Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1945 — Page 13
AY 8, 1045
‘Anchors Aweigh
"ABOARD A CRUISER IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC {By -Wireless),—My nap was interrupted by
4 a voice that. seemed to ceme from inside my pillow. : ~ The voice intomed, “T' he smoking lamp is out through-
out the ship.’ *% "It seeped. through my drowsy consejousness that *I was aboard a -warship: And that we were about to. depart for some serious shooting.'. - The ‘loudspeaker announcement was the navy’s ancient way of saying. “No ' Smoking"—we were taking on gasoline. : I had come aboard the previous evening with three other newspapermen. After several months of visiting army units it was Sidte a change. No'iore shaving from a helmet—there was a wath basin with faucets in the cabin I shared with a warrant officer. No more lukewarm chlorinated water
_ to drink—there were ice-water fountains’ all over the
. asparagus,
ship, and thpugh this was distilled ‘sea “water it tasted | pure and wonderful. Actually this’ converted seawater has less salt content than normal fresh water. No more mosquitoes or dirt-floored tents or living from 4 duffle bag. And our first meal was steak, potatoes (not dehydrated), pie and ice
| cream.
s ‘It-Was Too Much’
AND PRESENTLY I turned in, not on a cot, but
. on the top layer of a double bunk, with mattress and
. villow.
It was too much. Though I went to bed after midnight I was awake at 5:30. Hence my aft-
| ernoon snooze.
f
* store sent the check by-air mail.
My introduction to the navy was rather elaborate;
| since we travelled first in a ttle LCVP, boarded. a
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
A WOMAN PAYING a bill at a local furhiture . She must have been
' in a hurry to get it to the store, gince the letter only | had about three miles to*travel“from:- Gale st. to
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downtown. Maybe she meant for it to be carried. 'by carrier pigeon. . . . This item may mean $10 to Donald G. Smiley. While helping sort clothing contributed in the recent, United National clothing campaign, Episcopal Bishop Richard A. Kirchhoffer "found in the pocket of a suit an American Express: money order container ‘with a $10 money order in it. The money order was made out to a Donald G. Smiley. There is no person b that name listed in the city directory or the phone book, so the salvage officials | didn’t know what fo do with it. Mr. Smiley or his
R ‘representative may obtain the money order by get-
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ting in touch with Hazel Gaston at the Russian War
"Relief office, 143 E. Market, or calling her at LI. 6728.
.In case you had trouble getting The * Times’
: operator to answer your call yesterday morning, don't
way
think she was ignoring you. The heavy volume of V-E day calls blew a fuse on the board, and, as a result, no signals showed on the board. The only the operator—Ann Hahn-—could tell whether
* there was a caller waiting on a particular trunk line
was to plug in on it and say “hello.” Altogether, she
spent a hectic Hour until the board could be fixed.
Not on Official Business SCHOOL BOARD employees were all agog the other morning when a mortician’s ambulance drew up in front of the board offices at Meridian and Ohio. Necks craned and everyone wanted to know what had happened. Instead of entering the board offices, however, the driver went into Harold Talle’s hat
~ cleaning establishment, across the alley. In a minute,
he reappeared, carrying a newly cleaned fedora. What
America Flies?
NEW YORK, May 8.-—Scores of cameras in the
| bellies of army air force planes daily have been paving
the way for the successful bombing of Japanese. industrial targets. Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers, director of the air technical service command at Wright fleld today said that the bombing of ‘Kobeg Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo and other cities Js made possible only through the excellent aerial reconnaissance work of the A. A. F: photographic units, Taking off from American bases in the Pacific both day and night, camera “planes map and chart enemy terrain. Fighter gun cameras ‘‘shoot” all possible enemy planes to reveal new types and vulnerable spots. Following bombing, the planes fly low over the bombed objectives
{and take pictures so that damage may be assessed by
the intelligence division.
The Eyes of an Army
GEN. MEYERS points out that without photo-
graphs of the enemy's industrial areas, military in-*
stallations, rivers and roads, and deployment of troops, our hombing squadrons, land armies and amphibious forces would suffer a much larger number of casual«ties. Many more valuable planes and equipment also would be lost, A. T. 8. C. photographic officers say.
My Day
NEW YORK, Monday. —Yesterday afternoon I had a visit from a very wonderful and gallant friend of mine. - She had been crippled .with arthritis for some years, but like my husband, no physical disability has
ever really daunted her. As the body grew less active, she has concentrated more and more on the activities of the mind. Her visit to me was undertaken as ‘a high adventure and she accomplished it with complete success, for strangely enough, courage in an individual always calls out the best in others, Everywhere along the line she , commanded not only admiration and respect, but a real desire to be of help. I enjoyed her visit -very much, and we discussed a subject which must be close to the heart and mind of every citizen today. Largely confined by the four walls of her home, she wondered how she could still give comfort and backing and tangible support to those who are doing the things for the world in which she believes. Isn't that the question each of us is asking today? I have been thinking a good deal about this lately, and I believe one thing to do is to fix our minds on what our ultimate objectives are. We should decide what are the main things which we want to see achieved, and then judge day-to-day happenings by
“their billet at Tacloban on Leyte.
. wherever Ernie is as I promised him.”
.a German prison camp.
Juse” of only $1000 worth of the chemical.
tives.
“By Lee G. Miller]
destroyer escort, “were picked wp ‘by a PT boat and| travelled at* 38 knots to an anchorage here a small] barge transferred us-to a cruiser. .. i
As we stepped from the.gangway onto the quarter-| ;
deck, the officer. saluted, us smartly. I returned the! salute all right, but I clean forgot to salute the colors first as is the navy custom, so they undoubtedly—and rorrectly—marked me dowrr as a landlubber.
Three: Replacements” - THREE OF the four "correspondents aboard were replacements for men killed out here. Sam Kinch|~ of ‘the Ft, Worth Star-Telegram succeeded Stanley Gunn, and Jerry Thorp of the Indianapolis Times and. Chicago Daily News foreign service replaced John Terry. Gunn and Terry and Asahel Bush of the Associated Press were killed when a Jap bomb hit Another member of our party, Jim Hutcheson of the A. P., moved from Tacloban house a few' hours® before the bombing— because ants were bothering him. And I've been assigned to take over Ernie Pyle’s column, Before coming aboard, incidentally, I had received a wireless from Lester Cowan, Hollywood, producer of the picture “G, I. Joe,” suggested by Ernie’s work. The picture, he said, would still be “shown. first Lester had intended’ showing the film would be covering at the time." Now it will"be’ shown on that bleak far’ island where he fell. Ernie's old friend, Paige Cavanaugh, wrote me a few weeks ago from Hollywood that the picture was turning out fine. If the finished product is as good as some of the sequences Ernie and I saw.in Holly~ wood in December, it may even be a great picture, though a melancholy one under the circumstances. I'll try to get to Ie Shima for the showing if Lester gives me sufficient notice to arrange the trip.
a letdown! ... Fireman 1-c Bill Crimans telephoned | his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Crimans, 1001 E. 54th, last menth just before he sailed for the South Pacific. During the conversation, he asked them to send him $10: for a little personal emergency. In the custom of fond parents, they decided $10 might not be enough, so they sent $15. Now comes a rhyming cable, which they enjoyed, even though it did Come collect: “Thanks for the cash; it came in a flash. The extra five will keep me alive long after the ten is gone.” | . Incidentally, the Crimans family was startled] but delighted to see in the current newsreel at Loew's | the face of Sgt. John Shell, a fraternity brother of their son Bill and a frequent visitor in their home. A member of the 106th division, he was shown: in the newsreel as he ‘appeared after being liberated from
Long May It Wave
THE GIGANTIC flags unfurled by Block's yester= day (each 60 by 100 feet) attracted a lot of attention; and also stirred up numerous arguments over whether the flags were displayed properlys “The answer: They were displayed properly. The flag code provides that when displayed against a wall, the union
should be uppermost “and to the flag’s own right;|.
that is, to the observer's left.” When in a’ window, the flag should be "displayed in the same way— with the blue field to the left of the observer in the street. What confuses people is the rule for displaying a flag over the middle of the street. In that instance, the unien should be to the north in an east and west street, or to the east in_.a north and south street. From a staff, the flag is displayed with the union on the outside. . . . An ‘exhibit of sketches by enlisted maring combat correspondents is on display at the, Press club. The sketches, some of them in water colors, are worth anyone’s time. They'll be on public display at Block's auditoriuni after May 24. Incidentally, the sketches were judged at Marshall Field's hn Chicagoand an Indianapolis marine won first place. He is Cpl. Donald Allgn Peters.
By Max B. Cook
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton once said that he would not move a single man unless he had photographs of the place that man was to move to. Much of all army intelligence is gained from photographs.
20,000,000 Photos a Month UPWARDS OF 20,000,000 photographs a month are made for military purposes in the present war. this makes the A. A. F. photographic units the world's largest users of photographic film, paper and equipment, Gen. Meyers says. Still, every effort is being
made to conserve photographic film and paper. A. T.} S.-C. photographic laboratory technicians have produced a special developer which enables full utilization of paper that has been fogged by age. More than $100,000 worth of photographi¢ paper is saved with the
A sipglé reconnaissance group .averages 60 mis. sions pgyday with a mifimum of 180 cameras used. Each camera contains a 200-foot roll of film or 250 negatives. Thus one group alone exposes a total of 45,000 negatives in one day. Sometimes 50 to 60 prints are m from a large number of these negaThey afe distributed to bombing ‘groups, higher echelons, chief of staff, secretary of war's office, com-mander-in-chief and allied nations. It was German Gen. Von Fritsch who said in 1938 that the nation with the best photographic reconnaissance would win the war. A. T. 8. C. points out that we are winning the war. ;
By Eleanor Roosevelt
whether that main trend is being adhered to. Even when the minor happenings seem to be setbacks; and in themselves are not quite the thing that, | with our limited knowledge as citizens, we would want done, we must try to look at the whole picture. For instance, I feel that out of the. San Francisco conference we are going to get substantial agreement on some kind of machinery through which the nations of the world are going to function.. I do not think that all of us will be satisfied with everything that is happening in San Francisco. But, as private citizens, I think we must rememsber that we cannot pass ‘judgment until we know more about the reasons why. our representatives have accepted certain things. As an individual, I am not | convinced that: the Argentine today is any “different in its government from the Argentine of some months ago.’ I am completely mystified as to what -Russia’s reason may be in her. Polish attitude, but I' know that oup delegates "and those of other nations have had diffiult problems to meet. Confidence will be built eventually by our adherence to our, highest standards in dealing with others, and by our own refusal to accept from others any lower standards.
We will have. to wait for the final reports and |:
clarification on what our, representatives have accomplished to understand the whole picture. I think we are moving forward, and, as private citizens, we owe our chosen delegates the confidence and backing that we can only give by believing that they never lose sight of. the ultimate objectives.
whatever unit. Ernie|
Cruclest Deceit—Faked 'War Death’ Calls
By Seripps-Howard Newspapers , WASHINGTON, May 8.>A ‘number of Washington families with
"mien in service have been victims
of one of the cruelest deceits of the
war—fake telephone calls notifying
them that their sons have Seely
killed in action. - The similarity in the calls sd. ' cates that the same person or group Ais carrying’ on the fiendish ‘cam-
'paign, The anonymous callers claiin
to be from the war or navy depart-
ments<one even identified himself ! asa Sapa wad inform the fam: iy Shas” ie
Tan in, question has
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Jor
been killed, but that it will be some time before it is “officially announced. Those who receive the calls are generally women, and a number of
cases of hysteria and overwhelming,
grief have resulted. The navy says it has received a “ftoed” .of inquirles as a result of the calls, and the army reports many complaints. Both services have turned, over reports to the FBI. Chiefs of. the services have informed the public that the next of kin always are nofified directly of a detors it Is announced
is always by telegraph rather than by telephone. The telegrams are
delivered personally by specially|
selected ‘messengers. Though this is the™ most vicious
anti-morale. campaign seen here, |"
the war department has also warned seryice families against various kinds of “casualty rackets,” designed to swindle bereaved families, and an anti-semitic lobbyist was caught using franked envelopes stolen from capitol offices to mail anti-Jewish propaganda to relatives of _men kilied in action, thanking them for
“donating their sons to this Jewish ‘war.” ; hs : ;
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SECOND SECTION.
Indianapolis
TUESDAY, MAY. 8, 1945
THEY: TOO, SERVE THEIR EOUNTRY IN Fs: HOUR OF NEED— :
Dinner to Honor Two- Gallon Blood
pe W. 41st st, . , ., A Red Cross staff have given two gallons of blood. at “The reason I have continued to give
Mrs. Ethel McNamara, 125 assistant, is among those who the local center: She says:
my blood is that if by so doing I am able fo send one husband to his
wife, a son to his mother, I will not feel I have failed my cauntry completely in her hour of need.”
Beran HRA
Walter Frisbie, 1808 Orleans st. . . . A C. I. '0. official, “The giving of blood seemed the best thing to do next to being in the war. My brother is a marine, my mother works in a powder ‘plant, my ‘wife campaigfs against black markets and for price control. I hope to give blood until the war is over.”
Miss Joan E. Sink, 254 N. Arsenal ave, . .. A schoolteacher, says: “I felt it was a privilege to help in this way. I welcome the opportunity to contribute regularly to the blood bank. There is no one in my immediate family in the service, but the men who face the fire are risking their lives for all of us.”
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Pvt, Harry White, Chicago. . . . Now at Wakeman General hospital, he bas received more than two gallons of blood transfusions. Here he signs a Two-Gallon club membership card, but he will have to pass up the dinner at 6: :30 p. m. tomorrow honoring the iwo-gallon givers. They will be guedts ot the Madden-Nottingham post, American
Legion, 1130 W. 30th st. The‘ auxiliary will prepare the dinner and.
‘Governor Gates will be among the dignitaries who will act as waiters: 18_these home front heroes. Others scheduled as -hash-slingers include “State Adjutant Gen. Elmer Sherwood, Donald Glascof, Amegioun Legion national Mwah nk possibly 14. Gov. James.
also has donated two gallons of blood.
says:
Frank W. Tarplee, 7360 E. Washington 8... A postal employee, He gives his reason: recently discharged, I had a son in service for over three years. Years
ago both my son and my wife were saved by blood transfusions. You | misfortunes “until it stops on your own
do not appreciate others’
doorstep.” Other two-gallon donors, below, include:
Mrs. Justine Carpenter, 222 S. Butler ave. . , . A war worker and a housewife: “A few years ago my life was saved by a transfusion. I remember how wonderful it felt to feel the life and warmth come back in my body. So I know that's the way the boys feel when they get the Red Cross plasma we give.”
Robert Carpenter, 222 S. Butler ave, , , , wife and I are giving pint for pint. This is my war.
as great an obligation to my country as the men and womén in "combat:
There is many a good pint left in this carcass of mine, so I'll keep
going ‘and giving regularly.” These gave. Those below received:
“Until |
A war worker: “My | I have just |
Pvt. Joseph Williams, Billings General hospital, has been helped |
to life with plasma. Among those to be honored tomorrow are Walter | Melvin Pierson, Sam’ Cohen, ‘Mr, and Mrs. |
Frisbie, Harry B. Griffey, Floyd A. Garris, Mr.-and Mrs Robert Carpenter, Miss Grace Adams, John W. Foreman, Gerald L. Currier, Frank Tarplee, Guy L. Bo
E. Helmuth, Stephen Hampton, Mrs. Louise B. Fry, James G. Cecil, Mrs. Dorothy M. Siegman, Carl Jacobs, Frederick D. Payne, Powets " Malwa, Mi Jog 5. Shi, Wal eS iprt de amy 3; ate
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‘Kenneth R. Matshall, Mrs. Maude L. Lachman, Mrs. Eunice Cooper, ‘Buren McCoy, Dr. George A. Franz, Lawrence C. Duckworth, Richard
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PAGE 18 Labor— —— AFL Charges Move by Russ To Rule Labor:
By FRED W. PERKINS Seripps-Howard Stafl Writer es WASHINGTON, May 8.—This.
.is a Washington and labor angle
to the Russiani complications in the San Francisco meeting of the United Nations. The American Federation of Labor, oldest and assertedly largest among American labor or ganizations, stated official- , ly here that “the so-called World Trade Union Congress is a subterfuge designed to subordinate and subjugate American labor, as well as labor in other lands, to the dictatorial control of others. This statement was made by the A. F. of L. executive council. Qualified spokesmen said it could be fairly interpreted to mean that this part of American organized labor regards strong Russian participation in the World Trade Union COnNgress, as an effort to use trade unions of all countries to advance communistic aims throughout the world. The C. I. O. led by Rhilip Murray. and Sidney Hillman, represents American labor in the World Trade Unilon * Congress, and is in attendance -at San Francisco. 4 RW nt THE A. F. OF L. statement was its most direct criticism yet of ’ the new world labor body, which was set.up in London in February in competition with the International Federation of Trade Unions, to which the A. F. of L. is still paying dues and wants fo continue. The A. F. of L. called attention to proposals in San Francisco by Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov to recognize the committee of the * ‘World Trade Union Congress as spokesman for labor in all coun- - tries taking part in the effort to work out a plan “for future world peace. This attempt, the A. F. of L. said, “would have American or ganized labor become part of an international labor organization sponsored and supported ‘by anJother government.” “ » » ” REITERATING its refusal to Join up, the A. F. of L. explained, “We declinéd to become part of a world trade union movement that would subordinate the American labor movement to the dictates of those: who are not free to determine their own destiny. “We have declined to identify ourselves with a world trade union, movement that is inspired by a political philosophy designed to subordinate man and property to the exclusive will of the state.”
We, the Women Safety Is . Worthy Trying In the Home By RUTH MILLETT THE EFFORTS ‘of factories to set “no accident” records by eliminating all possible causes for aecidents, and impressing on employees the importance of certain safety measures ought to soon be carried into the American home. For if such watchful ness and fore-
t ought can | cut down on
industrial accidents they Ga could also
greatly reduce home accidents, » » ” THE PARENTS in every home —by using ‘a little imagination abotit -possible dangers in the home itself and in household work—could © eliminate - a great many causes of accidents. Just such simple precautions as never leaving a small child in a house alone, turning handles of cooking utensils away from the front of a stove, repairing faulty steps and making throw rugs secure can prevent many home accidents, To ignore them is a real crime. And instead of being careless about their family's safety, parents could learn to take real pride in their own family's “no accident” records. . ™ ¥ 2s THERE IS no question but that ¢ imagination in the prevention of
* accidents is needed as much in i
the home as in the factory. It seems every newspaper you pick up carries some tragic story of a home accident that ‘need never have happened. Such stories as a family of small children burning to death while their "mother \is, at a neighbor's or a child's getting hold of lye, or a farm house burning to the ground because some ong used kerosene to start a fire in. the kitchen range, are common. Pamilies should feel proud of their “no accident” records, but by the same token should feel foolish and guilty over small acs .cidents that have been oy
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