Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1945 — Page 17

| Hoosier Reporter

WITH THE 25TH DIVISION AT BALETE PASS, | Luzon (By Wireless). —"1 firmly believe. he would have " been head of the army some day,” said Maj. Gen. Charles L. Mullins Jr, commanding géneral of this division, . He is talking about his assistant division ; commander, Brig. Gen. “Dusty” Dalton who was killed by a Jap sniper. “I was planning to recommend that he be given a division,” the general said... “I don't know of any ‘man in service with more tactical brilliance or: agdministrative acumen. > Gen, Dalton won a Sliver star -with an oak_ leaf cluster, and a bronze star. He had been ‘a general only, briefly. Until’ March he was a colonel, commanding the 161st regiment, which he took over during the Guadalcanal campaign, and Gen. Mullins said he had made it a regiment as good @s any in the army. Gen. Dalton was 35. He was graduated from West Point in 1033. His wife who writes poetry under her maiden name, Katherine Starbird, is the daughter of Brig. Gen, and Mrs. A. A Starbird. She lives in Burlington, Vt. Impressed With His Keenness I HAD a long talk with Gen. Dalton in his tent the day before he was killed, and I was impressed with his keenness. He obviously did a lot of thinking. He- was talking about the doughfoots, and he was full of praise for them, “The 'dozer operators and the medics and a lot of others do a magnificent job,” he said. “But it's the rifleman who has to go in there against the machine guns. sense of accomplishment, - helps a wounded man, hill—just why what's he got?

So does the medic who A rifleman has to take a he hardly knows—and when it's taken Just another hill ahead of him,

A WOMAN MOTORIST was waifing on Ohio st. at Meridian about 2 p. m. yesterday for the traffic sig-

nal to change. Just then a car pulling up behind clanked bumpers with her ear. was only a slight bump. hen the light changed, and the woman pulled around the corner and came boiling out of her car. The other car, a sherifi's car driven by a uniformed deputy, pulled alongside. Undaunted by the uniform and the sheriff's insignia on the side of the other. car, the woman driver gave the deputy sheriff a verbal dresing down. “No: damage to your car,” he said, apologetically. “Well,” replied the woman as .she gave her car the once over, “it'll be a good thing for you if there isn't.” There wasn’t and the incident was closed. But I'lt bet that deputy is mighty careful in the future.... Frankie Goode, 5-year-old son of Dr. Frank O. Goode, just back: from three year's service with the 8th army, isn't yet accustomed to geeing his dad around the house. After 36 hours of this new experience, Frankie walked up to his dad and asked: “Are you really my daddy or are you just a man in costume?” ... Mrs. Justine Stowell, 943 N. Oxford, whose husband, Lt. Aubrey Lionel Stowell, was killed over French Indo-China April 28, lost an envelope containing some valuable papers at the Circle theater Tuesday evening. It was her first time out since receiving news of her husband's death. In the envelope was her marriage certificate, a letter confirming her husband's death and several other valuable papers, difficult to replace. The finder can confer a great favor on a soldier's widow by sending the papers to her. Her phone number is CH. 6029R.

Courteous and Helpful

THE LIBERTY building at 107 8, Capitol, near The Times, is getting all prettied up. Workmen are painting the stonework, and it makes quite an improvement. Apparently -it's-the-old- Board -of-Trade building. At least, that’s what's cut into the stonework on the front. ,.. A reader writes in to praise one. of the Federal building telephone operators— Nora Ronan—for her courtesy and willingness to help.

World of Science

LITHIUM, LIGHTEST of all metals, and hitherto little more than a laboratory curosity, has found new and important uses in world war II. Some of them ean now «be told with the permission of the army and navy, A soft, silvery metal, lithium is only about half as heavy as water. Because of its high chemical activity, it nowhere occurs in pure form in nature, but in complex ores:— The chief commercial deposits of lithjum in the country are in South Dakota and North Carolina, Another important source is * the brines of Searles Lake, San Bernardino, Cal. A Swedish chemist, August Arfvedson, discovered the existence of lithium in 1807, but it took world war II to find what to do with it, In world war I the Germans tried to make an fluminum-zine alloy by the addition of one-tenth of 1 per cent of lithium. It was named ““scleron” and had the strength of mild steel. But it developed cracks in service and so was abandoned.

Production Jumps

AFTER WORLD WAR I, considerable study of Hthium was carried out in this country by Dr. Hans Osborg, who is now vice president of the Lithaloys Corp. of New York. This company, with plants in Brooklyn and Long Island City, is now the world's largest producer of lithium and its compotinds. In 1920 about 2000 tons of lithium and its com=unds were shipped to consumers. Production ' Yn seven-fold in 1044, reaching 14,000 tons.

HYDE PARK, Thursday.—~Yesterday I wrote about one of the points raised in Secretary of State Stettinius' recent speech and today I would like to continue with a discussion of the Polish issue, It is evident that the Yalta agreement, as far as Poland is concerned, became difficult to carry out and the much-to-be desired creation of a new. government was not accomplished. Poland has a right to freedom. But it is evident, too, that Russia, in return for her valfant fighting, has a right to feel that her European doorway is safe. That being the case, the type of ‘government which exists in Poland and the boundaries which are finally agreed upon will be of prealer © concern to Russia than to any of the other allies. Some compromise will have to be reached, ~ It is not yet clear what can or should be done, but I think it is good that Secretary Stettinius spoke out and did not treat these subjects as something which the people of this country were not concerned with, All thoughtful people agree that Russia, Great Britain and ourselves must co-operate in peace as we have co-operated in war, if the world is to have peace. Therefore, 1 like very much the plain speaking on the part of ‘our secretary of state, which emphasized for all of us the fact that machinery cannot make’ peace. Only the good will of peoples and _. their leaders can develop understanding and create

fact that in ‘do not. like

A ‘dozer operator has an immediate -

- “Erivia Pyle was dead ‘Tight when he said a soldier's war is just a hiindred yards or so on each side of him. He doesn’t see the big picutte. And he wants-to go home. “A man who has been fighting this tong has seen = friends killed and he is tired and he figures -has .about ryn out his chances. But he has to take another hill. And he takes it.” : ’

Great Responsibility THE. GENERAL thought the correspondents had a great responsibility to .try to make people back

home understand how things are out here. He mentioned the phrase ‘‘mopping up” which

sometimes gives the people the wrong idea of a

rough operation like ‘this at Balete pass “It's a correct phrase militarily,” he said. “You break the enemy strategically and the decision is won, but the job remains of defeating strong enemy remnants. That's mopping up, and in using the terms the army doesn’t mean to imply any lack of ruggedness.” Gen, Dalton was a disciplinarian. He discouraged officers from addressing men by their first names. “When an officer gets too familiar with his.men,” he said, “ne becomes hesitant about ordering a dangerous mission. He is likely to make a request instead of issuing an order. But a soldier doesn’t like that. He doesn’t want to take the responsibility. of sending himself into danger. For one thing he feels it's throwing down his family back home. He wants an officer to make the decision. There's not much volunteering in the army, and I'm against it. Men want to be told what to do.” Gen. Dalton was able and willing to do anything he asked his men to do, Gen, Muliins said. “And he could do it better than any of them,” he added. Gen. Dalton liked the troops and they liked him. He told me: “When I need a little bucking. up I go up there”—

he pointed: off through the rain and mist to the front

lines—“and talk to the men with the rifles.”

I can second that nomination, Nora always was very helpful to me, starting back in 1927 days when I was covering the Federal building. She's been handling the switchboard there for probably 30 years. Her two fellow. operators, Margaret McDonald sand Clara Piety, who started work there in 1938, are deserving of praise, too. ... The postoffice is getting ready for a flood of business when veterans of the last war get around to cashing the readjusted service (bonus) bonds. Most of the bonds were cashed back in 1936, right after they were issued. But many millions still are outstanding. They mature June 15, and no further interest will be credited after that date. Those who were able to hold onto their bonds will receive $63.50 for each $50 bond. Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker said his clerks are ready to start certifying the bonds now, as it isn't necessary to wait until June 15. The checks will be issued by the Federal Reserve bank at Chicago.

Pinchhitting for Steak

ONE FAMILY has figured out™how to get rid of animal pests, but it isn't a method that can be recommended—unless you don’t mind going to jail. A housewife who read about a mean squirrel bothering folks out on ‘Churchman ave., writes that she had similar trouble, “The “squirrels have done a little bit of everything around our place the last four or five years,” she writes, “but since it was against. the law to shoot the little ‘dears,’ we just had to grin and bear it. When they stripped our tomato plants of all branches, all we could do was buy and reset some more. And when they ate all the fruit off the trees, well, we could buy our fruit at the store. A few days ago we put a box of walnuts out in the garage, covering the box with a burlap sack. And did that fool the little ‘darlings’? Indeed it didn't. My husband and I stood in our kitchen doorway and watched one ambitious little fellow hauling them away and hurrying back for another load. My. husband watched a while; and then slipped out into the garage and closed the door, trapping Mr. Squirrel. That evening we had a delicious supper, fried squirrel and gravy, ‘hot -biscuits and everything -to-go-with-it.— We haven't had any steak or pork chops for ages, and, oh boy, did we ever enjoy that squirrel?” Well, that solved the problem, but if the conservation department ever catches you, it'll be just too bad!

‘By Lee G. Miller]

SECOND SECTION CAN KING RETURN?

Belgians. Are

Divided Over

By B. J. McQUAID Times Foreign Correspondent

BRUSSELS, June 1.—Belgians are

the return of King Leopold to the throne. Socialist leaders say that Leopold should abdicate in favor of his brother, the acting regent; to avoid plunging i the nation into political and social chaos. Catholic politicians as well as many clergy, noblemen and landed gentry—bound ‘to the monarchy by ancient ties of Mr. McQuaid goq)ty and tradition—are for the lings return.

The recent demonstrations prompted by %eopold’s release in Germany have increased, the bitter- |

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

Associates = of -Prime Minister Achille von Acker neither confirm nor deny the widespread impression

that he would resign his post and |

dissolve the coalition cabinet if the king should return. . » = . SUCH a~- course .by. Van Acker floundering in the midst of multiple crises. Catholics argue that the king acted throughout the Nazi ascendancy in the true. interests of his people. They say all Belgians should unite under Leopold and submerge

a strong, harmonious nation. This demand for the restoration of pre- “war tranquility has its counterpart in the Catholic party position on the question of collaborationists and the purge. They preach policies of modera~ tion, which are represented by their oppohents as policies of forgiveness and supine softness. nu : AT THE moment, feeling against collaborators is at a renewed high pitch because of the return home of many newly released political prisoners. These ex-prisoners are demanding action against old neighbors and townsfolk whom they hold responsible for their deportation. There has been an alarming wave of violence and lynchings throughout the countryside.

ever unwittingly, with political ammunition and having added to the distress of his patriotic subjeets-by major errors such as:

the capitulation of the Belgian

to his generals. TWO: Disregarding his minis ters’ advice that he flee the country and go with them to London or the Belgian Congo.

By David Dietz

Lithium’s use in world war II grows out of two characteristics. First, it is the lightest known solid body.- Second, it is the metal of lowest atomic weight. A cubic foot of lithium weighs. only 33 pounds, whereas, the same volume of magnesium weighs 108 pounds and of aluminum 176 pounds. (By contrast, a cubic foot of iron weighs 490 pounds and of lead, 701 pounds.)

Valuable Compound

WHEN LITHIUM goes into chemical compound the fact that there are more atoms of lithium packed into a given weight than those of any other metal causes it to form a greater volume of compound. One of the most valuable compounds is lithium hydride, a compound of lithium and hydrogen. When mixed with water it reacts to release hydrogen. The navy now uses this compound to obtain the hydrogen needed to hold aloft the aerial of the emergency radio outfit on life rafts. If compressed hydrogen were used ior this purpose, each life. raft would need a steel cylinder of the stuff weighing 137 pounds. The same amount of hydrogen is generated by approximately five pounds of lithium hydride. Lithium is finding use in metallurgy because of its great chemical activity as an agent for removing impurities from copper, tin and silicon bronze. It is also used to remove traces of impurity from gases. Added to lubricants, it enables them to work better at very low or very high temperatures and thus 1s proving valuable in stratosphere airplane flights and in the hot bearings of machines operated at high speed or under heavy loads.

THREE: Issuing a “back to work” statement soon after the capitulation which, though doubtless in-

wished Belgian industry to go allout for Wehrmacht production. FOUR: Accepting an invitation to visit Hitler at Berchtesgaden. FIVE: Getting married and indulging in the satisfactions of domestic felicity after publicly stating his intention of sharing the harsh fate of his army as a prisoner of war. » » » IN political circles, there is complaint. perhaps more fundamental than any of these. It is charged. that the king, before the war, displayed too much desire to be a king and rule in defiance of the constitution and tradition which require the Belgian monarch to be little more than a rubber stamp. It is said that he habitually disregarded the legally constituted cabinet to listen, instead, to advice from a secret cabinet of personal councilors.

ITALIANS ASK COAL ROME, June 1 (U. P.).—~The Ital ian cabinet asked the United Nations today for immediate shipments of coal and other raw materials to prevent closing down of Italian factories and resulting unemployment.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

the British Empire. Sometimes this feeling may be a carry-over from old world backgrounds; sometimes it is still our revolutionary war; sometimes it ‘is a sense of inferiority, which makes us insist on our superiority and look down on anything which differs from our own habits and customs. Fundamentally, however, I think it is most often the.type of dislike which exists in families now and then. The various members will call each other names, but they do not like it whén outsiders do fit. I do not think there is any real fear in this country of war between the English-speaking nations of the world. Our feeling toward Russia, however, is different. She 1s an unknown quantity. Her strength is not yet measured. The fact that she has done in some 25 years what the rest of Europe has taken several hundred years to do gives many a sense of insecurity. We know how rapidly her pgople have become literate. We know their fanaticism in defense of their form of government and of the leaders who have turned medieval conditions into a modern industrial civilization, We often do not understand that such rapid development means uneven development. I am told that throughout Russia you often hear tHe phrase, “it will be better.” That is a sign that they know their full accomplishment is not yet achieved. Something great tias happened, nevertheless, do mot‘ quite understand it as yet, and there lies one of the reasons for our uncertainty. With both Great Britain and Russia, however, we must -decide that peace is worth the effort we must make in order t6 understand and like each Di ahd has SEon MUS 45nd V0 31 other eons i As A 2 Jae 2 x i . : &

We, in this country,|

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would leave Belgian affairs again

NO ONE charges the king with|| collaborationism. But-he is charged| ~~ with having furnished Nazis, how- |:

ONE: Signing and announcing :

forces himself, instead of leaving it|:

tended to speed needed restoration. and employment of Belgian workers, | § played into the hands of those who

King Leopold A

deeply divided over the question of | 3.4

Burgess Meredith, who will portray Ernie Pyle pauses with his dog, Ayrab. The world premiere of the picture will be at

in the “Story of G. 1. Joe,”

Loew's July 6.

their differences in the interests of |

aching feet after a hard day at

In a closeup of a fighting G. I,

Dressed in his warmest woolens and typewriter at his side, “Ernie” stops to examine his

portrays Walker in “Story of G. I will be directed by William Wellman.

FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1945 |PRE-PREMIERE: GLIMPSE OF ERNIE PYLE'S SAGA—"

The Son of G.I. Joe' in Film

Murphy

“Ernie” congratulates two newlyweds, (Jack Reilly) played by Dorothy Coonan (Mrs. William Wellman)

Wingless

and Red, an army nurse

in the Lester Cowan production.

with his Chatting at

the front lines.

Robert Mitchum

Joe.” The film Joe” are Wally

Reuben of Reuters’, “Ernie,” Cleté Roberts of the Blue network, and Bob Landry, Life photographer.

Adding a touch of romance to “Story of G. L

Lacca as an Italian cafe proprietor.

the front are (left to right) Bob

Cassell as Dondaro and Yolanda

by Rep. John Taber (R. N. Y.). Mr.

paper interview regarding the] magazine which said: ° “This Russian language OWI magazine is the one magazine carrying American material circulated freely in the Soviet union since 1917.” “Does Russia submit her magazines and documents that she is sending over here to some agency of this government for review?” Mr. Taber inquired. “To my knowledge Russia does not,” Mr, Davis replied, “except in the case of censorship, which is handled from the military angle. » » » “HOWEVER, we consider it our spread as far as we can and as accurately as we can abroad. There would be no chance for us to distribute a magazine in Russia unless we did submit it to the Russian authorities. “We feel that we have been able to get in Russia, even with this clearance, ‘a great deal of material that, is doing America a great deal of good, so we consider it perfectly proper to submit this to the Russian government to look over, rather than not send it at all. “I think it is better to do ‘that than to distribute nothing to Russia at all.”

” » ” - FERDINAND KUHN JR. of the overseas branch added: “In this Russian, magazine, . in one article, with pictures, which had been authorized by the Rus‘authorities, we covered. the of

duty to get the message of America|

OWI Sends Magazine to Russia, but. Reds Censor It First, Congressmen Are Told|

By DANIEL ‘M. KIDNEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 1.—The office of war information publishes | all we have done to assist her in her a Russian language magazine in New York, after its material has been | military operations, does not have sent to Moscow for approval by the Soviet foreign office, the house ap-|a pretty good influence, both now propriations hearings revealed today. The manner in which this magazine material is handled was brought | said. out under questioning of Director Elmer Davis and other OWI officials |

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sia before.” The Russian information service issues here a bulletin containing articles, usually taken from Soviet publications like Pravda or War and the Working Class. It comes from the Soviet embassy three times a week. » » » “WHAT IS the purpose of circu-

lating a magazine in Russia?” Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) asked.

“That is to disseminate information about the United States,” Mr. Davis replied, “in reference to us, our form of government, and about, the Pacific war.” He produced a letter of commendation from the U. 8. ambassador to Russia, W. A. Harriman, commending OWI for its work. OWT has a branch office in Moscow. “Our purpose is to help win the war, both by breaking down enemy resistance, and by promoting good relations with our allies,” Mr. Davis explained. “We have always felt that the more they may know about us the more likely they are to be well disposed toward us. We also give them a pretty good idea of our military operations, which have been somewhat inadequately reported at times in the Russian press,

Md » » ' “A MAGAZINE going to the principal people in the gdvernment and the leaders in all fields in Russia is, A think, likely to give ‘them a much better 4mpression of what we have accomplished in the European as well as’ in the Pacific war. It is| likely to make them realize that the

Fuiaas es Was sions 8 JU {7 ‘m. Thursday, with operation.”

{gram in" Russia is to see to it that Taber read an excerpt from a news- | nad never been circulated in Rus-|the Russians appreciate all the as-

“I wondered if all the lend-lease we have furnished to Russia, and

in peacetimes,” Mr. Ludlow

“One of the aims of our little prosistance we have given them,” Di-

rector. Edward W. Barrett of the overseas branch said.

The Yipee Time

“PAGE 17 » el abr and Politics Stiff Schedule Faces Detroit Candidate

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer DETROIT, June ‘1. — Busiest young man around this. motor city appears to be Richard T. Prankensteen, 38, who has mapped out the following summer for himself:’ 1. Running - for mayor ‘of Detroit. 2. Handling the union affairs of the aircraft division of the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers, which are in trouble from announced nd imminent - cutbacks of government war orders. 3. Putting cn an operatta, “Gypsy Moon,” for which He wrote the book and lyrics to music composed by himself and his late father, a professional musician. In addition, and this might be labeled No. 4 Mr Frankensteen has the job of getting. himself reelected as a vice president of the automobile union. This in itself is a No. 1 job because of the fac--tional fights in that organization.

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MR. FRANKENSTEEN’S can—didacy for mayor is probably of almost national importance, although his effort to get jobs for displaced aircraft workers runs a close second. Mr. Frankensteen is the first prominent C. I. O. official to step out and ask for votes from a populace divided on the laborunion question.

If he wins, the result would be ‘a large number of labor candidacies. for state and federal offices—possibly a labor government such as is being sought in Great Britain.

The U. A. W. is strong Bere, "but still is a minority of the electorate. Mr. Frankenstéen recognizes this and is pitching his campaign on the claim that “what's good for Detroit will be good for Jahor—and the other way around.” ” » » x . “HE HAS BEEN indorsed by the C. I. O. and by some scattered A. F. of L. groups. But he says he wants no help from the national C. 1. O. Political Action Committee, because “the campaign should be kept on. —“ocal questions.” ; He claims that his support eventually will include potent Republican groups.

The Detroit ‘mayoralty campaign gn. a

is now under way, with a primary set for August on a non-partisan basis. It is the general judgment of political observers that the two candidates coming out of the primary successfully will be Mr. Frankensteen and the present mayor, Edward J. Jeffries,

In addition to promoting his operetta, Mr. Frankensteen has an ambitious program for development of Detroit (wheré he as well as his parents were born). He wants to -put in high-speed transportation, overhead or by subways, in a city which has depended on automobiles because of the manufacturing influence. Mr. Frankensteen, college graduate, football star and lawyer, means business. If he is elected mayor, 8 new era will come nationally for labor politicians.

We, The Women

Marriage Ties ~ Strengthened By Separation

By RUTH MILLETT NOW THAT servicemen are beginning to come home under the point system, war marriages are going to be given a thorough test. Much of the pessimistic talk about divorces to follow re= unions of husbands and wives once the war is over is certain to be disproven. For many

IKE AND 11 GENERALS HOME WITHIN MONTH

PARIS, June 1’ (U. P.).—The| Stars and Stripes reported today | that 12 top. American generals, led by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower himself, will return to the United States within the month. The first to go and the first tol come back will be Gen. Omar N. Bradley, 12th army group commander., He will leave within a few days and will be the guest of | the city of Philadelphia next Mon- | day. Others with Bradley will include | Maj. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, com- | mander of the U. 8. strategic air| forces in‘: Europe; Maj. Gen. Clarence” Huebner, 5th corps commander; Maj. Gen. Leland Hobbs, 30th division commander; Maj. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe, 103d di-| vision commander; and Maj. Gen.| Maxwell D: Taylor, commander’ of | the 101st .airborne division. The! Thomas B. Larkin, Maj. Gen. Elwood R: Quesdda, of 9th tactical { Williams, troop carrier command, | {and Brig, Gen. John Doyle.

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party also will include Maj. Gen. air commander; Maj. Gen. Paul Ll

‘FRIEND'S NIGHT PLANNED :

Ellen Rebekal, lodge 520 wil) hold

‘a “Friend's. Nn program at 8 members

lodge units to be guests,

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marriages will actually be strengthened ¥ because of the war. Thousands of young men and women have learned from separation just how important their marriages are. » » » THINK OF the couples who had grown 80 accustomed to their normal routines, so sure of themselves and their marriage ties, that they were beginning to be bored. And then came war and separation, and before long both ‘Mary and Bill realized how much the life they had built together really meant to them.

War brought a rude awakening, when they found out just how much they had come to depend on each other for understanding and "sompaianship, ” » " MARY AND BILL will have a - new appreciation for each other and for the happiness their mar riage brings. And make either of them much they ——— on and how little they gained

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