Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1940 — Page 17

"SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Feb. 9—San Jose is a _ disappointment for the tourist and a surprise for the

§ student of cities.

¢ fountains, and movies in English. In nearly every

I.say “disappointment” because tourists fail to find it Backward. There: is hardly anything “quaint” in , Be . San Jose. Occasionally you see

the streets are less colorful than Gallup, N. M, on a Saturday ‘San Jose is a modern city. It ‘is nearly 4000 feet high in the

DAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1940 |

f Hoosier Vagabond By Emie Pyle

bacon-and-egg breakfast you get it without extra charge. : = : : Most faces on the street are white, and with Caucasian features. . There -aren’t many Negroes. And the natives with Indian blood are in the minority.

There were not many Indians in these parts when a team of oxen. Outside of that, the Spaniards came. And they fought so hard most

of them: were killed.” The others declined to intermarry with the Spaniards. - 4 . A Hence the Spanish are able to boast that they've kept their blood pure. ' And because of that, and because, San Jose is 'so full of: Americans and Euro-

- mountains, and has none of the peans, the whole personality of the city is European

filthy: smells of the sea-level rather than Latin American.

... tropics. It is astonishingly clean. . The second stories of ‘build“ings do not extend out over the sidewalks, as in most tropical cities. -The sidewalks and streets . : are narrow. Nearly all streets ‘@re one-way. Ed voi You can drink water out of the tap in San Jose, Its stores are modern and complete. There are soda

¢ store somebody speaks English. :

People dress the same as we do at home. White

Americans and Germans are the dominant foreigners. ’ ? _ There are hundreds Even.the U..S. Legation doesn’t have a definite check on them. They mostly work for the United Fruit Co.,

the electrical company, and the air lines. Four dif-

ferent lines serve Costa Rica and the pilots are all

Americans. # ® 8

‘At War: With Germany

There are perhaps 100 Americans living near San

‘Suits are never worn, for after all it's up high and Jose who are retired Panama Canal employees. Most

quite €ool. The tourist folder says that when a

+ ¢ruise-tourist appears in a white suit the newsboys

¢ call to him, “

ed any lions today, Mister?” : The other day we were with a friend, an English-

, £ * man who has lived here for several years. He was

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a white suit, apd had a camera case slung over his shoulder. We said, “Killed any lions today, * Mister?” : He laughed and admitted he was kind of crazy, and then he said “The worst of it is, I'm the guy who wrote that phrase in the-tourist booklet!” ’ : = 8’

Prices Are Reasonable

Prices for travelers are about the same as in the States. You can get American cigarets for 20 cents a pack. Car hire is cheaper than at home. The coffee is great. a Hotels are about the same, ‘if you stay at the best. Ordinarily you. register American plan, which includes your meals. Breakfast consists of rolls_and coffee, and is served in your room. But if you insist on a

. Our Town

FIFTY YEARS AGO when I was a kid, Jacob and Sarah Gumbinsky (husband and wife) had a

. “hair-goods” store on E. Washington St. in the neigh-

borhood of the old Maennerchor Hall which wasn’t a bad place to do business.’ The time to do business was : all right, too. It was the period of chignons, wigs, switches, rolls, puffs, false curls and . frowzy bangs. | : A chignon, if you're too.young to remember, consisted; of a framework - of wire - netting stuffed and covered with false hair and produced. in butterfly, basket, curled, braided, puffed, knotted ‘and twisted patterns. As for the rolls and pufls, they were ; : not unlike. the “rat” which formed the foundation of the pompadour, a subsequent development which came into style sometime in the late Nineties. The puffs were made of short clipped human hair, or of horse hair, rolled and compressed over a small framework. - The quantity of false hair worn varied anywhere from eight ounces up. The women sure had everybody fooled, including the poets, one of whom even went so far as to say

of them are bachelors. They get a little hoiise and a couple of acres of .coffee trees and a Costa Rican housekeeper, and they just sit and beautifully while away the rest of their days. The climate is excellent for whiling. ' Not many Americans have stores or private businesses in San Jose. In fact, I haven't heard of any. They all work for big companies. ~The German influence is strong. Most of the big stores have German names. Yet war sentiment here is anti-German; the newspapers and the people are for the Allies. - ~ To my amazement, I've just learned that Costa Rica declared war on Germany in the World War. “What did they do?” I asked. “Nothing” was the reply. “Just wanted to show which side they were on.” And the odd part is that, technically and legally, Costa Rica is still at war with Germany. It seems that somebody forgot to invite Costa Rica to the peace conference, and since she never signed any peace treaty everybody reckons she’s still at war.

By Anton Scherrer

playing instruments, and old-timers still remember that Julius was mighty gopd on the flute—at a time, too, when Indianapolis was chock-full of talented flautists. . 7 ‘Of ‘all the Gumbinsky boys, however, Harry 'was the most gifted—at any rate, when it came to music. He was a natural. As a youngster he was known as the whistling boy of the neighborhood which included

‘all the kids of School 6. He could pick up any kind|

of a tune and when there weren’t any to pick up, he could make his own. Right out of his head, mind you. At 14, he knew enough fo set the tunes down on paper. : 2 8 =

Record Never Equaled

When Harry got older, he went on the road with Murray and Mack, acting a comic part and singing funny songs in a play called “Finnegan's Ball.” - Afterward he secured engagements with several farce companies and continued his’ stage work for two or three seasons. Sometime around 1893, Harry settled ‘in New York. He had been writing songs on and off —“Jack, How I Envy You” was his first hit—and in 1896 he submitted “My Old New Hampshire Home” to a tired and waiting world. It went over big. So big,

. that the glory of woman was wrapped up in her hair. indeed, that the publishers offered him a position

"" pinskys also had a family ‘The home was in S. partner.

- Well, besides having a paying business, the Gum-

with the firm. Inside of a few months he was a Right on top of that, Harry came across

r Illinois St., somewhere around McCarty, and as far with “I Wouldn't Leave My Happy Home If I Were

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the birthplace of Harry. z 85 ; Musicians Harry had a lot of brothers. Indeed, the house was full of boys. Julius, the oldest, was a salesman with the Model Clothing Co.; Louis clerked at Solomon Cohen's, and then came William, Albert, Harold and, of course, Harry. The boys were quite different, but

they had one thing in common. All were swell dancers and every one of them dressed in the height

as I know that was

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™% of fashion. Indianapolis girls ransacking their memof

ories of the gay Nineties still recall how Julius and Louis could sense the rhythm of music and make ‘their feet respond to it. : Most of the Gumbinsky boys also had the gift of

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—It would have been more fortunate if Vice President Garner’s vote in favor of “economy could have come on some other measure than the one on which it occurred, a proposal to reduce

the amount voted by the House for the Civil Aero-

_nautics Authority. : * Perhaps it is not kind to begrudge the Vice President this rare opportunity to put in his nickel’s worth. The Vice President’s daily chore is a dull one. All of these years Mr. Garner has been sitting in the chair, staying awake - and chewing his cud. , this week, for the first time since 1934, a tie vote occurred and Mr. Garner had his chance to vote. The question was on an ap5% propriation bill item and Mr. “Garner, acting in character, voted for economy. He told Senators afterward that any time he had the *opportunity he would vote to cut appropriations. . The

You” and it was good for $40,000 net.

500,000 copies apiece. Harry wrote more than 3000 songs—right in a row, mind you—and nearly every one clicked. Indeed, so great was the vogue for Harry's tunes in 1909 that New York, Boston and Chicago paid him $1000 a week just to get a chance to see and hear him sing his songs. Anyway you look* at it, Harry Von Tilzer’s record for song hits has never been equaled and from the looks of things nobody is ever going to touch it. Sure, Harry Von Tilzer and Harry Gumbinsky are one and the same person. Some people around here, smarter than the rest, got hep to Harry's new moniker when he left Indianapolis to join Murray and Mack,

By Raymond Clapper

Budget Bureau recommended for the coming fiscal|

year $28,921,000. The House cut that to $27,900,000. The Senate Appropriatioxis Committee recommended

a still further reduction to $26,721,000. Garner’s vote| °

came on a piece of that cut. Air travel has grown with spectacular rapidity. Last December it was 74 percent greater than in December a year ago. Heavy expansion is ahead. Within a few months 40-passenger planes will come in, almost twice the carrying capacity of the largest airliners now flying. By train it takes all night and practically all of the next day to ride from El Paso, Tex. to Dallas, Tex. only part way across Mr. Garner’s state. But you can board a plane at El Paso after dinner, go to bed in a comfortable air berth, and get up in New York in time for breakfast. That's what air travel means.

4 Wise Investment

That is possiole because of Government assistance —wedther reports, radio beams, lighted airways, constant checking on personnel and equipment, and nu-

: - {tem involved was a small one, a saving of $115,259 be- merous other provisions for the safety of air passen-

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8 ".# ‘can be given to them. But this particular event, if it

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jow what the House had voted. ‘Nevertheless Vice President Garner's vote was hailed as a significant event. It would be a symbol to rally the economy forces. - : : i 8S 8-89

Wrong Place for Economy The economy forces need .all of the rallying that

is a symbol of anything, is a symbol of indiscriminate economy, of punching at the wrong place. Fo There is no better example of constructive government activity in the interest -of the public and industry than its assistance to commercial aviation. This

year the Government is spending $25518,000. The

My Day

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. BOSTON, Mass., Thursday ~The members of the "Democratic National Committee, who were meeting in Washington, came to tea with me on Tuesday afternoon and I thought. the ladies. seemed particularly elated by the passage of a resolution which : is a new milestone in: the participation ‘of. women in party politics. iE Steps of this kind are not of interest only to the women in one political . party, they are of "interest to dll women, because what is. done by one party is soon done also by .the others. Those of us who believe that women’s advice: and influence are of importance in public affairs, look back with considerable ; interest at the record of our oe own particular party. In both majdr parties the record shows the growing imce of women. I belonig to the Democratic

i e Party and so I give you my party's record here.

In 1919 the executive committee of the National

gers. As a result, air travel has become almost’ as safe as crossing the street. The future of this means of travel depends upon the safety factor. "Progress there depends upon both the industry and Government technical services. Ss i A sum under $30,000,000, small as Government activities: are measured, can be an investment which will return many-fold., : If we are going to shave down at the price of - cxamping one: of: our- new industries, with enormous ‘possibilities, we can only hope that the Senators will not lose their ‘new-found enthusiasm for economy when the political grab-bag bills come up and the opportunity is offered for real economizing on activities that never would be missed. ;

By Eleanor Roosevelt

alternates to the platform committee for the first time, with the privilege of voting when regular members were not present and now, on Feb. 5, 1940, the Democratic ‘National Committee meéting in Washington has passed the following resolution: “Whereas, it is the sense bf this committee that women be given.an equal voice in the affairs of the Democratic’ Party, “Now, therefore, be it resolved, that this committee recommend to the néxt Democratic National Convention a consideration ‘of a resplution there to be introduced’ providing that each state, district and territory shall name two members to serve on the committee on platform and resolutions, and that the members so designated by each state, district and territory shall be of -the opposite sex.” In addition, resolutions passed provided that four delegates-at-large be chosen from each state for each Senator in Congress and it was recommended that one-half of these delegates be women. ; At present, in the Democratic Party, women have 50-50 representation on the state committees in 38 states. Only nine states in the union do not give women equal representation on some of the political com-

"7 pemocratic Committee, anticipating the ratification mittees, either by party regulations or by law.

WE of the

constitutional amendment permitting women to vote, decided on Sept. 27 to admit women fo membership. (‘was elected vice chairman of the National Democratic nittee. In 1936, at the Democratic’ National

x Convention in Philadelphia, women. were pgmed as

In 1920 Miss Charl Ormond Williams

I left Washington yesterday by the evening train for Boston. Space will not permit me today to tell you what I have done here and of one thing which occurred on Wednesday in Washington which ‘meant a great deal to me, but fortunately there is another

‘of Americans in the country.|.

. “Only.a. Bird in a Gilded Cage” (1900) and{’ “In the Mansion of Aching Hearts” (1902) sold over}:

By Jack Foster, Times Special

~- the peasants and sends

Army, whose program calls of Chinese family life. “Thousands of children have been made homeless’

by Japanese bombs and shells,” Dr. Walter H. Judd de“clared, taking up the story of terror he left off yesterday. “Fleeing the ruins, they have wandered westward, alone and hungry, in that tremendous mass. movement.

side. They lie so thin and quiet. Some have been taken in by kindly farmers and businessmen. Those whom the Christian missions could possibly accommodate have been welcomed. Others have been rescued by the brphanages being built by the Central Gove ent.” , ’ Several letters from little refugees in one of these orphanages— ‘at Chungking, the new. capital— came to the United Council for Civilian: Relief in China a few

gratitude ‘for the $1.60 sent” tothem . by’: ‘some youngsters .in Hanoverton, O. One of the letters,

on: delicate paper by 12-year-old Kap Xi-shu, said: ’ “One ‘morning, two years ago, my dear kind-hearted mother was killed by bombs from the airplanes of the Japanese devils. My father and my grandmother were very sad. They have been crying all the time and have gone out of their mind.

VOTE REGISTRATION BY APRIL 6 URGED

‘County Clerk Charles Ettinger today urged unregistered voters to take advantage of “time” and register béfore the deadline April 6. Unregistered voters, for the most part, are previously registered voters ‘who have moved their residence and

residence in Marion County since 1938; the last general election year. “The registration office at the Court House is open daily for those who wish to qualify themselves as legal voters for the May primary and November general elections” Mr. Ettinger said. In order to avoid long lines and inconvenience, register now.”

CLUB AT EARLHAM ELECTS LOCAL YOUTH

Times Spécial RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 9.—David Robertson of ‘65 N. Ritter ve., Indianapolis, has been elected Jvice president. of the Ionian Li ‘Society at Earlham College, He. has been a member of the society for three years and was

president of the junior class last year. He has been president of the German Club for three years and has been active in debating. He is 8 graduate of Shortridge High School at Indianapolis and is the son of Mr, and Mrs. Lou A. Robertson. 2

KING WILL RULE AT MUNCIE TOMORROW

Times Special ! MUNCIE, Ind. Feb. 9—A king will occupy the Mayor's office here for one hour tomorrow. He is Allen King, member of Scout Troop 33. While Allen is Mayor, fellow Scouts will fill all other City and County offices from

j10a m to 11 am,

Writer : : T HE Japanese aviator whose bomb wrecks a house, kills

“Some have died by the road-

days ‘ago. They were written in-

persons who have established new

'War-Ravaged Children Share Chinese Army's Ultimate Victory

(Fourth of a Series)

A unit of the Chinese Army is shown ‘attempting to ward off an airp ttack.

the children screaming into

the open has aimed well. He has rent a home agunder. This in itself is a- major achievement to the Japanese

for complete demoralization

“Ah, what becomes of me? With a wounded heart and biting my own teeth, I came to the war orphanage to receive good training so that someday I shall be able to revenge my mother’s death and to wash out all the humility of our country.” : Another letter, signed by Miss

Cheng Hsiu-yu, declared: .

“I am:12 gears old this year and am a student in the ninth grade. My father was bombed and killed by the brutal Japanese airplanes at Kweiyang, Kweichow Province, on Feb. 4, 1939. His body could not be found. “Ah, it is a pity indeed that he died even without burial. When alive he loved me above everybody. I simply can’t help but feel sad and mournful all the time.

8 on» are living here in the or-

; phanage like a great family. Every teacher \is our father

‘and mother or our elder brother ‘and sister. Evety friend here is our little brother and sister. We

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oc “all have a strong will. We all written in beautiful Chinese script | :

have a strong fist. Everyone of

us ‘swears that we must fight for

all’ the underprivileged and oppressed people. _A third letter—a most remark-

able one—came from 12-year-old :

Wang Lan-shun, whose photograph inclosed shows her to have a lovely face and deep, intelligent eyes. She wrote:

By HARRY MORRISON It’s entirely probable that Mrs. Bertha Masters is going to a movie tonight and she would be the first to ask, if anyone should question

the venture, “Why not?” i Movies are a part of her formula for “never having a dull moment.” Mrs. Masters insists. she doesn’t, although “ she has been partially blind for the last 25 years and totally blind for the last Her cheerful disposition, and her bright outlook on life more than make up for the sunshine she can’t see. At the movies, she follows the play through the dialog and senses the reaction of the people there, “I love the movies,” she says. Mrs. Masters and her husband, Bert, live at 1358 Oliver Ave. In .1931 she and her husband went to Phoenix, Ariz., for Mr. Masters’ health, Things weren't going very well for them and Mrs. Masters rented a house and started a tuberculosis sanitarium. She kept the place in perfect order and cooked meals for her patients. She and her husband hitch-hiked back from Phoenix. In 1936 she

got scarlet fever. That's when the doctors told her she was absolutely blind. \. : Now .the couple lives in a flveroom apartment with Mrs. Mastess doing all the housework. She says she never attempted to find her way around the house till she'd scrubbed every inch of the floor and dusted all the furniture. «From that time on I knew the dimensions of every room and where every piece of furniture was,” she explained. “Now I .go through a regular housekeeping routine just like any other housewife. Of course, I don’t do it as well as some.” It’s more difficult for her to fry

standing.”

| be met,

Dr. Judd was chief partly destroyed by .the Japanese.

Little Chinese refugees, all 12 years old, are shown from top to bottom: Cheng Hsiu-yu, Kao Ki-shu and Wang Lan-shun.

“I was born in a ¢ity of Anhwel Province. All of a sudden a peacebreaking devil occupied our territory with armed forces, massacred our people and blasted with bombs our houses. I secretly left the embraces of my parents and the beloved home to march to the . battlefield. I wanted to do my duty as a little citizen of China. “I have done some political work’ on the front. That is, to make the people in the villages understand a bit better the meaning of our war of resistancento strengthen their faith and detérmination that we must fight to the end. “My gracious parents and home have fallen into the hands of the enemy. I never shall see them again. Now I am building up my strength and energy so that in the future I can serve in the battlefield again.” . “Remember, Jhis little girl is 12! - Throughout letters from China—is expressed a

the greatness of the army. As a matter of fact, says Dr. Judd, the Chinese have every reason f °

Bright Outlook Substitutes For Sunlight She Can't See

something it more or less cooks itself.

“The dociors told me I had an extraordinary sense oi touch.

think I have what’s more necessary

than that to a blind person. I feel I have the touch of human under-

“I like to get out and mingle with people in crowds. I never have stayed at home during the time I've been partly or totally blind. She “reads” a great deal by means

of the records distributed by the

State Industrial Aid to .,the Blind. The records last about 15 minutes and there are anywhere from 20 to 30 records in a set. She. sends for them and they can be mailed back without payment of postage. She’s “read” “Jane Eyre,” “Queen Victoria,” ‘The Hardy Perennials” and many others this way. . “I stayed up until 2 o'clock one morning reading ‘Jane Eyre,” she laughed. :

SAYS NEIGHBORS, NOT U.S, OWE FINNS AID

Times Special TON. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—Finland

should be aided by near neighbor countries and the United States should help its own people and avoid war, Rep. Raymond 8S. Soringer (R. Ind.) advised in the Congressional Record today. . “Finland has many near neighbors in Europe who can aid her and who should aid her in this great disaster,” the Hoosier Congressman said. “We of the Western Hemisphere have commitments which we must respect. We have our own problems te solve. Our economic conditions

|in this Nation are our first co!

and our own - must be “Tehabilitated and our own people must be properly cared for. This is

our first a

surgeon, |

her letter—and all

quiet faith in ultimate victory and .

on kein a

“HINA

“being proud of their -milit One of the 2.x . = buildings in the ; mission of which

forces. For two and a half years the Japanese have laid sieze, and yet they have conquered only a - portion .of the country. 5 2 = &® o FTMHEY command the seacoast . and control the Yangtze River to a short distance beyond Hankow, 600. miles upriver from Shanghai. They have captured several major rail lines. Their control, however, does not extend more than a few miles from the large cities occupied. Beyond this distance the countryside is dominated by Chinese guerrillas. : Chief of these guerrillas is the Eighth Route Army—the former

Red Army—which rides the hills

in Dr. Judd’s part of the country. They are the phantom allies of Chiang Kai-shek’s main forces. In the opinion of Maj. Evans Carlson, United States Marines, who "knows them well, they are the greatest single factor in China's present resistance. Dr. Judd himself has had considerable experience with them. By day, he says, the Japanese garrison the litle towns outside the walls of the cities they have captured. But in the evening they return to the cities for, fear they might be massacred by the phantom dealers in death. . And then it is—at night—that units of the Eighth Route Army descend from the hills to take up tH® rule that the Japanese left off at sunset. Council meetings are held. Plans of résistance are

- discussed. Gunpowder is passed

out to villagers, who use it to make bombs with sardine cans, which they throw at lonely Japanese sentries. “At one meeting,” said Dr. Judd, “a farmer was brought to trial. He had gone to the city to get opium seeds from the Japanese and had planted them. The Eighth Route Army officer. said: ‘You were not required by the Japanese to plant opium. They force only those along the railroad tracks and close to the city to plant opium.- Therefore you did it for greed. So you Diss die’ His head was chopped oO en 3 At another meeting, Dr. Judd continued, the subject of Japanese conscription ‘came up. The Jap-

* anese had demanded that each

village send five men to join a na- - tive militia they were organizing, and two women.

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FTER considerable discussion the Eighth Route Army chairman solved their problem in this way: “We will send five - opium addicts from each village to ‘help ‘them form their army,” he .- suggested. “But in seiccting the women we shall raise a purse and ask for volunteers. Several poor girls will volunteer. That purse will go to their families to help compensate for their shame.” Everyone, said Dr. Judd, agreed that’ this was the best way out. “There is no question about it,” Dr. Judd. added, “the Eighth Route Army does have spirit in fighting and a great facility for getting close to the people.” To this Maj. Carlson readily agrees. * : . As g military observer, he trav‘eled thousands of miles by foot ‘ and horse with these guerrilla units. With orderly bands he crossed and recrossed the Japa-

HABEAS CORPUS WRIT FILED FOR WHETSEL

A petition for a writ of habeas corpus was on file in. Criminal

from County Jail of Walter Whetsel, Indianapolis attorney under indictment on an embezzlement charge. f The petition charges that $6000 bond -set in the case is excessive and unreasonable and declares the defendant. is not guilty of the offense alleged.

Hearing on the petition is to be held Saturday morning. Whetsel was indicted by the Grand Jury two weeks ago. He faces two indictments charging embezzlement and four charging Nim with obtaining money under false pretense.

MISSED TRAIN IN "91, ~ WANTS MONEY BACK WANTS MONE

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 9.—A Crawfordsville resident who missed ‘a train a half century ago finally has gotten around to doing something about it. ; ’ Ora Crismore, Bloomington passenger. agent for the Monon Railroad, has received a letter from the man asking him to redeem an unused railroad ticket valued at a little more than $1. : The ticket, calling for one fare from Bloomington to Greencastle, was dated May 15, 1891.

LAKE COUNTY. TOLL “FROM TRAFFIC IS 14

T'imes Special HAMMOND, Ind. Feb. 9.—Lake County officials spurred accident ‘prevention steps today as the county’s traffic toll mounted to 14. Hazardous winter driving conditions

One of the most recent victims

duty, and that duty must officials

collisions this year, resulting,

auto. cials said, from slippery

ft Fou 5

Court today seeking the release|y,

were blamed for most of the deaths.| was the third to die in nine train-|.

nese lines. Once they came within 20 miles of Peiping, a city held for two years by the Japanese. He : listened - to the portable shortwave radio, which was. carried on bamboo poles. It brought news of the world and advices sent from regional headquarters an the movements of Japanese and other guerrilla units. He met other wandering bands, found many of them dressed in captured Japanese uniforms. - At one time he marched 43 miles in 20 hours across eight mountains. “And in the band there wasn’t a single straggler,” Maj. Carlson said. “I don’t know another army in the world that’ could do it. These Eighth Route men—this people’s army—moves by a spirit that comes from within—a concern for the common man—a conviction that he never e¢an be happy until the Japanese army has been driven out.” They can keep on indefinitely, Maj. Carlson believes, if- they can continue to receive supplies. Speaking of supplies, Maj. Carlson declared that he failed to find any direct contact with Moscow the entire time he was tRere. He found no Russian advisers. Only a German and a Briton. ” » ” : S for philosophy, he said it is pretty far from the communism you read about an Russia today. It grows out of the simple belief that everyone has the right to enjoy the land and fruits of the land. “As a matver of fact,” raid Maj. Carlson, “on a second trip through this country I took the New Testament with me. I often compared the words spoken by these Chinese kwoods leaders with what was written there, and they were much alike.” = Tnis Christian spirit was especially noticeable, he said, in the treatment of Japanesz priso:ers. Often before a Chinese guerrilia would fire he would shout at his enemy: “Comrade, lay down your a:ms. Come over witn us. Hel» ‘us to fight imperialism.” Once in a prison anesé are given the same come forts the Chinese soldiers enjoyed. But the Japanese, Dr. Judd put - in, do not take prisoners. “In this connection,” said: Dr. Judd, “I .am .reminded of a strange experience I had’ with a: Japanese general. I. still had three totally disabled Chinese soldiers in the hospital. - They were ready to be discharged. I wanted free passage from the ‘city - for ‘ them. : “I know this particular general was a flower fancier. So when he came for tea I showed him the garden. He was entranced by an unusual white flower. He bent down to smell it in rapture. This, I thought, was the right moment. But at mention of the three men his face hardened and he told me to take up the matter with another officer. : “I took the crippled men to this officer. He said he would take care of the matter. The next morning I went down to see that they had got off safely. At first I could get no satisfaction. Then one of the guards said, “We sent them away in a special train.” “That special train,” said Dr. Judd, “could be only one thing— execution.”

camp the Jap-

- NEXT—Arming Japan.

FALL FOLLOWS FALL "FOR HOOSIER WOMAN

Times Special . SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Feb. 9.— Accidents come in bunches for Mrs. George Means, employed in the County Department of Public Welare. , When Mrs. Means fell on the newly polished floor of the Court House lobby, injuring her wrist, fellow workers took her to a rest-

room and gently helped her into a

reclining chair. The chair fell backward, spilling Mrs. Means on the floor again.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Was George Washington married ‘more than once? : 2—What is the name for shooting stars? « . ! 3-Name the U. S. Attorney General. Arts 4—For what degree does Lit. D. stand? 5—Is Finland a Grand Duchy, Limited Monarchy. or a Republic? 6—Where did the famous “Pickett’s charge” occur? 7—With what sport is Leo Rodak associated? 8—What is the correct pronunciation of the word hierarch? : 2 2»

Answers

1-No. : 2-—-Meteors. 3—Robert H. Jackson. 4—Doctor of Literature.

5—Republic. ttle of Gettysburg.

6—At the T7—Boxing: 8—Hy’-er-ark;.not hy’-er-arch. 8 8 8

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