Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1939 — Page 19

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1939

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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27.—The director of Traveler's Aid in San Francisco is Miss Emilie TayJour, a youngish woman who comes from Buffalo and has sung in grand opera and after 12 years in the helping-hand business is still a sucker for ‘a good story. She’s got so she doesn’t believe anybody, but she knows you can be in preity bad trouble even if you lie about the reason for it. Her mind is broad and tolerant, she enjoys the funny side of life, and frequently she winds up by taking the biggest liars under her wing and shelling out some help forsthem from her own pocketbook. ‘ Co. She was telling me about the cutest case Traveler's Aid here has ever had. He was an 87- * year-old Texan. He showed up this summer wearing a hat, but with no coat or vest. He walked with two canes. Hawaii when he was a boy, and always remembered the beautiful brown hula girls on Waikiki Beach, and he wanted to see them again before he died. “Well,” Miss Taylour said, “have you got money to get to Hawaii on?” (She supposed he was broke.) “Of course I've -got money,” the old man said. just sold some lots in Texas.” “Well, can we see the money?” asked Miss Taylour. “No you can’t see it, because I've got it sewed up inside my pants and I'm not gonna take ‘my pants off in front of all you women.” So they got him a pair of scissors, and they all left ‘the room, and he cut $600 in cash out of his pants ® where he had it sewed in. 8 8 8

Not a Bit Discouraged

Traveler's Aid was stumped. They didn’t think he ought to make the trip to Hawaii, and yet it wasn’t any- of their business. They got in touch with a,

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Our Town

' FIFTY YEARS ago when I was.a kid, you could always count on the West Side to turn up with something the like of which no other part of town had. * Bui generis is the word for it.

_ When other parts of town ran to the papers with news of the arrival of the first crocus, the West Side just sat back and laughed and pointed to the alligators basking in the sunshine on the shores of White River. The. alligators out there always announced the arrival of spring at least a week before the crocus did. The West End, I remember too, had the first piece of radium in Indianapolis—the one Dr. Eisenbeiss bought. To say nothing of Tom and Jerry, the two horses belonging to Engine - House 6. One terrible hot afternoon Tom and Jerry answered the third alarm of a fire at Cornell Ave. and 17th St. and hardly got back when they received a ring to hurry to Illinois St. and McLain Place. After that they ran to 950 S. West St. and before 8 p. m. they were called to the corner of Torbet and Paca Sts. Total distance covered that afternoon was 17 miles. Next day they looked as fresh as daisies. 8 8 8

"And So It Went

It was that way with else on the West Side. Even when it came to ghosts; “The best .the = South Side could show in tHat line was an orthodox white ghost. Well, believe it or not, the West Side had a black ghost. I can’t remember just when the black ghost turned . up, but I have a sneaking notion that it was some- *~ time around 1893, the year of miracles and the Chi cago World Fair. Anyway, it was the year Philip Heimbo ran his boarding house at 26 S. West St. Mr. Heimbo, I recall, was terribly sick that year &nd unable to leave his bed. His friends were worried

® - av Washington " WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—When the Dies Committee published its “red list” of Government employees—in reality it is more of a sucker list—Rep. John J. Dempsey of New Mexico, a Democrat and businessman of means, and a member of the Dies Committee, protested. He said, “I am not for smearing a lot of American citizens.” ~ What the Dies Committee published were the names. of . Government employees on the mailing list of the American League for Peace and Democracy. This organization was formed under Communist inspiration by J. B. Matthews, a former avowed Communist “fellow traveler” who has since repented and landed a good job as chief investigator for the Dies Committee. Originally it was the League Against War and Fascism. Although the organization changed. its name, it did not change its spots and still receives annual contributions from the Communist Party. So it can be put down as a “front” organization which, when it is not being used for some purpose Inspired by the Communists, has devoted itself to such innocent activities as trying to “stop Hitler,” “save Czechoslovakia,” or promoting the Lincoln Memorial concert for Marian Anderson. Particularly it was active in raising PIONS for Spanish refugees, x

Not N ecessarily Members

That is how Oscar Chapman, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, happened to contribute $2, and to receive a membership card which he declined to renew. The list makes no distinction between active members and those who have contributed to some of its causes, or those merely on its mailing list. The Dies Committee itself explained this carefully

My Day

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Thursday.—I did not have space yesterday to tell you that I had the pleasure of - meeting, in Muncie, Ind, the two young fliers who set the new endurance record by staying in the air for 22

days. They were in a plane which did not allow" them to stand up, so one boy said _ that when they finally landed his knees buckled under him,

I asked them what they had to eat during this long period : . and was told that tomato juice and fried chicken was a favorite diet. One boy added that it still is his favorite diet in spite of having had a good deal of it during tHe past few weeks. They" are going to have their first flight in a Douglas transport plane this week, since they are journeying to New York to appear on a ra-

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dio program. On arriving in Detroit this morning, we made our way to the station restaurant for breakfast where we were joined by four of my nieces and a sister-in-law, and then we continued on our trip to Ann Arbor. I have heard so much about the University of Michigan, that I am particularly glad of the opportunity to see it. Ins. Uses alone would make the

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By Ernie Pyle

brother back home, and he said he had tried to dis-,

suade him, too, but without: success. So Traveler's Aid kept stalling him off, and saying they couldn't get steamship reservations. They even assigned ‘one of the girls to him, and she took him over to the Exposition and showed him & big time.

Somehow, they

After he got home, h

t him started back to Texas. sent word that he’s going to

finally

Hawaii next summer, sure as shootin’, and when he comes through San Francisco on the way he isn’t coming near Traveler’s Aid, either.

Another. time,

Angéles, broke.

a woman showed up. from Los Traveler's Aid agreed to board and

bed her overnight. Then, one by one, she sheepishly revealed that she had a husband, a brother and a son with her. Traveler's Aid fixed them up, too. Then at last the woman said she had two pets that were awfully hungry. Miss Taylour told her that Traveler's Aid didn’t feed pets, but that she’d do it out

of her own pocket.

“Bring them up and leave tae

here while I go to dinner,” she, said,

She Makes

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Amends ~~ .

When she got back, the girls in the outer office said the woman had brought up her pets in a canvas bag and left them in her office. Miss Taylour opened the

bag, The woman

In it were two 14-foot pythons!

was 8 circus. performer, out of a job.

When she came in a little later she felt terrible that she had scared the Traveler's Aid. She got the snakes

out and put on

a performance, and Miss Taylour ac-

tually got up nerve enough to stroke one of the

pythons.

Traveler's Aid is always on its toes, Mary decided to make a trip to the|

when my Aunt

Last spring,

Exposition, Traveler's Aid wrote me and said they'd be pleased to help her in any way they could. So I wrote back and thanked them, and said Aunt Mary wouldn't need any help, but in case Traveler's Aid got lost of something, Aunt Mary would be glad to help THEM. I've never thought to ask her since her trip whether she had to do anything for them.

By Anton Scherrer

and used to come around every night to see how he

was getting along.

their lives. An

One night they had the scare of apparition, that of a woman dressed

in black, stood silently at the back window and gazed covetously into the room. ~ As long as the watchers by the bedside remained

quiet the figure started for the

would stand motionless. Soon as one door, however, the figure would dis-

appear down the alley. The ghost turned up more than once and on several occasions Mr. Heimbo's friends chased it, but they never caught up with it.

A Rude Interruption It was just .about this time, too, that some Negro

boys were shooting craps on West St.

They had

their minds intently on the game when suddenly one

of them look later he looked street.

up and let out a yell A moment ike a black streak tearing down the

His colleagues couldn't understand his be-

havior until they happened to look behind. Not 20

feet away stood

the black ghost. It was standing mo-

tionless and appeared to be deeply interested in the

game,

The kids were so badly frightened that they

didn’t stop to pick up their winnings. Just left them lie on the sidewalk. The ghost watched the fleeing forms, pocketed the change and disappeared in the

darkness.

The police never caught up with the black ghost notwithstanding the fact that they got a hurry-up

call every time

ever try to explain the phenomenon. sure, two men appeared at headquarters

sion; to be

the ghost appeared. Nor did anybody On one occa-

with a theory that the West End ghost was a real-

for-sure

woman.

In fact the same woman they

found wandering along the banks of the canal, one terribly dark midsummer night. When they asked her what she was up to—so ran the men’s story-—she

told them that she had thrown her baby canal and that she was looking for it.

in the The story

didn’t impress the West Siders worth a cent. They just xept on believing it was a ghost. As far as I know, Mr. Heimbo recovered.

By Raymond Clapper

and said that it had no testimony to indicate that

any person on munist Party.

its list was a member of the Com-

Certainly Chapman isn’t. He has been a registered Democrat in Colorado for 20 years. Edwin L. Smith, a member of the National Labor Relations Board who also was on the list, is known

as being leftish

ate confirmed him,

but he passed muster when the SenMordecai Ezekiel, economist for

the Department of Agriculture, also leftish, got into the Government under Hoover and hasn’t been able

to bring off any revolution as yet.

Zeke has his

ideas but he is about as dangerous as a dove. For the most part the “red list” consists of clerks and stenographers, hacking away in the coils of bureaucratic red tape, in the dreariest kind of work

known to man.

Who is to begrudge them the excite-

ment of sitting around at night taking the world apart and putting it back together again? Every-

body else does

it around Washington, ‘® 2 2

A Bag of “Innocents”

The Dies list totals up 563, including a charwoman, out of a Government payroll in Washington of 147,760

persons.

This League for Peace and Democracy has

to be good to accomplish anything with a mailing list as small as that. Around here there are three kinds of pinkos.

First, the C. P., munist Party.

or registered member of the ComProbably few in the Government are

dumb enough to be caught registered.

Second, the

“fellow traveler” who for reasons of

expediency doesn’t sign up but who knows what it’s all about and lends a willing hand. Must be a number of them in the woodwork around here. Third, the “innocents” who, not knowing what the score is, become suckers for the Communists who use them as innocent mouthpieces. The chances are that Mr. Dies has caught a bag of “innocents” who will know better next time,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

beautiful buildings and I am looking forward to seeing the interior of some of them this afternoon. This morning I went out with Mr. Connor, regional director of WPA, and saw a project which is being

conducted “in collaboration with the university.

Men

and women, under able supervision, are gathering

source material

for use throughout the state by other

projects which are making visual material of various kinds to be used in public schools. For instance, in the source® project, a young Negro showed me drawings he had executed of a Dutch

kitchen.

It was perfect in every detail. kitchen went the details of figures showing the

With the

othes

worn by men and women of the period and listing the, materials from which they were made. There will be an exhibit here next week showing examples of this

work as done throughout the state, and t! I saw part of the exhibit. There were dolls and period cosfiim

morning ] foreign es, ships: which began with the

savage who floated on a log and continued up to the modern steamships, houses of various periods and . many other things, all beautifully made.

There is one

uniyue project being carried on here—

& correspondence course available to.people of low incomes at whatever level of education they may find

themselves.

This is a much needed personal service,

and the fact that papers come in ‘for correction at the rate of some 200 a day would tend to show that people

really ity

are anxious to avail themselves of this new opportun-

headquarters,

: North France. Force activities in France.

tecting them,

in a village near the front,

of the Western Front,

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Language

(The following dispatch, exclusive to The Times, is from Thomas M. Johnson, famous World War correspondent and author of many books and articles on military topics.)

By THOMAS M. JOHNSON

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (NEA).— The American Army is not at war— but neither is it exactly at peace. It is- struggling to make itself strong, so that if this country should join an international - peace 'conference, our voice would speak a language that militaristic European powers would understand. Or, if peace conferences fail, that we may be ready for whatever happens anywhere. To fill that very large order will take feats of expansion to tax the Army and the nation. That is why President Roosevelt has just ordered the Army and Navy to go ahead and spend money—unauthorized by Congress—for housing, for hospitalization and for recondie tioning: obsolete vessels. But it may prove that thaf’s not the half of it.

3-Point Program Under Way

It is indicated here today that events soon will force those responsible for the security of the United States to consider seriously the most formidable and expensive plans for “peacetime” armament in American history. Those plans contain three major points: 1. The Army would be raised to a million or more men. 2. This force would be supplied as quickly as possible with the latest equipment at an immediate additional cost of $300,000,000. 3. All'this would be done quickly enough to permit starting to train the force this winter in Southern cantonments, as in the World War, - Busy Recruiting Now Such steps would double the increase in the Army’s strength already authorized by the President a month ago when he proclaimed a limited emergency. He then directed recruiting the Regular Army up to 237,000 and the National Guard to 235,000, But the National Defense Act allows 280,000 Regulars and 450,000 Guardsmen. Besides this force of 730,000 there would be Reserves sufficient to raise the entire United States Army to nearly a million men. Today the increase.to the maximum allowed under the Act is only talked of, not realized. The Regular Army already ‘is hard at work recruiting from 165,000 to 237,000; the National Guard "just beginning to increase from 205,000. But already other emergency measures are taking shape, such as organizing a strong striking force. The Third Corps that is to be formed at Ft. Benning, Ga., with its own special corps troops, is the first such organization since the World War. In it will be three Regular divisions, reorganized according to new plans into relatively small, “streamlined,” hard-hitting units armed to the teeth with modern weapons. Once ready, this force of some 40,000 men would be “first to fight”

Times-Acme Photos.

1, French motorized units carrying out a reconnaissance patrol.

2. With his hand raised in salute, the Duke of Windsor (right), now a general in the British Army, leaves after a visit to a general

3. Boughs from trees laid against the wings form an effective camouflage for this plane at the edge of a military airdrome in This photo is one of the first made of Royal Air So well hidden are these airdromes that correspondents on a recent tour went through the area without de-

4, Their rifles stacked, a detachment of French soldiers pauses

5. Before tanks lined up in formation, officers of the French tanks are decorated during a court of honor held behind the lines

All the above Photos were passed by censor and sent to the U. 8.

U.S. Army Tries to Talk

of Dictators

But before this new Corps or others that may be organized later, or the Fifth Division: planned for Ft. Sheridan, Ill, and the Sixth for Ft. Lewis, Wash., can carry out any mission, they must be trained in team-work under the new scheme of things—which means more maneuvers. ; Guard Needs Material

The Fifth Division, which will include infantry and field artillery regiments now stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, is to train at Ft. McClellan, Ala., under Col. Floyd B. Fredenall, executive officer to the chief of infantry, who has been ordered to Ft. Harrison. Although National Guard divisions are not at present being organized, they need more field training. They can get it now only in the: South, where the old”World War cantonments still afford a framework. Also the Guardsmen must be re-equipped for many of their cannon, rifles and much else are becoming obsolete. They have no gas masks.- And they must learn to use this “new stuff” while more than doubling their numbers—a colossal task even were all equipment available. But that takes from 14 to 18 months after a contract is let. No wonder an Army more than twice as large as our present one, raised in a few months, would need emergency help, especially in the ‘“urgent items” that cannot be bought from civilian makers, such as the new Garand semi-automatic rifle, tanks, bayonets. These items might cost 300 million dollars. The ex-

‘|pense of the whole expansion would

go into hundreds. of millions, but many people here seem to think it would be worth it. The trend was indicated not only by President Roosevelt's action, ‘but by, generally favorable reaction to

-| Gen. Pershing’s birthday statement

two weeks ago calling for recruiting of the Army to full peace-time strength.

PARIS, Oct. 27 (NEA).—The ingenious manner in which Adolf Hitler has been able to refuse his state salary as chancellor, tell his people truthfully that he has no bank account, and yet become rich and provide well for the future, is told in detail by Paul Audinet in a recent issue of “Marianne,” a Parisian journal. The secfet lies in Herr Hitler's oss manager, Max Amann, exarmy sergeant under whom the AY cetior served as corporal. After the war, Herr Hitler lost track of Herr Amann until 1921, when they met again. Herr Amann then was a minor employee in a bank. He accepted a job running the Hitler publication, Voelkische Beobachter, and made a success by sending out troopers for tin

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SHORTRIDGE SHOWS 2 ART COLLECTIONS

The permanent collection of painting of the Roda Selleck art gallery and the current exhibit of water colors by Paul Hadley, noted Hoosfer artist, will be shown at Shortridge High School during the observance of American Education Week, Nov. 6-10. Other. exhibits will ‘be coilections of field work by biology pupils, the history of the school, safety posters,

athletic trophies, home economics work, art works, handicraft and ex-

‘periments in chemistry and physics.

A program commemorating Armistice Day will be held at Shortridge High School, Nov. 9, under the direction of Robert J. Shultz, of the music department. The program will include patriotic songs and selections by the Shortridge band.

WAR VETERAN, 45, DIES

- Earl Harrison Foreman, World War veteran of Bruceville, Ind., died yesterday at the Veterans’ Hospital here. Mr. Foreman, who was 45, was a member of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. He is survived by his wife, his mother, Mrs. Etta

Foreman, Vincennes, and one brother. :

Coup on ‘Mein Kampf’ Fattens Profits For Hitler, Parisian Writer Reveals

of the Nazi Party, but of Fuehrer Hitler’s personal affairs. The Voelkische Beobachter -operation led to control of its publisher, the house of Franz Eher, which became official publisher of all Nazi literature, and which except for a few shares became the rsonal property of Herr Amann and Herr Hitler. More spectacular was Herr 's promotion of Hitler's “Mein Kampf” from a mediocre success to the second best seller in the world—outranked in sales only by the Bible. This resulted, the magazine says, from a suggestion by Herr Amann that the Fuehrer order the book given as a wedding gift to all German newlyweds—the state paying the costs. On the same Basis

EXHIBIT WORK OF INDIANA ARTISTS

Work of three Indiana artists will be exhibited in the Hoosier Art Gallery at Chicago, Nov. 3, the Hoosier Salon Patrons Association announced tpday. They are June Burkholder, West Lafayette; Gordon B. Mess, Indianapolis, and Ruthven H. Byrum, Anderson.

NEUTRALITY DEBATE WILL OPEN FORUM

The University of Chicago Round Table, radio program presented weekly over 43 radio stations, will discuss “Neutrality/ Isolation and the Prospects of Peace” at the opening of the 14th season of the Indianapolis Open Forum, at 8:15 p. m. Sunday at the Kirshbaum Community. Participating in the discussion will be three University of Chicago professors. They are Maynard Krueger, professor of economics; Walter H. C. Laves, assistant prefessor of political science and chairman of the social science courses at the university, and Dr. Quincy Wright, professor of international law. The Indianapolis Open Forum is sponsored by the Jewish Community

Center.

The price remain high, 8 marks 50, and Hitler gets his 20 per cent. From this one book alone M. Augines estimates he has made $821,-

Herr Amann takes care of this rising ' fortune. He buys land and stocks in industrial enterprises. He has bank accounts in various countries. A large amount in pounds sterling stands in the name of Franz Eher Verlag in London, as represented by Max Amann of Munich. In nine other European capitals, under different names, Herr Amann has postal checking accounts. lly Der Fuehrer appears

ing to M. Audinet, without imac) maining tech

Financia to have acored his future, accord-|

TWO BANDS BOOKED

FOR POLICE DANGE

Two dance orchestras, a 90-mine ute stage show and prizes to local dancing champions will feature the Thanksgiving Eve frolic to be given by the associate members of the Fraternal ‘Order of Police at the

Coliseum Nov. 22. | Tom Jenkins is chairman, assisted by 500 members of the Indianapolis Police Department and 400 local businessmen who are associate members. Proceeds wil be used to purchase or build a club house for the Order and for aiding local charities. Joe Sanders and Clyde Lucas’ ore chestras will play starting at 10 p. m. The stage show will start at 8:30 p. m.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Can professional athletes come pete in the Olympic Games? 2—Name the longest river in Russia. 3—Who was the last Negro heavyweight champion previous to Joe Louis? 4—How many cubic inches are in one: gallon? 5—What is the value of merchandise that an American traveler may bring in from abroad withe out payment of duty?

River? 7—Name the tallest office building in the United States. 8—Who was the first President to die in the White House? ® 2 2

Answers 1—No. 2—The Volga. 3—Jack Johnson. 4—231. 5—One hundred dollars. 6—New Jersey. Ee State Building, New York g8—William Henry Harrison. : ss 8 8

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