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. again, or because I can’t stand America, or because mystic fascination about war that is . drawing me back. 5 I'm going simply because there's a war on and

t I'm part of it and I've known all the time I was ‘f going back. I'm going simply because I've got to—

| and I hate it. : & This time it will be the Pacific. When I left France last fall we thought the war in Europe was

¢ about over.

I say “we” becausé I mean almost everybody oyer | there thought so. I felt .it was so near the end. I | could come home and before the time came to go . again, that side of the war would be finished, and 5 only the Pacific would be left.

| It Didn't Turn Out That Way

,BUT IT DIDN'T turn out that way. Now nobody knows how long the European war will last. | Naturally all my friends and associations and . sentiments are on that side. I suppose down in my * heart I would rather go back to that side. For over

i in Europe I know the tempo of the battle; I feel at

. home with it in a way. ; 4 And yet I think it's best to stick with the original J plan and go on to the Pacific. There are a lot of * guys in that war, too. Théy are the same guys who k are fighting on the other side, only with different

{ names, that's all.

It is not belittling my friends in Europe to desert

them and go to the Pacific for a while,

‘I Can’t Tell You My Plans’ { I'M GOING with the navy this time, since the P navy is so dominant in the Pacific, and since I've t' done very little in the past on that part of the serv-

8 ice. I won't stay with the navy for the duration—

| probably two or three months, and then back ashore | again with my noble souls, the doughfoots,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

ANDY HEPBURN, formerly with Bobbs, Merrill and for the last year or so with the Bureau of Censorship, has a new job, He's travel editor of Look Magazine. . . , In case you're wondering what's happened to the other city administration changes that . were expected to follow the demotion of Cliff Beeker as police chief, just keep your shirt on. As we get it, things are being kept in status quo until the war news quiets down. The boys don’t want to be guilty of-engaging in petty _ politics in the face of momentous war news. Sort of like fiddling while Rome burns. . . . One of our cigaret smoking friends passes along a tip. For those who like to save half burned fags, he suggests: After pinching off the embers, blow through the cigaret. That blows out the excess nicotine, and makes the snipes taste better when smoked. . . . George Amos, head of the StokelyVan Camp, Inc, cost accounting section, has had a warm spot in his heart for the country ever since he left his native farm home and moved to Irvington when he was married 25 years ago. He never gave up-—the-idea—of returning to the home place, threequarters: of a mile this side of -Cumberland on the National road. And recently his dream came true. He bought a farm home and some land including part of what was the original Amos home place. He and Mrs. Amos and the children moved in last week. It was late in the evening when they got there, but 8 lot of his old-time friends were on hand to greet him, Also some new families in the neighborhood, people he never had met. Just a sample of good oldfashioned Hoosier neighborliness.

Paging Mrs. Arvin!

ANYBODY KNOW the whereabouts of Mrs. Patsy E. Arvin? If you do, phone Mrs, Walter N. Walker— IR. 4210. For some time, mail for Mrs. Arvin has been delivered to the Walker residence—308 N. Bradley. The postoffice has no idea of Mrs. Arvin’s correct address. The latest letter to arrive is one from

World of Science

DEAN WILLIAM C. RAPPLEYE of Columbia University School of Medicine hopes that the new program of research on the problems of aging just instituted there will become a model for similar projects in other medical schools. He rightly regards the. problem as the most important facing the nation in the post-war world and points out that the Columbia project in itself is not enough. The studies at Columbia have been made by a grant of $85,000 from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and one of $30,000 from the Lasker Foundation which that foundation appropriately has asked be known as the Wendell Willkie Memorial Grant. The untimely death. of Mr. Willkie was a dramatic demonstration of the need to conqtier those diseases which strike down all too many capable citizens at the very height of their usefulness to the nation.

Not Merely an Invitation

I ASSUME that Dean Rappleye's suggestion is not merely an invitation to other medical schools ito give more thought to an important field of research but also a recommendation to the big foundations that they finance more work of this sort. | Two of the most important researches in the field of the diseases of old age are now going forward at the Institute of Pathology of Western Reserve university and I earnestly urge that the foundations give thoughtful eonsideration to them,

My Day

NEW YORK, Monday —To give you a more com--

plete picture of current shortages in Great Britain, here are some additional extracts from the letter I ‘quoted yesterday: . “One lady that I heard of recently bought a pair of i . ’ boots (in England, boots mean heavy-wearing footwear) for her boy., In seven days they were gone, and the heel completely off one of them, - a . After five years of war, households also need sweeping re- ¢ plenishments. I should say all © households, rich or poor, are in this state, Yet it is estimated that the : present quota for such goods makes ¢ } it possible for but one household in | 10 to have a pair of new bed-sheets | : a year, and one household in five a pair of bed blankets. Long ago we had to split all sheets and blankets down..the center and join outdes to the middle’so that the unworn parss would ibe over the bed. Two years ago I unpacked the best [two pairs of lined curtains I had, making the green lining into covers for our shabby chairs. Two weeks ‘ago I unpicked three nightdress cases (you know, [the envelope type with, usually, an embroidered flag). I cut a piece of the plain ‘material right off, and emming it, made a serviette. ‘With what remained I | made a chairback cover. for. a bit of new Christmas

‘don’t elieve in signs. .

. anti-reticular cytotoxic. serum first prepared bythe

allowsrice to 100 shillings.” .

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‘Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie Pye

Security forbids telling you just what the plans are, But I can say that I'l fly across the Pacific, and join ship on the other side.

Aboard ship I'll be out of touch with the world|™

on long cruises.” It may be there will be lapses in

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the ddlly column, simply because it's impossible tol ANOTHER INSIDE STORY OF MOMENTOUS EVENTS IN GERMANY—

Bitter Opposition to Hitler Grows in Reic

transmit these pieces, But we'll do our best to keep them going steadily.

Warned of ‘Horrible Disease’

‘1 HAVEN'T figured out yet what Im going. to do about seasickness. I'm one of those unfortunates with a terrific stomach on land, but one that turns to whey and jelly when I get aboard ship. I know of nothing that submerges the nruse in a man as much as the constant.compulsion to throw up. Perhaps I should take along my own oil to spread on the troubled waters. Friends warn me about all kinds of horrible diseases in the Pacific. About dysentery, and malaria, and fungus that gets in your ears and your intestines, and that. horrible swelling disease known as elephantiasis. i :

‘I'll Be Good. and Stinking Hot’

WELL, all I can say is that I'm God's gift to germs. Those fungi will shout and leap for joy when I show up. Maybe I can play the Pied Piper role— maybe the germs will all follow me when I get there, and leave the rest of the boys free to fight. So what with disease, Japs, seasickness, and shot and shell—you see I'm not too overwhelmed with relief at starting out again. _ But there's one thing in my favor where I'm going; one thing that will make life bearable when all else is darkness and gloom. ; . And that one thing is that, out in the Pacific, I'll be damned good and stinking hot. Oh hoy!

Flight Officer James W. Hackleman. Since it was from a serviceman, Mrs. Walker took a special interest, as her own husband is serving in the South Pacific. ‘She opened the envelope, looking for clues to the correct address. There was none. The letter appeared to be from a soldier to his grandmother, Hope she gets it. , , . Note to Mrs. John E. Swartz: The general to whom you. refer is Maj. Gen. Lunsford Everett Oliver, commanding the Fifth Armored Division, He's an American general. We're not sure to which army the Fifth is attached. , . , One of our readers calls in to tell us to what lengths people will go to get copies of The Times. He said he saw a nice looking elderly° man come out of the Indiana Trust Co, walk to the trash box on the corner, dig around in it until he found a copy of The Times, check the date to see it was current, and then walk on down the street. Out of curiosity, our reader followed him and solemnly reports that the man climbed into a chauffeur-driven Packard and was driven north on Pennsylvania. They just can't do without their Times!

The Uninvited Guest

By CURT RIESS Times Foreign Correspondent

ARIS, Feb. ing German generals are eager to finish the war at the earliest possible moment and before there is much -destruction inside Germany. I have learned from neutral sources that peace feelers already

are being made via Portugal and -

Sweden. "These feelers represefit the generals and topmost industrialists as being willing to accept unconditional surrender provided the control: of Germany is turned over to them. ” . » HITLER, of course,

about these overtures. His only chance to continue

knows

the war lies in rousing the Ger-. man, masses to such a hysterical

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ternal affairs.

Curt Riess, noted author and analyst, is on assignment in Europe as internation: al correspondent for The Times. Author of such best-sellers as "The Natis go Underground" and "Total Espionage,” Riess is recognized as an authority on German in-

frenzy and spirit of self-sacrifice

that no matter what the generals ‘and industrialists feel and

wish, they must lead a “popular

war of desperation.” That is why Goebbels permits widespread publication of news of

the general gloom within Ger--

many and the desperation of the population. s = =»

GOEBBELS’ present propaganda motive is to whip the people into desperation because only such a state guarantees a continuation of the fight under Hitler’s leadership. : This type of fight necessitates a scorched earth policy and destruction of everything before retreat. : ® Sueh a scorched earth policy not only would result in the prolongation of the war, but also would create more chaotic conditiohs for after the war in Europe—a situation which would aid the underground Nazi movement and make possible a comeback

WHILE THE Indianapolis Symphony orchestra ¥ of the Nazi regime.

was getting in a few practice licks on the Murat theater stage yesterday, an unexpected visitor walked onto the stage -sat-down and -started-scratching-him= self. The visitor was a three-months-old pup of uncertain_ancesfry, Director Sevitzky gave the signal for,a C-major.chord—usually reserved to honor new arrivals. inthe players’ families. The pup, unimpressed, just yawned, and strolled offstage. And then the rehearsal continued. . . . One of our agents calls to report that there's one exception to the SpinkArms’ rule that residents’ dogs must be carried through the dobby.” He is Rowdy, a big airedale owned by Mrs. Jean Lamb. Inasmuch as he weighs a few pounds less than an elephant, Rowdy has special permission to go through the lohby under his own power—one round trip each evening—so long as he respects the feelings of the hotel guests. . . . Incidentally, we hear there’s a “Dogs not allowed” sign over in University park. But most of the dozen or

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~BUT -LARGE-- PARTS of the. German population are strongly.

opposed to a scorched eartk pol icy. They understand that such a policy, while costly, perhaps is effective -if there is enough terrain toward which to retire and make a counter-attack, as the Russians did. But Germany is small and without deployment space, so, behind the scorched earth many Germans see only the destructive part of the policy. Some _obey but without enthusiasm, Sar

” > NE ce Fighting has broken out in the streets of Berlin, reports Curt

Riess. Anti-Hitler demonstrations

are reminiscent of civil strife in 1919, when this scene was photographed.

THOSE with enormous possessions at stake, mainly industry, are, openly opposed to the scorched earth plan, These industrialists hope to save at least something if and when they hand, over possession to the allies and deal «with allied industrialists, > ? Spokesman of this group is Franz Von Papen, who is today in Port of Galet, Spain, and openly divorced from -the Hitler regime. : + This is the reason why his wife .and daughter hid out, trying to get into an allied prison ship when we seized Papen’'s possessions. Incidentally, this is an old plan already written up in:my book, “The Nazis. Go Underground.” ” » . I ALSO have learned through neutral channels that dependable Nazi SS troops have been moved to areas not endangered by the allies but by potential outbursts and riots. There also have been mass surrenders of the Volkssturm to the Russians. These surrenders took place according to a well-prepared plan, not on the spur of the moment or ina moment of panie.

DR. SPIELHAGEN, deputy mayor of Breslau, who was exe-

‘cuted as “a coward devoid of

honor,” was a member of an old reactionary nationalistic family. He had planned to prohibit the destruction of Breslau by handing over the téwn. . ’ He had arranged with numerous of -his eollaborators to get into contact with the Russians.

AN EXCELLENT sourse of information also says a majority of the inhabitants of Breslau favored such a course, though ignorant of the plot, which was discovered at the by the gestapo through treason of ‘one secretary to Spielhagen. _ After the execution there were large—"demonstrations—in——the

. streets “of Breslau and shooting.

THERE- WERE shootings in °

Berlin, too, especially in the north and east where trains and planes from the east arrived and the crowds saw that Nazi officials are wont to save themselves and ‘their possessions first. On such occasions the SS troops were forced to shoot at women and children, which not

_ even patriotic Germans like

see.

last minute

The situation of Hitler now is particularly difficult, because he needs the very men who opposed

the war until the last; namely |

the generals of the old school. ” » » WHEN the west front was handed over to Von Rundstedt and. the east front to Mannstein, Hitler was entirely in the hands of the old generals’ clique. It is symptomatic that Manne stein already has succeeded— against the furious opposition of the Himmler clique—in bringing back such members of the general staff as Von Bock and Von - Kleist, long retired by Hitler, . » » . THE SITUATION now is as follows: Hitler, if he wants to con-

months, needs the full-hearted collaboration of these best generals. The generals, however, are eager to end the war. If Goebbels’ gloomy propaganda campaign succeeds, the war may last all during 1945. If not, a spectacular surprise may take place any moment, which may not finish the war altogether, but finish the resistance of large parts of the German army.

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more pooches living in the Spink-Arms can't read or

- By David Dietz

Both researches are being carried on by Dr. Harry Goldblatt, associate director of the irstitute. One concerns high blood pressure, the other cancer. One-third of all the deaths in peacetime America are due to. heart disease, kidney disease, and cerebral hemorrhage, three maladies that have a common origin in high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries.

Testing Cancer Serum

DR. GOLDBLATT, as is well known, established in 1937 that a reduction in the blood supply of the kidneys was responsible for the onset of continued high blood pressure, or essential hypertension, as the

medical man calls it. For this discovery he was honored by gold medals and other awards from th nation’s leading medical societies. - - : This @iscovery opened the way for the development of methods of preventing or curing high blood pressure. Dr. Baldblatt has made important progress in that direction and I believe that greater financial aid to his studies would be wise, His studies on cancer concern the testing of the

Russian scientist, Dr, A. A, Bogomolets. The Russians have claimed that that it is useful in fighting cancer. This investigation has been made possible by a fund of $15,000 provided by a group of Clevelanders. Incidentally, the Russians first used the serum as a means of accelerating the healing of wounds and they have likewise -cldaimed that it will offset the ravages of old age, It will be seen, therefore, that Dr. Goldblatt's two ‘studies are much more closely related than they seem at first glance. :

By Eleanor Roosevelt

once belonged to my mother, I cut,up and made into two cushion cases, also for Christmastide. And so, with all other British women, I make and mend. ever trying to keep a once bright interior. “Towels are couponed and therefore precious, for one cannot afford clothing coupons for towels. Curtaining of net and cretonne, too, are couponed, as are of course, bed sheets. The unworn parts of towels make excellent facecloths for the bathroom. . “In earlier days, when I was yet the possessor of spare summer frocks, I found that these, at a pinch, make quite efficient nighties. Nobody saw me in them anyhow, because we saved a light by having no illumination in bedrooms at all; and saving light, maniged |" without blackout, curtains in bedrooms, too. 4 “It is amazing how methodical one could get even in the dark, when placing clothing that one took off. “Hardware today, like pans, etc., is difficult to get. Annually, one person in three can have a new pan

C.W. Lowe, Bell Employee, Ends 30 Years

C. W., LOWE, 3802 N. Pennsyivania st, today had chalked up three decades of continuous duty with the Indiana Bell Telephone

Now supervisor of buildings.

for the company, he will be . awarded the 30y ear service emblem. Mr. Lowe began his telephone career in December, 1914, at Peru as a repairman, He also worked in South Bend and Washing ton, . Ind, before C. W. Lowe ccming to Indianapolis as garage foreman in 1936. Later, he was named building foreman at Evansville, where

he remained until he returned ]

here to assume his present post last month. Mr. Lowe has been a member of the Hoosier chapter of the Telephone Pioneers of America since July, 1937. .

CAPTURED NAZI OFFICER ADMITS FAULT—

‘Germans Alone Are to Blame’

By JACK BELL Times Foreign Correspondent * WITH THE U. 8. 3D ARMY, Belgium, Feb. 5 (Delayed) —At last a prisoner of war has been

found who frankly says, “The German people, no one else, are responsible for the present state of affairs.” He is a young lieutenant, who talked with a sergeant from New York, a 19th division interrogator. The sergeant knows the German nation and army. He was in the army until 1935 : when, seeing oy what was hap- Mr. Bell pening, he obtained a furlough to visit America and eluded attempts to find and return him, Prisoners these days are all sizes, shapes and degrees of misery

Up Front With Mauldin

or a kettle. One in seven can have sa new knife, fork| - |

or spoon. One in four can have a new jug or teapot. “There are still no carpets made, and thereadbare second-hand ones take prohibitive prices. I wouldn't attempt to buy one; in fact, I couldn't afford to—for Ted, although a policeman, does not receive the wages of war workers. : ; : 2 “Girls in their 'teens very ‘often earn double a man’s pre-war wage, if they are in: war work. I know of some who start at six pounds a week, which 1s ‘about $30. ; : ' “Ted's prewar wage was 90 shillings, or $22.50, and has recently been by its last war a

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and mental, reaction. to what is happening. 2 = ¥ = » THE LIEUTENANT calmly stated that the German people like fascism and eagerly followed Hitler because his promises, based on Selfishness, seemed to give each a greater opportunity than his fellows. The soldiers of the 1st divisiqn captured eight Jerries one evening and everybody stayed in a house between the lines, one young German heating his chest as he expounded the joys of naziism, The 82d division stormed a hill »t0 capture a dozen 88 guns, a 14-

. inch gun, the major commanding

the battalion, and 11 of his officers. : : » = »

“WHY IN heaven's name did you, an artillery leader, stay back here with your staff #&fter the German troops had run?” asked the interrogator. ‘ “I was told to hold the hill until further orders,” said the major stiffly. “And no other orders came.” : Few officers ‘will talk, which is a soldier's privilege... » » ” I WAS amazed, in Burma, when Japanese prisoners freely told everything they knew. It developed that they oonsidered life«as Jap citizens ended by the disgrace of capture so gave any information they had. It will be different with the Germans, he said.

Every day I see them by the

hundreds, cold and wet, not sure what is going to happen.

YESTERDAY two Frendh newsreelmen saw 50 marching up the road and wanted their pictures. “Will they hold up their hands,” asked one photographer. “Sure,” theyll do anything I tell 'em,” replied the sergeant, patting his tommy gun. . Bo the prisoners dutifully raised their hands and marched past us. NT. ' THESE soldiers are former -air corps ‘men, service company troops, labor battalions and miany other rear-line branches of serv ice—pressed into infantry . duty without training. They retain their noncom rat< ing “but what good is that here, freezing your féet and getting | killed because you don't know

how to fight,” grumbled a former

flying sergeant. ‘I've seen whole companies of

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YESTERDAY we looked over a eaptured labor battalion, aged 45 or more, left to man the Siegfried tortifications—and they did it well. oe One American officer will not permit talk of “kids” or ‘old men” opposite his troops, saying, “they shoot you, don't they?” Which reminds me of the gadget Lt. Col. Gilbert Strickler, New Glarus, Wis, proudly displayed today. For months army ordnance has been trying to develop a mitten that would be. warm, yet permit the, doughboy to get his trigger finger in position, Now that spring is nigh, they have come up with a strangelooking contraption with two thumbs; the clumsiest mitten ever conceived. : = . » WELL, a German prisoner's rifle had a little metal clip attached to.the trigger guard that permitted him to press the trigger with his mittened hand. It was so simple and effective that the Americans, after an expressive “well I'l be dammed” sent the gadget to army ordnance. Now every soldier in the 357th infantry has one. Perhaps in another two years they'll be an army issue.

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the substitute Taft measure. The council denounced the house bill's provisions for “compulsion and involuntary servitude” and ine dorsed the substitute which proposes voluntary manpower measures administered by civilian agencies. The council meanwhile delayed until later in the week its decision on the re-admission of John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers to the federation,

Mr. Green disclosed that he con

ferred with Mr. Lewis before leav-

ing Washington, but he gave ao indication that the latter's terms for reaffiliation have been modified.

Mr, Lewis has proposed that his union. be readmitted as it now stands and the question of jurisdiction of the catch-all district 50 union be left for future negotiation. * x» =» : SOME of the A. F. of L. afl ales, rivals of District 50, wan the status clarified before the miners union is taken back. .

Only 10 of the council's 15 members were present for the opening day's session and Mr. Green said he was waiting for a full attendance before submitting the Lewis matter,

The absentees included William L. Hutcheson of the carpenters, Harvey ‘Brown of the machanists and George M. Harrison of the railway clerks.

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IN HIS WIRE to senators, Mr, -

Green said the voluntary mane power controls proposed hy Sen ator Taft would ciency and morale and increase production.”

A statement issued by the council asserted that the war mane power commission “if strength. ened, is ‘competent te meet the need.” '

WORDS of praise from labop have been sparing in the bast for Nutt. The former was denounced in his last campaign in the strongest wards the C. 1. O. could find, while the latter has had frequent brushes with labor,

The council cited British ex« perience as proving that veluntary manpower . measures are more effective than compulsory controls.

It listed these additional argue ments against the May bill; ONE: Labor wastes already are “keeping thousands of men from jobs that need them.”

TWO: Estimates of manpower

needs are exaggerated. THREE: Manpower supplies are adequate to meet the demand voluntarily. Critich needs of 300,000 men can be met from non-essential industries, released veterans, ney workers and those released from government employment and by industrial cute backs. A FOUR: Workers can be di verted to critical plants volun tarily through government trans. portation and per diem allow antes. FIVE: Critical production probe lems are mostly technical, mane power being for only ome of 14 shortages, with the other trace-

able to changing needs on the -war fronts. ?

" SIX: A more orderly distribu tion of armed service contracts would utilize workers and plans facilities. more efficiently.

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— We, the Women Letters Paint False Picture

Of Home Life

By RUTH MILLETT DOES IT shock you to hear that many young fathers, home from battle are finding it so hard to adjust themselves to paternal duties and to resent the cries of their babies, whom they have never séén before, that they are finding it neecessary to live alone in hotels. Well, it is true, according to a recent report of Dr. Woodward of the Division of R e habilitation of the Nation« al Committee

veterans are finding home life not nearly as ideal in other ways as they pictured it when home was far away.

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