Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1939 — Page 7

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21,1939

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Hoosier Vagabond

. #8AN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21.—You just. ought to be around San Francisco when they have a heat wave. The local people are a riot. It practically never gets hot in ‘San Francisco, ter or summer. The wind from the ocean keeps it cool, and the fog keeps it dark, and when a nice warm day wanders in by accident San Franciscans think the city is catching fire. Recently there was a “heat wave” here that lasted a week. It actually did get clear up to 97 degrees. The city practically stopped turning. Schools closed. Local government suspended. People tell me they saw cops without their coats on for the first time in their lives. During that time I never _heard a single. conversation upon any subject but the heat. People actually died from it. And those who lived apparently would have welcomed death. : Unfortunately for me, it turned cold again just as I was getting ready. to take off my heavy underwear. During the heat wave it suddenly dawned upon me that none of the restaurants was air-conditioned. This seemed odd to me. So I asked a frien% about it. “Air conditioned?” he said. “Why, there isn’t an air conditioned place in San Francisco. We don’t need

air conditioning here except once in 10 years, in some freak spell like this.”

Beautiful but N ity

I find it always hard to get away from San Francisco. This really is a wonderful city. It is still to me the prettiest city in America. : There are four sets of street car lines on Market St. Some times I ride the cars on the outside line. But I've never got up nerve enough to wiggle through to the inside cars. I don’t know where they go, anyhow. It seems to me the street cars make more

Our Town

FINALLY IT CAME time to start for home. We hired an automobile in Haarlem, a Chevrolet, and rode through the countryside to Rotterdam. It was 8 lovely morning drenched in Dutch sunshine, marred only by the sight of marching soldiers. Some, indeed, were on wheels. Once I saw a farmer on a bicycle leading his cow to market. It was a scene charged with anomalies. Twice ‘we were stopped and searched for contraband. Arriving at Rotterdam, we found the town packed with jittery, nerve-wracked people. They had come from everywhere— France, Germany, Switzerland— and every one had a ghastly story to tell. Some had made as many as 14 railroad changes in order to reach Holland, the only place left—at any rate on the continent—to catch a boat back home. Had I known what I now do, I would have stayed a week longer in Haarlem with the flowers and Frans Hals. . The way things turned out, the sailing of our boat, the Nieuw Amsterdam, was postponed from day to day. Fact is, we didn’t get going until eight days after we were supposed to. In the meantime, more and more people poured into Rotterdam. By that time I found myself mostly in the company of Indianapolis people and it sort of made up for the loss of Haarlem and Frans Hals. I picked up a new acquaintance every day—folks like Frieda Kipp, for instance, and Gus Efr oymson and Bert Feibleman, and Mrs. Franz Nepple and “her little daughter Helga. When they get ready to, teil: their stories, you'lt find them better than mine:

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The Start for Home

Seems that a lot of things happened to postpone our sailing. For one thing, the British Navy stopped the Nieuw Amsterdam on her way to Rotterdam and combed her for contraband. I don’t know what they found in that line, but I'm told that 22 of her crew were arrested and marched off to jail. They had the hard luck not to be Dutchmen. Well, sometime around midnight of Sept. 21 we finally got going. The first 24 hours in the Channel we made exactly 91 miles; the second day, 137. In

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—In ordering belligerent— meaning. German—submarines to stay outside « of American territorial waters, President Roosevelt again is moved by a desire to -keep the backwash of the European war safely away from our shores. Since Germany is the belligerent affected by this order, it doubtless will be said by some that Mr. Roosevelt again has displayed his partiality toward the British and French. Repeatedly it has been charged in Senate debate that this Administration is not neutral in its feelings, and no one who is familiar with Washington in this period can honestly challenge such assertious. Doubtless some Senators will take occasion now in the ‘neutrality debate to assail Mr. Roosevelt anew with the accusation that he is acting to help the British and | French by excluding submarines from American waters. Indeed, before the submarine order was announced at least one Senator was preparing to attack

the Neutrality Bill and the Administration policy on °

the ground that it permitted British and French armed merchant ships to use American ports freely. z ® s

Restrictions on Warships

The neutrality proclamation of Sept. 5 restricts use ‘of American ports by warships but does not exclude them. The restrictions permit the Allies to have not | more than three warships in American ports at any one time. They may not remain in port for more than 24 hours, unless compelled to do so by bad weather or because of delays in receiving supplies or

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Friday—I have two letters from England this morning. I am goingto quote them because they show two such different points of view, both of which are very interesting. Of course, all of us in both countries are deeply concerned with establishing a real peace eventually. One letter is written »y a man who evidently went through the last war and must have suffered, for he istnow an invalid. 3 asks: .-“If a great power who din pends for her life blood on industry and commerce, refuses to accept real responsibility in defense of decency in international affairs, how can she possibly help when matters may have been allowed to go too far as they may well do?” The other is from a woman, and she says: “A very beloved brother was killed fighting in 1915. He said: I don’t mind if my life may help put an end to war.’ Now I feel his life was given in vain, for the peace treaties made further wars inevitable since they were not revised. Therefore, I take the liberty of writing to implore you to use all your influence to keep Amer.jca out of war, so that there may be some sane neutrals to help toward a world settlement as just as is ble. possible. ot help passing these two letters along to you, for I kno “primary concern today is howywe can

noise here than in any other place in America.

The other day while walking along the street I noticed a dignified looking middle-aged man sitting in a restaurant, at a table next to the window.

On the street, a woman and her little girl passed. The little girl lagged behind, stopped at the window, and peered intently in at the man eating his lunch. Whereupon he stopped, flattened his nose against the plane, and looked cross-eyed. The little girl giggled and went on. : The man continued his lunch, looking pleased with himself. $

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H otels Wage Battle

The St. Francis Hetel every night washes all the silver money it took in that day. Does it in a whirling machine with washing powder and B-B.shot that rattle against the coins and take off all the dirt. The money comes out looking as if it had just been minted. They say the idea originated at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane several years ago. The St. Francis and Mark Hopkins hotels are conducting a war of splendor for the cocktail trade. The Mark Hopkins sits up on Nob Hill, and the view from there is wonderful. This summer they opened a- cocktail room right on the top floor. They call it the “Top o’ the Mark” It is round, and the outer walls are simply big glass windows clear around, and I will say that looking down on the lights of San Francisco from there is one of the most heautiful sights I have ever seen. Well, the St. Francis couldn’t have that. And they couldn't compete in scenic view, for the St. Francis is downtown, and not very high anyhow. So they dug: out the cash box, fired their imaginations, and produced a lavish cocktail room complstely in patent leather! The “Patent Leather Room” has just opened. Since opening night I've had a taxi chartered, and I keep running back and forth between the “Top o’ the Mark” and the “Patent Leather Room,” to see which is doing the most business. The last time I was able to see anything they were both full.

By Anton Scherrer

times. of peace, the Nieuw Amsterdam’s daily run is somewhere around 500 miles. We were picking our way through the Channel apparently through a prescribed lane, the lines of which were distinctly marked by things that look like buoys. A fellow passenger with a military mustache said they were explosives. In the offing, spotted at intervals, were little fleets composed as a rule of five or six good-sized units of the British Navy, stationed there I suppose to see that the Dutch didn’t start some monkey business. On the second day out things began to pop. At any rate, there was a shot and immediately our boat came to a stop. The shot came from somewhere in the direction of the British Navy. Presently a boat looking like a tender approached ours and received something looking like a brief case. The tender returned to her fleet. In the meantime we stood stock still. After maybe two hours, the tender came back with another brief case containing, possibly, instructions what to do when we got to Southampton.

Clearing the Channel

Not being nautically-minded, I haven't the least idea what we were supposed to do, but I guess it was done to the King's taste because when we got to Southampton we took on 250 more passengers and 50 American automobiles, the worse for wear and travel, Even then we weren’t out of the Channel. The getting out was the most exciting part of the trip. England has a chain consisting of explosives and battleships stretched clean across the Channel. All the way over to France, mind you. To let the Nieuw Amsterdam. out, the chain had to be broken, and I saw it happen with my own eyes. You bet, though, the chain was patched up the minute we were out. Then the strangest thing happened. Soon as we were out in the open water nobody was scared of anything anymore. We never considered the -possibility) of submarines underneath, or airplanes overhead. | Well, that still left six days. Time enough to examine the passengers on board. People, for instance, Merle Oberon (“Wuthering Heights”); Chiang Wei-ko (son of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek); Jan Smeterlin (Polish pianist):- John Gunther (“Inside Asia”) and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie. The fur coat Mrs. Carnegie wore had a cotton lining. I thought you ought to know.

By Raymond Clapper

repairs. Numerous restrictions are made against the outfitting of privateers here or against use of American ports as bases for “mother ships” engaged in supplying food, fuel and other necessities to belligerent warships lying out at sea. The purpose of -these regulations is to keep the war away from America. Probably a good case can be made for applying to British and French surface warships the same exclusion order that has just now been applied to submarines. But with regard to armed merchant ships of belligerents a different question arises. Assuming that the restrictions against abusing armed merchant ship privileges as a cover for commerce raiders are enforced and only legitimate shipping is allowed to use our ports, there seems no ground for objecting to this shipping coming in with mounted guns. These merchant ships are engaged in carrying trade and as such they are targets at sea for German submacines. : & u ”

Subs Difficult to Detect

The only logical ground for complaint that could possibly exist is that submarines (of Germany) are excluded from American ports while three surface warships (of the Allies) can be in American ports for stretches of 24 hours at a time. But the surface warship is easily observed and its conduct may be watched to see that it does not violate American neutrality regulations. The submarine, by its very nature, is difficult to detect, and its sole reason for existence is its ability to sneak around unobserved. Therefore, in the interest of keeping the war away from American shores, the President has undertaken

‘to keep out this type of craft, and the fact that it

hits Germany is less important than that it gives us additional protection against becoming part of the naval battleground.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

eventually bring the world to greater security and peace. Yesterday I went to a luncheon given by societies taking part in the Prison Congress, which is meeting here. “At our places at the table were little printed slips bearing this message: “My brother the criminal, T love him. The beggar, also my brother, I love him. The cripple, the poor, the unfortunate and the fortunate, are all my brothers. I cannot separate myself from humanity, I am a human being, I belong to the human family and until the least of these are free, whole, perfect—I- cannot be so either. “The criminal, what is his crime? Unwelcomed unwanted, underprivileged through all his life, till the doors of the prison close upon him, and even there he is unwelcomed, unwanted, underprivileged. “The beggar, the cripple, the poor, why are they so? Because you do not care—and because I do not care. Make the world safe for humanity—and be your brother’s keeper.” I had an opportunity to talk to the New York City Commissioner of Correction, Mr. Austin McCormick, and the head of prison work in England, Col. Patterson. They have a much less complicated problem over there. He told me an astounding thing about the number of prison visitors who give one night out of every week to visit five or six men in prison who are assigned to them. These prison visitors follow through with these men after they are released. : We are on our way today, with members of the Prison Congress, to the guard exhibition at Sing Sing.

By Ernie Pyle]

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battle line.

Times-Acme Photos.

1. A group. of destroyers taking part in the war games staged by the U. S. Fleet about 200 miles off the California coast. Basis of the maneuvers was a problem in which the fleet rushed out of Los Angeles to engage an enemy fleet bent on a mission of . destruction.

2. Squadrons of airplanes roaring ‘over dreadnaughts deployed in

3. The 10,000-ton cruiser, Chicago, played an important role in the

games.

4. Gracefully arching wakes of heavy cruisers.

Navy plane.

foam trail from the sterns of these

5. Battleships steam in formation in this aerial view made from a

656 AT MANUAL HIGH GIVEN HIGH RANKING

Six hundred and fifty-six Manual High School pupils received high ranking for the first six-week grade period. Ione Colligan, with 44 points, was the only ene to receive a straight A-plus card. Edward Schumann led the boys with 43 points. Other high-ranking pupils are:

Constance Geilker, Mary Bunning, Bernice Berge eh, Marie Sassaver. Margaret Doth: malou Lockwood. Doris. Hubert op Rusie, Betty Irish, Laura Ida Mercurio, Audrey Laughlin. rika Braf, LaVerne Morical. Martha Louise White, Catherine Wyant, Katherine Strols, ene _ Elkins, H Me Martha Rooker, Florence Willard, Jua. Edwards' and Josephine

1stin. Davis. Arvine Popplewell, Cal-

. Bauer, berg. Elmer Eisenbarth. Peter Pappas. Will Kniptash, Carl Campbell, James Foxlow, Charles Hamer, Hard James Bottin, Lawrence

4 Mar jor Ann Nisenbaum,

Richard Small. ‘Ravmond Brandes, Fdwin Ratcliffe, Thomas Heininger and Milton Bohard.

= PSYCHOLOGISTS HOLD SYMPOSIUM AT I. U.

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Oct. 21.— Psychologists from the ‘Midwest convened at Indiana University today for the Bryan Symposium on Psychology. Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president emeritus of the University, will address a dinner meeting, commemearating, the 50th anniversary of the founding of the University’s psychology laboratory. Tocay’s program was opened by Dr. Elmer A. Culler, Rochester University psychology department head, with a discussion of “Recent Studies of Learning by ‘the Con- . Dr. Edmund S. Conklin, Indiana University psychology department head, is to preside at a luncheon.

FLATROCK CHURCH MARKS 90TH YEAR

The 90th anniversary of the founding of St. John’s Lutheran Church at Flatrock, 12 miles southeast of here, will be served tomorrow. The Rev. H. ‘W. Hartenberger, pastor, is in charge of arrangements. °* The jubilee speaker will, be the Rev. August Gerken, Marysville, 0, the only living former

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Oct 21.—|

Municipal League to Open

Convention Here Nov. 15

The 45th annual convention of

the National Municipal League will

be held at the Hotel Severin Nov. 15, 16 and 17, it was announced here

today by John W. Esterline, arrangements committee chairman.

Clarence A. Dykstra, league president and president of the Univer-

sity of Wisconsin, will preside. manager, and Herman B Wells Indiana University president, will speak at a banquet at the Indianapolis Athletic Club Nov. 16.

Citizen Action Is Issue

Representatives of hundreds of municipalities throtighout the coun-

el. | try will discuss citizen action in

changing the structure of local government, revival of interest in local elections and methods of reducing governmental costs. The effect of the European war on local government units also will be discussed. ‘Election methods, the growth of governmental functions, public welfare, municipal expenditure control, liquor and foed sales regulation and the organization of local citizens’ councils are among the other subjects listed for study.

Open to Public

All sessions are open to the public, Mr. Esterline said. Citizens’. groups are especially invited, he said. Convention speakers will: include governors, mayors, city managers and ‘other municipal executives, according to Dr. Roy V. Peel, league research director. The National Association of Civic

Secretaries and the Proportional]

Representation - League ‘will hold their annual conference in - conjunction with the league sessions, Mr. Esterline. said.

BOONE PUPILS GIVEN TUBERCULOSIS TEST

Times Special : - LEBANON, Ind., Oct. 21. — The Boone County : Tuberculosis Association has opened its fall and winter program with the skin testing of children in the public schools. Tests were given to 170 Lebanon High - School pupils and 116 First Grade children. The testing will continue throughout all schools of the county during the next few weeks.

h SC FOR SANTA NEW YORK, Oct. 21 (U. P).— Robert Evans, 54, looks so much like Santa Claus that ‘the judge didn’t have the heart to send him to jail for pa g.. He has white hair and a long’ white beard. He said he usually has steady work at' Christ-

mas time imitating Santa’ Claus at

Mr. Dykstra, former Cincinnati city

INDIANA'S MAYORS MEET NEIT WEEK

Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Oct. 21.—More than 500 mayors, councilmen, town board members and departmental heads are expected to attend the 40th annual convention of the Indiana Municipal League and its auxiliary here Thursday and Friday. Mayor W. Vincent Youkey of Crown Point is the league’s éxecutive secretary. The convention theme will be “Save ' the City—and- Save America.” Emphasis will .be placed by delegates ‘and speakers on “more economical, efficient and progressive local’ self-government,” Mayor Youkey. said. : Alban M. Smith, La Porte, league president, will name a committee to select next year’s meeting place.

VISITS SON IN JAIL, THEN ‘STAYS OVER’

LA PORTE, Ind. Oct. 21 (U. P.). —F. W. Unger, 51, of Milwaukee, Wis., stopped at the jail yesterday to visit with his son, Fred, serving an 11-day term for public Inte tion. Joday he had more time to talk to Fred. Police picked him up on

charges of forgery and obtaining]:

money under false pretenses in five | states. He was wanted, they said, in: Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin: and Michigan.

FARMERS ‘RE-ELECT . OFFICERS: OF GUILD

MONT{CELLO, Ind, Oct. 21. — Robert Spender, of this ‘city, has been re-elected ‘president ‘of the Indiana Farmers Guild. ' Charles L. Foster was re-elected |

secretary, and 8S. D. Mohr, Frank-'

fort, vice president. Directors re‘elected were Mr. Mohr, Delphi; D. E. Harris, Jonesboro; E. A. Butrick,’ Milford; -A. W. ‘Lovelace; Sullivan, and "Haven Davis, Clark's

500 ARE EXPECTED AT DENTIST SESSION

Times Spécial

FT. WAYNE, Ind, Oct. 21.— About 500 dentists are expected. to attend ‘the 49th annual convention of the Northern Indiana Dental Society here: Wednesday | and rhursday. Dental’ operating techniques “will be discussed at a round-table conference . Wednesday morning. Wednesday afternoon :and Thursday morning * sessions - will feature demonstrations and lectures. Speakers” will include Dr. Alfred A. Nelson, Detroit; Dr. John Graves, Indiana University; Dr. C.. J. Sud-

darth, Chicago, and Dr. E. J. Ryan,|.

Evanston, , Ill, -editor-in-chief of Oral Hygeine, ‘national dental publication.

THREE-STATE AREA “ANID PAYMENTS UP

CHICAGO, Oct. 21 (U. P.)—H. L. McCarthy, regional Social Security Board director, today - estimated October public assistance payments in Illinois, Wisconsin .and Indiana will total $5,765,700. The estimate included fonds from Federal, state ‘and local assistance agencies. - October payments will exceeed : the previous month’s, he said. “Mr. McCarthy listed the classes of beneficiaries and the amounts in the three-state area .this month as folOWS: : Old-age assistance, £47,000 eligibles, $4,770,000. Tan ‘Needy blind, 4480 eligibles, $94,800.

Dependent, shllafen,’ 61,800 elgibles, $900,800.

SHERIFFS’ CONCLAVE WILL OPEN | MONDAY

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‘RICHMOND, - Ind., Oct. 21.—Between 175 and’ 200 officers are ex- . | pected . to attend the annual convention ‘of the. Indiana Sheriff's Association here “Monday and Tuesday.

_E..F. Diekmann, Evansville, Van- |

derburg - County . sheriff, - president

of the association, will open tlie

convention. Mayor John R. Britten of Richmond will welcome visitors: Officers will be ‘elected Tuesday,

following an’ open’ forum and’ ness; session.

F: renth Revive ‘40 et 8’ Cars

Times Special PARIS, Oct. 21.—The “40 Hommes 8 Chevaux” freight cars of

World War fame are sgein functioning in this war. Poilus again are being billeted in hay lofts.

SWEDISH STEAMER SUNK

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 21 (U..-P.).— The 1450-ton Swedish steamship Gustav Adolf was torpedoed en route to England today. The crew of 19 was saved by the Norwegian Steamer Bicay.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the capital of the Re"public ‘of Honduras. 2—What is the name. of the instrument used .to, determine : the specific_gravity of Mquids? 3—Name the third" book™ of : the Pentateuch. 4—Who was appointed . by President Roosevelt to-fill the office of Attorney ‘General of, the U. S., to succeed Homer 8. Cummings? 5—What is an eland? 6—What is the geographical name for the zone between the Tropic ‘of Cancer and the. Tropic ‘of Capricorn? 7—In which foreign country would you be, if you were in Flanders? .§—Who was President of the U.S. when the first census was taken?

# # Answers

‘1—Tegucigalpa. 2—Hydrometer. 3—Leviticus. - 4—Frank Murphy. 5—The largest of the South African .antelopes,- -now - praciically : ‘exterminated. 6—Torrid Zone; Tropics. |

T—Belgium. - 8—George Washington. ” 8

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