Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1939 — Page 9

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~ Hoosier Vagabond

HELENA. Mont. A very heartening thing

has

Sept. 9 stay Helena. read occasionally of 15 or 20 respected life under an assumed name And then suddenly the authorities dig him up, and, despite his 15 or 20 vears of good living, haul him back and clap him inlo the pen for the rest of his life. Well, they've just unearthed one of those cases out here, Back in the fall of 1921 there was some kind of a fracas in West Virginia, and a man was shot In December, the other man in the fracas left West Virginia and came to Montana. In January the wounded man

happened during ow mn You fellow who has been &nd has heen leading a

know how vou some

a fugitive for normal and

V'eAY'S,

died, The man who came to Montana did not change his name or try to disguise himself. In fact, membors of his family made trips back to West Virginia, and made no effort th conceal who they were. The man became a farmer in western Montana. Well, the other day West Virginia, after 18 years, woke up to where this man was. So they indicted him for murder, and sent thres officers out here to get him, But The people of Montana defense. They wrote letters sent delegations

flocked to this to the Governor,

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Finally a public hearing was held. Neighbors testified he was As ROOA a citizen as anvbody in his county. They told how he had raised a family ot six fine children; how he had accumulated some land and cattle, and had a crop ready to harvest A State Senator pleaded in his behalf. So did the businessmen The Governor listened And then he decided West Virginia could not have man He belonged to Montana, and here he could stay, in peace. And to top the whole thing off, and almost put a lump in vour throat, the West Virginia prosecutor, instead

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It Seems to Me

NEW YORK. Sept. 9 Once upon a time five con spirators gathered together to plot the death of a man whom they all professed to hate. The largest and most voluble of the group was & chef. He suggested that cards should be dealt and that whoever received the ace of spades should undertake the responsibility of making away with the enemy. And he added, "T hope the ace comes to me because 1 realiv hate this fellow. T don't quite trust your protestations. With me it's different, He and I can't live in th» same world together, Either I him or he gets me.” The ace of spades fell to the chef, and his fellow-conspirators were celighted to learn that within two davs h¢ had managed to secure himself the job as cook in the home of the enemy. But days went by and weeks and months and nothing happened, Ace cordingly, the four others waited for the cook at the back door and reproached him for having failed to carry out his mission, “But,” said the chef, “I'm doing my best. I'm serving him with pork chops and chocolate eclairs, and all sort of goodies, Consistently I'm tempting him to overload his stomach, Sooner or later this system is bound to get him.”

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nN » n Rd (ver AF Powisor Polatice A Case of Power Politics Nevertheless, Soviet Russia could make a much better excuse for its pact with the Reich than any which has been furnished up to date. But it would have to be on a lower and more realistic level. All the stuff about weakening XRitler would have to b2 left out as arrant nonsense At the moment there can be no doubt that present arrangement is advantageous to Russia, Morewer, it is fair to add that neither England, France Poland made anv very firm or attractive offer support. Russia is playing power politics in the

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WASHINGTON, Sept. Senator McNary of Oregon, Republican Leader of the Senate, gathered from a telephone conversation with President Roosevelt that ‘Congress might be called into session Sept. 18. The most direct word here, however, is that Mr Roosevelt is in no hurry, and if the call is to be for nine days hence, it will come rather reluctantly, Officially, the reason given for delay is that Mr, Roosevelt is having the statutes scrutinized for vears back, to ascertain what powers he may already possess to deal with neutrality conditions. Unofficially, however, other reasons suggest themselves First, it is only natural that the President should wish to delav as long as possible in providing his critics with a world-wide sounding board. Senator Borah may speak his mind from his summer retreat at Poland Springs, Me., but he can attract only mild attention there. However, let ‘Congress be called back and let Senator Borah rise in the Senate and speak his piece, not only does the utterance stamp itself upon this country but it is broadcast abroad, hailed mn Germany as evidence of important division mm the United States,

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Some in the Administration feel that such speeches would have effects, encouraging upon German morale, discouraging upon British and French morale. There ic some desire not thus to affect morale Across the Atlantic any earlier than is necessary. Mr Roosevelt wants. no doubt, to aveid even the appearance of American disunity as long as possible,

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Friday.—We had the most beautiful drive over to Westbrook, Conn, vesterday. Here and there young trees are turning red, which gives a lovely color but makes my heart sink, 1 really love the early autumn and the winter too, but : I'd like to feel that I was going to spend most of it in the country. The prospect of the next few months, with their busy days and nights, would not be as alluring at any time as my country cottage with an open fire and the beauty of autumn to contemplate. Just now, however, with the feeling that all of us have that something must he done in this crisis which will continue our own recovery, which must not be retarded, and still he of use to world, we feel it may be a long time will again feel free to spand three an environment of more or less

the people of the before any of us solid months In leisure, as 1 dia this vear. Yesterday we cooked our hunch and ate it in the woods overlooking the marshes which run in front of the Sound along the Connecticut shore. A solitary figure could be seen poling & flat-bottomed boat along the channels which run through the salt meadows.

| By Ernie Pyle

of being sore about the Governor's decision, made this | statement : “Tf T had known as have learned since coming out

this man as 1]

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have asked for his extradition.”

» New Type Speed We have another interesting case, of a different nature. It is about an amateur speed record just set between Montana and Oklahoma. A man in Great Falls received word that his | mother-in-law had died in Lawton, Okla. His wife | was already in Lawton, and wanted him to come to | the funeral. He looked up the airline schedules and | saw he couldn't get there in time by plane. So he talked it over with his son, and they decided | to drive. They left Great IMalls at 10 a. m., and at] 10 next morning they were in Lawton. The funeral | was just starting. | The son drove all the way, while the father watched the road maps. They did not stop to sleep. | They made 12 stops, of 15 minutes each, for gas and | oil. The son drank two quarts of milk and ate one | sandwich. His hands were blistered when they got | there. They made the 1510 miles from Great Falls to | Lawton at an average speed of 72 miles an hour, And | on one stretch of 200 miles this side of Amarillo, Tex. their speedometer needle hung constantly at 100 miles an hour! That is certainly a fine record for driving on the congested public highways. There should be some! kind of formal recognition for their achievement. Tt seems to me A very appropriate reward would be about five vears each in the penitentiary, for attempted homicide.

» ” Helena used to have a very famous old tree, Ti stood right here in town, and back in the Vigilante davs, when citizens were taking bad men into their own hands, some 20 desperadors swung by their necks from a limb of that tree. Wouldn't that be a museum piece for tourists to come and ook at nowadays? “Hangman's Tree” | they called it. 1 asked a friend where it was. | “Oh, that's been cut down a long time,” he said. “They thought it wasn't dignified. Some preacher had it cut down.” |

By Heywood Broun

Ame manner as prefer, it has just as America has As a matter of fact, most of the hifalutin ex- | planations have not come from Moscow, but from] American Communists. This, again, seems tO me to indicate that the connection between the American Communists and the party in Russia is much more slight than is popularly supposed.

other European nations. Or, if vou as much right to choose isolation |

Did Stalin Outsmart Himself?

Apparently Russia has been s6 much concerned | with its internal problems that it has had only an | extremely academic interest in the development of American Communism. The very fact that the Daily Worker surprised and left on a limb by the news of the Reich-Soviet pact seems to prove that | the pipeline straight from 14th St. to the Kremlin is a myth. Thee is no faucet here for Russian gold, and not very much Russian advice comes through. | In regard to local explanations of the pact it seems pretty obvious that the left-wing leaders were compelled to roll their own. Nobody has ever denied | shrewdness to Stalin, but it is just possible that he has outsmarted himsel{ and the national interest of | Russia, There is no reason on earth why Russia, from its own point of view, should be particularly friendly | to France, England or Poland. A long and bitter war ending in stalemate would be helpful to the) Soviets since 1t would weaken all potential foes. But a quick victory for Hitler would not help at all A Germanized Poland would be a far more dangerous neighbor than the present state which is being torn by the invading army of the Reich. And possibly the greatest irony of all is that, while Communist Russia is in a position to sell war supplies to Nazi Germany, democratic America has declared an embargo which prevents us shipping the same sort of material 16 France and England. At the moment Russian ideology is not the only one which stems to have wandered into a strange bed.

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By Raymond Clapper

Second. there also 1s the thought here that delay nm ealling Congress would tend to minimize the amount of hostile debate The Administration is counting upon the overwhelming feeling that Hitler is the guilty party to have its effect through the force of public sentiment, in diminishing the strength of] those opposed to repealing the arms embargo. The longer Senators and Representatives are allowed to remain among their constituents, the more force this public sentiment will have upon them. |

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1. The German “pocket” battleship Gneisenau, reported sunk by British raiding airplanes in an attack on Wilhelmshaven at the entrance to the Kicl Canal. 2. This cablephoto shows a steel-helmeted policeman clearing the way for an ambulance carrying injured survivors of the Athenia tb a hospital “somewhere in Scotland.” This is the first photo of the Athenia survivors to be passed by the British censor. 3. Section of Aix La Chappelle in the industrial area of the German Rhineland. An unconfirmed report from Paris eaid that the area around Aix La Chapelle had been heavily bombed by Allied planes, 4. Poland's government has evacuated Warsaw to have established a temporary capital at Lublin, east of Warsaw. Above is the Lublin city hall, lef, in the old wall, right. 5. Just before the surrender of Westerplatte! Smoke arises from the tiny munitions dump held for six davs hy the tiny Polish garrison under artillery barrage, aerial and troop attack and the fire of the German cruiser, Schleswig -Holstein, shown at the left, 8. Radined from Berlin, this phota shows Adolf Hitler riding aver a Polish battlefield in a special six-wheeled war auto (position with. held hy German censorvhip). Tn the background can he seen the smoke of exploding shells,

and is reported 100 miles southand Cracow Gate

Deal May Destroy Hitler

And Stalin, Simms Says

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Neripps-Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler may have

signed their own political death warrants with the deal which made it

possible for the Nazis to plunge Europe into war

Third, events abroad are considered likely to play

in favor of the Administration during the next few been

Party Hitler

French Communist dealt by Stalin and

that the the blow

Advices from Paris reveal virtually destroved by

weeks, Hitler's conquest of Poland, even though gen- leaders are now considering forma-

erally discounted in advance, still is bound to increase tion weance. | Party, but there is doubt that even Repetitions of affairs such as the Athenia sinking this is possible

anxiety for the fate of Great Britain and would mcerease American sympathy for the Allies. Fighting on the Western Front will, as time goes on, make it increasingly clear that this is to be & war attrition, thereby emphasizing anew (he importance of releasing American supplies French, and further undermining opposition te repeal of the embargo. While it is probable that Myr. Roosevelt now force action through Congress,

could it is advantageous

of opposition as is possible Fourth. there are practical reasons why trality that defects

the Neu-

in other cushioning machinery that might profiteering measures The Administration will know such matters a few weeks

can now,

its own mind about hence better than it

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Tn front of us was a most beautiful old oak tree; which had withstood the ravages of lastgrear's storm, ost ploe in just as had several others in the depths Of the Woods. with 219 members as against the The sun flickered through and it was a most peaceful ‘Radical Socialist and Radical Reand restful interlude. When we walked up through publican bloc's 110. :

the woods after lunch to the higher ground, we had

a view of the blue water with the dancing sunlight forced formation of on it, All the way home we enjoyed every panorama | Front, in line with what was going of hills and valleys and every bit of road closed in by on in Spain. And while they refused We will look back happily on cne of our last ty share \ :

trees. days of summer freedom.

after 1 returned to my cottage, for they were some-

what worried about friends who have not yet Te- of labor, they came largely to control even § Then dinner and an evening of catching up on ecpuntrv mail and this morming we again left for New York git-down strikes and came s6 near City. We have several errands to do, but two things paralyzing industry, including the One is the luncheon which national defense, that when Hitler I am attending for the opening of the Bride's School. moved against I shall leave the lunch at 2:15 and dash over to French Army found itself virtually Brooklyn to meet Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. and helpless. :

turned to this country

are really important.

two of her children who are landing on a Norwegian steamer. It was a very difficult thing for the Secretary of the Treasury, with his son Robert to leave |

the others in order to be back at his desk a week awakening, French workers are as sooner, This will be a happy day of reunion for them patriotic as any other group in the and I shall certainly be glad to have all these dear country. They had begun to suspect that some of their leaders at'least

friends safely home,

recruits normally would come. have of been thoroughly disillusioned by the hookup

to the British and Nazism.

party membership resigned during oven the first formation of . ! Axis, including approximately half ta his position to have it come with as small a display or the ‘Communist members of the

Chamber of Deputie;

Act should operate for a brief time in order mer Premier eon Blum time may be had tn observe its workings, note of the Seconda International. is ing the effect need legisiative attention, and perhaps to suggest anti- the ‘Government without the usual flow of eriticism

tion within France was ever able to accomplish has been brought about at one stroke by Stalin and Hitler. Ever since Tiger French Government has had (rising tide of with success,

i | government, Franklin Jr. and Ethel came over to see me SOON | pehind the throne.

of a “National Communist” interested in in the good of tended to confirm their suspicions. Patently, was beginning to be at of her Nazi neighbor, Nevertheless, the rank were puzzled rather than convinced

other spokesmen

were more

revolution than

The French masses, from which workers, and thi

the mercy

between communism and

More than 50 per cent of the and

five following the

Berlin-Moscow

davs the

and continuad

Stalin Moscow Nazis and Fascists. Tn Spain, the Communists were in the fichting against the Germans Italians, That, to many seemed to indicate Moscow's cerity Many French workers continued ta hope that Russia would jon Britain and France in a triple ailiance which, among other would safecuard IMfrance against the rising menace of Nazi-Fascist aggression,

to denounce

Even the Socialist party of fore adherent feel-

supporiing

sin-

He is non

Thus what no amount of apposi-

Clemenceau, one after another against the communism, seldom

The Last Straw

Then came the bombshell. Stalin sold Trance and all Frenchmen, in-

to contend

Reached Zenith in 1936

By 1936, the Communists and Soalists had become by far the largthe Trench Chamber,

This was the last straw, Stalinism had first France by boring from within, then

peril, own followers may yet cost Stalin dearly. As for Hitler, if lasts long enough, the very communism which he has now made an ally, may eventually destroy both him and his country. Having betrayed the rest of Europe, these ideological twins will eventually betray each other.

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So powerful were they that they the Popular

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of the power

Worming their wav inte the ranks

the economic life of the They instituted the first

Czechoslovakia the

HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Sept WU. P)

Suspicion Ts Born That was the beginning of Mrance's

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in which they were struck by aA Pennsylvania

Bell, 53, was slightly injured,

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France

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cluding the workers, down the river weakened deserted her in a supreme hour of | This betrayal of s0 many of his |

the war

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f Fred Herman, 81, of Hartford City, was killed last night and Hartford City, critically injured when the car riding ‘was Railroad train at a crossing near here. Henry

SULLIVAN WILL JOIN | Bicycle Derby NEUTRALITY PARLEY Ends Tuesday

Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan today accepted the invitation of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City to discuss neutrality af a conference of mayors in Washington Sept. 19 Maver LaGuardia summoned the executive board and advisory committee of the United States Conference of Mayors, of which he is president, to define a neutral policy for American cities Maver Sullivan is a member the advisory committee

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Which famous writer of detective stories used as Aa character an Andaman TIslander in ene of his stories? What is an oligarchy? Which boxing bout drew the largest gate receipts? Was the name of the vessel | in which Henry Hudson discovered the Hudson River the “Fullmoon,” “Halfmoon” or "Moonbeam"? ~What is the name for the largest of the anthropoid apes? » & » | Answers 1—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. | 2—A form of government in | which the supreme power is vested in a small class of persons. 3—The second fight between | Tunney and Dempsey at | \ |

Chicago in 192%, 4--"Halfmoon." 5-—Gorilla,

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