Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1939 — Page 11
WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1939
The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
NEW YORK, May 31 —The second best thing in the World Fair's amusement area, as far as I'm concerned, is the ice carnival they put on at Sun Valley. (I mean, of course, in real classy entertainment.) This Sun Valley is a huge place fixed up like a Swiss village. The Union Pacific Railroad (which owns the real Sun Valley in Idaho) has nothing to do with this concession. However, there was an arrangement about the name, and publicist Steve Hannagan, who put Sun Valley on the map, is extolling this one, too. In the middle of the village is an ice rink. On either side are terraces, where you can sit at tables and watch the show. It costs 25 cents to get inside Sun Valley. To me, ice skating is the most graceful thing in the world. You see plenty of it in this ice carnival, which goes on 12 times a day. And the little star— a newcomer from Norway named Erna Andersen, can skate just as well as Sonja Henie, as far as I can see, and is she beautiful! After the ice carnival, two men and a girl do a high ski jump from the top of an artificial mountain. The “snow”-covered ski jump is really canvas. But they get up high, and the jumps are thrilling. Several of the jumpers have been hurt. And now, before we go, a word about the nude shows. Well. so far there are only three that I know anvthing about. One of them is called “The Amazons.” It's quite a bit like Sally Rand's Nude Ranch at San Francisco. » n u
March of Science
You stand and look at the girls through a big glass window. The girls do such ridiculous things as bounce big rubber balls and “fence” with each other with sticks. Most of them would look better with clothes on. The night I went. the sophisticated New York audience gave it the bird. But it's getting a big play just the same
Next is “Crystal Palace.” It really 1s a lot of fun
Our Town
Todav I want to touch upon a crisis in the affairs of Emmett Rice who spends most of his time helping George Buck run Shortridge High School Just about this time two vears ago somebody appointed Mr, Rice to investigate a rumor thai there was a lot for destitute teachers in Crown Hill I haven't the least idea why he was picked for the job, but it kinda looks as if Mr. Rice has a reputation for running down rumors. Be that as it may, Mr. Rice went to work rightaway and in no time at all, found what he was sent to get. It turned out to be Lot 30, Section 3, designated in the archives of Crown Hill as “A Lot for the Destitute Teachers of the Public Schools.” A man of less vision might have stopped there, not Mr. Rice. He dug dedper and discovered the plot was big enough for 12 graves, seven What's more, he learned the names of the dead, to wit: Ella P. Coffin, Anna M. Tyler. Alexander Ralston, John B. Dillon, George McKinney, William Lentz and Catherine Messing. With the exception of one grave—that of Alexander Ralston—all were marked with stones bearing names and dates. " o » A Pretty Tradition You bet Mr. Rice's eves popped when he came icross the neglected grave of Alexander Ralston, the man wha back in 1821, designed and laid out the origmal town of Indianapolis. Mr. Rice Kept right on, discovered that Mr. Ralston died on Jan. 5, 1827, and was buried on the bank of White River in what subsequently became known as Greenlawn Cemetery. The grave received no headstone at the time, but there is a tradition—as pretty as any we have around that George Norwood, a friend, kept the grave marked with wooden stakes. When Greenlawn Cemetery was abandoned in 1874, remains of Alexander Ralston were moved to
but that of which were occupied.
here—
the
Washington
WASHINGTON, May General Farley says it is futile to talk about candi-
31.—Although Postmaster dé#fes for 1940 until President Roosevelt whether he intends to run for re-election, inhibition is being accepted by Paul V. Indiana. His campaign headquarters in Indianapolis is open and at work. He will arrive here in person from Manila in July and will resign as U. S. High Commissioner to the Philippines in order to devote himself to seeking the Presidential nomination. There is only one qualification and it comes from one so intimate with Governor McNutt that it may be taken as authentic. The qualification is that if and when Mr. Roosevelt indicates a desire to be renominated, the McNutt candidacy will fold up. Until there is reliable word from the White House, Mr. McNutt will proceed upon the ssumption that Mr. Roosevelt is not a candidate. For the moment, the McNutt organization is working chiefly for second-choice support in various states where Democratic leaders are hiding behind either the potential Roosevelt third-term candidacy or favorite sons.
The Farley Opposition
Most important, the McNutt movement is engaged in trying to overcome the barrier erected by Postmaster General Farley, who has had a feud with Governor McNutt dating back to the 1932 convention when Farlev was trying to nominate Mr. Roosevelt. The trouble was that Mr. Farley dealt with the wrong crowd in Indiana and McNutt refused to go along and opposed a delegation instructed for Mr. Roosevelt Afterward, however,
indicates no such McNutt of
McNutt became Governor and
My Day
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. Tuesday.—The United Daughters of the Confederacy came to tea with me vesterday afternoon on the White House lawn and we had a very delightful hour. In the evening, Miss
Thompson and I took the train which deposited us this morning at 11:30 in Johnson City, Tenn. At Bristol I went out on the platform to greet some people who had kindly come down to see me and quite a crowd welcomed us when we alighted from the train here. It being Decoration Day, the Governor is coming to the Federal Hospital for Veterans here and there will be a parade in which some veterans will march. I hope to have the opportunity of meeting the Governor and watching the veterans go by. After that, I have asked to see the camp run by the Optimist Club. I am speaking for this group tonight and am particularly interested in camps for children and the work carried on in them. I looked out of the window of the tra "fs morning while I was waiting for my breakfast, and it suddenly occurred to me that scenes from a train
| By Ernie Pyle
You go into a theater, only there are no seats. You have to stand up. A master of ceremonies comes out, and the crowd starts yelling at him to bring on the girls. He barely makes himself heard while explaining that this show will depict the various girl stars of all the World Fairs since 1843. A girl comes out dressed as though she were going to a 1776 state reception. The crowd boos and screams. It thinks it's getting gvpped. You can hardly hear yourself think. So they go through several more like that, stepping up a few years each time. The crowd practically tears the place down. You think theyre going to lynch the master of ceremonies. He grins and makes wise-cracks. He gets better all the time, and the crowd begins to fall in with him. Finally he gets down to the Century of Progress. “Now we're getting somewhere,” the crowd yells, remembering Sally Rand. The MC goes on: “The Century of Progress was the great presentation of the march of science in the last century. We now show you . . . science, brother, science.” He grins. It’s the fan dance. = ” un
The Cuban Village
And at last we come to 1939, or maybe even the] World of Tomorrow. This little lady is named Rosita Royce. What she does is a dove dance. I mean what she does is a dance with nothing on but doves. The | doves fly off now and then, and later fly back on. 1 don’t know whether Rosita will make the grade or| not. Her dance really is very beautiful. | The third place is Cuban Village. This is a large and tony place. Thev have all kinds of shops, and | Cuban things, and a bar, and tables by the lakeside. | and music and dancing. They thump tom-toms and | the dancers get sort of wild. So they say. | I never did see any of it. The dance is on a plat-| form. about two feet above the floor, and the audience just stands up around the outside. I stayed around till the crowd had all gone home and they were sweeping up the place, and I never did see anything. It sounded mighty good though.
By Anton Scherrer
Crown Hill. It cost $10.50. The Common Council also went on record while appropriating the money | that something should be done to mark Mr. Ralston’s grave. Apparently, though, they never got around to it. As a matter of fact, it wasn’t until 63 years later, in 1890. that the subject came up again. At that time| Judge E., B. Martindale, E. P. Claypool and others] headed a movement to raise funds by public sub-| scription for the purpose of erecting a monument in| honor of Mr. Ralston. They collected $350 and de-| posited it in the Fletcher Bank. And except for Mr. | Rice, chances are the money would still be there. Anyway, on a hot midsummer day two years ago, | Mr. Rice got to stewing about the forgotten fund, took | his courage in hand and, sweating like everything, | walked into the Fletcher National Bank to ask about |
it. Sure emough, it was there. E-3 un n
Mr. Dillon’s Grave
Well, that in brief is the story of how Alexander | Ralston, after waiting 110 years, finally got a modest monument to mark his grave. By this time, no doubt, you're wondering why Mr. Ralston. who certainly never was a schoolmaster, was buried in a lot set aside for destitute teachers of the public schools. Maybe youre wondering about John B. Dillon, too. He was an attorney. poet, historian, editor, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, Assistant Secretary of State, and clerk in the Department of the Interior at Washington, but as far as anybody knows, never a school teacher. Certainly not one to qualify for burial in Lot 30, Section 3. Well, when it comes to that, it's got Mr. Rice guessing, too. As far as Mr. Rice can learn, and believe me he has combed the records, only two plots— those of Ella B. Coffin and possibly her sister, Anna M. Tyler—mark the graves of Indianapolis teachers. As for the rest, they were mechanics and laborers. It turns out, too, that Mr. Rice doesn’t have to do anything about marking Mr. Dillon's grave. A 10-foot-high monument with a spread of 6 feet at the base takes care of that—on a lot for the destitute, mind you. The whole thing is more or less involved. !
By Raymond Clapper
energetically supported the Roosevelt Administration, driving through state legislation to co-operate with | national recovery measures. The position of Governor McNutt now, as it is outlined to me by a source qualified to speak, is as, follows: Governor McNutt is in thorough sympathy with, the general purposes and policies of the Roosevelt Ad-| ministration and will offer his candidacy on that po-| sition. This indorsement of the Roosevelt policies does not go to blanket approval of every single the Administration since 1933, but it does embrace the| general purposes. Furthermore, Governor McNutt is represented as! believing not only that the Democratic Party cou'd not go to the country next year except upon a platform of indorsement of the Roosevelt Administration, but as believing the Democratic Party has no reason| tor existence except as Yoeral or progressive party. |
Party of Protest wd Reform
These are general terms of somewhat undefined | content but the suggestion is the same as Mr. Roose- | velt and some of his associates have made repeatedly, namely that if the country is going conservative it will turn to the party which has been the traditional vehicle of conservatism. : That, in short, is the picture of the McNutt candidacy which is being made available here. It constitutes a suggestive commentary upon the political strength of Mr. Roosevelt. Alone among those most prominently mentioned in connection with the nomination, Vice President Garner is being projected into the campaign by those who have disagreed most strongly with Mr. Roosevelt—both Democrats and Republicans. He stands high in the polls but it is difficult to see how he can be nominated if he goes | into the convention in the role of fair-haired boy for anti-Roosevelt Democrats. McNutt is playing it the other way. Apparently he hopes to make it extremely difficult for Mr. Roosevelt to oppose him.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
window might give a rather good picture of the! variety in the conditions and occupations of our people in different parts of the country. I saw a little girl, slim and bent over, carrying two heavy pails of water across a field to an unpainted house. Haw far that water had to be carried, I do not know, but! it is one thing to carry water on a camping trip for fun during a summer's holiday, and it is another thing to carry it day in and day out as a part of the routine of living. On the outskirts of the town, I saw a wash line. On 1t hung two brown work shirts, a pair of rather frayed and faded blue dungarees, two child’s sun suits and a woman’s calico dress. Not much sign of wasteful living here. There has been rain down here and the fields look in good condition. We passed a man plowing in a| field with two women not far away hoeing. Beyond, in a grove of trees, there stood a stately house and under the trees was a baby carriage. I caught sight | of someone in a flowered dress sitting on the porch. Then I again saw a yard of an unpainted house in| the outskirts of a small town and a happy looking woman rocking a baby on the porch while a group of youngsters played in the yard. Happiness may exist under all conditions, given the right kind of people and sufficient economic security for adequate food and shelter,
navigational,
“Boat rigged for diving.” . ,
men.
« There
(Photo from Warner Bros.)
is a swift movement of
Inihative Cut Squalus Toll
(First of a Series)
By Lieut. Comm. Harley Cope, U. S. N.
Veteran Submarine Commander (Written for NEA Service)
T was no accident that when water suddenly began to pour into the sinking Squalus one of her men, elec-
trician’s
mate Lloyd Maness, made the agonizing decision
to save 32 men by dooming 26 to a drowning death. A submarine is dangerous to the point where the
slightest mistake can bring on a horrible tragedy.
Run-
ning one requires a clock-like organism of machine-like men who have been trained to razor-edge alertness.
When
the moment of disaster came,
submariner
Maness let five men escape from the flooded after-battery
room, then clanged shut the bulkhead door. It meant some lives saved instead of all lost.
Such is the way of duty aboard a submarine, or “pig-boat” as the sailors call them. For instance, the highly trained crew of a modern submarine functions without a single spoken order when the vessel is making a dive. Here is what happens: The captain is on the bridge. It is decided to submerge. There is a swift movement of men as each takes his diving station. The electrical, engineering, radio and communications officers go to their places. In the torpedo room the torpedo tubes are flooded full of sea water, equivalent to the weight of the topedoes normally carried in the tubes during wartime. In the battery rooms the electricians shift the ventilation of the main storage batteries from outside to within the compartments. In the engine room, nobody has to tell the engineers to shut down the Diesels at the first blast of the diving alarm, close the engine exhaust valves to prevent flooding of the engines. Poised over the engine clutches will be a husky engineman to disconnect the Diesels from the propeller shafts. (Electric motors replace the Diesels during the submerged run.) In the central operating room, directly below the conning tower, a quiet crew of about six men waits. After the first phase of the dive the entire operation of the boat will devolve on them.
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HE Diving Officer, after completing his inspection of the compartments, reports to the Captain: “Boat rigged for diving, Sir.” The Commanding Officer presses a button twice and two blasts of the siren or klaxon resound through the submarine. This is the only signal given for the dive, for no word commands are issued. Each member of the diving section has been trained to perform his particular job automatically. For the time being he is, in a sense, his own captain. It is the mission of the huge main ballast tanks in the lower section of the hull to destroy the buoyancy which keeps the ship afloat. When sea water comes into these Janks the Submarine
tioned on manifold has kingston valves below the ballast tanks, permitting sea water to pour in. kingston valves comes the opening of the vents to the ballast tanks.
sinks. Throughout the boat are variable ballast tanks to which the Diving Officer adds or removes sea water in his quest to obtain parlance as a ‘zero trim” or zero buoyancy and an even keel on the boat fore and aft. On the first blast of the siren the Diesels are stopped, the engine clutches are thrown out, the main induction valve, a huge opening leading from the top of the periscope superstructure which supplies fresh air to the submarine o nthe surface, is closed. Before the echo of the second blast has died away the man stathe ballast and vent opened the huge
Almost simultaneously with the
On the port side of the control
room two men—the bow and stern planesmen hands of the large clock-like dials before They watch the hands move clockwise to the planes—not unlike in principle to the flippers on an airplane—maintain depth.)
quietly observe the
them, the depth gauges. the depth decided on by
Diving Officer. (Horizontal
the submarine at a specific
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B® the time the Commanding Officer has dropped down from the bridge, closing the conning tower hatch after him, the submarine has taken a downward angle of about 5 or 6 degrees and is quickly seeking the depth that will permit about 3 feet of periscope above the surface. On the S-40, that’s about 40 feet down. Only about 50 seconds have elapsed from the time the Captain gave the diving alarm until the submarine has disappeared beneath the surface, Even a disaster such as overtook the Squalus is nothing compared to what the crew of a submarine might experience in wartime For the Squalus men could at least hope that sister ships would come to the rescue. But a submarine during war is a vessel without friends. Even friendly ships. upon sighting a “pig-boat,” will shoot first and investigate afterwards! From the day early in the War when Lieut. Otto Weddinden of the German Navy, with his U-9, startled the world by sinking in quick succession three British cruisers, much in the manner of popping pet ducks on a pond, the dangers and difficulties with which
War on the seas! The sub’s captain has sighted an enemy vessel—so down goes the “pig-boat,”
as in
photo at top, in preparation for an attack. But there's always the dangerous moment before complete
submersion when the periscope leaves the telltale fea thery wake, as in photo below. the hated wake, may let go a charge to blow the sub to smithereens.
The enemy, sighting
Flying spray breaks over the knife-like bow of one of the U. S. Navy's new undersea fighters.
the submarine was confronted
grew. The German submarines during one phase of the war threatened to clear the Allied shipping from the sea and starve England into submission. The Allies frantically sought to locate an antidote for the poison that was threatening their very existence. Severgl things then began to react unfavorably for the Uboats. The Allies devised large depth charges, expiosives that either literally blew the subs out of the water or shattered the nerves of the crew. In addition, as a further detriment to the Uboat, the convoy system was inaugurated. To defeat the convoy system was beyond the capacity of the U-boats. To get in a successful attack the skippers had to overcome several obstacles, failure at any one meaning death. on » u ONVOYS were large of merchantmen in formation and controlled by a Naval officer. Off on the flanks of the convoy were speedy, alert destroyers and cruisers, eager for a glimpse of the telltale feathery wake of the submarine. Sight of the wake was the signal for an immediate deluge of huge, deathdealing depth charges. To make the problem even more difficult for the submarine seeking a prey, the convoy pursued a zigzagging course while in U-boat waters. The result was that toward the latter part of the war the submarine was made practically ineffective. With such difficulties to be expected during war, we have endeavored to give our personnel real wartime training to overcome the weakness that lessened the value of the submarine in 1918. What actuaily happens in a submarine just prior to releasing those speedy weapons of death, the torpedacs? The Captain of the attacking submarine has sighted the masts of his intended prey on the horizon. Fearful that his presence might be disclosed to aircraft
groups
A
Fragile as it is, the submarine requires a “mother ship” to supply
it and minister to its needs. Photo shows U,
submarine tender, Holland,
ahead of the ships, the Captain signals for a “quick dive.” Soon the Diving Officer nods to the Captain and reports that the submerged boat can be handled at low speed. The Captain directs that the submarine be slowed to a speed that will not cause the periscope, when it is lifted, to leave feathery spray in its wake. Swinging the periscope completely around the horizon to make sure that nothing else has worked into the picture, the skipper focuses on one of his prospective victims and calls out his estimates to the assistant.
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EFORE his next periscope observation the Skipper maps out, with the aid of his assistant the method he will apply to get home his attack, either firing straight bow shots or angling his torpedoes. Before he makes another periscope observation the sub is placed on the firing course and again slowed to a minimum speed. During the second observation the convoy has drawn much closer and the Skipper notes the location of the screening destroyers and he mentally pictures which
f ol
are my own directly or
S. subs nestling near the
ones will most likely cause inter ference with his attack. After a series of plots of the lo=cation of his target, its speed is fairly well established—and the time for the kill draws near. All torpedoes are made ready for fir= ing. The periscope cannot be left x=
posed too long for fear of betrayal. The alert sound man in the submarine warns the Captain that the target is drawing near the bearing on which the assistant has figured the torpedoes should be loosed to hit. A few seconds later the submarine trembles as each poweriul torpedo goes hurtling out of the tubes in pursuit of its target. The submarine cannot for the lime being see the result of its handiwork for it is at a depth that will keep it from the eyes that will now be desperately seeking it.
NEXT: The dramatic history
of the stvbhmarine.
Author's note: The ideas in this article and cannot be construed, 1s reflecting those —H. F. C.
ee ee e———
indirectly, Departmen
the Navy
"TEST YOUR | Side Glances—By Galbraith
KNOWLEDGE |
1—Which naval officer commanded the American fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie? 2—What is the feminine form of toastmaster? 3—Can American-born Chinese and Japanese vote in the United States? 4—Which State has the nickname “Diamond State”? 5—Which river drains the Great Lakes into the Atlantic? 6—Name the ship on which the King and Queen of England made their recent voyage to North America. 7—How is 1939 written in Roman numerals?
» n n Answers
1—Commodore Oliver Perry. 2—Toastmistress. 3—Yes. 4—Delaware. 5—The St. Lawrence. 6—""Empress of Australia.” 7T—MCMXXXIX.
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