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SATURDAY, SEPT. €, 198 _

Inside’ Indianapolis ‘Suits and Shoes’ Bargain Is a Bargain RICHARD SEELYE JONES, who's staying at the

Indianapolis Athletic club, couldn’t turn down this He is in town from Washington, D. C, to}

- WALLY YOUNG, 504 West dr., Woodruff Place, is in a real predicament. In fact, so is his older brother, Don, a naval air cadet at Iowa City pre-flight school. Since Don went into the navy a couple of years ago, his kid brother has grown up. He has ‘grown right into Don's civilian clothes, which now fit him to a “T” When Wally heard the other day that his brother probably will be released from the navy and come back home, his mind flashed to his wardrobe. There's only one suit he’s willing to give . back to Don. It’s a brown one that he doesn't like anyway. . . . Although shoe ration stamps are about “as scarce at soap chips, R. C. Hendershott acquired four pairs of shoes the other day without even looking at his ration book. Mr. Hendershott, who lives at 1357 W. 28th st., went to the bank at 30th and Clifton sts, Tuesday afternoon. When he came out he noticed nothing in the car. But when he and Mrs, Hendershott went out to the car that evening they saw a corrugated box full of men’s shoes, wrapped in tissue paper, on the floor. The shoes, including a - pair of golf shoes, looked practically new. But Mr, Hendershott didn’t have them long. He found their owner, Dr. N. C. Davidson.. The doctor, whose office is at 3008 Clifton, always has the shoe shine boy in the barber shop polish his shoes. The boy accidentally put the box in the wrong car, but one of the doctor's patients heard about the Hendershotts finding them,

Wally Young . . . He didn’t like the brown suit ANYwWay,

Schemers

FRANKFURT, Sept. 8.—Many a clever Nazi can still hold a job in Germany today or get another if he is fired, because of glaring imperfections in allied

control machinery. Most top Nazis still living have been arrested and * will be tried as war criminals. But hundreds upon hundreds of lesser lights, the middle-sized and little fellows, who comprised the .-bagkbone. of the Nazi party, have yet to see the inA side ola jail.” : < a EAI oe Aap MAR err No The mere fact that they may have been removed from one position is no guarantee that they will not shaw up somewhere else and make trouble. Confronting this situation, Col. Bernard Bernstein, director of the U.S. group control . headquarters finance division, told correspondents that some arrangement should be made to co-ordinate the deNazification program on a nation-wide basis, He did not suggest whether this should take the form of a sort of four-power FBI or what. But he said that unless some unified system were devised to check on Nazi small fry as well as large and see that they do not filter back in disguise into positions of influence and importance, all the good work done in - the de-Nazification so far would be undermined,

Heads Financial Branch - BERNSTEIN, a former New Dealer, who resembles Charles Laughton, is also chief of the financial branch of the U. 8. army's civil affairs section in Europe. Former assistant general counsel of the treasury, he helped plan and execute a world-wide campaign to freeze axis funds before the United States entered allied operations. Many military government officials have kept the Nazis in responsible positions—eontrary to allied directives—on the grounds that nobody was available to replace them, but Bernstein said that he had yet to see an indispensable Nazi. As if to prove it, he announced that a housecleaning of Nazi former financial institutions in the Amer-

Aviation

AMONG airmen, as among other specialists, there are pure visionaries who never seem to understand that ultimate mechanical developments are not available for today’s work. Then there are those who advocate sufficient investment in today’s machinery to get today’s work done, remaining ready to put the newer machinery to work when fit is proved and available. Common sense indicates that the atomic explosive will mean vast, and as yet not clearly defined, changes in the machinery of the next war. As long as other major nations build huge battleships of orthodox design I was in favor of building American battleships— even though I knew they could not be determining factors in modern warfare where airpower was destined to reign. There never was any doubt in my mind as to the absolute necessity for outbuilding any and all the major nations in the category of carriers.

Only a Stop-Gap AND YET, the instinctive urge against over-com-mitment in today’s machinery constantly prodded me to remember that the carrier is only a stop-gap until airpower's machinery is developed to the point where it will render the carrier as obsolete as the orthodox battleship. The machinery of warfare has seesawed in this fashion all through the centuries. For some time to

My Day :

HYDE PARK, Friday —The closing of child care canters throughout the country certainly is bringing to light the fact that these centers were a real need. Many thought they werc purely a war emergency measure. A few of us had an inkling that perhaps they were a need which was constantly with us, but one that we had neglected to face.in the past. Now mothers have had the opportunity of going to work and leaving their children in a center where they felt secure. They knew that the children would be properly fed, given supervised recreation and occupation, and medical

offer.

write a history of the American Legion. sitting in ‘University park recently on one of those hot evenings he was approached by a loafer who said, “Will you give me a nickel for a streetcar Mr, Jones asked him where he was going. And. he replied, “I'm not going: anywhere. I found this token and want a nickel for it.” He then explained that the token really was worth 6% cents but would part with it for 5. Mr. Jones thought a moment and then replied, “Well, I'm not going any place, either, but I just can’t resist a bargain.” He got out his nickel and the bargain was completed. ... This week hundreds of bowlers started knocking down the pins in league play. One of the bowlers over at Pritchett’s said that never had he seen the pin boys so anxious to go home. him and the others there that at 9:30 p. m. sharp they were quitting—that they had to get to bed early. If the boys are really ambitious, though, they can set up 30 games in about two hours and 15 minutes. They get 7 cents for each game they set or about a

token?”

dollar an hour,

theater.

Soldier’s Birthday Cake A SOLDIER visiting the Wabash st. branch servicemen’s center a few days ago got to blow out the candles on his first birthday cake—thanks to the women on duty there. The soldier was from Kentucky and, was just 21. operator that he had never had .a birthday cake. Bo the ladies, including Mrs. Ralph Woods, who was on duty at the reception desk, got busy. That day a cake had been donated to the center. The women sent out for candles and happy birthday decorations. They say you've never seen a happier soldier in your life when “Happy Birthday” was sung and he blew out He sent a piece of the cake and the

the candles.

candles home to his mother. . . Insley Manufacturing Co. tell us that they still are having a hard time getting the orange paint off their cars. The paint blew on them when a contractor was spraying some defricks in a yard near the parking Auto dealers, the paint victims tell us, say the cars will have to be sanded and refinished. That's about a $75 job.

By Edward P. Morgan

{can zone virtually had been completed without impairing banking or public finance functions in any important degree. Not only has the purge process failed to add “one fota to public insecurity in financial matters or to the instability of the banks,” he said . . ter of fact, the financial system in the American zone is, from the personal point of view, basically healthier now than it was before.”

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.., Some day robombs—loaded with atomic explosives —will automatically seek their own targets and render the carrier, or any form of naval power, ineffective. But some day isn’t now. And a war must be fought with ready weapons, not blueprints of the future.

Shore Bases Stationary

THERE'S no discounting the effectiveness of shorebased airports. But shore bases dre stationary. They cannot be shifted from one end of the globe to the

Members of the Indianapolis Speakers’ bureau welcomed back a former member the other day. He was Al Dietrich, a chief pharmacist’s mate in the pavy. He has seen action throughout the Pacific

While

They kept informing

But there's still a pin boy shortage.

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. The fellows at the

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0k Bernstein admibte BIOL Da EM Tai ters Tg U0 a enn “Sdrministration of tax ney Eilers Guar oo Al Tac HG en matters still was far from easy. But by going out and digging, field teams, headed by Russell A. Nixon, former Harvard economics instructor, had removed nearly 10,000 Nazis in two months from public and private financial houses in 22 cities, he said.

Lags in Some Fields

ALTHOUGH de-Nazification is being pressed In the fields of finance and government, it is learned from another source that it is still lagging deplorably in business and industry. This is partly due, apparently, to the fact that certain military government officials are more interested in “getting things done” than in adhering to high policy. That source stated that it was an (indisputable fact” that there was still no organized de-Nazification in industry and added that this was causing discontent among non-Nazi German workers and adverse public opinion in general. One deficiency of the de-Nazification program in the opinion of several officials is that even after a Nazi is spotted and removed, the control over his movements is neither consistent rior complete. Not only ‘is there no free interchange of information, intelligence, fingerprints and so forth on him among American, French, Russian and British authorities, but one branch of the American military government may not know that another branch in the same zone has had him fired. He may be able to get into another position by falsifying his identification record,

By Maj. Al Williams

come the carrier will be the backborie- of modern sea power. Controlling the air over the sea, it controls the surface and the subsurface of the sea. Therefore, for today’s job of maintaining American control of strategic areas, the carrier is the prime weapon, We musi maintain our present carrier strength —even increasing it if international dangers so war-

. want to risk having some or

Labor

Employer Asks | That Check-Off

Be Mandatory

By FRED W. PERKINS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 8--The war labor board turned up with an-oddity today in an order whiclr | took away compulsory chéck-off of dues from a union Which didn’t want it, against the protest of an - > employer who insisted the union should: be required to accept it, 4 Usually these positions are reversed. In nearly all cases the unions ask that employers be ordered to J deduct union dues from pay envelopes and turn :

tion, and the employers resist the chore. The about-face is in the case of the Hamilton Watch Co. of Lancaster, Pa. with 1900 em‘ployees, and the Hamilton Watch Workers’ union, affiliated with the American Watch Makers’ Union. : The board's action also repre=sents an about-face on its part, for previously it had ordered a check-off for the union. » » n IN THE boards reversal of itself the management members dissented, sticking up for the company position that it should be required to collect dues for the unions The union and empldyer positions on the question disclose some new ways of looking at it.

The company said it did not

many of its key employees disqualified from employment because of failure to keep themselves in good standing through laxness in dues payments, (The union has a maintenance-of-membership guarantee, ordered by WLB, under which employees must keep up their union standing or be discharged.)

The company also argued that the union would benefit financially and the company would benefit productively from the coms pulsory check-off of dues.

» » ” THE UNION, headed by Walter W. Cenerazzo (who has injected a number of other new ideas into labor leadership) declared that the company’s purpose was obviously to make union security distasteful to the employees. It said the psychological effect of union members comparing their pay envelopes with those of nonmembers earning equal wages, “and finding less therein,” might

care if necessary. They were able to work better and they were less exhausted physically. .

other. shifted anywhere, any time.

known quantity in any wide area.

A carrier force, when supplemented with landing forces to become a task force, represents the maximum in tying into airpower the capacity to invade, capture and hold enemy territory. Undoubtedly the current type of surface-air task force will some day be duplicated by pure air task forces, which will be able to

accomplish all that the present task force does.

But the air task force of the future is not here now. Until it appears and is proven, it is safer for us to plan today’s and tomorrow's war with what we

have,

Carriers are floating bases which can be The carrier, as the mobile base for airpower, also possesses the unique asset of being able to hide itself, to become an.un-

have serious repercussions “on our present substantial majority.”

Particularly, the union said, this might be the result “when it is known that all benefits achieved for the members of the union are likewise enjoyed by the non-mem-bers. Under the maintenance-of-membership plan, the non-mem-bers are employees who never joined the union or took ad-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

w India

spearheaded our invasions,

tographic restrictions.

Here for the first time since the war began are air views of several Indianapolis and Marion county scenes heretofore restricted for security reasons. During the war the fairgrounds was a gigantic storehouse for army air forces materiel vital to the many fronts around the world,

Stout field, headquarters of the first troop carrier command

This is how the Weir Cook Municipal airport looks from a plane overhead, The war's end lifted pho-

anapolis Landmarks Look From Air

man and lover of nature to take over

The Oaklandon reservoir, Important cog in the city’s water supply, would have been a prime enemy target. Today it waits for the fisher

and enjoy its beauty.

and training ground for many who

Photos by Victor Peterson, Times Staff Photographer

WAKE DEFENDER— Cunningham Is Back From Jap Prisoner Camp

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (U, P). — America had another of her Pacific war heroes safely back in the fold today, He is Cmdr. Winfleld Scott Cunningham, defender of Wake island during the Japanese siege in December, 1941. Thin and gaunt from more. than three years in Japanese prisons in China, Cutiningham sat quietly and related his harrowing experiences to a news conference yesterday, He said he was sentenced to life imprisonment for twice escaping from | test flights. Japanese prisons.

officially today.

aeronautical

{but her

n » ”n THE COMMANDER'S fast-grey- op

ing hair was cropped close. He wore | a khaki navy blouse open at the] throat with a pair of gold wings, pinned to his chest. Mrs. Cunning-| ham gat at his side, His health, he said, had held up throughout the ordeal until after

attack of beri bert “I lost 70 pounds in about five months,” he said, “I began to re- tick, cover somewhat last April but I haven't gained it all back yet.”

vantage of the “escape period” at the beginning eof the union contract,

Another union argument was

By Eleanor Roosevelt

“3. Those that are coming back will need financial

assistance to readjust themselves,

“4, Some of our husbands have been crippled and

wounded.

that an irvoluntary check-off | violates the. union's constitution, | which specifies that elected officers and stewards should collect dues. The check-off requirement, the union said, denied the membership “the democratic right to voluntarily pay their dues and initiation fees.”

“5. Bome of us have jobs that are Important for | PLAN BASKET DINNER

the welfare of the returning veterans.

“8. As future citizens, our children need the best, and only the child care centers can give them the

best.”

This 1s probably tied up with the whole question of married women with young children who have to work. None of us will question the fact that it is preferable for mothers with young children to stay home and take care of them, where they cannot afford

expert outside help,

But we have to face the fact that there are married women with young children who have to go to

1 have just received a letter, among others, from a woman in Philadelphia which typifies the kind of thing a great many people are Seeling, | Tguity suprises dao, i. sotums thai & wrest many are actually organizing to express their feelings on this subject. This is why my cor. * respondent says: : “1 appeal to you to keep the child care centers open. We need them because: \ “1. Our husbands are not all ow YO ; fig “2. 80me of our, husbands have been Kkifled

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and

“work. In such cases, it would séem to be in the inter-

gram will begin at 2:30 p. m,

DOTTIE DRIPPLE

The Old Mapleton Association

Cunningham, who was the Amer~ fcan commander at Wake, told re-| | porters he believed Maj. James P.|

lalive but had been taken to Japan {as a prisoner of war,

HONORED VETERAN. IS NOW SIGN PAINTER!

A 5th Infantry division veteran of | experimental | Eutopean action, Tom Richards, never fly again {now is employed as a sign painter {depot at the Indiana fairgrounds.

tory testing

II véteran is holder of the bronze | star and was the second American |

" IT WILL be

'Old 210, First Plane to Fly With Autopilot, ‘Retires’

By WILEY MALONEY United Press Staff Correspondent MINNEAPOLIS, 210," dogship of America’s heavy bombardment program with more “firsts” to its credit than any of its combat sisters, was grounded

The “mystery plane,” a B-17 Flying Fortress, was known and unsung except by the engineers . and pilots who flew her for the past three and {only greatly improved bombing ac-one-half years for 1800 hours ini curacy, but also reduced the bomb-

Her official numbers were 19210, getaway. crew called

”

THE CLOAK of secrecy was lifted | The day on its last flight when the |bomber could actually fly the plane {air technical service command and |on a course he picked up through | the Minneapolis-Honeywell Regu. | his radar instruments. lator Co. revealed that the plane # X was the first to be equipped with | and other essential combat egquip~ Je Cond ein bieak when be electronic automatic pilot, an auto- | ment was stripped from “Old 210," d U0! matic leveling bombsight, a steer- she was one of the lightest and ling. motor using radar with flight | fastest fortresses in the air forces, an electronic stick, electronic four-engine turho |altitudes and take off in about half supercharger and many tions for blind landing. The $500,000 plane, which cost|a thoroughbred racehorse, she has|yesterday. He had operated a store much more in hours of experience been turned out to pasture. , ; | and equipment, has been sold to the 5. Devereux, marine leader and| university of Minnesota as surplus fsecond In command at Wake, wWas| army property for $350 and

| | portation expenses.

and used by aeronautical engineer-| { ing students for test and further | Ferguson is chairman of the meet-

work,

“Old 210” never had an accident ab the army alr forces specialized despite her role as a flying labhora- |

new

”

Sept.

unnamed,

| mounted on concrete blocks at the school's airport|

control ever obtained. It is capable of making more than 300 flight corrections a minute, or more than five a second. A More than 1000 bombers of the eighth air force alone returned safely to their bases after missions over Germany after manual control cables were shot away, To drop. bombs accurately, - the gyroscope of the Norden bombsight must. be perfoctly levél in its mounting. The new device not

8.—-"'0ld

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{ing run to seconds to permit a fast

” ” » | THE STEERING motor was de- | veloped in conjunction with ATSC. radar operator of a large

her simply

”

Because the armor plate, turrets

formation | and could climb to unusually high

innova- | the distance of her sisters.

But now her days are over. Like|

CARD PARTY PLANNED The Indiana old age pension| {group will sponsor a card party { Wednesday at 8:30 p, m. in¢ the {Odd Fellows hall at Hamilton ave., Mrs, Sadie

trans

land BE. Washington st.

But it will] D8

HOOSIER CYCLIST KILLED SOUTH BEND, Sept. 8 (U, P.).—

and untried |Jerry Oke, 16, died yesterday from

Bon of Mr. and Mrs. James Rich-| methods of engine and flight con-|Internal injuries suffered in a trafwill meet tomorrow in Brookside ards, 120 Salem lane, the world war | trol, park for a basket dinner at 12:30 p m. The Auld Lang Syne pro-

fie ‘accident. Oke was hurled to

» {the pavement when his bicycles wus

THE HONEYWELL autopilot has|crushed between a truck and an

soldier to enter Frankfort, Germany. ' resulted in the most precise flight!automobile.

~By Buford Tune

GLASSES,

FF rcres sonerring

Memories of War Years Can Enrich Future

~ forget these awful years of sepa<

rifice are bound to hi I I hr BA RA ar

VETERANS OF 1918

336th infantry, 84th division, will hold their 17th annual reunion Sune day, Sept. 16, at the 40 & 8 camp on state road 9, between Hope and Shelbyville, Ind.

Levenstein of Shelbyville, Joe Durr of Greensburg, and Emmett Favors of Indianapolis.

will be welcomed to Earlham college Sept, 21 by a group of upperclasse

men who have planned a five-day orientation program.

day, Sept. 25, at the opening of the

BEACH ROBES, SUN SLACKS, TEE SHIRTS ~~ ~~DOTT¥, THERE'S NO od FOR

OF MINE YOULL

back from the war’

ests of and see they are properly run.

These children are future citizens, and if they are in these early years it will hurt not only|

neglected in the children themselves, but the community as

‘whole. Many communities can carry the expense of for children’s centers without any

such organization state or federal help,

But where state help Is needed, it should be given, of giving sucient

and when states are ry :

the war years.

le community to organized child care centers

We, the Wome

By RUTH MILLETT THE WIFE whose husband is on his way home from overseas sald: “I want us to completely

ration, to erase them from out minds as though they had never

happened.” : But they shouldn't be

forgotten. * They should ; have taught every couple § lessons they wouldn't for- f 3 get if they could. 4 The years of foneliness and fear and sac

WIPE Yl aa ta together again. ...,” And the way that sentence was finished each

into a paitern for their new life dogether, ooo eli Every experience in life teaches its own lessons. And no matter how painful it was at the time, it can be reckoned as a rich exe perience if the lessons are ree membered and carried into fue ture living. » - ” SO THE families of servicemen should set out not to forget the past few yeéars—but to remember, To remember the plans for a bet ter, happier life, to remember the promise never to worry or frét again over trivialities. Forgetling an experience leaves that experience a total blank, a hardship gone through with for nothing. Remembering it makes one wiser and consequently capa« ble of building a better life. Let's not forget—let’s rememe ber. That way, at least, we can salvage something from the waste and sorrow and suffering of war,

TO MEET SUNDAY,

Veterans of world war I, Co. M,

In charge of the reunion are Abe

EARLHAM TO GREET 150 NEW STUDENTS

Approximately 150 new freshmen

Upperclassmen will register Tues«

Quaker school’s 99th year. The fall term will continue through Dec. 14, except for Thanksgiving vacation.

HOOSIER GROCER, 92, DIES TERRE HAUTE, Sept. 8 (U. P), -The dean of Terre Haute grocers, 92-year-old William H. Morris, died

on the same spot for 56 years.

>» HANNAH ¢

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