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The Indianapolis Times

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I certainly get around. The other day, for instance, I had lunch with a group of doctors at the City Hospital—in a private dining root, if you please. It wasn’t as bad as it sounds. Not a thing was said that isn't fit to print. With the exception of Dr. James C. Carter, all of us took off our coats when it came time to eat. Dr. Carter is what is known around iere as an individualist. The peeling of coats revealed that I was the only one in the whole crowd who stuck to suspenders. And for all I know, it may be the very thing that differentiates the doctors as a distinct breed. Something does. The meal was very good and every bit as balanced as a wire walker. It consisted of broiled steak, creamed potatoes and peas (vitamin B), lettuce and tomato salad (vitamins A, B and ©) ripe olives and radishes, bread and butter (vitamin A), ice cream, iced tea and coffee. On top of all this, Dr. Charles Myers had the nerve to ask for a glass of milk. What's more, he got it. Dr. Myers is the superintendent. Except for Dr. J. William Hofmann'’s eccentrictable manners, I didn't see anything out of the way. Dr. Hofmann salted everything—even before tasting it— and it set me to wondering whether he gets away with it at home. He couldnt around our house. Head Dietitian Zelia Kester, who supervised the serving of the meal, didn’t bat an eye when Dr. Hofmann tried to improve her cooking. I thought it the neatest exhibition of self-control I had seen in a long time. 8 8 4 Warning to Fishermen

After the meal, the doctors showed me around the hospital. For some reason we started with the Contagious Ward. On a full stomach, mind you. I might as well tell you what I picked up. First thing I saw was the “iron lung.” Maybe you don't know it, but our City Hospital had an iron lung three years before the newspapers got wind of it. Last year they treated 12 cases. Confidentially, the iron lung is good for drunks, too; at any rate, when it reaches the stage of

(Ernie Pyle Is On Vacation)

It Seems to Me

NEW YORK, July 3 —There is in New York right now a show called “From Vienna.” It is by no means the finest revue which ever has struck Broadway. As far as the first night was concerned, the opening act was much too long, and, although cutz have been made, I suspect that parts of it are still tedious. And vet you are very foolish if you do not rush to see it, because at least half an hour is about as exciting as anything you are likely to see in the Amerfean theater unless you are very young. I have in mind the elos= ing numbers, in which the company gathers together and sings the songs of an Austria which is gone, It may be that within your own fine time, or even that of mine, Vienna may again become the waltz capital of the civilized world. At the moment the Danube is much bluer than usual.

And, curiously enough, there is a natural alliance between a cultural nationalism and an international political point of view. To be specific, I mean that Vienna can live again and maintain its traditions only by immigrating to New York. This is something less than novel, because many of the beaten-down nations have kept their roots in being by digging them down into the top soil of Manhattan. The most articulate and eloquent prophet who ever functioned this side of the Bronx was O. Henry, He was a superb New Yorker because he was born elsewhere. If memory serves me right he was a native of Texas, the same state which gave us Stanley Walker, who now again has chosen temporary exile.

». 4 .& Outsiders Best Interpreters

And these lads who come from the outside under stand us much better than we do ourselves. In using the editorial “we” I am stretching things a little, for my first-hand contacts with New York do not number more than 49 vears, The first year was spent in Brooklyn, which, through ho fault of my own, happened to be the city of my nativity.

The prairie boys are, I believe, our best interpeters The lad who has seen nothing taller than the water

Washington

NEW YORK, July 3.--The fight to displace Kenneth F. Simpson, young red-haired liberal symbol, as leader of the New York Republican organization, has collapsed. It may be of national interest to report that Thomas E. Dewey, who is this state's favorite Republican Presidential possibility, pulled the pug himself. It is a long and involved story, as full of personal piques and temperamental e¢lagshes as a prima donna’s backstage spats. But the important thing is that Mr. Dewey, who some months ago was extremely irritated with Mr Simpson and was inh a mood to welcome the movement to bounce him, has now decided to come to the rescue. Knowing that peace confer ences had been going on, I asked Mr. Dewey point blank what his position was. He ree plied, “You may say that I intend to vote for the regular slate of county committeemen, which is pledged to Mr, Simpson.” ® 8 8

Dewey's Attitude Changed

Mr. Simpson is County Chairman and he also is Republican National Committeeman for New York. He incurred the displeasure of certain extremely cone servative Republicans by his support of the candidacy of Mayor La Guardia and by his bargaining with the American Labor Party which netted the Republicans the election of Rep. Bruce Barton to Congress and several Republican seats in the Assembly. Some have thought this contributed also to the election of Mr. Dewey as District Attorney although Mr, Dewey's intimate partisans say his majority was sufficient to have elected him without Labor support.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Sunday-Miss Thompsen and I reached Washington Friday evening, and on Saturday morning, bright and early, we started tor Manteo, N. C., where my brother planned his birthday celebration with a number of his friends. It was a very Jolly party and I enjoyed it very much. However, stern duty called us back to Richmond, Va. in time for lunch on Sunday and we had a pleasant time with the Gover nor of Virginia and Mrs. Price,

In the afternoon, duty came in the shape of a speech at the meeting in Richmond of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 1 also had the privilege of presenting the Spingarn Medal to Miss Marian Anderson in recognition of her achievement as one of the great artists of this time. We reached Washington again in the early eve-

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By Anton Scherrer

paralysis of Jp sten, It’s a good thing to know. Half of the world hasn't any idea how the other half stays alive. The most interesting ease in the Contagious Ward right now is that of a man under observation. It may turn out to be typhoid and, then again, it may be a case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. It's turned up around here all right. ness knows I don’t want to alarm anybody unduly—least of all, Evans Woollen Jr, Joe Riebling and Don Campbell—but it kinda looks as if the patient picked it up on a fishing trip. I even got to see the half-dozen prematurely born babies. They're in the incubators provided for them by St. Margaret's Guild. To get a glimpse of the babies you have to look through a little window into a root kept under constant humidity. Handicapped as they are, the babies were kicking like everything. Indeed, they had more life in them than some healthy grown-ups I know. I could mention names if I wanted to.

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As for the kids in the Children’s Ward, they weren't kicking at all. Most of them had their legs in splints and appeared to be hanging in the air by their feet. Dr. Carter diaghosed the cases as ‘roller skates,” “bicycles” and “elimbing up trees” To= morrow, he fears, they'll have a couple of cases of “Fourth of July.” The new Cancer Ward for which E. L. Patriek gave the money is mighty nice, too. It’s painted a kind of pale green with decorations by Carl Graf. That's where they keep some of the radium. The speck I saw cost $10,000. The gamma rays are the ones they use to treat cancer (Gosh, I hope I've got that right). Dr. Hofmann says that radium deterior= ates about 50 per cent in 1680 years. It surptriced me, too. I had no idea anything in Indianapolis could stay in style that long. As for the rest of the hospital, it’s concerned mostly with the behavior of the kidneys right new. Seems they've got it figured out that the substance produced by the kidneys is more or less responsible for high blood pressure. At any rate, that's what Dr. Irvine Page suspects. It wouldn't surprise me if Dr. Page is right. The kidneys must be the seat of our trouble. They're the only things that haven't been blamed.

By Heywood Broun

tower at the railroad station is likely to go nuts about the Empire State Building. And in the same spirit New Yorkers ought to have a very lively hospitality toward refugees of one kind or another, not out of an international solidarity but because they are equipped to remind ug just how good Wwe are or ought to be

Praise from the stranger fg far hore invigorating than any kind word from a neighbor who, naturally, is playing the same side of the street. And the ideals of New York, and America ag well, will be vastly augmented if we take paing to welcome a sizable number of men and women from foreign lands who ean look at our life and institutions with a fresh and seeing eve. : That is why I am making a special recommen= dation to theatergoers that they go and see the show called “From Vienna Here is the firsthand impromptu reaction of a group of refugees to that eixilization which we have to offer. They are very polite about it. There is an amusing sketch concerning the difficulties of a stranger with our language if he happens to be equipped with nothing more than a conventional guide book. But the greatest compliment of all whieh they ean and do pay us ig in their strong conviction that the fine things of Vienna are something which we, too, will welcome, $ & @

The Hope of the World

A new dispensation having been established in Austria, it seems to be the notion of these artists from a little theater in the eity which is gone that

the naural hope of understanding and enthusiasm must reside in the greatest metropolis of the world. In my local pride I refer to Manhattan, which was Dae from the Indiang and given back to all the world. I hope that “From Vienna" will be a succesful show, because I think its best foot is marvelous, but even more because I feel that now is the time for all good men and women of New York to come to the ald of the fine ideal that here is the homeland for the aspirations of all nations, I say this out of local pride. We can pat ourselves on the back with more assurance if we take the attitude that here is the port of lost or mislaid causes.

By Raymond Clapper

In any event, some congervative Republicans set out to rid their party of Mr. Simpson. They pre vented hig election to the Republican National Exeeus tive Committee last November, Next they were determined to beat him for re-eletion as County Chariman. That would have completely cut the ground from under Mr, Simpson and would have left him National Committeeman in name only. So the issue came down to electing a county committee a few weeks hence which would choose Mr. Simpson for chairman again or a committee which would be pledged toy oust him. 8 ” J

Warned by Friends

Although some months ago Mr. Dewey was ready to see Mr. Simpson go—and gladly—that attitude has changed. In the first place, it became evident that Mr Simpson would be hard to beat. He had the New York County organization well lined up. In the second place, Mr. Simpson hag gradually become the symbol of progressive Republicanism in the East. Numbers of Mr. Dewey's friends have warned him that it would be unfortunate for him to become a party, even tacitly, to the breaking of Mr. Simpson.

In addition, the Presidential candidacy of Senator Vandenberg of Michigan hag blossomed out and has| caught the eyes of soma party politicians, Mr, Dewey | could ill afford, in the judgment of some of his! friends, to allow a serious break in his own ranks within New York State. Anyway, everything ts set now for Mr. Dewey, along in the fall, to begin addressing the voters in various parts of the country, to show them that he knows the words just like those experienced Senators down at Washington. He learns fast and he may surprise a lot of people,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

This morning I had the pleasure of spending an hour with some state representative of the Social Security Board and then I flew back to New York City to attend two sessions of the American Youth Congress. Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, and my contact with different groups in the last few days has emphasized for me the meaning of this celebration. I wish that in some way, on this day, we could make every individual think first about the freedom which is theirs in the United States of America. This day celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence. As the years have gone by, we have voluntarily imposed upon ourselves certain limitations to our freedom, but we imposed these limitations of our selves! When we pass a law, it is the will of the majority of the people, otherwise it is soon repealed. It is that fact, that we live by the will of the majority, which makes our Government different than any other form of government, Independence Day. the Fourth of July, should also be a dat of rededication to the spirit of democracy

and to our own citizenship in a dgmocracy.

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New York Leans to

G.O.P.

By Dr. George Gallup

Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

NEW YORK, July 8. Between now and elees tion day, 1940, the coun try’s political leaders will be watching earefully for surveys of political sentiment in New York State, whose 47 electoral votes make it the richest prize in American polities. A borderline state in the Dewey-Lehman election of 1938 when the voters gave Governor Lehman a micro geopie majority over Dewey, New York will likely be a borderline state again in 1040, and its weight in the electoral college makes it indispensable in a close race. Where does the state stand to« day? What do New York State voters think about a third term? Who are its favorite sons?

The surveys of the American Institute of Public Opinion offer an indication of what hag been happening in the state since last November's election, but it must be remembered that the 1040 balloting is still more than a year hence. Candidates have not yet been selected nor the issues des fined. The following highlights from state-wide Institute studies merely reveal how things stand today: First, the Institute's surveys of rank-and-file voters show that New York State is leaning to the

Republican side at the present time. Fifty-three per e¢ent of thore interviewed in a earefully gelected eross=section of the State's voting population say they would like to see the Republican Party win the Presidency next year. Sinee the Institute's erosse gection included Democrats, Res publicang and third-party voters

Dewey Would Lead Roosevelt Today

1f President Roosevelt were running for a third term against Thomas E. Dewey, a majority of New York voters would favor Dewey as of toe day, the Institute's survey in New York-—native state of both==reveals. In a state-wide test the Ine stitute asked: “It President Roorevelt runs for a third term on the Democratic ticket against Thomas E. Dewey on the Republican ticket, which one would you prefer?” The answers were: DEWEY .....cvi000 i 31% ROOSEVELT ,.. i... 43% Tn a nation-wide test, ree ported last week on the same question, Dewey led by the narrower margin of 52-48, a decline for Dewev who led Roosevelt by 35-45 two months ago.

win New York State Be The Key to 1940?

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With its 47 electoral votes, New York State is the richest political prize in the nation. As political strategists | wateh the state for indications of what it will do in 1940, a special Institute report finds the state leaning Republican as |

of today=July, 1939.

New York.

in correct proportions, the vote points to a substantial Republican gain since 1038 and even since last November's Congressional and gubernatorial elections. Second, although a majority of New Yorkers still support Franklin D. Roosevelt as of today, only about four voters in 10 say-at this time=—that they would support Roosevelt if he runs again, This New York vote is slightly larger than the vote Roosevelt receives throughout the country, but it ghows how difficult the third-term hurdle might be—even in the President's own state. ® n @

EW YORK STATE gave President Roosevelt a healthy majority (60 per cent) of the combined Democratic-Republican vote in 1036, but the Republicans began to gain in the winter of 1036-37—a trend confirmed by G. ©. P. strength in last November's \ elections. The following figures show how Republican sentiment has ine ereaged at the present time, as indicated in the Institute's New York survey just completed:

“Which party would you like to see win the Presidential election in 1040°% New York State Republican Party ....... 53% Democratic Party vo 1%

It is too early for the Repube licang to start counting their chickens in New York State, be= cause Institute surveys have found marked see-saws the State's sentiment before. Much will depend, for instance, on who gets the nominations when the Democrats and Republicans meet a year from now,

As of today, however, a majors ity of New Yorkers seem to be

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‘CHRISTIAN UNION’ TOPIC FOR INSTITUTE

Dr. George W. Buckner of Indianapolis and three nationally known guests are scheduled to speak on Christian Union at the Butler Unis versity Mid-Summer Institute July dto Dr. Buckner is editor of World Call, Disciples of Christ international magazine. He attended a World Christian Conference at Oxford, England, in 1037 and another at Madras, India, last December,

The title of Dr. Bueckner's insti tute address is “Utrecht and After.” (It was at Utrecht that a constitu tion was drawn up for a World Couneil of Churches.) Other Christian Union speakers in addition to Dr, Buckner are Dr. Roger T. Nooe of Nashville, Tenn, International Convention of Dis ciples of Christ president for 1089, who will speak on “The Disciples and Christian Union”; Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison of Chicago, Ohris« tion Century editor, on “The Church Catholle,” the address being a synopsis of his Yale Lectures on Preaching for 1089, and the Rev, P, H. Welshimer of Canton, O, First Christian Church pastor, “The Way to Unite.” The institute algo will lay stress on worship, evangelism, and on the attitude that should be taken toward war and democracy as opposed to dictatorship.

APPEALS CONVICTION IN FRIEND'S DEATH

VINCENNES, Ind, July 8 (U.P). -A hearng on a motion for a new trial for Bd Sanders, 59-year-old Bicknell miner convicted of voluntary manslaughter in connection with the death of his friend, John Zak, last August, was set for Friday by Special Judge A. Dale Eby today. Sanders was found guilty yesterday after 18 hours deliberation by a His attorney immediately filed the Knox County OCireuit Court jury. motion for a new trial The conviction ended Sanders’ second ‘rial on a charge of first degree murder in connection with Zak's death, At his first trial in ury disagregg.

INJURIES ARE FATAL TO VICTIM OF FALL

Charles Teaster, 27, of 716 8. Capital Ave, died early yesterday of injuries received in a fall Saturday night at Pennsylvania and Maryland Sts. Lawrence Williams, 62, of 1111 N. Alabama St, told police he heard Teaster call for help and then saw him fall.

HOLDUPS REPORTED BY 2 GAB DRIVERS

Police today were investigating two armed holdups and robberies, the attempted burglary of a downtown warehouse and two burglaries. Clarence Beegs, 24, of 1467 8, Illinois St, reported that two passengers, one of whom was armed, held

him up and robbed him of $8 at Central Ave. and 25th St, and then drove away in his cab. It was recovered later in an alley in the rear of Alvords St, 1700 block. Another cab driver, Earl Davis, 32, of 924 Prospect St, said that he was held up and robbed of §& on W. Michigan St, 1200 block. A burglar entered the William H. Block Co. warehouse, 424 N. Illinois St, through a window, but fled when the watchman approached. An undetermined amount of money and jewelry were taken from the safe at the office of the William M. Leonard, Inc. cleaning establishment at 2119 W. Washington St. About $16 was stolen from the International Beauty School, 220 N. Pennsylvania St.

OFFICERS ARE NAMED BY YOUNG DISCIPLES

BETHANY PARK, Ind, July 3 (U. P) ~—Keith Hand of Madison is

the new president of the Young People’s Conference of the Dis« ciples of Christ Church in Indiana. He was elected last night at the conclusion of a conference here. Other officers named were Iris Breedlove, Indianapolis, vice president, and Gene Dayvett, Frankfort, secretaly-treasurer,

cold to a third term for Roosevelt, The Institute asked: “If President Roosevelt runs for a third term in 1940 do you think you will vote for him?”

The vote on the question is: Will Vote For Him,,,,, 42% Will Not Vote For HIM ooivnvvinnes

Only about one voter in 16 said he wag undecided on how he would vote in such eircumstances. Roosevelt's greatest support eomes, as might be expected, from the thickly populated Demoeratie wards of New York City, while the greatest opposition comes from the traditional Re=

publican counties upstate and from prosperous Long Island,

Among Democrats themselves a substantial majority (69%) support Roosevelt for a third term—a fact which is likely to be reflected in the delegation New York sends to the 1940 convention unless sentiment changes or Roosevelt declares himself out of the race in the

meantime, » 8 N case Roosevelt does not decide to run, Vice President Garner would be the leading choice of New York State Democrats, with James A. Farley, a native son, and Secretary of State Cordell Hull in

How New York Stands Today

Following are the results of state-wide Institute surveys in New York State, No. 1 borderline state in

the United States today:

Which party would you like to see win the Presi-

dential election in 1940?

REPUBLICAN PARTY .vivvvvevevs 88%

DEMOCRATIC PARTY ......

yyy 47%

If President Roosevelt runs for a third term in 19.0 do you think you will vote for him?

WILL VOTE FOR HIM...

PELE 42%'

WILL NOT VOTE FOR HIM........ 58%

If President Roosevelt runs for a third term on the Democratic ticket against Thomas FE. Dewey on the Republican ticket, which one would you prefer?

ROOSEVELT 'vveervvervrvrvvenvves 43%

DEWEY ......

FALL HEARING DUE FOR STEPHENSON

NOBLESVILLE, July $8.--Circuit Court Judge Cassius M, Gentry said today he would confer with attorneys Wednesday to set a fall date for a hearing on alleged new evidense by which D. ©. Stephenson hopes to win a new trial. Stephenson is serving a life term at the Indiana State Prison on charge of slaying Madge Oberholzer, Indianapolis, 14 years ago. The way for a new hearing was opened Saturday by Judge Gentry when he sustained a demurrer to the State's answer to Stephenson's petition for a writ of coram nobis,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDG

1—Name the most abundant of all metallic elements,

2—Where is the Seward Penine sula? 3—Name the principal river of Nebraska. 4—-What is the name for male fish in breeding time?

5—Where is the Assuan Dam?

6—With what sport is the name of Sid Wooderson associated? T7—Name the capital of Sicily. 8-—What is the correct pronunciation of the word ostracize? ® & »

Answers

1—Aluminum. 2-—-Alaska. 3—The Platte. 4—Milter, 5—In Egypt, on the Nile River. 6—Track. T-—Palermo, 8—0s’-tra-cize; not os-tra-size’,

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PAPERS MERGED AT MONTICELLO

MONTICELLO, Ind. July 3.—The Monticello Journal, daily newspaper operated for 20 years here by Lawrence Corey, today had been acquired by Dewey D. and James A. Raper, publishers of the Monticello Herald, The new owners said the Journal White County's only dally newspaper, would continue under its present name until the equipment of the two plants can be consolidated. The consolidation, they sald, would take about two weeks. The combined papers are to be known as the Monticello Herald-Journal and will be published daily. Mr, Corey will continue to publish the weekly White County Democrat.

Everyday Movies—By

New York state voters are slightly more for a third term than voters elsewhere, the survey | shows. Greatest source of Demoeratie strength—New York City. Greatest source of Republican strength—Upstate |

| second and third place. More than half the Democrals say they are undecided about their choice, however, if Roosevelt is not a cane didate,

The percentages of the leaders are as follows:

If F. D. R. Doesn't Run: Per Cent Favoring Democrats John N. Garner ...,, «.. 51% James A. Farley ,..000.. 12 Cordell Hull ............ 11 Harry L. Hopkins ....... 4 Herbert H. Lehman ,,,., 4 Joseph P. Kennedy.,.... 3 Others ..

On the other side of the poli tical fence, in G. O. P. ranks, New York Republicans are making Thomas E, Dewey their favorite son at this time. Dewey, who received 54 per cent of the Repub lican preference vote in the Ine stitute'’s most recent nation-wide survey, polls 55 per cent in New York State.

Leading Republican choices in the present survey are:

Republicans Per Cent Favoring Thomas E. Dewey .... 55% Arthur H., Vandenburg 15 Robert Taft Herbert Hoover .. William E. Borah...,.... 4 Alfred M. Landon....... 3

Among the other Republicans with the greatest number of mentions in the state are Frank E. Gannett, Governor Arthur James of Pennsylvania, Governor Lever= ett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, Governor John: Bricker of Ohio, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, John D, M. Hamil=ton and John D. Rockefeller Jr.

DIVIDEND PAID BY U.S. HOME LOAN BANK

A semiannual dividend at the rate of 1.5 per cent per year to 213 save

ings, building and loan associations,

an insurance company and the U.S, Ctovernmen?, which are stockholders in the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis, was announced today by Fred T. Greene, president of the Indianapolis bank. The bank will disburse $69 411.368 to member institutions and the U.S. Government, he said. This is the semiannual dividend declared by the regional bank and is the 13th cone secutive semiannual payment.

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