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MANILA By Wireless) —We returned from our gen trip in style, * Our. ctuiser dropped anchor many miles from Manila, but Capt, Jack Duncan of our ship and Capt.

. H. G. Hopwood of another got together and scraped.

up three two-seater seaplanes, Sam Kinch of Ft. Worth and I rode in the rear seats of the two planes, and the third carried our bags. The planes were mounted on. } their high catapult gear, and it i... was quite a job getting up there “and into the seat, especially while burdened with life jacket and parachute. - And of course I had to crawl into the wrong seat on the first try. But as soon as the crane had lowered us into the water it was a fine ride, My pilot’ was Lt. Charles Stewart, of Oakland, Cal, who was probably not born when I took my first airplane flight—in a Curtiss Jenny at Brownstown, Ind, in 1918. We got enough altitude 50 that in case of trouble while over land we could ‘glide to a water landing, and then the three planes flew formation-——ga little too tightly sometimes for my nerves,

Navy Is a Good Host

WE CIRCLED over the walled city’ here, and I picked out from the air the spot where in February I'd seen my first Jap killed, We put down without a jolt near a ship which’ is generating electricity for army use here, and she sent a small boat. Then all I had to do was to descend gingerly from the cockpit, typewriter in hand, walk out to the wing tip and Jump for dear life to the boat. The ship's people phoned for a jeep, and invited us to come to their movie some night. The navy is a good host wherever you find it, Some odds and ends— Censoring men's mail is a task officers dislike,

They wish it weren't required. Men write too impersonally, they say, because of the feeling thas, * ‘the

“+ censor is looking over their shoulders.” *

Manila is getting. positively effete. On returning I found my army cot gone, and in its place an iron bed with a mattress, (But no pillow or sheet). The few natives I saw on Tarakan would bow low as we passed-—-something they had learned the hard way from the Japs, no doubt. But they were intelligent looking. ,

Never a Dull Moment

ON TARAKAN I bumped into Lt. (j. g) N. R. Rathbone, of Waterloo, 1a., and Aviation Ordnance Specialist 1-c C, L. Rueblinger, of Baltimore, members of a naval “MEIU”—mobile explosives. investigation unit. They have the interesting, to say the least, job of poking around’ Jap bombs and mines to see what makes them tick. I didn’t bother to follow them around and watch them" work from close up. “Ropeyarn Sunday” on the .cruiser I was on is actually Wednesday afternoon, when the men are relieved of ordinary duties where possible so they can mend clothes and do other personal chores. . A “plank owner” is a man who has been aboard ship since her commissioning. A new boy in a newspaper office is usually sent solemnly after “the press key” or to examine “type lice.” The navy sends a greenhorn below to get a “can of vacuum.” A @miling Negro lad who took good care of my cabin was Stewards Mate 1-c Joseph Walker, of Columbus, Joe has two brothers in Burope—Sgt. Freddie and Pfc. Theodore. Story from the ship's weekly paper: During fire drill Cmdr. J. Heath asked a shipAtter how much pressure there was on his hose and was told 1000 pounds. “Where'd you get a thousand pounds on that line?” demanded Heath. “The same place you got the plane which dropped the bomb that started this fire,” retorted a shipfitter; ducking. '

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

"ERNST H. GRAF of the Central Indiana Dis tributing orp. read Mrs. Roosevelt's column in The Times Mg@day and decided somebody must be wrong, Or. ois 0 Uncle Sam was about to get rooked again. the Bretton Woods plan with its proposed stabilization of currencies, Mrs, R. says: - “How is this done? Through a world bank and a monetary fund, The bank will have a capital of $9,100,000,000; to which every nation contributes in proportion to its wealth. Our share (get this) is $13,175,000,000.” Poor old Uncle Sam! ..,. Mrs, H. B, Williams, R. R. % writes: “Ernie Pyle’ was known nation ally as the Hoosier Vagabond. Why not name one of our In= diana state parks in his memory?” Well, why not? , .. Don Collins of Keeling & Co. advertising, returned from a business trip to Canton, O., with an amusing story. In the Akron Beacon-Journal, he found a story stating that “Mr. and Mrs, George Alexander are the FATHER of twin boys born” in an Akron hospital. On an elevator, he read the story to Bill Hutchison and Del Wakeman, also of Keeling & Co. As he read the story, the fourth passenger on the elevator, a total stranger, grabbed his arm and asked, excitedly: “Say, what was that name?” Don read him the story again. The man then explained: “My name is George Alexander, too, and my wife is expecting the stork. But I guess that must have been another George Alexander.”

Darned Old. Sqwirrels HELP! HELP!! Are there any squirrel experts in the house? Mus. A. F. Scheffler, 1035 Churchman ave., sends the following 8. O. 8, appeal: “Can you tell me what a person should do to some squirrels who not only destroy fruits in season when they are

getting big enough to eat or use, but now are gnawing and destroying my oactus plants. I had many

World of Science

DEVELOPMERT and production of new and mere

destructive incendiary bombs has become the biggest How well

single job of the chemical warfare service, the service, under the leadership of its chief, Maj. Gen, William N. Porter, has done this job, can he measured by the fiery destruction that was visited on the cities of Germany and is now being visited on those of Japan. Early in the war, incendiary bombs accounted for only about 5 per cent of the bomb loads dropped by the army air forces. As the war against Germany rose

to its climax, the percentage in- . creased and today many of the

raids on Japan are true fire oe bombings, the planes carrying - nothing but incendiaries. Yaymen, concentrating on- the reports. of the raids, naturally think first of the fliers who are dropping the bombs. But a fair share of the credit for the success of these raids belongs to the officers and technical experts of the chemical warfare service who developed the bombs.

New Techniques

ALL INCENDIARY bombs dyopped by the army, navy and marine corps air forces are furnished; by the chemical warfare service. Today more than: 50 cents of each dollar spent by the C. W. 8. is going into fire bombs. Under the over-all supervision of the air chemical office headed by Brig. Gen. Bdward Montgomery in army air force headquarters, chemical officers and air force units around the world are constantly de-

veloping new techniques in the use of airborne incendiaries.

HYDE PARK, Tuesday~I had to go down. to New York City last Friday afternoon on business, and so 1 femained over Saturday to accomplish a number of errands and see several friends who have been anxi« ous to talk certain things over, I came back to the country Sunday, and it certainly is always a joy to return, Every-

one used to tell me that I never grow accustomed to A vom

plants, one to two feet high—the kind that look like rabbit ears and have stickers on them. But one day| last week those mean squirrels clambered on top of the pots and pulled and broke and ate them part way, and there they lay, all ruined and broken off. The squirrel ate on three different cactus. plants, chewed them all Yo bits. I was so mad. Could it be there is a nut shortage? The neighbor feeds them walnuts. I despise them (the squirrels). What can I do about the situation? P, S. I place my plants outdoors on the walk south of my house when it's warm: If I place them on the fence rail, the squirrels knock them down and break my plants, pots and all. What are squirrels good for, I ask?” How about it; do any of you readers have any suggestions on how to make the squirrels go away, or at least behave themselves?

. Butch and His Pal : BUTCH, the George Scott's part collie, part police dog, trotted off to war two years ago and disappeared into the anonymity of the K-9 corps. They didn’t hear a word FROM him: But just the other day, they received a letter ABOUT him. It was from Cpl. K. L. Shaddix, over in Italy. Starting out: “Remember the little dog, Butch, you sent. to the army?”, the corporal explained that Butch had been with him in Italy 10 months and had seen plenty of action. He wanted to know Butch’s earlyshistory, and said “we have grown fond of each other, sleeping in the. same foxhole and eating from the same mess gear.” Then the corporal got around to the business at hand. Would the Scotts want him back after the war? Or would the corporal and his pal remain together after the war? The Scotts, who live at 4635 Indianola, were touched by the soldier's devotion to the dog. They put the problem up to their 9-year-old daughter, Patty, the dog’s owner, And Patty, a bit

sadly but most generously, decided: Butch will stay|: : with his new master. , . . The Street Railway now||

has six of the new busses in operation. Nine more—

the balance of the first order of 15—still are sched- i uled to arrive yet this month, but railway officials Ten more are|:

are beginning to be, a little doubtful. due from another manufacturer later,

By David Dietz

Gen. Porter discloses that four types of incendiary bombs produced by the chemical warfare servioe are being used against the enemy. Three were wholly developed by American scientists since Pearl Harbor. The fourth, the magnesium bomb, was copied after European types.

Three Use Gasoline THE FOUR are:

«1: The M-50 four-pound magnesium bomb, patterned after British and German types. 2: The M-60 six-pound jellied gasoline bomb, made possible by Dr. Louis IF. Fieser's development of “fire roe” for thickening gasoline, 3: The M-47 100-pound jellied gasoline bomb, hot merely a “big brother to the M-69, but an agent of destruction for specific purposes. 4: The M-76 500-pound “Goop” bomb, the biggest of all incendiary bombs loaded with a special mixture of magnesium powder, liquid asphalt, jellied gasoline and a number of oils. An example of the effectiveness of these bombs can be gathered from ‘the records of the raids on Japan in recent months. For example, between March 10 and 19, the B-29 Superfortresses dropped more than 10,000. tons of fire bombs on four principal Japanese industrial centers, destroying 26 square miles ‘of production facilities. A single raid on Tokyo on March 10 resulted in the destruction of 24 plants, extensive damage to 12 and moderate damage to six. Experts of the army air forces calculated that this meant a production loss of 20 per cent of the Japanese capital for a period of three months, the “de-housing” of 1,200,000 Japanese war workers and a factory loss of 1,012,000 “man-months.” In addition, the reim of fire on Tokyo on Marci 10 destroyed two petroleum plants, damaged another, destroyed one shipyard and damaged another,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

erward and drive back to the cottage, But early the

"next morning Miss Thompson called me in New York

Ato tell me that he had failed to > ippea.

existence. But as a young girl I

spent a great part of the year in the country, leading a quieter life than anybody today would dream ‘ofs It has consequently never + been difficult for me to slip back irito finding my own company and my own private occupations very a pleasant and enterthining.

I cannot say, of ‘course, that as

ot 1 t have had any time which wasn’t. filled. with,

“activity. It has not been the same Kind of activity as “ during the past.years, for I can now stop at any

point and say: “I have. reached the limit of my ‘Yet my schedule still®

‘By Lee G- Miller

SECOND SECTION

, By int LARSEN : NEA Staff Writer

gering and the process of accomplishing it will affect every U, S, citizen. The big job, according to Brehon Somervell, commanding general, army service forces, is as follows:

ropean veterans in the Pacific area with the arrival of equipment and materiel from the European theater. While that is going on there is the tremendous task. This consists of reoutfitting the men for Pacific warfare, Torming new units, train=ing them and co-ordinating the whole thing for the quickest possible knockout blow at the Japs. » 5 . CIVILIANS will feel the effect of the shift, very soon. The tropical climate of most of the ‘Pacific fighting calls for cotton uniforms for almost all the men. The army has already cancelled

e_Indianapolis Times

‘WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1945

No, The War Isn't All Over

ASHINGTON, May 23. The problems of shifting to a one-front war are stag- §

° Te co-ordinate the arrival of Eu- :

most projected plans for wool uni-

forms and proportionately increased those for cotton uniforms. Result: More wool for civilians and a tighter cotton goods market.

t J » . LUMBER is expected to be one of the tightest items on the materiel schedule. When troops were moved to England they entered well-constructed harbors and found adequate living quarters waiting for them, Not so in the Pacific. s Docks, supply, depots, camps, bar-

troops in the Pacific. This, added to what will be needed to rebuild Europe, will make lumber almost unobtainable in the U. 8. » ® 8 ALTHOUGH army procurement will drop an estimated. $3 billion or more with a one-front war, according, to Howard Bruce, directer of materiel, army service forces, there will be increased production of many items. They include steel barges, landing vehicles, combat boots, machine guns, atabrine, large caliber self-

Nazis Had Weapons So Terrible They Feared to Use Them

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Times Foreign Correspondent SOMEWHERE-IN EUROPE, May 23 —~Monday morning quarterbacks agree on- one thing about “the European war. We were very lucky to finish it When we did. Further, if we had

might have gone on for a long time and it would have gotten rougher fF. and rougher every fg week that it lasted

It is also agreed that it might have been much rougher than it Mr. Stoneman "cr the Ger. mans had watched their timing carefully and had concentrated on the production ofthe right things instead of frittering away energy on stupid stunts. It is agreed that ‘Américan supremacy in the air and our eoncentrated aerial assaults on German communications and industry contributed heavily to our victory. Jet Eighters Menace What isn’t generally known is that this air supremacy was seriously threatened by the German development of jet-propelled aircraft, If the Germans had been given time to step up production of Messerschinitt 262s, jet fighters, to 1000

immediate goal and of which theg were capable—our Fortress attacks on Germany could not have con tinued without ominous losses. In all probability we would have been compelled to- revamp our whole aerial campaign and to introduce entirely new equipment. That would have taken a great deal of time, The war in Europe was a cruel war in which the Germans obeyed

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Loaded to capacity with troops, supplies and fighting equipment, a coast ‘guard- manned LST delivers

the goods of war _to an island in for final phase of war against the

propelled artillery, bedding, distillation units and ®ther things needed because of the peculiarity ‘of Pacific warfare. » THERE Hore ep estimates: that civilians will ‘get 50 “per cent more gasoline now that V-E day has passed. Most authoritative guess is that they will be lucky to get 10 per cent more. - The food problem is expected to get steadily worse with more prisonets bf war and stricken allied nations to feed. Except for wool, the textile picture is just black as far as the army needs go, There is a serious shortage of tire cord, cotton duck. Among the worst shortages is that of

aircraft a month-—which was their |§:

leather,

few, if any, rules of the game. Yet it never involved three terrible weapons which might have been employed :* Gas, bacteria and atomic explosives. The Germans refrained from using these weapons for. the simple reason they were afraid of them. ’ Early Use Stupid

The German secret weapons were more deadly then people were ever allowed to know. The early ones were used stupidly and only failed to yield greater results for that reason. The magnetic mine could have

Trieste Action Shows Changing U.S. Attitude Toward Russia

By HENRY J. TAYLOR Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ROME, May 23.—The handling of the Trieste situation shows there has been a sharp change in America's attitude toward Russia recently, Whether the date is a coineldence or not, the United States has adopted a stiffened atiitude { toward Russia since President Truman assumed office. : The world atmosphere .h a s changed in Amerjcan diplomatic circles over here in the past month, reflecting undoubtedly a change in American policy at the top. The Trieste incident has been building up since last March. It has resulted in a split of the Com-

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SHIFTING TO A ONE-FRONT FIGHT WILL AFFECT EVERY. U. S. CITIZEN— |

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the Pacific. Military forces qemand Japs,

TO ALLEVIATE the situation, however, Mr. Bruce reports: “We have ‘a well organized procurement program in the liberated areas of -Burape. “Both Belgium and France are supplying us with tires and will soon be at capacity production, using in large part raw materials imported from here.”

» » » THE WEST COAST will take the place of England as the stockpile area of the war, All war goods will be going from east to west. All troop traths will be chugging west. Gen. Somervell is accumulating huge stocks of tanks, big guns and munitions around west coast ports

blocked every port in Britain if the Germans had built up a sufficient supply and mined all of ‘the great ports simultaneously. Instead, they used 4 few as early as 1939 and the British were able to perfect counter devices before the threat became deadly,

Likewise, the radio-controlled, rocket-propelled glider bomb, the first Jules Verne weapon to appear,

Anzio and was countered before Dday in Normany when it might really have been important. Our bombing and bad timing pre-

munist front, Italian Communists wanting Trieste for Italy, Yugoslav Communists wanting Trieste for Yugoslavia—and Russia. (Russia is eager for the warm water port which is easily protected by short lines of land communications, in Russian-sponsored hands).

Stalin's Hands Tied

Italian Communists continue to ride the Italian popular sentiment of “Trieste for Italy.” If they did not the Italian people would ‘as quickly shun the party as Americans would any party that came out with a slogan of “Forget Pearl Harbor.” So Stalin's hands were tied as a potential peacemaker, even in his own family, by this nationalistic tangle. British and American policy makers attempted to avoid intervention as long-as possible, Field Marshal 8ir Harold Alexander, the met the Yugoslav leader, Tito, near Belgrade in March while the Germans still held Trieste.

Denied Bad Intent

At that time Tito depended on the British-U, 8. armies to oust the Nazis so he was agreeable then to allied occupation of Trieste, He denied any intention of trying to invoke the formula of occupying Trieste himself with. the idea that possession is nine points of the law. Alexander sent a reassuring report to London and Washington after that conference, , Tito is regarded and treated by allied officials,as the squivalent of Stalin Inf foreign policy. Now that the essence of Twos new position was that Trieste had

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WAY ACross the Pacific. Many kinds of equipment will be sent directly to the Pacific from Europe without eromsing the u. Ss. NOT THE A of the problems is getting the men all back from Europe, The air transport command, it is planned, ‘will fly 50,000 men a month back. This means the bulk of the movement will be by water. Many men will be landed in Gulf ports. They will immediately be sent fo camps near home for a “haircut” and given a 30-day furlough before being regrouped into units and sent to the Orient. It is expected that a monthly peak of approximately 500,000 men will be reached during the withdrawal from Europe.

vented the V-1 from heing a truly dangerous threat to us. a If the Germans had gotten it going on a larger scale before D-day, we would have been troubled deeply. Their super-V-1, with 5000 pounds of warhead instead of original 2000 ‘pounds and a speed of about 600 miles per hour, instead of 350, was a real devil. If they had come over in great numbers the British could have done nothing about it. While this ‘is all water over the dam, it serves to remind people once again that another war could be too terrible to contemplate: The close call which we had with German jet planes also raises the question of the extent to which the Japanese may be producing them. They have certainly put many key industries underground, in the German manner, but whether they have achieved a seriously heavy production of jet planes is highly doubtful. The hope and logical expectation must be that we will keep rushing them to such an extent that they will never again get going,

and The Chicago Daily News, In

CITY RENT OFFICE 10 GLOSE 4 DAYS

The Indianapolis rent office will be closed for the remainder of this week to take inventory and install an improved system of internal operation for better public service, C. R. Gutermuth, district rent executive, announced yesterday. Orders have come from Washington, Mr, Gutermuth said, for all offices to do this before May 31. Because the offices operate on limited personnel, he explained, a new system of internal operations must be installed in order for the small staffs to handle the large volume of work,

McDOWELL : SERVICES LOGANSPORT, May 28 (U.P. ~— Funeral services were arranged today for Dr. Marvin McDowell, 66, member of the Logansport state hospital medical staff for 16 years, who died yesterday.

" Dwellings,

Building Backlog Is Job Asset

By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, May 23.-~ apartments, office buildings, airports, -highways— | hundreds and thousands of easly are in the construction backlog that the country is looking to fof

‘building jobs

after the war. The main trouble, accord § ing to Herbert § Rivers, execu tive of the building trades

of the Ameri

can Federation of Labor, is that there is no co-ordinator to decide whether public or private construction should be tackled first. He discounts talk that there won't be enough skilled builders to take care of the post<war job —unless the whole mass of pri= vate and public building is dumped into the lap of the con= struction industry just after the country is sure it has returned to peace sonaitions,

_ BEFORE hi var Mr. Rivers said, there ere 2 the ustry ‘and “tere are almost as many now. Some of these men are approaching the age of retirement, but there are several hundred thousand skilled builders in the armed forces. 3 When all these men get back, according to* Mr Rivers, there should be no lack of skifled work= - ers for any building demands the couniry cares to offer. But he admits there is a lack of young men for apprentice training. Union rules make another face tor. When the peak of wartime construction came in 1942, the A. F. of L. building trades were careful t4 collect dues or fees for work permits from the une skilled men who flocked into ¢antonment construction. » » » ° NO AUTHORITATIVE estimate

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Cake-Baking

By RUTH MILLETT A SOLDIER on Okinawa, after many attempts which resulted in various kinds of failures, has st last - perfected the recipe fora blast-proof cake. It won't fall during baking even when the ground is trembling beneath it from the

chance and luck out of the art of cooking. For the satisfaction that women get from turning out =a perfect souffle or an angel-food that is as light as a feather is the ele ment of failure that enters in. * =

NO PERFECT souffle or featht