Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 86, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1934 — Page 14

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U. S. 'COLONIAL DIVISION' NOW IN OPERATION Dr. Gruening. Bureau’s Head. Is Confronted with Perplexing Issues. BV WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS Editor WASHINGTON. Aue 20—Without flourish or fanfare, a brand new division of the United States government. destined to be one of the most important of them all, is in operation here today. It us the division of territories and island possession. Upon it will depend the fortune of four of the most crucial areas under the American flap—Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The government nowhere faces a more complex or a more difficult problem than looking after these possessions. And no one knows this more thoroughly than the man who has just been appointed to head the division. Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening. editor and author. France. England and other foreign countries have a minister of colonies. Uncle Ram has no colonies and therefore no colonial secret ary. Rut. Dr. Gruenmg's job. nevertheless. is of cabinet sire. Technically, he us chief of a division of the department of interior. A bitter feud is on between Hawaii and ihe United States over the kind of government Hawaii should have and what the nature of the relations the islands and the mainland shall be—state or territory. I nrest Sweeps Country Puerto Rico, with nearly 500 inhabitants to the square mile and still growing, is in a state of dangerous unrest. Many want independence, some want statehood, and all insist upon immediate action by the United States to relieve an exceedingly bad economic situation. The Virgin Islands, characterized by former President Hoover as one hie poorhouse. offers similar economic problems but altogether different political ones. Alaska, with nearly 60.000 inhabimiles, unlike Puerto Rice, is almost d'populated. Its white population is about one to each twenty square miles. Including Eskimos and others, there are some 60.000 inhabitants, or approximately one for every ten square miles. Hawaii and Alaska have become of vital importance to the national defense. With them in the hands of a hostile power, the whole Pacific coast would be in grave danger. Unless the natives of Puerto Rico and the Virgin islands find wellbeing and reasonable contentment under the Stars and Stripes, the prestige of the United States will suffer seriously throughout Latin America. President Roosevelt's ■ good neighbor” policy will be jeopardized. Hawaii has about 360,000 inhabitants. Os these, nnlv about 40.000 are American and European stock The rest are orientals. Nearly 50 per cent are Japaneses. See Peril in Situation Many see peril in this situation. These oppose statehood. Soon, they assert, the Japanese would be in control of the government. Because of our naval and military bases there, they claim Hawaii is to the United Staes what Singapore is to the British. They believe the islands should be declared a federal reserve, governed from Washington. Puerto Ricans are hostile to being governed by Washington appointees. They desire at least a Governor rhosen from among themselves. They want home rule, if not complete independence. The life of Governor Gore was threatened before he resigned and made way for th" present Governor Winship. Th Virgin Islands, bought from Denmark during the World war. practicallv were beggared by the eighteenth amendment. Their principal trade was in rum. The poverty-stricken natives are callir.j for help. Dr Gruening has his hands full. But he is no mere political appointee. He joins the administration for what he knows, and what he knows he learned on the spot, by personal investigation. He has lived m Spanish-speaking countries. And —this should be specially noted—he speaks Spanish.

GIRLS TO BE GUESTS AT CHURCH SERVICES 4-H riub Members to Hear Dr. Good in Talk Sunday Morning. Girls from the 4-H clubs who are members of the State Fair School of Home Economics, with members of the staff of the school, will be guests at the morning services of the First Evangelical church. New York and East streets. Sunday. Transportation for the 160 girls and ten members of the staff will be provided by the church. The speaker will be Dr. I. J. Good, president of Indiana Central college. INDIANS WIN IN CANOES Red Men Still Are Superior to White Rivals. By I m,t<4 Pres* OLD TOWN. Me.. Aug. 20—Indians living hereabouts maintain the traditional superiority of redskin o\er paleface in canoeing In a race, the Indians captured every place but fifth, which went to Lawrence Hurd and Raymond Fontaine.

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Recognized in a police lineup after arrest for a minor traffic violation. Melvin Blanton. 23. Camden. 0., escaped prisoner from Governors island. -New York military prison, and Theodore Hulbert, 21. suspected of being the accomplice who freed Blanton, are being hold here. They were arrested toegther with Charles Hamilton. 22. Middletown. O . Friday night. The trio will stand trial on charges of auto banditry and robbery tomorrow in municipal court..

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ROTARY NOMINATING COMMITTEES NAMED Two Groups to Pick Slates for Directors. Appointment of members to the 1934 nominating committees of the Rotary Club was announced today. On the “Hubs” committee. Howard T. Griffith is chairman, and other members are William Ray Adams. McClellan Coppock, Charles B. Dyer. Edward W. Harris. Birney D. Spradling and Stowell C. Wasson. The “Spokes'’ committee is composed of Ralph H. Edgerton. chairman; Fred W. Chase. Harry Green. Harry W. Hobbs. Isaac R. Holycross. John W. Warren and George M. Weaver. The committees will select slates of eight candidates for directors for two-year terms. CYCLONIC STORM KILLS FOUR: DAMAGE HEAVY Loss Estimated at Half Million in Minnesota. Bu I nitcl f'rt ** ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 20.- Four deaths and damage amounting to probably half a million dollars were counted today in the wake of a cyclonic storm which struck Minnesota Saturday night. Two of tne victims were killed in St. Paul, where the storm hit with terrific fury. One died in Duluth and another at Cloquet. All reserve forces of telephone and telegraph lines were on twenty-four-hour duty restoring communication lines which were disrupted over an area within a 100-mile radius of the Twin Cities. SOCIALISTS HOLD~PiCNIC 300 Attend County Outing at Mauer Park Here. The Marion county Socialist party picnic at Mauer park. Sixty-eighth end Ferguson streets, was attended by approximately 300 persons yesterday. Arrangements were in charge of Abraham Kollinger. Mrs. Henry Newlund. Mrs. Emma Henry. C. L. Fout. Roy Green and F. S. Rogers.

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EARTHQUAKE SHAKES ILLINOIS, MISSOURI Shock Causes Slight Loss but Jars Furniture. B> / United Press ST. LOUIS Mo.. Aug. 20—An earthquake of 50 per cent maximum intensity occurred in southeast Missouri and southwest Illinois last night, doing little damage but rattling dishes and jarring open screen doors. The main force of the quake, which occurred at 6:47 p. m. (Indianapolis time), according to the St. Louis university seismograph station. was felt in Mississippi county, Missouri, about 125 miles south of here. Cairo. 111., also felt it. as did Sikeston, Mo.