Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1939 — Page 19

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1939

Hoosier Vaga

INGLEWOOD, Cal.,, Nov. 10.—The-2400 chinchillag at the Chapman Chinchilla Farm are kept in wir pens—a pair in each pen. The pens are about five feet square, built up off the ground, and are in long rows, like chicken houses. The Chapman ranch, being the oldest one in America, is not quite as fancy as some of the newer ones. There is one in British Columbia that is completely air-conditioned. The chinchillas do best, it seems, in temperatures between 50 and 70 degrees. The ranch here is very scientific, nevertheless. There is an electrical heating unit in every pen. There are glass windows on hinges for rainy weather, The feeders wear brown wrap-around coats, like barbers. And before you.go inside a pen you must disinfect your shoes by stepping into a creosote box. The chinchillas themselves are scrupulously clean, And they seem to have quite a bit of affection. Some owners keep them for pets. They are like owls in that they sleep all day and stay up all night. They absolutely hate water. They shun it both outwardly and inwardly. Their fur is so thick that it holds dampness indefinitely, and sometimes they have to be dried out under hot-air fans, to avoid sickness. The chinchilla people were plenty busy during this summer’s terrific heat wave. They had to keep ice in the pens, and cold water running through constantly. And then thé heat wave broke with a driving cold rain. Two hundred of the 2400 chinchillas came down with light pneumonia. But they saved all but

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A Chinchilla Hospital

There is a regular hospital at the farm. There is an operating table, and sterilizing vats for instruments. There is an X-ray and fluoroscope. But neither of these latter is used any more, as they found radium rays were very damaging to a chinchilla’s innards.

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By Ernie Pyle

troubles. Two years ago the chinchilla industry donated five pairs of chinchillas ($16,000) to. the Purina Mills in St. Louis, and since then the food scientists have been seeking an ideal diet. : Right now the chinchillas are fed ground-up grass, and shelled corn, and a composition made of several kinds of grain. But they eat very little. Last year the food bill was only 89 cents per animal. Chinchillas are monogamous. They are paired when they are a few months old, and they remain husband and wife till one of them dies. : The average age of chinchillas in domesticity is nine years, though one has been known to live 20 years. : A mother chinchilla averages about two litters a year, and two babies to a litter. A little’ chinehilla is always called a “baby.” Almost never a day passes at the ranch without at least one birth. A newborn chinchilla is about the size of a full-grown

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4A Strange Kidnaping

The average grown chinchilla Weighs 22 ounces. Just figure that out—he’s worth more than $70 an ounce, twice his weight in gold! There is only one case of chinchilla kidnaping on record. But it was a honey. It happened 10 years ago. A man came from Switzerland, with good credentials and plenty of money, intending to buy some chinchillas and start a farm in Europe. But the chinchilla people wouldn’t sell him any, because they don’t want farms started in Europe. So the man said he’d at least like to stay around a bit and learn all he could about chinchillas. So he stayed at the ranch three months, and Mr. Chapman became very fond of him. Then one morning: he was gone—and so were 35 chinchillas. That's $56,000. It was a couple of days before they picked up the trail. It led into Mexico, over to Vera Cruz, and Most of the chine chillas died on the way. But he arrived in Germany with half a dozen. |

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to make it worth while bringing them back. So he donated them to zoos in Europe. The last the chinchilla people heard, there was still one alive, in the Berlin zoo. It. probably was chloroformed when the war started.

One of the four bodies from which that of the Unknow Soldier was picked, as it was carried into Chalons-Sur-Marne City Hall,

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THIS IS THE third chapter, and possibly the most exciting of the series dealing with the life and adventures of Morton Patterson, the loud-lunged newsboy stationed at the corner of Market and Pennsyl_vania Sts. Yesterday’s number, you'll remember, ended with O. O. McIntyre’s finding the kid stranded in Singapore. It was even better than that. Not only did Mac stumble across Mor in the Orient, but out of tHe goodness of his heart he picked him up and brought him back home. As safe "and sound as though nothing had happened to the boy. All right. Shortly after that— by which time it was 1937—Morton got a notion to have a look at Florida. He got as far as Norfolk when the sign outside the International Seamen’s Union got the better of his curiosity. Upon investigation. he learned that the Union was ready to pay any American boy $250 a month to go to Spain and fight on the side of the Loyalists. Equipped with the proper credentials and the promise of big pay, Morton in company with 159 other boys started off for Spain. It took them three weeks to get there. When they landed, Morton with 17 others, all of whom came over on the boat with him, was sent to Granada. They were stuck into uniforms and told to fight. EJ = 8

They Didn't Like It

Sometime around the spring of 1937 things began to pop in the neighborhood of Granada. For some reason, however, Morton and his gang couldn’t warm up to the shooting. Now that he looks back, Morton suspects that he lost interest in the Loyalists’ cause

Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—You might say that this political truce, so-called, which began with the outbreak of war in Europe, is only headline deep. Behind the news is found intense activity in both parties— preferably not for publication—as wistful candidates and their friends hunt for support. Out of it will come someone, no doubt, to steer the destiny of the country for the next four years. On the Republican side—and a similar picture could be given of Democratic Presidential activity —a few of the things going cn may be noted. As to the grand strategy, a number of inside party leaders hope to have the nominating convention meet with no candidate dominating the field, so that the best minds may gather in a.quiet hotel room and decide the nomination. They expect to do a better job than was ‘done the last time this method was used, which was in 1920 when Harding was chosen. Herbert Hoover, Joseph Pew of Pennsylvania, and countless lesser state leaders are co-operating in this strategy to hold back the strong men and keep the race wide open until the convention meets. # = ®

Local Boomlets Encouraged

One method is to hide behind state or regional favorites for the time being. Thus Governor Baldwin of Connecticut, who is lightly rated, will have his state,

as will Governor Carr of Colorado and Gevernor James of Pennsylvania. Oregon and several other Western states will stand behind Senator McNary until they get what they want. * Another regional candidacy is being nursed for

My Day

| WASHINGTON, Thursday.—Yesterday I went to my first real party, a lunch with Mrs. Hull which had all the zest of an adventure. At noon I shook hands with the Degenham English Girl Pipers. They have been at the World's Fair in the British Pavilion during the summer and are now down here for a short while. They look grand in their Scottish costumes, although they apparently come from a small place not far from London. A minister - started off six girls as pipers as a recreation and it has finally developed into a means ‘for making a livelihood for quite a big group. They have been all over the continent and were well received in Germany two months before the war. How curious it | is that one can be friendly one day and at war the next. : After they had gone, I saw a representative of a homesteaders’ group in Tennessee. I have a great admiration for the energy with which these groups are trying to find ways of adding to their agricultural income., These Tennessee mountaineers have a great deal of folk talent among them and still know a great many of the old-time songs and dances of the moun-

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the minute he discovered that he wasn't going to get the $250 a month as promised. ~ It wasn’t long after that when the kids made another discovery, namely that they had enough of the Spanish War, no matter how good the Loyalists’ cause might be. In the attempt to escape, one of the boys was shot and killed. The rest of the boys, however, made a clean getaway and landed on a farm a hundred miles or so the other side of Granada. They stayed there a whole year eating up everything the

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Just ‘Paying Back’ Time and time again the farmer tried to get rid of the trespassers, even going so far as to threaten them with a gun. Thegkids just laughed at him and went right on eating.’ They even had the nerve to take their meals with the farmer’s family. To hear Morton. tell it, they didn’t do anything wrong. Nothing worse, as a matter of fact, than paying the Spaniards back in their own coin. . ; Finally, however, they had enough of Spanish food, too. Which left them the problem of figuring out a way of getting back home. Morton traded his uniform, he; remembers, for four bottles of rum which wasn’t much of a: swap because Morton doesn’t drink. He had his weaknesses all right, he admits, but drink isn’t cne of them. mets : Well, not to keep you in suspense, the kids finally had the luck to get ih touch with a U. S. Consul and, strangely enough—or maybe not at all—the Consul acted just the way O. O. McIntyre did and sent the kids back home. On Jan. 4, 1939, Morton landed in New York which is still a good ways off from the corner of Market and Pennsylvania Sts. Tune in tomorrow if you want to know how Morton Patterson, after an absence of 11 years, returned to Indianapolis.

By Raymond Clapper

Hanford MacNider of Iowa, a combination businessman and farmer who was Assistant Secretary of War under President Coolidge and Minister to Canada under President Hoover. American Legion Republicans are being canvassed. Col. MacNider, having been national commander, is being offered as a foil to Paul McNutt on the Democratic side, but not with as good prospects. This Legion activity in both parties is significant. Veterans are becoming susceptible to the argument that although 20 years have passed since the Armistice, no Legionnaire has made the White House—in contrast to G. A. R. history after the Civil War. #8 ® #

The Indiana Situation

States having no favorite sons, like Indiana, where the Democrats have left nothing standing except old Senator Jim ‘Watson, are disposed to scatter their delegates among various candidates, with no commitments, keeping a friendly interest in anyone who might ‘have a chance. Senator Taft’s friends tried to get the Indiana delegation but ran into that situation. He will have to share delegates with Senator Styles Bridges and some others—perhaps not including Senator Vandenberg, who offended some of the Indiana Republican leaders by urging them to support Senator VanNuys, in the purge last year. However, that doesn’t bother Vandenberg, who has Michigan’s delegates but is not encouraging other :support. That may be subtle Garbo technique yet he seems quite firm in not going after delegateg™ He is a genuinely receptive candidate, figuring no doubt that the nomination will seek him. Thomas E. Dewey hasn’t begun to speak but he has his campaign managers at work—Russel Sprague, county manager of Nassau County, N. Y., and- Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms of New Mexico, plus several well-heeled New Yorkers. The strong men are beginning to push.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

sale of some of their craftwork, might prove an interesting summer occupation for many of them and add considerably to their income. I know that I would be much interested in taking a trip, if I knew I would have an opportunity to hear different festivals in

various communities which had folk music and dancing. In the afternoon, a large group of people came to talk to me about plans which Miss Hilda Smith, under WPA, is making for a really worthwhile program in workers’ education. I hope to be able to tell you more about it later on, for I feel this program should develop into a helpful thing for the employers as well as the employees. It seems obvious that many people in ‘the future will have to be re-educated in new skills and this type of education could frequently be useful in the transition period. Later in the afternoon I planned a little friend’s birthday party and arranged for several guests, who are going to be here while I am away this coming week. Then a few visitors came to tea. One of them —Harry Slattery of the Rural Electrification Administration—had so many human interest stories to tell that I have decided on my next trip to see some of the farms which have lately acquired electricity. The President arrived here this morning and I think he hated to leave the country as much as I 3lways dislike leaving it. ‘The Cabinet ladies are g with me and I have a number of 4

By NEA Service ae HICAGO, /Nov. 10.—Increasing thunder of Europe's guns need not disturb the slumber of America’s Unknown Soldier. Sergt. Edward F. Younger, who chose the body now

unknown comrade did not die in vain. The former Army sergeant, now a postoffice foreman here, spoke of American sacrifices in the last war: . : “I should say they died in a good cause.” He chose his words carefully:

they told us we were fighting for—and they did save it once. Now it has to be saved a second time, but that does not take away from the value of the work they did. “However, I'm against America getting into this war. We have no business fighting in Europe under any circumstances. . We should stay at home. War is useless.” Sergt. Younger, now partly bald and, he admits, too

On Armistice Day, 1921, the body was lowered into its grave at Arlington National Cemetery. The tomb built above bears the words. “ + + » An American Soldier known but to God.”

reposing beneath the monument in Arlington, says his

“They tried to save democracy—at least that's’ what

N France, he suffered shell concussion when a projectile struck a building, killing all the occupants but him.

Again he was machine-gunned. He went over the top five

times. : After the war he re-enlisted and was sent fo Germany

with the Army of Occupation.

Sergt. Younger told of his part in selection of the Un-

known Soldier in long-practiced phrases. “Six of us were chosen as pallbearers,” he said. “We had no idea any of us would pick the Unknown Soldier. “But when we got to Chalons-Sur-Marne the officer in charge asked our war records and decided I had the best one. So he chose me. et “The next morning, Oct. 24, 1921, I chose the Un-

known Soldier. “I went into a little chapel in the Chalons-Sur-Marne city hall, where I saw four caskets, They handed me a

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With war spreading over the world again, taps are to be sounded * for Armistice Day, 1939, at the tomb of the Unknown, a THY

| WALKED around the caskets and finally placed it on the third from the right. : “Something seemed to tell me to stop every time I walked by it and say ‘Pick that one’! I feel I must have

known him. Then I went outside and told the officers

I had chosen. “The next day we escorted the coffin, and spent that night in Paris. The following day we went on the morne ing boat train to Le Havre, where sailors from the U. 8S. 8, Olympia took charge.” eh He no longer knows the names of his comrades. +: - | ¢ Sergt. Younger has seen the grave at Arlington five |

On several occasions, he says, he has been approached by Gold Star mothers, each pathetically asking if her son might not be the Unknown Soldier. Sergt. Younger tells each that he has no description. He adds to each that it might be her son. Sergt. Younger says that if his country needs him

REDUGE SMOKE, RAILMEN ASKED

Control Board Maps Plans For New Year After Consulting Mayor.

An appeal to the civic pride of railroad men will be the theme of the Indianapolis Railroad Smoke Control Board's campaign for the coming year. : The board met yesterday with City officials and railroad representatives to discuss past accomplishments and future plans. J. J. Liddy, board president, reported that since Jan. 1, 1939, there have been 7001 smoke readings made of locomotives, round houses and railroad yards and only 17 violations have been discovered. “I think that we can get farther in our fight against smoke if we appeal to the civic pride of the firemen and engineers who are directly responsible for the amount of smoke from their engines or powerhouses,” Mr. Liddy said. :

Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, who attended the meeting, voiced his agreement with Mr. Liddy. Fire Prevention Chief Bernard J. Lynch said that during the summer his department inspected more than 14,000 heating units and found many plants with faulty equipment which has been corrected and thus will aid in reducing smoke in the city this winter. ; Leroy J. Keach, Safety Board president, said that the police soon would begin issuing firing instructions and warnings to Indianapolis home, apartment, and hotel owners if a violation is noted.

URGES CLOSE STUDY OF LAWS ON LABOR

Lester Levin, NLRB regional attorney, asked members of the Jun-

ior Chamber of Commerce Executive Leadership Forum last night to consider labor legislation carefully. The weekly forum, open to young executives of Indianapolis, was held at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Mr. Levin, formerly of the local office, is now. in charge of the district office at Baltimore, Md. He discussed “The Role of Government Legislation as Affecting Organized Labor.” : ; “Opposition to labpr legislation by employers results in’ lack of knowl-

the labor movement and a failure

heavy to get into his old uniform in comfort, enlisted in the United States Army in February, 1917, when he was 18.

50,000 Parents Take Part

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tiny bunch of pink and white roses and told me to place it on one of the caskets. Then they left me alone.

In Ci ty’s Education Week

More than 50,000 parents will have participated in a local “back to school” movement when American Education Week ends here tomor-

row. ~ Throughout the week these thousands have visited classrooms, watched demonstrations and attended lectures. Tonight most of them will visit the schools’ open houses. . The week closes tomorrow with the Armistice Day parade in which high school R. O. T. C. units will ‘march. Also for the first time the 300 boy safety patrol officers will parade. . Work Shown Downtown

Thousands of persons who have been unable to visit schools have

seen the downtown window displays of pupils’ classwork. They were arranged by Harry E. Wood, schools’ director of fine and practical arts. Mr. Woods was assisted by Miss Belle Scofield, fine arts supervisor; Miss Louise Braxton, domestic arts supervisor, and Alfred Smith, industrial arts supervisor. Displayed are prints, dresses, woven pocketbooks, rugs, wall hangings, bookends and bookcases, lamps, artwork, canned fruits and vegetables, vocational craftwork, sweaters, tilt-top tables, and other handicraft. All products were made during the pupils’ regular class periods. The exhibits will be shown through tomorrow in the Illinois Building windows at Market and Illinois Sts.; and at the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. and the H. P. Wasson & Co., both on the circle, and at the Vonnegut Hardware Co., 120 E. Washington St. a ~ Ripple Orchestr> 7 Play At 5 p. m. today '.ne Broad Ripple High School orchestra will play over radio station WIRE. "Owen Beckley is the director and members of the orchestra are: Guyelaine Barron, Betty Beaver, Marylee Beaver, Marion Blakeslee, Betty Bowers, Robert Brurner, Mary Callis, Reta Camp, Jack Claffy, Joseph Consonery, June Cohee, Martha Louise Darrough, Howard Davis, Sidney Flack, June Hartzell, ‘David Hyde, Betty Irwin, Betty Marsh, Dorothy = Marsh, James MecClure,

Ralph Tresser, Betty Murray, Fred Hoppe, Marylou Michael, Kercher, Robert .Newby,

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Mary Ann McLaughlin, Glenna Reid, Margaret Stadler, Robert Stanley, Richard Templeton, |killed

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LaVelle-Gossett Auxiliary Post 908 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will present 17 American flags

school, 75 N. Belle View Place, wiil be held from 7:15 p. m. until 9 p. m. Special Armistice Day programs were being held in all schools to-

day. Eva Wiles fo Speak

An evening meeting of classes will be held at School 6..702 S. Union St. today from 7.to.9 p. m. The intermediate choir will sing and the principal, Miss Eva Wiles, will speak on “Our Indianapolis Schools” at School 7's open house from 6:30 p. m. to 9:30 p. m. today. Earl Buchanan, School Board president, will speak at the open house of School 31, 307 Lincoln St., at 8:15 p. m. today. The building will be open for visitors to see pupils’ work-at 7 p. m. : A community sing will feature the open house and pupils’ exhibit at School 33, 1119 N. Sterling St., from 7 to 9 o'clock tonight. : Parents of 1B pupils at School 41, 3002 Rader St., will hold conferences from 7 to 9 o’clock tonight. E. B. Hargrave, president of the Federation of Indianapolis Public School Teachers, will speak on “Facts About the Finances of the Indianapolis Pblic Schools” at 7:30 p. m. today at School 68, 4417 E. 21st St. Children’s work will be displayed.

School 75 Is Host

Parents were to visit grade 7 and 8 classes today at School 75, 1251 Belle Vieu Place. A “jitney supper” and open house will be held from 5 p. m. to 9 p. m. today at School 80, 6201 Bellefontaine St. A special community program was to be held today at School 83, 1501 Kappes St. Other open houses will be held tonight at School 15, 2302 E. Michigan St.; School 21, 2815 English Ave., from 7 to 8:30 o’clock; School 20, 1125 Spruce St., from 7 to 9 o'clock; School 28, 931 Fletcher Ave, from 7 to 9 o'clock. School 35, 2201 Madison Ave., from 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock; School 38, 2050 Winter Ave., from 6:30 to 9 o'clock; School 51, 2301 Olney St.; School 70, 510 E. 46th St., from 7 to 9:30 o’clock and School 78, 3734 E. Vermont St. :

nnn 3 KILLED BY HIT-RUNNER

HAMMOND, Ind., Nov. 10 (U. P.). —A hit-run driver yesterday crashed into the bicycle of Loren De Witt, 19, near here, and De Witt was

SLOT MACHINES BANNED

RICHMOND, Ind., Nov. 10 (U. P.). Prosecutor David Dennis today ordered social and fraternal clubs. to remove all slot machines by Nov. 25

again he will go. He

‘COURT’ TO HEAR 8 IN BOYSTOWN

Northeast Community Center Youths Face Charges Of Violating Rules.

The first “court” session of the Boystown at the Northeast Community Center, 3306 E. 30th St., will be held at 8 p. m. Wednesday. The eight boys who will face charges of violating rules were arrested by the Boystown police force

since the town was reorganized two months ago. : Two have been charged with throwing firecrackers into a group of younger children on Halloween. The others are accused of smoking, running through the halls or other disorderly conduct. Penalties upon conviction will be fines in the form of three to fiveday suspensions from Boystown activities. The judge will be Jerry Potts. Robert Bowling will be prosecutor and Elmer Cooper will be attorney for the defense. City and County officials and leaders in the Boystown movement here have been invited to attend the court.

PSYCHOLOGY TALKS TO START TUESDAY

A series of lectures on business psychology by Dr. J. L. Rosenstein, former consulting psychologist for Eli Lilly & Co. will start Tuesday at the Columbia Club. The lectures have been designed for the city's business executives at their request. There will be six successive Tuesday meetings at 7:30 p. m. with forum periods foilowing each lecture. The general discussion will emphasize practical psychology and mental hygiene. Dr. Rosenstein was director of the Young Foundation of Psychological Research, founded by Eli Lilly, and for six years directed psychology clinics at Butler University. ‘The lectures are sponsored by the National Institute of Salescraft.

GETS 10-YEAR TERM ‘COLUMBUS, Ind., Nov. 10 (U. P.).—Oscar Womack, 23, of Russell

year sentence at the State Reformatory after pleading guilty to a rob-

at 7:30| officials

bery charge. He admitted Theodore Jones of Ea

Springs, Ky., today was under a 10~|.

is a family man now, with a wife,

Agnes, a daughter and a son.

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Sausage Bean

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Times Special KOKOMO, Ind. Nov. 104 Ase sistant Postmaster Clyde Col ind today received a “sausage” weigh ing seven pounds, it’s 18 inches long and 4 inches in diameter— and it grew on 4 tree. The “sausage” was sent to him by Fred Fenn, former ‘Kokomo resident, from Florida. It grew on a ‘sausage tree,” a plant of African origin which grows in the Sowh Jt is a non-edible fibrous ean. .

$50 OF SWING TIME ENDS ON FLAT NOTE

Times Special peli ELWOOD, Ind, Nov. 10-—Fifty dollars worth of music ended sourly

{for Carl King, owner of the King

tomatic Music Service here. Thieves smashed a window of his establishment, broke into his desk and stole $50 in dimes and nickels which had been reaped from autoe matic phonographs.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1-In which city is Independence Hall? : 2—Which State is represented in the U. S. Senate by Hiram W, Johnson? ye) 3—What was the total number of nations involved in the World War? . ; 4—Into what river does the Platte River flow? ® 5—With what sport is the name of | Basil James associated? 6—How is 1918 written in Roman | numerals? . “ T7—What is the correct pronunciae tion of the word reverberative? - 8—What famous mountain is near Chattanooga? - ' o » ” x}

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1—Philadelphia. 2—California. 3—Twenty-eight. 4—Missouri River, 5—Horse racing. 6—MCMXVIII. . 7—Re-ver’-ber-a-tiv; not rev-ere be-ra’-tiv. - 8—Lookout Mountain. :

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