Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1940 — Page 7

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, June 16, 1936.1 is late at ming into Oklahoma City for the first time in your life. + You see the reflection of:light in 5 dark sky ahead. That’s Oklahoma City. The road comes down || out of complete flatness and be- | gins to wind around a little. You. top a little rise, and the | tog of lights divides slowly into individualities. n You see tall buildings all lighted up, still far away. You think my, but Okla-

OKLAHOMA

homa City’s a big place. Lots of.

big office buildings. workihg too. Why, it looks like the New

With people

York skyline at night, only the

buildings all seem about the same hei

You in along like that,

and then it suddenly hits you. Those aren't buildings .-all lighted up. They're oil derricks!

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An Amazing ‘Sight

I recommend that moment of realization and the next 10 minutes of amazing ‘staring; as one ‘of the

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~most thrilling sights in industrial America.

You ve on in among the oil derricks. are hundreds of them: They're as thick as trees. Some aren’t 20 paces apart, Some are right on the highway, like a filling station. A string of bright lights goes to the top of each one. And down below, on the ground, everything is brightly lighted.

First the sight, and then the sound. There is a

Our T own * .

NO HERO OF MY BOYHOOD received more post-’ -humous affection than Jesse James. He had been dead -about 10 years when we boys were old enough to learn .~something of his achievements, and I've thought of it’ “often stiough b because I never knew another man who ' took less time to gather to himself the attributes of saintliness.

There’s no mistaking the fact that 50 years ago when I was a kid, Mr. James had the stature of a saint. And the.only way I ‘can explain it is to tell you about an Irishman wHo lived in our neighborhood at the time——on the South Side," I don’t mind saying. This Irishman. was by way of

. being another of our heroes nots

only because he looked the part, but because, on top of all his other talents, he piloted a locomotive between Indianapolis and some point in Illinois. ‘Somehow, he alwgys picked up new stories

* when away;from home, ang we counted it a poor run

if he didn’t return with something new about Jesse James. And what contributed more than anything to his way of telling the stories was the fact that he always spoke of Mr.James:in the present tense, thus perpetuating the legend that our Hero was still alive. I still remember what a shock it was when, years later, I learned that Mr. James didn’t belong to my generation at all. {Sg 8

H elping the Poor Widow )

Patching together what I now remember of the Irishman’s stories, I distinctly recall that Mr. James was always on the side of the poor. In which respect he was not unlike Robin Hood, another hero of my boyhood who for some reason, had the approval of Indianapolis school teachers when I was a kid. There was a whale of a difference, though. For one thing, Robin Hood always made a lot of fuss about ®@verything he did, whereas Mr. James never was a braggart. Hé did everything as if it were in the line of duty—

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* Washington

‘WASHINGTON, May 29.—We are in danger of go-

ing into a panic of fright, if indeed we are not already

+ at that stage, over the fifth column danger.

Public temper concerning national defense has struck an energetic, workmanlike pace. That same spirit should be applied to the fifth-column” problem. We are in danger of wrecking some of the ‘basic things for which de“*mocracy stands, of doing the very things for which we so despise the Hitler regime, of wronging innocent people, Being calm and avoiding hysteria does not mean, or should , hot mean, being indifferent. We cannot afford to be indifferent about anything that concerns . our national security. We can afford to be cool-headed. In the matter of the fifth column, some fantastic events are being reported in the press. One organization intends to have one million rifle-toting mothers ready by July 1 to combat any parachute invasion. Two parachute legions have been formed in Pittsburgh. California there is an “Erase. the Fifth Column, Inc.” Some fellow was reported shot because someone thought he was a fifth columnist. A newspaper reader telephoned me the day after Governor Landon issued his recent statement against a third term and said that was a “traitorous” utterance.

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Fingerprinting of Aliens

_Poliee herg:freceived (a mysterious telephone call that two fifth columnists were about to blow up a Government building. dress given. Four surrounded the house, five dashed upstairs, flung open the door and found one of the suspects reading a Conan Doyle detective story. After questioning him, police decided their tip was the work

: of a crank.

‘Press reports indicate’ that minute mien are springing up in many placgs. Before long any little pants presser will be © put a competitor out of

: ~My Day

k NEW YORK CITY, Tuesday.—It is interesting to nbte in some of the papers during the last few days,

the suggestion that to insist that the hours of labor

shall not be increased is a short-sighted policy in View of the fact ‘that rapidity of production is neces=

sary. It seems to me that the people who say this are forget-

ting the Iagt that an employed . nation is necessary for the Sur-,

vival of a democratic form of government, and that it will be

time epough to increase the

hours of labor when we have cut our unemployment to the mins | imum, It may be said that the type of workers needed are not those who are unemployed. "It seems * to me, with industry really wish= "ing to co-operate on this defense front, it might be possible to train some of those who are now unemployed and who have not préviously been mechanics, so that they would be able to go to

: work when new factories are ready to receive them.

Some people seem still unable to realize the Tact that it is important to ake democracy worth fightpe for. Unless that c ourselves with large numbers of people in our jitte under what form of govern.

kihg there this late at night,

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nge is met, we are apt to’

By Ernie Pyle.

-gteady, heavy din. The whole field is alive with work.

You hear deep, regular poundings; and a throbbing, rumbling, circular sound, like a grinding; and the clank of steel tubes and the whirr of great pulleys, and the shooting off of steam. Immense activity, and it is nearly midnight. The fiendish boring”’for oil never stops with the sun. You drive on and on.

aprons 8 5 8 ‘Let oil Reign Unrefined , Youre in the suburbs of Oklahoma City. Aji pretty soon. you see a sign, “City Limits, Oklahoma

City.” An 1.you keep ‘driving, and still you're amidst | : the oil wells. And you stay amidst them clear into |

town. Theyre all over the golf course.‘ There is one| There one up| :

in the side lawn of the state capitol. against the Governor's mansion. Three months ago, there were only wo oil wells in the nor‘hern part of Oklahoma City. Today there age at leas: 300, and new derricks are going up almost by the hour. Residential sections are being gutted. People are wild for oil. There :re many people who are shocked by this glaring display of commercialism. - Rearing an oil field right ‘n the heart af ‘a city. [Ruining homes and fine residential sections. Putting oil wells on the ‘Capitol ‘grounds. Personally, I get a big wallop out of it. My vote for it is “yes.” Put up a.thoysand more derricks! What if it does waste irrecoverable reserves of oil! Grind a thousand more holes in the ground! Who cares for the heart breaks and the i Tg Throw up more silvery steel shafts rill in the gushers, boys. It's fun. It's a fever. Leé oil reign unrefined. Let's all get rich. Boy, hand me that lease, before it's too late.

‘By Anton Scherrer)

indeed, as i it were expected of him—which was more to our likin, and certainly more in keeping with the virtues praciiced on the South Side at the timg, Even as far back as 50 years ago, I remember my Irish friend saying that Mr. James was out “to soak the rich.” Those were his very words and, to prove his point, he said it wasn’t for nothing that Mr. James’ career para’leled that of the panic, the railroad strikes and the revolt against conditions. that favored the rich. That, of course, inspired Mr. James to go after the railroads and stage his first holdup. To hear the Irishman tell it, it was a pretty crude affair, but everybody has tq make a start, said the Irishman. Anyway, Mr. James got better after that, and perfected his art to include the looting of banks. That was the best part of the Irishman’s repertoire, because it uncovered the sympathetic side of Mr. James.

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An Example of Clarity

I never knew a repertoire so rich in examples. of charity. ‘Mr, James was always good to the poor, but sometimes he even surpassed himself—like the. story, for instance, of the poor widow whose honie was going to be taker from her because she couldn't satisfy the $1500 mortgage held by a hard-hearted landlord. / The way the Irishman told the story, the poor fwidow was crying her eyes out when, all of a sudden,

(Mr. James turned up and asked for a drink of water. ‘Soon as he heard of the widow's pitiful tale, he dug

into his pocket, pulled out a roll of bills, and peeled off enough to liquidate the debt. He hardly had the money in the woman's hand when he saw a cloud of dust in the distance and, right away, he figured that it was the skinflint landlord 6n his way to collect the debt. Partly because of his modesty and, maybe, because he wasn’t like Robin Hood, Mr. James sneaked into the shadow of the barn. The wicow gave the landlord his money and got a signed reccipt when out of the shadow crept Mr. James and shot the skinflint dead. He spent but one bullet, sai¢ the Irishman. Sure, Mr. James got his $1500 back.

Ey Raymond Clapper)

the way by turning him in as a fifth columnist. Any fellow who wants 30 cents an hour when the boss is paying 25 will be suspected as a fifth columnist. If this business goes on, what will be the difference between a Communist criticising President Roosevelt or a Republican criticizing him? They will be both stirring up dissension. Several things need to be done and are under way with regard to the fifth column menace.” One is the proposal now in Congress for finger-printing of aliens. They should be finger-printed. For years any for.eigner in Europe was checked by the police and in most countries had to register if he stayed more than a few weeks. : ”

Some S ensible; Precautions

Governor Rivers of Georgia intends to revoke occupational licenses of aliens who do not begin citizenship proceedings. If an alien intends to live here and do hysinéss, he should become a citizen. FBI protection for industrial plants and strategic

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‘locations, and additjonal guards where necessary, is

only a’sensible precaution. Communist activities in labor organizations will bear watching. Since we have no large Germanspeaking population, the Nazis themselves are thereby limited as to direct fifth column work. They are too conspicuous. Buf the Communists melt into the population and are the ones that need watching. Their ends are the same as the Nazis. In the previous war concrete tennis cdurts were German gun emplacements cunningly laid here .for future use. A restaurant which served a bit of rock salf in a dish of ice cream was liable to

suspicion of having a German spy planting ground,

glass in the food. It will. be a sad day in this? democracy when a fellow can’t tell one of those old WPA jokes without being suspected of Fifth Column tactics to undermine confidence in Government. The s'tuation in Mexico is not too good and warrants close attention because Mexico lies. between our border a:id the Panama Canal. : In short, there is plenty of legitimate work to be done against reel fifth column activities by authorized officials. The rzst must be trusted to the ‘good judgment and democratic spirit of American citizens.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

_ the British Parliament, which practically conscripted

all available materials for the use of the Government in its present emergency. ‘But others have been saying that this action means an acknowledgement,| either that a democracy must meet a dictatorship by| becoming a dictatorship itself or, that England has] never really been a democracy and therefore is making - little or no change by accepting these new conditions. It scems to me that this reasoning is unsound, because there is a great difference between a dictatorship imposed by an individual who gathers unto himself a ‘following and allows them the ruthless use of force, and the temporary dictatorship imposed by a people who discipline themselves by accepting dictation in order to preserve their liberty, - It seems incredible to hear of the surrender of the Belgian King. Yet, I suppose, there comes a point where human endurance can bear up no longer. One more country is now officially under Nazi domination. « I had such a pleasant day yesterday with Mrs. Curtin Winsor and her two children. She has just taken over a new house and I can never see a house ‘being done over without wanting to have a hand in it. I think I would have enjoyed being an interior decorator. I spoke in the evening in the Haddonfield, N. J., Memorial High School and arrived in my New York City apartment about 12:30 last night.. It is still taining today and this does not add to one’s cheerfulnéss, but nothing I am doing will be much affected

‘The derricks are wedged 3 in between houses on open lots, on filling station |

boy.

“Shot by Burglar

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George Schreiber/ . . . shot, his heme. and sagged by a burglar in

BULLET PASSES THROUGH ARM

Intruder Loots Schreiber Home After Binding and ' Gagging Youth.

Fifteen-year-old Georgé® Schreiber was at Broad Ripple High School today as usual, except for a bandage on his arm that covered a bullet wound inflicted at his home last night by a burglar. The burglar entered the Schreiber home, 3836 Lomond Ave. at about 7:45 p. m., shortly after Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Schreiber, the boy’s parents, had left to attend the commencement program of John Strange School where their daughter, Nancy Schreiber, 14, was to -be Foy soap

front door, supposing it was a friend of the family. He was confronted with a masked man who attempted to brush past him. He resisted and burglar shot him in the arm with a .32 automatic. The bullet went through the fleshy part of the arm and embedded itself in a wall. The man then forced George into the kitchen where he put'a dish cloth over the wound, out into the back yard where he got a length of

where he bound and gagged the wounded boy. Then he turned on the radio and ransacked - every room and every drawer in the home, working for about 45 minutes. He fled with $70 in cash and Jewels valued at abous $30. The family returned home at about 9:45 p. m. end rxeleased the - He said the burglar wore overalls, remained masked while he was in the home and wore gloves.

31,277 INCOME TAX RETURNS FILED HERE

WASHINGTON, May 29 (U.P) .— Hoosiers filed 123,203 of 6,250,793 individual Federal income tax returns during 1938, a study released today by Guy T. Helvering, Commissioner f Internal Revenue, showed. The nationwide total dropped, however, from 6,398,541 in 1937. The county filing the largest numer of Indiana returns was Marion where 31,767 reports were made. Of

apolis residents. Only 13 other counties filed more than 1000 returns. These included Allen (Ft. Wayne), 8341; Delaware (Muncie), 2657; Elkhart (Elkhart), 2709; Grant (Marion), 1418; Howard (Kokomo), 1505; Lake (Gary, Hammand and Whiting), 18,739; LaPorte (Michigan City and La Porte), 2625; ‘Madison (Anderson), 3074; St. Joseph (Mishawaka and South Bend), T7295; Tippecanoe (Lafaytte), 2240; Vanderburgh (Evansville), 5454; Vigo (Terre Haute), 3821; ‘and Wayne (Richmond), 2238. - .

CITIZENSHIP PAPERS ARE IN DEMAND HERE

One result of the wave of antialien laws now before Congress was being felt locally today. Employees of the Naturalization Office in the Federal Building were receiving re applications for first papers and more inquiries as to naturalization procedure than at any other time within the last year, they said. : Mrs. - Mary Knippenberg, who handles naturalization matters in the County Clerk's office at the Court House, said that she too was being beseiged by applicants, and inquiries. - “Why I haven't had more than three or four inquiries here for months and now there are a great many people coming in,” Mrs. Knippenberg said. She said ‘most of the applicants believed that restrictive laws, if passed by Congress, would fall less. heavily on individuals who had declared their intention ‘of becoming citizens.

ROYAL CONQUEST OUT; LEOPOLD WINS (RACE)

LONDON, May 29 (U. P)—A greyhound named Leopold won a dog race at Newcross Stadium last night, paying five to one. The race had been re-run affer a ,dog named Royal Conquest won the initial contest and was disqualified for interfering with other Se in the breakaway.

9-HOUR TERRE HAUTE DAIRY STRIKE ENDED

Thomas R. Hutson, State Labor Commissioner, has announced the settlement of a strike of 129 dairy workers in Terre Haute nine hours after the men walked out. In the settlement, Mr. Hutson said the workers were granted an increase

THE INDIANAPOLIS

The boy answered a knock on the |

clothesline; and back into the house,

these, 31,277 were filed by Indian-

SCHOOLS PLAN ADULT COURSE IN MECHANICS

Workers.

. J A six-week adult training course {to provide more skilled and semiskilled craftsmen for the nation’s {industrial mobilization will be conducted: this summer under the auspices of the School Board. The course, approved by% the Board at its meeting last night, -is to open June 10 in the Tech High School shops and will continue

other high schools will be utilized if the enrollment ‘is heavy enough. The course will be open to all men over 18, on a fee basis. Classes will be conducted six hours a day, five days a week, with the schools’: vocational teachers as instructors.

Set Registration Dates

Registration will be from 1 p. to 5 p. m, June 6 and 7 and ro 8:30 a. m. to noon June 8, It will be held at two places, with Edward E. Greene, Technical High School vice principal in charge of one desk at his office at Tech, and H. L. Harshman, Public Schools | director of research, in charge of another table at the School Board building at 150 N. Meridian St. If any person is unable to get to either of these places within the scheduled hours, he can .register at Tech. when the classes open the morning of ‘June 10. Classes will be held from 9 a. m. until noon and from 1 p. m. to 4 p. m. The first week of the course will

cants’ physical and mechanical aptitude in machine operation. Those who meet the standards set by the instructors in - the first week of training will be eligible to remain the following weeks. A fee of $2 will be charged for the first week and $8 for the concluding five-week period.

Shop Drawing Included

The course will consist of instruction in the fundamentals of blue print reading, shop drawing, use of precision instruments, basic mathematics and machine operation. The students will” spend at least two hours a day operating lathes, milling machines, grinders, shapers, drill and punch presses and other machinery, depending on which the student is-best fitted to specialize. DeWitt S. Morgan, schools superintendent, said that if any qualified applicants are unable to pay the tuition fee, they will be given opportunity to make a special financial arrangement, The need for such a training course was shown recently by surveys revealing a current shortage in certain types of skilled mechanics. The shortage, which threatens tos become acute with the nation expanding its. military armament, is partially the result of abandonment of the apprentice: system of training skilled craftsmen during the depression.

WILLKIE URGES AID “SHORT OF TROOPS’

AKRON, O.,, May 29 (U. P.).— Americans are not ‘going over there,” but the ‘Allied powers constitute our first line of defense and should be given every help short of troops, Wendell L. Willkie, “dark horse” Republican Presidential candidate, said last night. ; “I should like to have Secretary of State Cordell Hull ask the Allies what help—short of troops—they need so that the American people could debate its merits,” Mr. Willkie said in an address to an American Legion post here. “We can dismiss as academic any though of going over there to save them from the Present; emergency.”

CHICAGO, May fay 29 (U. P).—A. K. Stiles, recently retired chairman. of the Republican State Central Committee, announced he hés opened offices - of the Wendell Willkie for President Volunteer Committee here and invited G. O. P. politicians and the press to meet the utilities magnate at/ a luncheon today.

PARK CUSTODIAN'S OUSTER PROTESTED

Dismissal of a custodian at Douglas Park raised a furor in political circles at City Hall today. Telephones in the offices of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and - Parks Superintendent A. C. Sallee were kept busy .with friends of the dismissed custodian protesting his removal. { Mr. |Sallee said the man, Beard H. Whiteside, 2707 Paris Ave. was dismissed because “his services were not considered satisfactory” by the Park Board. Prominent figu in county Democratic pelitical circles were among those calling Mr. Sallee to ask that the custodian be retained. They also called the Mayor's. office but Mr. Sullivan was not there. . Mr. Sallee said the vacancy will be filled soon by the Park Board.

If You Haven't

Of course, May isn't guite over, but there's enough to go on to tell that it was subnormal in temperature and abnormal in rainfall. If things go the way they have been tomor and the next day, we'll wind up the month with an average of about two degrees a day shy in temperature. If, then, June should be normal in the matter of temperature, we are in for days that will be about 111 degrees warmer. than they have been in May, or an average of about 71 degrees a day, with an average of 83 to 8¢ maximum and 65 to 66 degrees minimum. The coldest Mays of records were in 1924 and 1917 when the average daily temperature was‘only 56 degrees. We will wind up about four degrees better than that this year. The warmest day this month was the seventh when the maximum

| temperature was 86 and the Soldest

was May 9 when the minim

through July 19. Shop facilities of |

be a trial period to test the appli-i

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years ago and still considered So Division.

Say Veter

Expeditionary Force of 1918 believe.

‘memories’ turned back to the days “over there” more than two decades

ago. Seated at long tables the exsoldiers consumed the best portion of 87 pounds of baked pork and, now 22 years later, were able to laugh at the hardship and tragedy they had endured in foreign lands.

“Hope We'll Not See It Again”

These men, some of them a little gray at the temples, some a little stouter, were. among those of the First Division who arrived in France in time to halt the German advance on the French coast in 1918. It was these same men who aided in turning back the German attack so] effectively that the course of ‘the war was changed. As to the present war, pefhaps it was Col. H. H. Martin, who presided, who spoke the feelings of the group. “We have all seen wdY, seen our friends die, and at times;became a little hardened to death. hope we

will not see war again and I don't think we will,” oe . ‘Let Somebody Do It

Col. Martin said that he believed strongly in national defense and so did they all por they would not have

‘fought in the last war. “However,”

he said, “it is not our war that is being fought in Flanders today. But if our shores were invaded tomorrow I know there is not one man here who would not. take up a gun of some sort.” One of those present, an artilleryman in the last war, voicing his sentiments, said: “Let somebody else’ do it this ime.” ” Unable to forget the thousands of dead and wounded in the World War, one Legionnaire, attached to the Medical Corps, said that “we thought that the last war was terrible but the horror of this new kind of fighting where civilians die be,|side the soldier, killed by huge planes and enormous bombs, is beyond description.”

Relate Incidents of 18

Taking turns, those present told of humorous and sometimes tragic incidents which they witnessed in 1918. ? The same spirit of comradeship that - carried the American troops through their trial py shot and shell in Prance was in evidence at the annual celebration of the battle of Cantigny. “We are here tonight because that. certain shell with our name on it was not Hy but if we leave here

. c'est la guerre.” ©

ROUTED

on it well . .

3 FAMILIE

BY GROCERY BLAZE

Three families were routed from their beds about 3 a. m. today by! fire that destroyed the interior of a large grocery at 729 N. West St. The families were living in apartments above the store which is owned by Ben Siegel, of 336 E. Walnut St. The cane] of the blaze, which started in/ the rear of the store, was not determined. The flames did not reach the upstairs apartments but they were damaged by smoke. Mr. Siegel said the loss was

-| about $2000.

Guessed,

May's Been Ab ( sub) Normal

33, only two degrees above the .record . minimum _ of the month, set in 1923. v A total of 3. 0 inches of rol had fallen up to yesterday, which was

42 of an inch over normal and|

which brought the total rainfall in excess of normal for April and May to 2.43 inches. The hottest May, however, was in 1880' when 8.22 inches fell and recently we have had 7.10 inches in 1933, 6.97 inches in 1935 and 5.14 inchés in 1938. We should have around 3.62 inches of rain in June if the month is normal; eight clear and eight wholly cloudy days, and the others partly éloudy. It should rain on 11 days. May weather was good growing weather for grasses but not so good for. corn. It was a little too cool for corn to germinate well and there was so much rain ‘the seeding was

Pork, “spuds” and “stuffin’s,” served Army style . .

- The Allied armies are making the same errors they made & years

tonight and a car has our number|?

2 something may come

Recalls 1918

| dispensable:

State Aone Has | 53,000

Workers Indexed * as to Ability and Tra ning. By RICHARD LE ® | The: WPA may become the inlabor batt n — the

pick and shovel ‘arm—of the United States defense program, Govern

' |ment sources indicated here today.

With its present manpower and

_|equipment, the highly organised.

: {labor machinery of the work-relief

agency could be converted in & few

defense. The WPA builds schoolhouses,

| streets and sewers. But in a defense

emergency, it could build military roads and airports. It could grade factory sites, sew Pusifomms, con=

e struct barracks.

. a feast 22 by fne Indiana sector of the First: |

We'd Fight Only if vaded;

ans at Dinner

ago when it- was necessary for American troops to take “their chestnuts lout of the fire,” Indiana members of the First Division of the

erican

“Meeting last night at the East Indianapolis Post 13 of the Anerican ‘Legion, 2217 E. Michigan St., the present war was in the backer und as

INSURANCE MAN HURT IN CRASH

Fred Dickerman Injured in Colli At Brazil.

The accident occurred 40 near Brazil when his

Benjamin Harrison, colli officers were not injured. erman is believed to have suffered a fractured skull. i

¢f the Standard Life Insu nce Co.

of Indianapolis, was an E ccessful

candidate for Republican | nomination for joint state senator from Marion and Johnson counties in the recent primaries. Edward L. Coble, 29, of | 151 Blake St., died.in Methodist H pital yesterday of injuries received in an auto accident Sunday near Mooresville. The auto in which he was riding crashed into a tree. | He is survived by" his [wife, ‘Mrs. Margaret Coble; a son, L ward Coble; a daughter, Coble; his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Cable; three brothers, Lester, Chester and Prancis Coble; | and four sisters, Misses Doris, Lelia and Elizabeth Coble and Mrs. rn Cleveland. ’ Funeral services are to be at 2 p. m. Friday in the Farley Funeral Home, 1604 W. Morris St.

Car Topples | 0

AURORA. Ind., May

the car in which she driven by Mrs. E. E. |[Dudgel: of North Vernon, Ind., left i way 50 near here and feet in a ravine, Mrs. ihjured seriously.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Ma {Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) today, said ihe opposed adjournment of Cen- | gress and urged members to forego the annual vacation because of Con-

relations. - | He said he will vote against adjourning as long as war lasts. “Congress has a responsibility in connection with war 4 tional relations,” he

if we do not: disch t sponsibility. Withthe affairs of the world in as critical a stage as they are ‘at present no one knows (when p that will require the attention tive branch and! Congress should

The order came as Congress speeded legislation tg check Fiftn olumn activities the United tates. 1 4

~ BACKS STANDAJ RD TIME

BLUFFTON, Ind, fay 29 (U. P.. —Bluffton yesterday voted, 739 to 543, to remain on Central Standard Time this year. Earlier, members of the City Council ind they would abide by the) result of We

special election,

.| forces.

Mr. Dickerman, & representative

‘gress’ responsibility in nternational

Large Force: Available

Officials here pointed. out that the’ 2,500,000 WPA workers in the nation constitute: the largest free labor force ever assembled by the Govern ment. in this country. In labor’ power and equipment, it ‘parallels the forced labor battalions in Ger'|many which lay the foundations for {the Nazi military machine. The WPA Professional and Serve ice: Division, the “white collar”. di~ vision, is so organized now that it could become overnight a: clerical auxiliary of the regular military forces. The pick-and-shovel division, with more: than a million ablee bedied workers, is an organized las bor battalion. The entire WPA organization is. a complete entity which’ could direct the full force of its labor potential into military channels if the need came. WPA officials believe that no de= tailed military supervision ‘would be ‘needed for the change and that the entire organization could becomeran auxiliary national defense arm with= out’ any major changes.

53,000 in Indiana

In Indiana, 53,000 trained WPA workers are mobilized and indexed

«as to abilities and training. They

are engaged in peacetime pursuits— building motor roads, bridges, grade

ling civilian airports and construct=

ing sewers. The Indiana scene in 47 other states. | The labor could be-made available | for the defense program. Military roads would necessarily supplement existing highways for the transpor- ‘| tation of materials for war indus tries. Barracks would be needed to house expanded military and naval These are the things the WPA could and would do. Thus far, no word of using the WPA as a home defense backlog has come: from Washington. Officially, WPA executives here are unaware that any such plan is contemplated. The plan ‘would revolve about a number of quantities which are not yet known. The WPA appropriation for the next fiscal year beginning July 1, the number of men which would be absorbed into new military production and other essential defense industries and continuance of work-relief itself are the. ‘quantities yet undetermined. HS

DOCTOR SCHEDULED ON LECTURE SERIES

The city-wide | ‘Youth Lecture Series, © sponsored | by the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Chris«: tian urn Fede the Indianapo~

is duplicated

lis Church Federation, will present Dr. David A. Boyd of the Indiana University Medical Center as speakne 25, it was announced today. - eld the Tuesday in each month. Dr.’ Boyd's topic will be “The Psychology of Living On ‘the Job, in the Home snd at Play. A ,panal discussion was held last 2 night at the Indiana World War Memorial. Participants were George Smith, Indianapolis district head of the State Employment’ Service; Mrs. W. O. Snethen; women's - division director of the National Youth Administration, and John A. Mueller of the Indianapolis Public Schools social service department. The topic was employment for youth, Mr. Smith outlined qualifi-

job and Mrs. Snether and Mr. Muller analyzed the necessity of vocational train] 8.

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