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fool himself like that, Certainly there will be hard fighting ahead and we all have our fingers crossed. But to get the firm foothold we have, with most of our men-ashore and our supplies rolling in, is a gift for which we are grateful. This is Easter Sunday morning. It is a beautiful one. One of the marines, after spending months in the tropics, remarked a while ago: “This weather feels more like American weather than anything since I left home.” It is sunshiny and very warm. We had heard it would be cold and many of the boys wore heavy underwear, and regretting, I wort two pairs of pants, but I am about to take off one of them, We are dressed in green herringbone combat uniforms, Everybody made the trip in khaki and changed this morning aboard ship. The men left their old khaki lying on their bunks and they'll be collected by the navy, cleaned and used to clothe prisoners and our own casualties who have lost their clothes,

The Latest Easter Style ON OUR SHIP we were up at 4 a, m. We had done our final packing of gear last night, We brought ashore only what we could carry on our backs. When we put on our new green fatigues, one marine remarked, “The latest Easter style—herringbone twill.” My schedule for landing was an early one, 1 was ashore a short time after the first wave, Correspond=

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By Erie Pyle

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was on the seventh. "I had dreaded the sight of the beach littered with mangled bodies, My first look up and down the beach” was a reluctant one. And then like a man in the movies who looks and looks away and then suddenly looks back unbelieving, I realized there were no bodies anywhere—~and no wounded, What a wonderful feeling! In fact our entire regiment came ashore with two casualties. One was a marine who hurt his foot getting out of an amphibious truck. And the otherywas, of all things, a case of heat prostration!

Ashes of Honorable Ancestors

AND TO FULFILL the picnic atmosphere, listen to this—

Aboard ship we had turkey dinner last night. So this- morning they fixed me up with a big snack of turkey wings, bread, oranges and apples. So instead of grabbing a hasty bite of K rations our first meal ashore, we sat and lunched on turkey Wihg? and oranges. There are low chalky cliffs or this island. In these cliffs are caves. In the. caves are brick colored urns a couple of feet high. And in Jom urns are the ashes of many honorable ancestar Our bombardment had shattered many of these burial vaults. What our big guns missed, the soldiers and marines took a precautionary look into by prying off the stone slabs at the entrances. In front, looking out td sea, stands our mighty fleet with scores of little black lines extending to shore—our thousands and thousands of landing craft bringing more men and big guns and supplies, And behind me, not two feet away, is a cave full of ex-Japanese. Which is just the way it should be. What a nice Easter Sunday after all.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

IN CASE YOU'RE wondering why no one has removed the Red Cross campaign flags from around Monument circle, there's a reason. It's because the rainy weather has swollen the wooden poles so they gan't be removed from the holes in the pavement. One pole was broken during an attempt to remove it,-and removal of the other 23 was postponed until the wood dries out. Why not just remove the flags from the poles? Well, if they did that, chances are most of the poles would be broken by folks stumbling against them, , . , Eleanor Spry, 1428 Astor .st.,, was amused at the location of a couple of advertisements in Saturday's Times. In one, Roscoe Turner advertised flving lessons. Right below it was an ad for the G. H. Herrmann Mortuary. There was no connection between the two ads, Eleanor. , , . George Binger sénds in a clipping from The Timés” sports. page Saturday. He has circled the headline, “Pep is discharged due to disability,” and he asks: “What's in a name?” The headline refers, of course, to Willie Pep, the featherweight boxer . . . Gene Poth of the Indiana Roof has a letter intended for someone else with the same family name. It's a letter that was written by Mrs. W. L. McKie, Sacramento, Cal, and was addressed: “Trying to locate Mr, _Edmond J. Poth, brother of Sgt. John Poth?—Tokyo Camp.” It's evidently one of those notices of war messages intercepted by short wave radio listeners. If you know the addressee, phone Mr. Poth and he’ll forward the letter,

Really a Jinz Show

FRIDAY THE 13th doesn’t frighten the folks out at Tech. They're going to have the 13th annual Sketchbook Friday, April 13, in the Tech boys’ gym. They're calling it the Jinx show, appropriately enough, And it's to be divided into two parts. Part x; consisting of comedy acts, etc. will be known as

Low Jinks. Part 2, Comprising po Garces" will be High Jinks, . , Two middle-aged gents, apparently members of the “upper crust,” were ower-

hegrd discussing a cigaret “deal” at the Athenaeum

Saturday night during the artists’ ball. “How's your cigaret situation?” asked one, “Oh, I've got three or four packs of Mexican cigarets at home.” “Oh, I mean with you.” “I've got about half a pack of Mex cigarets in my pocket.” “Could you spare me one?”

‘World of Science

REPLACEMENT of the thousands of miles of cop= per wire that now carry long-distance telephone conversations across the nation with directed beams of ultrashort radio waves is enviggpned as a possibility in the post-war world by Dr. C. B. Joliffe, vice president in charge of the laboratories of the Radio Corp. of America, Because these ultrashort radio waves, sometimes called microwaves, are of particular value in radar and other secret war applications, the public "has heard little of what has been accomplished in this field. These microwaves, unlike the longer radio waves which tend to radiate from a broadcasting station in ever-widening circles, travel in straight lines like the concentrated beams of a searchlight, While this introduces many new possibilities for their uses, it also creates difficulties, - The chief difficulty is that their range is limited by the curvature of the earth to a distance between 25 and 40. miles. To intercept the beam at a greater distance one would have to go aloft in an airplane to find it.

Applies to Television THIS SAME difficulty, as ‘is, well known, applies to television and for the reason that television is best accomplished in the radio band of the microwaves, Dr. Joliffe visualizes a series of automatic radio relay towers forming a line across the United States with branch lines diverging where wanted. The towers would be 25 to 40 miles apart.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, — I had the pleasure yesterday of having a small group of the Cabinet ladies at luncheon. At 3 o'clock the chorus from “Winged Victory” came to the White House with Lt. Col. Walter M. Dunham, \ I had collected most of my guests from the service hospitals on this same day so they could have thé pleasure of hearing this chorus, and for three-quarters of an hour we sat in the East room and enjoyed a musical program which featured individual soloists as well as group singing. _ All of the men enjoyed it, and ‘I was most-grateful to the singers, While we were being served refreshments’ in the state dining

room, and thé men were wander-

ing. around We » rooms, I signed innumerable shortsnorter bills and scraps of ‘paper of every kind, In the evening I attended the Business and Proand ‘a group of young

for.us, It: certainly added to the enjoyment of th tired business women present! "This morning I went at 10 o'clock to the naturalization ceremonies at the district court. There niust have heen. ib of some 60 people about, to be pias Shale cHinsiup

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One was handed over. “Well,” replied the borrower gravely, “I don’t feel like taking a whole one from you.” Whereupon he broke one cigaret in two and handed it back. The other man put the half cigaret back in his pocket, and they strolled on, discussing other weighty problems of the day... . I'm a little late in recognizing the action of statehouse officials in getting a new flag up on the dome. The ink hardly was dry on a critical article in this column Saturday before someone puffed and panted his way up to the dome and replaced the dirty flag that no longer resembled a flag. Thanks. It would stay clean longer if lowered at sunset each day according to the flag law,

Still Not Enough

THE MANAGER of a local furniture store he a check to another firm in payment of a debt. In writing the check, he deducted a 38-cent discount. Pretty soon, the check was returned with the notation, that no discount should have been taken, and

therefore the check was too.small. Rather than cancel the old check and write a new one, the manager told his new office girl to get 38 cents in stamps and send the same check back. In a few days, the check was returned, with the notation it “still is 38 cents too. small.” “Say, what did you do with.those stamps?” he asked the office girl. -“Why,” she explained, “I just put them on the letter in which I returned the check.” , ... The OPA is peeved at me for that story in Monday's column about the restaurant proprietor who couldnt serve chicken dinners because neither he nor his nearest competitor had filed ceiling prices for chicken dinners. A couple of OPA execs called to tell me that “whoever gave you that information doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” The fact the story came right out of an OPA office made no dif« ference to them. Fact is, they explained, restaurant regulations make it easy to establish prices for new items. If the so-called “nearest competitor” doesn’t have such a ceiling- established, the proprietor. may éippeal to the OPA district office to establish a price. dnd if: 14, fails to do so. within 20 days, he can go edd and establish any price he pléasés. And so the proprietor I referred to will get to serve his chicken dinners for 30 cents—and probably 2o broke. . « A chicken dinner place that was opened in Brown county filed an application with OPA to establish prices and sought to use the Columbia club here as its “nearest competitor’—charging the club's ceiling prices. The OPA wouldn't go for that, but established lower prices for the place,

. . By David Dietz relays could operate simultaneously on a number of wavelengths ér channels and each channel, Dr. Joliffe says, could carry telephone, telegraph and. television messages or pro-

grams simultaneously with less maintenance or service than simple wire lines,

Such a series of automatic

Comparable to Broadcasting

DR. JOLIFFE believes that the development of the microwave channels is bound to have as great an influence upon American life after world war II as did the introduction of radio broadcasting after world war IL ° In addition to the possibilities of television and the use of microwaves to carry telephone or telegraph messages over long distances, he points to the peacetime applications of the radar and the walkie-talkie. Television, alone, he believes, may grow into a “five or even 10 billion dollar industry.” One of the chief peacetime uses of radar will be in—commercial aviation, making it possible for the pilot-to-fly-in-any sort-of weather since the radar will enable him to avoid obstacles and to mse blind landings with safety, The walkie-talkie, as is well known, is ‘the name given to the portable two-way radios operating on microwaves now used by our armed forces. Because their range is limited, a great many can operate. in the same area with littlé interference. . Dr, Joliffe believes that in the post-war world doctors will use them to keep in touch with their offices, taxicab dispatchers will employ them to keep track of their cabs and many similar uses will be found for them,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

addressed them and asked me to say a few words. It was a much nicer ‘ceremony than which I have witnessed in the past, and I am always very glad when we do something which really gives the proper dignity to the acquiring of new citizenship. I wonder how many Democrats actually know how the rooster came to be the Democratic partys emblem. I am very sure that any number of young people think the donkey, and the donkey alone, is the party’s emblem. But someone wrote me the other day of a little book entitled “The Rooster,” which was written many years ago by John Fowler Mitchell Jr. “At the close of a most notable campaign in American history,” says the author, cratic victory had swept the country from coast to coast, it is fitting that the story of the party's em~ blem—the rooster—be told in this little volume, for it was in the heart of Indiana in a pioneer campaign back in 1840 that this proud bird came into its own. « To be more exact, the emblem's birthplace was Greenfield, Hancock county, Indiana, and its origi‘nator Joseph Chapman, one of her famous-sons.” If you want to know more you will have to look up the book -in. -tife, Congressional library, but I thought. my fellow Democrats, if they did not already know it, might be amused to learn where their original emblem had had its birth. And if they happen to like James Whitcomb Riley as much as I do, they will be glad to know that Greenfield is muweual a,

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SECOND SECTION, NAZI 'WAIL—

Vaterland ‘Bedlam of

Confusion

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Times Foreign Correspondent 1ST U. S. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Germany, April 4.—Very loud wails from German burghers and their fraus, much cheating by ex-members of the wehrinacht and a bedlam of confusion on the wreck-strewn roads mark our advance into the Vaterland. When our security people took in tow one Dr. Koch at the village of Schwarzenau, a couple of days ago, his wife gave herself and her two daughters overdoses of morphia, then she fed them and herself on a feast of oatmeal, full of rat poison. ” ” o WHEN a polite American regimental officer from the 9th division told a woman that her house was being requisitioned by his out~ fit ‘she fainted. When he told- her sister that the house was still going to be requisitioned, she also fainted. Apparently, neither of ~ these ladies had heard of Poland, Belgium, France and other spots where the wehrmacht never even bothered to tell anybody anything, The vroalls are” jammed with

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1945

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suffering from malnutrition.

Ist Army Rescues Prisoners on German Train

Here are part of the 1000 American war prisoners freed at Bergsolm,” Germany, by the 1st army's The Americans stopped. their POW-labeled train (background) after they traveled eight days through air-bombed areas from Limburg toward the interior.

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SAFETY IN civilian ‘aviation is

strange people, in even stranger | uniforms, many of . them obviously | German’ Soudiers, 2 = | ONE OF our divisions which had screened a good many wanderers, has found 50 per cent of them to be Germans, who are more anxious to gét away from®an eventual trip) to “Siberien” than from us. “Sieg oder Sibirien”—victory or Siberia—| is one, of Nazi Germany's most high-| ly touted admonitions to its falters ing soldiery. We do not. shoot these un-uni-formed soldiers, and they are liicky | if they even get a glance from ‘our speeding troops. If and when they| get picked up, they are just tossed into prisoner cages. 2 on TAKING advantage of this humane attitude ‘of ours, certain trapped German units in the Ruhr have instructed their soldiers to get into civilian clothes and beat it through our lines into Germany there to rejoin their outfits at specified collecting points. A few may make the grade, but we are still vigilant enough to prevent any mass movement through our lines , s » » FOLKS look definitely glum in the villages in this neighborhood, where the Nazi party was strong long before Hitler was a national power, § They look’ ou Te Hs cons wor windows of their magnificent half-

the most beautiful in Germany—as though the plague were passing. Dozens of these villages are perfectly intact, their glorious 17th century farmhouses with, deftly painted plaster walls unscratched.

timbered peasant homeés—perhaps|’

the goal of the civil aeronautics {administration experimental station {at the Weir Cook municipal airport. Under the direction of Henry I. Metz, station chief, two radar devices are being perfected. They are expected to increase the safety factors of flying in fog, snow, rain or when the ground is| | obscured by clouds.

In other words, “instrument

fweather” to pilots.

n ” ” OF THE two experiments, one is {for airport use, the other a collision warning device for the pldie. About 10 carloads of radar equipment, were loaned to the CAA here | several months ago for ‘research. It still is so secret that it came under armed guard. “It will be a year, maybe two before something concrete develops,” Mr. Metz said. “Not a great deal has been accomplished yet. We have run some

’|tests, but it takes a long time to

set up 10 carloads of equipment and get it functioning perfectly.

” 5 » “WHAT we are doing is adapting wartime ‘radar to peace time civilian aviation,” he said. -Part of the operation, however, has been released. A radar tower controller for airports will permit the control tower gperators to visualize, on a ‘sereen

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This would detect immediately any hazardous condition that might occur because of pilot's error or some mechanical failure in the radio landing system, a 2 » THE OPERATOR could adjust the control of outbound traffic at

WASHINGTON, April 4.—If it's good business in wartime, it's good business in-'peacetime, say heads of | some war agencies who are beating the drums for continued operation long after. final victory. Maury Maver= ick’s Smaller War 77 8 Plants Corp. is a .j, case in point. To Mr. Maver- i ick, able and ar- ! ticulate fighter | for causes, his | agency stands as a bulwark against | industrial bigness. #8 In wartime it has helped small concerns get war or- Mr. Lucey ders, financing and technical skill. He thinks it vital “that it cover much of the same ground in peacetime,

a fog bund airfield with complete

Arguing his case for a government, agency which can represent small business, he points out that 500,000. small concerns have gone out of business, since Pearl Harbor. He wants them back in business. Without them, he says, free enterprise -is-far less free. " ” » SO, HE WOULD help get venture capital for small business through system of credit insurance, provide it technological developments it lacks because it hasn’t the research facilities of big business, and help small business get world trade. Mr, Maverick points out that big business can go to the Reconstruction Finance Corp. for- financial

'| help, and farmers*to the agriculture

department for technical service. These agencies aren't being folded up. Why fold an agency that has come up in wartime to champion small business?

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Radar Tests Made af Local Airpert For More Flying Safety After War

knowledge of the exact position of all incoming planes. Today, the only way an operafors can determine the position of planes near his field 1s through position reports . which. are radioed in by pilots. Only one of these pilots’ reports can be handled at a time, and the estimates are not always accurate, The collision warning device is | designed to be mounted on the instrument panel of the airplane. Not just another gadget to clutter up the already jammed instrument boards, the radar screen will be extremely valuable. It will report to the pilot his {position in the air relative to other aircraft and to obstacles in his joe such as radio towers, bea-

cons, water towers and similar ob-

Soldier Follows Dad's Footsteps

ON HIS WAY to Germany, where he is now serving, Cpl. William Easter, son of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Easter, 139 Bright st., = : passed through | 4 4 three of the 3 places where his father served during the last war; Paris, “Metz and Brussells. A former Times carrier, Cpl. Easter is the husband of Mrs. Frances Easter, Bruceville. He went overseas last August with an anti-aircraft unit. His

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WARTIME EMERGENCY FEDERAL PAYROLL DIGS IN... By Charles T. Lucey

War Bureaus Make Peacetime Plans

ASPECTS of a big economic battle are there, too. The government's anti-trust enforcement can help break up monopolies, but supporters of the Smaller War Plants Corp., while theyre all for this, say it’s a negative action. They say their agency will furnish affirmative ace tion to help small business develop. “Help for small business” makes good political fodder with congress, and that doesn’t hurt this cause, Thus does government grow. » » =» THEN, there's the foreign economic administration. It has bought critical materials overseas, gathered foreign economic intelligence on which some military bombing. has been based, and handled export controls. It has had other important wartime functions. Under FEA, too, are lend-lease and the exportimport bank. It has 6500 employees and costs $17,000,000 a year, . Looking ahead to peace, FEA officials say it would be silly for the Uniled States to let itself be caught without strategic materials again. Our natural resources have been depleted. Whether FEA or someone else does the job, officials contend, we should go on buying chrome, tin, tungsten, etc., after the war, oN No.

ASSUMING export controls will be set up to keep Germany and Japan from stocking up on strategic war materials, some agency must handle the assignment, FEA thinks it could do it well. By presidential direction, it has already made studies for economic controls on. Germany. ro» : v FEA officials think their agency might do good in developing United States trade and investment overseas after the war. It has helped China plan industrialization which, if ‘carried through, would be important to U. S. manufacturers. LE. HENRY WALLACE'S commerce department long has been in this fleld, of course. But there are those who argue that some of the old agencies are suffering from hardening of the arteries, anyway, and that a better job might be done by new ones.

FEA's functions under one peacetime tent oug t te to be more efficient’ than spreading ‘them Among numerous agencies. Still another area in which the

1lo% of new functions after the war is

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jects that may be hidden from his sight when he celling is low.

IN ACTUAL operation of the collision radar instrument, pilots would be responsible for maintaining the proper distance from other aircraft while climbing to assigned altitudes and while approaching an airport for a landing. The complete landing approach could be handled by the pilot with the control tower acting as a monitoring. agent through its radar screen. ings and takeoffs in bad weather. A radar collision warning device. was developed several years ago by the C., A. A, but it was toc heavy and too expensive for general use. Wartime demands have speeded up the refinement and practical application of this device.

DALE BROWN HEADS CAR LIGENSE BUREAU

Appointment of Dale Brown, seventh ward Republican chairman here, as director of the Indiana auto license division was announced yesterday. Mr. Brown was elevated {rom the

tor, a post he had held since 1942. Long active in G.Q.P. politics, he

managed Marion County Chairman| Henry Ostrom’s campaign for Re{publican mayoralty nomination in} 11842,

He previously owned and operated the Brown Casket Co. for six years. In 1941 and 1942 he was .a member of the Marion county liquor control board. Mr, Brown attended Butler university, Indiana university and! the Benjamin Harrison law school.

of news material overseas. The office of war information has run this show during the war, but the state department will take over some of its functions. —8-- wo UNDER the head of cultural relations it may be advisable, for example, to provide expert engineering knowledge to nations blocked off from modein developments by war. This might apply to building bridges or sewage disposal plants. This perhaps would be supplemented with books and documentary films. The same thing would go on in medicine, education or other fields. ‘All this was new

with ; wartime, but plans call for

keeping it going. Even the U. S. board of geographical names may have to expand after the war, It settles all the questions as to form, spelling or application of geographical names, But war has sidetracked its regular ‘work to some extent and quite a backlog has been built up, Thirty-six new employees, it has been estimated, may be necessary,

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Labo WLB Preparing To Crack Down On 'Blacklist'

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Sia Writer WASHINGTON, April 4—The war labor board is getting set to crack down on a union charged with the use of a powerful bludgeon in inducing workers not to resign under the maintenance-of« m e mb ership plan, The bludgeon, according to credited evidence be=fore the board, is an agreemeni that ree * signing members must sign. Some WLB labor members regard it as a virtual “blacklist” so far as future union membership is concerned. The board is expected to act this: week. Expressions of mem - bers indicate the unioh Will be required either to give up it weapon or to relinquish a pane! decision favoring the union. 2 8 = :

THE UNION is a local of th C. I. O. United Steelworkers, wit! contracts in three planis of th Timken Roller Bearing Co. The company, one of man covered by the - board's -recer “basic steel” decision, charge the union with “violatien of th order of the board as 40 the uw of coercion to prevent employer from withdrawing fsom (tk union.” Part of the evidence is a cor of a letter signed by Fin Reynolds, local union presiden in which members wishing to r« sign are told they cannot do : by letter, but must report in pe: son at union headquarters ar sign “one of our forms.” = » » THIS FORM contains a bla: for the social security number ai the name and address of tl member, and carries this par graph: “I am withdrawing my mer bership with the understandi: that my name will be forward:

the United States which a affiliated with the C of 1 dustrial Organiza and tl American Federation of Lab« and that I will never be accept again as a member of any loc union affiliated with the Congre of Industrial Organizations.” A. FP. of L. officials deni knowledge of any authority f use of their organization's nan in this connection. Ee THE’ AGREEMENT also sets 01 that the resigninf member w not expect the union to repr: sent him. in collecting retroacti: pay.The company points out th the union has been “certified : the exclusive bargaining age: of the employees” under nation: labor relations board elections. The company argument is th: “the union has no right to a: an employee as a condition « withdrawing to release the unic from the obligation imposed I statute (the national labor rela tions act) to represent the em ployees.” = Lee Pressman, counsel for tl Steelworkers and the C. I. O, i general, denied that any evidenc of union coercion existed, an charged the company with be ing “particularly unco-operative

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hn We, the Woriohe— Service Wives Given Least

Preference

BY RUTH MILLETT

SHE NEEDED some denta: work done, and so the wife of « navy officer stationed in a smal midwestern town made an appointment with a docal dentist He told her just what she needed done and then asked casually, 3 “What does your husband’ do?” When she said, “He's with the navy here,” the dentist froze up and told her she had better find someone else to do her work as he was booked solid for several weeks. “I'll be glad to wait until you can take me,” said the navy officer’s wife. And then she gos the truth. ” on “1 HAVE to save my appoint. ments for permanent people,” sald