Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1945 — Page 11
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the closest to Japan we've landéd on and since we seem to feel this really is Japan, rather than just some far outpost, I'll try to describe to you what it looks like. Actually it doesn't look a great deal different from most of America. In fact it looks much more like America than anything the marines have seen for the last three years. The climate is temperate rather than tropical, and so is the vegetation. There are tropical-like trees on and near the beaches— 1 think they're pandanus bushes. But there are also many trees of the fir family with horizontal limbs. The country over which my regiment passed during the first two days was cultivated. It rose gradually from the sea and was all formed into small fields. It Hidn’t look at-all unlike Indiana in late summer when things have started to turn dry and’ brown, except that the fields were much smaller, The wheat, which looks just like ours, is dead ripe
An the fields now, The marines are cutting it with
little sickles. potatoes.
Civilians Poor and Dirty EACH FIELD has a ditch around its edge, and dividing the fields are little ridges about two feet wide. On top of the ridges are paths where the people walk. ' All through the country are narrow dirt lanes and now and. then a fairly decent gravel road. As you get inland, the country becomes rougher. In the hills there is less cultivation and more trees. It is really a pretty country. We had read about what a worthless place Okinawa was, but I think most of us have been surprised about how pretty it is. Okinawa civilians we bring in are pitiful. The anly ones left seem to be real old or real young. And they all are very, very poor, . They're not very clean. And their homes are utOver and over you hear marines say, “This could be a nice country if the people weren't so dirty.” Obviously their living standard is low. Yet I've never understood why pgverty and filth need to be
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to get clean. But pb he has to be well off to want to keep clean. We've found it that way clear around the world. : The people here dress as we see Yepines dressed in pictures: Women in kimonos and old men in skintight pants. that shows their skinny legs. The kids aré Eute as kids are all over the world. I've noticed marines reaching out and tousling their hair as they marched past them, We're rounding up all the civilians and putting them in camps. They are puzzled by it all : Sickening Odor of Death MOST OF THE farm families must have got out when our heavy bombardments started. Lots of farm houses have either been demolished or burned to the ground before we came. Often, in passing a wrecked farmhouse, you smell the sickening odor of death inside. . But there are always people who won't leave, no matter what. We couldn't help feeling SOTTY for the Okinawans we picked up in the first few days. We found two who spoke a little English. They had once lived in Hawaii. One was an old man who had a son (Hawaiian-Japanese) somewhere in the American army! They were all shocked from the bombardment and yet I think rather stupid, too, so that when they talked they didn't make much sense. I don't believe they had any idea of what it was all about. As one marine officer said, “The poor devils. I'll bet they think this is the end of the world.” ¥ They were obviously scared to death. On Love day the marines found many of them hiding from us in caves. They found two qld women, 75 or more, in a cave, caring for a paralyzed girl. She wasn’t wounded, just paralyzed from natural causes, One of the old ladies had a small dirty sack with some money in ‘it. When the marines found her she cried and tried to give them the money—hoping, I, suppose, that. she could buy herself off from being executed. After all the propaganda they've been.fed about our tortures, it's going to be a befuddled bunch -of Okinawans when they discover we brought right along with us, as part of the intricate invasion plan, enough supplies to feed them, too! )
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
ATTENTION, ALL you victory gardeners; No doubt some of you have been wondering when your tender plants would be safe from frost. So have I. 80 I called U. S. Meteorologist R. M. Williamson and asked his advice. The average date for the last killing » frost over the last 70 years, he LE says, is April 16. Four years, all since 1929, have seen the last killing frost occur as early as the last ‘week in March. And then -there have bgen killing frosts as late as May. The latest was May 25, 1925. Hewever, Mr. Williamson says there's only one chance in 10 of a killing frest after April 12. If that doesn’t help you any, let your conscience be your guide. , . . Mrs. Oval Miller, 976 N. Bolton, has in her back yard a flowering plum bush that seems to have gotten its signals mixed. For the last five years it has had beautiful pink blossoms. This year, about half the limbs are covered with small white blossoms. , . . Bill Coleman; sales manager for the A&P, is one man who ought never to be out of cigarets, He buys millions for the firm. But, unaccountably, he found himself without a cigaret to his name one evening recently. He tried several drug stores, but had no luck.: Finally, Andy Taylor of the telephone company aappened along with some cigaret papers and Bull Durham. And Bill was initiated into the fine art of rolling your . Paul Ross,
come the new state publicity director soon,
Three Steps to General -
ROBERT 8. SMITH, the Yawyer, has been promoted to major. Bob, former county election commis sioner and member of the county liquor board, is over in France or Germany, serving as.givil affairs officer with the 101st airborne division. He recently sent home a purple heart which he won when wounded by shrapnel. §¢ , Last Saturday, April 7, was a big day
in the H. D. Patterson household, 4317°E. Washihg--
ton. It was the birthday of three members of the family—Cpl.- Jack T. Pafterson,. in England; ‘his
America Flies
GAS TURBINES which will combine use of jet propulsion and standard type propellers are being rapidly developed for post-war airplanes, Indications that some of the largest manufacturers
of radial type airplane engines and propeller manufacturers are wide awake to the possibility are apparent. in their annual reports just made public. One company already has developed a 10,000-horse power gas turbine unit, Another has in production a new “super-type” propeller for use on some of the fast- , est fighting planes and which its engineers predict “will prove suitable for gas turbine use.” Several airplane concerns now are engaged in producing jet propulsion units similar to those powering the fast P-80 Shooting Star jet fighter and the Bell P-59 Airacomet, now used as a strainer for jet plane pilots. Even more powerful jet-units are being developed rapidly. Conversion to manufacture gas turbine units for the combined use of jet and propellers will offer no problem, it is said.
New Field for Propellers
AVIATION TECHNICIANS, discussing these developments, point to the fact that propellers, instead of being on the way out, are going to find an entirely new field in post-war supersonic speed flying. Use of propellers, it is pointed out, will solve one
My Day
NEW YORK, Mondiy.—We left Hyde Park early this morning, and I am sure that anyone looking at us carefully would have been able to remark that we had been doing some kind of work to which we. were not accustomed! We creaked a little in the joints,
which only goes to prove that we should. do physical work more often! I want to tell you a little today about the United Negro college . fund campaign which starts on the 18th of this month, For many vears.“these colleges raised their funds separately and it was a hard task for the various college presidents. j It meant that they gave more time than should be given to raising of funds and less to the administration of their particular ‘institution. This year the goal is $1,550,000. This covers the needs of at least 27 colleges, which was the number of members last year. The Negroes form a tenth of our population and are our biggest minority, and their cqlleges train
teachers, doctors, ministers and the people who are
going to bé leaders in this minority group,
) These colleges - will have to accept their share
in helping to adjust the returned Negro service men
to .peapétéme . qccupations, since out of the million. thousands |
Negro service men many toligge grad-
“ference),
same? ‘Yet. in: the
mother, Mrs. Lucy Patterson, at home, and his brother, Harold, in Dayton. . . . Russell Campbell, OPA state information director, and Curtiss Hodges, assistant, were broadcasting an OPA question and answer program over WFBM the other day. There was a musical interlude and then the announcer, Don Sherwood, becoming cenfuséd over the names, said: “And now back to Mr. Campbell and Mr. Hodges. Are you ready, Russell Hodges?” At this; Curt Hodges became co confused he couldn’t answer, There was a loud silence on the program for about a half minute. . Mrs. W. J. Hicks, 1815 Montcalm, read a recent *Htem about the statehouse flag, and sends us a chiding note: “The American flag is never ‘dirty’. When an American flag has served its purpose, it should be burned reverently,” You're right, Mrs. Hicks. “Soiled” would be a better Word than “dirty,” although in this case it would be an understatement. There's no law against having a soiled flag dry cleaned,
A Lot of Money . THE THOUGHT of a prospective 300 billion dollar national debt intrigued Arthur Bohn, the architect, but he couldn't visualize such a staggering sum. So he sharpened a few dozen pencils, obtained a stack of scratch pads and started to work. When he got through, he had found that 300 billion $1 bills placed end to end would make a ribbon 29,000,947 miles long. That, too, was hard to visualize. So he did some more figuring. . “Let's see,” he muttered; “now if we wrap this ribbon 500 times around the earth (circumference 24,902 miles), just to get a good hold, and then continue on to the moon (238,000 miles) and there wrap it 500 times around the moon (6792 miles in circumwe'll still have 12,915,147 miles left.” At this point; he ran out of pencils. When a fresh supply had been obtained, he started in again and found that this remaining 12 million miles of dollar bills would choke a lot of cows. “But, getting back to earth,” says Mr. Bohn, “there’s nothing to be alarmed about. We are all set. We're entering the greatest pertod of prosperity in the -history of the world. Amerifan science, busthess and labor, working together, have unlimited possibilities.” Say, Mr. Bohn, if you have a few miles. of those bills left over, I'll be glad to help you get rid of them. (And not to make any ribbons.) Yd
By Max B. Cook
main weakness of straight jet propulsion. That is the slow takeoff speed necessitating quite a long run before the jet plane is airborne. Use of the gas turbine unit with propeller will offer plenty of takeoff power. And once the plane is airborne, rate and speed of climb should outstrip anything thus far developed, engineers say.
Exhaust Adds to Propulsion DESIGNS FOR the gas turbine with propeller show -a single unit similar to that on the jet planes but with the turbine-compresser driving an airscrew (propeller). Exhaust from the turbine provides the added propulsion jet. United Aircraft Corp.'s report states, “ . . . the corporation has endeavored to keep abreast of the many very radical aircraft developments, with particular reference to the development and utilization of certain newer types of power plants; namely, gas turbine and jet propulsion engines.” It announced that its Hamilton Standard Propeller division hag completed “the first major phase of the tooling program for the new ‘Super-Hydromatic’ propeller.” It described it as being “more suitable for use with gas turbines than any other type.” Some months ago the Wright Aeronautical Corp. announced that it had developed a “10,000-horse powersgas turbine unit” and predicted that “it would revolutionize speedy, high altitude flying by the huge air transports of post-war days.” Better streamlining, faster speeds and smooth, sbundless flight, say engineers, will be the post-war result, ““
By Eleanor Roosevelt
The president of the fund is Dr. F. T. Patterson of Tuskegee Institute, and the chairman is Thomas Morgan of the Sperry Corp. Walter Hoving, president of Lord & Taylor, is chairman of ‘the executive committee, John D. Rockefeller Jr. is chairman of the advisory ecmmittee ahd the treasurer is Winthrop
“Aldrich, prseident of the Chase National bank.
This looks like a sound setup; but the money has to come from you and me, and uniess we recognize our individual responsibility and shoulder it
the board cannot raise the money needed.
It is going to be badly needed-—in fact, proof of the
need has already been shown because of the sérvice|
men already returning in our bigger cities. The OWI has put out a pamphlet which, unlike many things that come to my desk today, I find really very practical. It is entitled “Planned Spending and Saving.” It covers for us the essentials of the problem and then actually finds some solutions. It makes some suggestions as to how we can economize, stresses the need for budgeting.
One of the points it brings out is, T think, good
for us do
all ‘to remember: “Keep your own prices Don't take advantage of war conditions to
ask more for your labor, your services or the goods}
you sell,” Many of us are anxious to see prices kept down. At the same time, if we can get a little more, we see no reason why our standard should not be higher than our neighbor's, and if he is accepting an increased’ compensaticn, why should ndt we do the long run, if; we succumb to
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SECOND SECTION
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EUCLID AVE. between 19th and 21st sts. is paved with trash instead of asphalt. Even so, the refuse doesn’t hide chuckholes which have grown..to fox-hole proportions. Ankle deep trash is augmented day by day by dump trucks jog-
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1945 City Trash and Chuckholes Plague the Residents of Euclid Ave.
gling through Euclid ave. ruts on their way to a dump in. the 1700 block. For this reason, tempers of ~ Buclid ave. residents at this spot are almost as frayed ‘as their automobile tires.
Two of these citizens, Louis
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City dump or Euclid ave. in the 1900 block? If the identity is somewhat blurred blame it on the dump trucks and chuckholes.
Lavely, 1989 N. Euclid ave. and his next door neighbor, Lee Brown, pHle the dump truck left-overs in front of their homes to be col-, lected y city garbage trucks which, Mr. Lavely says, “pass every three or four months.” Because coal trucks refuse to
venture up pock-marked Euclid ave. at this point, Mr. Lavely has to haul his own coal and says he has broken two springs on his car in this manner. He also commented that his tires require repairing at least once a week as a result of Euclid ave. chuckholes.
By EDWARD THOMAS United Press Staff’ Correspondent ARMY COMMAND POST, Okinawa, April- 8 (Delayed) <A Japanese burial vault teday gave refuge to a group of American soldiers seeking shelter from . the stiffest Japanese artillery. barrage in the memory of Pacific army veterans. I was with the soldiers - who jumped into the vault when the going got too hot. We took shelter among dusty vases containing the remains of Nipponese to avoid big mortar shélls that wobbled like miniature zeppelins. We watched the shells drive toward hills we took yesterday and the day before. The only censola-
were sending 10 of our own shells the other way for every one they let loose. I got into the thick of it when I stepped out of a jeep at the foot of “White hill.” Jap dead were everywhere. Trunks of fir trees sawed down for road blocks dotted the hillside. The Japanese lines were several hundred yards ahead. Warned to keep to pathways because of mines, I dashed 300 yards across open fields t8 the command post of Lt. Col. Byron F. King, Uniontown, Pa. Col. King said the valley ahead was crossed by Japanese machine gun fire and mortars.
‘Jap Burial Vault Protects Yanks from Enemy Shells
tion was the knowledge that we) With Col. King was Capt. Hhgh
D. Young, Pulaski, Tenn. Radio operator Pfc. Ellis Moore, Pelham Manor, N. Y, son-in-law of John H. Sorrells, executive editor of stopped by my foxhole. Moore, who once was a copy boy on the New York World-Telegram, said he had been looking for Columnist Ernie Pyle, but Ernie was back of us with the marines. , Moore had a narrow squeak yesterday. He was caught in a machine ‘gun burst while running across an open field. Bullets whizzed
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before he dropped to the ground. Moore was. unharmed. He showed
Scripps - Howard newspapers, |
within a foot of him on both sides]
me a tear in his right pants leg near the knee where a piece of shrapnel had ripped through harmlessly. While chatting with Moore and Pfe. John St. James, Pittsfield, {Mass., a Jap shell hit, Heavy chunks |of earth splattered down. It seemed as though the whole cabbage patch behind us had blown up. We scrambled into the burial vault, joining Lt. Bill Wise, Tavenna, Ky.; Pfc. Nick Fiocca, Harvey, Ill; Sgt. Elmer C. Carl, Howell, Mich, and Sgt. Harold Whitney, West Wago; La. ~ This was the third time they had been pinned down by enemy fire during one reconnaissance mission.
BOARD WILL ELECT SCHOOL EXECUTIVES
Five executives of the Indianap-
olis school city will be “elected ‘for | four-year terms at.the school board
meeting tonight. Positions to be filled are super-| intendent of schools, business direc- | tor, city librarian, superintendent of | buildings and grounds and board
| secretary.
Present incumbents are Virgil Stinebaugh, -- superintendent since July 1, 1944; A. B. Good, business director since January, 1930; Miss Marian McFadden, librarian ‘since Feb. 27, 1945; J. BE. McGaughey, buildings and grounds superintendent since May' 5, 1941, and Maxwell V. Bailey, board secretary since September, 1935.
HITLER'S EX-AID REPORTED KILLED
LONDON, April 10 (U. P)—A German DNB dispatch said today Col. Henrich Borgmann, former aide-de-camp to Adolf Hitler, had been killed on the Western front. Borgmann was standing beside Hitler when a bomb exploded in the fuehrer's headquarters in the abortive attempt on his life last summer. Seriously injured, Borgmann was given eommand of a division on his recovery. He was 33.
Brock Pemberton, who,
| Emporia, Kas, trying to make an-
{other honest million dollars in the
|big city, is neck-deep in rabbit.
{If he gets any deeper, he’ll sprout | whiskers and furry ears a foot
| long, and: the way things are going that may be any day now. Pemberton is the keeper of Harvey, that six-foot-one-and-a-half-
inghes of invisibles cottontail that
dominates the play “Harvey” and has come to be a symbol of live and let live, do unto others, ete. He found, nurtured and produced the Mary Chase comedy and unwitttingly became a rabbit patron for life. From the familiar halls of the arts he and Harvey are now ven- | turing into the marts of trade and it will not be long before you'll find replicas of Harvey at every hand. Phiz to Be Famous
Pemberton has placed Harvey's commercial future in the hands of George Kamen, a brother of man who handles products based onthe Walt Disney cartoon chars Lacters, and the prospects are overwhelming. *So far Kamen has lined up about
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Harvey, Golden Rule Rabbit
In Play, Goes Commercial
NEW YORK. April 10 (U. P)— ‘after 26 years, is still just a fellow from
15 manufacturers - who will make Harvey ‘products under the - official approval of Pemberton, standardized version of the Harvey face and, of course, paying the customary royalty to the proper party, spelled P-E-M-B-E-R-T-O-N. I have seen Harvey dress material§, some with the rabbit's phiz, some with only his famous hat and collar; glasses handsomely decorated with Harvey's official portrait; Harvey clips, pins and other costume jewelry items; Harvey dolls, bathrobes, skirts and handkerchiefs. The end is not yet by a long shot. It has taken some time to launch Harvey commercially because everyone had to be satisfied with just exactly the way an invisible rabbit should look. The final result arrived at by various ‘artists is a friendly, cheery looking bunny that will be, at the most, engaging. The dolls will be of various sizes and hues but there will be none for sale approaching the six-one-and-a-half foot tentative model
€|which- & manufacturer whipped up
a while ago.
Day's Last Patient Robs the Doctor
AS 18 the case with physicians | these days, it was just one patient after another yesterday for Dr. Edwin Moten in his office at 317 “WW .'Michigan st. Reaching the end of his long waiting room line at 8:45 p. m., Dr. Moten suppressed a sigh. of exhaustion, nodded expectantly toward the remaining occupant. ‘ “This is a holdup,” was the reply, punctuated with the wave of a revolver. The “patient” walked away with $50. And now the doctor isn’t feeling so well,
WAR WOUNDS KILL FREEMAN-MITFORD
LONDON, April 10 (U. P.).—Maj. Thomas David Freeman-Mitford,
whose use of the Fascist salute in Britain before the war stirred up a controversy, died last month of war wounds, is was announced today. He was the only son of Lord Redesdale, a brother of Unity Free-
3 | man-Mitford, whom Adolf Hitler re-
garded as a “perfect Aryan,” and a brother-in-law of 8ir Oswald Mosley, British Fascist: leader.
: KILLED BY CRANE CHAIN LOGANSPORT, April 10 (U. P.).
the death of A. J. Fortune, 70, Pery, who was injured fatally last night derrick
‘when, a Wabash railroad
crane chain struck his head. ForEE TY eoeup in righting a derailed car in the "Logansport Foundry Co.
using at
—An inquest was planned today in.
SEES VETS’ NEED OF- USEFUL GOSPEL
“The demobilized servicemen do | not expect -to- come home to cold, formal, impractical churches,” Dr, G. P. Confer, Texas evangelist, told his audience of 1200 last night in the Roberts Park Methodist church. Dr. Comer is the guest speaker for the union revival sponsored by 30,000 Methodists of the community. He said réturning members of the armed forces demand a useful gospel which applies to the problemss which arise seven days of the week. 200-Voice Choir
“Out of 8,000,000 Methodists in the world only about 60 per cent have had a heart-warming religious experience comparable to that of Join Wesley, the English father of Methodism,” he said. “Until more of the laity get that experience, religion will not be effectively spread by Methodists.” Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Spencer of Austin, Texas, will arrive tonight to direct the singing of the the 200voice chorus choir and the congregation at the remaining revival meetings. ‘The services will be held daily at 10 a. m. and at 7:30 p. m. with a song service from 7:30 to 8 o'clock through April 22. Dr. Comer will speak tonight on “Sensational Preacher.”
NAMED DEALERS’ HEAD Arthur Bussing, Ft. Wayne, assumed the presidency of the Indiana Retail Beverage Dealers’ association today. He was elected yes-
PAGE 11 — Labor Industry Split Over Issue of Labor Charter
By LEE NICHOLS United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 10.— American industry appeared today to be a house divided on the
" ‘subject of post-war relations with
labor. The split, between the powerful National Association of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce. of the United States, appeared to be along two lines:
ONE: The so - called *tharter” for labor-management peace, put out jointly by Chamber President Eric A. Johnston * and President William Green of the
. A. F of L. and Philip Murray of"... ,
the C. 1. O. The N. A. M. has refused to sign, calling = the: eharter “ambiguous.”
TWO! The question of legislation to outlaw certain types of strikes. B. E. Hutchinson, vice president of Chrysler Corp. and a director of the N. A. M., renewed the attack on the charter yesterday and proposed instead a legislative program to outlaw certain types of strikes, s =u = HE SAID THE N. A. M. was working in a joint committee with the Chamber on this program and that neither the N. A.-M. nor the « Chamber's board of directors had been consulted on the labor-man-agement charter before Johnston, Green and Murray made it public. Almost immediately .a Chamber of Commerce spokesman issued a reply stating that Hutchinson “has his facts wrong.” He said there was no joint committee, and that the proposals had merely been presented to the Chamber by the N. A. M. > Hutchinson, addressing a press luncheon held by the Automotive Council, charged that the charter was “so loosely drawn it will probably sow the seeds of greater ferment.” z= = THE CHARTER, dated March 28, called for a guarantee both of labor’s right of collective bargaining ahd of management's right to direct the operations of industry. Hutchinson said the N. A. M. and the council were apprehensive because if failed to emphasize the need for increased productivity of the individual worker, and also .a&ppeared to bind management not to seek changes in present labor laws, His anti-strike suggestions included proposals for, legislation to (1) prevent s designed to coerce government agencies to act on dispute or wage cases; (2) prohibit unions from using their economic power to block improvements in industry, h as increased in indus, gieb (3) guarantee individuals the right to work free from molestation, injury or threats. Shortly after publication of Hutchinson's .remarks, Armand May, president of Associated In--dustries of Atlanta, Ga., resigned from the N. A. M.
We, the Women——— Servicemen
Still Have a War to Fight
By RUTH MILLETT CONGRESSMEN in Washington are being flooded with letters from wives and mothers of serv. icemen in Europe who think their men have “done their part” and
| terday by the organization's boar of directors. 4
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shouldn't have to go on to fight in the Pacific when the war a» in Europe is § finished. N a turally, these women— now being told that their men, if they get | home at all ; after V-E day, will only be 3 home on furlough and then must leave to fight a second war—hate to face such news, » ” » If their men come through one war alive, women dread the thought of starting all over again to wonder and worry and wait. But women will just have to show the same courage in seeing their men go to war a second time that they showed when they first left for overseas. It will be harder the second time. Now they know what waiting and worrying mean. They know how long and how lonesome a day can be. They know what it is to have as sole consolation the thought, “He is safe—so far.” But thousands of women are going to have to face the worry.