Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1940 — Page 19

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FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1940

Hoosier Vagabond

(Ernie Pyle is ill and his friend, Eldon Roark of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, is temporarily filling in for him.)

By ELDON ROARK

MEMPHIS, May 10.—Memphis is a city of champions, Name any sport, work, amusement— just any activity—and the chances are that the local boosters will produce the world’s champion. It may be that you've never heard of him, bit they'll prove that is due to your ignorance, not to the fact that the champ isn't the real McCoy. The champion golfer, for instance, is a wiry, bald, 77-year old little man named W. G. Smith. His title, however, isn't based on the scores he makes, but on the amount of golf he plays. Mr. Smith retired from the sewing machine business a few years ago and went in for golf. Early every morning he shoulders his clubs-—carries them across his shoulder as if they were fishing poles hangs his tin lunch box on the ends of his irons, and hikes to Qverton Park. He spends the entire day there, playing golf—or sitting in the shade of a tree when he's tired—and about 5 o'clock he goes home. Most of his golfing is done on the practice ranges, He dumps a bagful of balls on the grass and whacks them out. Then he hikes to where they are and whacks them back. All day long he whacks and whacks, for his endurance is remarkable, In threatening weather he just takes an umbrella and goes ahead. Only a storm chases him indoors. Mr, Smith also is a champion in another respect. He never cusses when he dubs a shot, He doesn't even say, “My! My!” He just knocks the stuffing out of the next ball. He says he is proving that a man can play without cussing.

A Modern David

The slingshot champion of the world also lives here—a stocky, middle-aged fellow named David Dudlah. He is a crack shot with a rifle and a pistol, and he does a little Dead-Eye Dick with those weapons first, Then he pulls out a slingshot made of an old inner tube, and does with it practically everything he does with a rifle, He shoots electric light bulbs off his wife's head, and can even toss a 22 cartridge into the air and explode it with a rock from his slingshot,

Our Town

ONE OF THE MOST difficult incidents in another snarled week was the receipt of a letter from a lady in Paducah, a city of 35,000 somewhere down in Kentucky. She wanted to know whether Indianapolis has more than her share of widows and, if so, how come. The question has been bothering her, she said, ever since last winter when she spent a week in Indianapolis. During her stay she took in everything we had to offer, including a performance at English’s ("I Married An Angel’). That's when she noticed the amazing number of widows in our midst. They occupied all the boxes and paid for most of the seats in the pit. There was hardly a man in the audience, she said. She closed her letter with the query: “What do Indianapolis women do to their men that makes them die before their time?" Well, before I get around to that, let me start. at the beginning and compare the risk of widowhood with that of death. As far as Indianapolis is concerned, the risk of widowhood (in the case of women) is generally greater than the risk of death, For a man the reverse is the case,

Analyzing the Situation

Two factors contribute to this situation. In the first place, Indianapolis married men have a higher mortality rate than married women. With the result that even when both partners are of a like age it is more probable that the wife will lose her husband than that she will die herself. Chances are that he will go a year before she gets around to it. Gosh, I had no idea I was getting into anything so lugubrious today. That's only the half of it, however. The second contributing factor is that Indianapolis women, in the majority of cases, are married to men older than themselves, It ends disastrously, too. And if you

Washington

WASHINGTON, May 10.—At this time, when jitters are epidemic, it is reassuring to have a sane, hard-bitten outline of the problem of safeguarding the Western Hemisphere from military aggression. It comes from the assistant chief of staff of the U. S, Army, Brig. Gen.' George V. Strong, in a significant paper read this week before the annual meeting of the Society of American Military Engineers. Are we safe on the Western Hemisphere from military aggression? Yes, replies Gen. Strong. as long as two conditions are maintained: 1. That the Panama Canal is open for transit of the fleet. 2. That an aggressor from abroad has no bases in this

hemisphere, What is required to insure those two conditions so essential to our protection? First, as to the Panama Canal, It is considered safe from attack by surface vesrels alone and from land attack. Air attack would involve use by the enemy of at least two airplane carriers or a land base within a radius of 1000 miles, and many planes. Gen. Strong considers our air defense adequate, provided we have reasonable warning of such attack. » » »

The Panama Canal

There is always the off chance of a single plane getting through on a suicide dash to drop one load

of bombs, but it is considered slight. The greater danger is from sabotage to the canal locks. There are now three double sets of locks. the chambers of each set lying side by side. One lucky hit from the air, or an explosion set off by saboteurs, might destroy

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Thursday—I visited my mother-in-law yesterday morning and was fortunate to find my husband's aunt, Mrs. Forbes, there. I have come to the conclusion that time lays a light hand on their generation. Perhaps they had a vigor which was denied to the rest of us. In any case, Mrs. Forbes is as keenly alert today to what is going on in the world as the majority of young people, and my mother-in-law announced that she would like to bring up her grandchildren all over again—which shows an amount of energy and convice tion given to few parents of later generations.

Going from this visit to the luncheon given by the “Youth Builders” was an extremely interesting contrast. That older generation undoubtedly feels that their impress should be very firm upon the youth around them, whereas, the emphasis in the “Youth Builders” organization is the development of the young people themselves, the maturing of their thought, and, through judicious quesHoning, bringing out their ability to express themselves, Five of them, ranging in age from 1 on a forum for us, They had been giv

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The Indianapolis Times

By Ernie Pyle)

Another world’s champion is a frosty-headed vellow Negro ‘with an almost toothiess mouth and a rascally smile who isn't known by any name except ! “Rags.” Rags is the champion chicken thief. He has made a business of it since he was just a young man, and he has stolen thousands and thousands of hens) and roosters—maybe millions. He spends about twothirds of his life in the workhouse. When he gets out, he goes back to “work,” and within a few days the cops nab him again, slipping| along a dark alley with a sack. “All right, Rags," they say. “Come on. Let's go.” Rags has thought several times of quitting, but after a map has devoted the best years of his life to something it's pretty hard to give it up, he explains. And then there's Gus (Happy) Foreman, the old Chicago White Sox pitcher, who now runs a little grocery. Happy is the false<teeth champion of the world. He can eat apples, corn on the cob and—the| supreme {est—strawberries and blackberries. LJ 8 LJ

Champion Bulldifter

The champion bull-lifter of the world is a redfaced Hercules named Herbert E. (HE) Mann, Some years ego he started in to prove that if a man lifts a calf everv day his strength will increase with the weight of the calf. He was still lifting calf when it was an 800-pound bull. The champion four-leaf-clover-finder is J. P. Winfield. Last season he found 1170, and this season he says he is going to beat his own mark. He has a job as a golf caddy, and will look for four-leaf clovers while hunting lost balls, | The champion been-without-a-drink-of-water man fs a retired businessman named L. O. Read. and he hasn't had a drink of water in 14 years—only (wo| glasses in 18 years. He just doesn't want it. He drinks coffee and tea and eats watery fruit, The champion been-photographed baby, Harry | Gerstel Jr. will be 2 next July 4. And he has been photographed an average of more than once a day] since he was born. His papa is a professional photographer, The world’s champion cotton booster, C. S. (Shirttail) Smith, has for years carried on a one-man crusade for longer shirttails. He believes that a heman shirt should have a tail 38 inches long. Then a man would really have something to sit on and the cotton surplus would go right déwn.

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don't believe it allow me to fortify my observations with quantitative data. Indianapolis has 6067 widowers and 19.367 widows. The excess of widows is more than enough to fill English’'s Theater, It may just be possible, though, that my Paducah correspondent jumped to conclusions, Women have been known to do that. Maybe all the ladies who went to see “I Married An Angel” weren't widows. Maybe, some of them were divorced women, Never forget that Indianapolis has 6174 divorced persons half of whom, it is reasonable to suspect, are women, For titat matter, it may even be possible that a majority of the women who went to see “I Married An Angel” were married women who can't account for their husbands. After all, Indianapolis has 88411 wives and 87.756 husbands. Which is to say that Indianapolis has 635 wives who don't know where their husbands are. or who, for some reason, aren't telling. It, too, represents a sizable audience,

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rich prize. Anxious eyes were gs Seventeen of 18 Automobile Drivers Convicted by Judge Karabell.

Japan. | What used to be called a “phoney war” is now a reality. The fighters | ‘it. His stand is that Germany willl Seventeen out of 18 motorists | win or go down in disastrous de-| brought before Municipal Judge (feat. In a message to the German nares J. Karabell today on traffio | Army, he declared dramatically: a : ; | “Soldiers of the Western Front. Violation charges were convicted, | Your hour has come. The fight| two of them drawing heavy jail sene which begins today will determine tences. | Germany's future for the next| Total fines were $150, or approxe thousand years.” [imately $9 apiece. : | Nathan Willis, 21, of 1514 E. 17th r— po + | St., was fined $25 and costs and . EE to 45 days in jail on a

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Sentenced to Jail

Charles * Collins, 21, of 414 N, | California St., drew fines and sentences of $10 and costs and 30 days in jail on a drunk driving charge, $1 and costs on a drunkenness charge, and $15 and costs and 30 days in jail on a reckless driving (charge. The jail sentences are to run | concurrently. Police said he was ine volved in an accident at Michigan ; land West Sts., in which his aue 3 | |tomobile struck another car and “1 turned over. His driver's license was

be because of the hostility to art on the part of Indianapolis men. Granting, of course, that the theater is still a form of art. I don't know whether you know it or not, but Indianapolis men are not merely indifferent to art— they positively hate it, no matter whether it's dished up in the shape of painted pictures, polyphonic music, functional architecture, casual clothes or the drah-ma. It's probably because the highbrows have led them to believe that art has something in common | with beauty and, for that reason, serves as an escape from the realities of an ugly world. ACCOUNTANTS Shucks, when it comes to finding an escape, men don't have to patronize art or attend the theater ° . They have a better way. For one thing, they have their OPEN SESSION Hitler Which May Cost L lodges. To say nothing of the gorgeous uniforms that go with the ritual. Come to think of it, I'll bet that : . - most of the women mistaken for widows were married ——— By_LOUIS F. KETMLEE height lose everything ang: cost women whose husbands had an urgent call to attend Geor e S. Olive Describes! United Frew Cable Editor : the lives of millions. lodge the night of I Married An Angel.” g . S| One of history's most amazing| Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, PoAssociation's History figures, Adolf Hitler, has set out land and Norway—all were comB Ra mond Cla y At Butler. Berlin announcement—the German | he has undertaken now. The iny y ppe forces with which he apparentiy vasion of Holland, Belgium, LuxemAccountants from all over I ey uTope and Weak {outg: Sudk any Aparent serial te both sets and put the canal out of commission. state met today at Butler Uni-| Hitler, the Berlin announcement and imposing forces against p he Therefore, while every precaution is taken, Gen. | versity in the first session of a two- said, is in personal command of Belgium nd the Netherland Strong urges pending appropriations for a third set | day session of the Indiana Associa-|his troops on the Western Front. have Bl 500 ~ Cor od Na en an 5 of locks, to be located a quarter to a half-mile from tion of Certified Public Account-|Again he has struck like lightning, ame to be added to the el or existing locks. Construction would require five or six ants, {but never before on such a scale. 5000000 of Britain and Sm years, hence immediate action is desirable, They were to hear local and na- reUTH : Second, to insure that no aggressor can chtain a tionally known accountants talk on ——— base from which to operate, we must look beyond |specialized subjects in their field. the three-mile limit. The 25th annual convention was An enemy base in Newfoundland would menaceybrought to order this morning by our vital northeastern industrial area as far south Gregory F. Datmer, Ft. Wayne, asas the Potomac. It also would menace all northern sociation president. The account | routes to Europe. An enemy, once established in|ants were welcomed to Butler by Newfoundland, could only be dislodged by an expedi- Dr ane S. Robinson, university | tion from the United States. George S. Olive, Indianapolis ac-| Potential ee counitant, spoke on “Our Anni-| . . versary ilestone in Accounting olentia Danger Sources History.” He decalled the history Evervthing in the Caribbean area, foreign as well of the association, which was] as American possessions, constitute potential sources founded in 1915 with five members. | of danger. British, French and Dutch possessions! He said the importance of various would be considered a menace—although Gen, Strong | Kinds of taxes has been more re-| did not go into this—if they fell into the hands of Sponsible than any other factor for potential enemies. the increased need for well-kept Any bases established at numerous svailable sites accounts. ; along the west coast of Central America and Mexico | A general clinic session was to would be threatening. Our Alaskan bases should be Dé held this afternoon. Speakers developed to protect a vital area of the Pacific.| Nor to include George D. Bailey of Equally dangerous would be any foothold by an ag- | Detroit. Who was to talk on “Exgressor power within any Western Hemisphere re-|beriences With Inventories”; A. public. Gen. Strong does not go outside his field as a soldier, but it is obvious that our interest would | be jeopardized whether the foothold was gained in a | Western Hemisphere republic by force or by negotiation. must assist any of these republics in preventing such | an attempt, no matter what form it might take. In | this connection, efforts to penetrate by establishing | commercial airlines in Latin America are of con-| cern to this country.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

ject several days ago but no previous rehearsal had taken place. They had just been asked to think about it. They came all prepared with thoughts.

I spent a short time also in the morning visiting the Paderewski Fund headquarters and listening to reports of their work. Like all other organizations raising money for relief abroad. they do not find it easy, but they have succeeded in sending food and supplies of various kinds and are, of course, continuing their efforts. The committee is such an outstanding and able one, and so many people in this country have known and loved Mr. Paderewski, that I think on a nation-wide basis we will contribute to the relief of the people of Poland. I understahd so well the feelings of many of our own people who are suffering in this country, and who feel that the first duty of citizens of the United

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ant's Report and Certificate,” and Robert C. Brown of Chicago, “Ac-

counts Receivable.”

The anniversa din It is to be assumed that the United States held tonight at a, Oe rll he

Mr. Detmer will preside and Dr. Robinson will be toastmaster. There will be a program of dancing and entertainment, Papers will be read tomorrow morning by J. A. Phillips of Houston, Tex., on “Trends and Problems in Federal Taxation,” and by J. M. Bowlby of Chicago on “Accountancy Looks to the Future.” Dean M. O. Ross of the School of

Business at Butler will preside at

tomorrow's meetings. The convention will close with the summing up

of the activities of the clinic by John

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East, and a state of siege was declared in the Dutch East Indies, a

‘Everyone Go to His Post, Wilhelmina Tells Subjects

go to his post to which he has been appointed with the utmost vigilance | and with his inner calmness and whole-heartedness which a clear conscience gives him.”

THE HAGUE, May 0 (U. P).— Queen Wilhelmina today issued the following proclamation: “After our country, with serupu[lous conscientiousness, had observed [strict neutrality during all these

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States fleet was on the alert in the| tral. countries would look if fitCaribbean and also in the Pacific.| ted within the borders of Illinois. Their miles is less than half of that of this middle-sized state.

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| suspended for six months. | Judge Karabell fined Robert M. { Trees, 26, of 1400 Kelly St. $10 {and costs for operating a car under | the influence of liquor in the 100

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tenced him to 10 days in jail, but {suspended the days. William J. Robbins, 17, of 1031 | Parker Ave., a Tech High School {pupil, was fined $5 and costs, with the costs suspended, on a charge of {reckless driving. The judge suspend|ed the youth's conditional driver's {license for 30 days and remarked, “Ill keep you guys off the streets.”

Heeds Pleas of Wife

| In another case, Judge Karabel? |consented to a wife's pleas that | her husband's drivin’s license be re- | yoked “because he drives too often under the influence of liquor” and

von Mackensen, German Ambassa- | arranged for him to appear before dor, called on Premier Benito Mus- Roberts C. Hill, chief hearing judge solini early today to adyise him of On automobile licenses for the Mothe Netherlands, Belgium and Luxem-

[tor Vehicle Bureau. at the State House. The man, Charles Gordon, 29, of

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 10 months, and while Holland had no

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WASHINGTON, May 10. (U. P)). —Wage Hour Administrator Philip B. Fleming today approved wage increases amounting to $10,000,000

He delivered a communication, | presumably from Adolf Hitler. It was not believed here that the communication called on Italy to enter

(U. P.).—Swedish military circles other plan than that to maintain reported today that Norwegian and |strictly this attitude, Germany last Allied forces were rapidly closing night made a sudden attack on our

in on the beleaguered German gar- territory without any warning. ment was suspended.

Karabell on a drunkenness charge, He was fined $1 and costs and sene tenced to 30 days in jail. The judge

a year for 200,000 garment workers. Mr. Fleming approved recommendations of the apparel industry committee for all except two divisions engaged in emboridery work. The wage order will be effective July 15.

States is to help their own. We have a Government, | rison t Narvik and hoped to cut! “This was done, notwithstanding however and a people capable of really meeting the Off a German retreat to Sweden. 'a solemn promjse that the neuneeds in our country at present. In the long run,| Norwegian units at Bjoermfell trality of our country would be reour duty is to solve the basic economic problem were said to have beaten back re- spected so long as we ourselves which has borne down upon our people in different peated German gttacks while at- maintained that neutrality. ways in different localities. We also have people tempting to dynamite the railroad| “I herewith direct a flaming proable to meet the appeal for suffering humanity line from Narvik to the frontier. test against this unprecedented vioin other parts of the world. I think we should Dispatches to the frontier indicated [lation of good faith, and the violarecognize that meeting this appeal is not only a that the Norwegians were working tion of what is decent between culcall upon the Christian spirit, but is a recognition of {in close collaboration with the Al-!tured states. I and my government the fact that oppression and misery anywhere men- lies in a pincers movement intend-| will now do our duty. aces the spirit of Democracy all over the world and|/ed to surround Narvik from the! “Do your duty everywhere and therefore is a concern of ours, ; land side, under all circumstances. Everyone Dexter,

HOOSIER 100 YEARS OLD MARION, Ind.,, May 10 (U. P.) — Mrs. Elizabeth Cranston, Grant County's oldest resident, was 100 yedrs old today. She was born in Mich., May ¥0, 1840,

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the war now at the side of Germany. Opinion was general that the developments have brought Italy closer. to war but there was no immediate official reaction, Newspapers significantly featured accounts of the action strictly from the German viewpoint. The headlines on the afternoon papers Tevere and Piccolo both declared:

ASK DIRECTED ACQUITTAL NEW YORK, May 10 (U. P.).— Federal Judge Marcus B. Campe belli today heard arguments on a motion by defense attorneys for a directed acquittal of 16 men charged with conspiring to overthrow th Government. : The defense claimed the Government had failed to present sufficient “Germany Assumes Protection of | evidence to warrant continuance of Belgium, Holland, Luxembous8.” |the trial, -

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