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From Indiana==Ernie Pyle

Ernie Encounters the California

Flood a Little Late, but Finds That There's Still Plenty to See.

VY CTORVILLE, Cal.,, March 21.—We who sat in our Hollywood apartments during the Big Rain of 1938, and watched the downpour from a fifth-story window and read the papers twice a day, never realized how bad the California flood was.

It wasn’t until today, more than two weeks after the big burst, when we started out into the world

agair, that we saw first-hand what a California flood

“can do. We drove east from Los Angeles to San Bernardino—75 miles. ‘The road was easily pass- - able, although they were still scraping mud from it in places.

At San Bernardino we turned

north to cross the mountains through Cajon Pass. They told us the road was all right, so we went on.. Everything seemed fine, and : we hummed along over-the pavement, flood all behind us.. We < thought. ? be ! Suddenly we came over the brow Mr. Pyle of a hill. There was some kind of activity ahead. A. motorcycle .cop in yelow slicker and rain hat waved us down. “Straddle the center line, and put your bumper right 27ainst. the car ahead of you,” he said. “You can gc through at 3 o'clock.” I was then a few minutes after 1 p. m. : : So we im the car ahead. And in a minute, anothe: car bumped us behind. And there we

were wedged in tight, in a line that eventually grew to |

more than 100 automobiles. The cops were swell. They explained that the road re:lly wasn’t bad ahead, but there were lots of slides to be cleared, and if they let traffic keep flowing the steam shovels wouldn’t get anything done. So trafic went through every two hours. An ie cream man had seized opportunity by the tail anc was out there in his little white truck doing a land-office business. J Which is proof that the American people don’t know wat to do with themselves. Here they had an hour ar: a half to kill, and the only way they could think of to kill it was by eating ice cream—on a day so cold nd miserable that the very thought of getting out of the car threw me into a nervous chill. Final'v 3 o'clock came, and the cops were as good as their word. Right on the dot they pulled aside the barriers and waved us ahead. wy

Rails Sag Like Twine The ‘ controlled” section of the road was 15 miles

long. Across the gulch we could see long stringers of railroad ‘rack, sagging like twine, without any founda-

tion. W= could see track hanging from bridges. And -some bridges completely out.

In plcces the roaring water had so undercut the highway ‘hat most of it had fallen into the river

and been washed away, leaving only a narrow, jagged strip of rmacadam t# drive on. 2 Surely it will take months to get this little area, of maybe half a square mile, back into what it was before a ‘ew hours of water came. What ‘ve saw in this day of driving, they say, was simp 7 nothing compared to other places. But it was a sizht to us who, like 99 of every 100 people in Los Angel=s, knew no mere of the flood than getting our ignition drowned out, sloshing to the store in the rain, and cloing without lights for a couple of hours. ee

My Diary By Mr. Eleanor Roosevelt

Feceives Gifts From Shop Owners On Los Angeles’ Noted Olvera St.

EATTL", Sunday—Anyone who knows Los Angeles, knows Olvera St. is a bit of Mexico. It is down in t-e old part of the city, right off the old square which fronts one of the city’s oldest churches. Olvera St. 2xtends for about a quarter of a mile. At one end i: the booth of the saddlemaker, at the other, an id blacksmith makes iron locks and nails and funny little figures. > In between, are restaurants with native musicians, one of th- oldest adobe houses, and innumerable booths for Mexican’ pottery and glass, wax candles, sombreros, gaily painted gourds, knickknacks of all kinds, fortiine tellers and photographers. Three musicians came out and played some special numbers w ~ile I walked down the street accompanied by an eve-growing crowd. Mrs. Scheider and Mr. J. P. T. O‘_onnor picked up my gifts and the one or two purchz:es I was allowed to make. - When I was in Los Angeles several years ago, I paid my first visit to this street. A year ago last Christmas, ‘he entire street sent me gifts from their ‘shops with harming Christmas messages, so my visit yesterday vas in appreciation of their thoughtfulness.

Radio Stars Pay Call

It turne: out, however, that their generosity in most cases vould not allow me to buy anything, and so I return-d to the hotel unable to pay my debt of atitude. Tou will enjoy wandering through this dittle street if you are in Los Angeles and can find .the time to be leisurely in picturesque and charming .surrounding:. We drov- to Long Beach last night for my lecture, and h:d a glimpse of the ocean drive and the circular pier. ‘ It is lovely at night with the moon on the water ind must be equally attractive in the daytime. FEack at the hotel, Miss Chaney and I ‘had the plezsure of a call from “Amos” and “Andy.” ‘who were celebrating their 10th anniversary on the air anc were kind enough to give us a little share in thi¥ auspicious occasion. We had only. a few hours sleep when the telephone rang to tell us it was 6 o'clock and up we got, for at 7 we had to leave the hotel for the airport.

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

* «OR I sirz the ruthless amateur, the irresponsible

and irreverent amateur, who plays music for no good purpose. but solely to the base and sordid end of having a grand-time.” With this startling declaration, Gerald W. Johnson sounds the keynote of his clever bookle!, A LITTLE NIGHT-MUSIC (Harper). The author, himself a flutist of no mean ability, although he insists upon his place in the ranks of the nonprofessioral, then proceeds to convince us that “What this country needs is more bum music provided it is handmade.” In fact, he sees in the reviving tender:y of small groups of untrained musicians to gather in private homes and murder the lesser works ~f the great masters, the salvation not only of great music but of all art; for he says, “A man who has ‘ried to play Mozart and failed, through that .vain efi-rt is in a position better to understand the msn who tried to paint the Sistine Madonna and dic ” : The last ¢o the six sketches, (some of which appeared in prin at an earlier date) is perhaps the most vital. Here u-der the caption “A Piano with Dirty Keys,” is a fervent plea to parents to afford their ‘children suffic: -nt musical education at least to create for them a “fz '*h in the magic of music,” a relatively stable elemen‘ in this age of ‘constantly changing values. : 2 = »

Sydney ‘i. Clark even the slightest thread in |

the glitter 1g GOLD TAPESTRY OF CALIabsorbing interest. Ruled by romantic It ineffectual Spain and Mexico for three cenfurie: the “island” became a state in 1846. Three years la or the gold-rush opened the door to emigr: 1ts, whose descendants prosper on

excited “golden” indus’ “ies—oil, tourists, movies and oranges.

Mr. Clark wri'es entertainingly of many things— Barbary Coast

among them, cd missions and priceless manu--ripts in Huntington Library mami 1s; ghost towns of Bret H and eno, redwood trees, and llywood

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Housewives By-Charles T.' Lucey eal

Times, Special Writer mn A/ ASHINGTON, March 7 21.—The “more abundant life’ which Rex Tugwell planned for Greenbelt, in nearby Maryland—and which the Government provided, at a cost of $16,000 per family—has been in existence. now for five months. se The wash ‘is on the line,

every other door, people who never saw one another before are borrowing salt for supper, - ~ And how abundant is the more abundant life? Here is what five Greenbelt housewives say: “We're crazy about it.” ‘Most people from Washington think it’s heaven.” “You can’t beat Green-

belt.”

“It’s a children’s paradise.” © “Bv hing’s rosy so far as I'm concerned.” ; Occupied chiefly by the families of Government workers earning from $1000 to $2000 a year, Greenbelt is developing many of the characteristics of .the small American town. ® yo HE “town hall,” actually the auditorium of the model new school, is being -used about six nights a week for various activities. A town council has been elected, the men have an American Legion post and an athletic club, the women have a bridge club, there’s a civic association which gives everyone a chance to make a speech, the children have Boy Scout troops. : There also is getting under way, with eager indications of success, an interesting experiment in the co-operative movement. All the community’s stores will be co-op-erative. A little weekly newspaper, The Greenbelt Co-Operator, is being published on a nénprofit basis. A credit union has been established. A group medicine plan is being put forward. The business center is operated by the Consumer Distribution Corp., a nonprofit organization founded by the late Edward A. Filene of Boston. The first two units, a self-service food store and a gasoline - station,. have been opened. A movie theater, barber

a perambulator stands at:

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of Greenbelt Ave Enthusiastic Ove

Upper—The model town of Greenbelt, Md., located near Washington,. is marked by its crescent layout and lack of crowding. Three

hundred and forty families now left is the recreation lake.

are living ih the Federally built town and they are expected to be joined by 350 more soon. At the

. Lower Left—Rexford Guy Tugwell, former Undersecretary of Agri-

shop, laundry and dry-cleaning shop, drug store, department store, shoe repair shop and beauty parlor are to open soon. °

HE 340 families now in Greenbelt will soon be augmented by 350 more, and when these have moved in the sponsors believe the success of the co-operative will be unquestioned.

Business at the grocery has grown from $1500 a. week in December to $2200 a week. It is esti-" mated that 250 of the 340 families *

are doing most of their business with the co-operative.. The store is ‘beginning to show that it can meet. the prices of chain stores and supermarkets in Washington, and ‘business is growing as ‘a result. loss, the store is showing a small profit. dor 5 : The Filene organization has advanced $50,000 to the co-operative, but it is planned that ownership evenitually will go over to shareholders in the Greenbelt com- . munity. Each member of the cooperative will have ‘just one vote,

After several ‘weeks of

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culture, planned “the . more abundant’ life” for Greenbelt.

Lower: Right—Here is a group of housing units in Greenbelt as

ranges from $18 to $40 'a month.

‘they looked" while under construction last fall. Rent in Greenbelt

Dwellers selected by the Govern-

.ment to live in the town admit that rent for similar homes would run three times as high in Washington.

all business will’ be on a cash basis, and when the stores show profits these: will be returned to shareholders in ratio to the business they have given the: cooperative. 2 : The co-operative will operate on limited . and no one expects dividends to be large. 2 ® 2 = 2 ' FF\HE co-operative has no connection with the ' Greenbelt governmental organization. Green- . belt has a town council and a city m x af the rents: paid ‘hack to

By E. R. R.

ASHINGTON, March 21. — Lithuania’s acceptance of Polish demands for diplomatic relations apparently has forestalled any ideas Hitler may have had of taking over Memel in the event of a PolishLithuanian conflict.

However, a division of German

| mechanized artillery was reported to

have arrived yesterday at the East Prussia-Memel border. The garrison at Tilset, on the German side of the border, also was reported to have been reinforced. Memel is a territory of expatriated Germans, technically under Lithuania. It was at a special session of the Reichstag in September, 1935, that the Fuehrer laid down the law to Lithuania on its treatment of Memel.

Memel territory is a strip of about 1000 square miles and 150,000 persons along the border between Lithuania and the East Prussian section of Germany. Germans predominate in the port of Memel and are a substantial part of the population outside the port. Nevertheless the Treaty of Versailles detached Meme] from East Prussia. The treaty made no disposition of Memel, and it was placed under the Council of Allied Ambassadors. Order was maintained by a small French force.

Early in 1923 Memel was seized by Lithuanians. Berlin alleged that the Lithuanian Government was behind the coup and, further, that France had encouraged the seizure. At all events, the Allies accepted the accomplished fact, and in 1924 gave Lithuania sovereignty over Memel, and the appointment of the governor general. At the same time local autonomy was required—racial and religious discriminations were forbidden—minority (German) rights were to be safeguarded in education, administration of justice, language, civil liberties. ee 8 » ” N occupying Memel, Lithuania was merely using tactics which had been used against her. For in 1920 Polish forces seized about 10,000 square miles of territory which the peace treaty had incorporated in Lithuania. The Lithuanian capital, Vilna, lay within: the occupied territory. The League of Nations felt itself obliged to acquiesce in the seizure. ; But Lithuania has never accepted the seizure, and calls its present capital, Kaunas (fhe. former Kovno), only the temporary capital. Until last week Lithuania had refused to enter into formal dipIcmatic relations with Poland. If Germany should ever regain

Current Lithuanian-Polish Developments. Bring Memel Territory to Fore Again

the Polish Corridor—the strip of] land cutting off East’ Prussia from Germany proper, Poland would have no direot access to the sea. In that event, Warsaw might develop aditional designs on Lithuania, which lies along the Baltic. For some years after 1920, Memel was: in- ferment. Germany insisted that Lithuania was trying to colonize the territory and was violating the 1924 treaty. Lithuania retorted that Germanic ‘ groups in Memel were actively. plotting for.a return to Germany. ih Dissension came fo a head after the Nazis rode to power in: Germany, especially when’ Lithuania in 1935 imposed jail sentences on .certain German leaders in Memel. Later in the year, prior to local elections in Memel, Hitler flatly told a special session of the Reichstag that Memel had- been stolen from Germany and that the League had sanctioned the theft.. He charged that Lithuania was treating the Memel Germans like common criminals, merely because they wanted to remain Germans. © And the Fuehrer complained bitterly that in Memel minorities were being suppressed and disenfranchised!

But the élections in Memel went

in favor of the pro-Nazi German group, and’ Memel, like : Danzig,

, the. community to run its public business. . Although the heavy subsidy “provided ‘by’ the Government takes care of most ‘public ‘needs, there still .are questions of policing, fire : protection, . street cleaning and so on tobe handled. So._far there has:béen no: crime. The community has no jail... Everyone in Greenbelt has been able to speak his piece—and almost: everyone has. Meetings to discuss the community's problems “last far-into the night. Everyone seems to.enjoy this opportunity. of expression. Zavala Under the group medicine plan, as soon as 250 Greenbelters have joined, a physician and nurse will be established in.a medical cen-. fer. A member pays a $5 initial

Cause Engine

By Science Service . =. ARBOR, Miech., March -21.— ‘A. If your motor car “knocks” when you step. on the gas you have something more to worry about than the annoyanee : of ‘the sound. St disclosed: at the’ recent, symposium on “Physics in. the Automotive Inoie the . burned ins noc! the . burned gases inside the cylinders are undergoing severe vibrations that ‘are picked up by d "transmitted

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other engine parts an

went under the domination - of Berlin. YA :

to. your ears. as the “Knocking”: sound. ET MTL Sa ce

here show that: during |

fee, and then monthly payments of $2 for a family or $1.50 for an individual. Members and families will . be entitled to unlimited office calls without further cost. Home calls by the physician will be on ‘a moderate fee basis. abe. spirit of neighborliness pervades all Greenbelt. Housewives who say they didn’t know their next-door ‘neighbors: in Washington have “found ‘new ‘friends -here.. Jeg : . Some of the peoplé selected by the Government to live here say they realize they're pretty lucky. ‘They're getting new homes, with all modern equipment, for $18 to

$41 a month—perhaps a third of |

"what the same places would cost in Washington. . ‘There are" a few minor com‘plaints. . Bus service to Washing-

ton gets: some criticism. Women

agree that the floor surfacing in “the houses is difficult to keep clean. But no one weighs these little: things seriously. Even Government people admit Greenbelt cost far more than it should, but they believe its progress may have implications of great significance to the Amer-

_ican community life of the future.

Burning Gases’ Vibrations

. > ] ‘Using engines having a transparent opening in the cylinder walls, the General Motors engineers Lloyd Withrow and G. M. Rassweiler described improved methods of looking within: observing the tremendous, controlled explosion that supplies the power which makes automobiles run.

‘that in a severe knocking condition the gas near the center of ‘ cylinder is moving back and forth through an amplitude of a half inch, with a frequency of about

'3500 cycles a second.

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They exhibited evidence indicat-

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|A WOMAN'S VIEW ~~ | By Mrs: Walter Ferguson | Y TNFAITHFUL husbands general-

Uy fall into one classification:

| They are bored. :

. Either “their work is monotonous

"4 |and they dislike it, or they have not } | mastered. the art of play, or they have no mental reservations, “ This “3

leads to several questions. do so many women object to husbands’ hobbies? Why are time spent on Why do they re-

5 ‘|sent the warm friendships with : |i] other men? Goodness only knows. {4 | We only know they do. Women are

‘about the way their em -to hunt or fish g matches or bail,

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|Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

With a Diagnosis of His Customer's Looks and Temperament, Mr. Easley Prescribes a Good Tobacco Mixture.

GOON as I heard that Sid Easley had started a tobacco blending-bar in Indian. apolis I made it my business, you bet, to look into that, too. It’s the first of its kind anywhere around here and the biggest thing to

come to Indianapolis in a long while. As far as I'm concerned, I wouldn’t trade it. for the new aeronautical station and the proposed radio center rolled into one. Mr. Easley says he got the idea when ‘he learned that 300 pipe smokers in Indianapolis ‘send out of town regularly for their tobacco blends. He didn’t see why the money couldn’t be kept here, and that got him started. You have no idea, though, what a time Mr. Easley had to get started. First of all, he had to pass a Government examination, and that done, he had to get a Federal license and furnish a $2000 bond. When he turned up at the Federal Building, the people over there didn’t know how to handle his case. They were out of practice, because Mr. Easley’s permit to run a tobacco factory was the first one issued in Marion County in the last 14 years. Thank goodness, though, Mr. Easley has all that out of the way now, and is open for business on the fifth floor 'of the State Life Building. His factory permit is T30. Mr. Easley says it’s all like -a dream come true, ‘because now he can take care of his customers and prescribe the exact blend to make them happy.

Mr. Scherrer

| Maybe you don’t know it, but Mr. Easley can look

at a customer and come pretty close to telling what .kind of tobacco he likes. A blond like Stanley Brooks, for instance, likes a mild, aromatic blend, whereas a brunet, like Walter Bonns, goes in for something much stronger. For a try-out, Mr. Easley will start off a blond with a mixture of Cavendish and small amounts of Latakia and Virginia. To get it smelling right, he will charge it with Aranmore, rose-leaves or Forest Rose. The brunets, as a rule, aren't so pare ticular about the aroma, and to try them out Mr, Easley starts with a burley base and a fair amount of Latakia and Perique. After that, the customer and NT Zasley keep on trying until they get what they

Keep Pipe Cool, He Advises The art of pipe smoking, says Mr. Easley, is to keep the pipe under 225 degrees Fahrenheit. If it gets hotter than that all flavors, with the possible exception of burley, disappear. When that happens, the smoker gets no benefit whatever except, maybe, the childish pleasure of blowing smoke. That's why Mr. Easley has to go beyond a man’s complexion and diagnose his temperament, too. Anyway,’soon as Mr. Easley learns that he has a nervous, fast-smoking custemer on his hands, he prescribes a slow-burning tobacco. As for Mr. Easley himself, he smokes a blend composed of a Cavendish base with small amounts of Latakia, Virginia Bright and toasted sliced Cavendish, Except for the small amount of toasted sliced Cavendish and the fact that it isn’t perfumed artificially, it is almost a perfect blend for blonds. Well, that’s what I want to tell you about. Believe it or not, Mr. Easley is a brunet.

Jane Jordan—

Jane Suggests That a Man's Love

Often Is Stimulated by Opposition,

EAR JANE JORDAN—I was very much disappointed in my marriage as the man I married wanted every other woman but me. It nearly broke my heart to give him up, but I did and lived through it. About five. months ago, very casually I met a man. He is good looking, well-mannered and my ideal. He came to see me several times, calling me two or three times a- week. I belong to a club that meets on Thursdays and Sundays. I asked him to " come, but he always had an excuse. He was too tired, too busy, had company or something else. I figured that he was ashamed to be seen in public with me so I asked him not to call again but just forget me. Since then he has been at the club meeting every time. He speaks to me in a friendly manner. When we are dancing he follows me around the room. I thought that when I asked him not to call me again that I could soon forget him. I never dreamed of his coming there as he never would when I begged him to. Is he coming just for spite, just to make me more miserable? Seeing him every week makes it hard to forget. He is the only man I have cared for in the last three and one-half years. Why does he aggravate me like this? DON'T RATE.

Answer—I imagine the man likes you well enough as a casual friend and would be glad to see you if you were able to take him as casually as he takes vou. He simply doesn’t want to become involved in a serious affair, or at least that is what he fondly believes. His refusal to go to the club meeting when you begged him, and his regular appearance there after you told him to call you no more should give you a

1 clue to his character. He doesn’t value ‘that which is

freely offered but is stimulated by opposition. Instead of wearing your heart on your sleeve why don’t you devote yourself to some other man in the crowd? Doubtless your popularity with others would influence him and a good strong rival would act as a challenge to his rather weak interest in you. If youre ° smart you'll treat him casually until he begs to be taken seriously. . » 2 »,

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a boy of 23. Eight months ago I met a girl and went with her seve eral times. She asked me for my picture and I gave it to her. After that she said I was in love with her and asked me to marry her. I told her I did not want to-marry, but every time I see her that is all she talks about, and now I am really tired of seeing her. She then went to my mother and asked her to have me marry her. My mother thinks I should. I make only ‘$13 a week and am not ready to settle down and do as a married couple should. How ‘can I make’ my mother and her understand that I do not want to marry? Hida W.G.T.

Answer—Your letter illustrates the point I am trying to make for the benefit of “Don’t Rate.” A man doesn’t want the woman who offers herself so obviously. Nothing is more irritating to a man than for a girl fo assume that he is in love with her just because he shows her a little attention, In the first place you do not make enough money to afford a wife. In the serond place you wouldn't ‘want this girl because she has deprived you of the fun of winning her against heavy odds. = de 2 | JANE JORDAN. x ; S——— 3 3 : Put your problems in a letter to Jame Jordan, who will * answer your questions in this column daily. ia

Walter O'Keefe—

JOLLYWOOD, March 21.—With war taking over

tirely it's pleasant to reflect ‘that there's still room for the doings of Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the

| 1and and unanimous choice for Mrs. America.

she fook an airplane north

A the front, pages of our newspapers almost ene a