Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1940 — Page 8

SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1940

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SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 4 —You've all heard of schools and institutions for thental defectives and children who were “slow.” But did you ever hear of a school for children who were too smart? Well, there is one here in Birmingham. As far as they know, it's the only one of its kind in the South. It is for children of the genius type who, because they are so nervous and high-strung, have cracked up and become virtual idiots. The school has had phenomenal good fortune in bringing them back to sanity. You would never recognize it aS an institution or a school at all. Tt is merely a private home —&a long frame bungalow—in a block full of similar houses on a residential street. T stopped the car in front of the house and got out. A lad in overalls, about 10 I'd say, was sitting on the sidewalk, sweeping with a big broom. As I walked up, he said: “Did you get out of that car?” He had just seen me get out of it. I began to feel little spooky. “Yes,” I said. “Did you?" He said, “no, I'm sweeping.” I said, “are you doing a good job?” He said, “yes. Are you?” Just then one of the school's mistresses came out and told him it was time to quit. Whereupon he stood up, gave the broom a good swing, and threw it clear across the street, I went in the house. 5 » ”

Boy Learned to Talk

Another boy of about 10 met me at the door, and invited me in to sit down on the davenport., He sat down beside me, and seemed quite eager to talk. We chatted for 10 minutes or so. and vou would never have known there was anything wrong with him. A Tittle later T sat chatting with Mrs Blanton, who runs the school. “Did you talk to Jim?" she asked. Jim isn't his real name. I said ves, I did, and that he seemed perfectly normal and very intelligent, "When he arrived here last fall,” she said, “he could not speak a word.”

The War Issue

(This is the sixth in a series of articles on the political situation in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois.) :

CHICAGO, May 4. —People in the Middle West are talking less ahout politics than about the war. And political conversations soon turn to the inevitable question:

“Will we be drawn into the war after the election?” The people and the politicians are worried. They are aware that events are moving fast abroad, and that all this is reflected in the increasing strain in Washington. They are frightened by constant rumors and “confidential reports” that “it's all fixed,” that “it is inevitable.” The reaction to this as one travels through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois is the same—a strange mixture of resentment and fatalism. There is a kind of fascinated daze. The public demand that the United States stay out of the war is overwhelming. Perhaps there never has been such unanimity on any other issue. That is why the politicians are worried. They recognize in this tremendous anti-war emotion an utterly unpredictable flood, which may float them to victory or engull them. Today its course is clear, but tomorrow it may turn.

Blanche

» Politicians Are Worried

So the politicians do not know how to handle it Many Democratic politicians wish the President would be more careful in his pro-ally policy: they are afraid of the Republicans making this a devastating issue against them. A few wish he would go faster and farther, guessing that the anti-war emotion will turn into a “help the Allies at any cost” feeling within a few months Republican politicians are even more uneasy than

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

Washington

WASHINGTON, May 4. —Even though there are large world questions troubling us, we should not let lesser things at home go to pot completely. For instance there is no reason why the handful of Congressmen on the House Judiciary Committee should be allowed to get away with their secret scuttling of the Hatch State Politics Bill. Tt was a cheap, cowardly sneak act that reflects discredit upon Congress. It involved some plain lying. And it leaves a not very pleasing picture of the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Hatton W. Sumners. He has acquired a reputation as a kind of courageous old Roman who stepped out to denounce the Supreme Court Bill when his colleagues lacked the nerve to speak. Only recently he was advocating the WalterLogan Bill to curb bureaucrats whom he charged with becoming arbitrary and high-handed. » » »

An Unheard of Procedure

Yet here is the second Hatch Bill, which has passed the Senate, and which seeks to apply to Federally paid state employees the same restrictions upon political activity that were applied against Federal employees in the first Hatch Act. And what happens? Does the House get a chance to vote on it? No. The House Judiciary Committee decides to lay it on the table—that is, to kill it. The committee does that by an unheard-of procedure—by a secret ballot in which no member reveals his vote even within the committee room. The vote was 14 to 10 for killing the bill. Yet after the. vote, 15 members of the committee individually sought eut

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday. —Yesterday morning in New York City was an amusing morning. I know now what “makeup” for the movies is like! Mr. David Elman, who runs the Hobby-Lobby Radio program, and for whom I substituted a few times last year while he was in the hospital, asked me if IT would do a short movie with him to promote the interest of people in hobbies, He is convinced that hobbies are very important and 1 agree with him. I was enormously interested in the mechanics of taking a few short scenes which we did together. They were very patient with me for, of course, being a novice, I must have been trying. The way #t was all done was fascinating to watch. I only wish I had waked up earlier in life to the fun there is in studying almost everything under the sun. After my radio program we went directly to the Town Hall Club to attend the Barter Theater lunchean, where they presented their second annual award to Dorothy Stickney, who is such a charming lady in “Life With Father.” The Barter Theater is certainly keeping up its standards, having given its first award to Laurette Taylor and the second to Miss Stickney, or Mrs, Lindsay as she is in private life,

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By Ernie Pyle

Mrs. Blanton is a mining camp teacher. She came here many years ago from the North, for her health, She is a graying woman of middle-age. Her personality is that of a Midwest country woman, She received me, with apologies, in her stocking feet,

because she couldn't find her shoes. The lad Jim 10 OUTRAGES

went looking for them. Mrs. Blanton has been running this school for | nearly 15 years. You sense through her conversation a lot of good country commonsense, and a deep belief in God. She has been to many of the best psychiatry schools. She has studied in New York and all over. Her step-son, Dr. Smiley Blanton, is one of New York's eminent psychiatrists. In these 15 vears she has remodeled more than 300 “hopeless” children. She says she has never had an absolute failure. She gets many more applications than she can take. Last year she had nine “stu-| dents,” and that was too many. This vear she has seven, |

49 Others Will Benefit Too, If City Council Ap-

the wixth of a series by Stokes concerning the ac. the South of the Ku-Klux

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proves Bill. | Can Lowell Troxell, a taxpayer Colescott Seems Startled at coliect $2 trom the City? > . This was the question Jointly Floggings; Wants to Ban before Mr, Troxell and the City ; ¥ 5 today as an aftermath of the | Bad Elements. Safety Board's jittery attempt to : enforce a tail light law for five ve y | days last January, bier o For months now, Mr, Troxell Kian. has pursued his claim that the " : : | City took the $2 from him illeBy THOMAS L. STOKES gally when he was fined for parkTimex Special Writer ing his car near his home, 748 Lm » Wn ; ATLANTA, Ga, May 4.—--A three- Union St., without a tail light, Tu o-¥ea) Treatment story brick building at Buckhead, The City of Indianapolis is a ‘ A Rk Axr ” now a part of suburban Atianta,| corporation with assets of $25. i They are children who have gone utterly to pieces wn back in the high-riding| 000,000 plus. Mr. Troxell is = in violent nervous breakdowns, brought on by too- wl 20 | truck driver and tamil sensitive natures in conflict with complex home| KU-Klux Kian era of 15 and 20 (ruc Tor a ath IY YOR conditions [years ago as “the night-shirt tac-| with a lot of determination to Tt is usually & mother-child conflict. Mrs. Blanton OTY,” is being | gry at the huis igh Re, | . usually finds the mother in about as bad shape as repainted and HE Ee aa Present Umie, 1 Woks the bila redecorated. It | as though Mr. Troxell, the taxpaver, I never had the remotest idea before that things|iS the national Is oh op Bi City, for a change, like this happened to tiny children. I thought you headquarters of locity Controller Ja B. Dery were either born an idiot, or you weren't, I thought he, lil Bl aid he will petition the City id that when you cracked up under the strain of living, ¢'ét order. he | Sn. Bll ci! to pass an ordinance refundin it was after you got to be an adult. | There in the JR Sw ote Sl he $2 fines . werell 8 But Mrs. Blanton says there are thousands of Other ny ere A ad Hs i: os vor ard I such cases. People bring children to her from as far 8 ™& WETS d tail-lignt drive, bi away as Montana. She won't take a child until a gWHPC Out SH The Board had attempted to doctor's examination proves him physicially sound. Sih cloaked enforce a State Law by pasting "™ She charaes 360 a month fiat. She doesn't Tike to Members in ano- EO er ey Minushislés. he. take 2 rite. she oan Keer him. two vears, nymity. The fac- * cording to Burns’ Revised Indiana Conversely. she d ny + lik eo hild 1 "tory operated 24 Mr. Stokes Statutes, this simply will not work. ay. She oesnt like to keep a chi ONRer » ours a day to His months of patient effort eh tye rg tite igenius of ‘there Children that one [SUPPLY the demand. Lights glowed vindicated, Mr, Troxell was feeling x § I ) a hiv Wo ig re ha from its many windows and the just a little better than usual today. gil ' BR stu orn und ist'ess IDROA ype, ater one ...irr of machinery carried, like the He'll feel better still when he and other has ‘an. AImoct Teakish Mnoviedta of and ap. SOT OI Some sleeping gant, to the {he other 40 get. checks from the FA ph ; " [passerby of the night. It was sym- City, he said. preciation for classical music, and is already com- | pol of the evil genius which was If and when this happens, it will posing. | —and is—the Ku-Klux Kian, be the first time in history that so

| About a mile closer to the center Many taxpayers have gotten 50 ; ‘of the city sat the white colonial Much money out of such a tight- City Hall, with some trepidation. mansion, like something out of fisted municipality. | “I didn't think I had a chance “Gone With the Wind.” which was | It 00k a long time.” Mr. Troxell he admitted. “How can you get any- | headquarters for the Imperial said, “But I figured that the City | thing back from the City?” Wizard, then the energetic and has more money than I do. It can! But Mr. Troxell, who believes that ebullient Dr. Hiram W. Evans Now Afford to pay me what it owes me. right is right, made a lone assault or the It's the principle of the thing. on the formidable barracks, single“First T pay them $2 thinking handed. they have a right to fine me. Then | “First, I went to see the depuly I learn they don’t have a right to/clerk at the Police Station,” he refine me. So I want my $2 back lated. “She sent me to the City and we're square.” Clerk at City Hall. From there, I Mr, Troxell confessed he had was sent to the Mayor's office but faced officials, secure in their sec- the Mayor wasn't in. retary-guarded stone fortress at' “That was in January. I kept

By Ludwell Denny

the Democrats. They see every Republican Presidential candidate challenging the Roosevelt foreign | ” . BRT purpose. They see Candidate Dewey swing from an thE Bou RE has extreme position of underwriting Roosevelt policy in Re Vo ae " : January to the opposite extreme of isolation in the Peen erec y. Midwest primaries. Ironical Turn of Events They know that Dewey is cashing in on this issue. . adh They know that in one short month it has become oa ae dy incomparably the st rousi Republic ampaigy e ¢ : , cry. p Ve WH, YorsHie pi 3 camp 81 unning into lean vears that saw it But still they are afraid of it. They themselves 211 but disappear, Ne Ui, Ply have risen to political power by caution. They re- Which, after era 3 ns A tain their hold on party organization by playing their | purchased bv the Catho h > i cards close to the belly. an ironical turn of events. Their accustomed technique is the straddle, and The new Imperial Wizard, Dr this new proposal means getting far over on one side. James Arnold Colescott, directs the If suddenly they had to get back on the other side. secret order from a modest office it would be a long way and they might not make it. (on the third floor of the one-time “night shirt factory.” Painters and decorators move [through the halls of the building On the walls, here and there, hang pictures of Klan ceremonies, except | in the Imperial Wizard's office. |

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TRAFFIC FINES AVERAGE $11.50

76 More Motorists to Have : Hearings in Court

n Comment Is Bitter

All of this boils down to the fact that the danger of American involvement in war has become the biggest political issue west of the Alleghenies—not be- About the walls there hang piccause of the politicians but despite them. If mMOSt | 4, es of George Washington, Teddy | Next Week. | : of them had their way, they would rule it out of the p ' han Bedford Forrest ley’'s pal, R. Earl Peters, a leading | Roosevelt, Nathan Bedfor orrest, ; D t didate for Gov. campaign because they know they cannot even BUESS | so nder of the original reconstruc- Fines levied by Judge Charles Democratic candidate FOV

its results. |tion era Klan. and Dr. Evans. Back Karabell in Municipal Court today | Mor, is not so hot on farm prob-

It might make Roosevelt “the savior of the world. lof Dr. Colesto’t's chair is an Amer- for traffic law violations rose to an hs ck: Vir. Ul: eens Unik

or it might wreck him and his party as it buried |. te Woodrow Wilson. It might raise up Dewey as the | aR flag OR OE Di on his average of $11.50. that Agriculture Secretary Wallace : |desk, a capy of the Bible. Announcing that he is go-

heroic protector of peace, or it might brand him as a Wizard Native of Indiana

demagogic “traitor.” | In Dr. Colescott, the visitor finds to reduce accidents were scheduled the epistle from Mr. Duffy con-

Meanwhile the people vou talk with don't trust | : any of the candidates or statesmen very much on this 4 hort, rotund figure. round-faced. to appear before him next week. Yrs: is for O Sl core 'bald-headed, of bland, equable and| As the number of arrests ine Ws plls ‘or Ue Wnusua' tere.

issue. “After the election we will be financing their : war, and then it's only a matter of time—if the War ohjeematic temperament, who has, creased, accidents were reduced to mony of burying my Irish hatchet lasts long enough we'll be in it. regardless. This : . 1 ib . ok Oi it Iv X Ah ’ for both Mr. Peters and Secretary > : Tks : neither the burning fanatical eyes; 22, with only four persons injured. = re AB is the bitterly disillusioned comment one often hears. | the founder of the revived Kian. The heaviest penalty was meted Wallace. of course Henry s rating If any Presidential nominee can convince the vot- William Z. Simmons, nor the hail-'out to Alex Aronhart. 970 W. 25th TOR oa ov BS lat Jom fellow-well-met, promoter type of St, who was convicted of speeding bh 4 ’ '

ers that he actually will keep us out of war, they eDibhean or Demet, oe or Tory nas DBAOACh of Mr. Simons’ succes 34 miles ‘an hour He war med PoMCal dummy. is, ‘Of ‘course. unless by November they are as strong | OT Dr. Evans. : $10 and costs and his driver's Gives Wallace Edge for intervention as they are for isolation today. | His manner is casual and infor- license was suspended for 30 days. «while vour friend. Peters, has by . y | mal, like that of the average m- | Speeding Charge Dropped 'a shameful oversight neglected to | Jianun, He is a native of Terre 4 : |enlist in his organization anvone | Haute. He puts on no front. James P. Frey, 4460 Marcy Lane, |yqentified with. the highly organized | However, despite his placidity, charged with driving 40 miles aN ‘farm life of our state. B Ra nond Cla er one suspects a certain inner tur- hour was fined $6 and costs with | “Earl is in no sense as y yi Dp |moil these days, gathered from his COS!S suspended. Clara Stevenson, | politically. as Mr. Wallace. |conversation and from the re- charged with driving 44 miles an| «ge simply has excessive tall | strictive orders he issues as Klans- Dour, was fined $1 and costs with building leanings in his political

Rep. J. J. Dempsey of New Mexico, sponsor of the) ‘ " ; f [the fine suspended. {| Crim X : ~ ; men are brought to bay for flog- A ea : [gizzard and a poor sense of propormeasure in the House, and assured him that they | gine outrages. When another driver charged gion when dealing with these most

had voted to save the Hatch Bill. Several of those 15) He is making a retreat. One gets With speeding, sobbed and pleaded | ¢\ a0esstul Indiana farm politicians were lying. . | the idea that he has been startled hat he had been ill, Judge Kara- yung perpetually operating at every Chairman Sumners acquiesced in this sneak Pro- | hat Southerners of the type flock - | Pell discharged him and he and wide place in our Indiana roads.” cedure. He has refused to State publicly his position yg to the Klan capitalize the his wife left, the courtroom in tears. Mr. Duffy thanked Mr. Farley for on the bill. When the committee members assembled | ono omity provided by the order to| Emer Fairesc, 2029 Spruce St. | a complimentary copy of his book to vote, they were handed previously prepared slips of | weak private vengeance and preju- | Charged with driving while drunk, “Behind the Ballots” and compaper, each marked with “yes” and “no” so that the | gjces common to some people who Was fined $10 and costs and sen- mented: slip was torn in half and one end cast as a ballot. ive in these Southern heatlands, |lenced to 30 days in jail. The costs | up, dealing with both Peters and Members who have been in Congress for vears said thik ia and jail sentence were suspended. | yon ve I have accepted some of they never had heard of such a secret committee vote | Objects t§ Whippings His driver's license was suspended Mn Si

on any committee. | T operated in Ohio as head of the for 60 days. | ition Of Winston Churchill m. the {Klan there for nine years, with 209,- | | > >

000 members, and there was never | [House of Commons when engaging

aundd : : " , i “ji § eate lany whipping or intimidation,” he A 30-vear-old woman was knocked | ® fellow Parliamentarian fn heated

' ; : . » ered, ‘I hope my “That's true in the North! unconscious early today when an Se a To bitautomobile in which she was ric- :

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Uphill Struggle Looms

These committee members did not wish to have it | Said. ov. T think” as a matter of record that they had scuttled this| generally, 8. terness d er than he can clean-politics bill. They did not wish to face their| He emphasized his intention to ing crashed into a parked truck at a

‘ k p rly contain.’ constituents in such a position. Yet they don't want Stop such Klan activities, | East and Ohio Sts. The driver was | Properly ne : the law because it might cramp them in raising funds| “I have a record of three years arrested by police on charges of | Hurls Barb at Lewis and lining up workers in the ranks of jobholders. oil nie here ce the Klan. (hie | cvuneniness and Spgie WE an auto “Tt looks as though the Hatch bill > ] rd since last * the influence ct liquor. Postmaster General Farley, Chairman of the Demo- Jas een pets] Wisard unde; e Ing 2 qu

oe ? : ; June). If I can't operate the Klan| At City Hospital, cratic National Committee, personally appealed 10 os an instrument for good I don't taken after

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where she was a little more desirable and all pale-

¢ " ) i : the crash, Grace Mil- faced Civil Service Sissies less usesome members of the committee to kill the Hatch Bill. | ore to continue to have anything ler 1128 E.

. . | St. Clair St... was re- {ful to any party The White House kept hands off and is understood | A ’ ; vm X “fair : ’ ; y : | t. to do every- t fair” condition with head | « Jew - to be in favor of the bill. But Speaker Bankhead and | 0.90 With it. I'm going POH In Fas =n I suppose John Lewis has de

! ; a (thing I can to get rid of anything injuries. Police said the driver of w plan of campaign inDemocratic Leader Rayburn are against it. that’s bad in the Klan.” the car was Fred Short, 30, of 2125 Veltped 3 nis Rios to Rae Defeated by these graveyard methods, Rep. Demp- | 1, “pic statement upon inaugura- | Parker Ave. ; sey will try to obtain signatures to a petition that yor ac new head of the Kian last, Police were told two 19-year-old paying poll tax on Southern Newould bring the measure before the House. But he June, Dr. Colescott said: youths jumped from the parked groes so he can make political must obtain 218 signatures, a majority of the House. “My administration will be an ad- truck and ran, later returning to | chattels of them.” His chances are not good. Every member now has an |. ice coir action. the accident scene. Police sald After suggesting the

easy opportunity to duck by declining to sign the| “ye cng)l ever strive to promote they gave no reason for leaving, and “pork prices ave the political pellets petition. The House Judiciary Committee has taken ip. interest of the native born, were held on vagrancy charges for that destroy parties in the farm everybody off the spot and, by doing it secretly, eVeN | white, Protestant, gentile population investigation. . the members of this committee have covered their | America. Doubtless the well or-| Miss Colleen Barry, 21, of R. R.| with this: tracks so that they cannot be called to account by aN ganized minority groups will take 19 Box 422, received head injuries | “Hoping you show some of those opponent in the coming election. care of their interests. It is atleast when she fell from an automobile in foolish New Deal counsellots a few | weir problem.” {which she was riding when it more deep points in good politics, : |stopped suddenly at Arlington Ave. and thanking vou for the interest | Definite Program Promised vy Pleasant Run Blvd. She was vou have asserted

Concluding, he said: 3 to the City Hospital | Yours with all good wishes.” “The fiery cross will again blaze | taken i — Piva. § 8

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Lowell Troxell . .. “The City

by police overnight in their drive iN8 10 support the Democrats again, |

will make party pack-mules like me

as | though he would spend his money

|states,” Mr. Duffy closed his epistle |

WIZARD t's the Principle, Says Taxpayer Troxell S END | As He Fights for Refund of $2 Parking Fine

Times Photo, has more money than I do.”

(coming back. IT saw a lot of people who all seemed to think I was right. But I didn't get anywhere, I got the run-around. “Finally, I came back again Tuesday when I had a little time, First, they asked me to come back. Then they said thev would write me a letter. I didn’t do all of this for the $2. T just didn’t like the idea.” Mr. Troxeil was inclined to be generous toward the City ‘Adminis tration, despite his reverses. “I guess that's the way it City Hall,” he said

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Farley Gets Political Earful From Hoosier Farmer's Plea

WASHINGTON, May 4.-—Postmaster General James A. Farlev was reated to a few of the facts of life from the viewpoint of a Hoosier farmer when he received a letter recently from Luke W. Duffy, Rushville. | Mr. Duffy long has divided his time between farming and politics and has been on both sides of the Indiana political party fence—if any, An intersting item in Mr. Duffy's letter

was a report that Mr. Far-

$249,590 HIGHWAY CONTRACTS ARE LET

The State Highway Commission has awarded contracts for paving and vesurfacing approximately 32 miles of Indiana Highways at a total cost of $249 590.65. Scheduled projects are: Preliminary treatment for resurfacing approximately 3:15 miles of [state highways in Grant and Howard Counties, awarded to the Indiana Road Improvement Co. Bluffton, Ind, on a low bid of $27.410. Paving 2.455 miles on Road 40, from Plainfield to 2.6 miles southwest, awarded to William D. Vogel, Indianapolis on a low bid of $142, 803.65. Resurfacing approximately 24.053 miles of State Highways in Huntington, Wells and Adams Counties. awarded to John Dehner, Inc. Ft. Wayne, on the low bid of $89,377.

LEO MW'GRATH NAMED BELT TRAINMASTER

Leo F. McGrath, who started work for the Indianapolis Union Railway as a 14-year-old messenger boy was trainmaster today at the age of 42,

He was appointed yesterday by

John J. Liddy, the company's superintendent. The position of trainmaster had been vacant for four years and Mr. McGrath had been dispatcher since 1917. The new trainmaster lives at 4720 Boulevard Place and has a wife and three children,

DORI

S KROME REIGNS AT MANUAL MAY DAY

Manual High School observed May Day yesterday with ceremonies

{of nearly 1400 pupils, teachers and parents. Doris Krome, 1458 Thompson St. presided as the queen of the May. Stunts were performed by school clubs. During the program, Miss Garnet Foreman, first Manual May Queen, in 1910, and now a Manual

'Miss Krome,

AIRMEN PRAISE

SAFETY DEVICE * OF LOGAL MAN

Robert Cain's ‘Gadget* Called ‘Finishing Touch’ By Experts.

Ry SAM TYNDALL A small brass plug, which some experts say, may put the “finishing touch” to safe airplane travel, has | been developed by a 32-year-old Ine |dianapolis airline mechanic | The new gadget, which is said to be able to detect an airplane motor failure “the second it begins to hap= pen” is now being tested by the | Army and Navy, a large airline and | the Allison warplane motor division, | Robert Cain, 509 DeQuincy St. {mechanic for Transcontinental & | Western Air, Inc., here, is the ine | ventor., Mr. Cain calls his new instrument (an “engine failure detector” but it [1s in reality a sump plug containing |a magnet and an electrode, which picks up any metal particles in the engine's oil trap or sump, and flashes the fact to the pilot by a light on the instrument panel.

“Flashes” Engine Troubles

Ordinary sump plugs serve only to plug an opening to the oil basin used to drain the sump at regular intervals The magnetic sump plug, Mr, Cain said, will detect a motor 1ail= ure at any time, not waiting until the airplane is checked after a flight by ground mechanics, According to tests now being cone ducted, the new-type plug will “flash” failing bearings and gears before the failure can be detected by the pilot through his now most valuable instruments which register the oil temperature pressure and revolutions of the engine. The lightning detection by the new plug will give the pilot oppors= tunity to land bfore the broken parts are carried by oil through the motor and “chew it to pieces.”

Particles Detected

It can be a matter of a few sece onds before a broken bearing or a sheared gear tooth can wreck the engine. The magnet, it is said. is capable of attracting the finest par= ticles of metal—the beginning of the failure, These particles, which may have chipped by stress from a cam ree duction gear, propellor gears and many others, flow immediately to the oil sump where they are are rested by the oil screen, then float to the bottom--on top of the mage netic electrified plug. The little brass devices were {made by Mr. Cain in various ma« (chine shops. The Army is testing [two at Wright Pield, the Navy four and Allison's several. Mr, Cain said the plug should be inexpensive to manufacture in quantities, and besides its safety | factor, should cut motor mainte nance down markedly. The inventor has applied for a patent and now, between serving his company's luxury airliners at the Municipal Airport, is waiting for results of tests now being made.

THREE QUIZZED IN 50 SAFE CRACKINGS

Indianapolis detectives todaw planned to further question three men held under $5000 bond each, suspected of participating in a ree cent wave of burglaries, safe cracke ings and holdups. One of the men was arrested Thursaay and the other two were seized vesterday in a garage in the rear of S. East St, 900 block, by members of the homicide squad. A [quantity of guns, sledges and bure |glar tools was confiscated, detectives | said. Several more arrests are expected to be made in the roundup of a gang believed responsible for nearly 50 safe robberies this year, including the one at the commission house operated by Leroy Keach, 112 S, Delaware St. president of the Safety Board, police said. Those under arrest have been convicted of burglary before, police said.

LIQUOR DIRECTORS HONOR BARNHART,

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State Excise | Director, was elected first vice chairman of the National Confers ence of State Liquor Administrators at the group's national convention in Delmonte, Cal., yesterday. Mr, Barnhart, who attended the session, plans a trip through the Southwest and is not scheduled to return to his

| Hugh Barnhart,

aphorism An the auditorium before a crowd office until May 19.

RIVER RISING RAPIDLY | HARTFORD, Conn. May 4 (U, P.).—Flood waters of the Connece ticut River were rising more than an inch an hour today, and weather | Bureau officials predicted that the river would reach its highest point

in me, IT am, mathematics teacher, congratulated of the year within 48 hours. Flood

stage is 16 feet.

| an—— on the hilltops of America and the Klan militantly serve for God, country and home. A definite program and plan of action will be trans-| mitted to the Klan of the nation.” | He insisted that he would oppose the “Catholic hierarchy” only in so far as it related to the union of church and state and, as for Jews, !

he said, “I consider Jews a minority

One thing was announced which I think is of extraordinary importance and very exciting. The State of Virginia, leading every other state in the Union, has asked Robert -rterfield, a ative Virginian, who has carried on the Barter Thea‘er in! Abingdon, Va. and made such a great success, to found a state theater. Of course, the details of this) undertaking will require rauch careful workmg out! and the growth will be slow, but it is exciting 10 have TIL a state government finally realize the importance of group; if they have a problem it is the theater in the life of the people. (undoubtedly a result of their fail- | If other states will only follow, we may have a ure to adapt themselves wholetrue national theater some day which will have frown) Braz tedly to the American ideas and up from the grass roots. What a mediwmmn this will i . " be for better understanding. We may send site| Recently, “The Fiery Cross,” the state troupes from one part of the country to the|Xlan monthly Biren, Go other to interpret the people and the conditions orjorivicises Present Roosevelt for one locality to others and build up a folk history [SD eo. on A B¥ies Bs a nas] as well as develop an appreciation of the drama. My | Sonali e a Wn e a Ian 3 imagination runs riot when I think about this and ib Thy — ee | I feel it should be on the front page of every news. | of a oa ns ion the White paper. honor jo the state of Virginia and Se House.” | ernor Price and the citizens of that commonwealth. ; : They have led us so often and are leading us HEE. | 0 _OUEIEEE WHACK NaS Soup In) In the evening I attended a banquet of the Na-| olics or Jews. Negroes have been tional League of Women Voters and it was interesting intimidated and terrorized in Some. Yo see a great many young faces in the group. AD sections. | organization is growing when young people come in and work for it. The midnight train brought me back to Washington this morning.

| | NEXT—HWow Ku-Klax Klan en-| trenches itself in politics.

Warren Atherton, Stockton, Cal; Edward

9 Candidates Announce for Legion Commander

The 1941 national commander of the American Legion may be in this group, here for sessions of national committees. Avowed cane didates shown with National Commander Raymond J. Kelly (extreme left) are (left to right) Lynn U. Stambaugh, Farge, N. D.; Milo J, Warner, Toledo, O.; Paul Armstrong, Chicage; Jack Crowley, Rutland, Vt.;

Raymond Fields, Guthrie, Okla.; Roane Waring, Memphis, Tenn.; Scheiberling, Albany, N. X,, and Irving A. Jennings,

Phoenix, Aris.

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