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{ Inside Indianapolis
WHEN A soldier gets his honorable discharge from the army these days, he goes through such a rigmarole that he should remember it the rest of his life. But that isn’t the effect it had on one Hoosier G. 1. A member of a special training unit at Camp Atterhiey, the soldier was discharged the other day and went home to a town in northern Indiana. But just
15 days later he was bothering his busy commanding*
officer. He had written a letter requesting an exten= sion of his furlough. All the physical examinations, interviews for jobs, orientation lectures, turning in of army equipment, instructions on how to conduct himself in civilian life, movies on the &G. I bill of rights, impressive final discharge ceremonies and what not evidently didn’t mean a thing to him. The case was referred to Evans Simonson, a Red Cross representative. He wrote the’ ex-soldier, explaining that he was out of the army and that he didn’t ever have to report back to the camp. ,.. There has been more neck-stretching in the downtown streets this week than we've seen for a long time. Every time a dozen or more fighter planes buzz over the city, downtown crowds stop in their tracks and gaze away at them until they're out of sight. The planes are merely a prelude to Navy day Saturday.
24 Years on Montana Ranch CHARLES FULLER, 3048 Kenwood ave. knows what you're talking about when the “Wild West” is mentioned. He has been in Indianapolis for the past five years but he came here after spending 24 years on a ranch in Montana. He claims he's not a real cowboy but he does know all there is to know about herding sheep’ and rounding up cattle. ‘He and his wife and their four children lived on his 3000-acre ranch in Montana. Besides that, he controlled other land nearby. Shooting a bobcat or a coyote was just a common pracfice for him, ... The entire Fuller family ‘is right at home in the saddle. And Mr. Fuller many a time has been on his horse about all day long. During a bad spell of weather one time
+he was out on the range without a soul around for
190 hours. Although Mr, and Mrs, Fuller's three daughters were “brought up in the saddle,” they all have entered religious work. One of them, Lois, plans to go to the Far East as soon as arrangements are made, She is visiting with her parents now. MY. Fuller's son, Robert, also is a minister but left the pulpit to fight with the marines. He studied at the Butler university school of religion and plans to continue his studies when he is discharged. He is mainly responsible for his parents moving here. The elder Mr. Fuller said his wife never did like the West and that he decided it wasn't such a- goo
Think They Won By Sidney B. Whipple
TOKYO, Oct. 25.—There is little doubt that the were covered with tarpaulins but apparently in good
average Japanese believes his country was brilliantly victorious over the allies and that only the beneve / olence of the emperor brought the war to a close.
By average I do not mean the clty-schooled Jap were skirting a small town on a narrow dirt road
steeped in politics and guile, but the farmers and small industrial workers outside the large cities, who are unable to comprehend the court language of their ruler and his ministers. All they know is that the war in over and they must not hate foreigners—at least for the time being. It was in an endeavor to find out what these people were thinking that I persuaded Sgt. Pete Protopappas to set out in a weapons carrier for Nagano, which
is in the heart of Honshu and which has not vet thousand men, women and children. We
been visited by any of our occupation forces. carried an interpreter along.
Thirty miles out of Karuizawa dt a crossroads We farm house for tea and the whole town followed us encountered three little maids right out of Gilbert and down the road. Sullivan. They were shielding themselves from the sup with large umbrellas and they were wearing old= fasioned kimonos instead of the baggy trousers af=
fected by city girls.
Ran Like Turkeys
OUR interpreter tried to ask them the way to crowded around the house and peered in the windows. Nagano. They took one look at us, shrieked in dis-
may, and ran like frightened turkeys down the road,
around the corner, and behind a farm house where the end of the war, and this is what he said: we could see them peeking out until we were out of
sight.
“They have been told the Americans are devils and for I am getting old.
that all of us wear tails,” said the interpreter.
At a town half way to Nagano we came across The emperor is a very good man to give us peace, He six Japanese tanks parked on the main street. They
Aviation
NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—As the nation-wide campaign to force continuation of aviation research #hd development gets underway, both army and navy are losing no time in perfecting equipment that will keep hoth aircraft carrier and ground forces at the
top of the world heap. Fighter planes developed during the war, but produced too late to be used effectively against the enemy, are coming from produc tion lines to give America’s fighting pilots the very best. Other planes, used in war, have been improved with better engines and devices enabling much greater speed and greater maneuverability. One of the latter is the F4U-4 Corsair, now equipped with a Pratt
& Whitney R-2800-C Double Wasp engine, using wa~ ter injection for added bursts of speed. Navy just allowed announcement that this Marine Corsair has a level flight top speed of more than 450 miles per hour,
Old One Was Good
NOT A single one of these was lost in the first month of use against the Japs and marine corps pilots told of having to “repeatedly close the throttle”
lo avoid over-running the fastest Jap fighters.
Lt. Col. Gregory (Pappy) Boyington knocked down
My Day
WASHINGTON, D. C., Wednhesday.—8ince the secretary of state released the letter written by my husband to King Ibn Saud, I think the rumors sur-
rounding this subject are clarified.
In this letter my huSband gave assurance that
the United States would take no action without consulting with both the Jewish leaders and the Arab leaders, There have been so many assertions both abroad and at home of what had been said in e¢onversations, that I think r.any people felt somewhat conf ed. I had heard my husband, on a ‘number of occasions after his re-
. May Break Speed Record
Westerner
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Charles Fuller . « « He's a true Westerner at heart.
country to grow old in—especially since his ranch was 50 miles from a railroad. Mr. Fuller at present is custodian for the Butler school of religion and thinks he'll stay in Indianapolis for quite a while.
Has ‘Evidence’ of Inflation
ED, McCREERY, assistant treasurer at the Indianapolis Water Co., really knows what inflation is and has the evidence to prove it. His nephew, T. Sgt. Tim Ivanshaw Jr. recently returned from Germany where he was serving with the 503d engineers of the 9th army. He brought back a couple of Ger~ man coins for his uncle. One of them was a silver coin worth five marks. The other is the same-sized coin made out of an aluminum alloy, and was worth 50,000,000 marks. . .. Sgt. Ivanshaw was gone from the United States exactly two years. He left port at 7 a. In, Oct. 9, 1943, for Europe. And he docked in an East coast” harbor at exactly 7 a. m, Oct. 9, 1945. . The settling basins at the water company’s filtration plant at 16th st. and Northwestern are getting their annual cleaning. They were drained for a couple of days this week but will be filled up again soon.
condition. There was no sign of a Japanese soldier anywhere, A little farther on an accident gave us a further insight into the minds of these country people. We
bordered by rice paddies. The right wheels of our vehicle went into a deep ditch. We were stuck, Presently a farmer came along, looked at us and fled. He returned, cautiously, 10 minutes later with two of -his neighbors. Presently, practically the whole population poured out of the town and surrounded us at a discreet distance. We made friendly advances and finally a bolder ope hesitantly came forward and inspected our wheels. He motioned toward town and told the interpreter he would go for the police.
Invited to Have Tea
THE CROWD grew until there were perhaps a Presently the police drove up in a truck and efficiently snaked us out of the ditch. Then they invited us to a private
The Japs had been highly amused at our predicament, and I think perhaps the fact that we, these so efficient Americans, had got ourselves into a Jam made them more friendly. At the farmer's house we sat on the floor to drink bitter green tea and eat apples. The townspeople
So, in the midst of this good fellowship we asked, through the interpreter, what our host thought about
“I am glad the emperor put a stop to it. not seen myson for five years.
I have I need him to help us, I am happy that we won in our cause, and I do not hate the Americans any more.
knows best what Wwe, should do,”
By Max B. Cook
28 Jap planes with the F4U-1, a Corsair having a top speed of 416 miles per hour. And now something new has been added. Too late to see combat, navy's Ryan FR (Fireball) with combined jet propulsion unit and reciprocating engine with propeller, was recently unveiled in Washington and San Diego. It now is rolling off production lines and crack navy pilots are learning to fly it. Its top speed with both power units utilized is a navy secret, but it gave evidence of great maneuverability, rate of climb speed and straightaway speed.
IT CAN turn a tight 360-degree circle in a vertical| bank position and its aerial acrobatics caused flying veterans to grin in appreciation. el NACA and Wright field metallurgists-are working| overtime to further develop the blades in the com-| pressors and turbines of the General Electric jet! unit, propelling army's fastest fighter, the P-80 Shoot- | ing Star. Metal, it is said, is going to solve the problem of greater and greater speed. The P-80's top speed at the moment is given as 550 miles per hour. Army and navy have some other surprises in store |
SECOND SECTION
By ERNIE PYLE . BROWN COUNTY, Ind. —My days in Brown county are unique for me. Unique days, and happy ones, and I think I shall stay here for quite a spell, and see what it is like to be a Hoosier again for a week or two. I am living a mile out of town, under great shade trees, in a log cabin on a hill, The whole place is mine, for 1 am its master, its servants and its guests all combined. There is nobody here. but me. Not only the cabin is mine, but the breeze under the shade trees is mine, -and the uncanny ' stillness of the night is mine, and mine are the chipmunks in the chimney and the cool drink in the icebox and those first soft streaks of dawn over the dark ridges. They all belong to me, and no one may share them unless I say so. 28 8 THIS CABIN is the occasional home of Fred Bates Johnson, who owns a great deal of Brown county and who possesses, in.addition to his wealth, the even greater treasure of love and respect of the people here. Mr, Johnson badgered me against my own will into staying in his cabin, and I shall be grateful to him to the end of my days. This is an interlude of calm that’ has never happened to me in all these years of cities. and hotels and speeding from here to there. The cabin sits off the road. From any side of the house you can look out and down for many miles, The yard falls away to thick brush at thé edge. The great maples speak soothingly in the breeze as they did in my childhood. ® 8» THE WASPS at the screendon't scare me a bit, and the ‘broken rope on the water bucket will never be fixed by me. The electric lights and pounding pressure pump form an ironic contrast to« the still darkness and the faint cowbell somewhere out in the brush, My first night here was an experience almost weird, I do not know how many years it has been since I stayed alone in a house in the country. In fact, I'm not sure I ever did. » » » TO SAY that I was frightened would be to belittle myself, and it would not be the truth anyway. But to say that I was at ease and glowing in the privileges of my new monasticism would be to exaggerate. 1 was somewhere in
F.D.R. Papers May Be Secret for Years
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1945
Brown county has come into
After four years of war and gasoline rationing, the highway to Nashville is again jammed. Ernie Pyle, Times war correspondent who lost his life on le Shima, spent a few weeks in Brown
county in 1940. - Ernie caught the
county perhaps more than any other writer.
Overlooking Nashville in Brown County.
between—pleased and curious, but filled with a sense of strangeness that had ghosts in +t, and things that come out of the dark. I am glad there was nobody around to see me going through the house before going to bed. First I saw that all three outside screen doors were locked. Then I went from room to room turning on the lights, and I looked in the corners, and yes, under the beds, and frequently over my shoulder, to make sure that no spook was getting me maneuvered into a bad position. But everything was all right, and then I slept,
» » #
IT WAS 3:30 a. m. when I came to all of a sudden. There was
nothing at all to awaken me. Sleep just ended, and up I popped.
And as I lay there wondering about it, just the faintest shading of light came gradually into the room, and I realized ‘that dawn was on the way. Like Mrs. Roose-
r BY MERRIMAN SMITH nited Press Staff Correspondent
HYDE PARK, "N. Y., Oct. 25.—Secret war papers of President Roosevelt. documents that could alter the course of history even now—have been concentrated in Washing-
ton.
It may be generations before they, along with many
papers of domestic political importance, are made public. This was determined in a personal examination by this
+ United Press correspondent |
‘of the late President's files
the committee to come to Hyde
in the Franklin D. Roosevelt | P*¥ unless they want to read about
library here. The examination disclosed that the heavily sealed envelopes marked “top secret” and “do not open” have been sent to Washington, Rear ‘Admiral Wilson Brown, former naval aid to Mr. Roosevelt, recommended immediately after the President's death in April that Mr. Truman virtually impound the Roosevelt war papers. At the same time, representatives of the army general staff made a fast check for secret war plans which Mr, Roose- |
velt had been Saing. " ”
Fala or the NRA. When the President was alive; the small, heavily barred “locked room” on the upper floor of the library here contained highly important and secret documents, » » ~ NUMEROUS papers went into the
locked room without knowledge by |the trusted staff here as to what they were.
Usually the more important war papers were at Hyde Park only temporarily.
Mr. Roosevelt took them to his
| Hudson valley home for study over! | frequent week-ends,
The 'late President also used the|
BEAUTIFUL BROWN COUNTY, AS ERNIE PYLE SAW IT—No. 3
A Rendezvous With Daybreak
its own again. county. You will
Nashville House, spirit of Brown
velt, T think that dawn in the country is one of Nature's greatest masterpieces. i So I went through the great lodge-like living room and out onto the north porch, And sat there alone until daylight was over the ridges and all around me. That happened not just on my first night, but every night since I've been here. 1 don't know what makes me wake up. I've never done it before in my life. But hot one night in this cabin have I missed my little rendezvous with the first tinges of daybreak. EJ » n DAYTIMES 1 laze around, half writing, half-sleeping. It is nice to go away from the cabin for little visits, because it is always so wonderful to come back to it. Mr, Johnson said not to lock up until * I finally went away for good, 50 my doors ‘stand always open. X There has been only one visitor during my absence. He came in and got under my bed, of all
der the practice of 160 years, a President's papers are his own.
The file of correspondence on the famous Scottie.
two upper floors of the library is not open to the public yet. Much of the Roosevelt corre-|
spondence on file here consists of cards. {routine replies by his secretarial |
staff. These letters in their nealipgj, ate no canned food, a canned
tan, cardboard boxes, give a rounded picture of the wide contact Mr. Roosevelt maintained with the publie. w ¥ ~
THE FILES also demonstrate one
of the big reasons Mr, Roosevelt
was such a master politician. No
problem was too small to be considered. There is a thick folder of correspondence about whether the
President would serve as honorary
referee for a Yale-Princeton track
meet.
The omissions are Interesting.
There is no file of frank letters.
Every president gets thousands, and Mr. Roosevelt who personally directed. what was to be filed and
| what not, disliked them, The let-
ters of praise and commendation
AMONG hl papers they rushed library as a depository for confi- | preponderantly outnumber the crit-
back to Washington was a plan for the invasion of Japan. Under orders of Mr, Truman, the
| dential personal papers and family | records. When Mr. Trumdh ordered the
ical letters. Under present library policy as outlined by Fred W. Shipman, the
In response to many requests, The Times is reprinting some of Ernie's columns about Brown
some who no longer live there. And the historic
the columns reprinted are just as Ernie wrote them, without editing.
“the beds have moth balls in
telegrams and special delivery let-
in a number of other type warplanes not yet unveiled.| senate Pearl Harbor investigating| Roosevelt war and current domestic director, no letter to the President One coming-up navy ship, a few of which were used | sommittee is to have access to any | flles held, he specified that this hold may be quoted without prior perin the last days of the Pacific war, may break some ,¢ Mr, Roosevelt's papers dealing Order would remain in effect at|
present speed records.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
feel differently. But at present there was very little | hope of a changed attitude on the part of the Arabs |
where Palestine was concerned.
It has always seemed to be very unwise to quote people after they are dead. Their written documents, of course, can be considered in the light of the cir-|
cumstances and the period in which they were
written. They are factual and represent at least
what the man himself put down at that period. Even that, I think, is sometimes misleading, because all intelligent people change their minds in view of changed circumstances and conditions. Only
stupid people remain rigid and inflexible in their
opinions and ideas.
Therefore you can really never tell what a man who has been a thinker and a leader, in either public or private life, would think or do if he were alive and
facing new circumstances.
You can take what he has written and what he
said and what you know of his character and principles, and it may influence you in your thinking
But it should never be considered as the attitude of man in the new situation. A view deciaton shonld
be the result of new thinking.
with Pearl Harbor,
Judging from least until the end of the national
a survey of the President's papers emergency. Even after that many here, there. will be little need’ for|Of the papers will remain secret.
> HANNAH <
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There is still potential international dynamité in the full records of the! Teheran and Yalta Big Three meet- | ings. The only records of these and | other important wartime foreign!
ly chronological logs, ¥ WN
President's overnight trip to Warm |
Harbor, when Secretary of State Cordell
negotiations had broken down. If precedent is followed, it will be
tant of the Roosevelt papers are made available for publication. Un-
Barber Is Sued
POCATELLO, Idaho, Oct. 25 (U. P.) —Barber George Senes decided today that “Mama knows best.” Benes said he was only following directions when he clipped all the hair off the head of one of his best ‘teen age customers. But he didn't know the views of the boy's mother,
Yesterday he he learned. Mrs L. L for $50
Springs, Ga., a week before Pear] | ject cross-index.
mission of the writer, ” »
THE BASEMENT and first floor | Wrote “Too good to be true. can't get something for nothing.”
of the library consist entirely of gifts to the President, ship models, {oddities sent to him and objects ac- | quired by a President during .12 {years in office. Above the main floor are the stacks of books—more
conferences in the library are mere-!than 15.000 volumes—and the cor-
respondence, A spacious attic above contains case after case of unfilled
” MISSING from the Roosevelt trip documents. files here is the record of the late |
The President's correspondence files begin with a large name-sub-Except for pro
a trip suddenly reversed forma political letters to governors
|and members of congress, there is
Hull telephoned the chief executive [little correspondence in the files and told him the Japanese peace written over the Roosevelt signa-
ture. There is a file of pro and con
generations before the more impor- opinion sent in by the public after
each of Mr. Roosevelt's major fireside chats,
By Irate Mother
declaring that no barber could do that to her son. “Next time I'll get the parent's permission,” the barber decided.
DIVORCED COUPLE REMARRY
| Plenty,”
| start of the American navy, These
HOLLYWOOD, Oct, 25 (U, P.).~ Orchestra Leader Matty Malneck
find names of people now dead,
of course, has burned down, But
places. When I turned on the lights last night, he made a terrific scurrying on the floor and then a dark startling streak across the room, right at my feet. The only reason I am not dead is that I realized, just before my heart stopped, that it was only a chipmunk. [ . THERE ARE 12 beds in my cabin, ‘It is too bad I'm not in the mood to have in a few friends and relatives. Some of
them. There are cobwebs in the turn of the stairs, and I wouldn't disturb them for anything. Mr. Johnson seems fo be a conscientious objector to having his dish towels washed. I believe he has literally scores of them hanging on the wall, all dirty. People said it would offend him deeply if I should wash them. I don’t know why anybody ever thought I would,
TOMORROW-—Log Cabins.
ONE OF the most amusing files is the one on Fala, the President's Fala got cables,
ters, along with many Christmas
When a magazine printed that
meat producer complained. Mr, Roosevelt instructed a secretary to make a diplomatic reply. Selected for filing under “congratulations” or “support of policles” are messages for the low and high of American life, The messages were particularly expansive in the early successful days of the New Deal. The President's book shelves disclosed a typically Rooseveltian systém of book appraisal which created a number of priceless collector's items. If he had no particular admidation for a book, it went into the shelves with a clean fly-leaf. It he thought moderately well of the book, he put his initials inside the front cover. When he liked the book very much, he wrote out his full name, » »
~ IN SOME of the books the President wrote an opinion of the work Inside the cover of “The Road to
written by Foster and Catehings in 1928, the President You
Included among the President's
naval papers dating back to the
historic records are kept in Washington in their original form, There is an elaborate file of Mrs. Roosevelt's correspondence with shelves of comment on her column, “My Day,” Mrs,
donation, even though the donation is| $2 to $10, ”~ n
» ALONG with the correspondence
photographs.
model sailboats.
a play at Groton. off to on the library
records is a microfilm library of
Roosevelt rarely said no to a request for a charity
was small-ranging generally from
is a collection of early family These pictures tell a warm story of Mr. Roosevelt's early life; how, before he had infantile paralysis, he romped with his four children, rode horseback, sailed the Hudson and helped them build
There are pictures showing Mrs. Roosevelt as a sirikingly handsome young girl, and "one of the President as a heavily bearded ¥illain in
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orner in the attic of hind a pile of red, white and blue quilts sent in by some patriotic New England ladies,
PAGE 19 Labo Mine 'Deadwork’ May Determine
Foreman Status
By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, Oct, 25.~Down in a coal mine a miner comes upon the vein blocked by a bed of worthless clay. He is forbidden to remove it without firsé making a deal with his immediate boss, an assistant fore man, The two estimate ho w much clay must be dug out before more coal can be reached. Then the foreman and the miner draw up an agreement on the spot stating how much the miner is to be paid for this particular job. That was a picture being considered today by Chairman Paul M. Herzog and Gerald D. Reilly and John M. Houston, members of the National Labor Relations board. It was presented to them by John C. Bane Jr, lawyer for the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., in an effort to prove that assist ant foremen are really part of management and should not be organized with the rank-and-file of employees in the United Mine Workers of America. o LJ s x SAMUEL KRIMSLEY, attorney for the United Clerical, Technical and Supervisory Employees union of the mining industry, a division - of district 50 subsidiary of ‘the United Mine Workers, discounted =~ the importance of the “spot = agreements.” He said they are controlled by the general U. M. W. contract covering “deadwork,” and that every transaction of this sort must be reported in detail to the company. 2 “Deadwork” includes other acs tivities down in the mines that do not fill coal cars—the measure ment on which most miners’ pay is based. : The hearing drew a large gathering of coal operators and others witli a stake in the ques= tion.
» . #" % THIS ISSUE caused the recent coal strikes, which John L. Lewis called off “in the public interest” but in the face of an apparent inclination among the rank-and-file of miners to regard it as academic if not linked with a demand for more pay for themselves,
Mr. Bane said the question for the board to decide is whether coal companies shall be left with only one man at each mine subject to company control alone —the general foreman. Mr Krimsley declared the management opposition is “only a part of their long history of interpesing obstacles to collective bargain ing.”
and his divorced wife, Clara Burns Malneck, took out a license today! to celebrate their 11th wedding anThey
Rivaraacy by ad Tg
In the hat;
is a slightly battered hat box.
box is the custom-
We, the Women
Secretary Not - Personal Maid For Boss’ Wife
By RUTH MILLETT A GROUP of secretaries work ing for a large corporation writes to complain that when they became secretaries to the men for whom they work they also un< knowingly became personal maids for their em~ ployers’ wives, It seems Mr, Boss is always breezing in and askihg Miss Secretary to please take this dress or these unmens tionabiles which Mrs. Boss bought — but decided she didn’t like—back to the store from which they came for a refund. Or Mr, Boss wants Miss Secretary to shop for his wife, make the arrangements for a hotel luncheon for her, ete, » » » NOW while the secretaries don’t in the least mind doing the dirty work for their bosses—which in part is what they are hired to do (“You'll have to get me out of that luncheon engagement, Miss Brown”)=-it annoys and insulis them to be asked also to do his wife's unpleasant downtown tasks, Griping about the imposition among themselves isn't going to do any good. But perhaps a little carefully planned strategy might serve to wake the boss up,
Couldn't the secretary -- while shopping for the wife—take a lit« tle extra time to shop for her= self, sweetly admitting that is what she did when she returns to the office? » » » AND if the shopping for Mrs, Boss really becomes a dreaded chore, she might try not using quite all of her brains and good taste in making purchases. A few bad buys might cause’ Mrs. Boss to say scathingly tocher husband, “That secretary of yours may be a whizz on the telephone, as you say, and maybe she knows how to handle ‘your clienis—but she certainly has atrocious taste.”