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MONDAY, DEC. 18, 1939
Gen. Johnson Says—
Senator Borah Right in Saying ‘= * That Our Foreign Policy Must Be Freely Debated in 1940 Campaign.
ASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 18.—Mr. Dulles thinks
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we NEN ora Naval Clash Off Coast of Uruguay We ¥ cot a rr. deliv. | Indicates Little Respect Will Be | oT a al Paid to Declaration of Panama. A/ASHINGTON. Dec. 18 ~The episode of the Ad-
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1939
THE SUICIDE OF THE SPEE
N the quarterdeck, traditionally, politics is out. The
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futility. if not the beginning of the end, of the
The Declaration of Panama, initiated by the | United States and passed by a vote of the other
| American republics at Panama last September, ealls | [for a band about the entire Western Hemisphere
ranging from 300 to 600 miles off shore. The belligerents were asked to keep their war out of this area. | The ink was scarcely dry on the declaration when a Nazi raider sank a British vessel near the Falk. land Islands, well within the forbidden zone. And
» ~ | - master of a warship obeys, on faith, whatever govern. | the game of hide and seek between allied and Ger
ment happens to serve (or disserve) his country. So, such feelings as we may not prevent a sympathy and an admiration for Capt. Hans Langsdorff of the Admiral Graf Spee. Many a naval officer dies without ever hearing a gun fired except in practice. Langsdorff, as a stripling of 23,
saw action in 1916 at the great Battle of Jutland, or Skag- |
gerack as he would call it.
was declared, he slipped out to sea on the bridge of the |
pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. When the war started he was off the east coast of Africa. In the next three months he wavilaid and sank nine merchantmen—some 50,000 tons of shipping-—apparently without taking a single life. The British and the French were out to run him down, Only five allied warships, it was said, were capable of both
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man ships has gone right on ever since, climaxed by a naval fight and subsequent seuttling of the Graf
entertain toward the Nazi regime need | Spee in full view of people standing on the shores of |
Uruguay! | Meantime come developments nearer home. From | Mexico we hear that Germany's third largest liner, the 32500-ton Columbus, camouflaged and fueled for | a long voyage, has sailed from Vera Cruz with a | British warship on her tail. |
=» =» » Stu other reports, persistent but as vet uncon firmed, are that both German and British naval units are operating in the Gulf of Mexico and the | Caribbean. If true, further incidents like that oft |
| Montevideo may be in the making in our own front
overhauling and outshooting the Spee or her sister-ships, |
the Deutschland and the Admiral Scheer, But it was none of these that finally caught up with her. ferior craft, faster but far weaker in gun caliber than the Spee. By force of numbers, and by marvelous seamanship and gunnery, they trimmed her down to size and sent her running into the tentative sanctuary of neutral Uruguay. But the Spee took a heavy toll. Only last night the British announced the extent of the casualties aboard the heavy cruiser Exeter: 61 dead and 23 wounded, » »
Yesterday, in the fading sunlight of the sub-equatorial summer, Langsdorfl “took his orders in hig hand,” warmed the Spee’s diesels, weighed her anchors and shoved off.
It was three in- |
It is not yet quite clear how many of his guns—-his |
SIX 1lainchers, his eight 5.9-inchers, and lesser armaments —had been put out of commission by British marksman It is not known exactly how strong a hostile force lay athwart his path. In any event the decision seems not to have been his. Hitler, it is said, sent the order to scuttle the Spee.
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And scuttled she was, in full view of hundreds |
of thousands of Uruguayans and—vicariously—of millions | elsewhere who heard the vivid, gasping broadcast of NBC's |
eve-witness James Bowen.
Langsdorfl lost his ship. But as she sought her grave
his thoughts must have turned to the big German liner | Columbus, streaking toward home from Mexico while Allied
warships were preoccupied with the trapping of the Spee. Thus honors were divided in the action off Montevideo. Germany can ill afford the loss of one of her five battleships and near-battleships. But the self-destruction of the Spee is hardly proof of the inadequacy of the pocket-battleship type. Our own Navy, which in the past has seemed to sniff
at them as mongrels sired by Versailles out of desperation,
and unworthy of a first-class naval fleet, must reserve final judgment until full details of last week's historic test of
metal are available—and until it sees also what the Deutsche
land and the Scheer may accomplish.
CASH NOT CLAIMED
T is a little surprising to read that. although the deadline
[Up from the floor and puts them back again, he [draws sketches of plays with chalk for substitutes | while he keeps his eves on the game.
yard. Today consultations were taking place between | Washington and the Latin American capitals with a view to deciding on a course of action under the | declaration of Panama. Many feel. however. that regardless of the outcome there is little of practical | value that can be done beyond a formal protest for the sake of the record. Allied shipping will certainly continue to enter | American ports to pick up munitions and raw ma- | terials which they need to win the war. By the same | token, German raiders will pursue and sink them whenever and wherever they can. And generally the | best hunting is at the bottlenecks and near important | ports. Finding a ship in mid-ocean is like looking | for a needle in a haystack | “ & # Ss in exceptional circumstances, territorial waters still extend only three miles. Generally speaking, for one nation to interfere with the shipping of an- | other beyond that limit, is regarded as a hostile act | and dangerous business. | Unless foreign powers voluntarily agree to respect
| the Declaration of Panama-—which as yet none of
them has done—there is nothing the Americas ean do about it unless they resort to force. But the United States is the only American state with a real
| bavy, and there is no thought here of using it to en-
force neutrality so far from home : When Congress meets next month it will probably have much to say about the proposed zone. Senator Vandenberg, a Republican Presidential possibility, has already dubbed it “the perfect invitation to controversy” or to involvement abroad. Some call the Pane | ama declaration a corollary of the Monroe Doctrine. which warns overseas powers to keep hands off the Others contend that, through it, Uncle Sam is sticking his neck out too far.
Mr. Pegler's regular column will appear tomorrow.
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
uted to Clothe-A-Child extend to you my apology for have ing suggested that 1 obtain a photo[graph of the child I clothed. seemed like a good idea at the mo(ment. Afterthought has brought me [to the point where I feel a little bit
CLOTHE-A-CHILD DONOR PAYS A COMPLIMENT
By Doner
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Inside Indianapolis
Concerning Mr. Hinkle and What
Goes On at a Usual Butler Game. |
ONTGHT out at Butler's big Feldhouse there will be a basketball game between Butler and Iowa . Unfortunately, the ceiebrated voung athlete, Mr. Nile Kinnick, will not play for lowa . If you | know where to look, though, there is an even bigger | attraction. Mr. Paul D. Hinkle who coaches Butler is a gentleman whose antics — all unconscious provide both amusement and excitement for hundreds who know how to watch the “inside” story of basketball. . +» You can tell just how the game is going by watching Mr. Hinkle.
I want to compliment you for vour| rigid policy of never allowing any child's name to appear in print or Public will do his ; [any photograph ever to be taken of these problems of society ‘a befriended youngster, (he will detect all propaganda and Next vear I'm going to double my act accordingly.
| Clothe-A-Child contribution.
URGES PUBLIC DO [ITS OWN THINKING By N. G.
The election of 1940 approaches
the comeback of The old order sees
He unlaces and laces his shoes, he picks things ing Will be very popular and pa-
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| Up, sits down, holds his head in despair, rumples his
| hair, or, if all is going well, just sits and holds his
for filing applications will be reached at midnight on |
Jan, 2, almost 150,000 eligible World War veterans have not applied for bonuses totaling about £70.000.000.
| ing Pittsburgh, he sent in a new five, .
During the fight for the bonus, and then for its pre- |
payment, the impression became quite general that every veteran would dash, hands open and outstretched, for the
| points and he was, naturally, in agony. . .
Treasury doors the moment Congress made the money |
available. And some three and a half million of them have
been certified for payments aggregating two billion dollars. | Yet here are 150,000 who haven't asked for their cash, |
and some Veterans Administration officials predict that even a last-minute rush will leave at least 100.000 still un-
accounted for and at least $45,000,000 to stay in the Treas- | Many a passing office worker and visitor pauses to [universities what they shall teach,
ury. Unless, of course, Congress extends the deadline.
But perhaps there would be no point in extending
| listen appreciatively.
the deadline. Certainly there are many veterans who have |
no actual need for the bonus, and among these and even
among those who are in need, perhaps there are as many as |
100,000 or more who take the strange position that they'd | rather not accept extra pay for the service they gave their |
country.
STUMPING THE STARS
HE editor of American Astrology Magazine comes forward with a few political predictions, based on study of the heavenly bodies. The told, point to Senator Vandenberg and District Attorney Dewey as Republican running mates. On the other side.
“Attorney General Murphy looms large on the political hor- | By Mes.
izon for 1940. His “progressed full moon” is on President Roosevelt's "radical ascendant,” and his “progressed sun will eonjunct his Neptune Mars conjunction.” This is “clearly a prospect that cannot be ignored.” It presages a Roosevelt-Murphy ticket. will be the Democratic Presidential nominee “if Mr. Roosevelt” decides to “dramatically decline the nomination at the eleventh hour.” “If Mr. Roosevelt”—what kind of a prediction is that?
ob 4 ‘ i positions of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, we are
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ankles’ as if they were a good luck charm. Mr. Hinkle does a lot of other things, too, but it would take too long to tell you about them The other night for instance when his team was play. They were cold and slightly disorganized. Mr. H kept shouting “Get a man!” . . Pitt made a couple of baskets . Mr. H. only had a lead of about 18 | , Get any body!" he screamed in desperation This year's may very well be Mr. H's best basket ball team. . . . At any rate, he's in for a on the bench.
(Committee Lr fit in well with this smear at the same old stand.”
program of placing the red stamp] tought season [ro every Rene thinker Rp! short while (as long as the weather our leaders have lost their heads,
(dares show a spark of liberalism. |The Dies Committee has made itself YOU WOULD NEVER know it, but the Federal a court of inquisition, supposedly to
|trioteers will appear in convenient | places ever ready to save their country from hidden calamities,
It is a well known theory that in
lorder to control the public and de- | feat
your opponent, it
some terrible, stealthy,
The public masses will sel-
Willingly or knowingly the Dies and the
Building is the home of some really beautiful singing. | detect communism, but in reality
.. . About six or eight Negro cleaners tour the corri- |t0 persecute the liberal opposition. |
dors together, mopping the marble floors. . . . Someone just starts a song and the others join in. . voices blend in spirituals and Christmas songs. . .
staged a loud and wordy discussion on the Subject | Saturday. . . . Hluminating, too, » » »
people take in their fellows, . gentleman clothed a boy in his early teens. . little fellow was such a handsome and bright boy | that the donor took pains to keep track of him. . . | He put the boy through college. . . . The windows of | Ward's Pet Shon are always sure to have its watchers, . , . Yor can sete evervone from grimy- | faced little boys to nice old ladies watching the puppies at their antics. . , . Wonder if the puppies think anything about it® .
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A Woman's Viewpoint
Walter Ferguson
I" is refreshing to find educators reverting to common sense after their fliers into idealistic skies. 1
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| actually heard one say the other day that modern | children must be made conscious of their limitations.
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Ten years ago that would have been heresy—now it is an intellectual discovery. At last we are beginning to see that the fetish of |
| success, meaning, of course, financial wealth or a |
place in the spotlight, has done quite as much to harm the young as any of our false gods, Perhaps if we |
| can distill out of the depression a little worldly wis-
What we want to know is what Mr. Roosevelt will decide. | Can it be that even the sun, the moon and all the planets | are baffled when it comes to foretelling what That Man |
will do?
MORE GOLD FOR KNOX? APAN is reported to have discovered on i's island of Formosa an immensely rich gold field. possibly rivaling in importance the Klondike strike, That will fix things up beautifully. Japan can use the gold to buy cotton and oil and scrap iron from the United States, with which to carry on her conquest of China in violation of her treaties with us. And as for us, we can take the gold and put it in the ground again at Ft. Knox,
dom at this point, we may in time regard it as a valuable national experience. At any rate, we've been forced to withdraw prom- | ises of the presidencies—either of nations, banks, cor. porations or school boards—to all good little boys. | Little girls, too, could do with less talk about great careers in business and Hollywood. In fact, every child would be benefited by lessons in humility, For humility is valuable luggage to carry with you in your journey through life. In the end it will sustain you better than pride or conceit. No crippled lad is encouraged to believe he can become Olympic champion. Yet we are constantly training mediocre-minded youngsters to think they ought to be big shots. And what we stress too seldom is the happiness which awaits us in the middle stratum of society. There one may find heart's ease and cheer, gaiety and conteniment. These exist for all men and women who are willing to fill less important and spectacular roles well We're in a bad economic muddle. And one reason is that everybody at the bottom and in the middle is hell-bent getting to the top, where most of them wouldn't feel Romtortable and wouldn't stay long.
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is wise to] first thoroughly frighten the people about [treacherous enemy and then adroit- | ly associate your opponent with that | enemy. dom sense the propaganda trick.
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eralism against | conservatism. {hope in 1940, and superpatriotism will be its leading weapon. lantism will be promoted, red-bait-
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«++ We'll have you know that (or to the people what they may! international! law is a popular subject around here. [think and do. First, they
| are in NO joy Gardner's famous Perry Mason . + » The gentleman in ore of the local restairants | way qualified for
this job for they giorvies. have no monopoly upon brains or js “The D. A. Draws patriotism, our principles of government, ONE OF THE most worth-while things about |need no pressure group to direct | the Clothe-A-Child campaign is the lasting interest [lives and destinies; we have a duly | ‘authorized government to do that tempt to conduct his office honestly . The |for us.
according to row) with Douglas Selby, We but efficient district attorney, playour | jing the leading role.
hectic months to come, | fascinating widow, Mrs. Rita Arte
lances—By Galbraith
was warm) but I see a new one is back on the corner, across the street from the old one. These I. 8S. R. men make enough money to buy nice warm clothes; even have elec= trie heat in the pooth. Their minor purpose it “information” (major purpose to handle company's busi= ness on this busy corner). If the I. 8S. R. can erect a new booth, why can't the paper boys?
SAYS AMERICA'S FIRST
let us trust and hope that John! puTY IS AT HOME
| own NoaRIng por} By Daily Reader
We all share BE. R. Egan's contempt of Russia for its unprovoked invasion of Finland, However, his idea of handling the situation as far as we are concerned is far from practical, We have no submarines, planes, ete, to send such a distance,
(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious cons troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request)
® ® = NOTES RETURN OF STREETCAR CO. BOOTH HS
We read about the war in Europe, | even if it were necessary to do so at |
, sv over the price of present, which it is" not. Anyone Mie CONS = the pt [anxious to fight might try to enlist
[in the British or French service, Township Trustee's office, but no| 1n (his country moreover, War one seems to be thinking about must be declared by Congress. It is another important matter right here jpostly the dictator nations who | fight without declaring war. Self1aW | preservation, like charity, ought to passed about five or six months ARO begin at home. The great rewhich ruled against the idea of a sponsibility this nation should aspoor, crippled and sometimes blind |g me at present is to attempt to ine person's making an honest HVING | ge to its own vast Populution their : | , , opportunity and safety to a little stand with a roof and sides Creedom, SPOR aH S8 to keep him warm these cold days, The stronger America becomes
BSE § § were take the f ae Sane We Reen one internally the less we have to fear
who barely make enough to feed and from our enemies, A boomerang clothe themselves have to be satiss Will not strike us unless it is first
with merely a box to lay their thrown, Military leaders are among | fey oP no place to get in elt | tnoce who insist that only by stay- |
of the weather, while, in one sense Ing as clear as possible from the
of the word, the Indianapolis Street conflict across the sea can this
American Railways are still “doing business country remain a great world power,
Thank God that we are situated
Their booth disappeared for a|as we are and that so far none of
New Books at the Library
HE new series of “D. A." cases has every indication of equal ing, or even surpassing, Erle Stan
rim. Her complaint is that an undesirable citizen has been allowed | to purchase the $35000 estate adjoining her own. Then the offendThe fourth in this group ing home-owner and “shyster laws a Circle” (Mor-|yer” come to give veiled offers to the young | Doug to resign his job and go to the Big City as a defense lawyer, After this introduction there folDoug, who is making every at-|lows quickly reports of prowlers in the neighborhood, then shots, and the discovery of a body, shot twice in the same place, the “murder gun” conveniently near, Murs. Artrim’s father-in-law disappears when his nurse is drugged. Her neighbor has been hiding a sus-
{and fairly, received a call from the
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"The next joke is going to make you laugh, sen,’ me on top of the head!"
pected criminal, and his telescopes [for the study of astronomy are all trained on the house next door! | Someone mistakenly sends a blood[stained suit to the cleaners. Speed- | ometers on two cars register just 90 miles on every trip they make, This time Doug Selby becomes involved in a case that threatens | his reputation as well as his job. (But with the help of Sheriff Rex Brandon, friend and adviser, and Sylvia Martin, attractive. star re-
daring half-million-dollar fraud and solves one of the most baffling mysteries of his career,
DECEMBER SINGS By MARY P. DENNY
December sings of glory Beyond all earthly story, Of Christmas plane And shining wing Far over wood and plain, Of choirs that sing And chimes that ring, Of joy bells true And skies of blue, Of sleighs and toys And Christmas joys, Of singing lyre And shining fire, And joy in everything.
DAILY THOUGHT
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth —Job 5:22.
HE world is a comedy to those K who think; a tragedy to those
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that foreign policy should be dropped as a - political issue in the coming campaign of 1940. Sen- - . ator Borah dissents. . It seems to this writer that the Senator is right, | The prime purpose of politics in a democracy is to | present issues affecting the general welfare. The
prime element of general welfare is peace and selfpreservation. In a world at war, both are in the . .
| balance for this people. So long as we are not a | combatant, the first political issue for this country is our foreign policy and national defense. In such a situation, no party in power has any right to a moratorium on debate or criticism of its conduct of our affairs with warring nations [ It will be said, as it was frequently said during the | debate on the Pittman Bill, that anybody who dise | agrees with the Administration is giving aid and com= | fort to Hitler, This writer caught that one from several directions, especially when a garbled parae phrase of this column was widely published in Gere - many,
| HEN this country, through its Congress, has declared war, there is, I think. no argument | Against the adjournment of politics. But this is a vicious doctrine if applied to “temporary national | emergencies” when somebody in authority elects to | decide that “war is Imminent.” If matters that bear on the issue of getting into | war or staying out of it are not worthy of debate, | nothing is. The policy of national defense is cers | tainly a proper subject for criticism, The poor equip= ment and general unpreparedness of our Army is | now being aired. Because it is being aired it is being remecied. Maybe it might have been taken care of otherwise—but it wasn't, A good many trial balloons like “quarantining the Aggressor nations” have been sent up and hastily abandoned in the sort of discussion and widespread public disapproval permitied under our constitutional assurance of free speech. It is fair to assume from other words and actions that, if that discussion hadn't occurred, we would be, much further in the toils of economic war wt least than we are today. ~ » ”
FTER our demonstration in the World War, I Isn't going to give much aid and comfort to potential enemies to observe that such a democracy as ours debates foreign policy before it permits itself | to be dragged into foreign war. The economic and | military power of this country and its enthusiastio | cohesion when once engaged was made plain enough | to the world in 1918-—notwithstanding that the die vision of opinion in 1916 had been so close that Wood | row Wilson won only by a hair's breadth on the slo ( gan: “He kept us out of war.” This very issue of peace or war may possibly hang | on the outcome of the 1940 elections, It is on foreign | policy alone that our path in the direction of peace | or war depends. If that can't be debated in the campaign to the uttermost, we may find ourselves in (& war in default of any true expression of publia opinion, The election could turn on an entirely dife | ferent matter and then the victors could say that | they “had a mandate” to mix in Europe, Such mane | dates have been misinterpreted hefore
Trust Buster’ By Bruce Catton
Fighting Threat to Cut His Budget, Thurman Arnold Busy Right Now
ASHINGTON, Dee. 18 —The inner administra« tion fight over cutting down on spending next | vear is nowhere raging more sharply than in connec | Hon with the anti-trust campaign of the Department of Justice, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold be lleves his program is just getting under way, and that it offers the Government the best single means at its disposal for keeping living costs down and promoting industrial revival, He wants to see the anti-trust division's appropria= tion for next year raised from its present level of $1,300,000 (0 about $3,000,000. The budget bureau, meanwhile, is insisting on a cut instead of an increase. Right now the fate of the whole anti-trust campaign is hanging in the balance. Arnold has bluntly told the Administration that if his division cannot expand its work during the coming year it might just as well shut up shop ene tirely, Most publicized job the anti-trust division is doing now is its investigation of the building industry, This is behind schedule. Tt has barely begun to
| operate on ils nation-wide suits, has not yet touched | the network of restrictive city ordinances which it | considers A big factor in freezing building costs, and | has not been able to go into the question of patent rights The building investigation is only one of several fronts on which Lhe division is now active, Mr, Arnold contemplates a much broader program aimed at ree ducing prices and promoting freer trade all along the line,
Wants Larger Staff
He wants to attack interstate trade barriers, wants to mvestigate the milk-supply problem. He believes lower prices to the consumer could he had all across the purchasing fleld—in agricultural products, in tobacco, in retailing generally—if tactics applied in the building investigation could be exe tended to all major distribution fields, To carry out such a program requires a larger staff than is now available, and this means more money is needed. All in all, Mr. Arnold wants around 150 men to do the job, : About one-third of these would he used to form a permanent, on-the-spot organization, posted roughly one man to each state. Each man's function would be to keep in touch with trade and industry. Whether Mr, Arnold will attain this dream at the coming session of Congress is an open question,
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Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
ITH the winter sports season getting under way, it might be a good idea for you to brush up on your knowledge of first aid. At resorts or other places where such activities are organized, precautions against accidents will be taken and persons experienced in first aid will be on hand. But when a small group goes off skating on a frozen lake or stream in the country, someone in the group should know what to do in dangerous emergencies. The first thing, probably, for such a group to do is to take the precaution of having a long board or ladder and a rope at hand, ready for use if someone should break through the ice. It is not easy to pull A person oul of the water onto the ice. If you are on skates, you are in a better position to do so because you can get a better foothold. Otherwise it is better for several persons to pull together, slowly but steadily. ) The ladder or board is used by the rescuer who lles flat cn the ice and crawls toward the accident vietim, pushing the board ahead of him. This dis tributes the weight of the rescuer, lessening the strain on the thin ice surface, The rescuer, of course, should not go any closer to the hole in the ice than is necessary. : Remember that the cold water will quickly numb the victim, making his fingers useless for grasping . anything, so in extending a rope or pole to him, some easy means for him to hold on should be provided. A loop in the rope, so he can slip his wrist, . arm or entire body into it, is the best arrangement. If you have no rope, you can tie the sleeves of a coat together with a necktie, handkerchief or skate strap,
end of a stick or pole. . The rescuer must work fast in such an emer«
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gency, both because the icy water quickly numbs the . . victim and because of the danger of his being lost.