Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1933 — Page 3

MAY 15, 1933

HARDSHIPS OF WAR WRITER'S LIFE REVEALED Correspondent’s Diary Tells of “Behind Scenes* in Near East. Th. Is the first installment of extracts from the dlarv of Frederick Whiteing, United Press staff correspondent with the Japanese armv In Jehol Province. They will give the reader a vivid word picture of the hardships and suffering endured by the men vno cover big news event* lor those at home. Other installments will follow dally. P.Y FRDERIf K WHITEING t nited Press staff Correspondent MUKDEN, Fob. 24.—1 arrived here early today in the midst of a press conference with Major Fujjimoto and Major Watari of the Japanese Kwangtung army, after a hurried trip from Tokio. The atmosphere at the press conference was tense with expectancy. The army intelligence officers informed us of preliminary movements by Japanese columns. Tramloads of munitions, food, motor trucks and supplied and material of all sorts are streaming out 'of here for the Jehol front. Important among these are a vast number of Chinese two-wheeled carts, of which Manchuria has been drained, for transporting army supplies in Jehol. These cars are accompanied by the drivers and animals to pull them. The drivers are being given high pay for the duration of their services. In addition, they are iurnished with food for themselvos and their animals. On Job at Chinchow By I nihri Pr,HH CHTNCHOW, Feb. 27.—1 arrived here late last night after a spasmodic journey from Mukden, which I left in the morning, by the Muk-drn-Priping railway. Chinchow is a grimy, straggling town of stone ana mud buildings, and a tawdry, unkempt appearance. There are sandbag barricades around the station. lam staying at an inn conducted by Japanese, who have established themselves in a Chinesee building, with its inevitable kan," or stovebeds, and who provide some food according to the Japanese cuisine, but, of poor quality. Stove-beds are distinctly an invention of the orientals in the colder climates of the far east. The sleeping part of the bed is con- . structed over an eastern version of a stove, which is kept going during the night—keeping the sleepers (there are usually several to a bed) quite warm.—Editor’s Note.) Cases Are Opened By day the main street presents an animated appearance, with rikishas, Chinese pony carriages, tiny donkeys carrying Chinese men ludicrously much bigger than themselves, dashing Japanese motor cars and motorcycles, carts carrying provisions and other materials for "the army, all intermixed with ~pedestrians, amid swirls of foul dust. Since the Japanese occupation, a number of cases have been opened and one sees a good many Japanese and Korean women pegring out of . the case doors, or riding in rikishas. One little store and restaurant, where one can get good bread, Harbin butter and a good tough beef- ~ steak, is run by a Russian expoliceman and his wife. It. is like an oasis in a desert of dust. He has some good coffee, too. The train ride here w'as an interesting one, though punctuated by long halts at various points. - The first-class coach, and the other second and third-class cars making up the train, were packed with troops. Unrest Clearly Indicated Throughout the iong journey one could sec on every hand indications -of the state of unrest. Well-armed Manchukuo police guarded all the stations. The stations have sandbag barricades and barbed-wire fences are seen here and there. I have been given permission by Major Koybayshi, now in command here, to leave for the front early tomorrow. The Japanese army here occupies the buildings of what once was a school. ■ Tonight the major entertained a _ fellow American correspondent and myself—the only two foreign newspaper men to go through Jehol with the Japanese army—at a typical , Japanese farewell dinner. This was in a well-appointed Japanese restaurant, built by the army. A little bit of homeland for the Japanese officers and well-to-do Japanese residents. COPS MAROONED IN AUTO: FINALLY SAVED Tulled Out by Motorist Driving Old-Style Vehicle. Marooned i.i their automobile in the 3600 block North Keystone avemue, Police Lieutenant John Sheehan and Patrolman Frank Finney yelled frantically during this mornting’s storm for 'police’' and ''help.” to a telephone message "to Captain Joint Mullin from a tTwoman residing in the vicinity. "That’ll be patrolmen Melvin Wilkerson and Charles Clemens." Mullein mused ana in a mood of grim humor, instructed that a radio order be issued demanding: r "Wilkerson and Clemens report ,to the captain immediately.” - They did. and explained they were -in another section of the city. Finally Sheehan and Finney were rescued by a motorist with an oldstyle, high-wheel automobile, with Its engine far enough above the "water to prevent being flooded. But Mullins would have been ..thwarted anyway—the radio on the Sheehan and Finney car was out -of commission. DICTATORSHIP IS DENIED Farley Says Congress Hasn't Weakly Surrendered Powers. ~By Unitfd Pro* - NEW YORK. Way 15.—President -Roosevelt does not seek dictatorial powers, nor is congress ""Weakly surrendering its coustitu--jional rights and duties. Post-T-master-General James A Farrjey said Sunday in an address before United States customs workers. ? "The country,” he said, "has no "fear in turning oyer broad powers -to the President. It knows that the time for hesitation, deliberation ‘fcnd debate has passed, and that -the time for action is at hand— for all of us instead of spe"wal privileges for some of us.”

This Man McNutt FLYING FISTS WON RESPECT FOR M’NUTT Schoolmates Given Sample of His Courage After ‘ Baptism ’

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This is the first of a series of stories on the life and activities of Governor Paul V. McNutt. BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Writer THE day was breath-hot, shallow, sultry. It was July 19. 1891. Hollyhocks staggered their blooms near a vine-wrapped cottage on the outskirts of Franklin, Ind. In town the prosecuting attorney of Johnson county hurried through briefs. Law was forgotten for thoughts of a life that neared in the home framed in hollyhocks. Hurried footsteps and he was beside a bed. A doctor stood near. A woman fought for the right of motherhood. At, 4 p. m. a 9u-pound boy screamed an infantile "I'm here." The father walked three-quarters of a mile to telegraph relatives of the momentousness of the day. But through the night he stood beside the doctor to battle to save the mother of his son. They, the three of them. won. tt o tt TODAY the house of hollyhocks is painted green. And today that babe is called a “child of destiny” by his father; is remembered as loving “fuzzy cherry pie.” by the mother, and is a “very handsome man” to his wife. Today his enemies look upon him as a prototype of Hitler, a cross between a Medusa and a Mussolini, an ex-officio lodestar of the American Legion. His friends say he's on the White House express bound for Washington. Today that babe is the six-foot-two, white-haired, brown-skinned man who drums his fingers on a desk in an office in the Indiana statehouse and answers phones to the hail of—" Governor Paul V. McNutt.” The years between amble like an Alger tale. A-l student . . . class president . . . yearbook editor . . . college and the John Barrymore of the campus plays . . . class president . . . law professor . . . war bugles . . . captain . . . colonel . . acting brigadier-general . . . peace . . . post commander of legion . . . state commander . . . national commander . . . dean of Indiana university law . . . Fidac . . . Trips to Europe . . . medals . . . decorations . . . politics . . . Governor of Indiana . . . and . . . tt tt u BUT the years were careful ones, 1891 to 1893. for Mr. and Mrs. John C. McNutt, parents of the future Governor. "Paul wasn’t very strong as a boy. We had to watch him,” Mrs. McNutt of Martinsville, says of her only child. In 1893 the Johnson county prosecutor moved to Indianapolis to become law librarian at the Statehouse. The boy, Paul. took his miniature garden rake and his pop-gun to play around a home near Twelfth street and College avenue, or to sit at times in the office of his father on weighty law tomes within a few staircases of the office that became his own in 1932. The “cute,” "sweet” approval of passing neighbor women foretold the mannish pulchritude of later years. His lank legs lengthened into the first grade of an Indianapolis school on Ashland avenue. Then, in 1899, his father left the dusty books of the law library to hang out his shingle as barrister in the resort for the ailing and farm community of Martinsville. tt tt tt CITY-BOY” stamped Paul. He learned that on his first day in the second grade at Bucktown school, at the north end of the town. It divided him from the country lads and tossed him into a creek as a baptism for his airs. Second-graders have no respect for mudholes and water and Paul clambered out besplattered and angry. But we'd always taught him not to fight. He hadn’t been well. Then one day they chased him home from school. Paul came to me and protested against not being allowed to battle for his rights. I told him to go ahead and protect himself," said his mother a few days ago. The next day Indiana's governor came home with shredded clothes and a broken umbrella. He'd tried to whip the entire class —and his success left no doubt as to his courage in the future. Bucktown ,took him into its Halloween tick-tackings. swimming hole meets, one-old-cat ball games. The multiplication tables and the spelling bees brought Paul to class leadership in knowledge. tt tt tt ENEMIES then, the natural enemy of a boy trying to outwit in mischief a pedagog bent on discipline, they’re enemies to-day-political enemies. * *

The teacher was Miss Dorothy Cunningham—now executive national committeewoman of the Republican party, and spellbinder for the feminine contingent of the G. O. P., against the pupil of the Bucktown school in the last gubernatorial race. Grade days were shoved behind. Growing pain days began and the Martinsville high school saw Paul McNutt leading in the tying of cows to door-knobs, and shuffling books in desks of the school on nightly prowls. “Bob” Phelps, druggist on the town square at Martinsville, is the only one of the "Big Four"— headed by the state's Governor — left in the city of wells to relate the mischief of their high school cabal. “We played seven-up, hearts, and were up to pranks just like kids anywhere else. I remember our high school class gave a fountain to the school. Just a thin stream of water w T ould come through it. You had to suck it to get a drink. "The school trustees must have been trying to save on a water bill,” Phelps related as he moved vials on a counter in his drug store. tt a u “T)AUL and the rest of us got L into the building at night.” he continued. "We turned on the water valve in the basement. Water shot geyser-like on the walls until the high school floor was sole-deep in water. Mops and brooms straightened out the mess. "No one ever found out who did it until, at a class reunion just before Paul was elected Governor, we told our Latin teacher. Miss Lulu Clark. She's retired now'. ‘"That was the first time she ever knew that Paul was one of the ringleaders. Was her face red? She always thought Paul was the smartest, finest boy in the class." And at, her home, Miss Clark tells visitors: "He w'as the most perfect pupil I ever had. In debates he'd toss his head emphatically in arguments as much as to say, ‘l've investigated and I know.' ” Politics crept into McNutt’s life, early. It w'as in the days of the birth of the 16-1 silver campaign of William Jennings Bryan when the Commoner was running against McKinley. The knee-breeches of Paul McNutt swung to the martial songs of a fife and drum corps of the Democratic party of tne county. He was color-bearer of the corps and trouped over the county in redlight parades of the day. "And one time.” his mother recalled, “a parade was to pass our house. Paul wanted to have an extra hand-clap and cheer in front of his house, so he hired the son of a Republican neighbor for 10 cents to applaud as the banners passed.” a tt tt HIS parents, both of whom were teachers before his birth, were at odds in the discipling of the effervescent Paul. The father coddled his only son, as a father will. The mother maintained a balance with strict discipline. "I remember he wanted to go to a circus one day. His job was to sw'eep and clean the stairs and hallway. He slighted the job for the Circus. When he came home he had to do the stairs five times. He never slighted them again,” his mother said. On one occasion the reeking odor of pipe smoke filtered upstairs in the McNutt home. Paul’s job was the furnace-tending. When school had claimed him, Mrs. McNutt found his pipe and tobacco stow’ed in a cache near the furnace. She took it. She said nothing. Paul puffed no more between shovelfuls of coal. He was taught to be methodical, never to begin a study or a task without completing it. "Puppy-love” days never sent

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Left to Right—Governor Paul V. McNutt at 3 years of age; McNutt, the first-grader, at 6; at 7, when he was tossed into a Martinsville mudhole; inset, the high school freshie; the proud possessor of a football in his beardless era; McNutt, the high school graduate. Lower—McNutt, the actor, taking the lead of toy maker in a high school play at Martinsville, “The Cricket on the Hearth.” He is the tall youth in center with the coonskin cap.

Paul McNutt to the grocery Hillpickle barrel. He liked girls, but he had no “steadies.” tt tt tt WE went on hay-rack rides, but Paul McNutt never was any hand to go with just one girl. We all liked him. You had to go some to beat him in his classes,” vouched Mrs. Mabel Messmer, graduate of Paul’s high school class of 1909. It was through his wheedling and argument that the school trustees permitted Paul and other class seniors to print a year-book, "The Nuisance.” The book took its name from the trouble encountered in obtaining permission for publication. The book now is known as the "Artesian Herald.” Paul McNutt became the yearbook’s editor and president of the senior class. He organized a dramatic Club and played a lead role in "Cricket on the Hearth.”

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McNutt, the boy, towered in height, as well as studies, over his school companions. “Often we'd pass his home and whistle for him and he'd ignore our whistle and keep on studying instead of coming out to play catch,” recollects Druggist Phelps. a tt a “TjE had a temper when angry II that you had to look out for. I guess I know. I’ve fought with him. Who won? Aw, well, let that go,” the druggist replied. At one other point in his school days the fatalist might find the future riding by. for his history teacher, who taught him the number of wives of Henry VIII, was Miss Hazel Springer, now Mrs. R. H. Egbert, of Martinsville, and a relative of the Republican candidate he defeated in the last gubernatorial election, Raymond Springer. In retrospect. McNutt's home now says, "We knew he'd go far.” But the only record of it is in the worn brown yearbook that In-

diana's Governor edited in his high school days. tt a tt BENEATH his name in the senior class roll of 1909 are the flippant remarks, “a villain, a liar, a mean horse-thief. All these and more make an editor-in-chief.” But in the class prophecy a schoolmate wrote or was it destiny? or luck? or hard work? "I see for thee a great future, and thou art pouring over books of great size w'herein are written words of law. And it shall be that thou shalt write for thyself a great name in the annals of the world.” Next—Governor McNutt at Indiana University. GIVEN PURPLE HEART War Service Decoration Is Awarded to P. E. Mannix of City. P. E. Maninx, 922 North Riley avenue, a member of the W. M. Madden & Cos., certified public accountants, has been awarded the decoration of the Purple Heart by order of the secretary of war. for meritorious service in France during the World war.

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ROAD CONTRACTS LET Two ConstiVetion Projects Awarded by Highway Board. Two road construction contracts Saturday were awarded by the Indiana state highway commission.

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Contract for road No. 33. northwest 1.7 miles, was let to D. M. Vaughan, Lafayette, on a bid of $37,123. Contract for one-half mile on road Ns. 40. West Terre Hau'e. northeast, was let. to the Foulk Contracting Company. Terre Haute, cn a $16,508 bid.