Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1945 — Page 7
SATURDAY, FEB. 17, 1945
‘THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
“Hoosier Vagabond
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Harbor, military formality immediately drops: away. For example, in Honolulu, all naval officers must wear neckties, But the moment you leave Pearl Harbor they come off, and you never seé them again. Max and I read a while in the two books we had brought with us—Thurber's “My World and Welcome to It,” and Joseph Mitchell's “McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon.” But good as they both are, we couldn't seem to keep our minds on them, and pretty soon we were more willingly absorbed in a wonderfully informative book the navy issues to westbound friends, called “Guide to the Western. Pacific.” We made but two stops in the 3500-mile journey to the Marianas, and how we ever found those two tiny islands is beyond me, for they were the merest dots in the wide ocean. But they find them all the time, so who am I to worry? Our first stop was at Johnston island, four hours out from Honolulu, As it came into view I was shocked at how tiny it is. It is hardly bigger than a few airplane carriers lashed together, and it hasn't got a tree on it. Yet it has been developed intp an airfleld that will take the biggest planes, and several hundred Americans live and work there,
An Hour on Johnston Island
THE CLIMATE is magnificent, and most of the soldiers and sailors wear only shorts and are deeply tanned. The way I feel now, a life of_quiet escape out there for a while would be wonderful. But the )s there are tired of “escape,” and the monotony “the place gets on their nerves. We stopped there for an hour in late afternoon, and then we took off and headed west and soon it was dark. Gradually the passengers went to sleep
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
ELMER W. (DOC) SHERWOOD, our new Indiana adjutant general, has been having a little trouble remembering his. new rank. When, he retired from the army and became adjutant general he traded his major's gold leaf for a brigadier general's gold star, But just the other day, he called one of our friends and said: “This is Major Sherwood; I mean Gen. Sherwood.” , There's a lot of business to be transacted in probate court, and it keeps genial Judge Dan White busy handling it. Much of the business is merely a matter of getting the judge's signature on papers. For a long time, he found himself unable to keep up. Folks would drop into his office, get their business over within a minute or two, and then sit and chat in the office. But the canny judge figured out a way to save time. He moved a desk out into the courtroom, and fits there while transacting routine business. The desk is so arranged that his caller faces the line of persons waiting to sée the judge. The scowls of those who are waiting to see the judge effectively deter anyone from just staying there to chat. Great thing, this psychology. . . .. Help! Help! No more first robins! Seven were reported to us yesterday. And it's been almost a month since the first, first, first robin was reported. But we're anxiously awaiting that first crocus.
Jot-em-Down Store
THE EMPLOYEES at Hook's—Pennsylvania and .Washington—have been having fun nicknaming each other’ for characters in the “Lum ‘'n Abner” broadcast. The store is being expanded to include the storeroom next door. And during the remodeling process, things are a bit helter skelter, as you can imagine. For heat theyre using an old fashioned pot-bellied stove, the kind you'd find in Pine Ridge. The other morning, when they reported for work, employees found a painted sign on the door reading: “Lum 'n Abner's Jot-em-Down Store”—or words to that effect. It was the work of a couple of regular customers. Ever since then, the usual greeting has been: “Hi, Lum, how's Cedric?” ... Myron D. Phelps,
America Flies
NOTES FROM the air lanes: In spite of the repeated Nazi threats to reinstitute submarine warfare—presumably with the aid of some new ifvention for jamming radio detection— it looks like they are having too much trouble with another item about which little has been heard. I am referring to the vast network of mines planted by allied aircraft all over the North sea and in front of every Nazi submarine -base. The German admiralty concedes that up to 1941, 3000 magnetic and acoustic mines had been planted by allied bombers—with 8000 in 1942, and. 10,000 in 1943. It is an age-old tradition of military history that “every offensive weapon eventually sires its defensive. counterpart.” At various stages of history much time has had to elapse before this formula has been fulfilled, but the pattern is always the same. With this in mind, and even though the final curtain seems imminent in the European theater, the counterparts of bomber and radio detection have not yet put in an appearance. It iS questionable indeed if surface craft plus air forces could have licked the submarine in this war. But they, together with radio i Getection, turned the trick.
Promising Program IT 1S with considerable interest we note the program of CAA to press for the immediate development of a swivel ty landing gear for aircraft. Some such expedient enabling aircraft to land and
My Day
NEW YORK, Friday, —~Having gone to the Tuition Plan ' luncheon yesterday without knowledge as to what the organization represented, I found that the plan meant an easier way to pay month by month for the education of our children. The Tuition Plan accumulates funds and pays :the schools and colleges when they desire payment, and- charges a small extra percentage on monthly payments. The speeches were extremely _ interesting, but as so often happens, they left me with.an unsatisfied feeling. . I would ‘like to sit down and discuss many of the points raised at greater length afterwards, and bring up the many subjects which seem to me: to bear upon the OT AD a a a I pe 1 reached home in time to spend an hour with a very old friend whom I had not seen for a long time. Later, other friends‘came’in for tea and dinner. Finally we went in the evening to see “The Late George Apley.” ‘I think Max Gordon in presenting - this play has done a sexvice to those of us who re- _ member the past and enjoy ‘watching the pageant of the years unroll. ini He ‘may have done an even greater service to the WJouth. of today In giving them an insight ‘into: their - graridparenis,
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By Ernie Pyle
in their seats. There was nothing to see out of the windows but darkness; a long night over the Pacific
lay ahead of us. The night was extra long, for we|
were chasing the darkness. The flight orderly brought a: blanket for each of us, and the passengers wrapped up. But soon most of them unwrapped, for the cabin was heated, and even at high altitude it became almost too hot. It was after midnight when we could sense by the motors’ tone- arid the pressure in our ears that we were coming down. We couldn't feel ‘that we were
turning but we were, for now the moon would be|
high on one side of us, and a few moments later -{t would be low on the other side of us. *
Westward and on Westward
AND THEN suddenly “there were lights smack|
underneath us, lights of what seemed a good-sized little town, and then at last we were on the ground in an unbelievably bustling airport, teeming with men and planes and lights. The place was Kwajalein.
That's not hard to pronounce if you don't try too hard. Just say “Kwa-juh-leen.” It's in’ the Marshall islands. © There, during last March and April, American soldiers and marines killed 10,000 Japanese, and opened our island stepping-stone path straight across the mid-Pacifiic. Even foday our seabees can't dig a trench for a sewer pipe without digging up dead Japanese. But even sb the island is transformed, as we so rapidly transform all our islands that are destroyed in the taking. It is a great air base now. Naval officers met our plane despite the hour,
loaded us into jeeps, and drove us a few hundred| /“:
yards fo a mess hall. A cool night breeze was blowing, and it seemed wonderful to be on the ground again, even such scant and sorrowed ground as this, For an hour we sat around a white-linened table and drank coffee and sipped iced fruit juice. You would hardly have known you were not in America. And then we were off again, to fly through the sightless night, westward and on westward,
of the Grain Dealers’ Mutual, is puzzled. He stopped in the Embassy Room bar on College ave. a while back and sat next to three soldiers. One of the boys tore a $5 bill in two. A little later, another soldier did the same thing with a ten spot. “It became apparent,” says Mr. Phelps. “that there was a definite purpose behind it since the ‘bartender gladly put each bill back together for them. I inquired of the soldier
next to me and he explainéd it was a method whereby, j
the loser buys the drink. But, darn it, I still don’t fully understand it. What's it all about?” It's all Greek to us, too, Myron. . . . E. C. Zaring, proprietor
of Sunnyside Gardens, has a story to end all stories;
about crowded: busses and trolleys. He boarded a
Millersville road bus early one morning, wearing over-|
shoes because jt. was slushy. The bus was so crowded he had a hard time getting to the .door, and by the time he struggled off the bus, he found he was limping. At first he thought he had. lost a leg.. But he soon discovered it was only an overshoe he had lost in the process of getting off.’
Single Track Mi ystery
ONE MORNING last week after a fresh fall of snow, Mrs. O. R. Breeden, 3614- E. Washington, awoke and looked out the window. To’her astonishment she saw a set of footprints leading from the street up to her perch steps—but none leading back to the street. She and Mr. Breeden had quite a diccussion about the mystery. Finally, they tele-| phoned E. C. Kirk, who lives with them ang works nights. He broke down and “confessed” that, feeling kittenish, he had walked backward when he left the house to go to work the preceding night. . . . One of our readers signing herself “A disgusted R. C. A.| worker,” asks: “Since when does a young girl war worker riding home from work on the streetcar have to shut up and sit still? On the 12th, I was riding
Clayton O. Mogg, class of 1916
home from work. Another girl and I who always whistle were whistling to each other. She was about half way down the aisle from me. A woman who was | standing leahed over and said: ‘Can't you be quiet | until you get off the car?” And she flashed a policewoman's badge. to tell me to shut up. After all, I pay taxes, too,
and we weren't in a hospital.” You readers can ‘write |
your own comments on this one.
By Maj. Al Willia
take off cross-wind will scrap the current airport programs involving hundreds of millions of dollars | in mignty stretches of mile-long, concrete Sona in favor of the single-runways airport. To emphasize the folly of building many long,
wide, concrete runways to every point of the com- |
pass, we have termed this “paving the compass.” The single runway must come because post-war avia-
tion cannot and will not be able to pay the prohibitive | overhead in charges and taxes for landing and take-|
off facilities.
Bombing Tunnels ONE OF THE cleverest and most daring exploits,
Now, we think she had a lot of gall!
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» : . » Mrs. Vivian Siener (left) and Miss Menka Guleff . . , these Manual speech teachers directed the seven-scene pageant from the stage loft.
“Skipper” McComb (left) greets Roy W. Howard, president of the
Indianapolis Times Publishing Co.
and a 1902 alumnus,
cy Golden Yon Unfold for Manual High
Manual faculty members donned frock coats and high collars to enact the passage of the bill in the Indiana senate which established industrial training schools. This was the first scene in the pageant, “G olden Years,” which unfolded 50 years of Manual history at the school’s birthday celebration yesterday.
Frank H. Daniel, class of 1909 « + « he'll emcee the alumni banquet tonight,
Miss Opal Studebaker, '45, and Ray Raker, senior class president, light the 50 candles on Manual’s birthday cake.
WORK BENEFITS |Juke Box Music Corrupts
HIKE APPROVED
State Senate Passes Bill Amending Law on ‘Compensation.
A liberalized workmen's compen-|
sation law has been passed by the! | taverns, Rep.
senate and sent to the house, The bill would increase from | {$18.20 to $20 the minimum weekly |
of American air forces is found in the recent concen- | compensation benefits payable and |
tration of low bombing attacks against the ends of railroad tunnels.
“GREAT OAKS from little acorns .,.” A singus larly striking report to which little space has been accorded appeared recently stating that “The Argen= tine directorate of sport: flying licensed the Aeromodelista club of Buenos Aires to stage speed competitions for radio-controlled model aircraft.”
AS AN EXAMPLE of what long-range air transport can mean in peace and in war, a B-29 recently took off from Wichita, Kas., and flew. non-stop to Casablanca, Africa. Flights of such mileage are considered routine and are accorded little publicity. Hangar rumors have it that the B-29 can go 6000 miles non-stop stripped of non-military gear and fitted with suitable tankage.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
States that can quite equal ‘Boston as the perfect | setting for humorous situations. The scene between | George Apley of Boston and Julian Dole of Kansas City and Worcester is something priceless. The Thanksgiving dinner of that day has, I hope, gone into the limbp forever. We have certainly learned not to stuff ourselves to the extent that our grandparents did. But whether we have learned that even in our families the object of reunions is to have a good time, is sométhing I'm not quite so sure about, Certainly in the case of our large family there is never any dearth of conversation. I am not sure that it is always pleasant, but at least it is always stimulating, and that is better than the stuffed silence of the Apley family. i Mrs, William L.. Kell of Darlington, Ind. Bas) written me about a plan of hers which she thinks might bring" in a few extra dollars for any good cause, She suggests that at ary party one is planning to have, one could invite ‘one’s guests to come to a “sacrificial” party - where they would put into an envelope the amount of mohey that might otherwise have been spent on refreshments for those - present, and send it to the Red Cross. This is a good id ea if those present have enough, ability to create a 3. party spirit merely by being tosome of those qualities that I wp ‘connection with the. fam-
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‘WILL OF DR. TURNER
| from $34 to $36 the maximum bene- | This type strangles supply lines.
fits payable. Permanent injury payments | would be increased under the measure to $7500 from the present $5500. In, addition, the bill would require émployers to provide medical and] surgical services not to exceed 180 days except on order from the state industrial board. The senate approved the measure by a vote of 41-1. Parking Meter Bill Passed
A bill to give city building commissioners authority not only to condemn but to wreck property to make way for. slum clearance projects also was passed by the senate yesterday by a vote of 35-2. A measure by Senator John Atherton (R. Indianapolis) to {legalize parking meters and to al-
POST-WAR FUND
Public Morals, Kwiat Says BILL ADVANGES
JUKE BOX MUSIC was branded a subtle corrupter of public | morals on the floor of the Indi- |
ana house yesterday. . “It's not the liquor that makes people feel so peculiar, it's the music that get's ’em,” charged Stanley Kwiat (DB: East Chicago). As co-author .of a bill which
would ban “mechanical music” in said he |
Kwiat doesn’t object to a little melodious entertainment “if it's decent.” But he implied - that much of modern jazz is slightly suggestive. Rep. Ear] Teckemeyer (R. Indianapolis) then painted an even darker picture of “canned music.” Said he: “Some of the most sinful situations existing are in these dimlylit, smoke-filled taverns where people wriggle around while juke boxes blare.” He said he was in favor of youth “having fun,”
At 93, She's Spry As 16-Year-Old
WAYNESBURG, Pa. Feb. 17 (U. P.).—~Ladies’ aid members of
the Morrisville Methodist church | prepared to call at the home of |
Mrs. Ella Rinehart, their oldest
{low cities to operate parking lots;
{for profit was among other bills |
passed. The vote on this measure | was 38-1. Other provisions of the work-/ men’s compensation bill would give employees the right to select their own physicians in surgical cases. | It also would require that physicians other than those selected by injured employees submit a statement on the result of their findings. The employee examined would receive a copy.
PROBATED IN COURT,
The - willl of Dr. Benjamin Bernard Turner, 3918 Park ave., who died this week, has been probated in ‘the Marion county probate court. Dr. Turner was professor emeritus of * Pharmacology at .the Indiana university - Medical Center. The amount of his estate was not made public. BRIDGE ON PROGRAM Golden Rule chapter, O. E. 8.
‘member, on her 93d birthday.
But they were spared -the trip. | Instead, Mrs. Rinehart came to |
the church hall by herself—spry as a “16-year-old.”
BRITISH PLANNING
GLOBAL TELECASTS
LONDON, Feb. 17 (U. P.) —British government and radio industry spokesmen predicted last night that Great Britain will lead the” world in television after the’ war and eventually will establish a - global network to telecast programs to all parts of the empire. The predictions were made at the annual commonwealth broadcasting conference,
OFFICERS TO TAKE SEATS ‘Degree of Honor Protective asso-
ciation will install new officers at|’
a meeting at 8 p. m. Thursday at the hall, A party will follow the installation, with © Mrs. Esther
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but he thought it should be *‘good, clean fun.” Rep, Jesse Dickinson (D. South Bend) protested the measure, |
| saying he was unable to see any
reason for its introduction other than’ “personal prejudices.” Mr. Kwiat remarked paren-
thetically that it might adversely |
affect the phonograph business of Senator Homer E. Capehart, but
house Republicans passed that |
one up as being superfluous and non-relevant. Anyway, the house passed the
measure on second reading, but |
majority spokesmen said it probably would be. killed on third reading. They indicated that it was approved on second reading largely because Democrats filed a minority report against the bill when it was reported out for second reading.
W. B. A. TO HOLD FETE
$500, 000 Hporopriation Is
| Sent to State Senate
By House Vote.
The measure to appropriate $500,- | 000 for use by the state and local {governmental units in planning | projects for post-war construction {has been passed by the house and | sent to the senate. The measure follows Governor | Gates’ pledge to make all prepara{tions possible now for post-war | projects so that when the war ends, | government units will be ready to {rush building programs.
| The bill provides that loans may|.
be made from the fund to government units, for post-war planning, but that the money must be repaid to the state with special tax levies. The senate has passed and sent
Fidelity Review No. 140, Woman's to the house a bill that will give
association will hold
HANNAR:
a | county treasurer a fee of 8 per cent party observing George Washing-|of delinquent ton’s birthday at 2 p. m. Wednesday | taxes. at the hall,
personal property
{ Previous legislatutres took the | fees away from county treasurers
| and placed them on straight sal- | arfes.
The bill creating a new state flood | control commission with wide pow- |
| ers to promote and supervise water | | control projects has been amended iin the senate to make all the com- | | mission's ‘acts subject to the ap-|
proval u of the governor.
'BOY SPARED RELAPSE AS COLLIE IS FOUND
After receiving calls from scores of persons who felt sorry for a boy without his dog, “Sonny” Humphrey, son of Mr. and Mrs. " Esto) Humphrey, 3814 Creston dr., ans his dog “Peggy” yesterday were reunited. The dog was one of more than a dozen brown collies which were taken to the house ~fter a dociur
| voiced fear the boy might suffer a
relapse from worry over his pet.
HOLZER TO BROADCAST
Mrs. Katie Holzer, service repre-
Royal Couple Greet Envoys To Conference
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kind of parlor, and there were King George and Queen Elizabeth. We didn’t bow down or anything like that, just shook hands like you would do in the Unfted . States, “The queen asked me where 1 was from and I said, ‘Detroit.” Then she ‘wanted to know if it had grown during
the war and I
told her about that and about the problems connected with the lack 6f housing and the many whites as well as Negroes from tne South coming in, and aboug _the racial troubles, “The queen said she had read about the race riots we had back home and she hoped we would find a way to prevent them. The queen also wanted to know if X ever got over to Windsor, in. One tario, and I told here I did bee cause we have local unions there, ” » » “THE KING,” Mr. Thomas continued, was most interested in war production in Detroit and I told him how we were making tanks and military trucks. We had quite a talk about that. “Both the king and queen exe pressed their best wishes for full agreement in our world labor conference and they seemed to believe in what we are aiming at. ' “Of course, I didn't do all the lking for the delegation—the ng and queen asked questions of everybody in the 45 minutes we were there. “It was my first call on royalty, and it was about as pleasand as anybody could hope. They're mighty nice people,” said Mr, Thomas. < rn . ” AFTER the conversations, King George went with the labor men into the = bomb-scarred palace gardens and was photographed with the visitors. Meanwhile, the How meeting was trying to clean up its work for adjournment today. ” It adopted a report on the trade union attitude toward the peace settlement from a commite tee headed by James B. Carey, secretary-treasurer of the C.1.0O. ~% 8 = f IT TURNED down amendments proposed by the Palestine Arab against rebuilding Palestine as the Jewish national home and alse an effort by the British colonists to get more support for their selfe government movements.
We the Women Extravagance Is Necessary
These Days
RUTH MILLETT
AT Loge the government ig doing something ahout the clothe ing situation besides jumping on women for spending a recorde breaking amount of money on wearing apparel. Up until now there has been 7 nothing much } d on e other than publishing figures showing that Mrs. America has spent a ° shocking amount on clothes for herself and her family. 2 8 8 i OF COURSE, a part of tha$ “shocking amount” - has been spent on luxury goods—on $40 handbags and $125 “simple little suits. ; Though, even here, why Mrs America should take full blame for buying such items when they are offered for sale is a little hard to understand. , But the fundamental reason why Mrs. America has spent so fmuch money on clothing for here self and family is now being recs ognized with a practical plan of action. a 8.8 1 MRS. AMERICA has paid more for her clothes and her children’s clothes, simply because there has been a scarcity of low-priged clothing in the stores. And not only that, when she could find low-priced clothing, i$ was usually so poorly made that it was no bargain.
But now WPB has specified a wide range of inexpensive essen«
. tial cotton garments for increased
production and is about to do the same thing with wool and rayon. » "8 WHEN these garments reach the retail market, Mrs. America will have a chance to prove thas much of her “extravagant spends Ing” hasn't been willful wasie
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