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NEW YORK, June 26.—About the only Americans who served in the front lines during the Battle of France were the volunteer ambulance drivers, Today most of these are unaccounted for although about 30 are believed safe at Hoosegor near the Spanish border. Ambulances ahd drivers were sent to France by two organizations, the American Field Service| and the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps. Both had of-

ficial arrangements = with the

French Army. Today the New York offices of these groups are just standing by, trying to get in touch with their executives in France, debating what to do next. Both groups are thinking about the possibility of transferring operations to England, if that can be done. Or ‘they may decide to stay on in France for some other kind of humanitarian work then ambulance driving. Both the Service and Corps grew out of the old American Field Service which did such heroic work in the World War. From 1915 to 1917 American ambulances and drivers flooded into France. There was just one organization then, the American Field Service. At the peak they had more than 1000 ambulances | (Model T Fords) and 2300 men in France, all volunteers and serving without pay. 2 = 8

An American in Paris

These men worked on nearly every battlefield on the French front. They carried more than half a million wounded from trenches to dressing stations. | Two hundred and fifty of them were decorated for bravery. When we went into the war the service was taken into the American Army. After the war many of these adventurous young fellows stayed on in aris. : One who stayed was Jim Johnson. His father was one of the men who founded Johnson & Johnson, the pharmaceutical manufacturers. After the war he

Our Town

ANOTHER THING TO celebrate this year is the centennial of the ice business in Indianapolis, Ice was packed for domestic use as early as 1840 by John Hodgkin who ran a “pleasure garden” on the northeast corner of Georgia St. and Capitol Ave. Mr. Hodgkin used the ice to freeze his ice cream, the first anybody tasted around here. It was not for several years, however, that ice was packed in quantities to supply a general demand. About the year 1847 George Pitts began this business. In no time at all, he had several competitors. Most of the ice was cut from the canal and Fall Creek, occasionally from the river. In the Seventies, the ice business ceased being an infant industry. By that time the Kingan people were using 20,000 tons a year. C. F. Schmidt’s brewery was using every bit of 10,000 tons a year. explained by the fact that Kingan’s was the first house in the country to kill in the summer and cool’ hogs by ice, It was a God-send for the farmers around here. As for Schmidt's brewery, their sales were approaching 50,000 barrels of beer a year, at a time when Indianapolis didn’t have that many people. As a matter of fact, only 48,244.

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Cornering the Ice Market

It was in the Seventies that Volney T. Malott became the ice king of Indianapolis. He saw the drift; of things and got control of the ice plants at the lakes in Northern Indiana. Finally he owned the largest lake plant in the State located at Laporte. As luck would have it, Mr. Malott’s father-in-law, Mr. Macy, owned the railroad connecting Peru with Indianapolis. With a railroad at his disposal he cornered the ice market and made the most money ever made in a single season by any ice dealer in Indiana. Before he was done, Mr. Malott made a cool quarter of a million dollars handling ice. 1 In 1874 Mr. Malott had the scare of his life. A new ice king appeared in Indianapolis. He was a

Washington

PHILADELPHIA, June 26.—Although the Republican platform draft is not available in its final form as this is written, enough is known about. its contents, and about the shabby, slippery maneuverings of the midwives who have been working over it, to justify a suspicion that these master ‘minds are about to bring forth a mouse. If there ever was a time when candid facing of our situation was needed, it is now. If there ever was a time for a political party to be honest with the American people, it is now. If there ever was a time to forget cheap appeals to ignorance and prejudice, it is now. What do we see instead? The master minds of the party have he been here for more than a week with the announced intention of drafting the great

party platform of all time. : 3 #8 !

No Mention of Britain Instead the master minds have scurried around to see how they might use the platform to scavenge votes. It proved impossible to ignore strong Amerjcan sentiment for aid to Great Britain. But the master minds decided to cater to prejudiced and disgruntled voters by avoiding mention of Great Britain and referring instead to “oppressed nations.” This is a weasel phrase with no other purpose than to catch those voters of German and Irish descent who want to, see Britain defeated. The men who perpetrated that evasion know, if they are

. qualified to sit on the platform committee, that the ' British fleet has throughout our history been a bul-

‘ wark of American hemisphere defense.

But at this hour when the British are back against the wall,

! the Republican master minds lack the courage to

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mention the name of Great Britain, behind the phrase “oppressed nations.”

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Tuesday.—A country inn has moved into our vicinity in New York City. If there

‘ is any part of a big city that seems like a village, it is around Washington Square and, therefore, a coun- _ try inn, looking for a hime in New York City, would

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Mrs. Francis Biddle’s Be. , but

naturally gravitate to this part of it. The food is good and the atmosphere quiet, so I recommend this inn if you want a place to eat leisurely and chat peacefully. : When I wander around this part of New York City, I remember a very charming, gentle old lady, my cousin, Mrs. Weeks, who once danced with Lafayette. She used to tell me how, in her early married days, her husband took the market basket on one arm while she clung to the other and was piloted through the busy streets to do her marketing in Macdougal Alley. ’ She was not accustomed to the great metropolis, so he never let her go out alone. Sometimes he did the marketing for her, for the head of the family was really the head of the family in those days and took some real responsibility about the housekeeping. The rain spoiled my chance last evening to hear poem sung at the Lewisohn . Samuel Lewisohn” gave us

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married a French girl, and has lived in Paris ever since. He has a son in Harvard. In these semi-expatriates grew up a deep affection for France. So when the new war started last

September, they wanted to do something. Most of

them were now a little old for fighting, so the idea of the ambulance corps was revived. Jim Johnson was the leading spirit. He got a bunch of French-loving Americans together in Paris. All gave money. Some volunteered and once again, after 25 years, donned the uniform of the battlefield humanitarian. They named themselves the AVAC. Inquiries in Paris disclosed that there were 110 Chevrolet chassis already over there, and available. The Ambulance Corps bought these, and French

-factories fitted on bodies.

They didn’t have much to do till the Finland affair came along. Somehow they managed to get four ambulances to Finland. The first hero of the Corps was a young American who had been working in Paris. He was John F. Hazey, Bridgewater, Mass., who got in the way of a Russian shell and had his arm smashed in three places. He was “blightied“ back to

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Came Here for Funds

But by the first of the year the Americans in Paris had been milked dry. Jim Johnson felt the ambulance work must go on. So he returned to America, rented offices in Rockefeller Center out of his own pocket, got seme old friends to advise and help, and

went to work to run the American end of the AVAC.

The American Field Service is an actual revival

| of the old World War organization, Most of the key | workers in it are ambulance veterans of ’15-’17. It

is under the direction of Stephen Galatti, who was second in command in the World War. The two organizations have operated almost exactly alike. There is no connection between them, but no friction either. The AVAC got started first, and has had more men and more ambulances in France. Both carry on wholly by donation. The ambulance drivers at Hossegor were under the command of Dr. J. V. Sparks, formerly of Indianapolis, head of the AVAC. He said contact had been lost with about 50 other units during the retreat.

By Anton Scherrer

poor and struggling druggist on W. Washington St. His name was Sterling R. Holt, a North Carolina farm boy who had come to Indianapolis when he was 18 years old. He got off at the Union Station and wandered up and down S. Meridian St. looking for a job. No luck. Then he walked all the way to Plainfield where he hired out to a farmer. The next winter he returned and landed a job as a porter in a S. Meridian St. wholesale drug house. Saving up enough money, he opened a drug store of his own. Mr. Holt got into the ice business by the merest accident. A contractor named Michael had built an ice house and stocked it with ice to supply the Bates House during the coming season. When the management of the hotel failed that year, it left Mr. Michael stuck with the ice. In sore straits Michael went to. Holt and offered to sell the whole works at 50 cents on the dollar. Holt bought. He also bought a second hand wagon from a feed store proprietor for $11, and paid $35 for a scrub horse, It was the start of the‘ice peddler in Indianapolis. : : ® 2 8

A Luxury in Those Days

Before the season was over Holt had three ice delivery wagons. The next year He ran five wagons. All

of this time he held on to the drug store working the.

two in conjunction for five years. Then he realized that the ice business was the better of the two. Twenty years after he started, Sterling Holt had everybody coming to him for ice. Thereafter his out-

| put was 90,000 tons a year. It took 120 men to handle

his business. .Once he filled an order exporting 300 freight cars of 20 tons each out of the State. In 1874, the year Holt started peddling ice, it was considered a luxury, in the category of silk dresses and the like. Ice then sold for from $8 to $10 a ton, or 40 to 50 cents per 100 pounds. Twenty-five years later, it sold all the way from 7 cents to 20 cents per 100 pounds. At that, there was plenty of profit. Nor did the introduction of the first ice machine in 1889 by Shover & Dickson scare Mr. Holt. The best it could do was 40 tons a day working all 24 hours. When Mr. Holt had $300,000 he built a $30,000 stone castle on the southeast corner of Meridian and 16th Sts. Even more amazing was the stone stable that went with it. It cost $7000.

By Raymond Clapper

And what about these reports, which have some rather convincing circumstantial evidence to support them, that Governor Landon of Kansas, one of the platform drafters, sligped out of Philadelphia last Sunday for a secret meeting with Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana? Was the purpose to try to drop something into the Republican platform that would win over ithe Democrats who are fighting the Roosevelt foreign policy? And to- bring John L. Lewis into line? 2 2

Old-Fashioned Tariff

The platform-drafting Republicans, who have been snorting about New Deal labor policy all these years, have suddenly gone soft since John Lewis appeared before the Republican platform committee and denounced Roosevelt. It isn’t that they are any more kindly disposed toward the labor platforms of this Administration. It is only that they see a chance to pick up some votes by laying off the subject. There was a good deal of protest in the piatform committee over this bit of political trimming. : Witness also the terrific beating of the dead horse of reciprocal trade. Everybedy knows the reciprocaltrade program is an academic matter in the present state of the world. But where were the Republicans when it was not academic, when it did hold some promise? They were against it. And what have they to offér now in:place of it? Only the suggestion of Herbert Hoover in his convention speech—that there must be higher tariff protection than ever. Republicans want a tariff logrolled by Congress in the good old-fashioned way. Hoover himself says that Europe’s foreign trade will be totalitarian-con-trolled. Yet neither he nor the other Republicans offer any method of dealing with that situation except to. go back to a high-pitched protective tariff. The Republican idea still seems to be that we can sell everything abroad and buy nothing. -If the Republican Party can offer nothing better than that, it doesn’t deserve to go back into power.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

politan Club to hear Mrs. Biddle read her poem. Mr. Ross ‘played a little of William Grant Still's music and Miss Louise Burge sang the Negro mother’s lament for her boy who had been lynched. It had all the simplicity of expression and all the depths of emotion so well expressed by the Negro voice. This. morning I started out early to "attend a meeting of the Committee for the Care of Refugee Children. I am thankful beyond words that it is going to be possible to do something for these European children, but my heart is heavy when I think of the tragedies which haunt the lives of many grown people. ; Under the quota we have received a number of German, Austrian, Italian and Spanish refugees. People who have been marked people in their own] countries because of their active opposition to Fascist or Nazi regimes. They. have left behind them, however, in France, Sweden and England members of their families, intimate friends and now cannot rest in safety because of the dangers which surround their loved ones. Many of these people could help us greatly in the next few weeks or months, for they know how the Communists, Nazis and Fascists work. They know how propaganda is spread, how young people are influenced. They are as good material as the nolitical refugees who came with ‘Carl Schurz, the German, or Kosciusko, the Pole, whose statues we have taught young people to honor becausé of their love of

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Wendell Willkie, Hoosier-born utility executive, whose - 11th-hour boom has amazed veteran for the Presidential nomination from members of the New Jersey delegation.

Topeka, Kas., supportres of Senator Robert A. Taft supply a half-ton of harmony as they serenade the Ohio candidate. Left to right: Fred Voiland Jr, Floyd Strong,

. Mr, Taft, Lyle Armel, Beryl Johnson,

THREE OF FIVE COUNTIES GAIN

And Floyd Show Increase in Census.

five Indiana counties were released today by the area census offices here, with three of them showing gains. : Vanderburgh County, where there

has been considerable industrial gains in the decade, showed the biggest increase from 113,320 in 1930 to 130,709 this year. The number of farms in the County also showed a gain over the 1930 figure of 1302, but there was a drop from the 1935 count of 1733 to a 1940 total of 1676. Mongomery County’s population grew from 26,980 in 1930 to 27,267 this year. W. D. Council district supervisor at Terre Haute, said that he believed the gain resulted from the establishment of one new industry, a printing plant, in Crawfordsville. There were 2484 farms enumerated this year, compared to 2349 in 1930. A. slight increase in the Floyd County population was credited to the suburban trend that has been nation-wide. Floyd County is just across the Ohio River from Louisville. It had 34,635 people and 1134 farms in 1930 and 35,048 residents and 1393 farms this yeay. There Nos 1266 Floyd County farms in The losses were in Spencer and Boone Counties. The Boone County total dropped from 22,290 in 1930 to 22,016 this year. Mr. Council blamed the loss on the fact that when the census was being taken in 1930, the Big Four Railroad was being double-tracked and many temporary workers lived in the small towns of the county. Spencer County's total dropped from 16,713 ten years ago to 16,209 this year, and the number of farms also showed a decline, from 2211 in 1930 and 2221 in 1935 to 2040 this year. ‘There were 2649 farms in Boone County this year, a gain from the 1930 figure of 2623.

3 POSTAL WINDOWS TO BE OPEN ON 4TH

Only the special delivery, parcel post and registry departments of the Post Office will be open July 4, Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker announced today. He said that perishable parcels will receive attention but that there would be no delivery of mail in the city or on rural routes. The parcel post window , will be open from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. for receipt of parcel post and sale of stamps.

THREE IN STUDENT COUNCIL Three local students are members of the Northwestern Wildcat» Council which will provide information this summer to prospective students. They are Edward Meditch, 5627 N. Meridian St., chairman of this district, a Phi Delta Theta; Miss Nancy Heath, 5251 N. Delaware St., Kappa Alpha Theta, and William

Barr, 3965 Carrollton Ave, Phi Gam Delta. : LE

Vanderburgh, Montgomery|

Preliminary population figures on

TRAFFIC AT 34TH ST, ORCHARD STUDIED

The Police Department today began a study of traffic conditions at 34th St. and Orchard ‘Ave., which residents contend warrant installation. of a trafic signal.

More than 128 residents in the vicinity of the intersection petitioned the Safety Board for the signal yesterday. The petition was presented by Mrs. Margaret DeVault of 3124 Hovey St. vicecommitteewoman of the 11th Precinct, 23d: Ward.

Watch for unseasonably low temperatures all summer and probable rain for the next five Saturdays. It has rained the last two Saturdays and Bert Oyler, amateur weatherman, who uses the wind as his guide, says rain usually comes on the same day of the week for seven consecutive weeks. : He forecast rain and low tem-

cause it had rained ‘on several previous Thursdays. His prognostications are seasonal as well as daily. Last fall he told everyone who was interested a cold winter would follow. Standing on the porch of his home at 940 Woodlawn Ave., he has any one of a number of smokestacks to watch for wind direction, he says. Mr. Oyler needs only two days of the year for predicting. The average weather for any six-month season is predicated, he believes, on the direction of the wind when the

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sun crosses - the equator--June 21

This panoramic view shows the Republican delegates assembled for their 1940 convention, 22d in the Party’s history, in Convention

Make a Clean Sweep at College

NEW YORK, June 26 (U, P.).— Scores of school janitors have abandoned their brooms and ashcans in favor of pencils and pads this week, attending Columbia University Teachers - College’s course in applied janitorial technology. The course included “practical stuff,” like the proper way to sweep stairs, and the care of various kinds of wood and composition floors.

Wind's His Guide as Amateur Predicts ‘Cool All Summer’

of the northwest, indicating a cold, fairly dry winter. His prophecy was fulfilled. In 1935 he predicted an even colder winter and 22 mornings saw sub-zero temperatures, he said. On March 21 of this year he predicted a cold, fairly dry summer. He says he is sticking to that assumption and points to the way summer weather has started. When the wind is out of the southwest or southeast, the ensuing six months is likely to be warm and somewhat wet, he claims. When it comes out of the northwest it is likely to be cold and somewhat dry. A wind from the northwest indicates a cold season, but more rain because of the lakes lying in that direction. If you prefer hot weather, however, you can take heart that the entire summer won't be sub-normal. Mr. Oyler says any change is possible, but that hot spells won't; last more than 48 hours. By that fime e wind changes

politicians, seeks support

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Hall, Philadelphia. Chairman John D.

speaker’s rostrum.

SCOUTS WILL GIVE GIRGUS SATURDAY

Indianapolis Boy Scout Troop 28 will give a carnival and circus Saturday at the R. O. Shimer Estate at 4905 Brookville Road. Admission will be free and the parents’ council of “the troop will raise funds with sideshows and games for outfitting the troop wi cooking utensils, cots, bedding an other camping equipment. Tents for the troop, numbering about 35, were purchased with funds from a carnival last year. : On the program will be the Indianapolis Boy Scout Band; the Harlin Brothers, a radio. troupe; Lawson McCommons and Joan Lomax, dancers from the Carlile Studios; Thomas Murray, a magician, and a Scout clown-band. : An added attraction will be a Canadian bear cub, the new mascot of the Troop’s cub pack. The festival is in charge of Mrs. Robert O’Brien, 324 S. Emerson Ave. F. M. Stephens, 4913 University Ave., is scoutmaster, and M. G. Hinton, 208 S. Sherman Drive, is president of the parents’ council. The troop’s headquarters is at the Meadlawn Christian Church,

HOOSIER TOLD NAZIS

Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind, June 26—A Ft. Wayne woman, Mrs. Emma Wehrle, whose son has been a prisoner in a Nazi camp for war prisoners for more than a month, has received a letter from the American Embassy in Berlin informing her his release is expected soon. Louis William Wehrle, the son, a former Pt. Wayne resident, was captured May 15 while driving an - bulance for evacuation of ref

WILL FREE HER SON.

Mrs. Mabel Reinecke of Chicago, who replaced Col. Frank Knox as delegate, enjoys a drink at the water cooler during one of the sessions.

Permanent Chairman of the convention is Ren. Joseph W. Martin Jr.,, of Massachusetts, Minority Leader cf the House. Rep. Martin is shown just before delivering his address as permanent chairman yesterday. :

M. Hamilton is at the’

MOTHERS FORM WAR GROUP MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. June 26, —More than 200 mothers from Michigan City attended the first meeting here of the newly formed Mothers of American Sons, a pa= triotic organization whose object is to keep American boys at home but to be prepared to face foreign invasion.

"TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Who was the grandfather of the King of England.

eligible to the office of President of the United States? 3—What was the real name of the author of “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn?” 4—What is the married name of Madam Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor? 5—Does Florida or California have the longest coast line? ii 6—Which Presidential nominee in 1912 was frequently referred to as the “Third Termer?” : 7T—A cocklebur is an insect, pland or animal?

Answers

2—No. 3—Samuel L. Clemens, 4—Mrs. Paul C. Wilson. 5—Florida. 6—Theodore Roosevelt. T—A plant. / 8 8

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