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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nusshaum|

IT WAS A LITTLE more like summer yesterday, even though it did rain as usual. THe sunshine brought out many pairs of sun glasses to" protegt eyes unaccustomed to the strange glare; It also brought out the sunbathers, or at least one of them, for the first time since the ‘warm spell in April. From an upper floor of the I. A. C., a feriifhine sunbather was observed atop ‘the nearby Spink-Arms. Spectators at the I. A. C. were startled at first because from a distance it appeared the sunbather had forgotten the usual sunbathing costume. = The more pessimistic spectators argued that the suit must be flesh colored. A hurried search for a pair of field glasses was fruitless. . . . Speaking of the Ir. A. ©, it provided the place for a reunion between wo classmates who hadn't seen each other for 42 years, They were J; U. Bragg, Baltimore, Md. who was at the club attending a meeting of executives of he American Transient association, and Frank T. lewis, of Standard Margarine Co. The last time hey saw each other previously was in 1903 while they were students at the Miller school in Virginia, , . Robert T. Bernd, of Allison, isn’t rating any too ell around home these days. Bob and Mrs. Bernd and their youngsters, Deborah, 2, and Barbara, 8 months, went up to South Bend recently for several ays to participate in a family celebration. Mrs. Bernd packed the luggage, left it in the dining room and told Bob to put it in the car. Then they drove up o South Bend. When they got there, they couldn't find the luggage. Bob had forgotten it. The chilren had only the clothes they were wearing. So Mrs. Bernd had to go downtown and spend $16 for diapers and other infants’ wear,

Lemon False Face

FRED ABERNATHY, 1620 N. Illinois, passes along

p little item he observed while sitting at the counter at Haag's, 38th and Illinois. A WAC sat down near him and a counter girl asked what she'd have. Lemon phosphate,” said the WAC. The counter girl ooked blank, walked back to speak to another girl. The other girl laughed, then walked up and asked

Returning in Style

SALZBURG, Austria.—He had to commandeer the division skipper’s Superfortress and Mercedes-Benz limousine, but Cpl. Lino Romano, New York, N. Y,, eported to his company with A. W. O. L. only two ours away. ie Now he is telling how he visited his aged mother in Voghera, Italy, took a side trip to Rome, stopped overnight in a luxurious villa and then, when there seemed. no possibility that he could get back on time, he spotted Maj. Gen. John O'Daniel, skipper of the beloved 3d division. ] No human can outtalk a doughboy in a tight spot and nobody knows that fact better than O'Daniel. So Romano stepped aboard the general's Fortress, id more brass than he had ever seen at one time, tepped into the general's car when they arrived at he. airport, and was whisked to the front door of his company command post. His mates were so astounded that they could hardly hold that “tenshun” ‘due the genera], when pl. Romano stepped out and said: “Carry my gear to my room and draw the bath.”

Present for a Soldier SGT. JOE HARRISTON, 65th infantry division, as the distinguished service -cross—and beside it a medal not on the books of the American army. One night shortly after the peace, the Russians ast of Linz tossed one of their famous parties and invited Maj. Gen. Stanley E. Reinhart and his staff. s the long session broke up, the Russian general ame to Reinhart, took a medal for valor from his blouse and handed it to him,

America Flies

I AM AWARE of a growing arixiety about this Pacific war. The anxiety has nothing to do with the manner In which the struggle is being carried on now. It is concerned with what we intend to do from here pn—to the finish, Washington dispatches consistently refer to the gigantic land forces we plan sending to the Pacific. Does this mean we're actually going to land on the Asiatic continent- and begin waging the orthodox type of European land warfare? Or does it mean that we're wisely sending a gigantic land force army to the Far East to be prepared for eventualities? What is America’s policy in the Far East? Does anyone know? I recall that not so long ago we repeatedly were told in sare astic vein that “any school child can understand merica's foreign policy.” Well, there's something ong, or else I.ain't a school child. What is our [purpose against Japan? Is it the subjugation of apan? Is it the elimination of Japan as a potential geressor or disturber of the world's peace? If the atter is’ our war policy, then our present campaign for securing strategic island bases for American airpower and hammering Japan to submission from the ir is sound,

Made to Order for Us

THIS TYPE of war is made to order for us. In fact, if our strategists had managed the stage setting, we couldn't be in a better position than we are today. American airpower has destroyed Japan's command of the sea and her control of the air over that sea We are closing in around Japan. We have her as securely isolated as a trout in a barrel—,

My Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday.~There is much disoussion now about the McDonough bill, which would “authorize the release of persons from active military service and deferment of persons from military service, in order to aid in making possible; the, education and training and utilization of scientific and technological manpower to meet essential needs both in war and in peace.” It seems fairly obvious now that we should carefully screen the men in the army and navy, ‘because we know that a nation strong in both war and peace must not allow the education of certain gifted people to be neglected. The type of mind which is cre-

+ » ative, the type of disposition which’

‘makes an individual a good resedrch ‘student, and many other attributes and abilities should now be screened out and given a chance to develpp. for the benefit of the peace which must follow the war, Certain countries skipped a generation after the last war, and I think they suffered as a result. ‘Now many countries are in danger, and we, too, are not exempt {rom the dover of losing a whole generation _sgjentists and able men in many fields because five bean ducted or Rave voliniewred 18 | . the armed forces. bil

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the WAC what she had ordered. Informed, She| -

asked: “Do you know: what that girl thought you

wanted? A lemon false face.” . Katharine Sargent, 10, and her brother, Jimmy, 9, of 3133

the thoughtfulness of an uncle over in Germany with ‘the U. S. army. A. C. Zaring, operator of the Zaring theater, received a letter from M. Sgt. E. W, Jones, saying he'd like to have Katharine and Jimmy see some shows as his guests, even though he's separated from them by an ocean. He enclosed a. check. Now there's an uncle worth .having. ... A sign on a restaurant window at 152 S. Illinois st. reads—or did when 1 passed—as follows: “Closed—No Points.” That's one sign that's short and to the point, .". . Sign in Walker Cleaners on E. 46th: “Closed July 1 to 8 for rehabilitation 6f machinery, employees and self.” It was signed Charley Walker... . There'll be a triple celebration. in the Warren White household at 4522 Carrollton next Sunday, June 17. Little Warren Joe Jr. will celebrate his third birthday, mama and papa will observe their seventh wedding anniversary, and then there'll be Father's day.

A Pat on the Back ONE OF MY AGENTS offers a pal on the back for an unidentified cab driver. Along about 5 p. m. Tuesday, there was a shriek of brakes and skidding vires. as a long string of homeward bound cars came

to a stop in the 2600 block of Capitol ave. At the head of the string was Red Cab No. 6. The driver had seen a 2 or 3-year-old tot run out in the street. Leaving his cab blocking traffic, he jumped: out and led the child to the sidewalk. And he didn’t move his cab until he had returned the child safely to its mother, half a block away. ... Mrs. G. O. Parker, 4211 E. 10th, thinks trash collectors ought to be more careful, or clse carry brooms and use them. She heard a big crash out in front of her house ‘yesterday morning. Investigating, she discovered three large glass jugs had fallen off the city trash wagon and smashed in the street. The collectors went right on, leaving the glass there to destroy auto tires. Mrs. Parker went out and swept it up. What annoyed her most was that in doing so, she had to miss part of Tom Breneman's radio program. ... Note to Ralph W. Eberhart, press agent for the Southern Mansion: Save the cigarets; I don’t smoke.

By Jack Bell

“Give it to the best soldier in your division,” he said. Harriston, the best soldier, is this kind of guy: Krauts were in a building; causing flocks of trouble. Harriston flanked. the building and led his platoon in a dashing attack. Once inside he locked the door, but the Krauts broke it down. Then our boys shot ‘em as they fell through, grease guns and all,

Precarious Business

LATER, A RUNNER crawled from another house in which the Krauts held captured. Americans. American mortars and machine guns started battering the building, but, capitalizing on the altered conditions, the captive Americans talked their captor Krauts into surrendering to save everybody’s hide. However, there was no way to let their American friends know so that the firing would cease. One runner managed to get to Harriston. “If 1 walk to the house in plain sight, the guys will know something is up,” Harriston reasoned. It was precarious business, .walking across the clearing between the firing armies, but he did it. The Americans stopped firing—and American and Kraut soldiers had to run through Kraut fire when the latter's gunners saw what had happened. “Then there was the day I wanted information,” Reinhart said. “I passed the order down and was watching through my glasses when those kids crossed the river at noon in- rubber boat, sneaked up on a! Jerry machine gun nest and came back with 10 Jer‘ries. He was fired on plenty coming back, but they | made it. It was Harriston ‘again—the neatest job

I ever saw, a patrol carrying out a maneuver that

included every strategy of a major offensive, even diverting the artillery barrage we laid down.”

The Russian’ general's medal went to a great)”

soldier.

The Chicago Dutty News, Inc,

By Maj. Al Williams

Japan who sent her huge land armies to the Asiatic continent. This is a break the Japs handed to us. There's no chance of getting that army back home again, or supplying it from Japanese industrial centers, Our seapower insures against that.

Reserve Supply High, OUR SUPPLY of reserve aircraft is so high that already we have cut back about 30 per cent of our current production program. We not only are hurting Japan where it hurts most—in the demolition of her munition producing facilities, but we are break- | ing the hold on the Jap war lords on the minds of the Japanese people. The Samurai can keep on shouting to the home folks that they are winning, that they are still holding the American West Coast. But that smashing American airpower in the skies over Japan tells a mighty different story. And the ‘most stupid cannot avoid seeing it. Victory abroad and hell spilling on the homeland. No, not even the Jap people can swallow that<and they .won't indefinitely, We had Germany licked | from the air and only needed more time to prove it. | And then someone decided we had to march into Germany. - Now—and the case of Japan is far different from that of Germany and far more vulnerable to American airpower—we have Japan ready for the final round. Has the decision already been made that we are to march and roll on the Asiatic continent all the way from Malaya to Korea—just when we have Japan sealed off and her heart bared for the final stab? The millions of Japanese soldiers and the munitions reserves on the Asiatic continent may, by way of analogy, be regarded as the powerful arms and shoulders of the Japanese empire. Can we afford to punch these arms and shoulders while the heart of Japan lays open to our attack?

By Eleanor Roosevelt

naturally, I think, to the consideration of how we

shall best give our country security in future years. I read two articles in the last few days—one by Max Lerner and one by Josephus Daniels—opposing compulsory military service. For months past, on the other hand, advocates of compulsory military service have sent me books and pamphlets showing the need for keeping our country strong by giving our young men military training. I am convinced that our country will be stronger if we give not only our young men, but also our young women training. I-am not convinced, however, that this training has to be exclusive for the army, or exclusively military training. We are trying to build an erganization where the peoples of the world will meet together, and we hope that our young people will work and build for peace. We know that this may not be completely successful, that we may make mistakes, that we may still have Wars, But. we hop® that we can limit these wars so they | will not spread and wipe out our civilization: We | hope that in time People may learn really to out-| law war. We are not yet ready to say that that can be done completely by an ‘organization which we are only be- | ginning to create and which we must learn to. use.

‘N. Penn-1- , sylvania, are going to see a lot of shows because of

~The Indianapolis ’ Times

"SECOND SECTION

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In a German-marked minefield in France that has taken its toll of allied soldier dead, an Ameri-can-officer moves forward with a detector to pick out any hidden explosives that may remain,

magnetic detectors which are rapid

THURSDAY, JuvEH De DE-MINING FRANCE: OF NAZI FIELDS OF. DEATH —

y Traps... After

“ “By ROSETTE HARGROVE, NEA Staff Writer )ARIS, June 14.—There will be ‘no seaside vacations for French people this summer—no sunbathing on the famous beaches of the Mediterranean, the Atlantic or the channel coast resorts. Practically all the coastal areas, which were methodically mined by the wehrmacht befbre D- day, have been closed to the public. Authorities estimate that as many as 10 years may be required to clear these areas completely. | ® # Forty-five of France's 96 departments reportedly are dotted with 100,000,000 mines. This represents |

around 900,000 acres of ground, materials, ‘principally rubber - for every square yard of which ‘may insulators. hide a death-dealing explosive. 2-8 =» FR COURSES to instruct Frenchmen MILLIONS of these mines “were | in the -art of mine-detecting have laid during the battle of France. been started in the most heavily Nazi headquarters apparently pur. | Mined regions. In addition, 100,000 posely kept no plans of land mine- | German prisoners soon will be put fields and ammunition dumps, work. Each German minewhich will make the job of de- | detecting gang will have to be closemining that much more difficult, | V Supervised, of course, to make De-mining has already started in sure that they work conscientiously. Brittany, Normandy, in northern | France's de-mining plan is simple. and eastern France and the valley | Most urgent 15 the restoration of of the Rhone. as well as in the Public utilities. Viaducts, power coastal regions. So far some 150 plants, gas mains have either been

types of mines have been unearthed mined or blown up. s 5. 3 In the devastated regions, all in-

_. dustrial. plants will have to be MANY innocuous-looking seaside cleared so that every industry neceshomes have proved to be death-

sary to the revival of the nation's traps because the enemy laid booby- economy can go to work without traps in every conceivable place | delay. where an instinctive movement of | 8 on curiosity or need can lead an un-{ AGRICULTURE is equally imporsuspecting human being to set one |tant—hence the imperious necessity off. {of de-mining all grazing and arable In one small Breton coastal town, land in order to allow farmers to 54 children have been killed in one [produce the foodstuffs for the namonth either by mines or booby-|tion’s needs. The remaining industraps. Itries will be taken care of in order The allied armies have used of importance. American or British-made Slentroe] That is why there will be no va{cationing at the seaside this year— and foolproof. But there are not | de-mining of pleasure resorts comes enough of these to clear the whole 'last on the already too-long list.

try has been able to supply some of this apparatus, production is further limited because of the lack of raw

Victory |

of Prance.and while French indus-

A British naval diver, wearing a |

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that does not |

pictured just before a hazardous |

descent into booby-trapped, mineladen Cherbourg harbor.

MEN OF THE SUBMAR

INES .

. Chapter No. 4 of a New War Book by Robert J. Casey ..

‘Fearless Freddy’ —A Man Without Nerve!

AS FOR the actual apposition}

“TAGE er WE: the Womeni-mmmi-2t Readjustment. Will Be Tough For Some Men

This is the fourth of five articles by . Ruth Millett offering sound‘ advice to wives faced with readjustment problems when their G.I, hushands return.

By RUTH MILLETT EVERY SERVICEMAN who re- . turns to civilian life is not going to be able to find in his peacetime job and noteh in life the

same amount of satisfaction he found in the service. Just being | “another civilian" is going to be hard for some men-— used to the special treatment and acd= miration from civilians which they rightfully had when they wore their country’s . uniform ~ A MANY young men who went into_the service right out of college and aitained a fairly high rank during the course of the war will have to step down both as to pay and the comparative importance of their work whem they start as beginners at civilian jobs. For those who expect to have to make that kind of adjustment, the going won't be too hard. But it will.be hard on the man who has become dependent on the prestige of his uniform and his rank. 2 = LJ ANY WIFE who finds her husband having trouble making that Kind of adjustment will want to help him. . And she can, too, believes Dr. Wilbur R. Miller, who is head of Towa's State Psychopathic hospital and head of the department of psychiatry in the University of Iowa's College of Medicine.

He believes that the wife who sees that her husband is not get-

IN AND OUT of the crqoked | * straits about Java and New Guinea and Borneo wandered most of the medalmen of the Asiatic submarine. fleet, among them Lt. Cmdr.

Here is another condensed

getting his material first-hand.

colorful book, ''Battle Below, the War of the Submarines,” by Robert J. Casey, famous Indianapolis Times war correspondent. Mr. Casey spent considerable time with the undersea ightets

chapter from the dramatic and

Frederick Burdett Warder,

“Fearless Freddy,’ with the; AMONG the more sreceyphel 1 Seawolf. | chronicles of those early days is the| The fact that the navy depart- story of how he weil ho battle} |ment, in conferring the cross on|With a load of defec ive. a] him, cited his ship by name gives | Many of the torpedoes were ! sufficient evidence |tive—complicated mechanisms have 3e ki of how exception- | Deen known to develop “bugs” long! b+ 8 .1 that record] before this. : . was. As against that he may have been | Fred Warder) unfamiliar with the shallow draft | was virtually the {hulls of Japanese ships. first of the sub- But the point of the yarn is that, m a rine skippers | Whatever was wrong, his first to come out of | Spread missed and the raging de- : anonymity. stroyers began to close in on him. |

” » " Where his brother officers ~ gather to spin yarns, Warder is fast becoming the center of a com{plete cycle of folklore, most of which, I dare say, has basis in fact. They speak of him affectionately, amused at the intense seriousness he seems to have brought to his work, as if their grim’ business might be regarded more lightly. But when they call him “Fearless Freddy,” they mean it. : ” " n WARDER, who had been in the j Submatine service since 1928, a long wrong, if anything, with his aptime as they add up the hash-|proach and firing technique. marks in that. trade, was at the y ®n

same starting line as the rest’ of] “you MAY take the ornamental the Asiatic submarine fleet when | atail of this story for what it’s the war started—in Manila bay—|worth although there is no doubt and his story for the next few days that he did fire several torpedoes is the same as theirs. and that he did blow up the transIn and around Lingayen harbor, |port as stated. where the Japs were landing, he| What emerges from if all is a | speedily took on identity as one of |picture of two of the man’s most |the wholesalers. He did a fine job |important characteristics—his peron the inbound transports. Judg-|sistence and his complete lack of ing from such figures as have been nerves, made available, none of the leading aces did any better.

the destroyers. The problem in front of him was too engrossing. He Jase Yer right on firing torpedoes. put out more than a dozen of them—and covered the bay with a lacework of criss-cross-

Mr. Casey

of them hit and blew a big transport literally to small pieces. Then, as the saying goes, he pulled the plug. Hugging the bottom, he paid less attention to the depth charges—the first that either he or his erew had ever heard— than to the study of what had been

disregard for the people who were of it. wasting their time shooting at him. | But he couldn't escape the ver-

SWEATIN' IT OUT—By Mauldin

ting to use in his job all of his army-developed, ability as a leader, or who realizes that her husband is carrying a chip on his shoulder about the way things are being run here at home should encourage him to become active in the affairs of his com-

with which Capt. Warder had to deal virtually every day he was in| the area, few submariners have had | to meet anything approximating it. The persistance of the submarines | off the island of Luzon had brought | a swift revision of Jap invasion

HE DIDN'T pay any attention to

ing white wakes until finally two

When he came back to Manila for another load of torpedoes he And in a week everybody in the was shy about discussing what he! scale. service was talking about his fine|had done—probably a little ashamed |

dict ‘of .the rest of the fleet. He tactics.

was “Fearless Freddy” from then on. should be able to land their troops.

| a @ {And so they circled their transport | HE GOT down into the Java sea CONVOys with steel rings that any ‘and started a patrol about Bali. He | tactician in the world might have | saw a familiar procession on the | considered impenetrable. | horizon and moved in on it. | 4 x =n - | The destroyer screen was formid-| ONE OF Warder's men months rs hm afterward put it scenetl: That one—whether o | ow spotted the Seawolf—was streaking | We didn't believe there were toward him, a threat he couldn't] that many cruisers. and destroyers | very well ignore, but was an effec- | 18, the Yor. led tive barrier bétween him and the | 0 ther.” ine of Op ippes might have | Warder at that time wag 38 years met this situation is problematical. |

2.8 = | older. WARDER solved it by blasting | the destroyer out of the water—| NEXT: The experts thought a boring in before other ships of the | submarine could never be used to escort could swing about, and sink- | sink another submarine, but Cmdr. ing one transport and damaging an| Joe Willingham proved them wrong. unidentified ship moving on the other side of her and slightly astern. They gave him a medal for that, as well they might. Later on the Seawolf was shifted | to an island where the Japs had] begun landing operations on a con- | | siderable scale. By this time “Fearless Freddy” appeared to have grown tired of shooting ‘pigeons. Having discovered that torpedoes will crack up warships as well as barnacled merchantmen, he repeated the pleasing experiment he had made with the destroyer almost exactly.

“we sank some

Young Refugees Eager to Remain

LONDON, June 14 (U. P.).— About 1500 British children evac-

uated because of German air raids still are in the United States, and some don't want to come back, Education Minister Richard K. Law told commons today. He said more than 2000 have returned, and all the rest could do so without difficulty if they were willing to leave the United States.

u » » ONE MORNING he found 'himself mixed up with a sizable enemy fleet, the most important feature of { which was a light cruiser squarely {in front or him and so close that {she almost covered his periscope |

LADIES OF EAGLES

It was a reasonably tight spot because one destroyer stood off on |one side of him and another on the other side and a little off his bow. | The opposition didn’t bother his stance very much as the sequel showed, but it did interfere somewhat with the deliberative quality | of the attacks he had been able to make on transports,

Ce > HANNAH: | HE HIT with two torpedoes— BASEBALL PARK ®

‘which the navy department con-: KEEP out!

hall, 43 W. Vermont st. Mrs. Pauline ,Ralston, Mrs {neva Ballard and Mrs. Amy Fobes wil be in: charge,

5 » » “WE'VE GOT to get closer to| them,” he said with a sadness that members of his crew still remember. “The only way we can be sure they sink is to blow .them into fwo lage | pieces.” So, having established 2 le he lived up to it. When he surfaced to charge his batteries, he saw another light cruiser girt about ‘with four or five tireless cans. This time he got in so close that there was danger of the destroyers, running him down in their patrol—| and when he fired, it was with leisurely precision. - ow | Thrée Tish hit with a roar and a | flash that must have been noticed

‘before the |:

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“The best thing to de with a person who isn't satisfied with the way things are being rur is to see that he gets into a position where he can help rum them,” says Dr. Miller. And he also points out that communities and states will need the help of the returning servicemen as much as the servicemen may need to put their energy and ideas to work. . » » IF A WIFE comes to see that her husband, because of embittering war experiences, is just carrying a chip on his shoulder that he will never put to any good use, then the thing for her to de, of course, is to help him get rid of it. Time itself will help with that. But she can hold him back in getting Along with men whe didn’t see service if she is bitter about the sacrifices the two of them had to make, or if she keeps pointing out that this successful man or that one wouldn't be so far along if he had gone to war. If she shows her husband that she is proud of the sacrifices the two of them made, instead of being embittered because everyone didn't make the same sacrifices, she will go a long way in helping him to feel satisfaction instead of resentment.

HOOSIERS ELECTED TO HONOR SOCIETIES

One ‘Indianapolis student and four others from Indiana have been

{elected to membership in honor so-

"| University of

| cieties ‘at the University

PLAN CARD. PARTY aati.

| Mr, and Mrs.

of CincinMiss Marilyn Yount, daughter of Merrill C. Yount, 527 N. Exeter ave.: Miss Joan Dietzen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Dietzen, Anderson; Miss Edith Windhorst, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Windhorst, Greenfield, and Miss Ruth Cohen, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Abraham Cohen, Lawrenceburg., were elected’ to Alpha Lambda Delta, national women's honorary scholastic society. John Imhoff, son of Mrs. John Imhoff, Orland, was elected to Delta Phi Delta, national honoran art society.

NEBRASKANS HERE PLAN ANNUAL PICNIC

The Indianapolis chapter of the Nebraska Alumni association will have its annual pic-

{nic at 2 p.m. Sunday in Washing- | ton park.

Dr. and Mrs. Edward . Elliott,

“| Lafayette, will be special guests.

The committee in charge includes,

| Walter Glaser, W. E. Stewart, Ivan !V. Snyder, Prof. Ernest Lundeen,

| Miss Lydia Gadd and Miss di

Stander, \

POCAHONTAS SERVICES Public memorial services by Meta

| couneil 103, Degree of Pocahontas,

‘will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday at 2308'; W. Michigan st. Mildred Stephenson is Pocaliontas. WAVE BACK ON DUTY Seaman 1-¢ Juanita K. Young of

‘the WAVES has returned to Wash

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