Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1945 — Page 11

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cnn dN THE «WESTERN PACIFIC, (Delayed) — We were launching our mid-morning patrol flight, "The sun was out bright, and the day warmly magnificent. Everything was serene, I had already become acquainted with some of ¢he pilots, and before each flight I would go to the “ready room” and find out from the blackboard the number of planes my friends were flying, so 1 could identify them as they went past. Lt. Jimmy Van Fleet is one of tlie pilots 1 know best. We got acquainted because Wwe have a mutual friend--War - Correspondent Chris Cunningham, with whom I shared a-tent and sometimes worse through Tunisia and Sicily and Italy. Jimmy and Chris are from the sane hometown— Findlay, O. We knew the very moment he started that Jimmy was in:trouble. His plane veered sharply to the right, and a big puft of white smoke spurted from his right brake pand. Then slowly the plane turned and angled to the left as it gained speed. The air officer up in the “island” sensed catastrophe, and put his hand on the warning squawker. All the sailors standing on the catwalk, with their heads sticking up over the edge of the flight deck, quickly ducked down. Yet such is the rigidity of excitement, I never even heard the squawker.

Too Late to Stop IT WAS obvious Jimmy couldn't stop his plane fram going to the left. He had his right wheel locked, and the tire was leaving burned rubber on the deck, yet it wouldn't: turn the plane. And it was téo late for him to stop now. ‘ 1t had to happen. About midway of the flight deck, exactly opposite from where I was standing, he went over the side at full tilt, with his engine roaring. His wheels raked the anti-aircraft guns as he went over, his propeller missed men's heads by inches, his left wing dropped, and in a flash he disappeared over the side. It all happened in probably no more than six seconds. I had stood frozen while it went on, unable to move or make a sound, eyes just glued to the fnevitahle. We all thought it was the end for Jimmy. But it wasn't. We got him back three days later. When the plane again came into view, only the tail was sticking out of the water, and then Jimmy bobbed up beside it. He had gotten out in a few seconds 3 “Get boomed

the air officer Those

your to the

smoke bombs over,” rew over the loud speaker.

-was standing on his head, under water, and in a

By Ernie Pyle

were to mark his position for any ship that would PER tiv up:

Ina Matter of Seconds ; 1 SECOND SECTION I +

WHEN HE got back to us, Jimmy told me ‘what happened from there on. . He said that when the plane went in the water, it went so. deep that it got dark in the cockpit. Jimmy wasn’t hurt by the crash, outside of a small cut on his forehead. “He pulled his various buckles, opening his hatch cover and released himself from his seat harness. But as he did so he fell forward (the plane was riding nose down in the water, of course) and in a moment

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By ALLAN A. SWIM \ i . Scripps-Howard Staff Writer . % hell of a fix. AUSTIN, Minn, March' 20.—"“You = But somehow he got himself upright, and then|¢ant- do this to me,” said the he couldn't get out because his radio cord, attached workman who had just.been notito his helmet, was still plugged into its socket back. fied that he was being laid off. of his seat. ‘ “Can't do what?’ asked Jay C. So he took his big sheath knife out of his holder, Hormel, looking up from his desk. cut the radio cord, and then carefully put the knife “You can't turn back. He says he doesn’t know .why he put it back. me out in the All this happened under water, and.in mere seconds. street. You would Some part of Jimmy's clothing caught as he was not do that to a getting out, and he gave a big yank to free him- .: horse.” ’ self. Thus he tore his Mae West wide open, both | Sng That -happened compartments of it, and he had no buoyancy at all. ‘# in 1929. It helped But he is an excellent swimmer, so he stayed up. | % to crystalize ideas

Alive but Water-Laden Br ress

‘ident of Geo. A! WHEN JIMMY went over the side, a destroyer Hormel & Co, was running about a mile to our:left. Here Jimmy had been turning was lucky again. For that wasn't the destroyer’'s over®in his wind normal position; it just happened to be cutting across Mr. Swim for some time. the convoy to deliver some mai] on the other side.] And from those ideas grew a new Jimmy had hardly hit the water when we saw the employment plan. More convendestroyer heel over in a swath-cutting turn. They tional = industrialists thought the had been watching the takeoffs through their glasses,|plan was “crazy” said it was sure and had seen him go over. Our own ship, of course,|to fail. But it didn't. had to keep right on going straight ahead. And our| * non next plane took. off without the slightest wait, as) EMPLOYEES of the big Hormel though nothing had happened. |meat-packing and processing plant The destroyer had Jimmy aboard in just seven here get 52 pay checks a year— minutes. They didn’t put over a boat for him, but|plus production bonuses, if they - instead sent a swimmer out after him, with a line earn them. tied around his waist. The plan’ hag meant prosperity He got to Jimmy just in time. Jimmy passed [and ended mass unemployment in out in his arms. With no lifebelt, he had taken too : much salt water aboard. (One of a Series) In the meantime the destroyer had let down a| — metal stretcher, and another swimmer was there to| Austin. Mr. Hormel is proud of help get Jimmy into it. It took a while for them|what it has done, but he doesn't to -get him on, for he was dead weight, and the | call it a cure-all. stretcher kept going up and down with the waves.| “The most to be said for this anBut finally they managed it. Jimmy was safe and nual wage,” he says, “is that it's one alive, although a very water-laden and passed out of many ways of paying people for young man from Ohio.. (More tomorrow.) |work done. Under certain circumy |stgnees it's a very satisfactory way. | “It has helped us toward our goal,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell NUSSBAUM eon” a ne ace

THE CIGARET shortage seems to have eased up a hit. If you don't believe 1, ask C. W. Manley of the Capitol Beyerage Co. Mr. Manley wanted to see the state finals. He placed a classified ad in another newspaper the other day offering: “50 packages of Lucky Strike cigarets for two state finals basketball tickets.” And he got not a single nibble. , Speaking of basketball tickets. among those who did NOT get to see the tournament was Henry F. Schricker, vice president of ‘the Fletcher Trust Co. Mr. Schricker, until recently governor of Indiana, used to receive four tickets to .the state finals every year. This year there were none. The former governor called the Coliseum and, without identify= fing himself, asked Dick Miller if he needed any ushers at the games. “Who is this ” demanded Dick. “Mv name is Henry F. Schricker, and . . ." “Okay, governor, come on out and we'll give you a job,” Dick told him. But his offer wasn’t accepted. -Mr. Schricker had to make a business trip to Knox and he heard the finals on his car radio. : . . John R. Moore, 531 E. Ninth st. saw the park department's pigeon trap the, other afternoon, “empty as usual,” and he had a bright idea that might help Superintendent Paul Brown. “When duck hunters go hunting, they use wooden decoy ducks which usually bring good results.” he said. ““Now why - couldn't wooden decoy pigeons or something closely resembling them be used? It would be far better than just another day of nothing-bub-empty.cage with some corn in it.”

Busy With: Garbage A USED CLOTHING collection campaign for United Nations relief is to be held next month, and

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a member of the committee thought it would be nice

to get

America Fli ENORMOUS “SUICIDE SQUADS" of Tradio-con-trolled ‘robot bomb airplanes, launched from high= flying heavy bombers 160 to 200 miles from a target, are looming as a probability i future warfare. Details of how it can be accomplished appear in “Aircraft © Armament,” by Louis Bruchiss, associate editor of Aerosphere. These flying torpedoes could pe launched from an altitude exceeding 38,000 feet as against a present aerial bomb trajectory which starts from an altitude of 32,000 feet or more and only two to five miles from the target. Through- ability to control the robot planes by-radio, the author states, huge Flying Fortressses might carry at least two of the miniature planes apiece in addition to other standard armament. . The robot planes sthen could pe directed to their proper trajectory, landing smack on the target while the fortresses could , remain at high altitude and sufficiently distant from antiaircraft fire to remain safe and undamaged.

Folding Wings “THESE MINTATURE planes would have foldme wings so that they could be stowed away in the fuselage’ of the larger mother ship, the two airplanes being staggered to fit with the least possible interference into the faired-away interior,” writes Bruchiss,

NEW YORK, Monday. —We were delighted to have Her Royal Highness, the Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, arrive at the White House early Satur. day aftefnoon to spend the week-end with us, After two appointments in the afterngon on Saturday, I went to the Corcoran art gallery to look at the 10th biennial exhibition of contemporary American oil paintings.

At 5 o'clock the former consul at Niagara Falls, Canada, the

Mayor Tyndall to be the chairman. They

Hon, Lynn W. Franklin and Mrs. .

Franklin came to have tea with me before leaving for Curacao. Mrs. Stephen B. Ives also came, and brought three of her friends, Mrs. John Chafee, Mrs. John Sensenbrenner and Mrs, George D. Seldon. Saturday evening we had

. a small, informal dinner for the Princess Juliana, and

Sunday we had a few people at lunch. Sunday, on the whole, wa a quiet day, but at 4 o'clock I had my usual party for servicemen from Walter Reed and St. We had a few guests for Sun-

Sometimes: one finds oneself doing strange things! It would have been far easier to go straight from have to Tuesday and Wednesday, but long before I

made that engagement, I agreed to speak ‘today at

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. , ac 0 the . . called him about it. The mayor, according to t _ AUSTIN people like the Hormel

version 1 heard, said: “What's that—collect used Sig . ; clothing? Heavens no; I'm busy as I can be collecting plan because it provides all-year garbage and ashes.” . . . Mrs, Jack Montgomery, 5123 |Jobs and steady incomes for 4200 E. North st, thinks she has seen the first sign o10f the towns Joon OF more summer. While driving along the south sidé of Spades dents. Horviet employees like it park the other evening, she saw a man, woman and | because it enab 88 them to pay their little girl seated at a picnic table enjoying a bountiful | Pili ig vay homes, Dian their picnic supper. . . . Mrs. Paul L. Crimans, 1001 E. sath, | P77 Thugs Ea > many other was surprised the other day to see a wren in her yar | ngs a bir; it i . is ” It's the earliest she’s ever seen one. Incidentally, she| aude I ig sey wonders if wrens dislike bird houses with & north | JERS ey To entrance. Of the several wren houses at her home, | =. c+ Bas o orp yop Sige: the only ome unoccupied last summer was a new one ith Hormel fs enthusiastic with the entrance from the north. . . . Mrs. John Hill-| : . : man sent me some specimens of trillium and hepatica| she picked Sunday near the banks of ‘Big Eagle creek. ABOUT 80 per cent of our memThe old song, “April Showers Bring May Flowers,” | Pers own homes or are buying really is out of date this year. ~" |them,” he says. “These homes

: |probably have more modern con--They Can Explain It

HIS MEN LIKE IT ... Claude Moore, of the United Packinghouse Workers (C.1.0.) at Austin, says members of the union don't want to return to an hourly pay basis. “In

business ,agent

$25 one week and $8 the next,” he said.

: veniences than you'd find in any CLAUDE BRADDICK, 614 8. Meridian, who has a lother community made up so largediabolical sense of humor, writes The Times suggesting {ly of working people. Old Inside give an explanation of “why it is that the! “The wives of our members like period of spring to autumn is eight or nine days longer|the plan. It helps them to budget than the period of autumn to spring?” In his letter, | their household expenses. They which evidently wasn't meant for Inside’s eyes, he |know what to expect. says: “Now it is extremely improbable that anyone “Employee turnover in the Hormel who wasnit a savant or a ne'er-do-well could offer a plant used to be as high as 55 per satisfactory explanation to this, or that even they |cent a, year. Just before Pearl could do it in less than a few hundred words. Thus | Harbor it had dropped to less than if we can induce Nussbaum to attempt it in a few one half of one per cent. Jay Horterse sentences, the result if not very -informative is mel originated the plan, and he certain to produce a few chuckles and maybe a belly (deserves full credit.” laugh. I am chuckling now in anticipation.” That's 2 » 8 what the’ man said! Well, sir, Mr. Claude Braddick,/ MR. HORMEL'S pioneering ven-' ture in the guaranteed annual wage field “wasn't easy, “chiefty-—~because-packinghouse - operations ordinarily : are highly seasonal. Some departments of the plant used to do 20 times as much work in peak seasons as in slack ones. By shrewd estimates, by study of long-range weather and crop forecasts, company . officials sought to plan ‘operations for a year ahead. : aa : In 1931, they put 14 meén in one corried beef and'cabbage; ox joints department on a “straight-time” | and gravy, V basis. up. Spam, known to, fighting men tion of action would be intentionally limited. They| “At the end of the first year,” all over the world, was put on the would carry a gyro pilot, controlled by robot mech-|Mr. Hormel says, “that depart-| market. Canned soups, chile and anism set by radio impulses transmitted from the ment's operating costs were down|?® line of picnic meat specialties mother plane, as well as several bombs and smoke !26 per cent,” and they went down were developed. screen. gas tanks, The bombs could be detonated |12 per cent more the second year. Hormel, originally a park-pack-by radio. Voluntary co-operation and team-| ing house, encouraged Northwestern . " work by the employees made it os- | farmers to raise beef cattle and Could Protect Bombers sible, without A excessive sheep and ship them ‘to the plant “CARRYING THEIR time table bomb load, they |p re» | here. could be directed into formations of enemy aircraft . » 0» to create havoc among them and divert and prevent attack upon the bombers themselves. “They could be sent into enemy ground oObjectives with more accuracy and with less damage to the bombers than any precision-aimed free bomb drops. They could precede or surround the bombers they protect, sometime emitting smoke screens to confuse enemy aircraft.” The author also discusses coming. high altitude flying, pointing out that entirely new methods of

seasons is that the earth’s orbit around the sun is an oval, not a true circle. - For further enlighteriment, you might study the writings of Johann Kepler and Isaac Newton. They'll give you all the details. (How's that for wiggling out of a tight spot?)

By Max-B. Cook

“They ‘would have “small and inexpensive engines of the required output fed fuel from tanks of rather small capacity, since their radius and dura-

flormel, pioneer in the full guaranteed annual wage plan, denies the statement of the people of Austin that he’s a real humanitarian. “Just good business,” said Mr. Hormel, whose firm employs 4200 workers.

» ONE BY ONE, changed to “straight time,” and mained, and so the “extra gang” since 1934 all Hormel employees | came into being. It’s composed of have received guaranteed annual{workers who can shift from job ta wages. The change challenged the job -in the plant, as necessary. company to. find new things to keep | The top seniority man in. the the plant busy in what used to be | “extra gang” gets first choice of slack seasons. | “regular” jobs when they become The Dinty Moore line—canned | available. The gang has proved an beef stew, spaghetti and meat balls, | effective “apprentice school.”

the old days a man might make

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STREET OF STEADY BUSINESS . .. This is Main st, Austin, Minn, where business is about the same week in and week out because the big Hormel meat-packing plant, around which the economic life of the town centers, pays its employees a guaranteed annual wage.

TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 19455 rio A GUARANTEED ANNUAL WAGE? A VITAL ISSUE FOR ALL AMERICANS — : | :

PAY EVERY WEEK . .. Clifford Kaus, typical Hormel employee,

works rapidly and efficiently as he “breaks up” a lamb, because he !

knews he will receive 52 regular pay checks a year, plus a bonus for overproduction, plus profit-sharing money if business is good.

Next, in 1839, came the jointearnings plan, under ‘which money

R “left over” at a year's end is di-

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RINGS REGULARLY Wold, register rings up sales steadily

+ ++ GUY druggist, says

throughout the year because Austin packinghouse employees get regular pay. annual wage has been a fine thing

other departments | BUT OPERATING difficulties re= for our town,” he said. u h

: Hormel

i breaks rules.

vided between workers and stock-

THE AVERAGE annual pay- of employées was $2069 1942, rose to $2299 in 1943, and to

a $2686 in 1944. : ; ~The--Hormel guaranteed annual | :

wage plan, in essence, is just this: Each person hired is guaranteed a job for at least a year, unless he

one fifty-second part of his yearly wage rate, plus extra pay if he and

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quotas and the company's busifiess

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He will get six holidays. and ‘a vacation of one, two or three weeks, depending on how long he has worked for the company He'll

seasons; but in busy seasons he'll have to work considerably more than 40 hours a week to “pay back” time “borrowed” when production

“The guaranteed demands were less

” ” ” : JAY HORMEL wants to make it

clear that theré’s no magic in his

Production gains under the guar- | plant.

anteed annual wage surpristd both management and‘ labor.

Stockholders and management

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ments reached yearly production ae good ‘annual incomes, he says. |

goals far ahéad of schedules.

production beyond quotas.

anti-aircraft defenses will have to be developed to shoot down bombers and fighters, probably jet and gas-turbine propelled, traveling .at speeds in excess | of 700 miles per hour. New type shells, new type guns, and new type computing sight instruments, he says, will have to be developed. “Aircraft Armament,” just published, tells the complete story .of alrewar armament, brings it. up to date and predicts many startling future developments.

Up Front With Mauldin

By Eleanor Roosevelt

the interdenominational ministers meeting in' New|, York, so we journeyed up here this morning. ’ I will have an opportunity to see my cousin, Mrs. Henry Parish, who has not been well, and then will go to the meeting and take the train tonight. In one of the papers the other day, the results of a poll of the senate on the question of setting up some machinery for international co-operation were published. : It is interesting to note that the real difficulty of getting a plan for some kind of organization through the senate will not come from those who want no such organization. . J 1t will come from the perfectionists and the reservationists, who want an organization very badly, but who want only their own kind of organization or one that is in some respect different from what the other united nations agree on. : When -you realize that other nations must have the same anxieties about subordinating their sovereignty that we: have, one almost despairs of this effort to set up co-operative machinery on which to build peace. . It is going to be well nigh Impossible unless the people of this country state-in no uncertain terms to their representatives that né one will be forgiven who prevents the setting up of some international machinery because «of any specific objection. Compromise means that everybody gives way a little. Those who cannot compromise should be looked down upon by their neighbors and ‘heir constituenta.|

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TEN PUPILS -LISTED ON HIGH HONOR ROLL

Morris Mills led the senior class

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teamworf between managements and workers to insure high production. He adds: “We all get.

from

have to earn what we Under our system, working

SA The only guarantee worth anything | a work-budget and bonus plan was) results

devised to provide extra pay fOr,stockholdérs

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of Decatur Central high school in|

scholarship rating for

three. and

one-half years of high school work.|

Evelyn Horner; Louise Davis; Mar-)

Others included in the first 10 are Maggaret Rosner, Helen Hamiltog,

| jorie McCoy, Charles Toms, Mar-| |garet Frazier, Glen Hied and Pat (Carr,

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Fields, music director of Decatur

Central, been named the most co-operative

{person among the school’s student |pody and faculty by staff members

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‘land Randolph's

of the school magazine, the Decatur.

Clarion. Lloyd Palmer, a junior, was named’ runnef-up War bond and stamp sales at West Newton grade school in Decatur township total $1700.

DENTAL ASSISTANTS

TO HEAR DR. LEONARD

Dr. Thomas Leonard will discuss the “Fundamentals of Receiving Pa-

tients” at a meeting of the Indian-|’

apolis Dental Assistants association at 8 p. m. today “at Randsom in. the Bankers Trust. building. New officers of the association include Virginia Bates, president; Kay hort, vice president; Unda Zept, secretaty-treasurer; Grace Gasaway, program chairmari; Esther Cornwell,

membership chairman, and Betty

Cochrane, publicity chaflman, ®°

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get it.”

NEXT-—The Nunn-Bush Plan.

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Labor ; ~ Lewis Silent as Coal Contract Nears Deadline

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= hotel's main dining room was idle

until late”in the day, because of

© the waiter or manpower shortage.

So the conference was shifted to the far corner of that room, From 10 a. mt. to 1 p. m. each dav—make it a little later on both ends for accuracy — the conferees confer in the far corner, with sunlight streaming {in on them. You ¢an stand In the door and see but not hear the whole thing Arm waving is readily recognizable at that distance, and with a spyglass a fellow, can tell when the Lewis eyebrows are on the twitch Fd ” . UP TO today the main event has come when “Little Ezra’ Van Horn, operator chairman of the conference, tells reporters We considered the demands: of the United Mine “ Workers We reached no decision We meet again tomorrow at 10 o'clock. That is all.” “Little Ezra,” who weighs 275 or bétter, is president of the Ohio Coal association. He is on the management side of the industry, and has been presiding over these affairs: for six years, with never a serious question from the labor side against his parliamentary rulings : » 5 . THEN Lewis comes out with his wids. Among them will be “Tom” Kennedy, from the hard-coal region of Pennsylvania and once lieutenant-governor of that state a rosy-faced and gray-haired man of modest build who has been Lewis’ main. prop since Philip Murray left or was.put out of the U M WwW i Also, John O'Leary, a big and silent man from Pittsburgh, who was put inte Murray's vice presidential place by Lewis. The reporters ask Lewis to expand on what Ezra had to say, put he won't, unless he has evidence that the operators have been breaking the rule against talking out of turn. 5 n n THE operators, who have been holding the sun-filled corner overtime, eventually follow the miners. Bulky “Charlie” O'Neill, main spokesman for management, once a miner and a district vice president in central Pennsylvania; Harry Moses, who also once worked with his hands in the imines, a big fellow who now speaks for “the captives” (mines that supply fuel for U. 8. Steel and other steel manufacturers): ‘Mark Garvey, once a miner, now operating in southern West Virginia: ‘George - Campbell, distinguished looking from Chicago, spokesman for the “deep mines” of Illinois and Indiana; former Senator Edward R. Burke, law--yer-president Coal Producers association, » » » SO it goes on, with less than two weeks left for an agreement to’ prevent a war-crippling strike, unless Madame Perkins steps in with a plea for extension of the contract. * : The deadline comes March 31.

2 We, the Wore Beautiful Wife Contest is Full Of Marital Flak

By RUTH MILLET UNDER the newspaper picture of the young and beautiful wife of an engineer-gunner on a Flying Fortress was the announcement that she . had been voted most beautiful wife in her husband's unit, a. heavy bombardment group in Italy. Their dangerous jobs must have made those men completely reckless.

Wh!

«Else why would they ever volun-

tarily have taken on a job as full of dynamite as voting en Which one of them had the best looking wife at home, Surely, being married men, they must know that while a woman may not expect even her best friend to go around describing her as “beautiful, she believes it is her husband's duty to regard her as the most beautiful woman in the world. So each wife naturally would expect to get her husband's vara —if not the vote of any of the other- husbands—who might “a prejudiced, naturally, in-fayor of their own wives. ”r ~

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contest something ‘of a: farce -

unless unmarried members of’ the unit were allowed to cast their honest ballots + It looks as though men whose lives are just’ one bombing mission after another, have enough

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selves into a jam where they have to figure out what to say in a letter to pacify the wifé who was an also-ran. X

But then maybe living danger-

ously has become & habit with

them.