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MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 2.—A strange ad--venture in the air has given the whole town a new subject of conversation the last couple of days. A tri-
_ motored Ford left the Managua field on its regular
run into the isolated villages of the interior. It cérried a ton of freight and four passengers, one pf them an American. > They headed out across Lake Managua. They had just reached the far side of the lake, 20 minutes out, and were at 6000 feet, when the right motor went dead The American pilot turned back. And then the center motor died.
Tri-motored planes will fly on.
two motors, but just one motor is something else again. The pilot told his Nicaraguan co-pilot to throw out everything movable. The door on the these a Fords rolis So that part was easy.
= The co-pilot, working like mad, threw out all the
. freight—brand new radios, whole boxes of cigarets,
5 parts for mining machinery, canned goods.
‘~ throw stuff out.
But the plane dropped lower and lower. Two of the passengers were getting panicky. One wanted to jump out. Another fought the co-pilot. and had to be knocked out. The American helped the co-pilot Finally the passengers’ luggage had to go. When everything except the mail was thrown out, the co-pilot went back to help the pilot. It seems
* this American pilot loves those little candied chewing-
: Sn while the pilot worked desperately with both his hands and
y=! feet. he kept opening the side of his mouth while the = co-pilot popped Chiclets into it.
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<4 Happy Landing
People on the field said the plane came in like ‘a wounded bird. Everyone thought it would crash. It just barely made the runway, the pilot made a
beautiful landing. and the third and last motor died
before the plane stopped rolling! About two evenings a Wack, a little Nicaraguan
|" "Our Town
CONSCIOUS OF MY duty to keep abreast of what is going on in art circles (as long us my reason holds out), I made it my business yesterday to look up
Onya La Tour. She blew into town rather suddenly the other day with what strikes me as a Big Idea. Mrs. La Tour has acquired 118 acres in Brown County on the site of which she is going to establish an Indiana Museum for Modern Art. It’s geing to open on June 1, in the farmhouse which went with the site. The first exhibition will be selected from the Onya La Tour Collection and is dedicated to Franz Rrasz, David Burliuk, Helen West Heller and Philip Ayer Sawyer, just to give the natives around here an
"" idea of the classy things she’s picked up. As for the
rest of her collection, it consists of something like 500
: paintings representing no less than 109 modern artists.
Miss La Tour’s Collection is the first anywhere in
> the world to be founded and built on a collector-artist
.. blan.
That means that whenever a painting is sold from the collection within the next 60 vears that one-
fs half of the selling price goes to the artist or his
direct descendants. Should the painting sell again each buyer must assume the moral responsibility of paying the artist 50 per cent of any profit made by such re-sales. All of which means, of course, that for the next 60 years the artist or his descendants will share the fortune of his painting. Only a woman could have thought up anything as big. ss 8 n
. Kin to Thomas Cravens
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-+ ington County. Thomas Cravens, whose art criticisms
After which it may not surprise you to learn that °
Mrs. La Tour was born right here in Indiana. She is-one of the Hardin descendants from down in Wash-
are among the very few I can understand, is a relative of hers. Mrs. La Tour wasn't quite certain whether
7 he is her uncle or great-uncle. She said she'd have
t “ $ ‘ i ' et,
: Mrs. La Tour inherited her love for art. +. blood.
I to look un her D. A. R. papers to make sure.
I lug Mr. Cravens into today’s piece to show that It’s in her She picked up her formal education by way
i of Graceland College, after which she went to have
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. Washington
WASHINGTON, March 2.—The most encouraging
* news that has come my way in a long time is in a letter
from Ernest T. Weir, steel man and new chairman of the Republican Finance Committee, who feels that I
* have misrepresented him as being a die-hard anti-
New Dealer. In previous dispatches I said that the Glenn Frank Republican program report offered a “nobly phrased, broad-minded course, which recognized that times had changed.” (In fact, I also said that there was much in this Republican program that the Roosevelt Administration ought to adopt). I also said that it was a question whether the report would get anywhere because Mr. Weir and men of his class would have “none of this New Dealish nonsense in the Glenn Frank report.”
Finally I added: “I'm just sorry that a man like
'* Mr. Weir doesn't get behind the Glenn Frank report
and make the Republican Party into a live, going concern again instead of trying to keep it a dead echo
- of other days.”
To that Mr. Weir makes this statement, which comes as a hopeful sign that businessmen are waking “I not only fully approve of the Glenn Frank
L report, but I did all that I could many months agn to
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encourage the adoption of exactly that kind of a
report.” ” o ”
- He Should Forget Context
Mr. Weir says I did not take the trouble to ask him whether he approved the report. That is correct. I thought I knew about where Mr. Weir stood because only a few weeks ago he was saying this: “Make no mistake about i fascism, communism,
My Day
GOLDEN BEACH, Fla, Friday.—I forgot to tell you ‘yesterday that we were extremely frivolous on Wednesday night and went to see where Miami's Four Hundred disport themselves -in the evening at the Royal Palm Club. It is very attractive and there is excellent food and one of the best floor shows 1 have ever seen. You look through the windows to the lighted palms and think the morning sun is shining on the green, and then have to remind yourself that it was 9 p. m. when you came in. There are plenty of charming ladies in the show and all are graceful and wear attractive costumes. The De Marco dance team was featured Wednesday night and was excellent. Mr. ; Tony Martin sang, and prefaced his singing by telling us that like many others,
his evening's salary would hardly repay what he had’
left behind at the race track in the afternoon, 1 enjoyed his singing and the management came
afterwards to ask if he could come up and have his.
photograph taken with our group. I wads very glad
: to have an opportunity to meet him. The Jue $hing -
- shell out a bigger tip.
- sick of writing it every day.
‘group of hangers-on the power to impose their will
quartet comes {nto our hotel and sings for us. They are two boys and twu girls, the smallest ones hardly big enough for school. They wear starchy white uniforms, with little overseas caps. public places, usually collect good tips, and no doubt keep their papacitas and mamacitas in comparative luxury. - All their songs are in Spanish except one, is the children’s custom to go over to a .table and say to one of the men, “This next song is for you, senor.” - That kind of tickles your pride, and you
But not long ago the little girl went to the German Minister's table, dedicated the next song fo him, and the song happened to be the one song they knew in English—“It's a Long Way to Tipperary.” There ‘was no tip. r
Farewell to Nicaragua
There are five newspapers here, and they carry long interviews with practically all visitors. The visitor is always distinguished, world-famed, cultured.
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His senora esposa is always beautiful, charming and
genteel. The last paragraph is given over to felicitations and magnanimous expressions of friendship for the visitor. And for the senora, they wish her all the flowers in the gardens of Nicaragua. It sure makes the subject swell up to the bursting point. But I'd think the reporters would get awful
During our first few days in Nicaragua we were unhappy and wished we were somewhere else. The native people are hot as interestinz as the Mexicans or Guatemalans. ' And Manacua, zlthough quite livable and even beautiful in spots, is not a place I would chonse for my old age. But day by day we made friends, and we fell into the local ways and beé¢ame at home, and now as we are about to leave we feel as though we had been a part of Managua for a long time, and we are heavy-hearted at saying goodby. So off we go with a lump in our throat, throwing felicitations and salutes over our shoulder, and wishing for the people of Nicaragua all the flowers in the: gardens of Charleston, S. C.
By Anton Scherrer
a look at the world. One morning during her stay in France she woke up with a hunch that she had the makings of an art critic and, to exercise her bent, she started the Onya La Tour Collection. It took her 20 years to get it together. From 1937 to 1939, she ran the Riverside Drive Gallery in New York. When it disbanded, she sent two tons of paintings to Indianapolis. Theyre in the Shank warehouse waiting to be unpacked. As for the rest of her Collzsction, it came the other day when Mrs. La Tour arrived in a
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Selecting the Site
Mrs. La Tour left New York sometime last week in an automobile jampacked with paintings and the necessary utensils to set up housekeeping in Brown County. Somewhere around Gettysburg she ran into a blinding snowstorm and the first thing she knew she was off the road and skidding like everything. For a moment it looked as if there wouldn't be any Indiana Museum for Modern Art. The only thing that saved her and her paintings was a tree which accounts for the damaged automobile in front of Mrs. Ida Strawn Baker's home on N. Delaware St. That's where Mrs. La Tour is staying until she gets her Brown County Museum going. Mrs. La Tour had some trouble making up her mind just where to locate her Museum. At first she thought it would be kind of nice to locate it in Washington County, her birthplace. The more she thought about it, however, the better she liked Brown County. - Eventually. Mrs. La Tour hopes to give her Collection to the State and, for all I know, it may have had something to do with locating her Museum. Anyway, the place she picked is a little nearer the seat of government. Maybe, it’s a little too early to tell you how to reach the Indiana Museum for Modern Art. On the other hand, there's nothing like being prepared. June 1 will be here before you know it, notwithstanding the predictions of some people. The first thing to do is to find a way to Nashville; then you pick up the Salem Road to Stone Head, east to Pike's Peak, two miles south and there you are on the left side of the road: When you get there youre going to have the biggest surprise of your life to learn that Mrs. La Tour isn’t going to charge you a cent fo see her show.
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By Raymond Clapper
naziism and New Dealism all came out of the same box.” Mr. Weir says I took that statement out of its con-| text. He supplies the context as follows: “What has happened here (in the United States) has been part of a world trend. - Americans, too, have succumbed to the false notion that a sick economy could be cured by surrendering to one man and his small
on an entire nation. And just the same as its European counterparts, the New Deal has resorted to the methods of collectivism--has built its power at the expense of individual freedom. Make no mistake about it, fascism, communism, naziism and New Dealism all came out of the same box.” ° Mr. Weir would have done better to forget about the context. It does not soften his indictment of the New Deal as un-American but makes it stronger. ” # 2
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By Ernie Pyle
By Leo Daugherty
two longs meant.
You VE heard the clanging of engine bells and the doleful blasts of whistles many a time during the dead ° of night, and you've wondered what the three shorts,
They're the musical accompaniment to a booming, teeming industrial night life in Indianapolis— and one of
the masters of ceremonies is a man in overalls with
cindered-covered face.
He's the engineer of the switch engine which nightly chugs through the factory district in Southwestern Indianapolis and, amid glaring lights and throbbing machines, whistles into industry’s backdoor, moving materials in and products out. Take a ride with him out of the Pennnsylvania Railroad's West St. Yards. All day long loaded freight cars have been concentrated there from the Hawthorne and Belmont Transfer Yards for distribution. “Your engineer is John Hofmann,” says Preight Conductor Charles L. Fairchild. “Climb aboard the cabin.”
” 2 ” NGINEER HOFMANN a veteran of 32 years of railroading, a rotund, jovial man, beame a welcome to what he termed “cabin freight.” “Get up to the window on the box on my side,” invites Fireman Ralph W. Collins. Conductor Fairchild highballs a “go” signal with a whiteflamed lantern, Engineer Hofmann pulls the throttle and the locomotive starts on its puffing way. To put two cars of automobiles on the right track, the engine pulls them backwards onto the single-tracked bridge over White River to get a proper approach. Factory lights up and down the river are reflected in the stream. The Kingan Packing Co. to the left is brightly illuminated. “You've got it:on this side,” says Fireman Collins, spotting a clear block, and the engine moves forward.
. FEDERAL TAXES IN INDIANA GAIN
February Internal Revenue Topped ’39 Figures by 11%, Millions. |
Internal Revenue collections in Indiana for February were more than a million and one-half dollars |
Not a Power Grab
Read that quotation again. Show me anything in it- that suggests Mr. Weir thinks the New Deal is any different from Hitlerism and Stalinism. He sees it only as a one-man grab for power. gest that unemployment creates problems ernment, that agricultural surpluses create problems, or that it was high time, even before the former head | of the New York.Exchange went into retirement at! Sing Sing, that the Federal Governmen{ exercised!
some supervision over the stock market and the hand- |
lers of investors’ money. But if Mr. Weir approves the Glenn Frank report! —fine. That. report accepts the principle of Federal, guarantee of collective bargaining, minimum-wage and! hour regulation, old-age and unemployment insurance, assistance to agriculture. If Mr. Weir accepts all of that, if he accepts part of the New Deal reforms, then it is a hopefu! sign. He! ought to make a speech about it to wipe out that
fumbling crack linking what is being done in America
with the Nazis and Communists. | ’
By Eleanor Roosevelt
which seemed different from almost any night club!
that I had ever visited, was the frequent flash of a camera bulb, It seemed to me that evervone on the floor had been photographed before the evening was over. There is a spirit of carefree gaiety here which is contagious. This afternoon we went over to visit some friends. I sat enthralled while the gentleman of the family told us of some of the quaint characters who have| come his way in a long and adventurous life. Among other things, he told us of going down with a unit to establish a hospital when a tidal wave wrecked most of the city of Galveston, Tex., many years ago. It reminded me of some of the sights I had seen along the Atlantic Coast after the tidal wae of last year I have just been told about the Sacks Foundation, which was started with the idea of encouraging young interior decorators and which is now contemplating! including branches of musical training and .falhion! design in their annual competition. The competition for interior decoration is open to students in accepted institutions in greater New York. The design for the room receiving the first award is executed in every defail and open to the public. The current one is now ready at 505 8th Ave., New York! City. I think as many people as possible who are interested in developing new vocations for young peo-
ple, should go to see what these young decorators have, employees: of the Ft. Wayne, Ind,
done, x
He doesn’t sug-| for Gov-|
more than in February 1939, Collector Will H. Smith announced todar as the March 15 income tax deadline neared. Mr. Smith said” tha% collections from all sources in the month which | i ended Thursday were $8,078,172.44, compared to $6,381,574.13 for the same month last year. The increase was $1,696,598.31. The miscellaneous classification, including taxes on distilled spirits, | beer, admissions and dues, estates, electrical energy, telephone and telegraph messages, showed the biggest gain, a total of $1,071,018.36. \ Income taxes paid were $319,985.86 ‘more than in February, 1939, and Social Security taxes were $293,115.80
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'POWER LINE BLAST TRIAL POSTPONED
SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 2 (U. connection with the bombing of power line towers today had been indefiline towers today. had been indefinitely postponed after filing of a petition for change of venue. The trial had been set for Monday. The petition asked that the State | Supreme Court designate .the trial judge. Marks, a business agent of the International Brotherhood , of Electrical Workers, was charged’ in €| connection with the bombings of *| nine power line poles and towers in northern Indiana and southern Michigan last year. Four ‘others also were held in connection with the case.
G. E. ELECTION ORDERED WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. P.). —The National Labor Relations Board yesterday ordered two separate elections within 30 days | among production and maintenance
NONDUCTOR FAIRCHILD
signals “all clear” and the
engine moves “up the hill” — a. railroader’s term for the eleva--tion — then backs down the “main” and into Kingan'’s to take out two cars. From the elevation one sees not only the factory lights, but the lights of downtown, where the “other half” is engaged in its gayer type of night life. These cars back in: the yards, the engine does’ considerable more switching, a half dozen times backing out onto that bridge. : "We're making up a pretty’ good ‘cut’ (a small train of cars) and then we'll go ‘down the river’,” announces Engineer Hofmann. : They call it “down the river” because nearly all the factories are within a stone’s throw of the White River. “You can’t knock the stack off her on this job,” says the fireman. “Speed limit’s 20 miles an hour. But I -better look at my fire. Like to keep it clean.” And with a marksman’s eye he heaves shovel after shovel of coal into the firebed, some of it going the boiler’s: full length of nine feet. Before the night's over he will heave more than five tons of fuel. ” " # : HITE lanterns. swing. The engine bell clangs. The “cut” was ahead of the engine so Conductor Fairchild, railroader of 35 years, but still spry at 57, stands atop the head car, lantern in hand and the enzine whistles its way into West St., proceeds . slowly down to Kentucky Ave. to cross into the heart of the factory sector.
IMMIGRATION AID TO QUIZ APPLICANTS
W. A. Kiefer, assistant district director of immigration and naturalization at Cincinnati, will arrive in Indianapolis Monday. He will be here two weeks for the
filing of second papers by applicants for naturalization, He will examine the applicants and two character
witnesses.
BOEHNE WILL SPEAK
AT COMMENCEMENT
Tinies Special WASHINGTON, March 2.—Having made two speeches during his five terms in Congress, Rep. John W. Boehne Jr. (D. Ind.) will blossom out this summer as one of the Congressmen making a commencement day address. The Evansville Congressman‘ has accepted an invitation to speak at the fifty-third commencement of the Becker College of Business Administration in Worcester, Mass., June 21, he announced today. He was invited as a direct result
of his recent speech in the House favoring reciprocal trade agreements, he said. The letter inviting him to make the commencement address came from William T. Frary, Boston, public relations counsel.
Toot! Toot! Hop Aboard for Slant At Serious Side of ‘Night Life’ Here
Engineer John Hofmann at the throttle.
On the curve, motorists can be seen defying the brakeman’s red lantern and beating the locomotive to the crossing. More coal for more steam and the engine moves through lanes s0 narrow you can reach out and touch the buildings. Cars are moved in and out of the Inland Container Corp.—it works 24 hours a day—Armour & Co., Monarch Steel from which emerges a hammering noise, the .Hugh J. Baker Steel plant, the W. J. Holliday & Co. steel plant, the Advance Paint Co. The steel doors into the cabin
of the moving locomotive open
suddenly and there appears the nimble Mr. Fairchild for a word with the engineer - about the night’s work. : He leaves and in another two minutes he can be seen stopping a freight car. He's everywhere all the time. ~ s ”® ” HAT: bell's’ riot working so good,” the erigineer tells: the fireman and the latter negotiates the platform along the moving engine and in a Jiffy has it clanging at its best again. “He's been railroading 17 years,” says Engineer Hofmann. “He's a promoted man. He’s an engineer.” That assignment is finished and the engine puffs its way back to the yards with empties and to
30 SYMPHONY SET RELEASED
Music Appreciation Drive Offering.
Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor—the third of 10 symphonic
masterpieces being released by the Indiana ‘Music Appreciation movement—was issued today. Hundreds of persons thronged the campaign headquarters, 245 N Pennsylvania St., to obtain their three-record album of the composition. The set of twelve-inch discs are being distributed for $1.59, less than the usual price of a single commercial classical record. Many first day patrons also bought the first two symphonies of the series—Schubert’s “Unfinished’ Symphony No. 8 in B. Minor and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor. All of the sets will pe available until further notice. Schools throughout the state have become interested in the campaign. David Hughes, instrumental music director in the Elkhart schools, said in a letter to the campaign leaders that he was “derighted with the first two sets.” He said faculty members were enthusiastic over the program and that Eikhart music supervisors were
‘planning to acquire for their schools the complete collection of the 10 symphonic masterpieces.
Mayor's Aid Finds New
Kind of City Hall Visitor,
A new species of visitor which appeared at the office of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan yesterday had the Mayors secretary, Russell E. Campbell, in a quandary today. For the first time in his career as the Mayor's chief “taxpayertamer,” Mr. Campbell encountered a gists who “Just dropped .in to look | und. ” Ml all happened rather suddenly yesterday as Mr. Campbell was adjusting a radiator, whistling softly to himself. Looking up, he noticed a
“Nothing,” said the man. He kept staring into the Mayor's offize. Mr. Campbell then fixed a stern gaze upon the visitor. “Is there anything—" a “No,” said the man. Startled Campbell retired into the think it on Ie a new a “Maybe I should k mas
tall man in a dark hat looking in-{or
tently into the Mayor's office.
“What can I do for you?” asked| * Hi
Mr. Campbell, using his 8
! plant of General -Elecitic: Co..
query for new arrivals.
Conductor Charles Fairchild (left) and Fireman Ralph Collins
ready for the night's work,
Ivan Wertenberger (left) and the Monarch Steel Co. (
Times Photos. Neal Hogan at a draw bench at
pick up another “wcut.” And another half dozen times it’s necessary to. back out on that bridge. The “train” made up it goes back “down ° the’ river,” The Stokely Bros. & Co. Inc. warehouse, M. O'Connor & Co., whole= sala grocery, Lilly Varnish Co, other plants get a call. The Diamond Chain & Manufacturing Co. had been a (cirfch to service. It’s right along the yards.
- satisfied that:
The ir nad taged their night show. and thes crew was everything - had again gone along on schedule, safely. The engineer just chuckled in his seat when asked why it was necessary to go out on that bridge again. “Not afraid are. you? Why the other -hridge went down during * the 1913 flood and I'd been on it just five hours before.”
Spring, U. S. Government
Gang Up on Frank Wallace
The fact that certain cocoons are about to open here is evidence of
Mozart Masterpiece Newest! (1) that spring can’t be so far away
and (2) that the Federal Govern-| ment goes out of its way to cross up Frank N. Wallace, State entomologist. Last fall, Mr. Wallace gathered eight cocoons and put them in a glass container that two years ago was used as a i:ome by about a million guppies. At that time Mr. Wallace was the State's foremost guppy fancier and had his office crowded with them. Since then, Mr. Wallace has learned not to care for guppies and centered his attention on ‘cocoons. His idea was that he would watch them closely and, when the moths came out, he would ' photograph them resting on the cocoons while their wings dried. Just about the time it seemed probable that one or more of the cocoons was about to open—or at least was due to open—the Federal Government called Mr. Wallace to Washington for a conference on the Japanese Beetle. Mr. Wallace thinks some one must have tipped them off about the cocoons. Of course, the Japanese beetle is far to oimportant a creature for Mr, Wallace to pass up the conference
so he extracted a strict promise’
from his secretary. “When they begin to wobble,” he said, “call for Harry Coburn and have him’ take pictures.”
WILL ROGERS’ BODY
TO BE TAKEN HOME
HOLLYWOOD, March 2 (U.P) .— Governar Leon C. Phillips of Okla‘homa said today that the
She promised and watched them closely while Mr. Wallace was in | Washington. He came back to report that Congress will be asked ' for an increased appropriation to finance the Government’s share of the fight this year against the Jae’ panese beetle, invasion of the Mide dle West. ‘He said the Government will be asked to finance a greater share of the fight in Indiana and other central states on the ground that. the fight here will stop the. westward invasion and save. countless thoue sands of dollars for states weste ward. | He has started watching his 00= coons again.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Is Lincoln the capital of Nee braska, Nevada, or Montana? 2—Who wrote the song “A Perfect Days”? 3—Is coal oil a product of coal or petroleum? 4—Which State is called the “Silver State?” 5—How many sisters and brothers have the Dionne quintuplets? 6—In which city is the 1940 Demoe _ cratic National Convention to be held? 7—Do males outnumber females in the United States? 8—Is it the volts or the amperes that furnish the dangerous quale ity in an electric shock? !
“Answers 1—Nebraska. 2—Carrie Jacobs-Bond. 3—Petroleum, - - 4—Nevada. 5—Seven.