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\__ certainly a practical and healthy way to eat, sleep :

lands of the Andes, and then one engine

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dropped rapidly to sea level, leaving a flat strip two

- the slightest difference in the usual tone or volume

‘a dead-stick landing is not especially dangerous.

-in one other state university in Baton Rouge, Louisi-

.most every college of any size builds, and wondered

“very different from the WPA project, but they have

-show: ~ achieved, and a beacon for the future.”

‘nated the'site and the architect’s plans seem to me

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- wife. Through the jokes of some comedians and the

* big executive of a studio,

~ got the most wonderful news from my husband.”

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From Indiana = Ernie Pyle Ohne of Plane's Motors Goes Dead

Over Andes and, Boy, What a Thrill When Pilots Land Craft Safely.

AMANA, Peru, Nov. 17.—Life was a little "bit livelier today. And a little bit sweeter this evening. We had an experience. We found out how you feel when you sit in an airplane at 10,000 feet above the bad

Just turns up and dies colder than a mackerel. We were two hours out of Lima when it happened. That Girl Who Flies With Me was sitting across the

aisle. Suddenly she pulled at my arm. and, with a little excitement, said: “There’s something wrong with ‘this motor over here.” In one tiny fraction of a second I went weak as a cat. I don’t know whether I turned white or not, but I felt mighty white. I jumped up and looked. The motor snacelle was covered with black oil. By the way the sun caught the propeller, you could tell it was turning slowly. The other passengers .all looked, ‘ and ‘the steward went forward into the pilots’ compartment. But naturally, they already knew all about it. Had known, even before we realized it. And in a half minute or so, Copilot William Baxter came back, looking as gay and happy as a June bug, and said to each passenger: “We're making a safety landing at Camana, down on the coast. Another plane from Arequipa will come out and pick us up.”

Notice he didn’t say “forced landing”; it was “safety landing.” Well, I know that’s the way pilots are trained to act in an emergency, and strangely enough it worked with me. I felt better after that. I didn’t feel exactly positive what my status in the world would be 2h hour later, but that doomed feeling suddenly ed. We headed at an angle toward the ocean. At first it was too far away to see. Then gradually we could pick out the surf line, far over and down. The plateau ran to within two or three miles of shore, then

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or three miles wide between beach and :plateau. We were all pretty alert, I tell you. The seats began to vibrate, and I didn’t like that, but pretty soon they stopped. The engine didn't seem to be back-firing any more. As a matter of fact, we thought it was still running, because you couldn’t tell

of sound. Lose Altitude Slowly

We must have been at least eight thousand feet high?/when we came over the village of Camana, right on the shore. We turned in a great wide circle, coming down slowly. Behind the town was a strip of desert sand, bare and empty. We figured that was the field. We circled so long and lost altitude so slowly that we became uneasy, wondering what the pilot (was going to do. And then we~-teally headed down for the field, The plane descended so steeply that we slipred forward against our seat belts. We could hear the wind whistling past the wings. The pilot kept gunning the right motor. The Frenchman in front of me was tapping a wildly nervous tattoo on his foot rest., The edge of the field went past below, and we all knew that the crucial moment had come. : pr Then we were just a few feet from the ground, and then the wheels hit, and we bounced a little, and you could feel them settle and roll smoothly, and feel the brakes go on, and we knew we were safe, and I'm telling you it was one great feeling. 3 ' The average pilot would laugh at anyone being

concerned over such an incident. We who know any- ||

thing about aviation know, that modern planes will || fly a long time on one motor; and we know that even ||

But when it actually happens to you, all those statistics you've read don’t mean much. You're pretty worried, don’t think you aren’t. And when it’s all over, you sure feel powerful good.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Ohio State Housing Students in Stadium Through the Help of WPA.

N ROUTE TO NEW YORK CITY, Wednesday.— This morning, on a train speeding toward New York City, I awoke to my first snow scene of the year. It certainly was beautiful—fields, bushes and trees all covered with white and gleaming in the sun. But I must go back to tell you of one more WPA project which I saw yesterday in Columbus, O., and which I think really important. The idea was evolved by Ohio State University. I have seen the same thing

.ana. There, the Governor simply pointed out to me as we drove by how they were using the space under their stadium for housing, so it made less of an impression than it did yesterday. The project in Co-. lumbus has been developed with WPA work and for that reason I visited it and saw how really practical if is. In some ways I am a spendthrift, in other ways I am a hard-headed and economical person. I ve always looked at our marvelous stadiums, which ’al-

if there was not some way in which they could be utilized during a greater part of the year. After all, the football games which fill them with spectators, do leave them empty a good many days. Yesterday, at Ohio State University, I found the answer. They are using the space under the stadium to house students who find the financial burden of college a little more ‘than they can carry. To be admitted to these quarters, which are known as “the Tower Club,” carries considerable distinction. You are accepting no charity, for your grades must be better . than “B” and you pay your own way. It only requires about $20 a month to do this.

Temple of Religion at Fair

I can’t say that as yet much has been done to make this particular college housing experiment attractive and: homelike, but that may come. It is

and work your way through college. My congratulations go to QGhio State University, WPA in Columbus, and the boys themselves. Now for a word about one other thing which has been brought to my attention.. It may seem

one thing in common. Both of them appeai to the imagination. : Do you know about the temple of religion which is being built at the World’s Fair in New York City? This building will not represént one form of religion, but will stand as a symbol of all religions. In the words of William Church Osborn, it is designed to “Our common belief in God, a public recognition of the influences of religion on what we have It will be built by private contribution, but the fair has do-

beautiful and restful.

OLLYWOOD, Nov. 17.—I think it’s about time somebody came to the defense of the Hollywood

stories of magazine writers and newspaper columnists people have got an idea that all married couples in Hollywod lead separate lives. You would think the Hollywood wife is not the least bit interested in her husband’s career. : : I happened to be present the other day when a wife got a telephone cali from her husband who is a ; When she:hung up, she turned around with a beaming face and says “I jest

I says “What's the matter? Did he finally turn out a good: picture?” and she says “No, he’s jest had a

nervous breakdown and we're gonna spend the winter

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By James Thrasher Joie THE night of Nov. 17, 1936, . unquestionably was ‘one of the mostlexciting in the city’s musical memory. An audience had gathered in the Murat to hear the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra ih a. concert under its first guest conductor of the season and the second in its history, Fabien Sevitzky. | To most of the audience, the name was unfamiliar. A few knew Mr. Sevitzky as a Russian-born and educated musician; a double bass virtuoso like his uncle Serge Koussevitzky, the Boston Symrhony’s conductor; a former member of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the _founder and conductor of the Philadelphia Chamber String Sinfonietta -and the Boston People’s Symphony Orchestra. But at the end of two hours, the .orchestra’s listeners had ceased to regard him as a casual visitor. Before another year had gone by, Mr. Sevitzky had returned as the con-

ductor of a reorganized Indianapolis orchestra. The impression

had translated itself into a very tangible and impressive $100,000 orchestra budget. Few who were present are likely to forget that evening. Mr. Sevitzky “strode quickly to the podium, raised his baton and brought it down for the first crashing chord of Berlioz’ “Roman Carnival” Overture. And as he did so, something like an electric shock seemed to sweep back through the audience. Music and musicians seemed charged with an unaccustomed vitality and virtuosity. Mr. Sevitzky had rehearsed the orchestra only a week for this concert, but it was a week of feverish preparation. The performance found both players and conductor on the point of exhaustion, but.the work was justified in the result and fatigue was forgotten in the evening's stimulation. The program continued from the Berlioz music to excerpts from Wagner's Meistersinger,” a Bach ChoralePrelude, Debussy’s “Nuages” and “Fetes,” and the Tschaikowsky Fifth Symphony. Through it all | the conductor swept the orchestra land audience along with his own energy and enthusiasm.

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T cannot be said that Mr. Sevitzky’s single appearance was directly responsible for an Indianapolis orchestra of major proportions. The previous season there had been talk of an organization with full instrumentation of :alaried players, a permanent business staff, more concerts and more soloists. Undoubtedly, however, Mr. Sevitzky settled the question .and speeded the idea’s attainment. Before the new orchestra’s first season began last fall, two questions frequently were asked: Was Indianapolis really ready to support so ambitious and expensive an orchestral schedule? Would Mr. Sevitzky be able to maintain the pace and impression established on his first appearance? ; Both questions were settled quickly. The public response was heartening. Mr. , Sevitzky embarked upon a pretentious schedule, culminating in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the final pair of concerts. But he took pains first to drill his musicians to a plane of performance remarkable in a first-year organization. Besides the regular subscription concerts there were several Sunday performances at popular prices. Several out-of-town engagements and the concert broadcasts had favorable receptions. The 1937-38 season certainly lived up to fondest dreams. The memory of these concerts, however, is too fresh to demand a more detailed account here. Instead, let us have a look at what we may expect during the orchestra’s second year, which begins tomorrow. Of primary interest is the program for the opening pair of concerts: Weber's Overture to “Der Freischuetz”; Beethoven’s Seventh

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938

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Hours of arduous éxhortation and effort by conductor and players make the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra a smooth-running musical organization. Mr. Sevitzky and a portion of the string section are

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Rebecca Lewis, the new harpist, tunes her instrument during a lull

in the rehearsal.

Symphony; a - first Indianapolis performance of Frederick Converse’s “The Mystic Trumpeter”; “The Afternoon of a Faun,” by Debussy, and the Polka and Fugue from Weinberger’s opera, “Schwanda.” ” 2 2

T is notable that in this program we shall have another first hearing . of an American work, illustrating one of the most admirable of Mr. Sevitzky’s musical enthusiasms. :Last year brought us American music on all put the last pair of concerts, which was devoted to Mozart and Beethoven. Again this season the conductor will feature his adopted country’s native!music, a practice which last year won him a signal recognition from the National Association for American Composers and Conductors, of which he now is chairman ‘of the conductors’ committee. A prominent place will be given to what Mr. Sevitzky calls the “American classics” on the coming programs: Music by members of the so-called New England

School, MacDowell, Converse, Foote, Hadley, Stillman-Kelley. “It is impossible,” Mr. Sevitzky says, “that we should forget what these men have dome.” Among the younger Americans, Shepard, Lieberson, Hanson, Whithorne, Sessions, Rogers, Harl MacDonald, Paul White, Horace Johnson and Frances McCollin will be represented. In addition, we shall hear the world premiere of parts of a new symphony based on Stephen Foster's songs, by a composer whose identity is a secret at present, at least from this writer. | : Mr. Sevitzky’s summer vacations in Europe find him alert to other new and worthy works by contemporary compesers. One result of his summer’s musical search will be a world premiere by the Indianapolis orchestra of a Sonatina by Nicolai Tcherepnine, to be played from manuscript. First American hearings will be given the music of several modern Italians. Elsewhere, during the 1938-39 season, we are to hear Beethoven’s “Leonore No. 3” Overture in

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Debut Marks Beginning of New Era

shown above in rehearsal for tomorrow afternoon’s opening concert. Directly in front of the conductor are Leon Zawisza, concertmaster (left), and Renato Pacini, two new members of the first-violin section.

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Beginning their second season with the orchestra are Guy Boswell

e addition to the first program’s

symphony; one symphony each of Tschaikowsky and Sibelius; Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 and the Variations on a Theme by Haydn; Mendelssohn’s | “Italian” Symphony; a half program devoted to Wagner; Strauss’ “Till Eulenspiegel,” “Don Juan” and the dances from Salome’; the “Enigma” Variations of Elgar; Debussy’s “La Mer”; Ravel's “Daphnis and Chloe” Suite No. 2 and the “Alborada del Gracioso”; Glazunov’s Suite, “From Olden Time”; another suite from Weinberger’s

_ “Schwanda,” besides the opening

program’s Polka and Fugue, and the Overture-Fantasy, “Janosik,” by the contemporary Czech composer Moizes.

The season also offers six dis-

(left). and: Charles Payne of the trombone section.

programs on Wednesday afternoons over the Columbia. network’s stations. There have been some personnel changes in the orchestra this year to the ensemble’s benefit, it may be assumed. Judging from .last year’s experience, Mr. Sevitzky and his musicians, new and old, may be depended on to reach a higher level of skill and enjoyment in the coming months. The symphony is an expensive indulgence for Indianapolis and Indiana; but, for the music lover, support is repaid by ample dividends of stimulation. and deep satisfaction. Today we have an orchestra proficient enough, in a short time,

to satisfy the most sanguine hopes.

tinguished soloists in Josef Hof=~THe time seems ripe for its con-

mann and Dglie Frantz, pianists; Mischa Elman, violinist; Gaspar Cassado, cellist; Lauritz Melchior, tenor, and Margaret Halstead, soprano. .

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F course the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, the orchestra’s excellent corrolary group, will be heard on several occasions; one of their scheduled appearances is in Arthur Shepard’s “Song of the Pilgrims.” The Sunday afternoon concerts (“popular” in price, though not necessarily in musical content) will be continued. And, in addition to the Purdue, Illinois and Indiana University concerts, the orchestra is to make its first Chicago appearance in January at the - Auditorium Theater, under Northwestern University’s auspices. ‘Broadcasts will be continued this season, this time in a series of 18 special hour-long

tinuance over many years. Mr. Schaefer built a firm foundation, and Mr. Sevitzky has erected a

‘handsome musical structure of po-

tential permanence. Musical Indianapolis hopes that this time it will not be left to stand deserted and forgotten.

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By Anton Scherrer

Indianapolis May Have Been Locale Of Uncle Tom's Cabin; Here Are

Facts, but They Won't Be Repeated.

NCE upon a time—it must be all of two years ago—I ran a little piece in the course of which I tried my best to winnow out some of the chaff in the legend of an

Indianapolis Negro who has entered Amer

ican mythology. : Well, believe it or not, this week I received two requests from different parts of the world to revive the story. Curiously enough, both correspondents

want. the story repeated for the same reason, namely its timeliness in connection with the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the

- founding of the Second Presbyterian

Church. All right, but this is positively - the last time I'm going to tell it. The story is one Jacob Dunn used to tell and has to do with a series of coincidences which when piled up leave you no alternative but to believe that (maybe) Harriet - Beecher Stowe picked up the idea for her immortal book right here in Indianapolis—as a matter of fact, in Tom Magruder’s cabin on the northeast corner of Market and Noble Sts. First of all, there is the coincidence of Mrs. Stowe’s brother living in Indianapolis at the time. Henry Ward Beecher lived near the corner of what is now Market and Adelaide Sts., a leisurely walk of two

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blocks to Uncle Tom’s cabin, and it’s a matter of rec-

ord that he often visited the old Negro. Moreover, it is known that Mrs. Stowe visited her brother and that he often took her to see Uncle Tom. Indeed, there is the testimony of the Noble family that she took notes in the cabin while visiting.

Here's Another Coincidence

There is also the coincidence that Uncle Tom’s home was always referred to around here as “Uncle Tom’s cabin.” Mr. Beecher, for instance, never said he was going to see Uncle Tom. He always said “to Uncle Tom’s cabin,” and it’s reasonable to suppose that he didn’t change his habits just because his sis-

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ter came to visit him, although I know some brothers . |

who have been known to upset the theory. Finally, there is the fourth chapter in Mrs. Stowe’s book. In that chapter Uncle Tom’s family is described as consisting of two boys, Mose and Pete, and a baby girl. Uncle Tom Magruder, to be sure, had but two children, Moses and his younger sister Louisa—but wait, there is more to come. There was a third member in the Magruder family, a boy about the age of Moses, who went by the name of Pete. Honest. Uncle Tom Magruder died in 1857, six years after The National Era printed the first installment of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Legend has it that he was 110 years old when he died and I, for one, am willing to

| believe it because he was an old man when he arrived

in Indianapolis. He came in 1831, and it is known! that he was a slave of Dr. Noble in Virginia prior to 1794. Dr. Noble’s son, Noah, our Governor from 1831 to 1837 brought Tom with him when he came to Ine dianapolis. What's more, he built the cabin for him. For a number of years after Uncle Tom’s death, his daughter Louisa lived in a cabin fronting on Wabash St. just back of the present Keith’s Theater. By this time she was married and had a daughter of her own, Martha by name. Nobody called her that, howe ever. She answered to the call of “Topsy.”

Jane Jordan— Constant Scolding by Mother and

Brother Prove Puzzling to Girl, 15,

EAR JANE JORDAN.—I am a girl of 15. My father is dead. I live at Home with my mother and brother. They fuss at me all the time and call me names which I know they have no right to do. My brother is awfully mean to me. I have been staye

me so much per week and this is about the only way I have of getting my clothes. My mother and brother have made me quit staying with this lady who was nice to me and who does everything she can for me. They are going to make me give up my best girl friend, which I hate to do. I have a brother who left home because of our quarrels. I think we would get ‘along a lot better if my brother wasn’t so high tempered. He accuses me of things I don’t do and tis hurts me badly. Mother and brother rave 4f I have anything to do with a boy or if I go to a nice place to dance. Do you think I am too young to start having boy friends? They fuss at me so much I don’b know what to do; so I am writing to you for advice. PINKIE. ” 2 ” Answer—If I knew what your mother and brother’s complaints against you were, I could do a better job of advising you. Whatever the points on their side, they are obviously using the wrong methods. I imagine that there is a keen rivalry between you and your brother and that part of your unhappiness is caused by the fact that your mother sides with him against you. In other words, you are jealous of your brother and he is jealous of you. Doubtless this is the root of your trouble. : : Many times this condition in a home has been re lieved by sending one or both children away from home to school. The next best solution is to let ons child do as you have done—stay with another family where there is opportunity to earn a little money. I wonder why your mother objects to the woman who has been kind to you? An outsider often has far more influence with a rebellious child than its own mother. Perhaps this woman would be willing to talk to your mother and persuade her to let you work for her. Every girl should have boy friends as well as girl friends. If she has ample opportunity to associate with both boys and girls at school and at home, she will not insist upon having more freedom than her age indicates. You are too youhg to stay out late at night or go wherever you choose without letting your family know where you are. Some supervision is necessary until your judgment matures. There is a way to get along with nearly everybody. I imagine you can do a better job of getting along with your family if you refrain” from antagonizing them. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter fo Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily. i

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