Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1940 — Page 11

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[ THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940

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. Hoosier Vagabond |

(Ernie Pyle is on vacation and’ at the _reque st of

A readers we are reprinting some of his favorite

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“DANA; Ind., June 23, 1936.—Boh came past in his dats car ang picked me. up. We drove down the road half a mile to the creek in Mr. Webster's Desture Where I fo fish. . Mr. Wet ser has. been ‘dead. miore than 20 years. 1 lp rae remember him| well. I. don’t know who own§ that land now. Everybody still] calls it “Mr. Webster's pasture.” It has only few tree; in |it. Even fewer

pare feet. It had I guess, since I - fished thee. We stoped A bridge, ard ga there. were fish there. The hoe feet across, and all of a foot de ep. : ,Bob had dug mato can, j 5

at a little cement out. Bob said

y. them. The last wasn't born yet. ) vy how to bait a hook?” Bob said. :

Pity for I said “Sy hook. ' Bob | and couldn't

rm awa over the I were a woman or the worm, but gember having any | I was little. When

atched me, as a bear it. 1 felt sorry |

“ATI bet said. “I'll

make it thre es. ay mj ich you bet?” ob sgid.

| said i “He threw Bi line'in, Tae cor} never Hopped af

“You can even

“A nickel,” I

a way as an) is to start with Mrs. India Underhill Kirkland, the: woman in the case. | She was the gifted daughter of Robert Underhill, the wealthy foundryman who had his fio on the -southeast

corner of North and Pennsylvania Sts. In its day it was one of the show Places of Indian- : apolis in ! Irdia Underhill was cut out to be an artist and*nobody knew it better than her father. At any rate, it was he who made all the arrangements with Je cob Cox to take her on as a pupil. Mr, Cox, in case’ you never knew, was one of the pioneer painters around here, and the first to put on a paling basis. He continued painting up to | he day of his joa in 1892. He was 82 ied. In -his [later years ‘his tankily had a little studio built for him adjoining their home. ‘The studio is gone, but the house still stands at 9629N. Pennsylvania St. It was but a hop, skip and- jump from India Underhill’ home to her teacher's studio. ” » ” 3 or She “Becomes. a Sculptor It didn’t take Mr. Cox long to diseloer that Miss Underhill had the makings of a sculptor. Accordingiy, he advised’ her to chuck painting and take up

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* rnodeling.. By the time 1880 came along, she was a

pretty good sculptor. Giood enough, anyway, to enter the competition for the Oliver P. Morton statue on the Circle. For same reason, though, she didn't get the job. Franklin' Simmons landed it. Mr. Simmons, an Easterner born in Maine, was a sculptor of some reputation. At any raté, he had a Jot of statues to his credit including just about everybody who had anything to do with fighting in the

Civil. War—men like Farragut, for instance, and

x he President

e strength dnd weak-

Ww HINGTON, May 30.— are revealed by his

ness Of the President's tech

rm and behdkness is infast enough, ed instead of

His strength is ability te. suse to meet the public a “4d. His ability to go far. when action is voluntary. :

In taxation "proposes to

existing income and®exercise levies and possible special ‘ taxes, to cover a three-billion-dollar defense program— which can be paid for only by a much more rigorous plan In naming an able but powerless Advisory: Commission to the : : discredited Cabinet Defense Council, when responaple action instead of conflicting ! ‘advice is needed, he defies the costly experience of the European nations and our own advisory futility the last time.

Loses His Speed

This is the technique of a man who has fumbled, and in attempting to recover begins to fumble zgain. . It is in sharp. contrast to the earlier Roosevelt method. In those days, when he found he had made a mistake he would change with a completeness and courage which were breathtaking. Then he was always ahead. - Now he isn’t. In his shrill message to Congress on the short airdistances from foreign Atlantic bases to the United States mainland and our lack of preparedress,. he spotlighted our extreme’ dependence upon military aviation, which he had never been willing to admit pefore. That; of course, frightened the country almost

out of its wits. 2%

My Day

NEW YORK cry, Wednesday—In various places 1 have moved about recently, I have been confronted with red poppies. I hurriedly look in my bag to see

if 1 still have the last one to show, but finding i

gone each t. time, 1 fish out more money. and buy a new one. Veterans of the last World War are still -in the. hospitals and it is fitting that -we should make their lot pleasante: by remembering them in this wéek before Memorial ‘Day and by paying our share to the veterans’ fund. 1 want to congratulate the Amalgamated Clothing Workers ‘on their ‘Silver ‘Jubilee, which they have just celebrated. This "union has pioneered in many fields. Of course, their primary purpose: Ha been to obtain the best possible wages g conditions for the workers in the clothlated industries, but they have undertaken co-operative housing, unemploynient wae e insurance and a real program of culfared activiti

I visited two crowded rooms used by the “Youth Service” at 400 East 71st .St. yesterday morning. There were s0 many. activities going - on that I ge. cided whatever else was being done, the young peo concentration, which is valuable in

pIupoae wor ng a i

"land then ran the whole half mile home.

pcle a jerk. Out came a little sunfish, about as long as your finger. It hadn’t been three. seconds, let alone three minutes, We threw the fish back tco. little, but it counted. I forgot to give him the nickel. Give it. to him tomorrow. - We sat there on the bridge, pulling in Little sunfish, and talking. Bob said I should have brought my camera and taken a picture of the old fishin’ hole. I suppose I should have, at that. * Except it isn't the same hole. Creeks change, too, like people, and my old fishin’ hole was a couple of hundred yards over

in ‘the pasture. We didn’t go over to see if it is still \&

there. I.suppose it isn’t because Bob knows all the good holes now. Anyway. thers might be Anakes. 8 i

An Unpleasant Recollection

Bob 'said sometimes they go swimming in these|

mud holes. So I told him we used to, also. It wasn’t really swimming We called it mud-crawling. The water wasn’t up to your knees, so we'd just lie down

"and walk along on our hands, ‘and kick with our feet.

- Another time, long ago, I was sitting on the bank about half asleep and with my bare feet dangling over the edge, a foot above the water. I don't know now, so long since, whether I heard something, or just sensed something.” But I looked

down, and ‘there, right under my feet, was a whole|

nest of little water mocassins. I screamed and dropped my pole and ran out to the safe sandy road, |My [father went back the next day and got my fish pole. He said he couldn’t’ find any snakes. The fish were biting pretty goo. Better than I ever remember them biting in the old days. We caught about 30 in an hour. But only eight were big enough to save, and they weren’t really big enough, had to take something home. I caught the two biggest sunfish, and Bob caught a cat, but it wasn't .as big as my sunfish, - “After awhile they stopped biting, and we pulled in our lines and got in the car and drove home. The old

creek down in Mr. Webster's pasture didn’t even know |

the great fisherman had been away for 20 years, I suppose. And for that matter, I don’t | suppose it knéw he ever came back.

By Anton. Schrier

Porter, Grant, Meade, Sheridan and Sherman, A statue of the War Governor of-Indiana was right down inhis all€y. The selection -of Mr. Simmons created né end of | talk and criticism». Mr. Cox, for one, was terribly upset. He couldn't understand why Miss Underhill with

the best exhibit in the competition should be euchred}

out of the job. She caught the leonine character of Mr. Morton's head, a detail Mr. Simmons muffed altogether, said Mr. Cox. It didn't do any good, though. Mr. Simmons got the job notwithstanding the fact that Miss Underhill had all the - self-ap-pointed art critics on her side. The unveiling of Governor Morton's statue took place on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 1884. Ex-Governor Baker presided, and Senator Harrison and Col. Dudley also had speeches up their sleeves. Prof. John Clark Ridpath read an original piece of poetry, at the end of which everybody agreed that a historian should mind his own business .and not tackle verse. As for the hoi polloi, they stood on their tiptoes to see what Mr, Sinmony had done Mh Bis commission.

old Quarrel Revived)

Soon as they saw what Mr. Simmons had dl ne, the old quarrel popped up again.. The fight lasted all week—as a matter of fact, until the following Saturday when The Herald came out with a piece, the like of which Indianapolis had never seen. “It is said,” reported The Herald; “that: Governor

; Morton materialized and appeared at 8 spiritual

seance ‘in this city one evening since ‘the ‘unveiling ceremonies took place here in his honor. He spoke freely of the event and was in a cheerful frame of mind. . . . “The statue is a good likeness, said Mr. Morton's ghost, ‘and the sculptor has done all he could to throw around it the august spirit of the warlike times in which 1 lived.’ ... Then bowing and turning as if to go, he said: ‘The only incident connected with the unveiling ceremonies of which I disapproved was Prof. Ridpati’s poem. I wish it had been omitted’.” . And to this day I've got a kind of feeling, not unlike that of fear, that maybe hobgoblins are lurking ih the Circle,

By Ludwell Denny

The inevitable public reaction was: If it is as bad as you say, we must prepare fast. When it was revealed that neither the President

nor his defense chiefs had a detailed plan of what

‘was needed or of how to speed production, the public

fear boomeranged against the President himself. He had stirred a demand for action and was not able to satisfy it. All the while the’ opposition and many of his supporters were calling for a streamlined board or production manager with power to get delivery from industrial mobilization. But the President kept insisting that he must work through Secretaries Morgenthau and Hop kins—not exactly production experts.

Fireside Chat Fails

To quiet the public storm- which he had aroused by his Corgressional “defenseless” message, he made his fireside talk of reassurance—that we were not defenseless, that there was nothing to get excited about, that tiere were only a few things to be done, and that these would. be done without any strain on capital or lator or anybody. Instead o: pacifying the populace, that simply stimulated the shouts for quicker military preparedness through industrial preparedness and tax preparedness. When the President’s belated tax and advisory defense commission announcements are seen against that background, they appear as grudging halfway measures rather than the effective Roosevelt leadership which once rallied the nation to tremendous nonpartisan effort. In other words, the situation is serious enough to rock the world and to justify the President assuming extraordinar: powers, but it is not serious enough to keep Congress in session with recesse§ for the political conventions. Politics is the answer.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

They surveyed their district, which runs from 58th to.96th Sts, and Lexington. Ave. to the East River.

. They know there are 31,000 young‘ people between

the ages of 16 and 25 living there and that 16,000 of them are ouf of school and unemployed, They know that they have succeeded in getting some 20 jobs in the course cf the last few days. That isn’: enough, however. They have discovered that most cf these young people were educated in “high school to go on to college and the majority of them are ncw trying to go to work and need train. ing in some skill. They alse told me that three out of four of them have never taken the trouble to vote When they reached the voting age. I think they are discovering valuable fac's. If they find a way. to get these facts over $0 the community, they will have done a real service not only to their own community, but to many others. In addition to that, I think’ that the fact that tiey are all working together is giving them a sense of security which is essential if you are going tc persist in looking for an elusive job. After my broadcast, we lunched in a nearby restaurant wit’t my cousin, Mr. Monroe Robinson, and then motored to Trenton, N. J. - There I visited the State Home for. Girls, which is one of the most encouraging institutions I have seen in a long time. These gils are treated like human beings. Their time is. filled with ‘educational and recreational activities and most of them looked happy. ‘We. ‘dined { inte with Mr. and Mrs, Robert HOA as af after my

By Ern ie Pyle L s

the surface. Just went right ‘on down.’ Bob gave his |’

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the Speedway , Fore.

NAMES STATE DEFENSE AIDS

Townsend Picks 12 Leaders To Co-ordinate Indiana

An Emergency Defense Council,

Governor M. Clifford Townsend ‘to

paredness program. Governor ‘Townsend Council will be asked to: 1. Decide a policy to be taken by the State in handling alleged ‘subversive activities. 2. Investigate organizations or individuals soliciting funds in behalf of national defense or war relief. 3. Assist in Indiana’s participation in the Federal Government's plan to train civilian airplane pilots under the direction of Col. Frank Knox, of Chicago.

said “the

civilian programs to be co-ordinated

‘|with Federal and State agencies.

Chosen for Patriotism

In announcing appointment of the committee, = Governor Townsend said: “Members of the Council ‘have been carefully selected for their positions in the community and their proven judgment and patriotism. “All the various problems of pre-|. paredness require the best judgment of our citizens and the responsibility of making decisions should be shared- by leaders of Indiana life.

“The defense program should be no cause for alarm. Preparedness is merely an insurance against. invasion . or Inigrvention in foreign wars.” The Governor said the committee will seek to avert the confusion of conflicting, unauthorized prograins.

Cites Danger of Hysteria

“There are dangers in unauthors-|-ized patriotic programs, well meaning as-they may be,” he said. “They are ‘apt to cause confusion and public hysteria or impair civil liberties through the persecution of innocent citizens. They also. are apt to encourage racketeers, who during the World War preyed on the emotions of the people to. solicit funds.” He explained that the purpose of the committee was to “stabilize the patriotic zeal of our citizens” to' the end that the most good can be derived from patriotic efforts with a minimum of misunderstanding and conflict. Members of the committee are: Guy Wainwright, Diamond ‘Chain Co. president, representing Indianapolis businessmen; Alex Gordon of Indianapolis, “representing railroad labar, unions; Anson. Thomas of Indianapolis, tax director of the Indiana. Farm Bureau, representing agriculture; Col. Albert B. Whitcomb, Indianapolis businessman, representing the Indiana National Guard; Raymond B. Townsley of Danville, Indiana American Legion Commander; Aubrey D. Porter of Indianapolis, representing Spanish-American War Veterans; William H. Thompson, Indianapolis attorney, representing the American Red Cross; Mrs. Edwin F. Miller of Peru, former president of the Indiana Federation of Women’s Clubs; Eugene Pulliam Sr., Lebanon publisher and radio .station operator; Earl W. Merry of Dunkirk, representing the Indiana Manufacturers’ Association, and Col. 'L. L. Roberts of Evansville, representing Veterans of Foreign Wars.

HEART ATTACK KILLS. RINGLING THIN MAN

- EASTON, Pa., May 30 (U. 3 Louis Q. Pulley, 36, thin man with the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus under the name’ of “Shadow” Rogers, was stricken with a fatal heart attack aboard a bus

+ there ‘last night.

He was en route from Newark, N. J, to his West Prankfort; IM. home when he succumbed. Six feet tall and weighing only 51 pounds, Mr. Pulley had been taken to Jewish Hospital last Thursday because he had lost four ounces. A corps of interested physicians examined him

carefully and found He was suffering from a slight cold » Was Or

In what appeared to be a casual semi- circle, drivers in the ‘minnte . instructions at the Speedway yesterday afternoon from Col, Edward V. Rickenbacker, who heads

And U. S. Programs. |’

assist the State Government in co-| § operating with the national pre-

4. Act as a clearing House “of

composed of 12 prominent Indiana. - leaders, was appointetl today by|

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annual 500 mile race today heard last

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.Colonel Rickenbacker urged the drivers to take every precaution against accidents, and repeated the rules of the track which many of the drivers had heard many times.

142,000 Cheer as 500-Mile Grind Begins

Times Photos. |

“The cheers of 142,000 Sfiestators rocked the stands as America’s fastest racing cars roared oft at the start of the 28th annual Speedway

Classic here toda y.

e | . Former Hoosier : ° ° : Capital Declines CENSUS area manager {Mark Gray today announced that both Corydon and Cannelton ‘had lost population since 1930. Preliminary population figures for Corydon, former State capital and now Harrison County seat, were 1865, compared to a 2000 . count in 1930. Cannelton in Perry County dropped wy total of

2265 in 1930 to a preliminary 1949 figure of 2238. ?

JURY WILL REPORT ON WARREN PROBE

The Marion County Grand Jury is expected to report Monday on its two-month investigation into affairs of Warren Township. I The jury has ben investigating an alleged agreement whereby Warren Township Trustee Henry M, Thomas purportedly gave his two campaign managers: control over his appointments and contracts. [An alleged irregular purchase of a ‘school bus by Mr. Thon has been investigated by [the jury. The alleged agreement was probed by the jury in August of last year, but the jurors at that time declined to return indictments. ) Since then additional | evidence justifying a new investigation has ben received, according to Prosecutor. David M.. hes.

NEW H TCH BILL

NEAR FINAL INAL VOTE

Proponents s Clay Measure Will ‘Be Enacted In House.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 30.—The second Hatch political reform bill, which was passed weeks ago by the Senate," appears now on its way to a vote by the House—and, its champions claim, final enactment. At last given the .green light by the Judiciary Committee, which after long delay reported it favorably to the House by a vote of 16 to 8, the measure now must pass only through the bottleneck of the powerful Rules. Committee to get to the floor. Rep. Jchn Dempsey (D. N. M.), House sponsor of the bill, is a member of the Rules Committee, and he predicted today, after a canvass of that group, that it will be given a special rule assuring House action before adjournment. He is confident of victory when the bill reaches the floor and members are put on record publicly. A final blast of pressure is. expected also from state political bosses, who have been fighting the Bill under cover. The second Hateh bill, forbidding political exploitation of employees of state agencies supported in whole or in part by Federal funds, is designed to supplement the original Hatch Act of 1939, which prohibits exploitation of strictly Federal em-' ployees.

'‘Friseo ‘Cowboy’ Heads for N.Y. |

SAN FRANCISCO, May 30 (U, P.).—Ed Hickey was putt-putting toward New York yesterday on a one-lung motor scooter and gathering material as he went for a forthcoming book, “The Fun of Being a Fool.” “I'll make it in 13 days or bust,” he said. Dressed in blue jeans, highheeled cowboy boots, and a sevengallon hat, Mr. Hickey said he would “fight Indians” along the highways with his cap pistol until he reached Broadway: ~

‘BRITAIN YIELDS TO

RUSSIAN REQUEST

LONDON, May 30 (U. P.).—Diplomatic- quarters believed today that Russia. would accept Sir Stafford [Cripps as new Ambassador to Moscow for° the expressed purpos® of negotiating a trade agreement, and that a marked improvement in relations between Great Britain and Russia would follow. Britain named Sir Stafford as Ambassador ¥in a special mission” after, Russia had refa to ‘accept !®

{him as a special envoy to discuss]:

barter agreement. The Russians ad said that onlyea full-ranking Ambassador would be acceptable. Sir Stafford already is en route to Moscow. -

WOMAN SPY SENTENCED PARIS, May 30 (U. P.).—The Seine court martial imposed the death sentence last night on the Baroness von Einem, tried in absentia on charges that she attempted to organize a Fifth Column in France. :

A Radio Blares Through a PA Dusk _ While a Father Putters and a Child Plays

It is, an evening in May, 1940, on a quiet residential street: in Indian-

apolis. Out on the lawns in front of their homes are men with - shirtsleeves rolled up, women ‘in house dresses, postponing for awhile the inevitable dinner dishes. A-father lifts a baby to the lower branches of a tree. The blond child reaches for a branch as though for. an animate thing. The mother sits on the step, her hands cupping her chin, idly watching. The rim of the sun is still above the chimneys. Across the street, a neighbor trims the edges of a freshniown lawn, clipping grass shoots, close to the cement walk. He rises, swinging the shears, strides back and forth inspecting the cropped

grass. His wife in a print dress comes closes ois

A radio blares through an open window:

«Amiens and Arras. fall to. ‘ads

vancing Nazis . . . Allied army of a million men trapped in Flanders . Belgian, sources report unbelievable civilian casualties. French Inace. . America views cr The shadow of the frees grows faint on the grass. A soft wind whirs the new leaves, bearing a fragrance of green ‘things wet with dew. « A group of mén are discussing an automobile. One wipes the bonnet with slow, easy strokes’ until fit

ealm-

‘mirrors the sky. Another muses as

he. rests his foot on the bumper. His words drift listlessly on the

hope for.

rapidly. as. pessible. They are grim, ‘but calm... . . Light bombers harass British troops embarking for ‘England at Channel ports. . . . The blond | child ‘watches ' her father. He stoops in the grass. She laughs' at him with all her baby teeth. The mother claps her hands and the child: toddles toward her. ‘The mother catches her, holds her close as she takes her inside. The father sits down in" a canvas deck chair on the porch, lighting a cigar. A thin spiral of blue smoke rises but is shattered by the breeze. The sun has gohe, leaving the sky the color of rust. | Men and

oon rises ‘above a fringe of dark ees. Through the peaceful ‘dusk, the radio continues its story of Seat and in bad “Flash: out London. ne

women drift indoors. A pale red.

MNUTT URGES ALLIED CREDIT

vio | Favors Buying’ Islands » Western Hemisphere to 7 Help ‘Win War., WASHINGTON, May 30 (U. P.).—| Federal Security Administrator Paul, V. McNutt today suggested Ameri=| can credits for the Allies and pur-| chase of British and French islands) in the Western Hemisphere to pre-| vent a German victory. Speaking at Arlington Cemetery, ‘Memorial Day services, Mr. McNutt declared that ‘the ' United States “must meet the threa} of total war, with total preparedness.” This nation, he said,’ must build the world’s mightiest military, naval ° and- aerial. defenses,” while demonstrating that democracy can work by insuring every worker a job, providing education. for all, building hospitals and providing medical care, and preserving rights-of free speech. His speech highlighted Memorial Day ceremonies here as President Roosevelt's military and naval aids placed wreaths at the tombs of the unknown | oldiers of the World and Civil Wars |at. Arlington, at the Spanish War--Memorial, the Confederate War Memorial, the tomb of George Washington, and the mast of the U. S. S. Maine, Officers of veterans and patriotic societies ‘participated in the ceremonies which ‘followed a parade in | downtown Washington. Mr. McNutt, a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination and former National Commander of the American Legion, said that “upon the outcome of this world-shat-tering conflict hangs the hope of peace in our day.” A victory for “totalitarian aggression,” he said, is the ‘triumph of “injustice and oppression” in which men will slip “back into the black depths of ignorance, ‘passion and barbarism.” - “If America can avoid a war by any action less than ‘actual participation in hostilities, it is the part of wisdom to take such action,” he said. :

CULVER HONORS 85 | | WORLD WAR DEAD pind Ind., May 30. Mepis ial Day exercises were held here to- |

day honoring the 85 Culver alypnt who lost “their ives during

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American and World ens Scouts joined the Culver Wor ie and Jaculsy. in the. Semen