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FRIDAY, MAY 24 1940 |

The Indianapolis Times

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SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

(Ernie Pyle is on vacation and at the request of

Feafdlers we are reprinting some of his favorite eolamns.)

ISLETA, N. M.. June 5, 1936.—We sat ‘out in front of Pablo Abevta' s adobe house in this ancient Pueblo Village one afternoon, while Pablo told ‘me about Teddy Roosevelt. Pablo has long hair, which keeps blowing into his mouth, and he has two long braids behind, and wears a white lace shirt, like 4 woman's blouse, and & big grav hat. Pablo is about 65 and he speaks better English than I do, and because he is smart and can talk he's always being sent to Washington as ‘interpreter for Indian ‘delegations. He has made 18 trips to Washington, he says, and it was ‘on ‘one of those trips that the Teddy Roosevelt story happened. “We went ‘inte ‘the White House.” Pablo says, “and somebody introduced us one

AL a time, and the President shook hands and said & few words.

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Meeting Teddy Roosevelt

“Then when we left and were outside & fellow pulled my sleeve and said the President wanted te see me alone. So T went back and he said, Pablo. Sit down,” and he said, ‘Pablo, T want ta know all about, your village and what the Tndians need.’ “So we sat there talking and IT knew he was busy end T kept rushing through so T could leave. But he kept telling me to go on. After a while some CabiNEL men came in and sat down, and finally they got to fdgeting, and one of them took out his watch and pointed at it, and the President turned around and said, ‘Gentlemen, T'm fully aware of the time we are spending here, ‘Go on. Pablo’ “Well, sir, IT talked to him for two hours and 20 minutes, and when I left he said, ‘Pablo, some day I'm coming to Is'eta and I want to Visit you in your own home.’ “So T came on back and didn’t think much more rhout it, till several months later T got a Message that, the Pr esident was at the main hotel in Albuquerque &nd wanted me to come right up “So I hitched up my horses and drove to Albuguer-

Our Town

I DON'T KNOW how but it seems to me that we used around here. I'm sure of it because when I was a Kid, we not only had the church bells to listen to, but the fire engine house bells as well Today we're Tacky bell in a church, let alone one in an engine house, Indeed, the situation is so lamentable that it wouldn't surprise me to learn some day that the decline of civilization dates from the time they stopped ringing the church bells, I ‘can’t notice anv improvement in the fire depart= ment, either, since they did away With bells, I bring up the subject of bells today because of a discov ary that the new school (Neo RE) on 49th St. is going te have a bell. Seems that when Burns and James. the architects, designed the building, thev squipped it with a cute little cupola the hig idea being that, mavbe somebody would take the hint and fill it. with a bell. Apparently it worked, because soon as the news of a cupnla ot around a committer representing the P.-T. A. got busv and went In search of & hell. As near as 1 can learn, the committes consisted of The wives belonging to George H. Denny and Ba Perry. ® ¥ Ww Shopping for a Bell The committee scoured the whole State to find something to meet their exacting specifications. If possible it had to be an historical bell, of the right size and scale, and one which when struck would Jeave you asking for more. They found it right under their noses at the commer of Washington and California Sts. in a plumbing shop, of all places. Tt was the cu'mination of a shopping expedition, the like of which Indianapolis has never seen. The No. 86 bell weighs 300 pounds, stands three feet high or better, and lets out a sound Approximating the kev of C. With the right kind of a wind back of it, it can be heard & mile. Tt also has &

Washington

WASHINGTON, May fecal front

it strikes other old timers,

to have more bells

to find a

24. Over here on the Polit war either. The (wo parties apparently are gomg to fight out the Presidential campaign, war or no war in Europe President Roosevelt has tried to set up a coalition Cabinet to include three Republicans. But the effort backfired and instead he now finds himself exposed to a new attack on the third-term issue, which had almost been forgotten, even hy Dorothy Thompson, That is the upshot of a series of fast-moving political episodes backstage in which Mr. Roosevelt, a master of astute politics, has been outmaneuversd by Alf Landon, the country boy from Kansas Mr, Roosevelt last week ine Frank Knox of Chicago to take a place in Governor Landon wag then invited to come to Washington. The coalition move was gaining ground and the Republican Party was in danger of being demoralized by what some of them called the Roosevelt, Trajan-horse tactics, Although most of the Republican leaders were standing pat against having any part in a coalition, the idea was making some headway and considerabla rank-and-file sentiment was developing under the tervific impact of the appalling reverses in Europe, The Republicans faced demoralization, » » »

G. 0. DP. Blitzkrieg Collapses

Sunday night Governor Landon issued a statement at Topeka, rejecting the coalition idea emphatioally. The 1936 Presidential candidate urged the Republican

My Day

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i's no phony

vited Col the Cabinet

Va. stopped which 1

before the camp Tor

ARTHURDALE, Just

coming EiKins, underprivileged children had heard about had had an opportunity to visit, examples 1 have seen of what co = operation between various agencies can accomplish, Once 1 it was a CCC camp and two buildings were added tO serve as schoolrooms, built by WPA and NY 2 combined, 1 think. All the workers are paid by WPA, which results in & complicated schedule, However, the staff works in two shifts and is so planned that in spite of WPA lavofls, there are no gaps in the children’s care and life goes on smoothly from week to week, The state public assistance pavs for the food, part of which is furnished hy the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. The cost per child is shout 26 cents per day, and every child gets a quart of milk daily and a well balanced diet, The camp is now Mm winter and summer, ‘The children look remarkably healthy, They are being inursd to a certain amount of the discomforts to be found in

Thursday mnvo at fore, but never It is one of the best

rescinded

que and tied my horses outside the hotel. There were two men standing ‘outside door and they said, | ‘What do you want? and I waid ‘the President wants | to see me!’ They said, ‘What's your name? and I said ‘TI haven't got ‘any name. Tell the President an Imdian wants to see him.’ “So they started an. argument and we made 80 | much noise the President heard us, and he recognized | my voice and came and opened the door and pulled me in. “ ‘Pablo, you didn't think I'd really come, did you the President said. And then he aid, Pablo, howl | we get ‘out to TIsleta without all this crowd following | us?’ “So T said, ‘Mr. President, give me vour hat and | coat.’ He handed them over without a word, and I| put them under my blanket and went down and put | them in ‘my buggy and got another blanket and went | back up. » %

A Couple of Indians

“When T got in the room I put the blanket around | | the President, clear up over his head, and then we i pulled the blankets up around us and stooped over and shuffled down through the lobby and out across the street and got in My buggy, and everybody thought we were just a couple of old Tndians. “I galloped my horses all the way to Tsleta, and we went into my house and the President said, ‘Pablo, vou didn't think I'd ever come, did you? Now I've filled ‘my promise.’ “So we had a bite to eat, and rat and talked a Tew minutes, and then we got in the buggy and drove back to Albuquergue. “When we walked into the hotel, the lobby was 4 full of people and the Secret Service men were run-| ning around excited because they couldn't find the Prexident. “The guards came running up and They were sore | because the President had got away from them, but he turned around and said, Boys, T was just as safe in Pablo's hands as T am with anybody in the world. “And you know he kapt the blanket. I saw him | again at the White House in 1915 and he showed ie} tha blanket and said . . . ” “But Pablo,” I interrupted, wasn't President in 1915.” “Weil, anyway,” said Pablo. blanket and said .. . ” So that's Pablo's story. Tt dossn’t make any dif- | ference to me whether you believe it.

Bricker of Ohio, the kevaoter,

“Theodore Roosevelt |

“he showsd me the

By Anton Scherrer

“hum note.” All good bells have hum notes in exact | harmony with the struck note. T hope voure follow= | mg me. All right, in that cave T'll tell you what elve | it takes to make a good bell. Tt takes 78 per cent copper and 22 per cent tm. Silver is no good, not= | withstanding an opinion by most poets that nothing is lovelier than a silver hell. A bell made of gold may | be all right, but nobody ever got around to it Chances are thev never will, now that the Democrats have all the gold in the world buried in Kentucky. As Tor the bells pedigree, vou couldn't wish for more. Believe it or not, the No. 86 bell is the one that used to belong to the ancient engine house on Marviand St. back of the old New York Store. It was known as No. 7. Back in 1890, it was right in the heart of town which was why they were the first to reach the Bowen-Merrill fire. If the bell was part of the original building, and I see No reason Why not, it's every bit of 65 vears old. What's more, T11 bet that the old No. 7 hall was cast Tight here in Indianapolis. Back in the Seventies, Dickson & Schneider, 110 14 style) 8. Delaware St, used to do just that kind of work > &% &

Around and Around

Even more remarkable is the faet that the bell used in the first central alarm system of the Mdianapolis Fire Department, back in 1860, is still in exists ence. Tt's the one now in the belfty of the Seventh Christian Church on Udell St. Another 80-vear-old bell iz the one in Christ Church. Tt came to Indianapolis by way of Trov, N. Y., which is reason enough to suspect that, mav= be, it's a Meneely bell. If that's the cave, the bell in | Christ Church was made by the same people who casi the bell in the tower of Independence Hall, the one which replaced the old Liberty Bell, While I'm at it I might as well toll vou, too, that once upon a time, not more than 40 years ago, Indianapolis had a cowbell factory, somewhere around Barth and Sanders Sts, Tt made 180 dozen bells a day Tor cows all over the world. Nowadavs not even the cows wear bells which brings me vieht back to where 1 started, {

Republicans The candidate looks approvingly

By Raymond Clapper i

Here ix Ue Republican Resolutions Oommillee which framed the platform, | Paul ¥, seated (deft to right) ¥, V. McCullough, Alfred C,

|, J. Crwmpacker, Third District 20h; eighth; John Sills, Necond,

Party to cary on in the tadivonal party processes. | The White Houve then suggested, so it was reported rere, that the mvitation to Governor Landon be | On second thought, sonally reaewed his invitation-—although it was vious that Governor Landon’s statement Mig coalition had wrecked the chances of Mr, Roosevell's plan to bring three Republicans into his Cabinet. Governor Landon came on to Washington and had | a pleasant lancheon visit with Mr, Roosevelt. He told | a press conference that Mr, Roosevelt had made ul no offer of a position jn the Government. Then issued a statement which shoved the third-term pe} back into the center of the stage, saving that anv Republican leader who accepted an Administration appointment would necessarily be making himself a party to a third-term move, in the absence of any | action by President Roosevelt to eliminate himself, » » »

Big League Industrialist Needed

however, Mr, Roosevelt ii

HIRED ‘TAPPER"

Detective Testifies to Committee.

WASHINGTON, May 24 hax collapsed. More than that, it has produced a counter-attack. The Republicans are out again with their squirrel guns, The whole thing has bean a Jot of unnecessary nonsense that gets in the way of real mobilization of American industry for the heavy task ahead, A Re. publican in the Cabinet isn't going to do the trick. Three Republicans wouldn't do it. Such a situation would lead only to endless suspicions, sniping and buck-passing. What is neaded it a big-league industrial adminis. trator, a single man or else a board such as Senator Austin has proposed, selected without regard to poli tics and chosen purely because of industrial executive ability,

cried what he termed the “snide tactics” emploved by Republicans to try to “dig up dirt” on Democrats in 'mdiana and several other states, The Indiana Senator is a member of the Interstate Commerce subcommittee investigating wire tapping. Bielaski, operator of a New York [private detective agency, yesterday, regarding his employment by the Hoosier Republicans, | Mr, Bielaski, who admitted wire- | tapping and the use of dictaphones snd dictagraphs, declared he had been employed by Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt of the Republican State committee in Indiana, This em~ ployment was to develop data upon {which Raymond E. Willis sought to [imseat Senator Frederick VanNiuvs the neighboring rural homes, bul the essentials of il was explained decent living are all here and there is evidently &| “What were you doing in Indiana?’ spirit of cooperation among all the workers and real Senator Minton asked Mr. Bielaski, happiness in the children, [who was summoned belore the sib The county provides three teachers and school is committee to Testly, held here through the eighth grade, A county worker! “1 was making an investigation of is in charge of finding foster homes for the children the Two Per Cent Club racket and they sre carefully watched. Some of the chil [started by Governor McNutt,” the dren have been in the camp as long as four years, but witness replied and added that he | the average stay is a few months, had been paid tor this job by Mr. | Tygart Valley, which we reached at § o'clock in Bobbitt, the afternoon, has improved tremendously, When I| “The Republicans have been was there last, they had no school and no industry, around crying about dictatorship tor | Now they have both, The school is a modern com- eight years now, but this testimony | pact building and will serve their purpose admirably, shows that it was their idea to The factory also is a modern building and extremely adopt well run and they hope by the end of the year to have against all their workers trained to the proper speed for tions,” economical production. They can probably give all today. the emplavment which is needed by the homesteaders| “1 am going to insist in addition to the necessary farming.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Democratic Senator

administra

that Bie- |

State Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt

Harvey Cartwright, Sixth, and Wiliam Jack Heim, N. Hastings, Seventh: Robert George, Powith, wax abvent when the picture was laken, |

(no estimate of the capacity but the crowd made a pretiy There wasn't any room to

Senator lobby, Thus Mr, Roosevelt's blitzkrieg on the Republicans Sherman Minton (D, Ind.) today de- fit,

i |

He cross-examined Fred B.

ry Erie BeOnce Again It's G.0O.P. C

(eft) and Governor

The accent was on youth in the William E. Jenner camp as the prepared to hominate

their at the Jenner

gabernatorial ribbon

piquant Miss Sally Ballard, French Lick,

| TEN 11h, ith

Frank 1. Greenwald,

Toyd EE. Huffman,

John W, were in happy mood today before Mr, Bobbitt opened the Repablican State convention at the Oolivewm,

candidate, pinned on

Famed as a parliamentarian, | James M. Knapp, Hagerstown,

aled as permanent chairman, tisements announcing

| |

| concentrated. Here is a scene taken sometime yesterday, with Mr,

onvention Time

The first thing Lem Trotter, Speedway City, did when he became a “dark horse” gubernatorial candidate was to issue newspaper adver. his candidacy.

High in the Claypool Hotel vesterday, candidates held public receptions, Glen R. Hillis, Kokomo, had one of the longest and one of the most persistent reception lines on the eighth floor where they all were

and Mrs, Hillis at one end of the line

| and crowds waiting to go through, That went on all day until cawcus time last night,

Standing (left 10 right)

Dowell, Ninth; George I. Denny, | keynote speech by Governor

Norris, 10th, and Addison K,

CLAIMS BOBBITT |'C ‘Call to Arms’ Finds Party in Jolly Mood

carry the load for Marien County delegates, ix lhe delegation’'s fAoor leader (center) and Frederick Schortemeier (right),

During the balloting al the convention in the Coliseum after the John Bricker of Ohio, these men were to

Harmon Campbell, left, and his helpers were Louic Fletcher long a party leader,

MEXICO FEARS

As Elephant Holds Sway in Hotel Lobby RED-NAZI PLOT

By JOE COLLIER

The height of activity and gavety the buttons in a large “H.” He even

Minton Rips G. o. P. After in the Claypool Hotel lobby, meet [ing Tooms quarters was reached last night be- | fore, during and after land committee meetings,

and candidates’

atile, » » » “Uncle Sam” hours, as Santa Claus, was president

That ed for Deal A. Johnstone, Dearborn County Ninth District, He selected back of the huge elephant lobby as his rostrum

| torically inclined,

Nazi methods of espionage! H. E (Doc) Miner,

Minton commented convention,

The news which came over our little portable radio hasn't got anything or the Repub- |

from England this afternoon was interesting. When licans would have been shouting it]

that is implied in the contral over industry and pris | vate wealth, ax well ax the supervision of every wire-tapping spy and that citizen's metivity, 11, shows a willingness to give for athics of the people who stoop to

the sake of preserving what it happens to believe, [employing him.” *

James M. Knapp, permanent con the organization I'm Know

vention chairman, sat in on rules and permanent committee meeting going to referee 1 want the rules of the game

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“I'm Just like an oll Hrehorse,” Rep. Chatles Halleck commented convlituents the retarm to 0.

to Second Distiict in explaining why Halls of Congress to

he left

Indianapolis for the State G, | “1 just can’t keep

P. convention, away when the bells ring.” » * -

Headquarters of R, Earl Pelers, [| Democratic candidate for Governor, | on the mezzamne floor was open all they were

evening and whether Democrats or Republicans, guest list was pretty big, "® % ow

alternate delegale to the

in the Calumet District

Over al

coat and circled his hatband,

head

the district There is of the » » »

who parad-| condemning the New Robert the Republican Club,

in when ora.

“because if

Hammond, an national is one of the operators " ® | of that chain of hamburger stands and which

[laski produce his proof. IT know he is extending into Chicago,

the State House, RBrice a nation voluntarily sats up the kind of self-discipline all over ithe State Jong before this, williams, the Kokomo button man, “There is only thing worse than a ginaod out like a neon sign, is the far-Governar buttons

Hillix~ | ware pinned [15 minutes that they had business years” and "nn." along the seam of hix trousers and inside but the policemen told them three vears ago tn Dr,

|the back of his coat he arranged men left, finally, had buttons on his collar and necktie, Yet he had plenty of buttons to spare and milled through the corridors pinning butions on buttonless delegates and everyone else,

heard one of the officers say to other: “Wonder machines are coming?” “Listen,” he said, “those were

out.” [to get them back. The 1684 delegates from the | "Ow Ninth District sang songs between speeches hy a half dosen candi | dates from the district, They put their best efforts inte "Sweet Adeline” and “America” while | ently waiting Tor Secretary of State | James M. Tucker to speak, They termed the secretary the Republican pacemaker in the state,

| wewm was that of Glen Hillis, displayed.

| treasurer,

| mechanical elephant

the

the | ® w=

| The Seventh District caucus last| People's hails off, ‘night elected two "$50,000 delegates” > =» to the Republican National Oonven-| The candidates were seated tion—al least that was the name hpxes, spaced a box apait, applied to them by some of State Convention delegates voted for (hem The two were Homer KE. Capehart, avlomatic phonograph magnate, aid Will H., Hays, movie tsar, Neither of the Two men spends much ume in the Sevealh District, | although Mr, Capeharl has a huge | farm near Washington, ad, and | Mr, Hays maintains a legal resis dence al Sullivan, Ind Mr, Hayes was National publican Chairman in 1920 [then Postmaster General in | Harding Oabinet, Mr, Capehari, formerly registered as a Democral [embraced the Republican cause in| 1936 and in 1938 was host to the huge "Cornfield Rally” at his Inni farm, In referring to them | ‘as "$50,000 delegates” party workers | |e they believed each of them | [could v¥ expected to make contributions to the party's campaign chest,

the

tem the Re- humnsell,

microphone man district, voles from rather than try, as he the man make the There was #0 much confusion old way that il didn't work oul,

the

HOLLYWOOD, May 24 (U,

| word testimony doesn't obtain [annulment every day, Police guarded the doors of the Starlet Marilyn Hope, voted Ooliseum before convention time photographer's idea of a and refused to let anyone but gil” {workers in, They had orders, how- she answerad ever, adding machines for the tabulators, Two men appeared and argued for

two questions,

married and whether she had parents’ consent, She replied

Onto tell that to the Marines, The Babcock, Hollywood physician,

when those adding

adding machine men vou just tossed | It took quick telephone work |

| The only picture of any candi | date in general view in the Coli

| was a handsome photo, prominThe candidacy of James Givens aspirant for state was being urged by a which wagged its trunk and head from | wide to wide and kept knocking

Thus | the the candidates for governor and WhO their parties were far enough away | that their negolia- L

would be betler convenlon

and last time, to lel each district chair= [are going aller announcements

THREE LITTLE WORDS MAKE A DIVORCEE

P.), large —Three-minute divorces in Holly wood are nol uncommon, but three

“glamour | received an annulment when The to quickly pass men delivering | judge asked her age when she was

Bhe was married Myron F

and prefty moon one member of the waiting crows

Political ithitiaios May Be Used to Divert Attention

From Europe. By JOHN THOMPSON

Times Special Writer | SAN FRANCISCO, May 24. Re. ports are current in Mexico of a |Commu=-Nazi plot to divert United {States attention from Europe by

creating Mexican political disturbe ances, The Mexican Government has {taken vigorous steps to break up (any such conspiracy, but informed | sources believe that nothing short of mosi drastic measures will prevent outbreaks, The Nazi and Fascist ends of the combine have been driven underground by the Government, but the Communist Party functions openly. has blamed France and Britain [for starting the war in Burope, and has also taken a rap at the United Slates for co-operating with these [Iwo uations Soviel,

the

the|

Russia is always protrayed

This year the public address SVs as being persecuted by these “ime announced | peralisy” the Toor

nations and by the Vatean did| Meanwhile, Mexico's Communists, their enemies at’ home in real earnest, They deplore the (he tolerance which motivates the present leftist government in pers mitting the opposition leaders to exist, Such opposition presidential cane didates as Almazan, Amaro and their followers, az well as such outstanding rightists as Emilio Portes [Gil and Gen, Maximino Avila Cae macho, brother of the official presidential candidate, are in marked disfavor among the Communists, The Mexican Communist Party asserts that the continued existences of these rightist leaders endangers the Republic and that Mexico must not repeat the mistake made hy Re rublican Spain when {t sparad the rightist enemies of the Republis wha eventually hrought about the Franco revelution and tha snd of ithe Spanish Republis,

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