Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1939 — Page 3
LAXITY CHARGES” 17 FALSE, RAILWAY
BOARD ASSERTS
Abatement League Requests | Addition of Two More City Inspectors.
1 CLAIM VICTORY op Pyle Speed:
h { “FOR HATCH BILL IN HOUSE VOTES
‘Two Hoosier | Democrats | Join Republicans to Back Dempsey . Changes.
It Gets Him Places Aw, fully Fast
The Railway Smoke Control Board today declared recent charges of laxity in supervising locomotives in the corporate limits were false ' land refused to take any action in the matter. b The charges were made by a committee ‘hamed by the Indianapolis | |Smoke Abatément League and are | “not substantiated by facts,” the] Board said in a resolution. The resolution said that all railroads operating in the corporate limits are co-operating in cutting down unnecessary smoke in compliance with the law and to the “sat-
isfaction. of the City Administration.”
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passed the Senate, was assured almost solid backing from the RePublican side.
G. O. P. Votes Promised
This support, with a substantial 4/9» blee. of Democratic votes that has
increased in recent days, appeared to indicate success for Aep. Dempsey’s drive. From Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R. Mass.), minority leader, came word that a great majority of the 169 G. O. P. House members would cast their votes to put the bill back in its original form. ‘Administration leaders have had their ax out for the legislation ever since the Senate passed it without # dissent in April. For more than two months it was kept bottled up in the Democratcontrolled House Judiciary Committee. When it became apparent that the Committee finally would be forced to act, Charles Michelson,
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Above, left, Ernie Pyle and Pilot Norman Nevills, ready for their 20.mile trip down Utah's wha : San Juan River in a rowboat. Note Ernie's cork jacket. Right, Pyle and Nevills shooting the eight-foot ‘rapids. (Editor Shaffer, who watched from the river banks, says he almost died.) 2 8 8 (Here is a second article by E. H. Shaffer, editor of The Albuquerque Tribune, who accompanied Ernie Pyle on a trip through the Indian country of New Mexico, ‘Arizona, Colorado and Utah. Mr. Shaffer undertakes to tell how the roving reporter works. Ernie, who has been on vacation, will resume his own daily
Popp Adresses Board
I It pointed out that the Smokel Abatement League has no direct connection with the City Adminis-| tration, and that the committee report that criticized the railroads had. no official standing.
THINK Ernie is the best driver I've ever seen, and I've : ridden with him on every imaginable kind of road and on some that Edgar Allen Poe couldn’t imagine, On hard-surfaged highways, Ernie drives 47 miles an hour.
there was the cabin, but it was abandoned. — apparently hadn’t “been occupied for months. I'd have squealed like a pig caught under a fence if it had been I that had driven up that mountain
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ples of the bill, criticized specific provisions. Weakened Bill Is Up
The House Judiciary Committee, led by Reps. Emanuel Celler (D. N. Y.) and Arthur D. Healey (D. Mass.), finally brought out a bill from which the key sections of the original Hatch Bill had been stricken. The Senate bill barred Federal administrative and supervisory officials from using their official authority or influence to interfere with or affect the results of a national election, and from taking active part in political campaigns. ~ But the House Committee Killed the ban on officials being active in campaigns, and in another section of the bill wrote in a provision specifically according them the right to “participate in the activities of a political party.”
Amendments Are Key
The Committee also wielded its knife on a section banning soliciting of political funds from relef workers, to open the way for contributions from administrative officials in the relief organization. Thus the fight in the House today centers on Rep. Dempsey’s attempts to kill the Committee amendments and restore the measure substantially to its original form. This fight will be made while the House is sitting as a committee of
the whole House, wherein votes are|
taken by voice or by numerical “teller” count rather than by roll call of individual names. ~#& If teller votes are necessary in the consideration of the Committee amendments which Rep. Dempsey will undertake to défeat, an attempt will be made by correspondents of The Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers in the press gallery to record these votes, name by name. =p
Indiana Vote. :¢ 79 Be 9 to 3
Times Special : WASHINGTON, July 20.—Two Indiana Democratic Congressmen will join the seven Hoosier Republicans in supporting the Dempsey amendment to restore. the Hatch bill in the House today to its original potency as passed unanimously by the Senate. They are Reps. Louis Ludlow and John W. Boehne. Jr. Three ' Indiana Democrats who will oppose adoption of the amendment are Reps. Williath T. Schulte, Eugene B. Crowe and William H. Larrabee. All declaréd that while they would keep politics out of WPA they are in favor of the “traditional method” . of permitting top-rank
district attorneys, toms and revenue collectors, to take part in party camphigns.’ Rep. Schulte stuck-by his statement of several. weeks ago:
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Murphy Hits
WPA Strike;
Protest Today Scattering
WASHINGTON, July 20 (U. P.).—Attorney General Murphy reiterated today that the Government could not permit strikes against it, and said that such strikes rhight lay a foundatiofi for “fascism in this
country.”
Mr. Murphy made this statement while the Workers Alliance, a union of relief workers,’ conducted protest demonstrations in several
PHYSICIAN FINED 40 AS SPEEDER
Dr. Yott, Accused of Driv-|
ing 68 on Washington Bivd., Files Appeal.
- A physician was fined $40 on speeding and reckless driving charges in Municipal Court ‘today aftef an officer testified he clocked him at 68 miles an hour on Washington Blvd. two weeks ago. The
conviction was appealed.
-~Meanwhile, the second Se. hon
period within a week was com-
pleted in which only one person was
1injured in overnight traffic ac-
cidents. : Pleads Not Guilty
Dr. Charles B. Yott, 5738 Guilford Ave, pleaded not guilty to the speeding = and reckless driving charges.
physician in the 4900 block of Washington Blvd. July 10. Special Judge Edwin Steers fined Dr. Yott $25 and costs on the speeding charge and $5 and costs, costs suspended for reckless driving. The case was venueéd - from Municipal Judge Charles J. Karabell. Dr. Yott posted a $100 appeal bond. ;
Boy Rides Bike Into Car
Robert Murray, 18, of 1734 Lock-.
wood St., was cut and bruised on the right shoulder when he rode his bicycle into the side of a car which police said was driven by Vecna Spencer, 943 Olive St., at Orange and Shelby Sts. He was treated at City Hospital. Noble M. Hughes, Ind., was held at the County Jail in default of $1000 bond following his arrest after he allegedly drove through two safety zones of W.
| Washington St. He was arrested at’
W. Washington St. and Pershing Ave. He was charged with being drunk, driving while drunk, disobeying an automatic traffic signal, driving without lights and driving through a safety zone.
GUILTY, SAYS KUHN: FINED ON PROFANITY
WEBSTER, Mass., July 20 (U. P.). —Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German+American Bund, was fined $5 in District Court today after pleading guilty to charges of drunkenpess rofanity.
Motorcycle Officer Holden Reynolds testified he arrested the
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relief act which abolished the prevailing wage and exacted “vacations” from relief rolls for those who have received benefits for 18 months. David Lasser, Workers Alliance president, said the demonstrations were not a strike and that most of them would be held in the afternoon. Reports at noon indicated that in only scattered localities had the demonstrations occurred. “There can’t be strikes and “there ought not to be strikes against the Government,” Mr. Murphy said at his press conference. “I don’t know of anything that would build up a Fascist psychology any quicker in this country.” At New York thousands of Workers Alliance members failed to check in at WPA projects. ‘They began gathering at Columbus Circle for a mass protest’and Willis Morgan, ‘Alliance chairman there, estimated that 40, 000 would participate. Alliance leaders at Madison, Wis., said that 95 per cent of its 450 members among 1500 WPA workers in Madison were out on the protest demonstration. Only 100 appeared for a demonstration at the Wisconsin Capitol steps. WPA officials in Pennsylvania said that about 1200 of the state's 142,000 WPA workers observed the protest call. In Detroit and in Schenectady, N. Y. Workers Alliance officials themselves instructed their members’ to ignore the oneday stoppage call.
Local Protest Tu To Be Held Tonight ™ The Indianapolis Local, G440, Workers Alliance, today planned to visit Governor ‘Townsend, hold neighborhood rallies and stage a mass meeting tonight in protest against lengthtened WPA hours. William Preston, local chairman, said today is at the end of the WPA payroll month and that most WPA projects in the City are not operating. He said that some time during the day a delegation of representatives of the Workers Alliance, the C.I.O. and the A. F. of L. will Visit Governor Townsend with a 28:by-44 inch postcard addressing a protest against the lengthened hours to Congress and ask his support in the protest. Tonight a mass meeting has been called int the Auto Workers’ Hall, Senate Ave. and Maryland St., at which Al Botos, South Bend, Indiana Alliance president, and W. L.
Crosly, Terre Haute, secretary, are to speak.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
DEATHS TO DATE County City 1939 ceases tensa serrsen 51 938 ...on00e..-.
y Dead .. 0 Accidents. . Injured ...... 1 Arrests
WEDNESDAY ‘TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid 32 $123 $13
$89
33 . 13
Violatio gris,
2 39 41
$30
Totals TT 148
MEETINGS TODAY
Advertising Club of Indianapolis, luncheon, Canary Cottage, noo
Sigma Chi; lurrcheon, Board of Trade, ‘
noon. Amierican Business Club, luncheon, Indianapolis Athletic Club, noo! Acacia, luncheon, Board of reads, yoon. Sigma Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. Oil Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon. Construction League of Indianapolis, luncheon, Architects and Builders Building, noon. Indiana is © Samera Club, meeting, 110 . 8 p. m. Beta Theta Pi, luncheon, tage, noon.
MEETINGS TOMORROW Exchange Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin, Optimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, ‘Saiesmen's Club, luncheon, Hotel WashSe ™ ares Association, luncheon, Phi Delta Theta, luncheon, Canary CoteT oo Tau Delta, luncheon, Columbia
Canary Cot-
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
(These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore. is not responsible for errors in uaz and addresses.)
Earl 26, 210,
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BT ; - 30th: Esther
1419 Martidale; |
of 1419 Martindale; of ams. Julia
Alaban Charies Ramse oy 5 Rochester; Marion Dausch, 208. N. 50 Marion BE 9, of fe 55 Es ose. phine Wood, 17, 213 emus Wright, 9 13 2842 Beth: Elizabeth Bundles. 19, of 1517 S. Gra William _Canfie eld, 28 22 of
804 Mar oseph Herzburn, 2. of the Lincoln Hotel; Mabel Binder, 49, city. ari Shoemaker. 23, of Iga New: Ruth Hall, 2% of 1922 18 Frujsasle q E. Market;
H t 91 . Katherine ALR 40, 2472 E. Washington. Ignace Kalivoda. 31. of 416 W. Washington; Catherine Coslett, 36, city. Russell Kimber] 25. of 1222 Churchman; Emma Pen” ‘25, of 2304 W. Mc-
Farver, 22, of 612
Fiorerce Nielson,
Carty. Frank Penns nngylJama; Vivian Cherry, 19, of 2102 N ew
Willigm cuss, 6, 2 Eastern; Edna 0x Max lark. 2 of Detroit: Lucille Martin, Rush Shien, 35, of Lebanon, Ind.: Ruth
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BIRTHS ~
Girls
Fetell Marjorie Edward, Eugene, Nancy
at City. Hotze, at St. “Francis. John, Theresa Denson. gt Colem Byron, Mary Hoffmann) at 1304 Belle-
Katherine Beggs,
Boys Russell, Jewel on uson, at St. Francis. Kenneth, thy Timmons, at Coleman, Ernest, virginia Cassell, at Colem Omer, Mildred Quandt, at 2719 Winthrop. Ernest, Alice Williams, at 2019 Colum-
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Clarence, at 1467 8S.
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ele: Arthur, Emma Pierce, at 720 E. Walnut. |: L:
DEATHS
Fred G. Emmetmann, 63, at 1425 Ter- |} race, carcinom
Maria Schwert, 64, at 354 W. 30th,
is. Andrew Watness, 59, at City, pulmonary
chronic myocarditi
Flora Williams 65. 4 429 Smith, uremia. Alice e Gibson. 3 35, at City, uremia.
Ford, it Cit pertension; ah,’ 66. at. Methodist. co
821 “Division; rion. Z
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Jesse Arthur ‘Woodruff, 59, at 825 Eu-
gene, hypertension. James W. LaPort, 86, at 251 Leeds,
chronic. myocarditis,
OFFICIAL WEATHER
———BY U. 8, Weather burean
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer tomorrow.”
Sunrise
caves: 4:33 | Sunset ......7: TEMPERATURE —July 20, 1938
Precipitation 24 hrs. endi Total preci Station sce” Excess since Jan. 1
6:30 a. m. .01 an, 1. 1
MIDWEST WEATHER
. Indiana—Pair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer tomorr 2 Take Miohiarn OW except along
masis-—Cienerally fair tonight and to- ; a Jarm r along Lake Michigan . May. excep Lower Michigan—Fair tonight ‘and tomorrow, somewhat warmer Friday except in extreme east portion
aie Sa Fale tonight and tomorrow; omagrrow; show - day or Saturday Ee $8 Satur Kentucky—Fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer Yomorfow; showers Saturday or Saturday might.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES 6:30 A. M. A Stations Tex. - Weather Bar. Temp. Bismarck, N. D. oo oston
cities against provisions of the new|
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FRIED CHICKEN: TOPPED BY PI
His Cake Lacks Candles but Louise Has One With 18 Tapers.
Paul V. McNutt, director of the new: Federal Security Agency, was to return to Washington today after studying: the operation of Indiana's social security program and attending a party on his 48th birthday anniversary. Mr. McNutt visited offices of the Unemployed Compensation Division yesterday. He also called on officials at the State House and left gifts which he had brought from Manila. He asked Clarence A. Jackson, Unemployment Compensation Division director, to visit him at Washington and furnish him data for the organization of the new Fed‘eral agency.
|Party Held at Home
The birthday party was given last night at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John C. McNutt, at Martinsville, It was ‘supposed to have been a quiet, little gathering with only members of the immediate family present, but neighbors and friends arrived throughout the evening. His mother served a dinner that included fruit cocktail, fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, suc-
cherry pie. There were two birthday cakes, one for Mr. McNutt and another for his daughter, Louise, who was 18 years old on June 27, but didn’t have- time for a celebration. Mr. McNutt's cake, which came from Indianapolis Athletic Club, was of mammoth proportions, covered with white icing and decorated with pink and white roses. Across the top were the words “Happy Birthday, Mr. McNutt.”
No Candles on Cake His cake didn’t have-any candles, but the cake which Grandmother
McNutt baked for Louise had 18 candles.
Flowers virtually filled the house.|
The largest bouquet was from the “McNutt-for-President” Club of Franklin, Ind., his birthplace. He also received numerous birthday
offering congratulations. Present for the dinner were Judge and Mrs. John C. McNutt, Mr. and Mrs. Paul V. McNutt, their daugh< ter Louise, and two sisters of Mrs. John McNutt, Mrs. Myrtle Woody and Miss Margaret Neely, both of Martinsville.
STATE T0 PURGHASE GOAL FROM 18 FIRMS
Eighteen coal companies, most of tiem Indiana firms, today had been awarded contracts the State Purchasing Bureau supply 290,000 tons of coal to 19 State institutions. The contracts were awarded on bids ranging from $1.49 to $355 a ton, including freight charges. e. Binkley Coal Co. which handles coal from the Clinton areas, was awarded six of the contracts. The remainder were divided among 12 Other bidders handling Indiana coa Other firms awarded contracts were: Nashville Coal Co., United Colleries, Enos Coal Co., Republic Coal Co., Durkin Coal Co., Sterling Midland ‘Co, H. A. Siepman Co., Hi!Grade Coal Co., Zimmerman Coal 1Co., Crescent Coal Co., Standard Coal Co., Knox Consolidated Coal Co., David Lindsay, Deep Vein Coal Co.," Maumee Colleries and Mojesiig Coal Co.
cotash, buttered beets; iced tea and ;
presents and telegrams and letters
- George R. Popp Jr. City Building Commissioner, and J. W. Clinehens, City Combustion engineer, both addressed the Board and expressed satisfaction at the manner in which
situation. : ; The resolution said that the present railroad smoke inspector has identical duties of the one he supplanted and the members said he was doing a satisfactory job.
More Inspectors Asked
under advisement the request ‘of the League that two additional smoke inspectors be added to the City Building Commission’s staff next year. : League members, headed by Roy O. Johnson, counsel, conferred with the Mayor yesterday on the proposal. Mr. Johnson said the Commission’s present personnel to enforce antismoke laws is insufficient. + “We have been campaigning for six full-time inspectors to check up on violations of the smoke ordinance,” Mr. Johnson said. In view of the fact that we can’t get six next year, we are asking for at least two to begin with.” The league has been campaigning to reduce the smoke nuisance here 10 years. It will hold its monthly meeting at noon Wednesday at the Washington Hotel.
POLE SHOT BY DANZIG GUARD
Hitler Reported Drafting ‘Peace’ Plan, but Army Still Is Growing.
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in recalling the victories of Generals Hindenberg and Ludendorft during the World War in territory now Polish. His speech was hailed by the Berlin newspapers as “an answer to the Polish war mongers.” French newspapers, obviously in-
|spired by the Government, yester-
day published reports that German mobilization was scheduled for Ang. 15, but that by the end of July the Nazis would already have two million men in their army.
Rumanian Issue Revived
While the Danzig quarrel created nervousness there were new indications of a possible thrust by the totalitarian powers in southeastern Europe—toward . Rumania—if the Free City sector proves less inviting than expected. “Nazis in Hungary San renewt their agitation for greater autonomous rights for the German mincrity and there was a resurgence of propaganda against Rumania, from which Hungary would like to regain territory lost in the World War. Still more significant in the shifting international picture was the continued failure of Great Britain and Soviet Russia to get together on adherence of Russia to the European security front. Although Moscow's|. participation generally is considered vital, it was reported in London that the Cabinet of Prime* Minister Chamberlain was so doubtful about the outcome that it already was considering possible effects of complete failure of the negotiations.
Churchill Sees Halifax
It was belieed that the extraordinary visit of Winston Churchill, dissident Conservative, to Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax this morning was somehow connected with the Moscow negotiations. In the Far East, too, the British were threatened with breakdown of their negotiations with Japan in an effort to solve the so-called Tientsin incident—which actually is an attempt by Japan to force Britain to abandon all sympathies for the Chinese and to co-operate with Japan in its conquest of North China. The negotiations at Tokyo were
- | said to have made no progress what-
CALLING ALL CARS! ‘WATCH FOR WEEDS
The Indianapolis Police Porce today wa as converted into a collective weed. detective for the benefit of hay fever victims and motorists. Chief Morrissey ordered patrolmen to spot weed patches in town and instruct owners of the land. ta cut them. He said it would bring
relief to sufferers and that besides
high weeds at intersections were traffic hazards.
BOY SCOUT FEARED DEAD IN LONG FALL
—— MILLINOCKET, ‘Me. July 20 (U. P.) —Searchers feared today that Donn Fendler Jr., 12-year-old Rye, N. ¥. Boy Scout iost on Mt. Ratan.
ever and to be stumped by a Japanese Army demand that Britain not only | promise to co-operate but to admit that its Far Eastern actions in the past had been in favor of China. The Japanese also continued their menacing attitude toward Russia. As the commander-in-chief of the Army in Manchukuo conferred with his superiors at Tokyo, a Navy spokesman said that Japan - was “amply prepared for any eventualities in the Sakhalin dispute.” - The American Consulate General at Hankow made strong representations to the Japanese delay in providing facilities for an American representative to fly t6 Nanchang to investigate the status of L. W. Holland, an American missipnary held by the Japanese on charges of aiding Chinese guerillas, France and Turkey progressed better in their negotiations and were uride arstood to have agreed to & general gi I plan to co-ordinate
the roads were handling the smoke :
Meanwhile Mayor Sullivan took |
column in The Times Monday ‘and ‘will describe the same trip.)
By E. H. SHAFFER Editor, The Albuquerque Tribune LBUQUERQUE, N. M,, -July 20.—One explanation of the traveling accuracy of Ernie Pyle, the roving Indiana reporter who roves on schedule, may be that he’s a scientific bag-packer. ’ He always knows where everything is. He must carry in his mind a photograph of the in-
case, and he and That Girl normally carry about 10.
Comparing . techniques, I concluded that his method and mine are similar, with one minor difference. He packs so that he knows where every single thing is. I pack so that I don’t know where anything is. 2 : J 2 EOPLE in out-of-the-way places are slow to warm up to strangers. Those out here have the reserve of their = implacable open spaces and their impassive mountains. But not once did we leave a place where someone wasn’t hanging on the car door,
him go. While I was with him, he talked to scores of people about almost as many different things. . And he never took down a note. Each
and initials, but that was all. I think someone has said that Ernie absorbs scenes and situations through his pores, and later lets
gers onto paper. thought that up myself). works methodically on those stories that read so easily. and
what he’s after. 2 2 =
HE keeps a tip book, in which he: notes down names, addresses and ideas as he hears about them. He clips newspapers and pastes items in the book. Perhaps a year or two later he’ll be at the place where one of those items originated, and then he’ll go and get a story about it.. . At Monticello, Utah, Ernie caid suddenly: “This is where a story is? So he got out his little book, and sure enough, there was a clipping about a hermit named: Roy - who had trapped some incredible number of mountain lions. ‘We asked around and some one said the hermit was in his cabin, high up on Blue Mountain,” So we went up Blue Mountain, which is 12,000 feet. There's a one-way. road, 12 miles long, and you can’t turn around on it until you get to the end. Well, we got to the end, and
NLRB COMPLAINS
A complaint was issued today by
Power & Light Co, alleging that the company 'hds ‘committed “unfair labor practices” by alleged violation of two sections of ‘the National Labor Relations Act. | The complaint is based on charges
izing Committee, Local 120, a C. I. o. affiliate, and the Associated Broadcast Technicians, Robert H. Cowdrill, NLRB Regional director, said. It is alleged that the C. I. O. and A. B. T. have organizations in the
company and the company has|
“urged, persuaded and warned its
employees not to join. either of the
unions.” Mr. Cowdrill said the! | company is charged with having di ed four employees at various times during the period when the complaining unions were attempting] to organize the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. plant. Officials of the soripany declined
is scheduled for July 31 in the Federal Building.
CONCILIATORS MEET IN ARMOUR DISPUTE
“ CHICAGO, duly 20 (U. P)— Federal and City’ conciliators moved today to avert a threatened strike by the Packing House Workers Or-
ganizing Committee against Armour|
& Con.. one of the “big four” meat packing firms.
The -P. W. O. C, affiliate of the}
C. I. O,, voted : Sunday to strike against Armour and, if necessary, other members of the big four— Cudahy, Swift and Wilson—unless they agree to negotiate for national contracts. Armour, in a statement issued yesterday, said it had followed and will continue to follow the directions of the NLRB in bargaining collectively ‘with unions. “The + City Council Committee on Labor was schieduled to meet this
terior of every satchel and suit-
talking to Ernie and hating to ses
night he would jot down names them run down through his fin-
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casually, sparing no effort to get,
AGAINST POWER CO.
the NLRB against the’ Indianapelis
to comment, saying their defense]. would be made at the hearing which |
after a story, and found no story. But Ernie just rolled a cigaret and said: “Shucks, it - probably got too crowded up here for Roy.” 2 8 = | T Medicine Hat, Utah, Ernie arranged a 20-mile trip down the San Juan River in a rowboat. The San Juan is a vi- . cious stream. Between Medicine Hat and Comb Wash it. runs through everpowering sandstone cliffs, and in some places it’s 1400 feet from the canyon Yop to the river. Norman Nevills was going to be the pilot. He’s tlie one who took those women scientists down Grand. Canyon -tq Boulder Dam last year. But even so, I'm a desert boy, and not much on going down strange rivers in strange boats. So, first, I offered to stay in Medicine Hat. I said I didn’t want to crowd the boat. Then, when Ernie insisted that I go along, I said: “Well, let’s take our shoes off so we can swim if we tip over.” “Hell,” swim.” ; But I did insist on taking cork jackets, and it’s quite all right with me that we didn’t need to use them. Norm Nevills can make a rowboat do the black-bottom in the Eight Foot Rapids, and he did just that, with Ernie as passenger. -I tried to take a picture (from shore) and. I almost died watching them. I said, “Ernie, what in the world did you do that for?” And he said, “Because I wanted to find ‘what it’s like to shoot rapids.” I beg to report that this man Pyle gets his stories the hard way.
Just once the needle swung past 50, when we’ were coming down a hill, much to his secret chagrin. He doesn’t know that I know it. He was unaware that he had a speedometer-watcher in his ear. - On unpaved roads, listed as “im=proved and graded,” his speed was 25 to 30 miles an hour, but much of our tour was done at less than 20. Ernie senses what speed the road will take in comfort, and. . maintains that speed steadily, and yow'd be surprised how far he can go in a day. In wild and treacherous country, where the road requires constant attention, he . ‘never misses a detail of the landscape. I think he sees through his ears. 2 » »
FTER a week of travel, he usually holes up and writes, in a hotel or tourist cabin. He gets up early, writes all day, putting down everything. He draws a _ detailed picture. Then he goes back over the piece, cuts out nonessential . things, and repeats. Sometinies he’ re-drafts his maaterial three or four times before he has a finished column. ‘When you read it, it seems easy. But -it’s literary craftsmanship, with hard work as a basic ingredient. I doubt whether anyone knows more than Ernie Pyle about what the. American people are thinking. Folks like to tell him things. His unpretentious sincerity gets them, and. they confide : their real thoughts. But Ernie honestly believes that no one is interested in what he thinks about things. He doesn’t want to give opinions! All he wants is to tell people what he sess.
1 said Ernie, “I can’t
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