Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1945 — Page 3
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Admirals Go All Out Now for Sub Hunters They Scoffed at When Kaiser Carried - Sketches to Capital.
By PETER EDSON NEA Staff Writer
. WASHINGTON, June 27.—When the office of war mobilization recently cut back a navy program to build 84 warships, the only construction approved wds for 12 escort carriers, known to the trade as baby flattops. That will give you a faint idea of the esteem in which the navy holds baby
flattops today. In Wallace's office, the vice presVv S an- : Thus far, the navy has a ident met the Kaiser trio with his
nounced the loss of five escort) cua) sheepish grin, looked at the carriers. These were the pictures, heard the story and then Gambier Bay, by shellfire; the St. ventured the opinion that he Lo, by a Jap dive bomber in the thought somebody should do someBattle of the Philippine sea; the |thing about it. He suggested that Liscomb Bay, sunk at Tarawa; the | Kaiser ought to see the President. Ormony Bay, sunk off Luzon: and | In Nick of Time the Block Island, lost in the At-| That scared Kaiser more than a lantic last year. little. He wanted to meet the PresiThe whole story of how the navy (dent all right, but thought he came to build baby flattops has shouldn't bother him with things never been told, but today it makes |like this. So Wallace arranged one of the more intriguing bits of [that Kaiser should see the Presibackground on how things get done dent's secretary, the late Marvin in Washington, and this is it: McIntyre, and Kaiser went. to the It was the first week of June, | executive offices to tell his story 1942. The Japs were attacking Mid-|t0 Mac. way and the result was in doubt.! Mac heard the story and said he
“On the Atlantic, German subma- would write a memo on it. Kaiser
rines were sinking convoys faster {eft without meeting the President than freighters could be built in|and two days later, when nothing U. 8. shipyards, and everybody had more had happened, decided to forthe blues. gett the whole business as a bad Kaiser Brought Idea dream and get out of town. i | He sald good-by and went to Wb ALeATY pcaleer fame Wi the Union station to board a train
for home. Just as he was about only thing that could spot a sub-| : marine he an we and thet climb aboard his son Edgar came
BABY FLATTOPS 2 J MIGHTY WEAPONS
dashing down the platform after 8 lon only. way eirplaries could go slong him with a message that he was
y i h with the convoys wag Io give them not to leave town. Admiral Ernest
' seen everything.
carriers. J. King, chief of naval operations
Kaiser had no (illusions about [514 commander in chief of the U. building a lot of Lexingtons. He S. fleet, wanted to see him.
knew that the big flattops were complicated things, heavily armed, White House Acted and that they took a couple of years| That was on June 12, 1942. The to build. What Kaiser had ir. mind|day is one to remember, because was a little flattop, a freighter-type [that was the day Henry J. Kaiser carrier without many guns and no [80t a letter of intent from Vice Adarmor plate. But he scarcely knew miral Emory 8. Land of the marione end of a carrier from .the time commission, authorizing him other, so he hired a naval archi- to design, procure and. build 50 tect, George Gillies Sharp, to draw light aircraft carriers. him a couple of pictures. 3 What had happened in the meanThey were nothing more than time was that Admiral King, who gaudy water colors, with no plans had been out of the city when and only very general specifications. Kaiser's original proposition had Armed only with these works of been turned down, had returned art, Kaiser, his son Edgar, and to Washington. He had been called Chad Calhoun, Kaiser’ ashing- to the White House along with ton manager, called on ice Ad-| Admiral Land, Secretary of the miral Emory 8S. Land of mari- Navy Frank Knox and possibly time commission. some others. Mac's memo had
When Kaiser told his story to hurped We rics, : Land, that old salt took off as only, The “jeep carriers” were to be he can do. He wouldn't permit 500 footers, 80 foot beam, capable Kaiser to stop building Liberty of carrying some 36 planes, capable ships and furthermore, “You'll of making 20 knots or more, highly have to take it up with the navy,” | maneuverable, armed with only one Admirals Opposed It five inch gun and a few 20 and 40
/mm. machine guns for anti-aircraft The only man in the navy Kais- fre
4 LOY ery vas ae peminall The first of Kaiser's carriers was Procurement and Material. Kaiser |S iced Heli the Casablanca. went to see him. Strangely enough, {iv Was launched on Sgt, 1943, and Robinson was receptive. Next step | : . . was to sell the navy staff. Admiral| The navy gave it and about a Robinson .called a meeting sum- dozen others to the British to use moning some 16 admirals and cap- [for hauling combat planes across tains, and bringing in the head of the ocean. Old sea dogs would almost every department. {have nothing to do with these paWhen the time came f{6r the per hulls. Weren't some of the fitmeeting, the Kaiser trio was there ange hate 2 psa, She ould with its two watercolors. Admiral they be any good? King was out of town and in his 2 : absence the meeting was presided | Turned Out Good over by Vice Admiral F. J. Horne. But the British soon found out Just as the meeting was getting that the escort carriers were ideal under way James V. Forrestal, then for chasing submarines, and then under secretary of the navy, sent that fact was discovered by Adfor Kaiser to come up and have miral J. M. McCain, then chief of lunch. He went, leaving son Edgar naval operations for air. In Sepin charge. tember, 1943, he called Kaiser to Admiral Robinson stated the case Washington, fold him he wanted and Edgar Kaiser did his best to|more of these baby flattops, and he sell it, but he was no match for wanted them faster. Simultaneousthe captains and the admirals.[ly, the U. 8. navy began taking They wanted Kaiser to keep on them back from the British for use building Liberty ships. lin the Pacific. The baby flattops 'allace Called had made good. : The program met with one more They already had an escort car- setback, however, Landing craft rier program of their own, CoN- | hegan to prove themselves of more verting tanker and cruiser hulls to |yajue than almost any other type light carriers. Kaiser had no plans, ship and they got top priority in —just his water colors and the|nepnaration for island hopping in basic idea. They voted him down.|ihe pacific and D-day in Europe.
unanimously. | But the 50 flattops that Kaiser Kaiser and his son were at|qiq puild were all finished by July, breakfast next morning when Kais-| 1944, just two years and a month er senior was called to the tele- after Kaiser first brought his waphone. It was Henry Wallace's of-|ter colors and his idea to Washfice. At that time, Kaiser had |ington, At the peak of thie bulldnever even met Wallace and he jing program, son Edgar had the wondered what on earth the vice| vancouver yard turning out five president could want with him. carriers a month.
The vice president said he | Todd shipyards have built anwanted to meet Kaiser. Sure, any-|other 35 flattops on maritime comtime, The vice president had heard mission hulls, and the navy got that Kaiser had some ideas about another 15 by converting tanker a small aircraft carrier. Yes, hel hulls to carriers. These 100 baby did. Wallace had heard that Kais- | flattops did the trick. The navy er had some pictures, and would | really won't need any more. They like to see them. "were that good.
Bathroom Fit for a King Has Park Fountain in Center
By ROBERT MUSEL there are several such individualUnite Press Staff Correspondent istic suites all overlooking appropriDUISBURG, June 27—-Now I've|ate gardens. I'll merely say that ornate doors I've just seen the bathroom to Suddenly opened to disclose a large
* through to get to the prize exhibit,
‘silk and its windows look out on a _ Japanese garden with a little bridg
~~ And Tl gloss over the fast that
end all bathrooms—the sanctum sanctorum of the Duisburgs. They're the people who nursed an aspirin pharmacy into the vast I. G. Farben chemical trust, anda if the profits went down the drain, all I can say is—whatta drain. The whole Duisburg mansion, near this shattered city, is worth seeing, but the bathroom is the royal flush of such places. It shows there still are many possibilities to be plumbed in the bathroom business. ; I won't mention the suite I passed
except to say that its walls are covered with quilted Japanese kimono
and stream. . : ’
circular room completely surrounded by columns like a Grecian temple, In the center of the room there is a fountain—a real fountain like the ones in parks. : Also there are two of everything, two wash basins, two bathtubs, and so on, These are paired off in little cubicles around the room. Capt. Lee. Ghormley, formerly of Kansas City, Mo., said the Duisburgs were carrying their dislike of solitude to extraordinary lengths. Cecil B. DeMille probably never thought of a bathroom like this Grecian temple complete with fountain. But even if he did Duisburg went him one better, For around the room there is remote control for the fountain. A mere flick of the finger and the fountain begins to
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Insect Pests on Rampage As Result of Wet Weather
5 | | ~~ Men have been waging war against insects ever since agriculture] | became a business, but there is no authentic record that any species lof insect has ever been exterminated. Many of these pests have their good and bad years, and this year we find tomato aphids, bean seed maggots, and bean beetles enjoying one of their “good years,” but a bad one for us. Good farming, such as rotation of crops, succession planting! and-other cultural practices will re: | | duce the number of insects and the| since conditions appear to be simi- { i frequency of dusting and spraying; | 10 thIOUBTONE LG county, T pase but in the victory sent out to all’county agents in| garden, insects do Ohio, my home state, by Dr. T. H. not pay much at- Parks, extension entomologist, Ohio tention to whether State university. or not you have Spraying Needed planted your to- Tomato aphids. The heavy out- | matoes or your break still continues, becavse ac-| beans in the same tion by ladybugs and aphid para-| beds , they occu-
sites is retarded by cool weather. |
DE a is It will take two weeks or more of
bean beetles and warm weather to stir up these the leafhoppers predators and parasites. The sowill find them lution is: Spraying at once the tip! anyway, because the garden is com- ,¢ the plants and the undersides! paratively small, of the leaves with nicotine-sulfate Must Wage Long War in lukewarm soapy water. Use not
less than 1%: teaspoons, but not more | Thus the gardener must be pre-| 41. 2 of nicotine-sulfate.
pared to wage war on all insects Bean seed maggot. The chief from early May to late October. | cause of beans failing to come up Protection of our victory gar-|is also due to cold weather. The den crops is most important this seeds have germinated too slowly year, because never before has so! in the cold soil and dipterous mag-| much of this world faced starva-|gots havei#aken possession of the tion. Unfavorable weather condi-!| swollen cotyledons (the first leaves
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Henry Pree
[tions played havoc with early to-|of the germinating plant) or nave
mato plants and bean seeds. We eaten off the underground stem.
must save every tomato plant, as The only remedy is to plant over. thers is no surplus supply on hand. Bean beetlés are already on early Bean and other seeds are plentiful |plants. “Get ‘em,’ says Dr. Parks, but each unchecked outbreak of in- “with rotenone dust.” Cryolite is Isects means one less crop. And, the next best insecticide.
YOUR VICTORY GARDEN . . . By Henry L. Pree |
HOUSING SITUATION
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YOUR G. 1. RIGHTS co By Douglas Larsen : : ; J Ration Cal
HERE STILL ACUTE Redeployment Puts Heavy
The housing situation for military men and incoming war work-| ers is still quite acute, Mrs, Carl J. Manthei, director of Homes Registry, 224 N. Meridian st., said today. | questions concern mail. A total of 852 applicants sought | overseas: . some kind of shelter through ‘the agency during the past four ‘weeks, son since the: end of the war .in she stated. Included in these were |Europe.. I owe him a letter and he! 350 military men, chiefly discharged |is probably waiting to hear from me Yelena and. 337 incoming War put I am hesittaing to write because workers, {his address will be changed. How “The reluctance. of landlords to can I find out his new address? : rent their property to families with | ~ A—Write to the same address. children” causes one of the chief | The army will forward your letter. ig according to MIS. | Your son will be instructed to write anthei. \ | to you and give you his new address She asked that owners list their | aq You as hh gets it. vo vacancies with Homes Registry. All| : : types of houses and apartments, o—-My mother Teceived R letter furnished and unfurnished, are | rom my ‘brother which pa 8 needed. Even vacationists are urged Sort of form, she said. Ins ructing to make their homes available for Be ae aii She Jaan) a short time to service : | to servicemen home letter and we haven't heard from
leave or war workers. : ; { him yet. How can we contact him?
A—As soon:as he gets a new, RICHTERS T0 NOTE | permanent address he will be in-| T | structed to send it to you. You GOLDEN will probably get the new address! WEDDING vs oo | Mr. and Mrs. George F. Richter, ! Q-I sent some Important papers 49 S. Belleview pl, will celebrate for my husband lo see just before their golden wedding anniversary the war ended in Germany. Since with an open house from 2 to 5 then I have heard that he will rep. m. Sunday. turn to the United States. He had The Richters have lived on the NOt received these papers. What West side for 40 years. They have will happen to that letter? Is a daughter, Mrs, Charles DeMoss: there a chance that it will be lost two sons, Frank and Albert; seven 2nd never returned? grandchildren and one great grand. A—Before child, all of Indianapolis. Three of Soldier was instructed to leave a the grandsons are in the navy. forwarding address or instructions that mail be returned to the sender. The postal problems resulting from the redeployment of Engineers, 552, will hold a’ covered American troops has put a heavy dish luncheon tomorrow at the load on the military postal system.
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AUXILIARY LUNCHEON Ladies’ auxiliary of Locomotive
STRAUSS 34YS . . .
SEE THE
SPORTS SHIRTS Short-sleeved and long-sleeved — — more and more!
SLACKS with tailoring in them —"5.95 to around $20
* LEISURE JACKETS, plain
shades and combinations.
SPORTS JACKETS carefully tailored — moderately priced.
SADDLE OXFORDS — Black and white or Tan and White. 6.85
LEISURE OXFORDS in Moccasin types
rush, filling the room with the
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USS & C0.
home of Mrs. Ralph Wikoff. There Is only a slight chance that
IT'S ONE DAY NEARER PEACE!
MAN LIE IN DEEP
This lying position recalls a little note—
four
leaving Europe each”
Burden on Military Mails
WASHINGTON, June 27.—These, the letter will be lost. It may take to men some time before it | you but postal offic
Saal
MEAT—Red Stamps E2 thro J2 are valid through KE through P2 are valid 5 [31, Q2 through U2 valid thre | Aug. 31. V2 through 232 good thro | Sept. 30. Stamps Al through El
gets back 0 become good Sunday and are lals are doing through Oct. 31. Meat dealers \ Q—I have not heard from my| the best job possible under the dif-| pay two red points and 4 cents fof ficult circumstances.
{each pound of waste fat,
Q—My son gets subscriptions to) SUGAR—Stamp 36 good for five
magazines sent
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Survives Sinking By ‘Baka Bomb' SEAMAN 1-C EUGENE D. LIST, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Erroll List, 5260 N..Tacoma ave. survived the sinking of his destroyer, the Mannert L. Alele, when it was sunk by a He Jap ‘‘baka bomb” from a suicide plane off Okinawa April 12, Recently home on a 30-day leave, Seaman List is a graduate Seaman List of Broad Ripple high school. He was employed by before he entered the navy Feb. 21, 1944. The destroyer was hit twice by a Jap plane and went down. On patrol duty on the day of the attack, the Alele suffered 113 casualties.
GRASS!
overseas. Should I notify them of his new address when I get it? Italy, « ’ A—Soldiers have heen given special forms for that purpose.
| pounds through Aug. 31. | Canning sugar forms are avalle
He was In| ;p1e at ration boards. Spare Stamp
| 13 in Book 4 must be submitted with | application for each person listed. All applicants must establish eligi= bility for canning sugar, :
CANNED GOODS-—Blue stamps N2 through S82 are valid through Saturday. T2 through X32 are {valid through July 31. ¥2 and {Z2 and Al through C1 valid threugh. Aug. 31. D1 through ‘Hl good {through Sept. 30. J1 through N1 become good Sunday and are valid {through Oct. 31.
| GASOLINE—A16 is good for six
fgallons; C6 and B6 and seconde {quarter T stamps will expire at mide |night Saturday; B7 and C7 and BS and C8 are good; E2 and E3 each good for one gallon; R2 and R3 {each good for five gallons.
SHOES—No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 “airplane” stamps in Book 3 good indefinitely, A new shoe ration stamp will become valid Aug. 1.
FUEL OIL—Periods 1 through § of 1944-45 heating season good.
the Herff-Jones Co. |
DINNER SATURDAY
Mr, and Mrs. Robert Love, 2618 Gale st., will entertain the Past Presidents’ club of Maj. Harold G. Megrew auxiliary, 3, United Spanish War Veterans, with a pitch-in dinner at 5:30 p. m. Saturday,
SEE THE GIRL PAINT! She's happy in a SUN DRESS— that came from her's and Mom's favorite Store — there's a whole company of them here — Precision twills (washable) in pastels — Striped Chintzes, Spun Rayen Prints—all presented with a view to selectiveness— Sizes 7 te 12 5.98 fo 8.95
about the embarrassment of a Radio
Announcer—who extolled (or maybe sang)
T SHIRTS thousands of them — including some super ones
BELTS including the new stratoliners — that GIVE and that have buckles that fold into the groove.
DOBBS STRAW HATS — plenty of Body Hats at $4 and $5
ROBES — cool ones — quiet ones or assertive kinds.
SWIM SHORTS SWIM TRUNKS
PIPES and TOBACCOS
lke eggs—the word, said he, should be "li and "lie"—but he doubted that the
announcer would be that candid.
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about a Super Bath Soap— that gives with bubbles so soothing and rich and deep— that you get in the bath tub and just lay and lay!
This (to an irate listener) sounded too much
So he lies in the deep grass—but it is not a lie to observe that he feels unusually contented and comfortable about it! .
Of course, some of that must come-from a man's general -
disposition—but those deep satisfactions are greatly aided and
BATH SOAPS AND TOILET SOAPS and Shaving Accessories!
Pictured — huge gigantic bars of Mem's PINE SOAP— 2 Bars for 2.50 Single bars, 1.50.
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«THE MAN'S STORE
generated—by the right kind of clothes. And to a great many men (and their numbers keep rapidly growing)}—"the right kind of clcthes''—means clothes with a men's wear background, yith a Specialty viewpoint, made with "clothing sense."
In.a word—{you'll pardon the bluntness}—clothes from The Man's Store—from Strauss!
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