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Airmen Defend DC4's In Recent Crack-ups, Say Facts Are Hidden

Veterans Tell of Experi

Take Slap at Red Tape in CAA

By MAX B. COOK, Scripps-Howard Aviation Editor NEW YORK, July 5—They sat in the Wings club in New York— relaxed, happy and discussing war experiences with the army air forces. One, “Maine's most decorated man,” was Dana F. Dudley, former AAP captain featured by the late Ernie Pyle in “Here Is Your War." One couldn't tell that this war hero, ruddy-faced and in civvies, had been awarded the DFC, air medal with 10 oak leaf clusters, the ETO

ribbon with five battle stars and : awards. The other, siender, blue-eyed: and smiling, was F. Kenneth McKnight, former

AAF B-17s, B-24s and B-25s. They've Flown Plenty

“You fellows have flown plenty and under all conditions of weather. What do you think of the recent DC-4 crashes?” a bystander inquired. “Ask McKnight,” -suggested Mr. Dudley. “He's crossed the North Atlantic 64 times, the South Atlantic 14 times and the Pacific 15 times in them. He also was an acceptance inspector for the AAP as a civilian in several west coast aircraft plants. He went back to that after the war, then resigned. You tell it, Mac.” “I read the stories on the DC-4 crash at La Guardia field,” said Mr. McKnight, “and do not think that all of the truth was told. Someone or some group is hiding the facts. I have flown day and night; winter and summer; north, south, east and west; in every kind of weather the world . could pit against us. I have never seen a time when a cross-wind or thermal interfered with a takeoff on a DC-4 (C-54). I'm sold on that plane. It brought me back from a lot of close ones. Gave Pilot Credit

“Once we landed in a 72-mile-an-hour hurricane cross-wind at “the

Azores. I gave my pilot the credit,

but at the same time, the airplane was designed right or we wouldn't have made it. Another time we lost two engines in the midflle of the North Atlantic and one of the remaining engines was sputtering. “I've seen it load up with ice so thick our ground speed was re< duced to 105-miles-per-hour and we finally landed at Newfoundland after 14 hours and 17 minutes in the air out of England. There was exactly 40 gallons of fuel left in the tanks, hardly enough to wet the bottoms of them. “But it's a miracle to me that there aren't many more aircraft crashes, knowing the situation inside the CAA (civil aeronautics administration) and the AAF as well as I do. It is all hopelessly snarled in red tape and administered by politics rather than experience and common sense.

Out of Red Tape

“I am happy to be out of the turmoil, strife, buck-passing and stupid administration of government red tape.” And what are these two war heroes doing now? Mr. Dudley, who dropped “hot potatoes” all over Europe, is in the potato business in Maine. Mr. McKnight, who flew 93 times over the oceans, is selling fishing tackle. “Right back to earth for us both,” grinned Mr. McKnight.

Believe Wreckage Of Transport Sighted

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. July 6 (U. P.).—Army and coast guard planes were believed today to have sighted the wreckage of a missing C-54 transport plane en route here from Bermuda with a crew of five officers and enlisted men. Coast guard vessels were sent to the scene, about 250 miles east of Daytona Beach. Lt. Nelson Davis reported that from 200 feet he saw two oxygen tanks, a partly submerged life raft, and possibly two yellow cushions carried in that type of plane. He saw no sign of survivors.

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NANKING, July 5 (U. P.) —Pro; government press dispatches claimed today that Soviet ships are rushing men and materials from the Manchurian port of Dairen to northern Shantung, which is becoming as strong a Chinese Communist base as North Manchuria. Simultaneously, it was reported, the Nationalists opened a “summer offensive” along the Tsinan-Tsingtao railway in an attempt to cut off central Shantung from the northern part of the peninsula. Strategy was aimed at forcing Cammunists in central Shantung to leave their mountain hideouts and be hemmed in by other government columns advancing from the south in a mopping up operation. This would be necessary preliminary, it was believed, to an all-out offensive on the considerable Red strength in northern Shantung. Landings at Chefoo The alleged Soviet ald—earlier reports from the ministry of national defense had referred only' to 19 merchantmen of “a certain country” —was said to be coming from Dairen and being landed at Chefoo, chief port of northern Shantung: A successful government offensive and occupation of the northern peninsula, including Chefoo, would seriously affect the Communists’ position in Manchuria, where a possible “decisive” battle was reported brewing. Pro-government reports said a Nationalist pincers movement was developing in the Itung area, 40 miles south of Changchun, where the main strength of the Communist forces was believed concentrated.

Action Pledged On Fascism Report

WASHINGTON, July § (U. P.).— Rep. Wright Patman (D. Tex.) said today he had been assured the house will act next week on a secret report entitled “Fascism in Action” which has been the core of a months-long controversy. He added that he is confident the house will approve publication of the report as a public document and a companion publication to the pamphlet “Communism in Action.” Some 500,000 copies of the latter document already have been printed .

Meanwhile, Chairman Karl E. LeCompte of the house administration committee said he had received no answer to a request to Secretary of State George C. Marshall for the text of the Soviet-German pact of 1939 to include in"the report.

Landlord Rewards

Tenants for Babies CLEVELAND, July 5 (U. P.).— Henry Solomon, the real estate operator who likes his tenants to have big families, today presented three - babies—all children of veterans—with $26 war bonds. His standing offer to his tenants is a $25 bonus for théir first baby, $50 for the second, $100 for the third; and right on up. The three bonds today brought to 65 the number given out since the landlord inaugurated - his “baby bond” system in 1927,

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And Mr. Solomon's tenants don’t have to worry about the removal of rent ceilings. “The last thing in the world I want is a rent increase,” he said.

Dollar Haircuts Start

Window-Smashing Spre CLEVELAND, July 5 (U. P.).— Eight Cleveland residents, angered because they had to pay a dollar for haircuts and were asked $1500 for a 1941 automobile, went on a window smashing spree with beer mugs yesterday, causing total damages of $2000 at three business

They were arrested within two hours of the vandalism. Two of the mug-hurlers suffered serious cuts from shattering glass.

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Last of a Series

By EDWIN C. HEINKE * Times City Editor “A ND on a misty evening, when trunks of ancient trees Are swaying indistinctly in the intermittent breeze,

toms that crowd the pleasant ways In restless reminiscence of the long forgotten days.” This verse is from a poem written by Dr. Carleton Buel McCulloch, poet, scholar and writer as well as the oldfashioned family doctor who took care of Indiana's literary

men during the golden age. But Dr. McCulloch was not only a doctor of medicine and letters. He was one of the city's leading figures in the civic life of Indianapolis. : » ” » > HIGHLIGHT of the early 1900's was the famous party staged on June 23 and 24, 1911, by the Come on Home Society ‘of Indianapolis for the Indiana Society of Chicago. On the committee in charge with Dr. McCulloch were also these illustrious names of nearly 50 years ago: L. C. Boyd, Meredith Nicholson, Carl G. Fisher, John N. Carey, Harold O. Smith, Booth Tarkington, Charles A. Bookwalter, William Fortune, Dr. Henry Jameson, John B. Cockrum, W. H. Coleman, W. J. Richards and Ovid B. Jameson. The two-day picnic in which conversation reigned supreme against the tinkle of glasses and the platters of fine Indiana food was held on the Stoughton Fletcher farm, at Ladywood. = ” 8 LJ GOV. THOMAS R. MARSHALL proclaimed the following: “Now therefore , , . by virtue of the power and autherity vested in me by the laws of good fellowship, do hereby grant for the period of two days, commencing on the 23rd day of June, 1911, permission to all Hoosier exiles dwelling in that great city on Lake Michigan, and to any other Hooslerites whom they may have attached or become attached to, to enter the state of Indiana and proceed to the Capitol thereof, there-to disport themselves in any way not inimical to the laws of the state, particularly cautioning them not to shoot, on sight, any budding authors because they are doing the best they can and what they want is not harsh treatment, but ADE from the City of Chicago.” Booth Tarkington wrote in the official invitation: . “Come, brothers, come. Aunt Mandy is a-stedyin’ the broilers; the buttermilk is cooling in the jugs down at the springhouse and the old man has gone to town for a Georgy melon.” » . »

MEREDITH NICHOLSON, as chairman of the gastronomical committee, wrote: “Water-ground corn meal has become rare, but a quantity has been acquired for the home-comers from the well-known Linneas Boyd Mill, where the gray miller of Hoosier song smokes his pipe contentedly on the shores of the Whitewater. Members of the Indiana Society will do well to secure a jewelled bonbonniere filled with

I seem to sense those phan-|.

YOUNG AT 76—Dr. Charles B. McCulloch, hale and hearty at 76, goes to work every day in his capacity as medical director and vice president of The

State Life Insurance Co.

this meal, that they may show their grandchildren what real corn meal looked like in the golden days. “Corn pone will be served to the prodigals at all meals, after models carefully guarded in the safety vaults of the state geologist’s office. Tanks of buttermilk are to be placed on all street corners while the exiles are among us. This means the good old-fashioned Hoosier buttermilk, with yellow freckles of real butter * afloat thereon, and not to be confused with the spurious article made by dissolving a pink tablet in pre-digested skim milk.” " » . “ABE MARTIN” also wrote on the back cover of the invitation:

“Come back t' th’ gentle in-

fluence o’ ‘home an' no questions]

will be asked. “A handsome, beautifully dressed woman wuz arrested in Chicago th’ other day. That's what she gits for leavin’ Indianny.

“A feller that'd knock his own| §

state would shave himself with a broken teacup.” TA ONE OF INDIANAPOLIS’ war heroes of world war I, Dr. -McCulloch was commander of a hospital in Prance. This was the famed Base Hospital 32, known as the Lilly Base Hospital from Indianapolis. The unit sailed for overseas service early in December, 1917, and was stationed at Contrexeville, in the foothills of Vosges Mountains in northeast France. Early in the summer of 1918, Dr. McCulloch was sent to the front in charge of an operating team attached to the French Third army at Compiegne. It was there.that he won his Croix De Guerre. Dr. McCulloch has two explanations for this award.

One is that when the bugle sounded, he had his kit and thought he was getting to the mess line for dinner, and by mistake, got into the Croix de Guerre line. His other explanation is that it was given to him for saving a French officer's life—he could have operated on him but didn't, .° ~ - » ON MAY 30, 1923, Dr. McCulloch spoke before two immense audi-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES g|The Man Who 'Doctored’ Indiana's Literary Great—No. 6

McCulloch, World War | Hero, Arranged Marshal

OLD FRIEND—Marshal Foch, the great generalissimo of world war |, came to Indianapolis after the first world war. The invitation was tendered by his friend, Dr. McCulloch.

ences in Paris, France. He represented the American Legion in Memorial Day exercises for the American dead. For months before he sailed, Dr. McCulloch, who had picked up a little Préench while serving in the war, tried to increase his vocabulary by studying French by means of a phonograph. He made an impassioned speech in Paris and frequently the audience cheered as their emotionalism was touched. “But nobody ever understood any of it,” jokingly said Frank McHale later to friends in Indianapolis. “His French was so bad that the Frenchmen thought he was talking

‘|mobiles, around the track.

English and the Americans thought he was speaking French.” " » » MARSHAL FOCH DAY in Indianapolis on Nov, 4, 1921 is a day still remembered by those who lived

in the days of the first war with Germany. ‘ And like all other civic enterprises, Dr. McCulloch was one of the mainsprings of this one. He went to France and officially presented the invitation to Marshal "Foch, then returned to the U. 8S. to become chairman of the executive committee in charge of arrangements, On the committee with him were Bowman Elder, Mayor Charles W. Jewett, Governor Warren T. McCray, Charles F. Coffin and Samuel D. Miller, Times haven't changed. The Indiana Historical Commission published a book as the official record of Marshal Foch Day. It said in part: “Following a brief rest in the Claypool Hotel, he was then taken to the Speedway where a 25-mile automobile race was staged in his honor. A crowd of 25,000 people had gathered in the grandstands and when the Marshal's party leading a long line of automobiles passed through the gates, a rousing cheer went up. He was driven on the track in a special car. Police escorted the official party, which rode in 15 Indianapolis-made auto-

“The race was indeed a thriller. Several times during the race the Marshal inquired as to the speed the cars were making. When informed that at the end of the third lap the speed was 98 miles an hour, he expressed great astonishment. Two of the cars which were entered in the race by the Duesenbergs were cars that made enviable records in the Grand Prix Race, the great French classic motor event great French classic motor event on July, 1921, “Eddie Hearne, driving a Duesenberg, won the race, the time being 156,142, or an average of 97.5 miles an hour, ” » »

AFTER THE RACE, the Marshal

.|but means to an end—and that

Foch Day Here

to the work of dedicating the cornerstone of the Indiana War Memaerial Building. ‘Dr, McCulloch,

upon the Marshal a companionship in the Military Order of Foreign Wars. The audience of 132,000 in Cadie* Tabernacle rose en masse, waved small French banners and Marshal Foch replied to Dr. McCulloch:

not an end. War and victory are

final end is peace, a just peace, which includes the right of everyone to work without interruption. “We have attained this end, and by victory we shall maintain ft. Without bitterness, without provocation, we shall continue a just peace. But to attain this end in peace means work, the same as in war, a united effort. Should we maintain this effort, we shall certainly see the énd we seek. And we feel sure tonight we shall retain this peace, sure, laboriously and justly . . |

STAUNCH DEMOCRAT through the years, Dr. McCulloch took a

(fling into politics in 1920 and 1924

and ran for governor of Indiana. He was beaten both times. “But. I set up a record,” proudly sald Dr, McCulloch, “I was beaten by more votes than anyone had ever been beaten before.” Long ‘an admirer of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dr. McCulloch never got to Washirgton although he had been invited several times. However, he saw the President in Indianapolis when he came here during the campaign in 1936. The friendship had started in 1931 when Dr. McCulloch wrote to Governor Roosevelt of New

heart.

Jimmy Roosevelt had made a speech before the American Legion at Detroit and Dr. McCulloch wrote to tell the governor “that both you and his mother would have been very proud at the way he acquitted himself, “It was the openly expressed comment of each of those at my table that he would be glad to have such a son. I thought I was too old for thrills, but candor compels me to acknowledge a tingling up and down my spine, and a slight suffusion of the eyes over the way

as chairman of, the executive committee, conferred | 48

“War is not an end. Victory is

York a letter that came from his,

* Wants Some Praise. For New Rent Law

By EDWIN A, LAHEY

WASHINGTON, J Poy Be ot cosidant Truman wes talking about the job Herbert U. Nelson loves when he denounced the “brazen operations” of the real-estate lobby the other

y. But Mr, Nelson, who is executive vice president of the National Assoclation of Real Estate Boards, doesn't lose sleep worrying about . the White House anathema. Tall and fiftyish, Mr. Nelson wears a seersucker suit, a bow tie and the debonair attitude of injured innocence llke a seasoned Washington lobbyist, even though his permanent office is in Chicagos# Has Swanky Offices “Lobbles are a part of our gov~ ernment system,” he explains in his Washington headquarters, an old K

st. mansion converted into richly decorated office suites.

“The* constitution didn’t provide for political parties, but we found we had to have them to make gov ernment work, dnd we have to have lobbies, to voice opinions to congress.” Far from feeling guilty about the softened rent. control bill which was the cause of Mr. Truman's blast, Mr, Nelson asks that the real es-

| tate lobby be given public eredit for *

arging restraint upon congress. Wanted Transition Period Actually, Mr. Nelson says, the {congressmen wanted to destroy rent control completely as of June 30, {but the organized real estate lobby felt that there should be a transi tion period” to avoid a “disorderly” situation. The new legislation extends a more elastic control until next March 1, “We really had some trouble with those Republicans and southern Democrats, persuading them to go slow,” ‘Mr. Nelson says earnestly. The real estate lobby is made up of 19 trade organizations, representing not only real estate interests but the building material manufactur; ers, Mr. Nelson® says.

this young man handled his job.” F. D. R. wrote back: “That note of yours gave me more pleasure than all my other letters put together, and I am very happy by what you say about my boy James. I am sending it not only to him but to his little wife, for it will make her very happy and proud. “I hope. all goes well with you. Be sure if you come through Albany this winter to let me know. ¢9 and stay with us at the executive mansion.” » » » : 80 ENDS the story of the old family doctor—Dr. Carleton Buel McCulloch. And again the ghosts sigh gently on Lockerbie st. and in

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Brook .and at 4270 N. Meridian st, and all the other places where Hoosier authors and Poets once! lived. Only Meredith Nicholson and

can hear the merry voices of their

into their memories. Said Dr.| McCulloch, slowly quoting: “I have had friends, 1 have had companions—

and the citizens of Indianapolis got

miliar faces.”

HARTFORD, Conn., July 5 (U. P).—In a cemetery just north of Hartford there's a simple little grass-covered grave marked with a small stone. On the stone is engraved “Little Miss 1565.” And just as the identity of the world war I doughboy is sealed in the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, so the identity of this victim of a home front tragedy appears to be an unsolved mystery. No one knew her name so they pinned a number on her. The number 1565 soon became a mute reminder that 168 victims lost their lives in the Hartford circus fire of July 6, 1944. Buried With Six Others The body of the brown-haired girl was in a morgue with other

Sparkas, envoy to the victims, but she was never claimed.

Bo the city buried her with six other unidentified victims. Had it’ not been for two softhearted Hartford detectives, the anniversary of the fire might have faded into history.

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Grave of ‘Little Miss 1565" To Bear Wreath Tomorrow

worked around the clock during the disaster, were moved by the scene of children’s laughter turning to deathly silence.

They decided to place a wreath on “Lijdle Mids 1565's” grave each Christmas day, Memorial day and July ‘6. The nation rallied with funds to make-this possible for the next five or six years and the detectives pledged themselves to remember the memory of the tictim “until the day we die.” And so tomorrow, three years after the fire, Detectives Barber and Lowe once again will perform the simple ceremony. “She could have been recognized,” said Sgt. Barber, “because she wasn’t burned as badly as others. But I guess nobody wanted “her.” Frantic relatives trying to identify the victims always said, -“No, she’s not the one,” as they viewed the girl who became a number. “But I'm sure she was a beautiful child,” Sgt. Lowe remarked. “I

But Detective Sgts. Thomas OC. still can’t figure out Why no one

wanted her.”

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say “Yes, sir” “ The security of steady job’ may have looked good ts provatly to Joe's little woman once, before she got completely | "fed up with having Joe take orders.

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U. S. and British Troops Parade

TOKYO, July 5—~“Very fine parade,” was the comment I elicited from one Jap today. “Many people but few weapons.” I had asked him what he thought of yesterday's parade here in Tokyo in which British and United States troops marched side by side in celebration of American independence from British rule. Tens of thousands of Japanese were interested spectators of the ceremony, which included the first review of the troops by Gen. Douglas MacArthur since Pearl Harbor.

soldiers and 15,000 of the U. 8S. 8th army forces. But, as my Japanese friend noted, there was a minimum display of

Copyright, 1047, by The Indianapolis Times and the Chicago Dally News, Inc. Woman Injured in Fall — In City-hospital with a fractured skull, Mrs. Lou Riley, 76, 6131 Indianvla ave., is in’ critical condition today after falling down the basement stairs at her home,

SHIP GOES AGROUND HALIPAX, July 5 (U. P.) ~The Greek freighter Manhasset radioed today that it was aground 100 miles east of here on Sable island. The radio message advised that the

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