiltonians. ‘And we don't want to follow your example of name calling. For instance, we wouldn't think of twistirig your own name, Everett, to something child~ ish, like “Everwet Heel.” Yes, sir, Mr. Neal, don’t call us “Nurse.” It's Nertz to you.

Top Man Gets Told Off

JOHN K. JENNINGS, the state war manpower director, received a phone call the other day from a woman who has a pretty low regard for New Dealers and doesn’t seem to care what happens to them—just so it’s bad. She said she wanted to talk to the top

she began belligerently. “I hope you and all ‘the blankety blank New Dealers starve, if you're going to bother farmers and put them in war plants.” Mr. Jennings attempted to tell her that unless the war takes a definite turn for the better, there won't be many able-bodied men left not in uhiform or in one of the most essential war plants. But the caller didn’t care to hear that. She’d gotten the headman told off, so she just banged the receiver. . .. Clyde ‘Gregory .of ‘Allison asks us to try to locate a 25B8 radio tube. It's for a set Mrs. Madelyn. Crickmore, 1047 Congress ave., sent her husband, Pvt. Margel Crickmore, who is Over in the Philippines area. When the set got there, one of the tubes wouldn't work. And having a set that won't work is worse than net having any at all. Clyde thought maybe someone with a set that no longer will work might be able to spare a 25B8 tube from-it. Pvt.” Crickmore formerly worked in the Big Four shops at Beech Grove.

By David Dietz}

right to let junior play in the living room with that new hatchet he received for Christmas. Mr. Murphy is equally optimistic about the textile industry and predicts “stockings that won't run, pants that won't shine. suits that wont wrinkle even when wet, and woolens that won't shrink.” All this, by the

way, will be accomplished without changing the feel or texture of the clothing.

‘More Efficient Fuelg

HE EXPECTS the advances in aviation. fuels to be equaled by now high-octane fuels ‘created specially for automobiles which will permit new designs in en=

gineg and cars. “We can expect a 25 per cent increase in efficiency in fuel utilization and a further 50 per cent saving

through car design, leading to an ultimate mileage of --

30 to 40 miles per gallon” he says. - Houses that are more beautiful, more livable, and less expensive will be possible in the post-war world, he says. ; “Let us, however,” he adds, ‘be realistic about the building industry, Every American home owner will not start a new house on V-plus-one day. The utili zation of new materials will be slow at first, and desirably so. There must be- time to assimilate new

“Chemically treated soft and inexpensive woods will be transmitted into hardwood, made highly. re_sistant to fire, rot and termites, dyed in any color of the rainbow, twisted or compressed. to’ the desired shape or use.” . He thinks that new adhesives and cements by which metal can be bonded to metal, wood to metal, wood to plastic, or any other combination you want can be achiéved, will playa big role in the post-war world. ; ?

By Eleanor Roosevelt {

think, the urge that the men who go overseas have to leave someone waiting just for them on this side of the ocean.

A group of student veterans of world war II, who | §

are at present studying at George Washington university under vocational rehabilitation and the 1. bill of rights programs, came in at 7 o'clock to see a movie. Afterward they came up to the State dining

room for refreshments, and we all sat around and| j

talked for a while. After an early lunch today, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. and I are going to New York City. Tonight we are goithg to the play, but I will tell you more about it’ tomorrow. In the meantime I

Harris, pastor of one of our Washington churches. The first two paragraphs struck me. as something we might all find comforting in these days, so I : pass them along to you: / “In the year 1809, with Napoleon on the march, men's feverish thoughts were on the latest riews of the war. And all ‘the while, in their own homes, babies ‘were: being born. But who could think about babies Everybody was thinking of battles. ; “In that very year, th the birth lists, were written ‘the names of Gladstone and Tennyson and Oliver Wendell Holmes and Darwin afid Abraham Lincoln

and Chopifi-and Mendelssohn and Samuel Morley and|

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want to tell you about a very | i lovely CHiristmas card from the Rev. Frederick Brown |

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SECOND SECTION

By BRIG. GEN. CARLOS P. ROMULO As Told to Peter Edson of N.E.A. Service THE: job of the Office of * War Information in helping the people of the Philippines in their underground fight against the" Japanese is something that few people appreciate. The credit: should go largely to Prederic, 8. Marquardt, who was born oh Leyte of American pars ents while his father, Dr. W. W. Marquardt, now blind and living “in New York, was diréctdr of edu= cation in -the Philippines. OWI had a double-barreled attack, in its information work. ‘First of its media was a magazine, The Free Philippines. Seven issues of this magazine have been printed thus far. It is worth noting that the guerrillas have seen to it that one copy of each issue has been placed on the desks of the Japanese puppet

“president” of the Islands, Jose

Laurel, and the Japanese com=mander in chief in Manila. : ” o » THESE ©. WERE special and

highly exclusive copies.

Out: in the hills where the guerrillas fought, copies were read dog-eared and dirty. They were buried. in tin cans by day. Dug up at night they” were circulated to be read in secret—1000 readers to a copy— where no Jap eyes could spy on them. What they found in the magazine were maps and stories of the progress of U. 8. and allied arms all over the world—and hope.

going to ‘return and carry out their promises to free the Philippines. . ” » ” SECOND CHANNEL for spread-

‘ing good news was the radio.

When submarines delivered their magazines, they also’ delivered radio receiving sets: And soon, by short wave from: KGEI in San Francisco, and from Brisbane, Australia, the Voice of Freedom~ was pouring into the Philippines. Both stations had what came to be known as the dictation hour. The guerrillas back in the hills took down the broadcasts, printed them and distributed the news in cigaret papers. te. wa» BY OTHER means, too, the news got in and out past the Japs. The late President Manuel Quezon sent two. of his own staff officers. into - the islands from Washington. They-came back and reported to him in Saranac Lake six months later, just before his death. And when, on August 1, Sergio Osmena succeeded to the presidency, by radio from the guerrillas came a message for his inauguration,’ pledging him their loyalty and support. | sn ” o

ON SEPT. 24 when I made my maiden speech Philippine resident commissioner in Washington, I gave the guerrillas their first credit for the job they had done. : Next ‘day, by radio, there came congratulations and thanks from the guerrilla leaders. That is ow good and fast was our line of communication to the ghslands. ” And there has never been any cleavage between the Philippine Commonwealth government in exile and the leaders who have stayed at home to fight. Always there was mutual recognition, » » 8 THIS working together for Philippine liberty and independence_ has carried right ‘down to the Filipino people. How else can you explain how the Americans have been able to operate with the guerrillas? . They have been hidden by the Filipinos.

been rescued and passed along

Printed Word

Hope that the Americans were. .

in congress as

Filipinos operate a job press commandeered from the Japs, to print a special edition of “Free Philip-, pines” All through the Jap occupation papers were printed and circulated to clandestine hide-outs of the Filipino underground. Inset is the front page of first edition published after liberation of Leyte.

from village to. village “till they reached the coast to be taken out on submarines: ; 8 * = COL. WILLIAM E. DYESS escaped that way. The “two Filibinos_ who aided him in his escape were caught and as punishment they were hung by their thumbs, their bodies were hacked and they were left to bleed to death. People should know about these things, to understand what the Filipinos went through. But the Filipinos did not risk their lives just for the soldiers who fought for them. 4 American civilians who escaped into the hill when the Japs invaded the islands in 1941 were sheltered till they could be evacuated to safety. 2 8 =

_A FEW. of these civilians have now been brought back to the United States and when ‘they recover, their stories may become known. Filipino ‘women read in the Free Philippines magazine about how the American -women had enlisted as WACs. Then they formed their own WAS—Women'’s Auxiliary Service—to stand beside’ their men in guerrilla bands.

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TYPICAL is the story of Amparo Bonecilla, a girl of 25. She had been a teacher on Leyte, but had run to the hills when the Japs came in. Given a-carbine brought in by U. 8. submarine, she accounted for 55 Japanese soldiers, ~4¢1 could have doubled it,” she told me when I saw her on Leyte a few weeks ago, “if. I had been given my -carbine earlier.” 2 s »

THE DAY after the capital of Leyte island was liberated from

. the Japs, the OWI men scurried

U. 8. fliers shot down have"

around and found one old printing press which the Japanese had overlooked. Then went on a door-to-door hunt for paper, found some in" the municipal building and more in the convent and went to press with the first edition of the Leyte-Samar Free Philippines. In. cit they announced that schools would open next day. They did, too. ; ss ow TEACHERS dug up school books that had been buried in tin cans to save them from Jap bonfires. That was really -the triumph of the underground. It was proof that two people of two different backgrounds and even two races can work together side-by-side if one does not treat

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? THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1945 THE STORY OF MacARTHUR'S GUERRILLAS . .-. (Last of a Series)

, Radio. Maintain Morale

invaders. She was a membér of a

quently ambushed Jap strongholds. Here President Sergio Osmena

congratulates her.

the other with arrogance or conceit. : » #” FJ THE AMERICANS never tried to exploit the Filipinos. Instead, they gave them freedom. The reward has been the Filipinos’ resistance against the Japanese—the story of the Filipinos’ underground which should so im- _ press every nation that it should . establish a- pattern for the whole world to follow. That pattern, as I see it, is based on three principles, and if the war has brought them out into the open, it has done one useful thing. : ONE: Recognition of the dignity of the human soul; recognition which does not reduce a subject people to the level of human beasts. re TWO: Recognition of the right of a people to be free,

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Russian Claims

By Science Service.

MOSCOW, Jan. 4. — More milk

from cows, more eggs from hens, higher productivity from other farm animals, can be obtained by just slightly. poisoning them with cellattacking substances known as cyto-

| toxins, declares a Russian experi-

menter, Docent A. Peterburgsky. His results were described before a confererice held here at the Timiryazev Agricultural academy by Prof. K. Viktorov. . Cytotoxins are naturally formed poisons that occur in blood serum. There are. a number of them, and each ‘attacks only the cells in one specific organ or tissue. Thus, there is a cytotoxin specific for kidney

other for liver cells called hepatotoxin, etc. ‘Their effects in the medical field have been the subject of long study. Using very dilute doses of appropriate cytotoxins, Docent Peterburgsky claims to have increased milk yield in cows by as much as 65 per cent. He states further that he has increased the productivity in laying hens, and made layers out of non-producers., Especially striking are the results

| | which Docent Peterburgsky ‘has ob-

tained with apparently sterile Thin] pon. of them are sa. ave suce ly foaled. Greatly stimulated growth in pigs e- cytotoxin

treatment. Ten-week-old shoats

‘| were injected with moderate doses;

after seven months the #verage weight of, the treated animals was

Armed with an American carbine and a Jap .38 revolver, Mrs. Amparo Bonecilla, former Tacloban school teacher, killed many of the

—on Leyte was to answer the ques-

Boost Animals’ Production

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THREE: The grant to a people of the instruments to achieve that freedom—sanitation, a sound economy, good roads, schools. 8 5 @

THESE ARE the principles of the Golden Rule. The people of the Far East want no more, but they want no less. The hardest thing I had to do

tions . of the .guerrilla leaders, “What will the British do in Singapore and in Hongkong?” they asked ‘me. “What will the Dutch do in. Java?” “We are not fighting,” these - guerrilla leaders told me in answer to their own questions, “to make the world safe for imperialism.” Why can’t the American pattern as applied in the Philippines be followed all over the world?

THE END

Poison Doses

following cytotoxin treatment in the low concentrations used. The only effects observed were slight enlargements of the particular organs involved.

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WASHINGTON, Jan, 4-1 “only the day after New Year's, but *

portant action.

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Court Includes Piece-Raters In Wage Law

By FRED W. PERKINS

the nine justices ‘of supreme court, when they st d through the heavy back gtrtains of their chamber after the usual formalie ties, mads-i into sométhing of a ldbor day

‘through an im-

They decided 8 to.1 (Mr. Justice Roberts making up the losing side) that congréss meant to include piecerate employees under the mine imum wage provisions of - the wage-hour law of ‘fair ‘labop standards act of 1938. = 8 PIECE-RATE employees: are men and women who get paid for how many items they produce. The more they produce, the more they make, and the other way round. ’

Congress failed to mention them specifically when it wrote the law, but Mr, Justice Murphy, who delivered the opinion for the majority, said that because they were not specifically excluded they miust be*judicially viewed as included. : — “Congress necessarily,” he ruled, “had to create practical and simple méasuring rods tq test compliance with the requirements as to mini mum wages and overtime compensation.”

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“IT DID SO by setting the standards in terms of hours and hourly rates. But other measures of work and compensation are not thereby voided “or placed outside the reach of the act.” Mr. Justice Roberts, who is one of the two pre-Roosevelt members of the high tribunal, didn’t say why he didn’t think so. Thus the wage-hour law is jue dicially amended and made more sweeping, unless congress should pass another law saying it didn't mean. what the supreme court says it ‘'meant—which congress probably will not do because the trend is all the other way.

We, The Wome Women War Workers Earn Admiration

By RUTH MILLETT

A WOMAN war plant worker who took her job against the advice: of friends who insisted a war plant was no place for a woman has this to say: “I found out how wrong they were, and I hope such talk isn't influencing other women. No mate | ter where you work you will be treated with as much respect as you demand.” When a woman has learned that she has learned a lot.

TIME WAS when there were only certain types of work suite able for a “lady”—and most of them were on the duil side. Things changed, but still there was a little of the feeling carried

suitable for women who wanted to be treated with respect. And that, of course, was a silly, unr ble hang-over from the past. Because a job doesn't give any human being dignity, or the right to respect or deference. The person himself merits or doesn't merit respect.

Y » » ...,AND A WOMAN who merits respect will get it if she is working in overalls in a war plant, driving a taxi or filling any one of the hundreds of jobs that used to be considered men’s work, . When a woman doesn’t get re spect from the world-—it is: for

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one reason, and one alone.” She doesn’t demand it. She doesn't insist on her right to be regarded

over that only certain jobs were

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as a fine type of woman, deserve

ing admiration and respect. The insistence, of course, isn't vocal. It comes from a woman's conduct, her bearing and her .attitude to others. :

GROTTO AUXILIARY.

TO INSTALL OFFICERS

Sahara Grotto suxiliary will ine stall new officers in a ceremony at

81 | 8p. m. Tuesday at the Grotto home,

| Leola. Sproule, second vice presi-

New officers are Mrs. Edith Haugh, president; Mrs. Georgia Wilcox, first vice president; Mrs,