Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1945 — Page 11

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IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS (Delayed).—The B-20 squadron tMat my nephew is with is.commanded by Lt. Col. John H. Griffith of Plymouth, Pa. He walked into our quonset hut the first night I was here and grinned sort of knowing-like as we were introduced. I felt.our paths had crossed somewhere in the dim past, but I couldn't recall it. Finally he said “remember the Rangitiki”? “Oh for God's sake, of course,” I said. The Rangitiki was the ship that took us from England to Africa in the fall of -1942. Col. Griffith was in a nearby cabin on that trip and we became well acquainted: - But the war is big and time flies, and you do forget. « Col. Griffith flew combat missions both out of England and Africa. "And now on this side of the world he has made 11 missions to Japan, But from now on, being an executive, he Is restricted to four missions a month. » On one mission Col, Griffith's bombardier had his leg blown almost off. As Col. Griffith was dragging him back into the pilot’s compartment, he thdughttessl¥. took off his vXygen mask. In a moment he passed out -and fell over. But he freakishly fell with his face right in the mask, -and it revived him. Although still young, Col. Griffith has been in

the<army eight vears, and will stay in after the war, .

His wife and baby and dog are waiting for him at Lagrange Park, Ill

He Hos a New House

UNTIL RECENTLY Col. Griffith lived with the pilots in the same quonset hut I'm in, But a few days ago they finished .-his new house. You should see it. It's a skeleton framework of two-by-fours about 30 feet square roofed with canvas and walled only with screen wire, tropical fashion. The roof overhangs about six feet all around to keep out the almost horizontal rain. Inside, they've given it the semblance of a many-

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

KENNY STRATMAN wins the leather medal for being the first to catch my slip yesterday after announcing I was no longer “twins.” In the very same ! column, I lapsed into the plural. I'll probably do { it again, but just be patient. I'll try to do better. = . . .. Bob Kirby got a letter from Joe Argus Jr, over in_ Italy, in which he said he had met, Bob's brother, Cpl. ‘Jack Kirby. Joe added: “And as you would expect of any Kirby, Jack is coaching a WAC basketball team over here.” Nice work, if you can get it... . Two men got into a slug-

ging match yesterday afternoon in

the safety zone on Washington on the west side of Capitol. Both their hats were. knocked off in the process. When they got through pummeling -each other, each picked up a hat and they separated. A minute later, one of them called to the other. They started foward each other. Spectators thought there was going to be another fight. ‘But no; they merely met and politely exchanged hats . . . Chandler Hill, R. R. 10, Box 341, wrote that, he found a homing pigeon which was forced down by Monday's freezing rain. On its leg was a band with the number—AU44B21681. We checked with some of the local pigeon fanciers—homing pigeons, not the bombing type—and found the band was issyed to a man in Buffalo, N. Y. Alvin Rotet, one of the club members, said to tell Mr. Hill to feed the bird whole corn and give it water: And if Mr. Hill will send word how to get to the Hill home, one of the club members will call over the week-end and keep the bird until its owner can be located.

| Shortage of Republicans

SOMEONE OVER in the legislature must have been a bit surprised when the mailman brought Jack, unopened, a letter sent to the Arizona legislature. The story is told in a newspaper clipping sent to a

America Flies

THE “JETTIES” are coming, and we might as weil get cleared for the most revolutionary air era the world has even sgen. . It doesn’t make much difference what. technical names we select for the jet power plant and for the planes they drive. They are already ‘known and spoken of as the “jetts” and the “jetties.” Jet propulsion is that longdreamed of true aircraft power plant, and. it's here to stay. The internal combustion engine used in the most modern aircraft fis merely a highly refined version of the same type of power plant that drives your motorcar. True, -its present form .and performance represents a nearly ‘miraculous engineering feat. It was all we

had, and we had to use it.

Its greatest fault is its over-complication, its cost of production, its precision machine work, and its cost of maintenance. And even if we see the current aircraft engine approaching a time when it will be replaced by jets and other types of power plants, we still

recognize it as a marvel6us feat——a power plant de- | tion chamber of the jet engine, gets a different power |

veloping one horsepower for a little. more than every single pound of ‘weight, providing its own sea level atmospheric pressure’ at 42,000 to 50,000 feet, and operating 750 hours flying time between overhauls.

First True Flying Engine ™

YET IS was fiot’ designed for aircraft. On the other hand, the jét engine was conceived as the pure ‘aviation engine. . And while it may be used some day for other purposes, we recognize it as the first true flying engine, Perhaps it might be well to point out the difference between the jet engine and the rocket,

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—Yesterday the second buffet lunch was held here and the panel on the Dumbarton Oaks proposals was again presented under Mrs. Charles Tillett's auspices. All the ladies taking part yesterday—Mrs. Irving Berlin, Mrs. Raymond Clapper, the Hon. Emily Taft Douglas and Mrs. Joseph Lash— did an excellent piece of work. Mrs. Tillett had succeeed in getting them all together ang shortening ‘the time which . {he whole explanation took, ‘and after they had finished speaking there were number of questions which I 4thipk clarified in mahy - people's minds certain points at issue One of “thaprthings which : pp should be emphasized. is A, 5 f that, these are proposals on broad agreements. They may be changed. They do not enter intd the procedure which shall be followed within each nation on the method of choosing delegates or the members of committees, These Yetails will be settled by the nations themselves, need agreement from other nations,

At 4 o'clock I stopped in for a few minutes at the tea given by the ladies’ auxiliary of the Jewish Con. ptive Relief Soclety of Denver. I return to the Sump ‘House in time to hold a conference wit}

of packing boxes and metal bomb" crates and army

remove shoes before entering.”

and do not * “ang ‘produced by a group of veterans who are studyirig|

th the seepe which I watched:

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‘Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie Py

Ernie Pyle is with the navy in the Pacific. This. is an article written on his way.

roomed house by putting up little hip-high partitions of brown burlap. This makes it seem that you have a lving room, bedroom, bath, kitchen and sun porch, although it's actually just one big room. The place is wonderfully comfortable. It has four desks, tWo cots and ¥10-chairs, and yet there's lots of room left, ‘It has a big clothes closet, and a washbowl and shower, the water coming from two 50-gallon barrels up the hillside.

Guests Take Off Their Shoes

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1945

Incidentally, Col. Griffith still has the same alarm clock he togk with him when he went to England | nearly three years ago. If you had this house in America, it would cost you $200 & month rent, yet the whole thing was built

leftovers. The wooden floor is painted battleship gray. Col. Griffith likes to keep his floor clean. Consequently, he has & big sign on his screen door saying “Please |

He isn't joking either. He even makes his ows commanding officer take off his shoes when he comes to visit. He furnishes his guests extra socks in case their feet get cold, which of course they don't. The house is built. on stilts; and sits amidst laurel and other green shrubbery, wildly native, only 50 feet from: the sea.. You come down the slope to it over a path cut out of ‘the laurel, and once in the house you are utterly away ‘from everything,

Looking for Sadie Thompson

BEFORE YOU fis only the curve of the la oon, and. the pounding of incessant rollers on the ref a hundred yards out, and the white clouds in the “far blue sky.” Severdl times a day sudden tropical showers drench and cool the place. It's on Col. Griffith's porch that I'm writing these columns. My only excuse for them not being better columns is that I can't seem to keep away from’ that low deck chair at the far end of the porch. And also I keep looking up the path to see if Sadie Thompson isn’t strolling down with her umbrella.

friend here by Mrs. Taylor Smith of Indianapolis, who now is in Phoenix, entitled, “Strange Critter Puzzles Senate.” It read: ‘The senate of the 17th state legislature received yesterday from a member of the Indiana state legislature a letter addressed to ‘The Republican leader of the Arizona state senate.’

state G. O. P. was up to its elbows piecing together, assembly-line fashion, a smooth-ticking political juggernaut, with Governor Gates at the wheel. a Much of the grist ground out of the general assembly is designed to give the governor complete and unadulter-

ated authority over every department, board, agency, commission and employee

in the state government. This surprises no one, least of all. Democrats who Agsted the fruits of supreme power under the administration of Paul V. McNutt, : $ 4 8 THUS FAR, Democrats have voiced only sporadic protests against the G. O. P's vast reorganization schedule, ‘which some say will give Republicans the most potent election machine McNutt's, In musing the “power shift” bills Democrats have often shrugged - their shoulders with that “what's the use?” look. The G. O. P. overhauling program is based ostensibly on the famous Tucker decision in which the supreme court ruled the governor possesses full privileges over all divisions. The ruling came after Republican legislators ‘tried to strip Governor Schricker of his appointige powers in 1939.

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n u ” THE COURT'S. decision .. was never enacted into law, however. That is what is transpiring now.

The 19 Democrats who form the senate looked askance, then instructed Maybelle Craig, senate secretary, to| return the letter with this question: ‘What is'a Republican?’ ” Another story admitted the senators could have found the answer to their ‘question over in the Arizona house, where there is one lone Republican.

The Poor Old Monon

THE POOR old Monon soon will be merely a ghost railroad, if they don't stop discontinuing trains. Latest orders, received yesterday, call for discontinuance of the midnight train service to and from Chicago, and also trains 5 and 6 on the Chicago to Louisville division. That leaves only- one Tound trip daily on each division, and no Pullmbin_ service on the entire railroad. Among. those receiving the news with sorrow was Carl Daugherty, president of the Hoosier Veneer Co. Mr. Daugherty, a dyed-in-the-wool railroad fan and a native of Ladoga, Ind. protested: “They can't do this to me. Why, I cut my eyeteeth on the Monon.” Right away, he made arrangements to ride the last run of the southbound train on the Louisville division tomorrow night. It's reported he once went all the way to Denver to ride the last run of a train Note to the reader signing herself “Puzzled”: I don't have space to to explain all you apparently -need explained about food ration stampa I suggest you confer with your ration board. . Many readers were struck by a coincidence in Monday's. Times. Just a few inches apart on page 11 were pictures of two recent brides, both named Mrs. William E. Mohler. Different husbands, of course. One ‘was Mary Ann Morrison, before her marriage. The other, Leona’ McDole. Their marriages. occurred only three days apart, Same names, same initials, same idea at about the same time.

By Maj. Al Williams

The jet engine is that power plant which draws the qxygen necessary for combustion from the atmosphere, The rocket carries internally all the elements necessary for combustion, including oxygen, The jet is a drain pipe from which hundreds of horsepower can be derived—with the horsepower delivered in a straight line, the first straight line delivery of power which man can use without translating it into circular motion. It's the simplest thing ever designed in the way of a power plant, with its firing and power impulses controlled, not by complicated chain of gears or ignition, but rather by ‘the working of nature's own laws of physicis.

In Elementary Stage

AT THE PRESENT time, the jet engine is in its| most elementary stages: of development. Scientists or Bn epiestpete . : are working intensively on it. Every time théy move

the position of the fuel nozzle, which injects fuel into the combustion chamber, they achieve a greater or! lesser power output, pe of the drain pipe, which sciéntists call the combus-

Every alteration of the shape]

result, And yet even in its present elementary stage, it is daily proving its capacity to drive fighter planes hundreds of miles an hour faster than the best we have been able to accomplish with propeller-driven planes The jet engine as we know it today comes into its own efficiency at about 500 miles an hour, about the peak of the best speed with a propeller-driven aircraft. Just think of it—all this-out of a glorified drain pipe—no gears, no wheels, no complications. At present, of course, the fuel comsumption of the jet engine is prohibitively high, and it will remain | high until our scientists catch on to some of the wrinkles for reducing it. 448

By Eleanor Roosevelt

newly elected officers of my Press Conference association * In the evening 1 went out to American university, where a small group of navy department civilian employees—about- 34 girls from 22 states, ranging in age from 18 to 40—are wowing on a college course, They do a full day's work, six=days-a week, and then they do seven hours of college work in the evenings.” They live at American university in one of the buildings formerly occupied by boys who have gone off to the war. : , . President -Douglas of American university told me that their. grades were remarkably high, "I gather that most of them would have found it difficult to go to college under other circumstances, . It will take them six Years to get a degree: but should their war work terminate before that, they could probably finish their course in a much shorter period by devoting all of their time to it. : 1 attended one of the English classes “and then went back and had a very nice time talking. with the

irls, : ok [ left them, 1 stopped In for a few minutes

Boy Scout executive, 0 e section,

lo’ watch & scene In a play which has been written

at American university. ‘Their objective

is like In Italy. It was 8 Very

redlistic and painful

is to tell us At home what the war|

At first, the administration con- §

sidered presenting this centralization program as a benign “streamlining” of the state government. When heat generated over this, the reorganization plan was soft pedaled. Nevertheless; - every important state division has been reorganized “in conformity with the Tucker decision,” giving Governor Gates undisputed domination. One

major administration bill gave the

governor power«to appoint chairmen on every board and committee: n n ” BI-PARTISAN boards will come Republican in complegkion through the device of granting these chairmen a ‘double vote,” enabling them to pack an extra and decisive wallop in case of a draw: Although legislative supposedly are hatched ang preened by the. Republican -legislative policy committee, Gover= nor Gates is still “the man to see.” . His right-hand 'man is State Chairman William E. Jenner. And Lt. Gov. Richard T. James likewise rarks high on the control scale at the statehouse.

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un 2 8 MR. JENNER is tion's. “go between” governor's office with the legislature. Many G. O. P. policy measures are activated directly by the governor through Mr. Jenner, al-

though the policy committee may | length. | Usually, in the policy committee's |

ruminate over them at study of legislative matters, the governor's advice is the:last word. Legislators have ‘been generally obedient. cally. everyone respects the governor's political sagacity and cause he sfill has a plenty full of jobs to offer.

Just as Democrats were ofrawed by McNutt's facile, self-con~ |

fident supervisory qualities, so are Republicans delighted with the

firm and incisive manner in which | dent, | Churchill | Josef Stalin settled in some of the

COWEN SCHEDULED TO ADDRESS MEETING

K. Mark Cowen, director of recre-

(ation, Indianapolis Park Dept., will s speak at a luncheon meeting -of the [Neighborhood and Youth agencies [section of the council of social agencies tomorrow noon at the Y. W.C. A.

Delmer H. Wilson, Indianapolis

is chairman

appointive

proposals

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This is because practi-

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Governor Gates administers political and governmental functions. An oft-repeated statehouse quote is, “it takes a good politician to make a good administrator.”

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ONLY concerted criticism of the legislative maneuvering is in con‘hection with its effect on state institutions. The governor has disclaimed any intention of dabbling ' politically with Indiana's penal, charitable and benevolent agencies.

But then, the “double-voting chairman” prerogative applies to institutions. And incorporated-in a bill now on its way through the assembly is an amefidment. giving the governor authority to€erminate the tenure of institutional heads whenever he desires. This, too, is “in conformity with the Tucker decision.” But the governor has given no indication of a shift in institutional commands. His confidantes say only a few heads will fall—those that now are deemed “grossly inefficient.” ’

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William 'E. Jenner, . chairman is the

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. . The youthful G. 0. P. state governor's right hand man.

THE DEMOCRATS ARE LEAST SURPRISED OF ALL—

Legislature Broadens Gates Power S THE Wi a line today, the

Governor Ralph M. Gates. . . . It takes a good politician

to make a

good administrator.

Lt. Governor Richard 'T. James , . , . Youth again in the saddle,

Ballroom of Former Czar's Palace Serves As Setting for Big Three Parley in Crimea

IN THE MEDITERRANEAN WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, Feb, 18 (U. P.) (Delayed). — President Roosevelt's visit to

| Russia was history in the raw,

It varied from business sessions in the marble-walled ballroom of a former czar to lavish dinners— with scores of toasts hy the biggest men of the modern. werld over deep dishes of caviar and thimble-like vodka glasses.

Amid + the pulverized, lifeless

{ ruins left by. the Germans when

they fled the Crimea; the PresiPrime Minister Winston and Soviet Premier

few remaining habitablé buildings for their stay. un n n THE PRESIDENT'S residence —and the site of the actual Big Three conferences—was -livadia, which in the days before the Russian . revolution was the summer palace .of Czar Nicholas II. Mr. Roosevelt had a large first

"floor bedreom. His private dining

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room was formerly the ¢zar’s billiard room. Gen. Gevrge C. Marshall, army chief of staff, slept in .what was once the imperial ‘bedrocm, and Adm. Ernest J. King, commander of the U. 8. fleet, had the czarina’s boudoir.

" on n THE PLENARY sessions of the Bi¢ Three and their staffs were held inf the main ballroom of the palace. The room was about 150 feet long and more than 50. feet wide- with a ceiling about 40 feet high. In

room

the center. of: the stately was a' large round table where the thiee prifcipals and their top advisers—about 30 in all-—sat difring the meetings. Mr. Roosevelt usually began his day in a bedroom’ conferénce with his own staff, including Harry

» Hopkins, War Mobilization Direc-

tor James F. Byrnes, Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, plus the President's staff of military and naval aides

o ” gy THE BUSINESS sessions of the Big Three usually ran right through the luiich hour and sometimes on into the evenings until 9 o'clock with a pause for tea in the late afternoon, The President, at request of Mr, Churchill and Mr. Stalin, presided over each meeting. The President and his party ate almost entirely Russian food— with the exception of Mr. Roose= velt's breakfast, which was pre=-

pared from American stores on a |

U. S. naval ‘supply vessel and

- cooked by American navy mess- {

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Moss Hall's Chief | Eats in Kitchen

ALLIED ADVANCE COMMAND 28 Van Ostenberg of ‘Grand Rapids, Mich., looked up from his desk outside . Gen. “Eisenhower's office yesterday, | Waiting was a major.:general. “Where can I get something to

reat,” asked Maj. Gen, Robert M.

Littlejohn, quartermaster general of the European theater. “1 can get you a card for the officers mess, sir,” the sergeant said. : “Where do you eat?” “Downstairs, sir,” Ostenberg re plied ny Ci Let's get going then.” : A few minutes later ‘the chief of all mess halls in the European

theater was quietly having his funch out of a messkit, alongside ~ the amazed kitchen

(U, P)—S. Sgt. |

THE REST of the diet for the American party, however, was entirely Russian. Its contrast with the daily fare of most Soviet citizeris today represenited an effort Stalin and his government as hosts to give

by

their visitors the best possible treatments The cooking was done by Moscow hotel chefs. Bottles of vodka and wine were available at all meals—even at breakfast. This usually consisted of caviar, salami, bologna, cheese, black bread and tea served Russian style in large glasses. The Americans, however, found vodka in -the. morning too, strange their taste. i " n = EACH MEAL viar in generous propertions lunch and ‘dinner menus were much similar, sisted of cabbage with cooked or smoked sturgeon or salmon; a meat course of beef or game birds, desserts of pastries and coffee or tea always

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Lewis’ Miners. Called to List. Wage Demands

.~ By CHARLES H. HERROLD

United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. Bushy-browed John L. Lewis took the center of the stage today in the mounting drama whose final act may bring a strike in the nae - tion's -war-vital » bituminous coal mined. TTA : Lewis called his United Mine Workers olicy commits tee into a late afternoon session for what a spokesman called a “full dress rehear sal’ on i wage demands that the chieftain present’ operators tomorrow The present coal wage contract expires March 31. Four days be= fore that government will conduct a poll among U. M. W,

Lewis coal

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they want satisfactory not reached. " a 2 THE U. M. W. demands will not be made public before they are presented to the operators, But they are known to cover wages, working conditions, mine safety, veterans’ rights and ane ticipated post-war problems In his presentation speach, Lewis was expected to make a fresh attack upon government policies, including the little steel wage stabilization formula,o The formula prohibits general wage increases of more than 13 per cent above the January 1941 level,

in event a settlement is

£ #8 8 THE FORMULA prevented Lewis from winning his $2 a day across-the-board increase in 1943, He settled on this issue for a clause permitting reopening of the contract if the formula should be revised. The operators were reported most concerned with the nature of the. U M, W.s “fringe” de= mands such as shift differentials, elimination of inequities. full pay for traveling time to and from the coal face and others. » 2 n OBSERVERS believed strike could result from cision by either side to the end on one or more issues. : The operators also met today to plan their participation.in the joint wage conference which for the first time in history includes all of the country’s major producers. a Q

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We, the Women— Jane in Jeans

Lets Boys Talk Her Into Jam

By RUTH MILLETT

GIRL STUDENTS in a junior high school in Tulsa, Okla.; have been given an ultimatum by the boys of the school. They've been told that if they don't want to walk alone they'd better take to wearing skirts instead of jeans — because “It isn't any fun to take a girl out’'on a date when she looks like your kid brother.” But there's a tag line to that story that really gets down to the root of the matter." It seems the boys jeans themselves, and the girls are buying out the shipe ments.

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= = 2 THE JUNIOR HIGH girls will probaly be suckers enough to fall for that, line about the boys want= them to look more feminine —for women always fall for it. They join right in with men in ridiculing women politicians, when the real reason that men find politics not feminine enough a career for women is that they don't want their competition. Busin u part—let men talk them

have-—for the ut jobs

ess women

anting to get heir field. Men make fun of women, “I certainly don't want to be considered a career woman." r on = WHENEVER men decide their advantage to sell on the idea that" their in .the home they find it ly simple matter to get stringing along with

the top

AND it 1s to women place is is a falr the women them So don't hlame the little junior high school girls if they stop wearing jeans and leave that ine expensive, comfortable, and loved by-the-young fashion to the boys. If they do, they'll just be start ing a lifetime of letting men talk them out of anything the men don't want them to have with the old, old line: “It isn't feminine, and men like feminine women.”

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‘DRIVERS RACE: WITH

AUTO, TAG DEADLINE

Motorists today crowded offices of

| the Indiana motor vehicle bureau -in {an effort to obtain’ automobile tags

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