Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1945 — Page 11

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' MISS JO ANN MAFFETT, assistant promotion di“rector for Ayres’ Sub Deb shop, received two of the “prettiest chrysanthemums you ever saw for her Thaoks-

teens,”

Get Results TOKYO, Nov. 26.~1 was standing on the platform

of the railway station at Kamakura, south of Yokohama, with a group of G. Is, when a busiriesslike

M. P. grabbed me by. the shoulders and said, “This is

a frisk!” He rapidly rancover all my pockets and slapped -my- hips- like a detective. He turned to the soldier beside me and repeated the performance. Before the train came he had frisked every man in uniform on the platform, officers and men alike. Sn He was not searching . for weapons. In potential danger spots we are still permitted to wear pistols. He was looking for > i the provost The first move e provos ; marshal’'s attempt to smash the black market—on which cigarets were probably the greatest single item —was the arrest in Tokyo's Marinouchi hotel of a ring of IHalian civilians and a few G. 1s had done thousands of dollars of business in the months dealing in contraband. Cigarets were for 30 yen a package .(nearly $2) and there brisk trade throughout Tokyo.

Sales Made Openly THE business had become bold. I have seen boys

who past two selling

CONGRESS shows evidence of a belief that dole money and a form of WPA are the only means of get= ting chis country on its feet and going again. Because of public resistance against the WPA idea

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way of : sold throughout the war at double the present even our second-rate variety.

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Always the Last Word GEORGE MADDEN, advertising manager of Block's, always has the last word in his telephone

conversations. He has a habit of saying goodby after he hangs up the receiver. . . . The Bituminous Coal

‘Mining industry recently came out with a simplified

glossary of current and common coal mining terms. But the first word in the pamphlet probably wouldn't be much use to ‘coal miners. It's “adit.” And the definition: “Used mostly in crossword puzzles, seldom in mining; literhlly, ‘an “entry, usually one nearly horizontal.” . ; . Mrs. Flora Terhune, one of the U. 8.

Rubber Co. employees, has been having sugar trouble. |

It seems that her husband. got into a sack of white

sand in the cupboard recently and used it for sugar.

. + » The new homes out in the 1900 block of N, Warman ave. certainly are going up on the production-

“line basis. Instead of digging a foundation for each

house separately, contractors are using the wholesale method. They're scooping out one big foundation for all of them at once and then will fill inthe in-between . + + Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker tells us that 108 out of the last 110 full-time employees hired for clerks and carriers here in the last month have

“been discharged servicemen.

"By Sidney B. Whipple

ing cigarets from earfons. And in fact, it was because of this rousing: trade that for many weeks there has been an acute shortage of cigaretstin the Tokyo area. But now the ‘businéss appears to have been smashed through the combined efforts of the. provost marshal’s office and counter-intelligence.. The Marunouchi ting was broken up by a CIC agent who posed

8-8 -member-of the gang. It-is-gratifying to note

that only a few Americans were ifvolved in it. ¥ The wider black market, however, had no organization. It was stimylated by individual soldiers who thought there wasn’t‘anything particularly wrong in a few packages out of theif own rations (or from post exchanges at which they were purchased for 50 cents a carton) at a 4000 per cent profit. Perhaps many of them also were unaware of the regulations which forbid the selling or giving away of any American equipment or supplies. Lenient With Individuals IN DEALING with these individuals, the authorities have thus far been inclined to be lenient if only

a package or two is involved. They merely confiscate the G. Ls contraband, and let him go with. .a warning. Heavy jail sentences await those who have gone into the business on a broad scale. The civilian foreigners here, however, are disturbéd because they get American cigarets only by black markets. Jap cigarets, which. are ter-

market prices straw.

By Maj. Al Williams

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was the legal argument, that a relationship between state and the federal government, that coun-

congress has an imposing argument that more powerful in-

ba TN 7 the same issues in the airport philding program, The house committee, headed by A. L Bulwinkle of North Carolina, stands almost

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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek “Friendship Project.”

First of a Series By WILLIAM H. NEWTON Scripps-Howard Staff Writer HAPPY VALLEY, Szechu--~.en-Provinee, China, Nov; 26.—Mess Boy Wong tossed

picked up two bowls of rice and put them in front of the short, heavy-set Jap officer. Seven other members of the Imperial Japanese army staff at Wenchow, who were seated at the table, noisily gulped their rice, paying scant attention to the skinny little Chinese orderly.

Now and then they would pause long enough to shout a curt sume mons for more food. It was hot in the mess tent, and Wong went back to his corner and listlessly towel. LE FOR A FEW moments there was only the sound of chopsticks in the rice bowls and the slow slap . . . Finally . the senior Jap officer grunted for attention. > “We have 200 more rifles,” he mumbled, “brought up the river on one of the sampans last night. They're in the ordnance hut back of the dock. Want you to see they are issued tomorrow. No mistakes.” '| Scarcely noticing the bowing, polite assents, he rose heavily and left the room. In the corner, Wong slapped away ~& look of patient boredom on his face. It was hot. 8 . - »

THE MESS BOYS clattered the china bowls in the kitchen and shouted for coolies to carry out the’ rubbish,

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: at *lwork was done and each sweating hodge-podge highway system where rich county high- ; off into the.dirt roads of the poorer 3 . {kets slung from each end. :

coolle picked up his carry-stick—a| bamboo pole with two wicker bas-|

Shouldering the sticks, they filed | down the mountain path with the half-walk half-shuffle of the heavily laden. :

N November.and December ~ 1943, the combined chief of staff had met with President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill at- the SEXTANT conference in Cairo and then

The greatest of these by far was the . critical shortage of landing craft. Those available for the top

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Typical of American volunteers who trained guerrillas in Happy slapped at flies with the y.yuor' wag Lt. (hg) William C. Meyers (above) of St. Joseph, Mo,

attention to the common sight of the half-naked coolies sweating over the trails at night with their swing loads. » . »

THE COOLIES went down to the river and came back. . A close observer might have wondered why their packs seemed heavier on the return, why they slipped and strained coming up the hill from the river. But there weren't any close observers. ‘It was hot, and the mosquitoes were thick, and the air] was heavy. ik ‘ i At'dawn, a Chinese guerrilla back | in the hills saw a single file of tired coolies picking their way up the

HOW U. S. VOLUNTEERS TRAINED THE GUERRILLAS OF CHINA—

Happy Valley ... A Top Secret|

And Lt, Jimmy Wong, of the Chinese National Army, American trained, beckoned to his coolles. One by one they moved forward, each stackirig 10. new Jap rifles on the ground, » Ld ” 1 THE NEXT the Japs heard of their missing rifles, they were belt shot at with them from ambush. Of Mess Boy Wong they saw no more, Probably had cholera and

{went down. to the river to die. No-

body bothered to look for him. It was & small job, really. Two hundred rifles didn't meat very

{much to the ‘well-equipped Jap

army. It probably didn't change the course of the war in China by the flicker of an eye. E

trail. All of them were soaRing with t

Their eyes were red-rimmed, and

their leg muscles jerked under the! skin as they rested their baskets on | Indiana and California and -Penn-

A AST Lind Eat, 2 RES : INTO THE camp, hidden Tar back in the green. mountain country,

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Wong by. 100,000 and when you put

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hills with Mess Boy. Wong and his 100,000 friends—something Is bound

came ‘Mess Boy Wong with his|to happen.

sweating garbage coolies, Straight to the American ensign he marched.

Lieutenant.” he said. =

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OVERLORD

land basic friendship of Américan

‘s wo» . THE VU. 8. NAVY called 1t Friendship project, because it was

The officer waved a greeting, “Hi,| made possible ‘only by the natural

its founder.

rillas behind it.

Chinese guerrillas are introduced to an American weapon—the bazooka.

and Chinese and by their common determination to defeat the Japs. - Rear Adm. Milton E. Miles was Generalissimo Chiang Kal-shek put the Chinese National government and his tough guer-

And in 1943 the Sino-American Co-operation Organization — SACO -~Was created, SACO was a top secret. Many a startled visitor to Chungking and Kunming in those early days blinked when he saw officers in navy blue on the streets of cities more than a thousand miles from salt water. “Some kind of a medical mission,” he was told. s nw HAPPY VALLEY was the home It is 20 miles over

Ohio hill country, with neat white buildings and carefully kept paths and roads.

If you had tried to watch Happy Valley from that same mountain three months ago, you'd have been shot. !

can sailors trained Chinese guer~ rillas.

American advisers, behind Jap lines to report on weather, ship and troop movements and other military matters and to sabotage and harass the enemy wherever and whenever the chance arose, . 8 » ALL THE Americans in Happy Valley had volunteered for their Jobs. ; They couldn't even for that bombed-out city's doubtful pleasures. The stayed at Happy Valley and trained guerrillas for 18 months. in a stretch. ’ Those who left the valley didn’t bead back to rest’ camps or ‘fur.

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the Yangtze and walked hundreds of miles through the mountains to set up coast watcher stations behind Jap lines or weather stations in the heart of the Jap occupied zone.

and sinking Japs.

* rubber, alcobol, fatty acids, soaps

Here in Happy Valley, the Ameri-|

They sent them, with young}

‘go info Chungking, |

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U.S. Program For Synthetic Fuel Is Ready

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (U. P.), «The {federal government was ready to go ahead today with its $30,000,000 five-year experimental program to develop synthetic fuels to supplement this country's des clining oil reserves. Ee Intérior Secretary Harold L. = Ickes said the government now : has all the necessary experimens tal plants to carry out the proe gram as a result of the acquisi~ tion by the bureau of mines of the $17,500,000 Missouri ordnance plant near Louisiana, Mo. The plant made synthetic am» monia during the war. It now will be converted into a demons stration plant for the production of oil and gasoline from coal and lignite. The plant is within easy access of major coal-producing states and all types of coal will be tested. ’ 2 « & =» ICKES said new buildings and equipment will be added so that U. 8, research workers also will be able to test the wartime dis« coveries of German scientists who made big strides in the develop« ment of synthetic fuels. Their discoveries were confiscated by the invading allied armies. $e said American developments in synthetic fuel plus new German discoveries will make this country’s program “the most mod ern and efficient yet known.” The Germans were unable to use their discoveries themselves, he said, because critical shortages of gasoline and oil made it impossible for them to shut down their plants long enough to mod.

Germany's chief source o tion fuel. > Another process which was most widely in Germany about the same amount of line or oil per ton and a superior grade of Diesel fuel, It —also was used to produce synthetic

and edible fats such as margarine,

We, the W. oPhone Bench For Women Is | Frowned On

By RUTH MILLETT = “PHONE your

agadget~ minded post. war world, it is # gossip bench that is so com= fortable they will spend more time telephones.

on their . = = ; WITHOUT an upholstered

pause to catch their breath. And nothing can interrupt & woman who is<in the middle of telephone gossip. “Just. a minute while I go to the door,” or “Hold on while I

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