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Editor's ‘Note: : Ernie Pyle is with the navy in the Pacific. Pending receipt of his dispatches from that war theater we are publishing a few articles he wrote before his take-off from San Francisco, of which the following is ohe.
SAN FRANCISCO. - Every once in a while you see or read or feel something -that you go head over heels about, and can't quit talking ‘about.
That has happened to me ‘things. One is a movie, the other is. a show. The . movie is called “Fighting Lady,” A and was produced by the nayy. WE The show is. a musical extrava- , ganza on roller skates, “called “Skating Vanities." Let's get to the movie first. It has already gone into general "showing in several cities, and will . eventually be shown everywhere, in regular theaters, .If you ever see it advertised, for goodness sakes, go see it: It is the story of life aboard . an alreraft carrier in.the Pacific. It is In technicolor and ‘it's all genuine. It wasn't produced in Hollywood from fancy sets. It was all {aken by navy cameramen right on the spot. It.is as beautiful, and as thrilling, as anything Fve ever seen, A good third of it wag taken by automatic cameras in the noses of. fighter planes. You dive on Japanese islands as though you were "in the plane “yourself, You can see your own tracer bullets shooting out ahead and fingering into Japanese planes, You see them twist down and down into the sea. Not one or two isolated and far-away shots, but scores of them, close up and vivid. And you see our own crippled planes come back to land on the mother carrier. up, skid over the“side, catch fire and burn on the deck, and had to go in the water,” “Fighting Lady” is a magnificent’ piece of work, You'll know considerably more about what -war feels lke after you see it.
Antidote for War
“SKATING VANITIES” has nothing to do with the war. It is, rather, something to take your mind off the war, It is just a great big beautiful musical show and circus on roller skates. There are several big ice shows touring the country, but “Skating Vanities” is the "only one using
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
OLD INSIDE has been called on to settle an argument over a more or less important matter of etiquette. Question: Who should get off a streetcar or bus first—the man or woman? Not knowing the whereabouts of Emily Post, we put the matter up
to the highest authority we could think of at the moment. That was Harry Reid, street railway president. When he saw we wouldn't lef him out of it, he thought a While] “then came “forth with “his ruling: “Why the man. should get off first. And then he should “stand there and help the lady off ~ngt go walking away to let her get off by herself.” So now you know. . Frank Hohenberger, the Brown county photographer, has just got around to sending out his Christmas cards. The cards, themselves, explain the reason for their tardy delivery. Frank says he was so busy doing work for his customers that he used up all his greeting card photographic paper and had none left for himself We'd often wondered about the history of a buliding at 35 W. Ohlo st., which has the name, “Trlephone Building,” up at the top. Emmett Belzer 6f the phone, company looked. it up. for us and found baek at the turn of the -century, this building housed all the city’s telephone activities. It was the office building of the Oentral American Telephone Co., predecessor of Indiana Bell, from 1896 to 1907, In the latter year, the company moved to the present site.
Travel or Travail? NOW WE HAVE a pretty good idea why the
government is discouraging unnecessary travel. ‘A
local businessman had to go to New York a week or 80 ago, and was Jucky enough to arrange for a roomette. However, Instéad of the roomette, he was ushered into a very old fashioned Pullman. It seems the roomette car had developed’ trouble and had to be Stopped from the train. “They weren't Thy out of
World of Science
LONG BEFORE the robotplane (the Nazi V-1) put in an appearance, the aircraft-launched-rocket projectile had been accepted as a mighty weapon playing a decisive part in land and sea warfare against shipping, gun emplacements, factories, com~ munications and tanks, The rocket projectile is “composed of a warhead loaded with high explosives (of various shapes according to its design and purposé), a tube. filled ‘with slowburning powder, a Jet exhaust "and fins. It ranges between five and seven feet in length, At the forward end‘ of the rocket is mounted the. warhead, behind that is the tube containing the powder material for producing the. propulsive gases. At the tralling:end of the tube is the jet opening through which these gases reach the atmosphere. Closely adjacent to the jet are mounted fins for the guidance of the rocket, serving the same purpose as feathers on the trailing end’of an arrow,
Mounted on Rails
THIS ENTIRE contraption is mounted on rails anchored to the under sides of wings; and since these rails are rigidly fixed to- the aircraff, the aiming of the rockets is accomplished by aiming the plane iteelf. ‘The firing is effected by pressure on a contact button mounted on the pilot’s control stick, The closing of the contact causes an electric current to fuse platinum wire imbedded in the slow-burning powder contained in the tube, The ignition of the
My Day
WASHINGTON, Sunday.—The meeting of .-the United “Service Organization Women's committee on Friday brought out the fact that we really know very little about ‘the needs of the civilian men and young girls who come to Washingotn to work. The agencies say the turnover © compares very favorably with the turnover in.the average large industry. - Nevertheless they would like to cut it down, The jobs are important. "If the work doesn’t gét done here, the resulis are farreaching, Certain difficulties encountered during this period by those who ‘work for the government ate obvious. Housing is a problem, Salar"les which may seem large before they come to Washington dwindle atter they come Here, Everyone is busy and has little time for new acquaintances. Everything the stranger don 1 vim OF Toss diel whether it is shopping or
recently about two
You see them ¢rack .
roller skates, is now working its way eastward again. You'd think that the. grace and lithesomeness of dancing couldn't be accomplished on rollers, but it can. This’ show has 100 performers who are .genii on wheels. They say it would be impossible to create another show of this sort, because there simply arenr’t. another 100 outstanding roller skaters in America.
It. took .almost a year of combing the country|
to get enough skaters to start the show, Marriage ‘and the draft Keep whittling down the cast, and they have to hold try-outs in every big city they play, to dig up new skaters, :
Magnificent Blond
RIGHT NOW three dozen of the old cast are somewhere in the armed forces. A dozen of the men now
skating have served in the army, and the rest are |
either 4-Fs or below military age. One of the ex-
ceptional skaters was a soldier in Italy. One of the|
By Ernie Pyle
1t has just been to the West cast, and :
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MONDAY; FEBRUARY 12,
1945
4-Fs has such poor eyesight he can't/see where he's
going, and tha other skaters have to call “ight” or “left” to him as they skate along. : . The star of the show .is- a magnificent little blond creature named Gloria Nord. Like most great skate ing stars, she is of Norwegian descent, - Her name was actually Nordskog, mouthful fox-the show business. Gloria did a skating act in Betty Grable's “Pin-Up (xir],” and as a result gets about 500 letters a ‘week from soldiers ‘overseas. She sends each one a pin-up Picture, "She and, her mother, who travels with her, do this themselves. Gloria eats supper about tour hours before showtime, hecause she can't skate on a full stomach. # One big problem in putting on a roller-skating show was to cut down the noise, for rollers are: noisy. This is:done with a special floor ‘of masonite, which the. show carries with it and lays in “sections. Also the skaters use skates with precision bearings instead of regular roller bearings, which’ also diminishes the noise. One of the stars named Lew Testa won't use the precision skates, because he says he learned on the old-fashioned kind and damned if he's going to change. They hope eventually to put a small edition of “Skating Vanities” overseas to entertain troops. The catch right now is. the floor, that will remain the same in any climate. The masonite people are now working on a floor that won't get sticky or buckle or shrink under changing temperatures, As soon as they get it perfected, IT am .going to learn to roller-skate and gO ~overseas with the show as a clown,
Indianapolis when the porter came along and said the car ahead had developed trouble and the people in it would have {o double up in this car. All the passengers were sent to the club car to wait until the berths were made up. There were no lights or heat in the club car, About midnight, the porter called -them bag¢k, They found the Pullman very coid, and the lights dim, but they managed to get in | their berths--with perfect strangers doubling up in most of the lowers. Those who had managed to get to sleep were awakened at 1:30. “Get up and dress,” said The poriT. had to he taken off the train, The passengers strug-| gled into their, clothes, then stumbled in the dark up to the stiil unheated and unlighted club car. As they got settled, a joker piped up with: “Is this trip really- nccessory?” The porter brought blankets in which they wrapped themselves. At 4 a. m., the train
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Manual's first graduation class (June,
Manual Is
1895), declined to be photographed. members of the February, 1896, class, the second. group to be graduated from Manual: - Hunt, Maggie Toole, Lauta Finehout, Hattie Kersting, Agnes Herd (Black). Malone, Mabel Stilz (Stark), Alice Hill (Schwartz), Delta Kemper (Coppotk), Edith Conner, Charles E. Emmerich (principal).
OUR TOWN: MANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL—NO. Hn!
Older Than You Think
Nobody knows why.
The above picture portrays the BOTTOM ROW-4Clara Bohnstadt, Bessie SECOND ROW-—Clara Dippel, Jessie Loree, Margie” | THIRD
ROW—Miss Violet Demree (teacher of English), Daisy Wallette, Edna Clippinger (Barnes), Hannah Anderson, Edna Dellett (Ward), Eva Walters (Beeler) Emma Mohs, Della McPherson, Bernie Smith, Katie Ward, TOP ROW-—Henry Leser, Tom (Frank) Carson, Charlie Simpson, Wilfred Vestal, Bob Smith, Charlie Boaz, Earl Heller, Horace Moore, Harry Rasmussen. (Chances are that every kid is some-
where around 67 years old today).
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Eva Walters Beeler f (February, 98)
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By ANTON SCHERRER (Class of 1896)
HE CHARLES E. EMMERICH Manual Training high school will take two days off this week to celebrate
its birthday.
~Fhe—double-feature party-=will Rati. Friday. with a
traditional meeting of the alumni in’the hallowed halls of
the old school. tuous (wartime) banquet in the Scottish Rite cathe-
picked up another -Puliman and everyone undressed and went to bed, unmindful, by this time, of the| Tack of-heat. Ah, rest at last. Yes, for a little while, | but in less than two hours, they had to get up again, get off the train and ontm another—composed of | ancient day coaches. Fortunately, the trip home was | less eventful,
Young America
BRUCE MYGRANT listened to one of the inquiring reporter radio broadcasts. the other day and ended up wondering what on earth some of our youngsters do with their time in school. He said one group. of ‘three high schoolers completely missed three easy questions, even with some pretty. strong suggestions of the answer. They didn't know any one of. the three’ largest cities in. the. country, not: even “the windy city up on Lake Michigan,” nor the third | largest where there's “a historic cracked bell.” Nor | did they know which general was referred to by our ‘troops when they landed in France in the other war
dral, Manual's hysteria may be traced to the confirmed fact that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the school’s: foundation, Measured another way, Manual is even old= er. -Its cultural roots, for instance, © reach back as far as Mr. Scherrer 1858, the year the kids of Indianapolis suffered a scare of panic-like proportions.
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by the name of James Greene, arrived _ in Indianapolis to take chdrge 6f our “public ‘school sysfem,” a euphemistic way of de-
and said: “So and so, we are here.” We thought] maybe the ybungsters were afflicted ‘by mike fright. | Mr. Mygrant said he hoped that's what caused it, | but ‘that it must have been an especially frightful! lobking mike.
Cn — . 3 By David Dietz pdsive charge accelerates the rocket forward on the rails ‘of its rack, tripping the safety catch which held it securely in place. The usual arrangement is the mounting of four rocket projectiles under each wing—all eight to be fired in salvo or in pairs (latest design permits single firing.) Recket. projectiles posses definite advantages over heavy aircraftmounted cannon ‘in that their trajectories are comparatively flat with the missle maintaining its muzzle velocity clear the target. Hence it can be aimed with great precision.” Then, too, its warhead, carrying as ‘high as 60 pounds of
high explosives, is possessed of great ‘destructive power and armor-piercing capacity.
Formidable Weapon
SOME OF these waifieads range Between six and eight inthes in diameter, Their weight debit is infinitesimal compared ta the orthodox six- or eightinch shell and the six- or eight-inch gun. Thus the self-propelled projectile justifies itself, and the fighter plane becomes possessed of firepower equal to the broadside of a light cruiser, Super-speed fighters are usually equipped with rocket racks and from four to six 20-millimeter cannen, Such a fighter is really & forifaanTe Weapon plain poison to all light surface warcraft, cargo shipping’ and subs because of its speed and maneuverability, I am told that the development of the armorpiercing capacity of the rocket projectile can be traced to experiments carried out many years ago by safe manufacturers who were seeking to build & type of safe which could not be readily destroyed by safe Blowers,
By Eleanor Roosevelt
The main reason for giving up their work is poor health, Poor health can cover a multitude of shins. One lady finally suggested that what we needed was more people in every department who really gave. newcomers a feeling that they were interested in them as individuals and that they were ready to listen to anything they had to say. I could not help thinking that she had probably hit the nail on the head. Such people are hard w find, however, Mrs, O. P. Barnett of Winslow, Ind, nas sent in an idea that I think may be rather useful. « She could not think what to do with old handbags or large purses which were still usable though: no longer looking their best. She decided to give them to Greek Relief, ‘but filling each one with things that any woman would. find. useful—soap, ‘thread, needles,
absorbent cotton, small bottles of vaseline, and other
little things which she “could find.
scribing 30 teachers and 2000 children distributed in half a dozen rented buildings known as “ward schools.” “There was no ~high school, “& defect the professor promised 10 rectify at once. Prof. Greene didn't get anywhere with his plan: for a high school. Just about the time he had everything fixed: to sentence Indianapolis kids to four more years of servitude, the Indiana supreme court stepped- in and obligingly- ruled that it was unconstitutional for. cities and towns to collect: taxes for the payment of tuition, The boys celebrated the event with a bonfire on the
history of Indianapolis. ” s ”
WITH LITTLE or no money to pay the teachers, the ward schools gradually” folded up. “Nor was there any more loose talk about a high school. Even more amazing was the fact that the schools didn’t reopen un-
THAT WAS the year.a pedagog
circle, the biggest of record in the
It will end Saturday y night with a sumps
til 1863. Which is to say that the kids of Indianapolis enjoyed a state of bliss for something like five years. A state of bliss can’t last forever, as you probably know without my telling you. In this case, an act of the legislature brought it to. an end. The nef law legalized aducabion and not only that: It.found a way of raising the money with which: to run the schovls, -including even a high school. The complete legal job per‘formed all the functions of a tight. and insurmountable ferice for ever since that day.no Indianapolis kid (or taxpayer) has found
=a: Way to escape. -
’ a8 a BY THAT time it was 1864. By that time, tod, Abraham C. Short-
“ridge was in charge of the Indian-
apolis- "public school system. He was a teacher in Northwestern
“Christian university ¢now Butler)
who had heen talked Into succeeding Prof. Greene. Prof, Shortridge had been in office only a few he, top, saw ‘a vision, It resembled Prof. Greene's dream in every. detail, so much so that it looked suspicious. This time the kids had reason to be scared. Prof. Shortridge started the first high school on Sept. 1, 1864, in the old First Ward school. Its first principal was William A. ‘Bell, a ‘pupil of Horace Mann (at Antioch), The _first class comprised 28 pupils. It took them five years to graduate, which ‘is explained by the fact that Prof..Bell-had. to spend the first year whipping his pupils-into shape. Apparently, the kids- weren't prepared to ‘enter high school; at any rate, not a ‘high school of Prof. Bell's standards.
months when
“Up Front With Mauldin’
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‘| reinstatement within 90 days, be . thonorably discharged and the firm
' |ecumstances as it ‘was when you left. . | The latter means that if the war ‘forced closing of a plant, for in-
but it was- a job previously held {by ‘a man who was also drafted. Does the ‘company have to take me s back? 3 ,
The faces (and dresses) were id entified with the help of Miss Anna J. Schaefer (June, 96) and Mrs,
* To this day, Indianapolis kids find refuge and comfort in the precedent established by Prof Bell's delinquent class. un 2 2 LONG BEFORE the first class was ready to graduate, Prof. Bell's high schodt acquired signs-of. a permanent nature. Enough, at any rate, to move the school
board to buy a bigger building. It happened to be the Second Presbyterian church on _the northwest quadrant of the Circle. . A floor was thrown across the auditorium made famous by Henry Ward Beecher's sermons and, right away, Indianapolis had a three-story high school. The ground floor (the old Sunday schol) was assigned to the freshmen, The second floor was set apart for the school board of- ~ fices and. the sophomores.” The juniors and senidrs occupied the improvised third floor, Even as far back as then, tke upper classes never measured up to, the size of the freshmen classes. , The school board at the time classified. the “phenomenon
“"Ta§ "an “example “of arithmetical
reductjon for which nobody was to blame e3reph the kids Whem~ selves, un “" 2
THE HIGH SCHOOL remained in Mr. Beecher's remodeled’ church until 1870. In the meantime the “school board acquired the Baptist Female seminary property at the northeast corner “of ~ Michigan afd Pennsylvama” sts. After some remodeling, the Ingh school moved there, It was replaced in 1884 by a building especially designed for a high school. After which there was every reason to believe that the high school was here to stay, The erection of a building
necessary—
especially designed for a high school miffed the people living on the other side of -the tracks, a geographical area of Indianapolis known as the South side. These good people couldnt get it through their heads why such a building—assuming that it was had tobe placed on the North side. % Eventually they voiced sentiments.’ Finally their voice became so loud that even the school board couldn't help hearing it. With the result that, some time around 1884, the South side got a high school of its own. 5 n s
THE SOUTH SIDE high school was known as “No. 2.” It was housed in the old Eighth Ward school the present Calvin Fletcher school (520 Virginia ave., zone 4). If your eyes are good, you can still read the inscription “High School No.. 2” painted on the cornice of the old landmark. T. G. Alford was the first principal of High School No. 2. He was succeeded by George -W. Hufford and subsequently by Charles E. Emmerich. . <.dust-60-years ago this: week. Mr. Emmerich arid his little staff of
© six teachers herded their, kids to-
gether and marched them to the Industrial Training school, a brand-new building located on a triangular plot bounded by Meridian and Merril sts. and Madis50n ave. Several years later, the Industrial Training school received the Jame of Manual, Training . high “School. It appears that a grotip of twitchy souls in our midst couldn't bear the sound of the original name. It sounded too much like that of a penal institution, they said. TOMORROW: Just When Is a Cheer Not a Cheer?
{ {YOUR G. |. RIGHTS—
By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. tive service reports that many men are not reporting .to their draft!
{the armed service, as is required | (by law. | Whatever the reason is for this negligence, reporting is required to {protect the interest of the “veteran. |The board gives him a 1-C classification chrd which he ‘must be able to show at ary time and has the responsibility of seeing that “he |
«gets his old job back if he wants |
it. That is, assuming he is hon- | orably- discharged. The board will! also advise. him of his other rights | as a veteran. * Q. At the time I -was drafted i had a part-time job in addition to| Jmy regular job. Do I have re-em-ployment rights in it? “+A. Yes, If at the time. you took the part-time job it was not #greed that it was only temporary. ‘Also | you must still be able to perform | the duties satisfactorily, apply .for
must be reasonably in the same cir-
stance, the plant couldn't be forced to ‘put you on the payroll -doing Dithing. These qualifications apply to all, reinstatement rights. | Q. I.was drafted from my job,
A. No.
If ‘vou were " promoted
{into the job in the same fiber are Tequired to take Jans
Veteran Protects Job Rights By Reporting to Draft Board
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board after they are released from in the job?
A. Yes, if you enlisted after May | 1, 1940 you do have reemployment |
[rights in” your former job.
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New Alignment Of World Lab Pivots to ‘Left’
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world over. Sir Walter Citrine and other British labor leaders — who arranged the world couferencé—apparently favor an ate tempt to amalgamate with' the existing’ International Federatirn of Trade Unions... But that is complicated by the probability of immediate withdrawal of the American Federation of Labor, now th e American spokesman * in that body. The A. FP. of Mr. Perkins L. won't associate with’ Russia labor groups. Sidney Hillman, R. J. Thumas and other C. I. O. delegaies have not yet publicly express>d their choice, other than that they desire C. I. O. participation in world labor affairs—denied ‘hem so far because “the A. F. of L. has cornered the market. There is not much question that the new organization —if- formed —would. be ‘more aggressive and “leftish” than the International Federation of Trade Unions. It would have a wide effect on social movements throughout ‘he world. = = ”
MORE THAN 200 delegates from 35 countries saw a big Sunday afternoon demonstration in the London coliseum, a gathering of 3000 representing 8,000,000 members of. every trade union in Great Brita! n
Mr. Thomas; chairman of the C. L. 0. group, spoke for the Americans and drew great applause.
But the head of the Russian delegation, V. V. Kuznetsov, got the biggest ovation, both inside and outside the building. An applauding crowd surrounded the Russian embassy car in which he arrived. We fpefs re HIS USE of an embassy car was one sign 6f the close relationship between the Seviet government and the Russian labor: organizations, which the A. F. of L. criticizes as not so free as American labor groups.
Apparently the great interest in Comrade Kuznetsov was the Red army's driye close to Berlin, which has all London hoping the war's end is not far away.
The Thomas statement received most enthusiastically was that American soldiers had told him they hoped the Russians would get to Berlin first because -they feared the other allies might make too easy a peace. The British seem to feel that way; too. = = »
COMRADE KUZNETSOV said the aim of the conference is to “realize the aspirations of the He devoted most of his Speech to a denunciation of German destruc- ho tion in Russia by “Hitlerite Brigands”
Mr. Thomas said world labor must be organized for a general raising of standards in all countries so that high- standard lands
Eh Louis Saillant, secretary of the French delegation and president of the national, committee of re« - sistance, described the strong labor’ represetitation in the new French government and declared that labor unions led the resistance movement. The meeting ended with a singing of the Internationale.
We, the ‘Women ———
1 . There's Pride In the Name ' sp ' Of 'G. I. Joe By RUTH MILLET THREE SOLDIERS, a private, a corporal, and a first lieuténant, have started a campaign against the term “GI Joe.” They don't like if, think it lacks dignity, makes little sense, and threaten: “If, the civilian persists in saddling us with that squirrely tag we may hang . one on him that is just as distasteful, Wonder how he'd like ‘Cost-Plus Clem’ or ‘Mass-Production Mose’? » n ® THE THREE “GI's” (beg pardon, soldiers) who hate that term, can’t possibly know what affection, pride and hope it represents to the average civilian, - : For the average civilian has a “GI Joe” in his own family—a son, a husband, a brother, a nephew. And when he speaks of A GI it is with affection and warmth, 3 “GI Joe” is the boy in the family or the boy. hext door. .. 8. ». : CIVILIAN Anerica is 3
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