Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1938 — Page 11
Vagabond From Indiana == Ernie Pyle
Ammunition for Hawaii Is Stored
In Vast Tunnels Bored Big Guns Jar Honolulu Like Quake.
ONOLULU, Feb, 3.—There are two spots on this island about which the Army and Navy are mum right now. These spots are the great ammunition dumps——one for the Army, one for the Navy. The Army’s is underneath Red Hill, about five miles from Honolulu. The hill is solid rock. Tun= nels have been bored 200 and 300 yards into the rock. Many of them. Large ones, like highway tunnels. Shells and boxes of ammunition are stored in there, row after row, like books in the stacks of a great library. And there is even a whole suite of offices into which the gen= eral staff could move for safety if the bombing got too hot in the open. When I asked a friend what would happen to Honolulu if an enemy bomb set off this huge powder reservoir, he said it would take an explosive many times more powerful that any now known to Mr. Pyle bore through the rock and ignite the whole works. The Navy's dump is also underground, bored into solid rock. It was completed only a couple of years ago, and cost many millions. They say it is the biggest ammunition
dump in the world. It lies in the foothills at Lualualei, on the west
side of the island. some 20 miles as the crow flies |
from Honolulu. Although only about seven miles from Schofield Barracks, the two are separated by a high mountain range. The Army just recently has completed a marvelous paved road across this range.
The road gives the troops from Schofield quick access | not only to the Navy ammunition dump but to the |
entire west side of the island.
Almost any day you drive around the island you |
can see, somewhere, a portable antiaircraft outfit banging away at a white target towed behind an airplane off shore. They tell me there is almost no hour of the day or aight when an Army unit of some kind is not moving somewhere on the island, practicing or works= ing. The powerful fixed guns in the waterfront forts are firea only about once a year. But when they are, oh boy! People who have been through it say it’s just like an earthquake, Residents Warned of Practice Nearby residents are warned several davs ahead of time to get their dishes off the racks and leave their windows open, so the concussion won't break them. Ft. DeRussy is only a oouple of blocks from the Roval Hawaiian Hotel at Waikiki, and when one of the big guns lets loose they say it practically lifts the Royal up and sets it down again. The whole populace of Honolulu had a fright last spring during maneuvers. People knew the fleet was soon due in, and that Pacific war games were being held. But there had been no notice in the papers that anything was coming off right at home. And then suddenly one night the big guns started booming, airplanes by the score roared over the city, searchlights in the crater of Diamond Head streaked their beams far into the sky, soldiers and Army trucks and wheeled guns went dashing all over town like fire
‘departments—and the surprised and shocked people of | Honolulu thought for a while that real war had bro- |
ken, right in their laps.
My Diary
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady's Horse Is Disappointed |
When He Does Not Receive a Prize. | de- |
VY ASHINOTOR, Wednesday.—I had a very lightful luncheon yesterday with Mrs. Henry
Morgenthau Jr, wife of the Secretary of the Treasury. |
Her house always has charm and the present one offers her delightful material with which to work, for the rooms are well planned and the outlook is lovely.
Today, at a luncheon with a group of women from |
the foreign service, one of them told me that living all over the world in different kinds of houses is a challenge to the creative instinct, Your home has to
be arranged to meet your family's needs, and your | way of doing it affects the opinion other nationalities |
have of the American people. So, if you are able to take a cold and unattractive house and make it charming, you have really done more than make a home for your family. Last night I had my first ride in a horse show and it went off very easily, thanks to Johnny's horse, Badger. He woke up just enough to look better than
he dees when he is bored with the world and vet, he |
was not too wide awake to cause me trouble. He went about his business with perfect obedience, trotted, cantered and turned in very good form. When the judges began to call the numbers of those who were to line up in the middle of the ring, I realized someone had put a number on my back, and I had not looked at it. I had to take it off, look at it, and then grope for my coat collar to fasten it on again. roses which were presented to me were not meant as a meal for him. Since he had done all the work. I think he was justified in feeling that whatever was handed out was his, He had to wait until we left the ring before he received his two lumps of sugar.
New Books Today
Public Library Presents—
INCE the first Chinese Soviet was established in 1927, the Red areas of China have been the subject of rumor and conjecture. From time to time journalists have attempted to penetrate through the cordon of Chiang Kai-shek's army which cut off the Soviets from the rest of the country. Edgar Snow was the first, however, who had both the courage and the opportunity to succeed in the attempt. RED STAR OVER CHINA (Random House) is the first authentic report of the life, the philosophy, and the fighting of the Chinese Communist provinces. His narrative is stirring. For several months he stayed among the Reds, talking with them, playing tennis and poker with them, observing them. He telis of the reforms which have abolished the oppressive taxes formerly imposed upon the peasants by the old landholders and war lords. He explains the flexible military tactics which have enabled the Red army, so heavily outnumbered, to combat the anti-Red armies of Chiang Kai-shek. The anti-Japanese policy, the Communists’ pressure for a united front against Japan, the relation between Russian and Chinese communism, he makes ciear for the first time, Mr. Snow not only admires these people, but he feels that, relatively small as are their numbers, they furnish the leaven which is working throughout China in a revolt against mercenary governments, foreign imperiailsm and domestic oppression of peasants and workers, » » » RARE book, and one that rather discounts the recent claim that all is well in Red China, is GENERAL CHIANG EAI-SHEX by Madame Mei-ling (Sung) Chiang (Doubleday). This is a thrilling, first hand document which should be read by all interested in human relations as well as in international relations. It presents a telling drama of cumulated Chinese culture with Christian ideals added. Through the force of its enactment, what appears to be illogical becomes logical, and the curtain is held back resolutely, for all the world to see, by the hand of a woman. The Sian episode, the coup d'etat of the Orient which held Western eyes for a fortnight preceding Christmas, 1936, is vividly, courageously and precisely narrated by the two protagonists; the captured generalissmo and his wife, Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Said Gen. Chang to his chief, “We have read your diary and other important documents and from them have learned the greatness of your personality.” The author finds that with that reading the Red Star over China began to decline, merged into the light of two great Chinese characters. If you would get close enough to the epochal events transpiring in the Orient to carry away a glimmer of understanding read this intensely interesting volume, ‘
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By Daniel M. Kidney
Times Staff Writer
plans,
Gray declared. “But I have come to the conclusion that President Roosevelt is right and we must have a topnotch Navy and Army in this mad, modern world. “Twenty-five years ago | was of the opinion that peace could be brought about by treaties, But now I know that warlike nations make treaties meaning-
less.” In the 1915 Congress Mr, Gray was a member of the Naval Affairs Committee. Records of the hearings on the Big Navy Bill of that period show that he chailenged the youthful Franklin Delano Roosevelt regarding increased naval expenditures. » » »
HERE were sharp exchanges. T Recalling that conflict, both Mr. Gray and the President have laughed about it. When the Hoosier Congressman went to Indianapolis to greet Mr. Roosevelt in his first Presidential campaign in 1032, the Democratic Party leader shook his hand vigorously and said: “Well, Mr. Gray, I am glad to see we are now on the same side. We weren't when you were asking me questions before that Naval Affairs Committee.” Thinking of these things and the change in his own attitude, Mr. Gray decided that it was imperative for him to speak in favor of the Big Navy Bill when it was up for passage by the House this session. The tall, gaunt, frock-coated, long-haired Congressman from the Tenth Indiana District took the floor for the Administration measure as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, “We should not enter into a foreign war, or send a single soldier out of the country to fight in a conflict waged abroad,” he told his colleagues.
» = » “ UR Army or Navy should not be used to enforce any international policy or to uphold any treaty with any foreign nation. For with the war spirit spreading over the world and the nations in fear and apprehension, entering a foreign war to stop the aggressor, regardless of the fortunes of the conflict. would serve more to engender the spirit of revenge and menace the peace of the future than make for the | cause of peace and end war,” he said. Moral suasion and economic pressures should be America’s contribution to bringing about peace, and not armed conflict, he contended. “But while remaining at home in our own land and observing strict and good faith neutrality, this nation should make or prepare complete, full and adequate defense of our shores in aircraft and all military and naval forces. “We should arm to the limit in every weapon of modern warfare necessary to safeguard us against attack or attempted invasion. “In preparing such defense full, adequate and complete, we should prepare ourselves as well to repel any attack because of our condemnation of war, or our course in withholding our commerce and trade from use in keeping the fires of war burning. " » =
" O man or soldier should be called to leave our shores to fight abroad, but every man should be subject to duty and to be mobilized for the defense
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Hoosier Sees Need for Big Navy
Rep. Gray, However, Once Opposed F. D. R.’s Plea for Increase
ASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Seventy-three-year-old Rep. Finly H. Gray was one of the 283 Congressmen who recently voted $553,266,494 for the Navy—"largest Navy budget in peace-time history of the United States.” Not only that, but he expects to support President Roosevelt's plan for additional increases, he said today. But back in 1915, when President Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of Navy, and Mr, Gray was then in Congress, he didn’t agree with Mr. Roosevelt's big Navy
“If I hadn't changed my viewpoint I would have been one of the 15 who voted against this big Navy bill,” Mr.
of our own country and ready to repel any attack upon our land because of our censure and condemnation of war, or to levy tribute from us.”
American citizens in China, or other foreign war zones, should understand that they remain at their own risk, Mr, Gray advised. Property rights in China should be protected by demanding indemnities, he declared. “Before the World War was fought, I was opposed to large armies and navies,” Mr. Gray continued, “relying upon the progress of civilization and the obligation of treaties to bring the nations of the world together in accord and mutual agreement for the settlement of international disputes. “But the world conflict of the nations has revised the spirit of force and war, and the world depression which followed has brought the people of the earth to a state of suffering and distress even greater, more widespread and agonizing than the anguish of the trenches and battlefields. “And in their suffering and desperation they are selling their birthright of freedom for a mess of pottage for present relief. The Great War has opened the way for the return of the dictators to win power, acclaim and glory by waging cruel and relentless wars. ” ” ”
v HE advent of these two great calamities has thrown civiliration back a thousand years and the way is open again for usurpers to destroy the institutions of peace and civil life, We are carried back past the pyramids to live again in a war-ruled world and under the order of conquest and subjugation, “Facing the world as it is today, there is only one course for the peace loving nations to pursue and that is to prepare themselves for a full, adequate and complete defense and wait for the people to assert again and recover back their forms of peace and civil life.” Applause greeted this new credo of the aged Indiana Congressman who, at one time, was considered somewhat of a pacifist. Page after page of the 1915 naval hearings show how Mr. Gray sought to wring from Witness Roosevelt the admission that the Navy of that period was big enough. Here are excerpts showing how Mr, Gray and the then Assistant Secretary of Navy stood at that time: ® = = R. GRAY: Now is it not a fact that there has been an increase in the natural order of things, following the policy of the Navy? Mr. Roosevelt: Yes, but at the same time many ships and much material is becoming increasingly antiquated. Mr. Gray: Now I will ask you, with that increase and with the war in Europe in progress and with nations with whom we might have to meet engaged in conflict with each other and with some of their ships being destroyed, would you say, with all these facts in view, that we sare less prepared for war than ever before? Mr. Roosevelt: “That is a question that I am unable to answer as of the present day, because of the fact that I do not know definitely what the condition of the navies of certain other powers is at the present time. “Comparatively, I believe we are less prepared, and for this reason: That certain other na-
Side Glances—By Clark
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tions during the past few months have been making every possible kind of preparation. They have been drilling: they have ore ganized on a war basis; they have taken all kinds of measures which we have not taken, each one of those measures being directed to the actual prosecution of a war. “Therefore. I believe that they have so increased their efficiency and their preparedness for war that, relatively speaking, we are not as prepared as we were before that war began.” Commenting on that 23-year-old testimony today, Mr. Gray said: “Roosevelt was right and I was wrong. Now that he is President, I am for his naval program.” » » LJ
UCH an admission does not place Mr. Gray in the rubber stamp Congressman class, however. He has his own ideas about many of the New Deal economic ventures and has oftentimes termed some of them futile.
Active for his age, Mr. Gray admits that he surprises himself with his vigor. Daily he hikes from Capitol Hill to the Treasury and back, a distance of several miles. He was born in Fayette County July 24, 1864, and now lives at Connersville. After a common school education he began the practice of law there in 1893. In 1901 he married Miss Alice M. Green. They have no children. Entering Democratic politics, Mr. Gray was elected Mayor of Connersville in 1904 and re-elect-ed in 1909. He first came to Congress in 1911 and served three terms from the old Sixth Indiana District. In 1932 he was elected to Congress from the Tenth District and has been serving ever since.
A WOMAN'S VIEW
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
EING always g little behind with my reading I have just finished
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Jasper—By Frank Owen
“The Life of Madame Curie,” writ-| |
ten by her daughter Eve. Even while
I sat entranced with the sheer |
drama of her days, following her through early sorrow and oppression, youthful poverty, scientific research and family happiness, and was moved By the sincerity of her remarkable personality, something kept tugging at my thoughts—a nagging question which only came out into the open to be faced after I had ciosed the book.
Can a woman with a career be a good mother? There it stands in black and white. The customary answer to the question is an emphatic No! but Mme. Curie and many others nearly as great contradict the reply. Marie Curie was a noble woman and noble women are always good mothers. It doesn’t matter in the least how she functions in the home. What she is is the important point, and even that is perhaps not the whole answer to the success of the Curie menage.
Husband and wife did not live solely for each other nor solely for their children. They did live for a cause—a scientific truth in which bdth profoundly believed, And here, I think, is the secret of good parenthood in every walk of life. We can’t do the job if we make ourselves or our children the focal point of existence. We must believe in something bigger than individual
or family or life, for men and |
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Ind.
Our Town
By Anton Scherrer
_ Dr. Schliemann Even Purchased a . Couple of Houses in Indianapolis To Aid Him in His Study of Greece,
YESTERDAY I told you about Dr. George A. Reisner, the Indianapolis boy who solved the secret of the Sphinx. Today I want to tell you about Dr. Heinrich Schliemann, who located the site of Homer's Troy, the ancient Ilium where Priam lived and ruled, and raised his big family, including a son called
Paris. Sure, the one who stole Helen, whom all the fuss was about. Back in 1869, Dr. Schliemann lived
in Indianapolis in a house on S. Illinois St., just north of Ray St. At one time, too, he owned another house at 820 Buchanan St. Even more remarkable is the fact that Dr. Schliemann’s will was recorded in the Marion County Court House, Dr. Schliemann’s stay in Indian= apolis was so complicated and fanhave to start at the beginning to get it. He was born in Germany in 1822, the son of an obscure parson. A‘ the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a grocer. and at the end of six years had nothing to show for it. Penniless and sick, he walked to Hamburg. Somehow, he got on board a ship bound for South America and was shipwrecked, Next thing he knew he was in Russia, where he reemained until 1863. By this time, he was fabulously rich—the Crimean War had turned up in the meantime, see?—and-.that left him leisure to start the study of Greek. The more he studied Greek, the more he became obsessed with the idea of uncovering Troy. It was a grand idea, but his Russian wife couldn't see it that way, which, of course, left him no alternative but to get rid of her. That's why he came to Indian=apolis. Maybe you don't know it, but back in the Sixties, Indiana was notorious for its divorces. Of course, Dr. Schliemann could have picked any other place in Indiana to achieve his purpose, but he settled here, he said, because Indianapolis was located in the same latitude as that of Troy. Well, Dr. Schliemann filed his bill for divorce on April 3, 1869, and a young lawyer by the name of Henry D. Pierce, working for Hendricks, Hord & Hendricks, handled the details, The divorce was granted on July 30, 1869, but only after Dr. Schlie« mann promised the Court to provide for his wife and three children in Russia,
Married Again in Greece After that, Dr. Schliemann got married again—this time in Greece, to a woman who took more interest in his hobbies—and with her help he actually located the site of Troy. He never returned to Indianapolis, but he kept up a steady correspondence with Adolph Seidensticker's father. With Lorenz Schmidt, too, I
Mr. Scherrer
understand.
In 1879, 10 years after Dr. Schliemann left Indi-
anapolis, he bought the house at 829 Buchanan St, Nobody knows why.
It is generally believed, however, that after Dr. Schliemann went to Athens, he found it necessary to call for help from the American Consul in dealing with the Sultan of Turkey, and to fortify his claims to American citizenship he bought another house in Indianapolis. As a matter of fact, Dr. Schliemann considered himself a citizen of Indianapolis. There ‘isn’t any doubt about it, because his will dated Jan. 10, 1889, recorded in our Court House, starts out saying: “I, the undersigned, citizen of the United States of America, Heinrich Schliemann, having my lawful domicile in the town of Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana, residing in my own house in Athens.” Pursuant to the terms of the will, Dr. Schliemann’s daughter got the Buchanan St. house.
Jane Jordan—
Courage to Meet Obstacles Often Learned in Childhood, Jane Says.
EAR JANE JORDAN—We are a couple who love “ each other so much that we live only for each other but we cannot get married because of financial affairs. Something happened about six months ago which made us both unhappy. We just can't forget it. We never seem to enjoy ourselves any more and everything we do goes wrong. We have met many hardships, but we love each other more than ever. Please help us by suggesting something to make us forget the past and enjoy life at the present. TWO UNHAPPY KIDS. ” " un Answer—Probably I could be of more help if 1 knew what happened to upset you. Whatever it was, it won't be the last thing to trouble you. No one can get through life without disappointment, pain and privation of some sort. Every successful person has learned how to take punishment from reality, and so must you. Psychologists often have observed that one of the chief differences between neurotic and normal per sons is the neurotic’'s inability to forget the past, Every unhappy experience sticks to him as if he were covered with glue. Each and every one of us is confronted with the task of forgetting his own
past with its defeats and discouragements, its hore rors and humiliations. You ask how this can be done. It can be done by, keeping one’s self busy and useful. When you fail at one thing. turn to another. Some people are stimulated to achievement by obstacles, whereas others give up and quit. The courage to meet une toward situations may be inherited in part from one’s forebears, but more often it is learned from early training. : Spoiled children who have been protected from every adversity by doting parents who solved all their problems for them, frequently are low in courage, Those who have learned renunciation early through bitter necessity or through wise parental guidance, are apt to show the most spunk, For six months you and your boy friend have brooded over some= thing that took the joy out of life. You have overs looked the fact that there is plenty left to enjoy and lots of work to be done. If I knew you intimately I feel certain that I could point to many neglected opportunities, but since I do not know you at all, you must search them out for yourselves. Life has thrswn you a challenge. How will you meet it? By retreat or attack? JANE JORDAN.
Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, whe will answer your questions in this column daily.
HEARD IN CONGRESS—
Rep. Maverick (D. Tex.): Another argument is that we have to build battleships because everybody else is building battleships. It is the same thing ag saying that if you and your wife can afford an average priced automobile, then you ought to have a very expensive automobile, and not let your children eat, and go into bankruptcy simply because the Joneses have that more expensive car. , .
Has this country come to the point where we have to build battleships to keep people employed? Here is what it reminds me of: It is just like the United States Government's opening a rope factory and going gut hete and manufacturing rope in order to hang