Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1945 — Page 13

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~~ WITH THE 25TH DIVISION AT BALETE PASS, Luzon (By Wireless) .—THe death of ‘ 1. “Dusty” Dalton of Burlington, Xt., will Bae been: revealed some days before this rinted, for although my copy goes to the States by wireless I try to keep a nu of columns ahead and there one.

But you might be interested in.

the details of how one of the many generals killed in "this war—andby all accounts one of the -very best—eame to his death. Last March 14 1 was with the 6th division on the Wawa-Anti-polo line ‘east of Manila when a Jap machine gun killed Maj. Gen. Edwin D. Patrick. When I visited the 1st cavalry briefly its Ma}. Gen, Verne D. Mudge was lying severely wounded fn a hospital. And now this brilliant, likable young brigadier was shot:down, the day after I had a long conversation with him. - Last’ night the division G-2, Lt. J. D. Vanderpool, sat in my tent and told how i YD Gen.. Dalton wanted to examine the regimental headquarters of Jap, Colonel Hayashi, which had just heen captured, to see what sort of construction had been able to withstand our air and artillery concentrations, >

Tunnels Bored Through Rock THIS PLACE was about a thousand yards southeast of the crest of Balete pass. The general took his aid, Lt. Heriry Phillips, of Forest Hills, N. Y.; Col. Vanderpool and three guerrilla bodyguards. They left their jeeps on highway No. 5 and picked up Capt. Robert B. Lane, argo, Fla, and two enlisted men, of I company, 38th regiment. The general and the .other officers had removed their collar ornaments. The’ general was carrying a carbine. He wore two-piece green fatigues and a helmet. They walked a few hundred yards to the former Jap headquarters, and found’ the enemy had

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

= HARRY W. KRAUSE, the merchant, was aboard a crowded outbound N, Meridian bus right after the stores closed Monday night, and he lteard the bus pperator complaining about the Monday night crowds, Mr.-Krause told him that his troubles were at an end, as Monday night shopping was being. abolished. The operator gave a restrained cheer, a tired young saleswoman sang out, “Hallelujah,” and everyone on the bus laughed, reports Mr. Krause. far as I, personally, am concerned, " I'm satisfied to see the Monday night shopping idea abandoned.

I tried -to_do some shopping a

couple of Monday nights and all I zot was a good shoviag around by the crowds. I couldn’t even get up to a counter to look for what I wanted. ... Charles Sammis, 265 S. Emerson, thinks something ought to be done ‘about all. the people who walk out from the Circle several blocks to board busses, crowding the busses until there's no

toom for. passengers to get-on at the Circle. His sug-

gestion is that the street railway operators not change their fare registers until they get within a couple of blocks of the Circle. Then, anyone getting aboard any further out would have to pay a second fare. On second thought, how on earth would the operators enforce such a ruling? ... Watching several busses pass the other evening, I was struck with the idea that man, indeed, is a gregarious animal, (Webster says: Gregarious—fending to flock or herd together.) The front. ends of the busses were jampacked, with folks even squeezed in on the front step. In back half there was room enough between passengers to swing a cat. People must love to be crowded up in the front of a bus. If they didn't, they'd shove their way to the back -and be comfortable.

~Fhen Can Keep It YOU'VE PROBABLY heard of all sorts of tie-in purchases, but here's one that's the height of something or other. A housewife phoned a, near northside poultry firm and asked to buy a chicken. “Okay,” the clerk replied, “but to get it, you'll also have to buy a dozen eggs.” This housewife wasn't one to stand for any monkeyshines. She told them she had plenty of eggs, and they could just keep their old chicken. Our servicemen overseas write home for all sorts of things. Some of the requests are pretty strange,

America Flies

THERE'S A GLOWING inspiration to be found in the insistent demand in the aircraft industry for the re-establishment of the old Ameyican principle of free enterprise—work and win policy—and only #5 much government regulation out of Washington as is necessary to-preserve safety and business order. As a sample of this attitude, I am going to give you some exterpts from the testimony of Col Roscoe Turner of Indianapolis, president of the National Aviation Trades association, given before the civil aeronautics board, whieh had been sent out from Washington to investigate regulations of the little businessmen of aviation, the aircraft service operators: These operators are engaged in fa iiftade of aircraft service to the public, including agricultural flying (dusting and seeding of crops), aerial advertising, photographic aerial work, flight instruction, sale of aircraft parts and accessories, overhaul and rebuilding of aircraft and engines, local passenger flights for pleasure or sightseeing, and taxi and charter services,

‘Pulled Up by Bootstraps’ ROSCOE TURNER is one of the most colorful characters in American aviation. And if anybody in this flying business evér pulled himself up by his own bootstraps in a ‘thoroughly American manner, it's the ingenious and tireless Roscoe Turner. Col. Turner said: “My remarks are addressed directly to those selfish agencies which are advocating restrictions and economic regulations for us little fellows. There are only two legitimate reasons for that regulation. ‘One, is to protect the public from being abused and walked over by powerful interests. Number two, to protect the investor and little businessman who cannot speak efTectively for himself. “We are the little people of aviation, and we're too busy to do more than organize in" a general form, we don't have the money to hire a lot of

My Day

ny PARK, ay listened to Secretary 8tettinius’ speech on Monday evening and read it the next day, and in addition I have read many. of the editorials and ‘comments upon it. It was fitting, I think, for our secretary of state, the head of our

United States delegation, to report to this nation and to the men in the armed services during the fifth week of the: conference. The objective for which we all live and fight today is ultimately to have a peaceful world. This conference is one of many early steps in the direction. of world unity, It .is the most important one so far, begause without the organization which . we hope it will establish no fufther , Sheps could be: taken. - 1 liked the way in which Secretary Stettinius gave 3 Joe DRKETONNG Jon uit Spebeh er a: this

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By Lee T Miller

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Some of the tunnels: interconnected. The entrances were usually though a pillbox or a thatched

“SECOND SECTION hut.

The general had examined most of the installation, (CUISINE MIRACLE—

which covered several hundred- vards, and he was Cooked Meal

continuing up a gorge to see the rest. N Along there the trail goes throush a narrow canyon,” Col. Vanderpool explained. “This Jap rifleman | ‘was hidden in a knoll beyond, canyon; “A Filipino laborer had told us a Jap was some= where ahead, and ‘we all had-our guns ready. .Capt. Lane was in the lead with an enlisted man. a guerrilla and the laborer when the Jap opened fire. The bullet ricocheted from the canyon wall and went over Lane's head. They pressed against .the wall and got partial cover, “The Jap fired again and just missed the guerrilla.

Jap's Second Burst Fatal

“I THOUGHT T could see where the sniper was and I moved up past the gencral. But I found that the Jap could cover both sides of the canyon so I decided this was no place to be exposed. I jumped sideways and rolled under an outcropping of rock. ' “The general at once did the same thing. Just | dining roam paneled in blond maple | as he jumped the Jap let go again. The"general and a modernistic kitchen—equipped | fell against, my leg and tolled back into the line | with batteries of freezing dockers, | | defrosting units and unnanred | “I didn't know how.badly hit he was, so I crawled gadgets. down and dragged Him back. Lane's sergeant was 6 Served in the blue and mauve yelling, ‘Get back, you can’t do him any good.’ {dining room—which last fall re-| “But- I got him back away. Then I could see | placed a section of an shafiaoned; the bullet had entered above the temple and come |police garage—was a meal oo |

KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 31 (U.| P.).—Transcontinental and Western | Air today unveiled one more of the | “miracles’’ in store for the post- war | air traveler—one that research ex- | perts believe may some day find! its way even into cottage kitchens and one-room walkups. ° Behind a . begrimed facade in| Kansas City’s dilapidated north end, |

out at the base of the skull.” He was dead. land frozen en toto months ago. “The sergeant went for men to try to envelop na the Jap and bring a litter. ‘I don't know whether | the Jap's caught yet.” (apple fruit cup, lobster The general is being buried tomorrow in the army Duchess potatoes, and even cemetery at Santa Barbara. Today Vanderpool is rolls and meringue-topped strawup in the lines again, looking for a site for a new observation post. And another brigadier arrived this morning to take Dusty Dalton's place.

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popped into a freezing unit, TWA spent $17,000 as a Starter for the maple panelling, the taupe rug, ~the kitchen's “big ranggs and other equipment, and ther went on from there. The line envisions the day when but here's one that’s really unusual.’ Walter Walker, | the Constellation, coming down in’ a Seabee shipfitter I-c, wrote home from the island! Caicutta. will catty hungry passen- | Palau, and told Mrs. Walker that his buddy would |gers, dubious of the safety of food | like a musical powder box, and could she help him |prepared by natives of the tropics find one? Not just any old musical powder bOX,!with theif limited notions of san-| either. This one must be one that plays “By the Light | itation. of the Silvery Moon.” If you know where one can be 2 8 = obtained, phone Mrs. Walker at IR. 4210, evenings. « BUT THERE'LL be no handling by! She's mighty curious to know just why her husband's natives, no necessity for adapting buddy should want this particular tune. She recallS strange food products to American that when she and her husband had been married tastes and no delay in the service. only a short time, he brought her a musical powder | Cooked and frozen in New York box. that played: “You're a swell little headache.”|or San Francisco, a complete meal; When she asked him if he really meant she was a can pe set out in 30 minutes with headache, he said he picked this box erely because | vitamins and.appearance intact. he Tiked the tune. “Miss ‘Eve de Mariano; who ‘heads the foud research staff for the line, | Reminder of Da ys Gone By pointed out the old set of recipes MEMORIES OF days ‘gone by are recalled to old- [if not on the way out, certainly] timers when they look out the Century building's would come in for drastic readfourth or fifth floor windows, into the court. On the|justment before the housewife can! wall of the adjoining building on the west is a well adapt procedures to her use.

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preserved sign that must have been there many years.| There's the matter of pastry, she;

It advertises products of the: McAvoy Brewing Co.— “Made in Germany.” . The dispute over where the old Alhambra theater was located apparently wasn’t settled by my correction the other day, so I called on the obliging staff in the library reference department. They looked it up in old city directories and found that the Orpheum theater—not the Alhambra—was located at 44 E. Washington, presently occupied by the Stewart book shop, during the years 1910 to 1913. And the Alhambra occupied ‘the present site of Thompson's restaurant at 44 W. Washington. from

1913 through 1922 or thereabouts. I hope that settles {now conducting freezing experiments

that. And I'll bet no one gets me involved in any| more arguments over theaters—not even Edd (Slim) Monroe, 626 S, Meridian st., remembers the Casino, which he thinks was in the same half block as the. Alhambra. . . . Here's one old {Heater IT cat locate without fear-of eentradiction: A plaque on the south wall-.of the Colonial furniture building recalls that that was the original site of Morrison’s opera house, first vaudeville theater-in Indianapolis. The plaque, which bears the dates 18591926, seems to have been erected by the old KeithAlbee Vaudeville circuit. Another plaque on the building states tha’ the Grand Army of the Republic held its first national encampment in the Morrison opera house Nov. 20, 1866. The tablet was erected in 1921 by the Women's Relief Corps.

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points out. Shortening acts strangely under ‘freezing’ conditions. #® ” . YOU CUT DOWN on the shortening, go heavier on the flour and throw in a little extra ice-water. These little details are being worked -out by Miss dé"Mariano but it takes time by the trial and error method. | She pointed out that, while TWA was tne only ‘concern of its kind

on cooked food, other companies {also were at work and universities and colleges scattered over most of .the country were beginning to show interest. -Miss de-Mariano-displayed.a.mod-est pride in the cream ‘that went into today’s coffee. It was frozen weeks ago. "~ Other experimentalists thus far| maintain milk and milk products can't be frozen successfully. | They can—Miss de Mariano’s cream, and the cream-based salad dressing proved it. The secret, she said, was to make

the quick-freeze even quicker and never to raise the temperature until

By Maj. Al Williams pm i

ANTI-JAP CASES FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES

WASHINGTON, May 31 (U. P). =The federal government believes it has little right to intervene in cases of terrorism against .Japa-|nese-Americans onthe west coast, it was learned today. Justice ' department attorneys have been studying the 19 cases reported to them and have concluded that there is possibility for federal action in only one. Eleanor Bontecu, department attorney, said investigation of that | case was not complete. She said {federal authorities could step An jonly under special circumstances, such as on the request of a state governor, if force is used to deprive Japanese-Americans of property or

smart boys and legal talent to protect our interests against agencies of the government which are Bppaze| ently intent upon regimentation. “Have any of you fellows évVer tried to make al living by depending upon a rattletrap airplane, tied up with wire and an empty gas tank? Well, I have— during my barnstorming days after the last war.

Back in Business Again “THERE HAVE been times during my career when I would fly into a town with only a few gallons of gas left and hunt around for a hayfield in which to land. Naturally, people would come running out. Among these people would be some ambitious bird who had a garage. We'd tell him we had to have some gas. He'd supply the gas. And without a dime in my pocket, I would persuade this fellow to take his~payment-in-trade.—I-would-take-him- for a-ride; and he would be so happy to get back on the ground | that he didn’t charge me for the gas—and I was back| in business again. It was a tough venture, but I! finally made it go:and made a living with it. “All progress throughout history has been made by people who were willing to make the sacrifices that are necessary to do the things the majority says can't be done. If it hadn't been for the Wrights, we i or if federal laws are wouldn't be here today—and everybody told them they were crazy. And it would be just as ridiculous] to attempt to slap economic restrictions on us little private operators in aviation today as it would have been for the government to start telling the Wright brothers what they could and could not do practically |

n most cases, she indicated, action was up to local authorities.

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U. S. aerial, submarine and surface forces,

LIVES. TO TELL TALE OF CRUELTY—

Bo iey Traces Nazi Fiends

Times Foreign Service

Milos; the Yugoslav, worked in the |

| office of the great murder camp at| | Mauthausen.

The camp was lo-

lant lives—to look back over a ca- | MAUTHAUSEN CON CENTRA- reer of flirtation with death since|Bachmayer, the master sadist, was| TION-CAMP; Germany, -May..3l— June.1043. cw... Lived With Death

His was a job of daring, of seek- | we were put to work building a new

“April 26 set a record—1166.

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cated in an old Austrian prison on ing information of the enemy lines. |crematory. We shirked, hoping ‘to

a hill overlooking the beautiful Enns river valley.

was with partisan save lives. groups which risked death every, “They came raging and said that

He had worked there for three hour of every day—Greeks, Alban- if we didn't finish it we would be]

years—one of the few who had jans, Yugoslavs, Italians.

stayed alive that long. | Milos was clever: He kept the records neatly and so was of value

to the S. S. guards, who were more |

interested in other things.

As Milos sorted - papers, he came |

upon the name of an American lieutenant, scheduled to die on April 28 in the gas chamber.

Saved a Life

Under his right hand lay papers | listing several hundred hospital | deaths—caused by actual starvation and torture, but listed as pneumonia, heart trouble and other natural - causes. Milos slipped the officer's papers among those of the dead.

He transferred those of one dead!

man into the American's niche in the “Live” file. Came April 28 and the list of those doomed was called out. The lieutenant stood among endl

knowing that he was listed. But his

number was not called. The number of the dead man came up, and the records showed that the lieutenant was dead. So he shuffled off with those to await another day. And so, because troops of the 11th armored division overran the camp a few days later, the lieuten-

ith Mauldin

and economically with aircraft after the Risy Hawk! episode. “If some individual: wants to haul coal "by air | I claim he has a right to try to make it a paying | proposition. He'll soon find out it can't pay, and you don't have to tell ‘him. And we don't want to | be told—and we won't be told what is and is not! economically feasible. The development of private aviation in this country is a trial-and-error, a cut-| and-fit enterprise—and it can't and won't stand for economic restrictions proposed: by those who are not! doing the investing, the riskirig of personal savings, | and paying for the trial and error.”

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt

our internal differences are when we try to agree on some specific policy, we get a better conception of the gigantic task of making all those nations agree on a charter and on the framework of an organization which will bring them together in the future and give them an opportunity to build for peace. Two. things stand out in my mind as I think of this report. I would like to speak of one point today. Our secretary of state did not shirk the unpleasant task of talking to us about Argentina and Poland, and . that showed courage.” Many of us—and I am, among the many—wondered whether the decision | reached in Mexico City to grant Argentina the op-| portunity to ‘join in he conteretice, if she” fulfilled certain conditions, was a wise one. We know that there are many people in A gentina | who are neither Fascists nor in sympathy with the, Pascists. But we also know that the. policy of the government has been controlled by people. 'who either | were th sympathy with the Fascists or had made up their winds that it was to Argentina's economic and political advantage to continue ° .cloge ties with the. Today, with decisiv -

[the first to die. We finished it that |

It was he who pulled those 30 night.

“They were killing So many they|

flying American nurses out of Al-| bania in January of last year.

“The next day they christened it, | Four hundred Czech Jews came by,

{Austrian partisans landed from a the gas chambers, which were built | Greek fishing boat on the Adriatic as shower baths. They undressed, | coast, slipping between German | stepped into the showers and were machine guns, 300 yards apart. |dead in 12 minutes. | They went 200 miles inland,| “It was that night that Milos {missed connections because the | {switched my record, they tell me. {plane failed to drop a radio to|I don’t know Milos.

them. Stays to Aid Justice

| And there they were, deep in { Nazi territory, getting priceless in-| “I nly know. that he, took deformation, but with no way to send |li8ht in cheating the death cham- | it out. z |Deriomeven though he "knew _that| fag aii each time he did he might be send- | Gold Raised Suspicion ling himself to torture.” : They started Tor Gen: Tito’s lines.| They killed 3000 those last few One night one of the Austrians |days before the Americans came. | | produced real gold to buy an en- | But they couldn't kil] them all. |gagement ring for his sweetheart.| The lieutenant’s stomach was in (That aroused suspicion, {bad shape and the doctors ordered Under torture he told where the immediate, hospitalization. lieutenant was hiding. {~*Let-me-stay awhile,” he begged: The gestapo came. They heat the |" “These crimes cannot go unpunlieutenant up and broke his arm.|ished and I can help getting the| |He was taken to Vienna in chains. records together to hang these | For two days he was beaten con- | fiends. tinually for réfusing to talk. He So he stayed on, with a few others was finally tossed into solitary con-|{T0M Austria and Germany, who| finement for three months. {had been interned in the early days | “Just when I thought I'd go mad |°f Hitler's purge after endless days of solitude,| Ine leutenant and the others | American bombers saved my rea- “© foregoing home and loved ones) son,” the lieutenant said. to remain for a time and help build “They hit the gestapo headquar-|® tribunal of Justice that will—they ters twice and everybody ran—but pray—eliminate. such inhumanity not before I was shipped here to Yom the earth. Mauthausen.

“I ‘watched the smoke curling from the big crematories 24 hours a day. The death toll was 1000 a day

CREIGHTON TO TALK AT G. 0. P. MEETING

> > HANNAH

‘PRESENT OPERETTA “The Magic Beanstalk,” an pp ‘eretta, will be presented at “the| | Flanner House, 333 W, 16th st, by| Io op. wos work: k wiefurtoment. a 8)

The lieutenant and three trusted train and were marched straight to

PAGE 13 Communism —

Strikes to Add To Detroit's | Other Troubles

“By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer DETROIT, May 31.—Strikes to be fomented by American Communists are the latest cloud on the industrial horizon of Detroit. This No. 1 war production center already is disturbed with work stoppages and : cutback jitters. bo ir? Reports that Communists are getting set for. action were heard here today among government officials as well as leaders of the dominant union in this locality, the C. I. O. United . Automobile Workers. These authorities, knowing how deviously the Communists work and how adept they are at covering their tracks, are viewing with alarm. The Communists have been on their good behavior since- Germany attackéd Russia. eventually forcing a military alliance between Russia’ and the United States.

ay BUT NOW the party line is

changing, as was shown last week -

in New .York through publication of a rebuke by a French Communist leader to Earl Browder for alleged co-operation of the Com---munist Political ‘association with ° American capitaiism. The Detroit Communisis—not numerous, but potent in the U. A. W. because of their key positions in Jocal unions and in bottleneck jobs of war plants— are reported to be planning strikes as a means »f forcing the United States to tie in more intimately

.«¥ith_ Russia in nierpational af-

fairs. They would like to influence the outcome of the United Nations meeting in San Francisco and also ‘the international developments that will follow.

5 ” n THE AUTHORITIES admit this, sounds’ cock-eyed. But it is pointed out that the American Communists always have been cock-eyed in their understanding of the way things are done in this country. to which they Inve only a partial allegience. Strikes will be not unusual in Detroit. There were 10 today on the list of the U. S. Conciliation Service, affecting several thousand workers. All were related to war production. The Communist-fomented strikes will be harder to settle because of their origin and shadowy issues. While the strikes were continWing, a two-Rour Memorial “day = . parade proceeded down Wovdward ave. led by the military and including ‘many civic units representative of this miscellaneous community.

2 = ” MANY THOUSANDS watched, and the spirit was completely patriotic—but in the ‘background was the fear of what will happen to this war-swollen community when the war orders stop. Will the automobile plants be able to reconvert quickly enough to prevent mass unemployment? R. J. Thomas, president of the United Automobile Workers, says Willow Run, which is closing down, is a “symbol of lack of planning.”

ke running the homes.

We, The Women Housewives

Resent Aid of Expert Help

By RUTH MILLETT A WOMAN civil engineer interested in “the most fundamental of all our American small businesses, the home,” has some sound ideas for making the relationship between housekeepers and the people they employ to help them do their work more businesslike. Ong, of Elsie Eave's ideas is that there {is no reason why domeéstic service . should continue to be considered menial, ” f n THAT, for example, the wash woman could be taught about textiles and proper treatment oi them and become a “textile renovater.” And other Rouschald workers could also become “experts” in their fields. They could be sent out from a community service center, with a good personnel manager at its head, to houses needing an expert’s “help.

» ” IF MEN. were running the country’s homes, such a scheme would be entirely practical, perhaps, But not while women are

Housewives just don't want “experts” doing their washing for them, for the very simple reason . that housewives are jealous of their position of being the only “expert” in their households. » The average housewife can't even turn a woman loose to scrtib -the kitchen floor without giving

. her directions as to how “I like

to have things done.’ and then checking up n he: afterward to

ners.