Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1940 — Page 17

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tow RMINGHAM, May 2.—Once in a while a felWithout likes to get out and go. Go a long way phish ee opping or fiddling around. Actually accommiles ilstance. Seldom do we drive more than 200 5 IN a day. Usually it is much less than that. Many times we have carefully packed all our bags. stored them in the car, and then thoroughly unpacked them somewhere else an hour later. In Central America the hops between countries were short— seldom more than an hour. Many times we said, “Gee, I wish we could just light out and fly all day today, and all day tomorrow. Just line out and go, far away” And that’s what we finally did, by flying for 24 hours J straight. And it was good. And Now in the car. Sometimes weeks pass and oe Cover no more actual mileage-in-a-straight line an you could do in two day's driving. For it is our business to tarry along and dig up colunms. But we get that old claustrophobic feeling about not getting anywhere, We long to light out and drive, Day after day. All day long. And so we did. We drove for three days. We came from Lake Wales, in middle Florida, clear over to Birmingham, in northern Alabama. It felt good to straighten out like that and keep going. The way we came, it is 740 miles. That's just one

day's trip for some people. But it was three days for us. :

Meets Boyhood Pal

We did make stops, brief ones. catching people as a train catches a mail sack. We slowed down in Orlando, to see the boy who was my closest chum from the time we were 8 until we were 18. back in Indiana. His name is Thad Hooker and, like me, he Is no longer much of a bhov. In the years that have passed him new acquaintances have warped “Thad” into “Ted,” and that is the name he goes by now. He puts lath on new houses for a living, and there

too. But my friend both lives and laths in order to be able to fish. He has come a long way from the tree-pole and cork-flpater fishing of our creek days. In his den he has four big rods and reels, and the mounted head of a big bass, and star fish and | fantastic shells he gathered on the beach. Once he| caught a shark as long as a davenport. and brought | it in by grabbing its tail with his hands. Like all fishermen, he has one about “the big one | that got away.” It happened just this winter. His “got away” because he didn't go to the beach that | week-end with his friends, as usual. | And the “fish,” in this case, turned out to be a whole school of floating steel oil drums from some wrecked ship somewhere in the Atlantic. The fishermen labored frantically all day pushing the oil barrels ashore. Then they carted them back to Orlando and sold the perfectly good oil inside them. After the split, their haul that day was equivalent to several week's wages. LJ ” ”

Well-Laid Plan Spoiled

We stopped in Jacksonville overnight. We went to the same hotel where we stayed the last time we were in Jacksonville four years ago. It was the hotel where I was sick in bed for five days on that last trip. And do you know, on this trip, I was sick all night in that same hotel! Maybe there is something to this power of suggestion. Another thing happened in Jacksonville. a well-laid plan spoiled fer us. I had somehow got it into my head that, because we bust around over the country so continuously and don’t have a home, the census people would never find us. So I wasn't going to make a peep until everything was all over. And then I was going to chortle and throw my monkey wrench, I was going to chal-| lenge the Census Bureau in the public prints—by revealing that they were two people short. But they found us in Jacksonville. Left a couple | of blanks in our hotel mailbox for us to fill out. So now we are counted, our little joke is ruined. I was so upset about it I had to do something, so I put down somebody else's name on my blank, and added two extra zeros to my income. That'll fix

We had

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By Ernie Be Dinner Marks I. U's 120th Anniversary

are plenty of new houses in Orlando, and pretty ones them.

By Ludwell Denny

against a Roosevelt candidacy more often than the third term issue. Just as the President's pro-Allied policy short of war endears him to many of the Polish, Czech and other foreign-born voters, it weakens him with some other groups in Chicago. Isolationist sentiment is dominant down-state, and accounts for some of Dewey's popularity there. Because of his showing in the advisory primary, Mr. Dewey thinks he should have the whole Illinois | delegation. But, unless there is a Dewey bandwagon before the Philadelphia convention, Senator Taft and | maybe other candidates will get some Illinois votes on | the first ballot,

Illinois Outlook

(Fourth of a Series)

CHICAGO, May 2.—As Roosevelt goes, so goes Illinois. This is the long-range guess of representative political observers here. The President is given the edge if he runs again. If not, the Republicans are favored to carry Illinois. In the Democratic National Convention here, Mr. Roosevelt probably will be able to deliver most of the Illinois delegation to his handpicked candidate if he decides not to keep it for himself. Senator Wheeler has some candidate strength. In the Republican National Convention Mr. Dewey cannot control the entire Illinois delegation, despite his claims. He is assured of about half the 58 delegates. The others will be wait- : : : ing for the bandwagon, while some of them are leaning toward the stop-Dewey alliance, Down-state the trend is Republican. There Dewey ran ahead of Roosevelt in the recent advisory Presidential preference primaries. The farmers particularly are swinging anti-New Deal. » » »

Foreign Policy a Factor

Election results wili depend on whether the Democratic metropolitan majority (Cook County) is huge enough to offset the Republican down-state majorities. Estimates of the labor vote which Mr. Roosevelt would receive run as high as 90 per cent. The C. 1. O. unions are described as unwilling to follow John L. Lewis in his crusade against a third term. Senator Wheeler is labor's second-choice. The question of foreign policy seems to be raised

Machine Needs F. D. R.

Neither National Committeeman Blackett nor Nu- | tional Treasurer Goodspeed. the rival leaders, has| much control. Mr. Blackett leans toward Senator) Taft. Mr. Goodspeed is still shopping. So are the gubernatorial and senatorial candiddtes, Green and Brooks. The biggest internal political factor in Illinois is

Times Photo. 1. More than 200 Indiana University faculty members, officials and growing public resentment over the Democratic state alumni dined last night at the Indianapolis Athletic Club to mark the slush fund scandals and the “worse than Tammany” 120th anniversary of the school's founding, Among the celebrants methods of the Kelly-Nash machine here. This is| were (left to right) Dr. John T. Wheeler of the Medical School; Mrs. one reason Mayor Kelly and National Committeeman | B. D. Myers, wife of the Bloomington campus dean of the Medical Nash are so completely third-termites. They need the, School, and Mark Helm, Medical School registrar. Roosevelt name on the ticket very much to counter- 2. Dwight Peterson, Mrs, Uz McMurtrie and Uz McMurtrie (left act Republican attacks on Democratic rule closer to right) formed another group. Mr. Peterson and Mr. McMurtrie are home. | members of the school’s Board of Trustees. Without the Roosevelt popularity to ride on, the 3. Val Nolan, U. S. District Attorney and a member of the school’s vulnerable Democrats fear that their Chicago majority) Board of Trustees is shown (left to right) with Mrs. Nolan and Wilmay be so reduced and the Republican down-state ma-| Jjam H. Coleman. jority so greatly increased that the G. O. P. will carry] 4. Dr. Edward Elliott (left), Purdue University president, was the Illinois in November. | guest speaker. He urged alumni to “curb unreasonable interest in inIn Cook County the Democrats polled 2-to-1 In’ gercollegiate sports.” In the center is John E. Scott, president of the the primary but more than a third of the registered) yhdianapolis alumni of I. U, and at the right is Dr. Herman B Wells, voters stayed away. Some of that third may be im- ; yu. president. portant in the election. | 5. Among the I. U. Medical Center nurses who attended were (left to right): Shirley Foust and Winifred Risley, Plainville; Emmadell Myers, Bluffton; Dolores Emly, Letts; Harriett Reeves, Ellettsville; Esther Dickinson, Laketon, and Mary Jane Cummings, Crawfordsville.

(Anton Scherrer was unable to write a column today because of illness)

Doctors Indorse . Drive for Books The State Welfare Department's drive for gifts of books and magae= | zines was indorsed today by Dr. K. R. Ruddell, Indiana State Medical Association president The Welfare Department drive is being conducted in conjunction with “State Institution Week.” May 12 to 18. Citizens have been asked to leave books and magae« zines for State institution libraries at county welfare offices. Dr. Max A. Bahr, Central State Hospital superintendent also said he subscribed to the drive. “My experience has been that the reading of books and maga= zines by mental cases is productive of the most beneficial results,” Dr. Bahr said. “Good reading helps the patients to crowd out morbid fancies and leaves little time for harmitul propensities.”

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best. So they get on the delegation. have the privilege of saying that Mr. Garner is not participating in a

My Day

. | : BOARD WARS ON Goett Stops Evasions, Gets BUSSES TO RUN | asnmgtion By Raymond Clapper : ' | NAGE EVIL 1st 'Blue Ribbon’ Jury Here T( STOCKYARDS WASHINGTON, May 2.—At last the division, which :top-Roosevelt movement, and know that in the na-| . in the 1938 purge campaign threatened to rend the tional convention he can not cause them serious dif- By SAM TYNDALL ITt's like you who should] re Democratic Party, 1s ended. Third-term friends of ficulty { — | Tudee Henry O. Goett's Superior Serve ne 22 President Roosevelt and the managers of Vice Presi- Thus only National Chairman Farley is left and : i ret TN fh) : vol silvl “I K that if vy y - dent Garner's Presidential campaign have made a he isn't talking very much out loud now. He is prac- Ordinance Now Being Drawn og Mini Ry Poy what is bay re be J g Temporarily Replace Street peace agreement, with the con- tically isolated and is unable any longer to rely Lys : 0 } da . i sent of the principals, and there upon the Vice President as a fighting ally. Mr. Garner To Compel Ample Sewer= jury. [Yel ihe guests ingress J) cars Due to South St. is to be no fight over Texas. has become a “non-belligerent.” Very likely this f N Homes | On the panel of 48 persons. who jury—wouldn’t it?” Li Ra Paving; Fare 7 Cents Both sides will be represented means the end of any significant convention resistance age or ew 0 . { will Compiise 2-man juries in civil “Yes. I can ‘see it would.” ’ . on the Texas delegation to the to Mr. Roosevelt—if he wants to run. { : bk ; (cases In t ne next ew montins, are| “ed 4 : oh tk : ? : Chicago ar The Texas As to that number one question, the answer is| An ordinance which would pro- such individuals as these: A presi- I oy, go helt. Yay with Soi ang Temnoraly busses Will supplant) State convention will adopt a shrouded in as much ignorance and controversy as hibit granting of a building permit dent of a large box manufacturing un; ou - a Bo alf way with streetcars on the Stock Yards line pledge of indorsement for the ever. Washington fluctuates between thinking Mr.| for new residential construction un- company. regional manager of a na- me,” Judge Goett said. beginning tomorrow because of the “Roosevelt-Garner - Administra- Roosevelt will run and thinking that Mr. Roosevelt |. the lot provides adequate drain- | tional washing machine manufactur- ‘Agreement’ Reached |paving of South St. The 7-cent | tion. The delegates will go to Won't run. This is he-isn’t-going-to-run week. ek |ing concern, advertising manager of | ‘ . ; Garner. It is stipulated in the 5 % lage or sewer facilities was being one of the city’s laxgest tailoring! “I'll put you down for first part| streetcar fare—or six and onebond that the Garner candidacy 77, 4 drafted today by John A. Cooper,| firms, a minister, division superin-|Of this month to serve in one case. quarter cents if you use tokens— is not to constitute a stop UP {0 Roosevelt | Assistant City Attorney. |tendent of one of America’s largest ny times the cases only last one wi) pe in effect instead of the 10Roosevelt movement. That is a : > i rT i { lean manufacturers, an automotive . cent bus fare. Transfers will be ely f th " 2 I still don’t think he will run, although it has been The ordinance was requested bY | engineer, railway postal clerk, chief| “Well, thank you, judge,” the man |. renunciation of the only mean- some time since I have had any encouraging evidence. the Works Board to prevent future ge baki x : 1k |issued as they were on the streeting th» Garner candidacy ever had. In fact the one earlier obstacle has now disappeared. | ‘ | engineer of a large baking company, replied as he walked away. : Each side is claiming a victory and that perhaps That was the prospect of a convention fight a inst | residential building on sites where | traffic engineer for the telephone| The next was a manager of a car line, is the best indication that the agreement is a suc- 5 third term, a losing fight to be ed but age, that | drainage is so poor that basements company, a sales engineer and a chain grocery. Busses will operate from Kencessful face-saving achievement all around. But, for would be bitter and determined if Mr. Roosevelt “re flooded and septic tanks back- half dozen traveling salesmen who| “Judge, no one else can do the icky Ave. and Illinois St. south on all practical purposes, it means that the resistance pressed the issue ’ | wash during heavy rains. : | have fine homes and are known as work. It's all details,” he said. Fis oo Drarvicoe St. west on LEARN TO THINK, ADVICE to a third term is ended within the party, and that Only one thi : am Mr R a | Works Board members said that “hig producers.” | “Yes, I know,” Judge Goeit sald, paryland to Kentucky, southwest| NEW LONDON, N. H., May 3 (U, Cactus Jack is heading for his last roundup under a _ A : ey now. S 20 e eet) . Nh in t| such a restriction would protect the| All these (and it is only a sam-|<put your employers should be more! on Kentucky to West St., south on |P.).—Learn to think, was the advice gentleman's agreement that his six-gun will be loaded pha 3 Ine forth homing ion ua that is Ine sp nS [oman home buyer and that the or*! pling) are busy men. But they are than willing that one of the em- | west to Morris St. west on Morris [given Colby Junior College girls by with nothing more deadly than blank cartridges. a ee . ae 1as Jenne rate = very eee Vist} dinfifice was aimed specifically atithe kind considered by Judge Goett | ployees serve. Your company was 5 Kentucky, southwest on Ken- Dean Harriet May Allyn of Mount . 6 g poli ician in the White House has within his| districts which have been platted as good jurors—successful and in- jpyolved in a legal action once in| tuck t 4 into the Stock Yards. |Holyoke College. “Thinking means : hands the power to perpetuate himself as the partys) for some years but which never have, telligent. which T was interested, and I know| "The busses will loop into the living” she said. “The more you Only F arley Remains Ee ae Seo he presides omen improved Te ao if o Sone 10 it was particularly concerned about gtockyards and return over the think, the more richly you live.” . ’ k Sb S the seli- b S ~ 8 S. | & S ime, even if only for one! - — y . [| mmm ett Mr. Garner remains a candidate, but that is all— And that situation offers in itself one of the strong-| The ordinance also would make it rye SO oe vesterday | jury then. You Fo ash My, <erve, | Same route to Maryland and Ken- | » candidate in name rather than in fact. He will have est arguments against a third term. one of the strong-| mandatory for the builder to pro- ny teeth into the county's so-called Lo doesn’t yan k you S ‘ tucky and continue northeast to T E S I Y O U R his own state delegation and will get it without being est reasons why Mr. Roosevelt, even if the European vide at least a gravel roadway, if “blue ribbon” jury system. a oh Jou come bac oack ister and Kentucky and Illinois. <cubjected to the embarrassment of a noisy third-term situation is serious, could now strike a most telling not a paved thoroughfare, in aC-| These 48 persons were in a panel Th I me Re Case | Se—————— ie | agitation in the State convention On the other hand. blow for preservation of the democratic idea. By alcordance with specifications drawn .¢ sn names drawn from the county's was placed on list for one case. B & 0 TO GIVE co OP KNOWLEDGE the third-termers were heading for defeat in Texas self-denying act now he would entrench the tradition by the Works Board. new list of “blue ribbon jurors’— | Wife to Pinch-Hit | De . . and were destined to have only a nuisance value at against a third term so firmiv that no future leader.! Investigation by sanitary officers iurors previously investi ated as to! : . a} | k or demagog. could resurrect it and thereby endanger has shown that many septic tank u 4 : tions 10 Serve ee their After a dozen more had Sven TRAFFIC PROGRAM {—What do fiving fish use tof our democratic process | overflows have resulted from hard | Toa Co OF \ their excuses and finally agreed to wings? id | > il whi h did not permit | Names were placed in the omnibus gerve, one man came up and said he co-operative traffic program Ings’ clay Wo Nin 8 ‘name box from which panels for all his income would be cut and he had of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad ame the frst President of Pn © " tance a group of resi. COurtrooms are drawn, many bills to face. | will be held at 8 p. m. Tuesday in|, Germany. da ay h- iD oe cost! All the persons whose names were, “But my wife said she could the B. & O Building 220 Virginia Satlow can sal} water be made into " : : th . investigated are regarded as high- gerve he said. | Ave : : ’ | resh water? r “ The hi Bg Reveicne| type citizens. But when actually| <All right, tell your wife to .re- * yjouq Baker is general chairman, | — Which European country is trae B y Eleanor Roosevel t yw a AL called to serve they sometimes don’t port May 8.” | aseiSted by Mrs. Leo Holland, E. G.| versed by the world's only motor : i want to because of “press of busi-| The last called was a Prosperous | gy meardner and W. H. Bettcher. road to the Arctic Ocean? | ness” or “key man in the firm.” {looking manufacturer's agent. | aE ~' 5—When was the first census taken . , The committee on arrangements in- 8 The panel of 50 called to report] “I've got the same story as the cludes Mr. and Mrs. William H PR She Died Stanes? Soh Af : ) * ic e “hot” end of the

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1 increase © VER er the dinner was over, T went to see Mrs. Mor-

WASHINGTON, Wednesday —VYesterday noon I received a number of diplomats and their

wives. I cannot help feeling that this whole group has a serious and almost sad approach to any subject these days. There is an uncertainty abroad in the world which makes those who are close to their governments and represent them in foreign lands, feel the seriousness and precariousness of life from day to day. In the evening I went to a dinner to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Instructive Visiting Nurses’ Association in Washington. Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone has been the president since 1936 and a very hard working one. The people who gathered to do honor to her “and the association are interpsted in the well-being of Washington's large lower income bracket population. I remember this work years ago, when my aunt, rs. William Sheffield Cowles, was interested in this organization. I think the founders and all those who worked in it in those early days, would be gratified at f service which has come about in 40

genthau. who has not been very well and so was not able to attend, though she had done a great deal in making the arrangements for the dinner. For some | reason, the broadcast of the dinner was not heard in| Washington, but a transcription was run off at 10 p. m. and Mrs. Morgenthau and I listened. It was a curious sensation, sitting critically listening to yourself and realizing how unutterably slow and dull you sound. Somehow or other I must learn to think more quickly on my feet, or I shall always spoil whatever impromptu program I am on. It is good for the soul to have an experience like this, but somewhat discouraging. The President and I have just been presented with a painting called: “Rebirth of the Holy Land,” by Arye Leo Peysack of Palestine. It is a very kind and charming gesture and both of us appreciate his

thought. All these kindly gestures from people of’ different races are, I think, the result of a feeling that so many of us have been drifting away from a kindliness of spirit in these days that those who desire better understanding and peace, try to emphasize anything which will draw us together. I am glad to see that the Council Against Intolerance in America is calling a regional conference on tolerance through education on Saturday, May 11th, | in New York City. Some very distinguished educa- | tors are the sponsors. Since the feeling of good will must be promoted through the schools, I think that this is an effort which should command

5 Ball Games on Park Field Day

The program for the Park School’s annual field day, May 18, ‘was announced today by Headmaster E. Francis Bowditch. The program will open at 12:30 p. m. with competition in track and field events for all boys not on the varsity baseball squad. The first annual alumni spring luncheon will be held at 1 p. m. At 2 p. m,, three baseball games are scheduled. They are the fathers vs. the junior varsity nine, two junior teams and the sub-junior team vs. the “tweakers,” the smallest boys’ team. The "big game” of the afternoon will be between the alumni and the veteran faculty nine. The Park School varsity then play the Louisville Male High team at 4 p, m. Dinner will be served in the school gymnasium after this game guests.

before jury selection began: | teer to serve? ! up.” Not one stood up. calling the names.

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anyone else,” Judge Goett said. Asks to Be Excused

“Is there anyone who will volun-| If so please stand wife will serve, were excused. Their

The first man to walk up was th

“I have received more calls asking | that you be let off from service than

| case.” Only two, besides the man whose

|excuses were legal. One was in the

Judge Goett service of the National Guard and then ordered his bailiff to begin the other had a police record years

ago.

CLAY PLANTS CLOSE AFTER UNION TALKS

BRAZIL, Ind, May 2 (U, P). —

to Judge Goett yesterday was asked rest, Judge, but I'll serve on one ginne Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lind, |

{ Mr. and Mrs. George Christian and | | Mr. and Mrs. C. S. White, “The Harmonaires,” male quartet, will sing. Miss Imogene Rhodes will present xylophone numbers and Mrs. Benjamin C. Raley will give readings.

238 ANALYSES ASKED OF SUBDIVISION LOTS

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team will |

“Well you see, my

land operate on a weekly schedule {and business has to be done at cer tain times. Just like a newspaper when it goes to press. I don't see now I could serve.” | *I understand that and I don't {want to work a hardship on any-| one,” Judge Goett said. “But you see our problem. The courts are criticized for poor verdicts and it's Just because we have poor jurors, seniority rights

and were closed.

Approximately 300 men were out of y 8 situation 1s| work in Brazil clay plants today this,” the executive said. “I direct| a5 the Hydraulic Press Brick Co. the advertising for all the dealers|and the Arketex Ceramic Co. failed to . negotiate new union contracts

Four other concerns signed new contracts yesterday and continued operations. They were the Brazil Clay Co. the Brazil Hollow Brick & Tile Co., the Ayer McCarel Co, and the Kalamazoo Clay Co. Arketex employees were asking a 10 per cent wage

crease and

applications for subdivision analyses were received by the local office of the Federal Housing Administration in the last 16 months, Frank C. | Pielsticker, Indiana FHA executive assistant, reported today. Approximately 24,000 residential lots representing nearly 6400 acres were involved in the subdivision plans submitted for analysis. FHA's land planning service is set up to aid sound development of subdivisional properties, Mr, Pigl-

spectrum and which the “cold”? 7—Which continent is nicknamed “The Dark Continent”? 8—The ruler of Sweden is a King, President, or Dictator?

Answers 1—Fins. 2—Friedrich Ebert. 3—By distillation. 4—Finland. 5—In 1790. 6—Red, hot; violet, cold. T—Africa,

8—King.

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