Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1945 — Page 9

Inside Indianapolis ‘The Toy Man’

brated, her birthday the other day but it turned out: to be a jinx Tor her husband. Mr. Brandt had bought .

ve with your

' some food for a party that night and put it in his year-old Lile : : : business car. On the way home he stopped at the 368 «courthouse. Whén he returned his car wasn't where were in love. a :

he parked it. Gone also.were the food and the two new tires he bought just a month ago. So he went home to get his other car out of the garage so he could go to the grocery again. But it wouldn't start .

would surely 0 marry you,”

ed him thak ~the battery was dead. One of the neighbors had . the same boy to give him ‘a push and he finally made it to the roller skating store. , . . School Superintendent Virgil Stinebaugh car Camp Le= % »;-made his debut this season on the golf course and is : ; + becoming a new threat to some of the city’s links : : champions. Hé is becoming “well-schooled” in the y and that's fundamentald, he says, and the game “suits him to a s be” Lillian“ 8, - tee.” However, up to date, he hasn't“Put his score b proud and cards on public exhibition. . . . Indianapolis trolleys ' are going to carry bumper cards next week calling m, McLaugh-~ attention to the educational offeringsdof the Indian-

for a natural . , apolis public schools. Registration for classes at

around here,” Manual apd Crispus Attucks will be held Sept. 5,

6 and 7 with classes starting Sept. 11. . . . August i : . ne king 2 a 2 seems to be the month for the night-blooming cerius n we'll be all . ¢ to blossom out. Ed Orr, 7003 W. National rd. says

two blooms on his plant opened Wednesday, two M Thursday and another one Friday.

Europe Turns to Toys IT'S NOT taking European toymakers long to get back into the swing of things. The other day Harfy Levin, head of Kipp Brothers toy department, got a ‘ ; fetter from a company over in Amsterdam. They informed him that a representative from Holland

have enough

n i" hile house, Harry Levin and his war foys . . . they were de-

———————— signed for hand grenades and gas masks, again, Dolls are going to be one of the most critical items this year. . .. There is some good news for the grownups, too. Christmas tree light sets will bd on the market again this year and you probably won't

would come here within the near future to show him have too much trouble replacing those burned-out his line of toys. The company asked that he be bulbs, : given a warm reception. ,. . Mr. Levin tells us that S ign.of the Times? the end of the war won't help the toy situation much A MAN WENT into one of the taverns around i y , this Christmas. You'll only be able to get about 5 town the other day and asked for a pack of cigarets. to 10 per cent of the steel toys that were available The bartender said, “Sorry, can't sell you less than ' in 1941. The auto industry, he says, has the steel ga carton.” ... The story last week about the hen ; supply pretty well sewed up. There won't be much jaying her first egg when she was five months and : left for toys. However, closing war plants are get- four days old has been topped ‘a couple of times. : "a ting rid of their steel and aluminum surpluses by Mrs. Ada Richardson of Franklin says her 11 Buff going into the toy business, The metal container Rock pullets were laying from six to nine eggs a day. that was used to hold chemicals in gas masks now She said the chickens were hatched March 7 and

NEE sits in the toy shop in the form of a sand pail. All Jaid the first egg July 25, just four months and two |

it needed was a little paint and the top opened up. weeks after they were hatched. Mrs, W. W. Hen-

ea Ll : + on if, it used to be a metal container for a hand they've been laying for the last two weeks. . .. Out Tete REeDM Reine RDI: sh. POPUL $I arp ; HY TO #riother shortage. Some lucky person has planted a whole

But the little girls are going to get cheated field of Sugar cane,

|. '¥ Europe’s Winter : THE HARVESTS - have. been gathered -throughout Europe, the first since hostilities ended, and they are deficient by more than half the minimum needed "_to-preserve the continent from starvation and likely ® ; revolution this winter. : ! News dispatches from Rouen - ] reported a revolt of Normandy : peasants, who attacked official ! meat collectors and drove them : away from their herds. It is the 5 first ‘open rebellion in Europe : . that is at the boiling point.

B80 years,

By Ralph Heinzen

Coal production in the Ruhr 3nd Saar has not increased as much as 15 per cent in the past two months. There is not a ton of coal to be had at any

facing another winter of cold and hunger,” weariness and squalor, There is not one country in Europe, even Switzerland or Sweden, which escaped war, that can face of Europe ever has been wholly self-sufficient. Britain is no exception.

. : It is significant that the first per cent of the pre-war supply. For British civilians food rioting has occurred in fhe end of the war—and the end of lend-lease—has France, first continental country brought still greater austerity. ~ = # . to be liberated. Normandy, how- i 3 ever, long was the hotbed of Hungry Voter Goes Left 3 < French agrarian agitation. It was » BRITISH industry has been 100 per cent on war there, before the war, that the ; production since ‘the fall of France—more than 5 5 : “Green Front” of agrarian Fascists was born. Nor- years’ ago. America was on all-out war production . , mandy always has been far ahead of its times, at for less than 3 years. Today in Britain 45,000 fac- Marshalls either extreme—Fascist or Red revolutionary. tories are turning -over from war to peace produc : Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has now declared tion. Expom has not begun; imports must continue Ee that is is “inescapable” thai the United States will even if it means a drain of gold from Britain. Win- : have to feed the Reich, partially, this winter, ter is only two months off and Britain is without That is an unexpected development, because at stocks. the start of occupation the supreme commander There is politicalr importancs in those meagre warned the German people against waste by telling prospects. France goes’ to the polls Oet. 21 for her ' them they were not going to get any aid this winter. first ‘national elections since 1036, Greece, BulNow he says we will have {o provide food for the defeated enemy to maintain daily rations at a in the weeks to. come. level of 2000 calories. Yet there are many peoples ’ ' of Europe who have not had 32000 calories a day free elections in Germany “as scon as possible.” ’ .* “ince the invasion of Europe by German armies began. It is a political adage, however, that a hungry voter |. « ‘Serious Lack of Fuel : - votes left. For that reason, there may be an explana-| , 1 hefore the scheduled ' . IT IS now three months since all fighting stopped, press is fully re-established without censorship re-| .....¢ in Europe. It took that long to organize the pro- strictiens—that Europe is going to be terribly cold | MIST L visional administration. The food distribution has and hungry this winter, and that it might be easier not improved. There is virtually no domestic coal - to get. a true tabulation of popular opinion now h ’ « and very little gas and electricity. than when hunger and chill winter really set in. proac nes

Aviation

(First of two articles.)

IN ABOUT a couple of months you can drop into your favorite department store, buy a book, a tube ‘of shaving cream and some sox—then drift up to the umpteenth floor and pick out your new plane for -~delivery after New Year's. 7. How long after New Year's § will ‘depend upon how many # . others, like you, have just been waiting for war's end to buy a % fool-proof” two-placer for weekends in the country. ? It is the Ercoupe that now is preparing to display samples in dbpartment stores by about Oetober, with deliveries tentatively set to begin early in 1946. But there are some half dozen other personal—or family-type—planes Ae .¢ readying to compete for your favor—and your dollars—and some are further along with reconversion than the Ercoupe is. william A. Burden, assistant secretary of com-= merce, predicts in the Harvard ‘Business Review that within the next five years there will be an annual output of 50,000 personal planes contrasted with a

personal planes will be sold in rural and. small-tow (under 10,000 population) America alone.

That price consideration may be assumed to be

don't think teo irrevocably in/ $2000 terms.

~but not the popular-priced level,

Cost About $3000

including tax, closer to $3000.

for turn-in in two or three years at most.

plane might well last a lifetime, barring accident.

. a total, when war began. in 1941, of only 25,000, 8 ted that 70 per cent consider safety the prime . actor in the anticipated popularity of personal : Editors Sees 500,000 planes. This the manufacturers are stressing heavily, ! MR. BURDEN, the optimist of the predicters in = The Ercoupe people ¢laim that it is all but imCe .. this field thinks that within’ five or ten years there possible to hurt yourself in one of their machines. pisut ; will be 450,000 personal planes cruising the skies all The Piper Cubs have beén demonstrating, in front v . over this country. The National Resources Planning line observation flights, their versatility and safety, ' + board estimates 25000. Other guesses range “be- as have others less publicized in military use. ‘ . tween these two absurdly disparate figures. An aver- Ease of operation, cperating cost and. landing age of the seven most entitled to consideration, a facility, each is rated as a prime consideration by department of commerce statement says, figures 30 per cent of the editors. These, too, are featured » vig 210,700. by manufacturers. v i

My Day By Eleanor Roosevel NEW YORK, Sunday.—I do not think Labor Day has ever been as important as it is this year Ordinarily we think of this day as merely a pleasant holiday which gives’ us a long week-end in which to enjoy our last bit of country air before going back to work in the city. ; : It is a pleasant holiday, but

citizens of the United States have a share,

its own interests.

ers.and urban workers, a On this Labor day there is one thing we m remembér, and that is that the interests of.

farm. are tied together, whether they work

__#s top executives in banking establishments.

” be increasingly less room in the world for those who nsing a do not wish to work, , There is so much to be done| ery w, and any civilization or form of government

Tol 5 condition Cand wages ~~. which dofs not find a way to put the work {

nounced an immediate reduction in sugar distribu-|.ontinuous chain tion and a further cut of clothing rations to 36

By S. Burton Heath |

All of these figures pale beside the statement of carriers established air control over |

American Press, based upon a poll of weekly news- 3 paper editors, that in the next five years 500,000 | batteries pounded at shore installa- | Clouds of bombers, torpedo. planes

| : | Secretary Burden, in his prediction, talks of personal planes having an average price of around $2000.

plane has, truly, attained the automobile price class

THE ERCOUPE is in the $2000 class—stripped, By “the time you get it equipped, it will set you back,

Aviation enthusiasts suggest that you should not look at your 1946 flivver plane as you do at your motor car—as something that will’ be worn down Except -as. you feel forced to keep up with the Joneses, your

The American Press survey of country editors in-

is 8 partner in g joint undertaking in whieh all the

No one group can think exclusively any longer It must think of those interests in connection with the interests of all the people, since even our great country functions fully only when it is unified. There has long been a traditional division of interest between agricultural work-

, in industries, in offices, in homes; or even

We are entering an era, I think, when there will

(Seventh of

* By NED BROOKS"

Seripps-Howard

HE NAVY calls it the Marianas turkey shoot, of good hunting 13 months ago when U. 8. pilots and ‘gunners bagged 402 Jap planes oft Guam and Saipan, The advance to Japan's” doorstep in the Marianas, less

than 1500 miles from Tokyo,

all-out Pacific offensive; the transition from the war's earlier defensive and make-ready stages. 3

The turkey shoot and.t

surface ships—together the greatest enemy defeat since the Battle of Midway two year Vice Adm. Mare A. Mitscher’s task force 58, a unit destined to become ‘bad news to the Nips. ’

A captured Jap pilot had

a span of ocean larger than the-eye could cover, and had observed sadly, “Japan has lost the war.” : ; Actually, task force 58, a part of Adm. Raymond A. Spruance’s 5th fleet, had been roaming the Pacific for six

months under secrecy restrict ‘military might; it had been ‘put into action while the navy

Another war product is a Tound bank about the size drickson, R. R. 1, Box 42, says her White Rock pul-| Was preparing for its role in of a tin can. Before a colorful design was painted lets won't be five months old until Thursday and another tremendous undertaking——|13, battleships poured shells from

{the European

invasion. Ry r. SMIONR- On 34th st: east—of Ralston—ave~therels—no_sugar around the globe, as the™rkey| fshoot Was in DrORIEss, Cherbourg Tenses Under —thig—fire; ~mine-={p-

was being stormed.

1944, of the Japs’ mid-Pacific base lof Truk and the capture of Eni{wetok in the western Marshalls, | Adm. Mitscher. had begun poking {into the Marianas. 'On Feb. -22, he delivered air lplows from his carriers on Saipan,

price in Paris, for example. Europe is definitely | Tinian and Guam, shot down 30

{ planes, - destroyed -85._mare_on the {ground and. eluded attacks hy Jap | pombers and torpedo planes, » ” »

the winter with all its needs. Not a single country | pHE JAPS had ample reason to d jn resist occupation of the. Marianas. | 4 London has just an- |fpe islands form part of an almost ships, : extending south-| heading through the Philippine

Bonin and Volcano islands to Truk

areas to the west and offer

island industrial targets. » » Marianas campaign

FOR THE

{than 600 vessels, including battle

shore

Truk, Palau and Yap neutralized.

|the islands while bombers and shi

n. tions.

" " »

fenses, became No, 1 target. Un

A like the Gilbert

WAR'S LESSON— Forrestal Sees

U.S. Navy as Key

~—S8ecretary of the Navy- ‘Jame Forrestal said yesterday that th mighty U,- 8. fleet, most de

for lasting peace.

“

aggression wherever it may arise

we have

of society. iNOW, more. than ever

of hate war.”

DOTTIE DRIPPLE

~ SECOND” SECTION *

Marianas ‘Turkey Shoot Bagged 402 Jap Planes

After the battering in February, gault ships. At 8:40 a. m. on June | 15, the first troops plunged ashore

ward from Tokyo. Many are small, rocky and valueless from a military standpoint; others provided & series of mutually supporting air- | fields and bases, affording protected | fleet would be running short’ of lines of air and sea communication | fuel, from the home islands through the planes.

thence to the eastern Carolines and

Our occupation of the Marianas course. would cut these lines of communi-| cation, provide bases to control sea on Guam and Tinian to refuel and facili- | rearm, then attack again on their | |ties for bombing Tokyo and home return to the flattops.

300,000 navy, marine and army per- he acted accordingly.

installations and shipping at Marcus and Wake is{lands flanking - the northern ap-Land-based planes from the Admiralties, Green, Emirau and Hollandia had kept enemy bases at

SAIPAN, in Jap hands since the period last war and the key to enemy de- swarmed to meet the attack,

ny : and Marshall | factor in his optimism, It is by no means impossible | of course. ‘But in i about “the family plane |MOlS: 2 val rugged ¥ its Sora) lowed was nne of the world's great-| Mitscher's decision paid dividends. you will pick out in October for delivery in January, | jeri A protection aguinat est air hattles. The air- : ;

To World Peace

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (U, P.),

structive sea-air weapon in worid history, is a “foundation stone” | residents.

| The new head, formerly with On- | dianapolis would be his first In a V-J day message 10 a na~ | y tional radio audience he said that |ward Neighborhood house in Chi-| perience ‘the United States -must never cago, fills the job vacated when again return to “blind trust in un~ {the Rev. Roy C. Linberg resigned to re sdness,” but st ke i : BE it is ma a | ake charge of Hillside Community .isiogical training at Alma college,

“I pray to God,” he said, “that learned the lesson of this |*® war—the lesson that peace without power is an empty dream; |5t» that it i= an invitation for evil AD men to shake the very foundations

before, | we must make it our business to [house program, see that the means to wage war |young people are not just learning) and the Mayer chapel in the latter be kept in’ the hands of those who ‘|a song, or putting on a play in the’ part of 1883. The chapel, now withactivities here, but they are learn-| out a full-time minister, is still fi-

a series)

Staff Writer

that day

had marked the start of the

he subsequent blow to Jap

s earlier—brought into action

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= . a

SAIPAN, I

pr mtnieiim Bnimetiiia ible mesncittn aeautt » Ty MALE S : » ASUNCION L » AGRIAAN L | 2 PAGAN L * ALAMAGAN |, AFOTNCE * GUGUAN [, ON SAIPAN ENDS PE i “3000 DEAD~ *SARIGAN |, 3,000 WOUNDED.

seen the armada, spread over

ions. A tribute to America’s -

had been said: “If we can land on Saipan, we can land anywhere.” For nearly seyen hows on June

{their main and secondary batterliege into Saipan. and Tinian de-

sweepers cleared the waters for as-

|to meet heavy mortar and machine {gun fire in the toughest fighting I since Tarawa. | As at Tarawa, the preliminary ' bombardment had obliterated the | deeply-laid Jap defenses. n » "

| MEANWHILE, another historic

JAP BASES 0

THE MARTANAS CAMPAIGN.

N vido, IWO JIMA AND ns, [JUN CHICHIJIMA AND OQ, [sariiesiis shell NEUTRALIZED wg LIAN-SAPAN po.

x eo

JUN. 19...

JAP FLEET DRAWS CLOSE ENOUGH FOR STRIKE...AND

wl. LOSSES= IT PLANES, = 2 CARRIERS, | BATTLESHIP, AND A 4TH VESSEL DAMAGED, NONE SERIOUSLY...

| sea battle was taking form. | While troops were | akhore,

|Jarge force of Jap carriers, battle‘cruisers and

sea some 800 miles away.

| Cautious Adm. Shigetaro Shimada | had reasoned that the invading

ammunition and perhaps His scheme was to wait | until U. 8. power had been spent, then launch his carrier plane at-| | tack—staying out of gun range, of

’

x » . BUT THE Japs had misjudged

,| the staying . power and . reserve

garia, Yugoslavia ‘and Rumania are preparing Polls | 4m, Spruance had assembled more | strength of the U. 8. fleet.

Adm. Spruance's basic mission

Gen. Eisenhower announced that there will be | chips and carriers, 2000 aircraft and | was to capture the Marianas and

Anticipat|ing the’ plan to use’ Guam and {Tilan as shuttle bases, he bombed

ton for the speedy elections even before the national | 1. 4ings fleet units had battered | these installations. Other attacks

temporarily neutralized Jap bases on Iwo Jima and Chihi Jima to the north in the Volcano and Bonin islands. ; Elements of the fleet “were deployed to the west, but only to a distance which would keep the am-~

By June 11, the attack was ready. | phibious units protected against’ a Fighters from Adm. Mitscher’s fast Jap end run. .

By June 19 the Jap fleet had

p!/ drawn close enough for its strike.

{and fighters roared from the flight {decks. Adm, Spruance’s waiting was over; his -| ”

» » THE TURKEY shoot which fol-

At fleet headquarters it| Too late the Japs discovered a tanker were sunk. Three carriers,

storming, that the shuttle landings at Guam air scouts from vesselS|and Tinian had been cut off. ‘covering the landing reported | within a few hours 369 of the at-

destroyers| Guam, 18 more had been downed

others had been destroyed on the The Japs’ strategy was clear.iground. The total of 402 was the

{ack fire sent the plane hurtling into The planes were to land at bases|the sea.

roared in for a dive,

{riers, a battleship and a fourth {vessel were damaged, none seriously enough to impair action,

planes |

MARIANAS “TURKEY SHOOT” J EOLLOWS...402 JAP PLANES. DESTROYED BY U.S. FORCES =

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OF GUAM LAUNCHED

«+ AGAINST 20,000 JAP DEAD, 2000 CAPTURED =

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TO WESTWARD UNITS FROM

tackers had been shot down: over

by: flak from surface ships, 15

war's biggest bag. Fewer than 150 planes of the total Jap force ever got back to their carriers, Only a few of the Jap planes had succeeded in piercing the protective ring of U, 8. fighters. One dropped a homh dangerously close to Adm."Spruance's battleship. Ack-

Another exploded as it

» ”

WE LOST -17 planes. Two car-

Now safe from carrier plane attack the main body of the U, 8. fleet headéd westward, hoping to bring the challengers Into action. The: Jap radio had blared its threat to engage the armada. At Pearl Harbor Adm, Chester W. Nimitz observed: “I hope they stick to that idea. I don't know anything more we can do to provoke those people into a fleet action.” But the Japs, stripped of air cover, headed for home. Late the next day Adm. Mitscher's fast carriers | and support ships bore down on the | fugitives, With only two hours of | daylight remaining, the admiral gave his order, “Launch ‘em!” and bombers and fighters took off on one of .the war's most daring missions. » » Nl : « THE JAP ships were at exireme range. Darkness was apprdaching. Headwinds on the return trip challenged fuel supplies... But Adm.

[Two Jap carriers, two destroyers and

a battleship, three cruisers and four smaller ships were damaged.

‘the attack, but the larger toll was

Sixteen U. 8. planes were lost in

recorded in the attackers’ return to their carriers. It was then that Adm. Mitscher

became the“hero of every man who files. Disregarding the danger of Jap attack, be gave the order, “Turn on the lights.” Immediately all of

his = carriers became welcoming beacons for the incoming pilots. » » »

EVEN S80 there were crash landings on the decks and landings in ihe water when planes exhausted their last drops of gas. Many missed their own ships, landed on the decks of others. Seventy-three planes were lost on that hectic might but mdny of the fliers forced down were rescued, Twenty-two pilots and 27 crewmen were not found. Damage to the Jap fleet and removal of the threat 10 Saipan “made these losses a fair price to pay in return” Adm, of Fleet Ernest J. King reported later. By the following day the Jap fleet had fled too far for effective pursuit. » ” ” THE BATTLE of the Philippines had broken the Jap effort to reinforce the Marianas. Organized resistance on Saipan ended two

Japs killed and 2000 captured, against U. 8. casualties of 3000 | dead, 13,000 wounded. On July 20, the successful re-| ‘conquest of Guam was launched, | while to the south Gen. of Army | Douglas MacArthur completed the neutralization of New Guinea. In mid-September Gen, MacArthur went on to take Peleliu and An-| gaur inthe Palau islands, flank- | ing the Philippines. .

Tomorrow: Second battle of the

Philippines.

ceriter at Clinton, Ind,

in their new home at 6149 Par ave,

Explaihing the

New Mayer Neighborhood House Director Opens Program for South Side Residents

There was ho thought of a Labor ing both co-operation and leader-|nanced by the church. Day layoff today for William W.|ship.” Boyd, new director of Mayer | The 33-year-old social worker; made an agency of the community Neighborhood house; as he lined | smiled as he added: “This has| up his volunteer workers to start a been going on here for 51 years,' new fall program for South Side and we want it.to continue.”

Recently [the community center has been

fund.

weeks later with more than 20,000].

The present brick building com- |

| pleted in 1941, houses a large |

The. leader said working in In-| kindergarten and playroom, gymSL eX~| fasium, game rooms, club rooms, with groups which are woodworking shop, shower room largely anglo-S8axon, His first job and two kitchens,

| Alma, Mich, =

| © Mr. Boyd, besides being up t6 his; Then. he worked with persons of ars in new plang for the Neigh Italian descent in Pittsburgh, Pa. {borhood house at 448 W. Norwood | After that he moved on to Cleveis still trying to get his wife!land's “Little Italy,” and from there d two young daughters settled to the Onward house in Chicago, |

k where 75 per cent of the youngster

again were of Italian parentage.

Neighborhood | The Second Presbyterian church he said, “The founded the Neighborhood house | cluding, medical and denfal elinies, |

was with children of Polish ancestry while he was taking final so-

A five-room apartment on

second floor—-now

final two years of specialized social work training, Mr, Boyd said.

3 tomorrow and

garten wil begin

classes will start Thursday morn. |

ing. The rest of the program in-

| club meetings and training will soon be underway too, if Mr. Boyd's work and dreams are. realized.

- —By Buford Tune

ust | all on

hat

(WELL, I WANT ny

the | vacant—may soori’ be used by Mayer house as sistants who have completed four | years in accredited colleges, and who’ will work here during their |

Registration for the free kinder- |

We, the Women 1 War Years Had ‘Their Thrills, it

.| Compensations By RUTH MILLETT

ALL RIGHT, post-war world,

come on and give. Remember

all we were told about you when you ‘were only d'rosy dream of the

future? Well, we

do.

And now what are you going to

offer that will

give us half as

great a thrill as these little war-time tri= umphs: Discovering

“that you had

one more uns used gasoline

coupon than

you had fig~ ured on?" Coming

across a palr of nylon stockings you had discarded in the good old days that were worth being mended and, with careful nursing, might do for "special occasions

for another year?

" »

» ’

FINDING a steak and havin red points to cover it at one and

the same time?

Producing ‘some with the proud announcement,

small article

“This is pre-war?”

Having a likely applicant turn up in response to a “help wanted”

ad?

Going into a restaurant and

finding roast beef on the menu? Having a week-end house guest say, “Just go ahead and use all 1 never cook a

my blue points. meal at home.”

Finding. training pants for the baby with elastic instead of ties?

88 8 : COMING home from a shopping trip with a couple of sheets or & box of facial tissues under ydur

arm? :e Pinding .a boy

to mow the lawn 4

or put on or take off the storm g

windows?

Pinding a place to five in an

army town? place to live?

You've gotta bé good, you post war world, to give us thrills like

those,

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