Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1945 — Page 11
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Hoosier Vagabond:
Ernie Pylé is with the navy in the Pacific.
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pther things... The weather over.Ja defense. As one pilot jokingly suggested, “The Nips hould- broadcast ‘us the weather every night, and ave both themselves and us lots of trouble.” Almost the first thing the B-29 boys. asked me was, “Do the people at home think the B-20's are going to win the war?" : I told them tie papers played up the raids, and that many wish ful thinking people felt the bombings might turn the trick. And the boys said: “That's what we were afraid of. Naturally we want what credit we deserve, but our raids certainly
aren't going to win the war.” The B-29 raids are important,
ag : 4 just as every pvery Ship sunk is important. But in their present strength it would be putting them clear out of proportion if you think they are a dominant factor in pur Pacific war. -1 say this not to belittle the B-29 boys, because they are wonderful. I say it because they themselves ant it understood by the folks at home. Their lot is a tough one. The worst part if what hey're over water every inch of the way to Japan, very inch of the way back, and brother, it's a lot of water. The average time for one of their missions is more than 14 hours. The flak and fighters over Japan are bad enough, but. that tense period is fairly short.
t's Usually at Night WHAT GIVES the hoys the woolies is “sweating put” those six or seven hours of ocean beneath them on the way back. To make it worse, it's usually at
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Some of them are bound to be shot up, and just staggering ‘along. There's always the danger of running. out of gas, ‘from many forms of overconsumption. If you've got. one engine gone, others are liajgle to quit. If anything happens, you go into the ocean. fhat is known as “ditching.” I suppose around a ‘B-29 base you hear the word “ditching” almost more than any other word. % “Ditching” out here isn't like “ditching” in the English channel, where your chances of being picked up are awfully good. “Ditching” out here is usually fatal, : We have set up a search and réscue system for these “ditched” fliers but still the ocean is awfully big, and it's mighty hard to find a couple of little rubber boats. The fact that we do rescue about. a fifth of our “ditched” fliers is amazing to me. Maybe you've heard of the “buddy system” in the infantry. They use it in the B-29s, too. For instance, Jf a plane is in distress on the way back and has to fall behind, somebody drops back with him to keep him company.
A Buddy Gives Courage " THEY'VE KNOWN planes to come clear home accompanied by a “buddy,” and you could go so far as to say some might not have made it were it not for the extra courage given them by having company. But the big point of the “buddy system” is that
if a plane does have to ditch, the “buddy” can fix his exact position and get surface rescuers on the
way.
The other morning after a. mission, Maj. Gerald Robertson was lying in his cot resting and reminiscing, and he said: “You feel so damn helpless when the others get in trouble. The air will be full of radio calls from those guys saying they've only got two engines or they'sg running short on gas.”
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
LAST, we've come to the conclusion at we aren't fooling anyone into thinking we're twins by using the editorial, “we.” - And, besides, it's illy. So, from now on in, we're going. to be “I.” iff Beeker, police detective chief, says ‘there's nothing to certain rumors making the rounds about him ‘The rumors had it that Cliff had bought the Town Tavern, on 38th hear College. “I'm still in the, police business,” Cliff says. “I did have dinner out there the other night, but all I paid for was the meal—not the place.” . A printer who catches a 5 a. m. car at Market and Pennsylvania sts. each morning wonders as to the identity of the ambitious person who practices the saxophone in that vicinity at that nearthly hour. -Nearly every morning, the sax an be heard moaning. The noise seems to com rom a lighted window in the building on the southjest corner of the intersection. , .. It's not a bit unommon for an army Wolf to chase a WAC, but I doubt if anyone ever heard of a Wolf giving a WAC away. But that's exactly what's going to happen at 10 . m. Saturday in Roberts Park Methodist church. t that time 8S. Sgt. Martha C. Jenny of the army recruiting headquarters will be married to Charles IR. Brunsma. And her commanding officer, Capt. Louis C. Wolf, will give the bride away. The marriage ought to be a howling success.
The English Legend
SOMEONE'S ALWAYS correcting my errors, so I'm going to get even by kicking the props out from nder a ghost story, by Gregory Peck, new Hollywood actor. In a clipping from the March issue of the Movieland magazine, sent to us by Miss Martha A. Ford, Peck is quoted as saying: “My sole experience ith the supernatural occurred in Indianapolis’ 80-year-old English theater. There's & legend that the daughter of an early owner fell in love with the man t the box office. Her father, discovering the romance, fired the boXgoffice man and broke up the affair. The despaifing daughter climbed to the fly gallery and leaped a hundred feet down to death on the stage. She i3 supposed to return, on occafon,” The story goes on to describe an occasion
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World of Science
WONDERS RANGING all the way from a cure or cancer to a method Qf manufacturing foodstuffs n factories instead of growing them on farms would result from a complete understanding of the chemical potentialities of isoprene, Included in the list, une doubtedly, would be the perfect synthetic rubber. For isoprene, a chainlike molecule composed of five carbon atoms and 10 hydrogen atoms, is one of nature’s most important building blocks. As Prof. George 8. Whitby. of the University of Akron points oft, it is the chemical unit on which nature has constructed such diverse entities as some of the vitamins, the chlorophyll of green plants, several of the sex hormones, some of the bile acids, essential oils of turpentine and eucalyptus, and natural rubber.
Dr. Whitby, who is professor of rubber chemistry,
explains that isoprene does not exist as a simple substance ‘in nature but only in the heart of these more complex substances. However, the chemist has no difficulty in isolating it from rubber or-turpentine by the application of heat. It can also be produced synthetically and there is considerable experimentation now under way to use it in the manufacture of new synthetic rubbers.
Rubber Molecule Differs
IN MOST natural substances listed above, isoprene occurs in the molecule in units that do not exceed eight. That is, the molecule will be a polymerization product containing from two to eight isoprene molecules along with others. The molecule of natural rubber differs from these
My Day
WASHINGTON, Monday. —Yesterday afternoon 1 had an opportunity to see the newsreel. pictures taken of the Yalta conference and of the visit to the President on an American warship made by King Farouk of Egypt, Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia, and King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. I finished a book last night by Albert Maltz, called “the Cross and the Arrow.” It is, I think, one of the most horrifying pictures of 1942 in Germany that 1 have read. I felt that human beings were caught in a horrible trap like rats, with no way out. It is well written, but if you want to sleep do not read it in Hi the evening hours, I kept wakah ing up all-night with cold shivers. I went out early this mornin
to attend the opening general session of the Work
Conference on Educational Programs for Veterans, with special reference to non-collegiate education. This is being held during the next three days.under the auspices of the National Education association, and 1 hope it will have some very tangible results, 5 Feb 24 £ Yovevad dors De Lode 1, Bul of
when Peck and ‘Cecil Humphreys had a scene together on English's stage and Humphreys was unnerved by an “invisible thing” that touched him on the arm, then ran away. “Everyone remembered the ghost,” said Peck. We checked up with Vince Burke, manager, and Stewart Parsons, treasurer;:of English’s. No such legend, they say. The only “former owner” who ever had a daughter was William E. English. The daughter fell in love with the “boxoffice man”"—who happened to be Mr. Parsons. But the father did not interfere. Instead, Miss English and Mr. Parsons were married in 1918. She died in an auto wreck in 1924. So there goes Mr. Peck's legend. Incidentally, the theater isn't 80 years old —only 65.
A Nightmarish Situation
HAROLD cross, political writer for the Hammond Times, still is shuddering over a nightmarish Situation in which he found himself the other day. “Harold shared his room in the Hotel Severin last week with James H. McShane, Lake county Republican chairman. The next morning Harold dressed without turning gn the light, to avoid awakening McShane. When he got out in the hall, he could scarcely see his way. At first, he laid his eyesight troubles to having had a few drinks the’ previous night.” But when he got down to the street and still couldn't see, he decjded: “This is it! MY eyesight finally is failing me.” . Fumbling his way into the statehouse, he met Noble Reed of The Times legisla~ tive staff, and asked him the name of a good eye doctor. Noble got him “started toward the Hume-Mansur building. Just outside the statehouse, Harold met Fred Stults, Lake county sheriff, who asked what the trouble was. Harold told him. “Well, Jim McShane can't see, either, Why don’t you give him his glasses and get yours?’ In the dark, Harold Rad picked up the wrong glasses. They exchanged and both could see again. Both wear glasses that are highly corrected —but differently. After that they had no more trouble—until the next morning when Harold left the room wearing McShane's overcoat. Agai Stults cornered him and arranged a tradd, This time he warned that one more trade with MdShane would make him an habitual offender. Mc§hane has returned to Hammond, ®ut left his umbrella behind. And now Cross is afraid he'll be accuSed of swiping it.
By David Dietz
other substances in that its molecule is truly a giant molecule consisting of the polymerization of thousands of isoprene molecules. Four jsoprene units with additional hydrogen form a structure known to the chemist as phytol and this phytoi structure appears to be at the heart of chlorophyll. As is well known, it'is this green pigment, chlorophyll, which enables the green plant to take the carbon dioxide of the air and the water of the soil and to synthesize them with the aid of sunlight into sugars and starches. If we understodd completely the action of chlorophyll, we could duplicate this process in the laboratory and eventuaily substitute factories for farms,
In Vitamins E and K
THE PHYTOL STRUCTURE bobs up again in both vitamin E and vitamin K. In a slightly different arrangement, isopreme units make their appearance in carotene in carrots, which is transformed within the human body into vitamin A. Pui together in yet another way, isoprene units form the basis of the sterols which occur in the bile acids, the séx hormones, vitamin D, the hormone of the cortex of the adrenal gland, many poisons found in plants, and many substances which are cancerogenic or cancer-producing. It has been assumed by some authorities that cancer may be caused by transforations in the body by which sex hormones or bile acids are changed into concer-producing chemicals, And thus the study of cancer brings the medical man face to face with the problems of isoprene. Another medical subject of great difference is why the male and female sex hormones produce such different results when the chemical differénce between them is so slight. The difference, according to Dr. Whitby, is only the presence or absence of one methyl group in the molecule.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
the American Red Cross some rather interesting figures which you who are interested in the nursing situation in our armed services will want to know. According to this report, the “number of applications received by the American Red Cross throughout’ the cquntry since the President's message is well, over 12,000. During this same period, the number of nurses certified to the army by us was 5307. “Some of these nurses applied prior to January, and so far in February they have placed orders on approxiniatély. 1000 more. The exact figure has not yet been released. Approximately 22 per cent of all applications received by us are for service in the navy nurse corps, and navy ‘figures are in addition to the above.” I have received several letters ately from nurses in the cadet corps and I feel these young women deserve our warm appreciation. Many of those graduating are now offering their
; services for overseas work: but even if they are
only in training, they are doing a great deal to relieve the shortage of nurses in our civilian hospitals.
. There is a volunteer group of men in New York |, City, and 1 think in many other cities also, that has
been working at various hospital occupations, not: ‘Te-
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SECOND SECTION
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1945
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U. S. WILL BE THE FRST TARGET IN THE NEXT WAR—>
Arnold: ‘We Must Remain No.1 in Air
7 ASHINGTON, Feb, 27 (U. P.) .—It’s the next war that Gen. Henry H. Arnold is worried about. Though
main before the allies. win final victory in this war, that victory is assured. But victory’s full fruit will not be realized, the army air force chief said, unless the lesson of world war II is iasterad) HL n o THE LESSON, he said in his report to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, “is too plain for the next aggressor to miss.” It is that: .
“The United States will be his”
first target.” In two world wars so far, Arnold said, the aggressor has’ moved first against other nations, giving this one time to mobilize. The next time, he warned, the aggressor’s first objective will be to knock out the ‘United States before taking on any other colipe try. That means,
Arnold said, that
| this nation must continue to be
the world's No, 1 air power. a " ” THE AGGRESSOR will s‘rike from the air in ‘the next war as he did in this, Arnold continued, but with such power that the life of the attacked nation will be disrupted and defensive measures made difficult. “In this field which the present war has shown to be subject to such revolutionary advances, we can only dimly visualize the possibilities of such sudden ac-
tion in the future,” Arnold said. “We must recognize that the
only certain protection against
“unnumbered - . months” of all-out effort re-
Gen. Henry H. Arnold . . . “We must continde to be the No, 1
air power.”
such aggressfon | is' the ability to meet and Gvercome it before the aggressor can strike the first blow} » ” ” “IN THE past such blows were water-borne; traditional naval power was our first line of defense. From now on successtul aggression must come by air. The defense lies in adequate air
power with all its manifesta.ions, and our first line of defense must be in the air.” Mere. numbers of planes mean little, Arnold continued. Science moves too fast. After this war obsolete planes must be sold, salvaged or scrapped, so they won't hang over the aviation industry as they did after the last war.
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The United States, he said, must have a healthy, self-sustain-ing commercial air transport industry. 5 " = n IN A REVIEW of the air war, Arnold said the A.A. F. had de- | stroyed or damaged more than | 50,000 enemy planes in three | years, American losses were about one-third that number. | He said 24,393 ehemy planes were | destroyed, 6294 probably destroyed, | and 8369 damaged in aerial combat, while 7153 were destroyed, | 730 probably destroyed, and 3519 | damaged on the ground. | The A. A. F. lost 6989 plane¥ in aerfal combat against Germany and 1296 against Japan. German | anti-aircraft destroyed 5002 and Japanese anti-aircraft 440. The Germans destroyed 92 and the Japanese 354 planes on the ground.
» » n FROM ALL other cluding weather, accidents and
mechanical failures, 2663 planes | were lost in the war against Ger~ |
causes, in- |
many and 994 against Japan. 8
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‘American planes dropped 082,818 tons of bombs in 1944, compared to 194,785 in 1943 and 10,203 up to December, 1942
by individual
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THE ARMY air transport ccmmand now flies 51,000,000 miles
monthly in transport and ferry- |
ing operations. In 1944 it carried of cargo, mail, the passengers numbering 1,200,-
000. It flew 3,500,000,000 letters. | From Pearl Harbor to the end |
of 1944, some 700,000 men were evacuated by air aters.
GIFT FOR THE POPE— A Taylor-Made Rumor, and How It Got Its Start
By HENRY J. TAYLOR Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ROME, Reb. 27.—Now I know how rumors start and how far they can travel. When I left New York, a tow days ago, Archbishop Francis J. Spellman entrusted to me, as a convenient air messenger en route to Rome, a bulky package containing a gift for the Pope. »On arrival in Rome I delivered the package to the reception desk at Vatican City. Printed on the upper side was the identification: “Prom Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, New York, to Holy See, Vatican City.” n » td A RUMOR that Atchbishiop Spellman had arrived in’ Rome started within an hour—spread-
ing apparently from the Vatican City’s grapevine. That evening the Italian newspapers said that the archbishop had arrived secretly in Rome to see the Pope. They speculated that his mission concerned the highest diplomatic purpose, probably related.to the Yalta conference. Other papers picked it up— French, Spanish, Balkan and others. From those it spread to England, United States and South America .. . to the Britisn dominions . . . to Africa and to China. nN nn BERLIN ®aught it on the radio, amplified it Ix Germany and sent it on to Japan, All that because a package was delivered to Vatican City from Archbishop Spellman. It takes only-a package at the right place and the righi time with the right words on it to start a worldwide rumor in Europe's riimor ‘factory.
HE'D RATHER BE COP
$125,000
By CLAIRE COX United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Feb. 27—Henry Larson, Chicago's richest policeman, pounded his beat out in the Hyde Park district today and wondered
- why Gilbert and Sullivan ever said
that “a policeman’s lot is not a happy one.” The 45-year-old Larson would + rather be a cop than a king. Larson. inherited $125,000 two years ago when he was serving with the navy shore patrol. When he got his discharge, he returned to his old beat because “there's something aboflt policing that money can’t buy.” ” ” ”
LARSON inherited his money from Mrs. Florin Mix, .a life-long friend who died in 1942.
But he was wealthy before that..
He was rich in his particular philosophy of life that made him want to be a cop, that made him
THAN KING —
Policeman Sticks to Beat |
want to return to his old beat
where for 22 years he was known |
as a friend to young and old alike. “Policing is walking a beat, helping old folks and just knowing people,” he said philosophically. “You can’t buy that with money. “Money doesn't mean anything to me. I was happy before I got Ahis, but I am grateful for fit. “It means that how I can do more things for people.” 5 o oS LARSON was as- surprised as anyone when he learned that Mrs. Mix had left him $125,000. “I had know Mrs. Mix and her husband for years,” he said, “but I never thought she would leave all that money to me.” His acquaintance began when he was a big, friendly kid delivering her laundry. Larson was the oldest of seven children and he had to help his mother who
Babs Gets Ready to Drop
Name of Mrs. Cary Grant
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 27 (U. P). —Barbara Hutton, the nickel and dime store heiress who gave up the titles of princess and countess when she divorced two previous husbands, today appeared to be getting ready to drop the name of Mrs, Cary Grant, Miss Hutton and Grant, her first commoner husband. announced their second separation in. six months yesterday, because, they said, they could be happier living apart, : a. a. THE FRAIL, blond heiress returned to the Pacific palisades ‘mansion where she lived before her marriage to Grant. The handsomé movie actor stayed at the palatial residence he bought for his bride in Bel-Air, a few miles away. “After much thought and great
Up Front With Mauldin
| separation from Chrant. ‘time she said they delayed the
consideration, we have decided we can be happier living apart. As yet no plans have been formed regarding a divorce,” they said in a joint announcement of the separation. Any divorce plans, it was believed, would have to wait the return of Miss Hutton's lawyer, Jerry Giesler, » ” ” THERE was no further planation for the parting. There had been none for the first which occurred last Aug. 15. Seven weeks after that separation they went back just as quietly. They said at that time that everybody would “respect it as being our ‘own private affair.” Miss Hutton, the second rich&t woman. in the world, married the one-time vaudeville acrobat July 8, 1942, under an oak tree at Lake Arrowhead, Cal, in an elopement that surprised the world.
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” ” -» GRANT, wealthy’ in his own right, renounced any claim to his wife's fortune. Her first two husbands had reduced by considerable portions the $40,000,000 which Miss Hutton inherited from the Woolworth dime store fortune. Prince David Mdivani, her first husband, received an’, unannounced sum as a divorce settle ment. Count Kurt Haugwitz-Revent-low, the second, got. $3,000,000 she said in a court statement last summer. From them she took her share of titles and headlines around the world. ” » » LAST SUMMER the aftermath of her marriage. to the count again punctured the seclusion she had sought with Grant. Reventlow accused Miss Hut~ ton. of neglecting their . child, Lance, while he was in her custody. He ‘later took the boy to Canada and Miss Hutton has been unsuccessful in attempts to have him returned to her.
The legal squabble WAS believed
to have aggravated her first At -the
parting because. he didn't want
to leave her during ae dispute ~ over Lance, y
together, °
took in washing to support the family. But no matter how busy he was, he always found time to run errands for Mrs. Mix, and fhe never forgot his kindness. aon. LARSON isn't sure how much money he makes as a policeman— “something around $3000 a year, { I think. It was changed while
I was in the navy. Whatever: it
is, I can get along on it.”
He has invested most of his
{ legacy in war bonds, but the most
important investment be made, he said. “I also inherited a two-story brick house from Mrs. Mix,” Larson explained. “My wife and I have been thinking it's too big for just two of us, so we are going to adopt a couple of kids—a boy and a girl. » = » “WE ALWAYS wanted children. We lost our baby the day Mrs. Mix died.” Larson thinks he will use some of the money to promote his hobby—finding homes for stray dogs. “Next to kids, I like dogs,” he said. “Before I vglunteered for the navy, I used to run a sort of kennel for lost dogs. I guess I must have found homes for about 500 of them in the last 10 years.” » a ” LARSON received a warm welcome from his friends when he returned to his old beat. [ “They all remembered me,” he said. “That's what makes ' this job so swell. ‘Besides, I've only, ,80t 11 more years to go for my pension.”
PRISONERS TAKEN FROM STALAG 344
LONDON, Feb. 27 (. P.) ~The war office-announced yesterday that
is yet to
all the American and British war |.
prisoners in Stalag 344 had left the camp near Lamsdorf, southeast of Breslau. Their destination was somewhere deeper in Germany.
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| In 1944 American planes flew | 1,271,784 sorties—individual flights planes—-and fired |
226,038,613 rounds of ammunition. |
560,0000 tons | and passengers, |
from all the-
Labor Worker Loans Proposed in
New Bedford
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first group did, either will refuse to accept the proffered jobs or. will fail to attend” interviews with
. the ,U. 8S. employnient service.
If so, their actions will be based on the- argument, previously advanced by their colleagues, that the government is trying to carry out a “labor draft” illegally,
The first ceiling cuts were ordered, according to representatives of the army and the manpower commission, only after al] possible voluntary methods were exexhusted.
The two plants, they said, still réquired some 215 employees, mostly on the third (and most unpopular) shift. = = » ; ONLY A dozen out of the first 118 workers displaced from their jobs in the fine goods mills, however, agreed to work at the fabric plants, Many insist the government agencies * ‘rushed us off our feet” by invoking the ceiling cuts.
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Antonio England, representative
.of the New Bedford Textile Work-
ers ‘union (C. IL. 0.), for instance, repeatedly has declared that “we weren't given a chance to prove what voluntary . methods could do.” A wide discrepancy exists” in figures given out as to the number of interviews which were held with former textile workers who were asked to take temporary jobs in the fabric plants. ~ = »
HEADS OF the 10 fine goods textile mills submitted a list of some 3000 former employees. Government representatives claim 513 persons actually were interviewed and only seven agreed to accept work in the tire fabric plants. Mr. England, on the other hand, insists that “Only 67 interviews were held, and those took place in a snowstorm.
“Before we could complete the rounds the government got impatient - and invoked its labor draft. Naturally the voluntary efforts to locate workers stopped right there. We were mad — rightfully so, we think.”
As things now stand, the community is in turmoil. Neither the government agencies nor the unionists apparently have any intention of backing down. $y ® = I ASKED several businessmen for their suggestions for a solution. They were practically uani- ° mous in their agreement with one who said: “It seems to me what's required is that the government send in a strong, capable man who can get the union leaders, army and WMC representatives and thé heads of the plants involved to sit down and talk things over.
“There'll have to be some give-and-take, of course. But I'm convinced a plan could be worked out whereby workers could be loaned by the less essential mills to the fabric plants. They would stay only for the emergency. Perhaps they would be given a bonus for working on “the third shift.
“In that way,” he concluded, “we'd get the tire fabric produced, and at the same time the workers would feel that their rights were not being violated.”
We, the Women — Shift Duties To Husband Without Fuss
By RUTH MILLETT
EVERY NOW and then a war wife, completely fed up with having to shoulder the odd jobs: and responsibilities of the man around the house, and with having to be both mother and father to the children, says with a glint in her eye, “Just wait till Dick gets home. I'm going to dump all of these responsibiligies on him again.” But it isn't going to be as . simple ‘as that. For while the wite has been looking forward to the time when her husband will come back and assume his share of the job of running a house and a family and of making family decisions, the husband has been thinking of the time when he can come home and for a while com= pletely relax. Purthermore, he shed family responsibilities . so eompletely when he left home that he won't immediately sense what his wife expects of him,