Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1938 — Page 9

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From Indiana =Ernie Pyle

Mystery of the Changeling Tire, And Other Notes From the Logbook Of Our Long-Suffering Motorist.

UTLAND, Vt., Oct. 1.—As a professional | tourist, may I spin you a little varn | oii : | about an incident of the road? It is the most . . . wi disgusting thing that has happened to me in my Forty Years Behind the Steering Wheel. Last night as we came out from dinner I happened to notice that our right hind tire was badly worn, while the three others still showed plenty of tread. “There must be something wrong with the | car,” I said. “Maybe it’s out of bal- | ance, and all the weight is on this side.” But that didn't seem reasonable, so I looked around once more. All four tires were put on at the same time. Last February. in San Francisco, we got four brand new tires. We have not had a puncture or a blowout, and we've never had a one of those four tires off the wheel. Yet, when I looked closely, I discovered the worn right tire was of a different make! That sounds like black magic, but it isnt. Its burglary. In other words, somebody in the past few days or weeks has stolen our good right hind tire and replaced it with a worn-out one The car has been parked out overnight a good deal, but always in places where changing a tire would be noticeable business. It is my theory the job was done in a garage. by some night mechanic who wanted a better tire for his own car. The car has been in only three garages for overnight storage in the past month. So the tire was stolen in New York, Boston, or Portland, Ore. But how would I ever find out? The whole thing makes me so mad I could bite right through a tire. A new one. too. Boston has one of the most confusing traffic-light systems for a stranger. One day there we came to a corner with a red light, yet there was a green arrow right under it pointing straight up. It has always been my experience that a red light means stop, and that green arrow pointing straight up means to go on through. Therefore, these two signs showing at the same time were contradictory. I didn't know what to do. so I obeved the red. We asked a friend about it later, it’s really | simple. The green arrow means to go on | through. The red light simply means “Don’t make a | left turn.” Tt's a pretty good idea at that, but how is | a stranger to know?

Watch That Speeding, Ernie!

And speaking of the law—in 75.000 miles of driv- | ing in the last three years (including every state in the Union at least twice) we haven't been stopped, | whistled at, or spoken to by a cop That is, we hadn't until the other night. pened in Previncetown, Mass We had been to see friends, and were driving the few blocks home about 11 at night. The streets were deserted. We were going 25 miles an hour. Suddenly we heard a whistle and dimly saw a cop | standing hy a phone pole. We stopped, and he | came walking up. Obviously we hadn't been doing | reckless driving, and I had no idea what he | wanted. He walked up and didn't say anything “I thought you whistled at us,” I said He said: “I gid. Cur speed limit here is 20 miles hour. Just thought I'd tell you.” O. K.. thanks.” T said. That's all there was to the incident. We were both very nice and friendly to each other. But it has broken our record. I suppose cops will be after us all the time now.

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My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

The Alleged Leaners-on-Shovels Do Good Work in a Crisis, She Says.

OSTON. Friday. —Traveling upon the railroad yes- | terdav afternoon we began to see signs of the the flood. Trees down, places along he railroad where the water had risen almost to the oad ties, gardens withered as though a heavy t had killed them. buildings here and there with the roofs off and, in some cases, even completely destroved The voung Mavor of Springfield, Mass., Mr. Roger | Putnam. boarded the train at Hartford to tell me a little about the hardships through which his city had passed. He praised all the Federal agencies which had been working in the area and told me how the dikes had been saved by the addition of countless numbers of sandbags put on by WPA workers. Acs T remarked before, it is astonishing how these who are alleged to lean so heavily on their shovels manage to do valiant work in all these emergencies. The Springfield streets have been almost entirely | blocked bv fallen trees. I know I have not been | through the areas which have suffered the most, still PE the wind must have been as it passed over this section | of the country. { 1 had fully decided that the Teachers’ Club had | decided that they could not sponsor a lecture when evervhodv had been through so many days of strain, but evervthing went off smoothly. We dined with the Mayor and Mrs. Putnam, the auditorium was well | filled and perhaps it was a relief to turn from the | kind of work thev had all been concentrating on to something entirely different The “Patient” May Feel Sad When the President telephoned me last night 1 | realized that he was already feeling much less ten- | concerning the Furopean situation and our | cite the same impression this morring The recotiations going on seem more satisfacton help wondering. however. whether the this case, when he comes te and finds minus some arms and legs, Will not Teel T er sad at having them removed Without being allowed a consultation We drove into Boston early this morning, taking here and there a back road when a bridge was down on the main highway. We found Johnny and Anne's apartment with Anne already at the door te show |

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in | The outskirts of Boston are certainly satisfactory | places for voung people to live in and thev seem to be comfortably settled. After we had looked everything over we drove to our hotel, where Johnny joined 1s for his lunch how We are leaving shortly for Portland, Me.

Bob Burns Says—

OI LYWOOD. Oct. 1.—The American Legion bovs lived the war all over again out here in Los | Angeles last week and I want'a tell you, I picked up | many a hair-raisin’ tale by jest keeping mv ears open. | The other day I joined a group of ‘em jest in | to hear a fella say: “The way they charged was positively staggering. They charged like demons.” | I buited in and said: “Are vou talkin’ about an experience vou had on the field of battle in France?” He said: “No. I'm talkin’ about an experience 1 had here in Hollywood in one of those high-priced night clubs Copvright

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So They Say—

HE best days are ahead of us, and not far off — Governor Murphy of Michigan, on the state of the nation

ou like—te keep its design in conformity with the charging tempo of the world we live in —Ambassador | Joseph P. Kennedy, speaking in England on “the | American system.”

We only want to refurbish it—to streamline it, if

| covers other business. | two other attacks on similar Ken-

| Coast leader

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Second Section

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1938

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

at Postoffice,

Supreme Court Faces a Busy Term

Nearly 50 Cases of Public Importance Confront High Tribunal

By Herbert Little

Times Special Writer

"ASHINGTON, Oct. 1. —Nearly 50 cases of public importance will confront the Supreme Court Monday when the eight justices convene their eight-month term. The Tom Mooney case, the much fought Morgan Stockyards case, appeals of Lucky Luciano and Marie Hahn, the first test of the Robinson-Patman Act, and new wire-tapping, gold clause and Communist deportation suits are among the headliners. Six Labor Board cases are also among the 350 which have piled up during the Court's summer recess. Among cases hinging on interpretation of the 21st (repeal) amendment is one by the Indianoplis Brewing Co. attacking Michigan for its law prohibiting sale of liquor from 10 states which allegedly discriminate against Michigan liquor. A three-judge Federal court upheld the law, on the ground that the repeal amendment makes the liquor business an exception from the “equal pro-

tection of law” guarantee that There are

tucky and Missouri statutes. Most of the cases, filed on preliminary petitions for review, have already been studied by the individual justices, and the Court will vote this week whether to hear them. The verdict in the Communist

| deportation case, involving a New | Orleans

grocer, will determine whether the Labor Department is to press its ouster suit against Harry Bridges, C. 1. O. West The Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the New Orleans case that mere Communist

| Party membership was not evidence that an alien advocated

violent overthrow of this government and therefore must be deported Luciano, central defendant in one of District Attorney Dewey's

| sensational vice-ring prosecutions

in New York, has appealed his prison sentence on technical grounds of error and prejudice. tJ » = ARIE HAHN, Ohio woman sentenced to death as a poisoner, complains in her appeal that the prosecution in her trial for one murder unjustly introduced evidence that she was implicated in four other lethal poisonings. The appeal of Tom Mooney, who is serving a life sentence for the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombings in San Francisco, charges that he was denied due process by the Caiifornia ‘courts. The appeal has been pending for months, but the record was so voluminous

| that the Court could not act on

the petition last spring. The Government has bnrought the Morgan Stockvards case, from Kansas City, before the Court for the fourth time, this time on appeal from a lower court's refusal to impound $£700.000 in fees collected from farmers and stockmen during a four-vear rate fight. The stockvards men contend the money is theirs, and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace is fighting to tum it back to the stockmen. The first test of the RobinsonPatman ‘“‘antichain store act” is the Biddle Purchasing Co. case. appealed by the company after the Circuit Court of Appeals up-

| held a Federal Trade Commission

order forbidding it to charge cer-

| tain brokerage fees. The company

contends that it renders “actual services” in buying goods in quantity for wholesalers, and that its services are not related to interstate commerce. The gola clause issue, decided for the Government several times

| previously, is raised again on the

novel issue that the Court's

| previous decision was made in an

opinion signed by less than a majority of ihe justices. The lover court refused to order a fourth Liberty Loan paid off in old gold

Justice Roberts

® Justice Black

Justice McReynolds

Chief Justice Hughes

Justice Brandeis Justice Stone (Justice Cardozo) ~~ Justice Reed

Marie Hahn

values, on the ground that the owner had shown no damage. = 5 EW 1938-model problems of law and public policy face the Supreme Court —in labor, liquor and antitrust cases. Problems developing from recent legislative end social trends are many, and the Court's decisions, particularly in the six NLRB cases and two antitrust suits, may affect much larger national fields. The NLRB decisions may influence the coming drive for Congressional amendment of the Wagner act. Two of the Labor Board cases center on questions of vital import to the Wagner act, and the other four involve questions of procedure and evidence. None, as far as lawyers can see. is likely to produce any decision which limits the broad constitutional approval already given the Board by the Supreme Court in 10 decisions of the last two years. One major battle is the Board's appeal in the Columbian Stamping and Enamel Co. case, in which a Circuit Court of Appeals decided that a strike which violates a labor contract deprives the strikers of right to reinstatement and other damages under the Wagner act This is the socalled “clean hands” theory. which the Labor Board has refused to accept in several cases It is the same point that is involved in the celebrated Fansteel sitdown strike case from Chicago, where the Circuit Court also held the NLRB in error.

HE other major case is the Concolidated Edison case from New York in which the Board's order refused to accept an A. F. of L. contract as evidence of the majority wishes of 40.000 utility workers employed bv the company. The Circuit Court upheld the Board, and the company and the A. F. of L. Electrical Workers Union both appealed. This issue is to be argued formally before Christmas

One of the five NLRB cases against the Ferd Motor Co. is before the Court, but the point is wholly technical — whether the Board can withdraw a petition for an enforcement order after it has once been filed along with a transcript of the proceedings. The Board tried so to withdraw its Ford case. but the Circuit Court refused to permit it. A similar question is raised in a California NLRB case appealed by the North

The U. S. Supreme Court

Harry Bridges

ment as to its deducticns from the evidence. This may develop important policy statements if the Supreme Court decides to review it. In another case, appealed by the Memphis Furniture Co. the Board's jurisdiction, although upheld by the Circuit Court, is attacked. Two antitrust suits dealing with the motion picture industry in Texas and Pennsylvania are expected to attract much attention, particularly because their decision may affect vitally the Justice Department’s later suit, filed in New York this year. against the dominant figure of the whole huge industry. In both cases the lower courts held that contracts forbidding theater owners to show “double features”—two feature

Lucky Luciano

films on the same program—were unlawful. = the Pennsylvania case, the picture distributors in theair appeal alleged that the Clayton act's restrictions do not apply to their copyrighted films, and deny that there was any proof of conspiracy against them. In Texas, where the Justice Department brought the suit and won in the lower court. the order also outlaws contracts restricting theater admission prices. A fourth liquor case, brought by an Ohio wholesale drug company, attacks that state's liquor monopoly system, which is duplicated in several other states. Other important cases may de-

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Tom Mooney

termine the fate of the Massachusetts law forbidding all birth control information and practices, the New Jersey gangster act, and the Minnesota anti-injunction law. A new Negro discrimination issue is made in another case, resulting from the refusal of the University of Missouri to admit a Negro law student. The student asked state courts for a writ of mandamus, pointing out that no other state institution provides a law course, but the writ was denied.

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Ind.

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

The Political Observers, as He Would Have Expected, Missed Out On Toscanini's Visit to Lucerne,

VACATION NOTES:

J UCERNE—I had my biggest thrill when 1 left Berne, the capital of Switzerland, and asked for my hotel bill. Believe it or not, I was billed for 10 per cent less than the contract called for, and when 1 asked the

reason why, the maitre d’hotel rubbed his hands and said I had it coming to me because I was a journalist. Honest. My next nicest experience in Switzerland was the visit to Richard Wagner's old home in Tribschen, just outside of Lucerne, where he spent six years (1866-1872) putting the finishing touches to “Die Meistersinger,” “Siegfried” and “Gotterdaemmerung,” to say nothing of looking at one of the grand-

SWITZERLAND

Monday: The Gallup Poll

Explosives, Poison Gas and Fire Bombs

Major Weapons in Aerial Warfare

feverishly grooming their

| conflict—and

By Robert D. Potter

Science Service Staff Writer

ASHINGTON, Oct. 1—The

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civilian populations,

performance with Uncle Sam's “fly-; ing fortress”

type 2. More personal, in its attack on 15 the gas

capitals of Europe today are pomh.

civilian

populations for attack from the

sky Any city which produces anything which can be construed as remotely affecting the final outcome of the that, of course, includes all but tiny hamlets—may be a military objective under modern warfare. Danger from the skies, in present

day warfare, means aerial bombing

| bombs

and the civilians in the cities will be likely to have three distinct types of menaces dropped 9h high overhead. 1. Explosive bombs containing up to a ton of shattering explosive that will virtually destroy any objects they hit. Tests have shown that it takes 80 feet of earth or 12 feet of concrete to protect against some of these. shatter a whole city block of ordinary dwellings. Against such giant civilians can expect little

leffective protection other than those

| bomb-proof

Whittier Heights Citrus Associa- |

tion The Board has appealed an adverse Circuit Court decision in the Sands Msanufacturing Co. case, which attacked the Roard’s judg-

shelters already or the more massive buildings and subways which exist in cities. It takes huge planes to carry

|eflfective pavloads of such bombs

While older-style bombing planes would probably be mused there is a relative scarcity of very modern

built |

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them from

whether new and vet gases exist in the laboratories that would be more deadly thing how known possibility, but reasoning that while gases they probably would not more efficient than Chlorine and mustard gas (dichlor- | ethyl sulphide were potent weapons during the World War, and can do major damage by themselves.

HE imminence of poison gas bombings raises the question of undisclosed

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than anyThere is such a be secret be known gases.

there may

The enemy of all poison gases is

wind, which can dispel the gases

until the concentrations fail below thiose which will cripple or Kill. principal mustard gas, during the World War,

military advantage of

| was its weight.

One explosion can |

This means, for civilian city

populations, that the first menace of mustard gas could be overcome |

by going to the second stories of

homes.

The biggest danger from gas at-

tacks is the panic that might be in-

{ duced.

o HIS has spurred efforts to combat fear by training the popu-

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lations of large Europ=an cities in

large bombing planes comparable in| the use of the gas mask and the

steps to be undertaken, in event of

an aerial gas attack.

3. The final menace from aenal| attack is aimed—not sc much at | personal injury as poison gas but— | toward property damage. The giant explosive bombs, such damage but these losses are

of course,

cause

| est panoramas in that part of the | world. This time I got inside the old | house. Twelve years ago, on a pre- | vious visit, I hired a horse and got Mr as far as the fence surrounding the : | property. Eight years ago, I tried again—this time by way of an automobile—and it didn't get me any nearer than the horse did. This trip I fooled both the horse and the automobile and took a boat, and, sure enough, it landed me inside the house. the reason being that Tribschen, heretofore one of the oldest privately-owned estates in Switzerland, is now the property of the City of Lucerne. Five years ago the house was restored and the first floor turned into a Richard Wagner museum. Right at the entrance is the staircase where on the Christmas morning of 1870, Wagner surprised Cosima (wife No. 2) with the first performance of the “Siegfried Idyll,” the original score of which (dated Tribschen, Dec. 4, 1870) is one of the 200 precious documents in the collection. The “Siegfried” in this case, if Jimmy Thrasher hasn't already got around to telling vou about it, was. of course, the name of Wagner's only son, He also turned up In Tribschen By rights, I guess I ought to mention Arturo Toscanini’s visit to Lucerne, too. He came in August and stayed the better part of two weeks It got into most of the papers, by way of the musical departments, but, for some reason it escaped the political observers. Thus confirming a pet notion of mine, namely that political observers don’t see anything unless somebody first points it out to them.

Things Look Bad for Hitler

Allow me to do the pointing. Toscanini, you may remember, got awful sore when Germany took over Austria, and said he’s be darned if he'd do anything | more for Salzburg as long as Hitler was running | the place. Well, when Toscanini acted up like that, | the Swiss got him to come to Lucerne and the first thing he did alter he got here was to pick Tribschen | as the site of a mighty music festival. It was such | a success that Toscanini promised to repeat the performance next year. I don’t want to scare Mr. Hitler any more than I have to. but from the way things look it's going | to be pretty slim pickings for Salzburg from now on. | Well, it just goes to show that totalitarian states | can’t have everything their own way. which, I guess | is the same as saying that democracies are still good for something. Gosh, I wish I knew how the Indianapolis base= ball team is doing.

Scherrer

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Jane Jordan—

Whether You Leave Mate or Stay You'll Have Problems, Mother Told.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am 36 and have been married 15 years. We have a daughter in high

costly to produce and would not| school 14 years old. My husband and I do not get

be widely used for general destruc-| ajong very well because of other women | tion, but only against the most im-

portant military objectives.

suggests | best

However, fire destroyer of

excellence.

hundreds.

These thermit bombs, containing aluminum and iron oxide, are tiny objects. A single plane could carry Scores upon scores of fires could be created in a great city |at practically the same instant and by this means give the fire-fighting units such an enormous task that the risk of a general conflagration

would be great.

The weather would, perhaps, de- | termine the type of attack which | would be made on a given city at a | given time. In windy weather ther-| mit bombs would be a good rule. | This wind, however, would be just the thing not desired for gas bomb- | The great exvlosive bombs, of course. woud be equally effective

upon all occasions

still is about the property that exists and so a serious factor in an | aerial borbardment would be the fire-creating bomb. The thermit bomb, producing a temperature of 2300 to 2700 degrees Centigrade, is a fire producer par

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Glances—By Clark

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"We simply must have a kitchen. You see, my husband

Everyday Movies—By Wortman

just loves to cook.”

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

{—In what year was the war between Spain and the United States? 2—What is a melodeon? 3—What is the largest inhabitant of the ocean?

41s ‘Treasure Island,” by Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction?

5—When is dawn? 6—What is a pedometer?

7—Which baseball club is managed by Joe Cronin?

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Answers

1—1898. 2—A musical wind instrument with a row of reeds, operated by keys. 3—The whale. 4—Yes.

5—The time when light appears in the sky. . 6—An instrument for measuring distances traversed in walking. 7—Boston Red Sox. z= = =

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My child knows all about it. People tell me that I am nice looking and that I should go out and meet some men friends. but I can’t for T wouldn't want my child to think I was like her father. I want respect from her always. I think I would leave him, but my daughter loves us both. What shall I do? LONELY ONE.

Answer—I only can say that many women have { lived with unfaithful men and managed to stand it for the sake of their children or for economic reasons. If you make up your mind to stand by, the only thing you can do is to let the man alone and make a life for yourself apart from him. You do not have to condone what he does, but I dont see how you can change his nature either by constant reproof or by doing likewise. If you can’t stand it, the only alternative I know is to accept the economic responsibility for yourself and for your daughter if you must. This also is a hard row, for it means battling with a bad economic situa= tion with no previous business experience to help you. | As long as he works in town you can get part of what | he earns, but what is to prevent his leaving the state | to avoid supporting you? The prospects aren't very | bright either way. I know, but there is no easy solu=

| tion to such problems. | Whatever you do, you should protect your daughter from knowledge of her father’s behavior in so far as this is possible. She is too young to carry your burdens and you should not try te gain her sympathy by tearing down her father in her eves no matter how much he may deserve it. At 14 it is un« fortunate for her to get the idea that all men are untrustworthy because her father has not come up to her ideal of him, = = = \EAR JANE JORDAN—I have just been married. My husband's parents are dead. His brother had us to his home and introduced me to some of his cousins. They gave us a real welcome and asked us to come and see them. Another cousin called me on the phone and told me to call her any time as she would be glad to hear from me. Is it proper for us to call on my husbands’ relatives before they call on us? It isn’t proper to go to dinner for the first social call. is it, even if they ask? If you are introduced should you extend your hand or just say how do you do? MRS. M. B.

Answer—If you want to be a stickler for etiquet, it is customary for your husband's relations to call on you first or invite you to dinner. However, many families do not know anything about these rules and simply follow their inclinations. If the invitation to call is cordial, his cousins doubtless expect you to accept it and it may not have occurred to them that etiquet requires them to make the first call or extend the first invitation to dinner. It is quite proper for a lady tc offer her hand when she is introduced. JANE JORDAN.

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