Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1939 — Page 7

Man-Made Rain

ADMINISTRATION HOPES TO ALLAY EARLY SPY HUNT

Roosevelt and Murphy Find Selves Stampeded Into ‘Reaction Corner.

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—The Administratién hopes the presence of Attorney General Frank M. Murphy, Assistant Secretary of Labor Dim- - “mock and Senator Elbert Thomas (D. Utah) as star speakers at the National Conference on Civil Liberties ih New York City, will cushion the kickback of early excesses in the Government's spy hunt. When President Roosevelt and his Attorney General started out to ‘obtain public cooperation in their drive again subversive activities, they Mr. Denny got more than they bargained for. Mr. Murphy's press appeal to citizens to report on suspicious persons was interpreted by many as an invitation to get busy on their neighbors. They did not heed the original Murphy warning about foul play and unconfirmed rumors. This caused fear among liberals that the New Deal Government was lending itself to a revival of Palmerism, when an earlier war emergency turned hordes of citizens into snoopers and blackmailers in the name of patriotism. 3

Counteraction Sought

To prevent such hysterical patrioteering from poisoning American communities, and from destroying the very national unity sought by the Administration, Mr. Murphy has been trying to counteract the unfortunate effects of his original unguarded statement. He also has used Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation several times for this purpose. Director Hoover this week warned the San Francisco convention of the International Association of Police Chiefs that no vigilantes were needed inh the campaign against espionage and sabotage. --Last week he gave assurances that the campaign would be “impartial and free of hysteria.” He suggested avoidance of inflammatory reports and rumors, and full observance of constitutional liberties—particularly those relating to free speech. Of course the Administration is finding it difficult to box up the snooping furies, once they have been liberated. This is particularly true because a Presidential declaration of a “national emergency,” limited or otherwise, tends to stir latent hysteria among those who like to see goblins in all dark corners anyway. sian) The irony of the situation is that it should revolve around two such long-time defénders of civil liberties as Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Murphy. Their records in public life put them at the opposite pole of government from the indiscriminate Rep. Martin Dies (D. Tex.), who blankets the uhpopular with the subversive.

A. C. L. U. Honors Murphy-

To complete the irony, Attorney General Murphy is now being honored by the American Civil Liberties Union, which Chairman Dies suspects of subversive activities and Communist control. Mr. Murphy earned this honor by establishing a Civil Liberties Unit in the U. 8. Department of Justice, a field of law enforcement hitherto considered too unimportant by the Federal Government to merit such special attention. The A. C. L. U. at the same time is paying tribute to Senator Thomas for his work on the Senate Civil Liberties Committee, which he shared with Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr (Prog. Wis), The eminently respectable New York conference is headed by such notables as William Allen White, Col. William J. Donovan and Miss Mary E. Woolley. In addition to this, subject of c#vil liberties during a national emergency, the conference is considering: Negro rights, the anti-alien drive, censorship, Na- - tional Relations Board, Industrial Mobilization Plan, academic freedom, religious freedom, anti-Semit-ism and conscientious obpectors to war,

URGE ENLISTMENT OF OTTAWA PRISONERS

TORONTO, Oct. 13 (U. P.).— Ottawa has been urged to enlist at once the 560 short-term prisoners in the Ontario reformatories, all medically fit and all prepared to volunteer, Premier Mitchell Hepburn revealed today. The Premier said Ontario was prepared to take over the -supervision of interned enemy aliens, on condition that they be employed in closing the 150-mile trans-Canada highway link between Hearst and Geraldton.

recently re-emphasized in New York

Feat Reported

NEW YORK, Oct. 13 (U. P).— The American Chemical Society reported today that, according to its Budapest correspondent, two. Hungarian chemists had developed a chemical method to produce rain in times of drought. The chemists are Henrik Gorog and Aladar Rovo, : “Gaseous, liquid or solid fuels, placed ‘in containers on the soil of on the surface of lakes, are ignited by electric’ current,” the society said. “The quick-lifting masses of hot air are said to cause shower-like summer rains.” The society said meteorologist had shown interest in the experiment, but that the spot where the rain will fall “cannot be determined exactly.” -

F. D. R. BACKING

Reports Majority Believes Neutrality Law Revision Is Best: Peace Way.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (U. PJ. —An overwhelming majority of the people support President Roosevelt's neutrality law revision program “as the hest means of preserving peace and international ideals,” Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt said last night.

Interviewed after his recent swing through the East and Midwest, the Democratic Presidential aspirant said that political, business and social leaders ‘with whom he conferred solidly backed the President’s program. Lad : Mr. McNutt said that he is “satisfied that the Administration bill meets requirements of the present world and domestic situation,” and he blamed propagandists for the thousands of adverse letters and telegrams received by Congress. The former Indiana Governor who

that his political future is predicated on Mr. Roosevelt's third-term plans and that he will support the President if he again runs, said he is not taking an active part in the neutrality fight, but is merely expressing his own reaction as to how the country feels: about it.

APPOINTMENTS MADE IN MANUAL R. 0. T. C.

Appointments in the Manual High School R. O. T. C. have been announced by Staff Sergt. Robert M. French, instructor. John D. Raikos, has been named cadet major; Albert Peters and Frank E. Hornaday, captains, and. Carl Eggert, David Bernhardt and Edward Schumann, first litenants. Non-commissioned officers include William Rohr, Kenneth Kritsch, Paul Brandt, Richard Rieman, Tom Holevas, Ed Riedweg, Harold Mussmann, Raymond Miller, William Harnedy, Charles Borkes, Robert Tedrowe, William Durham, Mike Kass, Glenn Craig, Robert -Blythe, Robert Virhines, James Wheatley, Jimmie Rizzo, Milton Green, Kenneth Adams, William Bottin, James Noble, Richard Johnson and Arnold Hollander. . ’ Those promoted to the rank of] private first class are John Shoemaker, Jack Tracy, Harry Stewart, Kenneth Taylor, Harold Bretz, James Kennington, Eugene Bowles, Everett Knight, Ralph Morgan, Robert Medcalf, Thomas Bower, Robert O'Neal, Al Ardelean, Richard Caum, Frank Barrett, Charles Burkett, Robert Elder, Carl Pardieck and Jimmy Allee.

TWO BOYS ON HORSE! INVADE. ‘WAR ZONE’.

SKIATOOK, Okla., Oct. 13 (U. P.). —Two boys on one horse heard a lot of shooting out on an Qsage County hilltop. They galloped the horse down a ravine and out into the line of fire of a dozen barking 37-milli-meter guns. The firing was part of maneuvers of the 2d battalion of the 160th Field Artillery, National Guard. Solders stopped firing when they saw the mounted “invaders,” but not before a few shots whistled close to the scared boys.

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