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A SOLDIER just back from the Pacific had a heck of a time buying some wash cloths at Ayres the other day. A mew order came in and the,women were buying the cloths as fast as the clerks could take their money. But there was a limit to sales— only one to a customer, The soldier wanted three or four. He said all his belongings were still in the South Pacific and if he had only one wash cloth, he'd have to wash it out every night in order to have a. #lean one. But three women came to the rescue, They all bought one cloth apiece and gave them to the G. I. He went away happy and so did the women —even if they didn’t take home one of the war-time scarcities themselves. . . . The gloomy weather got Mrs. Ira Colligan's night-blooming cereus all turned

. around Sunday. At 6 a. m. one of the leaves blos-

somed out in a large bud. By 9:15 a. m. it was half open. And by noon it was in full bloom. Neighbors from all around came to see the plant at the Colligan home, 1148 Fletcher ave. . . . Sterling Patterson is still having strawberries from his garden at 4900 W. Vermont st. He has about 75 plants but the rain has

[. slowed them up a bit,

One. of City's Oldest Grocers CHARLES F. GERLACH, 344 W. Washington st., is probably one of Indianapolis’ oldest grocers, Last Sept. 23 he completed his 56th year in the business and is still going strong. -He's 72 now. Before he came to Indianapolis (he was just 16 then) he helped his father in a store south of Cincinnati, , .. The room where Mr. Gerlach has his grocery is the same one used about 70 years ago by other grocers. Back in the 1800’s the grocery was mainly a coffee and spice store. But now it handles about everything but meat, There's a lot of difference between grocering then and now, too, Mr. Gerlach says. Years ago just about everything came in the bulk. Now it's packaged. And there used to be many more deliveries then. . .. The old store on W. Washington st. leas its romantic memories, too. Mr. Gerlach first met his wife there, She worked in the store for quite some time before they were married. For the last two years she has been the head bookkeeper. The Gerlachs make their home at 4074 Broadway. ... There's no other business they'd rather be in. Mr, Gerlach says the groe

5 cery is just the place to make some real good friends,

Some of his customers have been coming to the little store for more than 40 years... . A sailor in towe~ boy boots looked pretty quaint the other day downtown. His high heels didn't go so well with his bellbottomed trousers.

Spy Transport

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Landing allied spies and agents on the coast of France when it was controlled by the Germans was routine stuff for the men of the ~ office of strategic services working with British inBut the stories of the deeds of

telligence officers. these men constitute one of the thrilling chapters of world war IL F. Michael Carroll, a Yale graduate from Chicago, had been doing this work for many months, operating off the coast of England. He was a navy lieutenant with OSS. A month after D-day he got his most important assignment. The Normandy beachhead was stalled. Gen, Patton was ready to try to crash

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ranches and Brest and knock the Germans. out of Brittany, but it was essential to find out how many . divisions of the German strategic reserves had been “moved into that area. It was decided to send in three French spies to find out. Time was all-important, The situation was explained to Carroll and he was assigned to plan the landing of these men. The three French spies and their equipment were stowed beneath the deck of the British motor torpedo boat. It was an unwritten rule that in all such operations the men to be landed remained below deck and never communicated with any member of the landing crew, “

German Convoy Passed AS THEY came close to a rocky island about 20 miles from the coast, a lighthouse suddenly flashed its beacon, This was bad. It meant a German convoy

! A . t1 THE WISEST thing the American aircraft industry could do would be to stage a nation-wide educational program on how to do post-war policing effectively and economically with air forces.

Let me recount, in the cgnnection with air police" ing, an incident of the early 1930's: Up in the northwest corner of India, in Warzizistan, the toughest neighborhood of the British Empire, was the bailiwick of a warrior, the Fagir of Iqi. That he was a tough hombre, none denied. That he didn't take to farming or peaceful pursuits and consorting with the British, the British proclaimed and published. He made war on his softer neighbors. He raided them. He kidnaped those worth a ransom. He ran off their stock, and did pretty much as he pleased. Whether he was faster on his feet or knew the Jay of the land better than the British troops, or was able to run faster because he wore less clothes, he still always managed to be out when they arrived. He was invited time and again to conferences, and even though he wasn't educated, he knew enough to stay away from such gatherings. This left British policing pretty much like unfinished business.

Started Air Patrol FINALLY the British turned modem, They couldn't do this policing job with ground forces. So they turned it over to the royal air force. The R. A. ¥. started calling on the Faqir of Iqi. To his chagrin he found that his valued foot-work left much to be

NEW YORK, Monday-I have noticed in the papers that Christmas packages for men who are overseas this year should be mailed in the near future, Yesterday a man in the navy sent me a telegram. He urges me to ask all those who are sending Christmas . packages overseas to reinforce their cardboard boxes in some way, He says that mall and packages are sO t to those who are away \from home that it is a tragedy anyans of the packages that resched them were beyond

| Inside Indianapolis

Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Gerlach. . . . They're oldtimers in the grocery business.

‘Horse and Buggy’ Days OCCUPANTS OF four of the Hampton Court apartments, 16th and Meridian sts, didn’t welcome the cold weather one bit last week-end. One of the apartments is being remodeled and the work involved plumbing in the other four apartments. and Sunday none of the occupants had hot water, They had to go back to the old fashioned method of heating the bath water on the stove, tried and tried to get a plumber but the plumber juts wouldn’t work on Sunday. Yesterday, however, he came out to see what was wrong.. All he had to do was turn on the hot water valve. boiling water ever since, Winthrop, missed the real excitement of becoming a Bowen gave birth to a boy Sept. 15. But the baby was several hours old before his father even knew he was here. pital had promised to call Mr. Bower when the baby arrived since he already had spent a few hours waiting at the hospital. called the hospital the next morning at 8 did-he know his son was born at 2 a, m, .. . games going on at the same time at the Butler university bowl Saturday. Illinois on one part of the field. And about a dozen or more boys around 10 or 12 years old were tossing the pigskin around on the other end of the field. They'd move out of the way when the teams headed toward them. . . Butler and Eastern Illinois apart. and there was no public address system or program to tell which was which.

father, Mrs.

was close by.

British craft.

coast.

struck.

walkie talkie.

Ten minutes later the terse words, “coming back”

were spoken.

The crew was getting tense. The whole thing could fail if they were caught now. Finally they arrived and &* few minutes later were able to start their slow journey out of the danger zone. Gradually speeding up to 10 knots they were getting close to mid-channel when out of the darkness a light signal flashed at them. German code for “halt.” mediately, “KT,” German code for “hold up a minute.” They had learned this from other agents, In a few moments, into full throttle. the light was out of sight. Later they heard that the three Frenchmen had successful through, as history tells.

By Major Al Williams

desired, Like a politician who has no jobs for his henchmen, he began to lose favor with his own gang. Those keen-eyed hawks aloft seemed to spot his gang everywhere they moved. There'd be a roaring of motors, a whistling of wings, a spatter of hot lead, and so many less followers for the Faqir of Igi, the

been

Boss.

Finally the R. A. F. began checking upon the last town he had visited. And they'd finish off his hasty exit with a shower of bombs that laid it in ruin. It didn't take long for the local boys to catch on to the fact that there was a sort of connection between the Pagqir of Igi's visit and the smoking eggs of the R. A, F. This impression caused them, in time, to hang out detour signs whenever they thought the Faqir might be looking for lodging and chow.

Called Off ‘War’ FINALLY the Faqir attended one of the police «conferences and decided to postpone his private war. Eventually the throbbing of an engine in the sky became just as significant to Waziristan's warriors as the playful tapping of a policeman’s night stick is to malicious chaps in other parts of the world. I am not endorsing the policy. of the British in this instance. can do in aggressive policing. once the job was turned over to the R. A. F. it was never turned back to the British army. reports from England indicated that the R. A. F. job | cost only 8 per cent of what it had cost the Brush

By Douglas Larsen

Sure enough. Through the rain could be seen three large ships. The motors on the MTB were cut to idling and the boat drifted. The crew was tense. .had to sweat it out until the convoy passed, hoping they wouldn't be seen. For 45 minutes the dark shapes moved slowly: past. The last ship seemed headed straight for their boat. It they tried to move to get out of the way they surely would have been detected, It was a dangerous moment. denly turned and passed ‘within 100 yards of the small When it was out of sight the beacon went out and they resumed their slow. course to the

With difficulty they lowered two dinghys. as ‘the three Frenchmen were getting in, the roar of a plane diving at them was heard. _ toward them like thunder. The spit of a machine gun could be seen. Everyone in the small boat stood frozen in their position. About 50 slugs hit the boat but nobody was It passed and didn't return. know whether it was an American or German plane. The pilot was probably guessing at his target.

Outdistanced Germans FIFTEEN minutes after the two dinghys pushed off the single word,

Oldest Grocer?

Saturday

The custodian

There has been Bill Bowen, 4424

The nurse at Coleman hos-

But she forgot. Not until he . There were two

Butler was playing Eastern

. Strangers had a hard time telling Both wore blue

They just

But the ship sud-

Just

It came straight

They didn’t

“touchdown,” came over the This meant they were safely ashore.

It blinked “KX.” The MTB flashed back im-

however, the motors roared They were out of range and soon They had done the job. Patton broke

in their mission.

But it is a sample of what airpower It is significant that

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1. Dr. Homer P, Rainey. Charles La Follette.

Indianapolis Open Forum, given at Kirshbaum center,

year. nity Center association. was announced today as follows: Nov. 11, Dr. Homer P. Rainey, former president -of the University of Texas and of Pranklin college, speaking on “America’s

Schools Must Be Free.” Dec. 16, Dr. John Haynes Holmes,

New York, speaking on “The Haz ards We Face.”

” . ” JAN 27, Dr. Robert Weaver,

2. will Rogers Jr. 6. Dr, William Harry Jellema,

The number of léctures was increased from six to eight for the coming season, which marks the Open Forum's 20th The forum is the contribution of the Jewish CommuThe program for the coming year

pastor of the Community Church of}

noted Negro adviser to mayors’

EIGHT widely known speakers will oe featured on the

winter series of lectures to be

committees thoughout the nation and field director of the American council of Race Relations, speaking on “This Problem of Race.” Feb. 10, Rep. Charles LaFollette of Evansville, Indiana’s Republican congressman, discussing “The Job Ahead of Congress.” Feb. 24, Col. A, W. Herrington, chairman of the board of MarmonHerrington Co. and one of. two American observers to the Cripps mission to India, speaking on “The

3. Maj. Paul Douglas. 7. Dr. John Haynes ‘Holmes, 8. Col. A. W. Herrington.

4. Dr. Robert Weaver. 5. Rep.

MARCH 10, Will Rogers Jr., news« paper editor, congressman and soldier and son of the great humorist.

| Elected to congress straight out of {the army, he will take up the. vet

erans’ place in the post-war world, March 31, Dr. William Harry Jellema, Indiana university philos« opher who will talk on “Religion

{and the Moderns.”

April 14, Maj. Paul Douglas, for mer University of Chicago economist and husband of Congresswoman: Emily Taft Douglas, who enlisted as a marine private at 50, rose to

major and was wounded in action. He will talk on “Is Pull Employ-! ment Possible?” ” td ”

MEMBERS of the Open Forum

Indian Dilemma.”

committee are Norman E. Isaacs,

KIRSHBAUM SPEAKERS FOR WINTER ARE ANNOUNCED —

‘Forum Will Open Its 20th Year

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chairman; Rowland Allen, Cleo W. Blackburn, Theodore Dann, Mrs. J. A. Goodman, Mrs. John K. Goodwin, Charles 8. Rauh, Dr. M. O. Ross, John K, Ruckelshaus, Russell J. Ryan, Dr. Louis H. Segar, Leonard A. Strauss and Irvin Larner,

By ROBERT RICHARDS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (U, P.).~The world moves so fast these days that even Nostradamus, the French as-trologer--prophet of the 16th “century, has to make last minute corrections. His latest revised schedule of coming gvents calls for ‘the greatest war in the world’s history to arrive during the summer of 1949. Henry C. Roberts, a book-seller for 30 years, said today that it will make world war II seem “like the dress rehearsal for Shirley Temple's wedding.” “That's a straight bill of goods, and I'm not kidding,” Roberts said gloomily, ” » » THE little bookman, who is translating the prophecies of Nostra-

damus, said the great prophet first predicted this terrible war would | come in 1999. But the other night in a dream Nostradamus tapped Roberts on the shoulder, “Listen, Henry" Roberts said Nostradamus told him in the dream. “If you're doing this book, let's get it right. I made a slight mistake, I didn’t figure on people learning so much so fast about so many different things. That great war that I predicted, which will be the greatest of all time, is coming in just half the number of years that I prophesied.”

. " “YOU mean in Roberts. “That’s what I mean,” said Nostradamus.

” 1049?" asked

Nostradamus forgot to say how

Long-Dead Prophet Sees New War in 49 &

| long the war would last, however, land he said it would be against the “Reds from the north.” Roberts said: “I interpret this to mean that the capitalistic world will fight all the socialistic states.” -He believes this means the United States against the Tea) of the earth. ” ” ” ROBERTS showed signed affidavits to prove that in 1942 he predicted world war II would end on Aug. 9, 1045, and that surrender terms would be signed on Sept. 1, ‘Two of the witnesses to his statement were an army major and a Catholic priest, “I got that Information straight from Nostradamus,” he said. Roberts sald that Nostradamus also predicts that the people of the

world will be wiped out in the year 3770, but that the world will con-| tinue to exist as a planet until the year 7000. | Roberts also claimed that Nos- | tradamus, despite his present ap- | parent confusion, also predicted the | atomic bomb and revealed that it would level Hiroshima. » » THEN Nostradamus tipped him off that Hitler will be yet found allve bound “in chains of gold.” Nostradamus said Hitler would

be “led captive in a foreign land and would be offered to Harry the ruler,” according to Roberts, “There's no mystery about that” Roberts said. “I figure the land is Argentina. And even a newspapers man shouldn't be too dumb to figure out about “Harry the ruler’.”

SANTA ANA, Cal, Oct. 2 (U. P.) —An “administrative error” which placed 49 soldiers liberated from war prisoner camps on K. P. duty at Santa Ana air base. was corrected today, Brig. Gen. Arthur E, Easterbrook, base commandant said, “It is not the policy of this

Liberated POW's

. Rescued’ Again base for liberated prisoners of war to do K, P.,” Easterbrook said. “It is our policy to afford them every facility /a grateful

nation can bestow, The fact that some were on K. P, was an administrative error which I have

corrected.”

And the

army to attempt the same job, I am convinced that we will be compelled to seek |

a cheaper, more effective method of policing those | portions of the post war world which come under our |

jurisdiction. And the only method is to do this job in the air with minimum ground forces.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

guard armory at 142d st. and -Fifth ave, where a tablet was being unveiled to the memory of Col. WilHam Hayward and the officers and men of the 369th ent who fought and made a brilliant record in e first world war. This was a colored regiment, and

they were brigaded with the French.

Col. William J. Schieffelin made a remark to me, || as we were waiting for the ceremonies to begin, which

-had a sad aspect. He said: “The 360th was fortunate /

when the decision was made to let them fight with

‘the French, They received their complete training ||{* "

‘as an infantry régiment, and were then able to function where theré was no prejudice against-them.” He |

himself was one of the colonels of the regiment,

360th, and he

_.. Present, yesterday was one of the two Americans who received one of the first decorations givén by the : Frineh i the war. He was a polored sergeant in the received the decoration for great fravon the field of battle, The other recipient, also

WILLIE and JOE—By Mai

— | | ably can be no shipments of sugar

95 Service

‘PHILIPPINES WORST HIT BY WAR'—M’NUTT

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2 (U, P.).— The - Philippines suffered greater devastation dyring the war than any other battle area in the world, Paul V. McNutt, high commissioner of the islands, sald here yesterday. McNutt, who leaves within the

next month to get production started {in the Philippines, said there prob-

from the islands for at least three years. “I have been in the battle areas of Europe,” he said, “and I have seen war wreckage at its worst, but the ruin left by the Japanese on this chain of islands is something that invites the horrors.”

WANTS MILLION IN ARMY WASHINGTON, Oct, 2 (U. P.).=— Rep. A. L. Miller (R. Neb.) has introduced legislation to limit the size of the army to 1,000,000 men alter

We the Women ‘Should Ex-Gl's Be Coddled?— Not for Long’

By RUTH -MILLETT ~ EVERY TIME fou pick up a woman's : magazine « these days . it seems you find an article | about ‘the. returning services man—which dishes out advice to the little woman back home. The gist of them all is that the girl who has waited out the war patiently must practice even more patience and understanding when her man comes home, An article in the current is sue of a national woman's magazine is fairly typical. Written by a reurned serviceman it warns wives that their returned servjceman who found it almost intolerable to live apart from his wife may find it difficult to re= adjust himself to living with her again. “Patience and understand= ing” are suggested as the antidote. n un ” ACCORDING to this magazine version, the returned veteran may prove ‘short-tempered and may have a tendeneoy to say things he doesn't mean. He has been acs customed to little female society and may feel at first—according to the article—that there can be such things as too much such association. 2 He may have built up a sort of goddess-like ideal during his absence which the little woman back home may find it extremely difficult to live up to. Well, if the writer is putting down facts—-what does that make the returning serviceman? A guy s who comes home so filled with his part in the war he doesn't even see what his wife has had to put up with during the long, lonely years, A man—who, though he expected his wife to be faithful might be comparing her to “those other women he has known,” 8 4.8 A MAN who, finding his adjustment to civilian life hard, will take it out on you and will be short-tempered and say things he. doesn’t mean. A man who will be so immature as to expect you to measure up to a goddess image which he has built up in his own mind. : Probably the article is exaggerated—and if so, it has no business being printed in a woman's magazine where it ean scare a buneh ' of women who have already been scared enough during the war years, If it isn’t exaggerated, then it doesn't look as though you ought to go all out for patience and understanding. It looks as though you ought to tell that returning serviceman to be his age and quit being a returned hero. And the sooner the better—for you both.

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McClure Newspapur Syndicate

July 1.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Sa

By WILLIAM A, O'BRIEN, M.D.

THE teeth begin the preparation {of food for mouth digestion. Because of their shape and location, they serve three functions, cutting, chewing and grinding the food, the same time sa« iva, which con« tains digestive en« zymes, begins the digestion of starch. Envelopes of cellulose which surround the starch granules | | cannot be digested | iby saliva, therefore they must be broken up by cooking and chewing first.

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the sense of taste. For the

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Saliva, a product of the salivary glands, moistens food and stimulates taste buds to appreciate what we are eat-

EVENTUALLY the food is formed into a soft ball which is the final act of pregfration for ' swallowing. 1s. h aiont by of

liva Stimulates the Taste

Digestion Begins in the Mouth

[upper portion of the esophagus and {then sent down into the stomach

stimulates the flow of stomach juice The flow of digestive juice Is] {largely dependent on food and the! |emotions. The experiments of Dr; Walter

comfort, or anger stops movement and secretion to the stomach and | bowels. Vomiting in upset individuals is caused by revérse muscular contractions of the stomach which forces the food towafd the throat instead of down the digestive tract. " » nu THE STOMACH enzymes are pep sin and rennin. Pepsin digests protein and rennin curdles milk. When food ‘reaches the lower part of the stomach it has become a semi-liq-uid mass called chyme. The acid of the stomach secretions is mixed with it. and this acid-food combination

passes through the opening in the stomach to the duodenum where it

The presence of food in the mouth |

B. Cannon demonstrated | that the slightest uneasiness, dis-

of the stomach and in the first por [tion of the duodenum make this the favorite spot for ulcers to develop. If everyone realized the impore {tance of emotions on the digestion lof food and the secretions of the | stomach acid, we would not go to the table tired and distraught, ” s » OUR CONVERSATION would be |such that gotd digestion is encouraged. Mokt of us hurry through our meals as rapidly as possible, bolting our food. Water may be taken with meals if it/Is not used to. wash dows the food, A bowl of soup at the beginning of ‘a meal is a good start toward: tional eating. If the hod Tse slowly, and chewed W a flavors are developed and good 2 gestion is helped.

iets NEW COLUMBIA HEAD.

N YORK, Oct. 2 Frank D. Fackenthal, 62, a of the Columbia university's istrative staff for {imo x has been named ac of the school until 8 Dr. Nicholas |