Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1945 — Page 9
“- ABOARD A CRUISER IN THE CELEBES SEA _ (By Wireless).—While I was visiting a destroyer off Tarakan, I made the acquaintancé. of the ship's ‘mascot, “GQ.” Fas ny : GQ is ‘a rooster. ' Filipinos “gave him another > "rooster to some of our men on Leyte on D-day of the first Philippine invasion last fall, GQ is short for general quarters, the call to pattle stations. That's because the rooster gives voice from time to time with fine barnyard cry as it rallying to action. 5 The other rooster was named “One Easy'—condition one easy being the status aboard ship when the men are at battle stations but may- nap or otherwise relax. Poor : One Easy took off on‘ a reconnaissance flight one day and landed in the ocean— permanently. The ship had a monkey, once too, but the monkey “jumped overboard one day, apparently for a swim, while, the ship was making 20 knots or so, and the poor “monk was last seen swimming desperately’ in its wake. 3 Lt. Cmdr. Robert R. Green, the captain of the | des. yer, didn’t learn about the incident until later. “rd have turned back and picked him up,” he | gaid, ‘out it was too late when they told me.” Capt. Green comes from Connersville, Ind. ,
GQ Goes Ashore
THE SHIP'S log bears an entry about the monkey's | disappearance: “Oscar abandoned ship at 16:30 o'clock.” When the destroyer is in port and a liberty party goes ashore GQ is certain to be along, and the liberty pass bears his name along with the crewmen’s.
SO YOU THINK it's been pretty wet this spring! Well, so it has, but not so much rainier than last spring—even if you are having trouble in getting your
tomatoes set out. For March and April, the rainfall ° (12.41 inches) is only half an inch more than last year, same -months.- The trouble is that the bulk of the rain last spring came in March, whereas this spring it was in April — a ‘month when farmers and gardeners should be busy. For the year, total precipitation (zain and snow) is Tess than 4 inches above normal. What are the prospects for the future? Well, the weather bureau won't talk, You'll just have to keep your fingers crossed.... P.'S. Wasn't yesterday a heck of ‘a straw hat day? It would have been a hardy soul, indeed, who would venture out in a straw. ... No wonder so many youngsterssare anxious’ to .join the U. S. marines, Willard Bradley, 17, who lives with his uncle and aunt, Mr, and Mrs. Frank Haight, wen} down and signed up with the marines the other day, effective with the close of school at Shortridge. Then he returned home and said: “Aunt Polly, I'm sorry but-I can’t mow the grass and do other jobs around here any more.” After questioning by his aunt, he produced written orders from the marine cofps as follows: “You will this day proceed to your home where upon your arrival you will assume inactive duty status” And Willard was ready to make the most of it. . .. Note to a curious G. I. and his girl friend: Those Block flags are made of cotton bunting, the stripes are 4!; feet wide and the stars 3 feet from tip to top. You're welcome.
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On Judgment Day FOLKS UP at the City Securities Corp. were start'ed yesterday to discover the boss, J. Dwight Peterson, goosestepping around his office in a German army officer's uniform. The uniform was sent to Mr. Peterson by Lt. Col. Frank Moorman, who in
Livilian life is representative of the Republic Coal & Coke Co. In a recent letter, Col. Moorman advised that he was sending back a souvenir from Germany,
JELLIED GASOLINE, known more familiarly to the experts of the chemical warfare service as “gel gas,” is America's newest munition. It Jooks and feels like raspberry jélly but it smells like gasoline.
And just now it is helping to burn down the airplane factories, munition plants and other war production facilities of Japan. When "a flight, of B-29's turn an industrial area of Japan into a sea of flames, “gel gas” is the explanation. For it is the active ' ingredient of the world’s best incendiary bomb, the M-69.
w————— The story of the development of this bomb is the story of a long tno and intensified scientific research with scientists, industrial tech1 nclogists and military experts all
contributing their share. Three months before Pearl Harbor, the army air forces asked-the chémical warfare service to devise an incendiary bomb that would be better than Germany's best. Experts of the service consulted with scientists of the office of scientific research and development and the decision was made to assign the. job to the laboratories of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey.
98 | | Lodks Like Rainspout
AS FINALLY developed, the M-60 is 19 Inches
EACH He . 3 . long and weighs 6% pounds and in appearaace looks HL like a piece of rainspout or other hexagonal pipe.
The B-29 drops a 500-pound bomb, which is easily
‘aimed. As it approaches the target, the big bomb breaks open, scattering « cluster of some_60 of the M-69's in all directions.
My Day
HYDE PARK, Tuesday.-I spent this morning up ab the top cottage trying to put it in order for one of my children, who hopes to spend part of the summer there, My husband planned this cottage for his own “ personal pleasure and relaxation. .He never used it except for a few hours at a time when he wanted a peaceful spot to write a speech or to sit and talk with his friends. © Sometimes he would choose to have a picnic meal there, but - ~ more often he wanted ‘quiet in or« der to think, i The house is not exactly arranged for the use of a family, particularly when there are children; but I am now -trying to make it livable for the summer.
. f way these boys are . : of 8 and 12, brought women
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astonishment. noise nonchalantly,
get ‘irritable.
World of Science
You Don’t Care Much ~
" THE DESTROYER's crew has heen away from home a long time now-most of them about a year and a half. - “Of course that's a lot less than many ground troops out here,” said Lt. A. H, Bryant, of Alexandria, Va., the destroyer’s executive officer. “But still it’s a tong time, and they've been living on the same ship all this while. “The first few months you get bored. Then you Then you get so you don't care much whether you go home or not. “Your old life is drifting away from you, You don't remember how things were back home.” “1 asked a boy who was writing to his girl what it was he found tp say to her,” an officer remarked. said he wrote her how he felt'about her. .I asked him if he meant how he felt about her now or how he remembered he used to feel. And he said he guessed it was how he remembered feeling.” | “You get so you're satisfied to just go along the | way you're going, but you know that's wrong, and |® ; you feel you ought to get back home and get over | isolation hospital. y that way of thinking.” On the other hand, Lt. Bryant said, the men wh don’t arrive at that feeling of detachment about home are the ones who suffer and continue to suffer because of the enforced absence from a wife or sweetheart or friends or “old familiar places.”
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
without saying what it was, and added that he dared Mr, Peterson to wear it to the Service club luncheon. t Spectators decided the jacket and trousers weren't child said, | made for the same man inasmuch as the jacket isn't| clusions. He said he was author-| very large, whereas the original owner of the trousers|ized to appoint the committee by | evidently was unduly fond of beer, judging from the | the association's board of manag-| 3 Mr. Peterson served Uncle Sam in| ers after numerous complaints had L | i
waist measure. the other war....
It Tasted Just As Good
SOME GIRLS who met at Prest-O-Lite have] formed a club, and they celebrate birthdays of mem-
By Loe G. Miller
The boys bring sand from the beach to filt a box for GQ to take his rubdown in aboard ship. He sleeps perched on a handrail or the rigging. During shelling he paces the deck or bridge unconcerned now, though |” in-his first experience with the guns he. was so be‘wildered he ‘kept opening and closing his beak in’ But he’s a veteran now and takes the
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+ WEDNESDAY, MAY. 16, 1945
"SECOND SECTION
POLICE ACTION 10 BE PROBED
Alleged Illegal Arrests of, Girls Will’ Be Investigated.
Alleged illegal police practices | were being investigated today by a | special committee of the Lawyers’ Association of Indianapolis. i The association is following similar action started by the Indianapolis Bar. Association recently in
o [conduct at the city prison turn-
Some war plant employees ap‘parently weren't overly ‘enthusiastic about continuing at work on V-E day. At least, that's the inference you might gain from a typewritten note which found its way to the bulletin board in a certain local plant. |, investigation,” Mr. Fairchild as- | It read: “This plant will operate same as usual On |g er tad ; , Judgment day.” .. . George. S. Diener, who has oeen |; ert ; ticas] with the Spencer W. Curtiss advertising agency, in Sof egume 8nY, Hliegsl Practices paddling his own canoe now. He has opened an| agency in the Hume-Mansur building.
|asking for a thorough investiga«tion of the alleged illegal arrest| and detention of girls at the city |
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| The group also will investigate | key’s office, especially whether wal oners are treated impartially and] lare given an opportunity to com-| {municate with legal counsel. Headed by Myers Members of the Lawyers asso | | ciation committee appointed by Mr. | | Fairchild are Walter Myers Jr.,| | chairman: ~ George W. ' Eggleston, ‘Cecil A. Taylor and Herbert J. Backer. T The civil liberties committee will | | be given a “free hand,” Mr. Fairin reaching their con-|
{been received. Welcomed Probe
“Wiliam Remy, safety board| president, toi me he welcomed such |
“He said he would assis
“Our group is not charging that | these practices exist. We simply want to look into these complaints and see for ourselves,” he said. Some time ago, a. similar group | was appointed among members of {the Indianapolis Bar association. |
bers. May 10 was the birthday of Pearl Griggs, and |, majority of the.committee re- |
a party was held at the home of Irene Chappell. The | signed recently amid charges that | birthday cake was ordered from -a bakery delivery-| the association's board of managers
man. Came the day of the party and he showed up, full of apology. It seems the bakers had done some
had attempted to ‘‘soft-pedal” evi-
belated celebrating of V-E day, and had baked only | cials.” -
five special order cakes the preceding day. The de- |
liveryman found none of the five had the right word- | ing on them for his four orders, but he picked up four GEN, SMITH REPLIES
anyway. ‘When he got to the Chappells, he had two
cakes left. One read: “Happy Birthday Ralph.” The other: “Happy Birthday Liz & Kay.” Miss Chappell’s | mother decided that “Happy Birthday Ralph” was | out of the question, but that “Liz & Kay” would have | to do. And it did. It tasted just as good and it wasn't so inappropriate, at that, as two members of the group were Lizeta (Liz) Mascher and Catherine (Kay) McLarty. The other members: Florence Kreich and . . Patty Kettler, 1134 W, 34th, reports, that a family of robins, lacking the usual urge for, privacy, set up housekeeping on a windowsill at Shortridge, right near a stairway. The birds didn’t
June Baker. .
seem a bit disturbed at having hundreds of pairs of eyes upon them every-day. Now the family has grown to include three cavernous-mouthed youngsters, They, |
too, seem to enjoy all the attention.
| Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, the | Hoosier officer who signed the unconditional German surrender for Gen. Eisenhower, acknowledged the congratulations of his home |state today. Gen. Smith, in a cable to Goveror Gates, said that he was “deeply grateful” for the message the governor sent him just after his par-
ihad been announced. “Hoosiers in this theater are proud and happy to have had the opporunity of making their .contribution to the great tradtions which have always been associated
’ ’ {with Indiana's war efforts,” he said. By David Dietz { Gen. Smith, who is chief of staff
{to Gen. Eisenhower, said that the
commander “asks me to convey to
The M-69 has a streaming tail like the tail of a you his personal thanks and apkite that slows its fall to about 250 feet per second.|preciation.”
Thus it will crash through the roof of a factory but |
Gen. Smith is a fofmer resident
will not hit the floor hard enough to bury itself oriof Indianapolis and a graduate of
to destroy its own mechanism.
A time fuse, accurately timed to the landing. of the M-69, shoots a stream of flaming petroleum jelly DOG out of the end of the bomb to a distance of about
100 feet.
The sticky, flaming jelly clings to anything it touches and burns with intense heat,
First Tests in Indiana
| Butler university. ~ «ENB
POISONER FUND INCREASED BY CLUB
A reward of $25 has been posted by the Cocker Spaniel club of Central Indiana for information leading.to the arrest and conviction of
JELLIED GASOLINE, which is being used by the| the person or persons responsible
chemical warfare service in a greatly improved flame | thrower as well as in incendiary bombs, is made by
for the recent dog poisoning in | Indianapolis. This brings the
total reward
BY LAW GROUP.
dence against police and city offi- |
T0 CONGRATULATION
ticipation in the Nazi eapitulation
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lar, photo shop and radio repair. injured although ~ adjoining * build Korbly, Evansville.
owntown
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Condemned more than a year ago, this three-story building at 106 S. Illinois st.’ collapsed last night. The two upper. stories, which were vacant, fell in on Larry's Studio, a combination tattoo par1t is operated by Lawrence Leuthold, 2228; N. Alabama st. No one was The condemned structure is owned by Richard
ings were occupied.
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By HENRY J. TAYLOR | | Scripps-Howard- Special Writer PARIS, May 16. — What! | + France needs now: more | than all else is a moral and| spiritual rebirth. That must come from the French themselves. can be no strong France. Without a strong France, it Is | dificult to picture a durable peace {in Europe. L This nation is ashamed of its
|part In the war. The victories were {not Prench victories. France is engulfed in her defeat. There is even a trend of thought that France can never master her own future. “This
be a Russian or British puppet. Snared in this cynicism, Prance has yet to make up her mind to go back to work. » » » BEFORE THE .Germans came, | French workmen were told by their
politicians that less work at more pay was the key to national prosperity and personal security. One premier said: “There can be no limit to government borrowing and deficit financing in a country as rich as France.” Frenchmen, in a human way, began to grasp the intoxicating idea
stirring a secret white powder into ordinary motor money for apprehension of the dog|that somebody owed thém a living.
fuel.
When the assignment was given to tha Standard Oil scientists, there was a shortage of magnesium in this country and for this reason they were under the necessity of seeking a new ingredient. mans, of course, were using magnesium in their incendiary bombs and this country has since also developed a large number of bombs using magnesium. Experiments conducted by scientists in the laboratories of the Standard Oil Development Co., at Bay- . way, N. J,, and by research workers alt Massachusetts Institute of Technology, indicatéd that what was wanted was a fuel with a relatively moderate burning rate and the ability to stick to the target. The first secret tests of jellied petroleum were made by the army air forces on fields in Indiana in July, 1942. Pinal tests were made by the air force and the chemical welfare service on a Utah desert, where buildings of both German and Japanese types
were erected for the tests.
By Eleanor Roosevelt.
with me, and I then went over to the big house to|
work for two or three hours.
As I listened to the news this morning, I realized that our men are doing some very hard fighting both on Okinawa and in the Philippines. make us all the more anxious not only to buy bonds in this Severith War Loan drive, but to do what we
can to help sell them.
. The end of the war in Europe has not made it| any less’ important for us to’ put all of our savings |
into war bonds when we can.
The news said the loan started well, but we must .sustain our efforts. The more help we give financially and in daily work, so that supplies flow to our fight~ ing fronts in the full amount needed, the more dis-
couraged the enemy will be. °
In view of the needs of our fighting men and of the liberated countries, I hope that for a time at least we are not going to complain too much if we eat or if the shops do not have the
‘cannot buy things we would like to buy. During
: ceiling may seéem very attractive.
The Ger-
1 hope it will
~summer, when vegetables and fruits and fish are fairly plentiful, perhaps those of us who do not do heavy work can voluntarily get along _ less meat than we would ordinarily like. : ‘Black “markets and efforts to remove the price : But in the end, that is the type of self-indulgence which brings us|
with |
| killers to $225. In mid-April when the poisoning wave reached its
for the sheriff's office, and the Animal Welfare league each offered $100 rewards. .
{The famous sit-down. strikes, in {which France pioneered, were a
peak, Otto Ray, special investigator | prompt manifestation and French |
| production never recovered. 5 | The bubble burst with the defeat (of France in 39 days by a ruthless
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the poisonings may be sent to him.|fact. admitted to me at the time
Up Front With Mauldin
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Enduring Peace in Europe Depends Largely ~~ Upon a Strong France Spiritually Reborn
This is the third in a series | country as a whole to make up its sizing. up the political and eco- mind to go back to work.
nomic outlook of western Europe. |
‘in interviews at the German foreign ' office in Berlin. n EJ 8
THE NAZI program had two pur»
{toward England and America and our course must be toward France. | France and England have not been, {and are not now, firm friends. This | spasmodic cleavage between the two . ’ : J {great democracies of Europe is a|WwW ithout this there | poses: First, it would remove the continuous calamity for Europe and | threat of a solidly associated French the world.
Then France's course must be
But now with the defeat of Ger-
"PAGE 9 ei Labor mdm Truman May Take Decisive
| Strike Action
By FRED W, PERKINS WASHINGTON, May 16.—President Truman, faced by the biggest labor disturbance of his month in the White House, is obviousiy moving toward decisive . action to end the general coal strike in the anthracite fields. - He could order Interior Secretary Ickes to impose a new ‘contract under government terms on the anthracite operators and United Mine Workers; or instruct Attorney General Biddle to cut out techuicalities in deciding whether leaders of the idle miners are violating the war labor disputes act, This strike is ir. its third week, but has not received much public attention because of the overshadowing news attending the German surrender. ” u ® BUT THE anthracite situation is serious enougn—home and other users of this fuel have been restricted for next winter to four-fifths of their normal supply, and immediate controls have been clamped down on deliveries in 12 Eastern states.
The strike goes on despite the fact that all the anthracite operations, more than 300 employing about 72,000 men, have been seized by federal authority, and the flag is flying over them as an invitation to the miners to come back to work. They show no sign of doing so until they get a new contract on the basis prescribed by John L. Lewis. -
The miners have legal backing in that they voted overwhelmingly for a strike, Under the war labor disputes act.’ But soon after that, on May 3, the anthracite mines were seized, and under _ the law any person who encourages a stoppage of production in a facility under federal operation is subject to fine and imprisonment. .
2 . ” FBI AGENTS are stationed throughout the anthracite region, but according to the department of justice, they have not been able to find any evidence that any persons were fomenting the strikes. , The men are’ simply staying away from work, and there is no power to compel an individhial to work if he is otherwise minded. The United Mine Workers
Journal records in its issue today that the anthracite miners’ com-
‘minority boiling as a national unit |
| under the Nazi yoke and threat- | ening to erupt to Germany's mili[tary disadvantage. Second, French quarrels would discourage FrenchI men and the world regarding any | future for France as an important ination. | Hard as the road may be, France fmust recover from effects of this
implies that France is destined ‘to|pefore there can be hope for the!
future of France or long-term sta- | bility of Europe. France is a nation of individualists, a freedom-loving country. The French are a proud, brave people: There are Frenchmren here now who have integrity, patriotism and unflinching courage—hundréds of thousands of them. There are men who have wisdom, talent and the deepest love for freedom and justice —hundreds of thousands of them. » » n
{lish- national wunity and for the
OF EMBEZZLEMENT
A cringinal court jury ‘has con-
IT REMAINS for them to estab-|
{ many, when you see the situation lat close range you find that it is {not so bad as it may appear to be ahd that there is a growing realiza- | tion in both England and France { that the first step toward peacs and {safety in western Europe depends] lon establishment of British-French| { unity. This is fundamentally a problem i which the British and French peo{ple must solve within themselves by | improving their attitudes toward) {one another. . » » n
THEN FRANCE must see. her fu- | ture as cast with England and! America together, not just England, or America. England, in turn, can remember that if Great Britain had | been courageous and militarily| powerful, the influence of France at her side would have prevented War. - \ Had England steod on this continent where France stands, England would have fallen in 1940. Had
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{pocket army ahd air force of 1940, | | we ‘would Dave fallen. Therefore. | Lif both countries would now look af| France with a less superior eye we
mittee decided to reject an order on May 1 by the war labor board for uninterrupted production of coal, under an arrangement for
retroactive application of wage
benefits,
Apparently, “Attorney General Biddle does not consider this de~ cision by union leaders to be the “gvert act” required by the war labor disputes act as a basis of prosecution for inducing or encouraging a production stoppage in wartime.
America stood here, with our vest- 1%
We, the Women War Wives : Learn New Values in Life
By RUTH MILLETT WAR WIFES WISDOM: A woman's real friends are those who don’t regard her as a social liability as soon as she becomes a Jone woman, instead of half of a couple. The meat shortage
$500.
: victed Mrs. Helen F. Hubert, 4350 would help France toward moral Harry Kendrick, 934 N. Denny st., | but hard-working German enemy.| Guilford ave. of embezzling $1,150 [and oiritoal et or vice-president of the Cocker Span-| The Nazis hoped that if they occu-| from the Tri-State Construction| In assisting Fran . both Engl fel club, is handling the d| pied only half of Fr the Fr h| 3 ug oe. sland , g reward | pied only half of France the French| company and: sentenced her to ajand America will need great pa-| for the club and information about|{would fight among themselves, a| year's imprisonment and fined her|tience, for the French situation pre- | isfying a chore
| sents discouragements every mile of
Judge William D. Bain will post-|the way. But the goal is worth the [Lae execution of the sentence un-|patience and represents an inescap-
til May 22-to allow the defendant |gple test of England's and America's|
{to settle her personal affairs. The jury reached its verdict on the first ballot and the punish-| ment on the third. | {A former bookke¢per for the| construction firm, Mrs. Hubert was | charged with cashing company | checks without authority.~Her de-| | fense was that the grand jury in- | | dictment was faulty in particulars | and that the state had not proved | | her guilty of a criminal offense, Mrs. Hubert now is employed as | secretary to W. H. Frazier, city | | sanitation plant” superintendent. |
‘SHELBYVILLE V. F. W. | OFFICERS INSTALLED.
| . Officers of the Shelbyville post,| | Veterans of Foreign wars, were in. |
commander. 2 . Harry Bogeman was installed as commander; Charles Gaunce, senior vice-commander; Oral Henry, june ior vice-commander; Walter Cato, quartermaster; Willlam Henry, judge advocate; Willlam James,
chaplain; Graham Lemon, adjutant, and Willis" McLanahan, officer of the day. -
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142 members. . ‘ Fi
, SCHEDULE ' CARD PARTY Ellen Rebekah lodge will hold. a card party at 1:30 p, m. tomoriow at the Citizens’ Gas & Coke utility,
statesmanship.
(Copyright 1945, Scripps-Howard Newspapers)
| stalled last night by Leon V. King,| Fl.
The post closed its charter with | F
> HANNAH ¢
hasn't made | meal planning | half as unsat-
as not being able to cook favorite dishes for the men of the house. § It is easier ! to go through | .a childs ill- | ness alone than not to be able to share with. his father the child's “firsts”—first steps, first sentence or first real fight. Days unbroken by a husband's evening homecoming have twice as many hours as “normal” days. n ” n THE TELEPHONE loses all power of suspense, once the man in a woman's life is restricted to letter writing as his only means of communication. But the mail« ° man takes on a new glamor
Letter days and days without leters have as different a feeling’ as rainy days and sunshiney ones,
It's strange how much time and effort a woman spends doing the odd jobs of a man who “never did a thing around the house.”