Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1946 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1048

Problem of Daily Survival Expressed in Terms of Barter; Only Thing That Matters Is How to Escape Starvation. uy (Editor's Note: A year ago on April 27, Berlin fell to the Russians. NEA staff writer Rosette Hargrove, whose beat is France, has gone

_meross the border to see what the German capital looks like one year after defeat. This is what she found.)

By ROSETTE HARGROVE NEA Staff Writer

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“ BERLIN, April 26.—This is a city of incredible contrast, of abject utter desolation. A year has passed since Germany was Berlin crumbled in its own rubble, and it does not take for the foreigner to find out that life is even more abnormal have been in wartime, in terms of barter. Money has lost its value and the only

thing that really matters for the "majority of Berliners is where and W to escape starvation. mm The coming of spring in the nearby suburbs, with blossoming shrubs lending touches of color to ruined homes, increases if anything can the sense of desola-

n. On the other yr hand, every tree Rosette Hargrove, 1)p Tier Garteri and on the famous Unter den Linden is reduced to a blackened

stump. Yet with true German sentimentality, the scores of women and children who daily trek to the surrounding woods to gather fuel for the household stop to pick bunches of forsythia and plum blossoms. At first the sight of bent, grayhaired women carrying enormous bundles of firewood on their backs or trundling them along on low four-wheeled sleds is inclined to shock the newcomer, Get Used to It But you get used to it, just as you get used to the lines of drab housewives outside food stores, waiting to see whether they can draw their rations—they get these every 10 days—with a look of resignation on their faces, ; Watching them you find out that they are singularly silent. The German hausfrau probably has little inclination for small talk. Outside of the usual household chores, made even more difficult through the lack of soap and clean‘ing facilities, she has to devote at least two hours every day to visit the food stores to find out whether the supplies have come in. Children Look Clean

The children, however, look clean and few show signs as yet of under-nourishment, There are far

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tury Meissen coffee cups or pieces of Dresden china can be had for a half-dozen chocolate bars, and SO on, Pay Attention Traveling by jeep, you find your=self at a traffic stop ‘staring at a handeart drawn by two men hauling five or six roughly-fashioned caskets painted dead black. Nobody pays any attention. Here and there you catch a glimpse of a well-dressed woman, nearly always young. In the suburbs, outside workingmen's groups of apartments, strings of clothes are set out to dry. It is difficult to find a house where most of the windows have not been destroyed by blast. Not Much to Buy Along the Kurfurstendam (once Berlin's Pifth Avenue and now a three-mile stretch of twisted girders and heaps of rubble) you oeccasionally glimpse a tiny square of glass that is a shop window. There isn’t much to buy, Most shops sell antiques and every so often it is possible to pick up a rare piece. These shops are largely patronized by allied occupation personnel. Prices are high, as high if not higher Paris. Here, too, cigarets, candy and soap are far more acceptable in payments than marks. Incidentally the price of a pack of American cigarets is pretty] well established by now at 100 marks and the mark is worth 10 cents. Enjoy Sunshine A few of the cafes have opened and people sit for hours on the terrace enjoying the sunshine. They drink ersatz coffee or weak beer. There is little, if any, conversation. Most of them sit and stolidly| watch the American, British, Rus-| sian and French troops who pass by. They do not appear resentful. | Neither do they seem to notice! that passing traffic raises a fine white dust from the ruins around]

fewer spindly legs and little drawn faces than in France. Along the main thoroughfares, at street corners, little groups of people study notices nailed to rough billboards

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offered in exchange for food, soap, |they lost the war, deep down in cigarets, or used clothing. Cigarets/ their hearts they cannot believe are still the most important medium | Germany is no longer a great naof barter. | tion, that it will take at least 60 A fine accordion is worth five years to rebuild their capital. packs of cigarets; two dozen crystal] As a matter of fact, I have still to Rhine wine glasses can be obtairied meet a German who has a sense of for six packs; a set of five 18th cen- [responsibility regarding the war.

Center Township School Picks Times Marble Contest Entries

The Albert Walsman school in|June 7. Center township is the first county| Added to the district competition school to select marbles winners for will be the following school winthe district playoff in" the Times- ners, the latest to be reported: City Recreation division tourna-| Albert Walsman school, Center ment. The district eliminations will |township—FEugene Heaton, Arthur be held Saturday, May 4. Miller, Carl King and Donald McBecause of a late start in the Clarney. school eliminations, the county| School 10-— Kenneth Maddox, buildings have until next Thursday Ronnie Baker, Dale Ervin and Norto file the names of winners with man Clark; alternates, Linnie TayMrs. Norma Koster, marbles tourna- |lor and David Lupus. ment director, at the City recrea-| School 2-—- Gordon Handlon, tion division. City school winners Charles Tooley, Howard Warner must be in by tomorrow. City and Bob Jump. schools will hold their final play-| School 40—Andrew Watkins, Claroffs today. lence Stephenson, Theophilis Jones Winners in the May 4 playoffs and George Harris. will meet May 11 in Willard park| School 19—Steven Pinner, Larry and the finalists will be matched Morris, Gerald Vanderner and RobShere May 13de. determine the In- |ert Brandon, apolis champion. Thé cham-| School 4—Ronald Sides George pion will win a free trip to Cleve- | Miller, Nelson McCloud, - and on land, O., to compete in the national nelius Jones: alternates, Eugene marbles tournament June 3 through | Keller and William Turner

|STATE POLICE ERECT NEW RADIO TOWER

LIGONIER, Ind., April 26 (U. P.) --Indiana state police celebrated today the completion of a new 400- | foot radio tower at the Ligonier! post. They sald it was the tallest | of its kind in the state.

Col. Austin R. Killian, police| superintendent, said the tower was| a step in modernization of the ste police radio system, He said it” would provide two-way communication over long distances, eliminating the necessity of automatic repeater stations, { Col. Killian added other tall towers would be constructed over the state.

with RESOLUTION HONORS RATION BOARD WORK

resolution of gratitude honor Loo" . ing volunteer, non-salaried Marion .00 county ration board workers who! “held the price line” during the can watch the world go war, has been adopted by the In-!

A oni , |dianapolis Chamber of Commerce. | + just by spinning this Special tribute was a to Alex-| ander L. Taggart, county ‘rationing! chairman. The resolution praised the ration board volunteers for | “creating and maintainifg condi- | tions at home conducive to winning | world war II on the battlefield . . .! “Unselfishly, they contributed vast amounts of time ‘and energy. | + + + Their service was performed faithfully afid admirably to a very large degree because of the able,

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