Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1939 — Page 9

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1939

Hoosier Vagabond

BUTTE, Mont., Sept. 12.—If vou ever come to Butte and wish to know anvthing about the place, I would advise you to read a book called “The War of the Copper Kings,” by C. B. Glasscock. I'd advise you to read it even if you don't come to Butte. The story is fascinating and appalling. The things that happened in Butte are almost unbelievable. The greed that metals can arouse in man seems to me to surpass almost say other kind of vice. The battles over this “richest hill on earth” were at one time the outstanding daily news of the world. Men fought their way from laborers up to multimillionaires here. No political trick was too low, no financial shenanigan too beastly. Whole legislatures were bought almost openly, The courts were fixed. Financiers took each other for huge fortunes. Manipulators skinned the public out of hundreds of millions. One shady stock maneuver drove 30 men to suicide. And even down in the mines themselves there was dynamiting and flooding and fighting and murder, and stealing of ore by the million-dollars’ worth. From the Eighties up till around 1910 the ghastly battling for financial control went on. As was its habit in those days, Standard Oil finally won. But the casualties were terrific.

n » = Things Are Different, Now

The great days are gone from Butte, probably forever. Not only the great days of fighting, but also the great feverish days of mining. There probably is another two billion dollars lving beneath Butte at this very minute. But lately it has been coming out slowly. You mine copper only when vou can sell it. And although more copper was being used in the world than ever before in peace-time, vet times have been bad in Butte. What they will be, now that peace-time has gone, I don't know. Since the first World War, new copper deposits

It Seems to Me

NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—They didn’t let a Harvard man get in until the game was almost over, and so I knew that no great good could come to the All-Stars in their game against the New York Giants. It seemed to me that Dr. Sutherland, coach of the collegians, put too great a faith in the potentiality of regimentation. And I don't like Fascist football. Many critics have declared that on the gridiron a machine of competent cogs can easily defeat any aggregation which depends upon individual brilliance. Indeed, it has been said that a ball carrier ought to be made to pay his own admission if only he has a stanch line to open alleys for his endeavor. But this did not seem to be true at the Polo Grounds on Thursday night. The good doctor chose for his starting lineup nine Pitt players and two from Carnegie Tech, which is addicted to the selfsame system of offense and defense. = = ”

A Valuable Lesson

Yet on the whole the machin which met the pros was less effective than a somewhat more helterskelter arrav which was effected through later replacements. Luckman of Columbia and McLeod of Dartmouth added fireworks which had previously been missing. And it mav be a salutary moral lesson of consequence, even outside the Polo Grounds, to find that a good man somewhat on his own may still go places. I happen to be a military expert and not a profound student of football strategy, but from a lav point of view I thought the attack of the All-Stars was too conservative until a time when there was

Washington

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—In throwing out a sea patrol several hundred miles off our Atlantic Coast, this Government not only is taking immediate precaution to keep informed of any belligerent activity on the American side of the ocean, but it is at the same time emphasizing that our security lies not merely in protecting our shores from invasion but in protecting the seas for a safe distance out. Our real line of defense is off shore. Hawaii emphasizes that in the Pacific but we have no such conspicuous outpost in the Atlantic to keep us conscious of it. The point of this relates to the curious impression which is in circulation that if Great Britain lost the war Germany would fake over British possessions on our doorstep, particularly in the Caribbean and on the coast of South America, Our interests do lie, undoubtedly, in seeing British seq power retained rather than taken over by Germa:ayv. But it would be unfortunaie to create an impression in this country that if Germany won she would simply move the British out and take over Bermuda, Jamaica, Trinidad and other outposts as well as the smaller French possessions in that area.

Pledged to Defend Canada

A year ago Mr. Roosevelt made a public pledge to defend Canada if that ever became necessary. By the same national necessity, we also would protect any Rritish or French possessions from falling into the hands of an aggressive power like Germany The Panama Canal is our most vital area, a road for our fleet which must be kept open at any cost. The whole Caribbean area controls the Atlantic ap-

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday.—Why is it that no matter how far ahead one knows a date of departure from home, one never attends to details until the last day? After lunch yesterday, my brother wanted to go over to look at a barn which the President is interested in changing into a house. As usual, the President thinks it can be done far more economically than the rest of us do. I was glad to have my brother bear me out, but our

Bv Ernie Pyle

have been found in Africa, and Europe gets most of its copper from there now. Other great mines have been opened in Chile. Mining in Butte reached a peak during the other war. In 1918 there were 26 mines working in this “richest hill.” By two years ago, there were only nine. Today there are but five. That, however, isn’t quite as bad as it sounds. For those five working shafts take ore out of many mines whose shafts have been abandoned. All these mines are connected down below. So they can save overhead by closing one shaft, getting rid of all that machinery, and hoisting the ore through a nearby shaft. This is made possible now by the complete control of this “richest hill” by the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. Everybody who works in copper today in Butte works for Anaconda. » = ~

Memory Plays Tricks

Not a new shaft has been put down into the “richest hill” for more than 20 years. The deepest working so far is 4100 feet. No man can say how far down this spectacular deposit of copper extends. All the machinery on hand is built to work as far down as 5000 feet. Thirteen years ago, I came bouncing and chugging through Butte in a Model T Ford. The streets were all torn up, we had to detour around back parts of the city, and in some places it was so rough and dusty and steep the old Ford could hardly make it. For 13 years I have carried in my mind a horrible impression of Butte. And a wrong one. Nothing looked the same this time. The big hill wasn’t the same shape or size. Main St. I might never have seen before. And, to prove my memory completely false, I always thought Anaconda was practically a suburb of Butte. and I'm sure they haven't moved it since 1926.

And I thought also that Anaconda was a great copper mining town; just a minor edition of Butte.

But Anaconda actually is 25 miles away, |

So imagine my chagrin upon learning, on this trip, that there isn’t a single mine at Anaconda. What

mining whatever. Travel is so broadening.

By Heywood Broun

small hope of catching up. The college boys should have remained closer to the pace. The chief handicap of collegians in contest with professionals is that the boys just from the ivy cloisters do not think as rapidly. They have had too much training in examinations where the student is allowed anywhere from one to three hours for the solution of a problem. Decisions on the football field are a matter of split seconds.

Stars Have Their Place

Men like Ken Strong and Ed Danowski of the| Giants have been out of the classroom so long that] neither one could give you the date of the Battle of] Hastings or make much of a showing in the interpretation of Plato's philosophy if questioned suddenly. But as far as football goes, these limitations become | assets. When Danowski passes his mind is fixed upon the receiver and not the Renaissance. And the superb co-ordination of Ken Strong when he kicks reveals a| mind untroubled by the problem of whether it was| the Bard or Bacon who wrote Hamlet. But though I grant that moleskin is more than sheepskin upon the football field, I think the students could have made a better showing if they had been, taught to shoot the works. It seemed a shame that as| brilliant a star as Sidat-Singh of Syracuse should] have had only a brief moment in the contest. He and Luckman should have alternated in ithe pitching from beginning to end. Obviously, not even the best backs can make a showing if the line in front of him is tissue paper. But there is still room for the star to do his stuff.| even though the supporting cast is mediocre. The part remains greater than the whole. Planets are more than constellations, and I wouldn't swap Saturn with its rings for the entire Miiky Way if you handed it to me on a platter,

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By Raymond Clapper

proach to the canal and it is not likely that this Government would tolerate the establishment in that area of new positions by any power that would threaten us. It is even questionable whether we would permit Germany or any other potentially hostile power to take over the Azores, now held by Portugal, which lie out in the Atlantic 2000 miles from New York and 1700 miles from Bermuda, much less move practically within range of our most vital strategic area around the Canal. To conjure up the spectacle of this kind of a German invasion—for it would be a naval invasion even though it did not actually touch our shores—is to arouse fears which have no basis in reality. Surely] the present German Government, headstrong as it is, | knows that the United States would never permit such | a thing to take piace. Meantime, in any event, our navai strength will be developed to make it impossible in the remote contingency that someone should attempt it. 5

= = Giving Ample Warning Such prophesy tends to stampede our people into

precipitate action which is the reverse of what is needed now.

~The Indianapolis

Peril to low-flying airplanes

Garand semi-automatic rifle shown above.

machine gunning troops is the The latest gas masks

protect the soldiers while they fire this new military weapon with

which the U. S. Army is now being

equipped.

U.S. Avoids War but Arms Carefully

By Dr. Frank Thone

Science Service Staff Writer

ASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—Uncle Sam is watching the deadly game on the other side of the Atlantic with no more wish or intention of dealing a hand for himself they do is smelt the ore shipped over from Butte. No| than he had in 1914. No sensible person would ever want to sit in on a game like that, where the stakes are the whole manhood and wealth of nations and the only possisible prizes are death and destruction.

Yet, remembering how he was drawn against his will into the first World War, and how he had to improvise his weapons in a great and wasteful hurry, Uncle Sam is wisely taking stock of what he has ready for service now, or can produce

quickly, if circumstances not now foreseen compel him again to face a foe in arms. Item number one, in any man’s army inventory, is always the infantry rifle. Despite a couple of decades of talk about the man on foot being eliminated in the “next war,” by rattling tanks on the ground and roaring airplanes in the air, the doughboy with his individual weapon has shown unexpected powers of survival and resistance. Infantry still remains the final argument in battle. And in the new Garand semiautomatic rifle, your old Uncle Sam holds a trump card that tops anything in the hands of any nation on earth. It fires the standard .30-caliber cartridge as fast as the soldier can pull the trigger, increasing his rate of fire at least fourfold. Furthermore, despite this almost machine-gun-like rapidity of fire, accuracy is also tremendously increased, because the soldier does not need to take the weapon away from his shoulder and operate the bolt mechanism by hand. The loading mechanism is operated by a part of the energy of the firing itself,

T is considered probable that the Garand is capable even of anti-aircraft fire, against low-flv-ing planes that suddenly appear to bomb and machine-gun marching columns. A hundred men, each firing his clip of eight cartridges in perhaps half as many seconds, should be able to make a “strafing” flier think he had stumbled into a nest of steel hornets. Arming of the Regular Army and the National Guard with the Garand is now proceeding apace, and quantity production can be stepped up if the need comes. Next to the infantryman's rifle, the most important Army weapon is the light field gun, the quick-

Tribute Paid

firing, fast-moving piece of artillery that can lay down a barrage of 30 or more shells a minute, and move about at least as rapidly as the infantry which it supports. No better gun for this purpose has ever been built than the famous French 75, of war-time fame. Although a little more than 40 years old in its design, it is still going strong: and there are some thousands of them in reserve U, S. arsenals. The exact number is an official secret, but it is admitted that there are enough of them “to equip a good-sized army.” The weakness of the war-time 75 is its carriage, not built for modern motor - towing speeds. However, Army ordnance designers have worked out a new all-steel carriage with rubber-tired disc wheels that will permit it to go anywhere at any speed. It also permits a much greater elevation, that increases its maximum range from 8000 to 13.500 yards. This will permit longer firing from a given position before it is necessary to limber up and follow the advancing infantry—a highly important matter when an attack is being developed. ” » -

ROUND these two prime weapons are grouped many others the heavier artillery pieces, ranging all the way up to the massive 16-inch guns mounted on railway carriages: three-inch and four-inch semi-automatic anti-aircraft cannon; new 37-mm. anti-tank guns that hurl a onepound armor-piercing shell like a small bolt of lightning; improved trench mortars that lob heavier shells more accurately than their ancestors in 1918; even the old reliable hand grenade, little changed from its original pattern. - Most of these, with the exception of the heavier artillery pieces, have become infantry weapons. The old-time picture of the footsoldier, armed solely with rifle and bayonet, has been greatly changed since 1918. A modern infantry column on the march does not present the picture of even, serried ranks with sloping bayonets agleam like the even blades of grass in a field. It is more likely to look like a somewhat tidied-up Gypsy caravan, for it includes light and heavy machine guns,

Benefactors

By Riley Hospital Board

A total of $18615.70 has been expended since Jan. 1, 1938, at the

Cool calculation of our national interest Indiana University Medical Center for research and educational work,

leaves no doubt that we benefit by the naval suprem-| the Riley Hospital joint executive committee reported today.

acy of Britain over Germany and that we would be| less comfortable if it were replaced by Nazi naval power. But there are relative values. While such a transfer of power would affect us adversely in the Far East, where we must look for rubber and tin, among other essential raw materials, we could get along. | It is not likely that Germany will fail to note the! significance of our gesture in taking up patrol of the Atlantic far out from shore, so that submarines and commerce raiders may be discovered and reported. The effect will be to discourage such prowling activity and, even more important, to make it plain that we have an interest in those offshore waters which | would take on more active form if events required it. Editor's Note—For another point of view see Wil-| liam Philip Simms article today. Page 10.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

in the lobby. I approve of this change, for 1 have! always disliked walking over that seal. They tell] me that peopie now stop to look at it, instead of | walking over it without even looking down. It is nice to see all the familiar faces and to be greeted with such pieasure and warmth by all. I| certainly am happy to see everyone here again. I held a meeting this afternoon with Mrs. Dorothy McAllister and Mrs. May Thompson Evans, | to talk over the program for the radio time on Sept. | 16th. This is the day when the Democratic women are going to attempt to raise some funds of their own and I think it very important for women to do

The money was obtained from trust funds. resolution paying tribute to Samuel D. Miller, attorney and member of

The committee passed a

the committee, who died last week. Also praised in a resolution was the late Eugene H. Darrach, Indianapolis manufacturer, and his family, for a donation of $50,000 to Riley Hospital.

Predicts Wider Activities

Hugh McK. Landon, executive committee president, said “we gradually are gaining momentum with the research work and probably can widen our activities as the value of the research here at home becomes more apparent to those who are able to provide us with finances.”

Mr. Miller was a member of the!

Riley Memorial Association since 1922 and of the joint executive committee since 1930. The resolution said that “throughout the many years of the Riley Memorial Association there have been plans to evolve, complexitie; to untangle, adjustments to arrange, and a future to evaluate and for which to prepare. “In all these things our friend had a major part. He brought an analytical mind, a rare professional skill, a sustained interest and always a sympathetic heart.

Death Mourned

COUNTY SCHOOL BUS INSPECTION STARTS

Inspection of busses and schools in Marion County outside Indianapolis was begun yesterday under direction of John Dora, Marion County safety director. Eight days will be needed for the inspection of the 96 busses. Those of Pike Township will be first, fol-

lowed by those of Wayne, Decatur, | Perry, Washington, Lawrence, War{ren and Franklin Townships.

Mr. Dora will check safety features in the 43 county schools, inspecting fire escapes, stairways, chemical fire extinguishers, boilers, incinerators, kitchens and laboratories. It was recently discovered, he said, that the fire extinguisher at one school had not been refilled for 20 years.

BRIEFS ACCEPTED IN

Still the best for general

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use in wartime is the French type 75 wh

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ich, although 30 years old in design,

has been modernized by a split rail above which enables a greater range of fire. In the inset is a closeup of the new, famous semi-automatic Garand rifle, which shoots bullets as fast as a soldier can press the

trigger and turns

infantrymen into virtual machine gunners.

Invented in the United States, this

semi-automatic type gun will undoubtely play a leading role in warfare for it outshoots bolt action rifles four to one and makes possible more accurate fire.

Getting a first hand look at how wars are fought, New York Rep. Matthew Merritt feeds a shell into an anti-aircraft gun at Ft. Monroe, Va., while Ohio Rep. Dew Harter, center, and Gunner Julius Bube watch. The scene was made as 26 members of Congress visited the fort recently to survey Uncle Sam's

military equipment.

automatic rifles, light mortars or howitzers, anti-tank cannon, trench mortars and light tanks. # 'H &

A these are necessary on or near the front line in both attack and defense. The handiness of the 45-mm. howitzer was especially well demonstrated in the Spanish Civil War. Keeping close behind the advancing infantry, it could go into action quickly, to blast out stubborn machine gun nests with its light shells. No less necessary are anti-tank weapons. Even the flexible 75 is not nimble enough to catch these monsters on the crawl, and its shell is unnecessarily heavy, anyway. Better is the high-velocity one-pound missile of the longbarreled 35-mm. piece desighed especially for the job, which goes right up with the troops and can see the lumbering enemy approaching, Of dual usefulness is the .50caliber machine gun, which hurls

METAL CAP KILLS RAILROAD WORKER

A metal cap weighing betwean 400 and 500 pounds flew off a piling at the Monon bridge over White River today and struck James F. Lewis, 48, Camelsburg, Ind, on the head, killing him. Police said Mr. Lewis, a workman, was standing at the base of the middle pier when the cap, struck by the pile driver, flew from its place.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What is a barometer? 2—Do the stripes in the flag of The Netherlands run vertically or horizontally? 3—How many cubic inches are in one cubic foot? 4—-Who is chairman of the Republican National Committee? 5—Which French seaport is on the estuary of the Seine? 6—What is the standard gauge of railways in the U. 8.? T—What is the abbreviation for the degree Doctor of Engineering? ” » ” Answers 1—An instrument for deter=

mining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere,

a stream of heavy slugs half an inch in diameter. It can be cocked back at high angle, to defend the front line against approaching airplanes, and it can be brought down to the horizontal again, to hammer away at approaching tanks. With armor-piercing bullets the .50-caliber machine gun is effective against light tanks at close and medium ranges,

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MN VERY soldier, of course, will carry his gas mask at the alert, as he learned to do during the first World War. The new American gas masks are both more efficient in excluding gas and more comfortable to wear than were the rather crude masks of those days. Then, a company or a battery was ‘neutralized’ —virtually out of action for the time being—as soon as it had to put on its gas masks. Soldiers wearing masks can now breathe so comfortably and see so well that they are able to go right on firing.

2 Endurance Fliers Still Up

UNCIE, Ind, Sept. 12 (U. P.). —Hauling their gasoline in

two-gallon tins by a line from a speeding truck, Robert McDaniels and Kelvin Baxter today were still in the air in an attempt to crack the 343 hour and 15 minutes endurance flying record for light planes. They started their flight Sunday morning. The previous record was made by the Moody

brothers of Springfield, Ill.

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There are special masks with optically perfect eye pieces for artillery officers who must read and set delicate scale markings for proper range. And such officers’ masks frequently are of the diaphragm type with a special mouthpiece so that commands can get out but poison gas cannot get in. Such masks are also of extreme value for the men of the signal corps who act as telephone operators at the front in wartime. Gas mask canisters, holding the chemicals which neutralize the deadly effect of the poison gases, are more compact than ever before. Yet they hold chemicals that will combat more different gases and they have a longer “life” before need comes for replacement. All round, then, Uncle Sam can look over the situation, if not with smug self-satisfaction, then at least with the knowledge that he is ever so much hetter off than he was in 1917, and knows what he needs to do to meet deficiencies that still exist.

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LOOK SAYS M’NUTT IS LIKELY NOMINEE

Times Special NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-—-Federal security Administrator Raul V. Mc=Nutt is “on his way to the Demo= cratic Presidential nomination,” Look magazine declared in an ile lustrated article today. “Mr. McNutt has his own machine, he controls Indiana and. has organized in other states, He isn’t afraid to stick out his chin, and can keep that smile on his face in spite of journalistic jibes,” the magazine said.

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Everyday Movies—By Wortman

this regardless of the organization in which they

are working. The President, who was to have spoken | “The room at the hospital which CASE ON PAU PER FEE

over the radio for the Democratic women that night, | Deas the Miller game means Snote| Pines Epertul feels that in the present crisis he must only speak as| an ever now. 71o us, his old as- Times Zrree the President to all the people, and not as the rep- | Sociates, it is a reminder; to those | VINCENNES, Ind, Sept. 12.— resentative of a particular party. The program will who in the future shall ‘carry on, | Briefs in the case of Attorney Hovey g5 on just ihe same, however. and I feel after talking ll be A. sg |C. Kirk, Princeton, who is attempt- " ne 8 it over wi rs. McAllister and the other people, “We deeply mourn his passing, | ; Mae fe to take part “in it, that it will be very | bul Wis his TAY Biel She his i io vollecs BD ee ASK THE TIMES £ interesting. | friends, we are proud and happy in “°F “U5 ; 1 VE Tan, Inclose a 3-cent stamp for Today is the beginning of National Air Progress the record which he left.” fC toe reply when addressing any Week and I was invited to do a little flying around | Members of the committee be-| or County Attorney Flovd question of fact or information the country in celebration of this event. Un- sides Mr. Landon are George A.| a y a M Kirk said he would to The Indianapolis Times fortunately, I am lecturing and therefore have my Ball, of Muncie; Arthur R. Baxter, YOURE £000 oy) RE if the ruling Washington Service Bureau, = >

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combined arguments had no effect on the President, who said cheerfully: “Well, we will wait and see,” with the calm conviction that he could perform miracles. Back at the cottage, my brother and friends left and I set myself to winding up all the little tag ends which need to be done in a house at the end of the season. It was 7 o'clock before I was back at the big house and ready to leave for Washington. We boarded the train at about 11 o'clock and we

were all sorry to leave the countrv and the family. This morning we arrived in Washington to find it cool and beautiful here. The White House still looks more or less summery with the rugs taken up. There is one Innovation, a little railing around the seal

schedule all made out.

both business and pleasure for us all.

This, however, will not pre-| vent my watching with great interest everything which the air transport industry does to bring home | to the public what developments in flying mean to

Dr. William Lowe Brvan, Dr. ton B. McCulloch, Val Nolan, Albert I. Rabb and P. C. Reilly. James W, Carr is executive secretary. 3

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