Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1940 — Page 17

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: NEW YORK, June. 21. Adventurouk readers of this column who want to be ambulance drivers over‘seas will have to wait a while. No further applications are being considered, for the. moment, by either the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps or the American Field Service. Both are waiting to hear from their’ men in France, and to learn what they can and should do next. About a hundred volunteer drivers. who had been accepted before the collapse of the French defenses, are still waiting to find out when they can sail from New York, and where to.: New am-

bulances are also ready in New:

York for shipment. Donations are still being accepted by both groups, but on a provisional basis. For nobody can say today just where or in what way the money can be -used— «Whether in France or England or elsewhere, whether for ambulance driving or for other humanitarian

work.

It is estimated that $2000 will buy an ambulance,

~ keep it running, and support the driver for six months.’

A person who buys a whole ambulance gets his name-

plate on the side. AVAC a ton-and-a-half truck, the AFC a three-quarter #

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Lo Pay Own Transportation

As for going yourself as an ambulance driver— if the acceptance of volunteers is resumed—the first

* requisite is at least $600.

All drivers must pay their own transportation Also, they must guarantee passage money

home. Once overseas, they get no pay, but their

: food, room and medical attention are free. They must .. furnish their own pockét money. The minimum en-

listment period is six months. The Se limit is 21 to 40. A few men above that age have‘been driving in France, but they got there

Our Town

SOMETHING WENT out of Indianapolis when the big department store came in. Something, to be sure,

came in with the department store; but, whatever it was, it never made up for the loss of the in- . dividual smells that used to identify the small personal

shops around here—like the aromatic smell of H. H, Lee’s tea store, for instance. Or the clean virtuous smell of Jacob Efroym_~son’s dry goods store; or the robust Rabelaisian smell of Kaese Mueller’'s cheese shop; or the musty muffled odor of Pinkpank’s second hand book shop; or the flavored fragrant smell of

Joe Becker's pastry .shop—what :

a heavenly smell that was. Just this minute I remember bestthe pungent acrid smell of George W, Sloan’s drug store at 22 W, Washington St. I know why, too.

- I've just finished reading an address delivered by

Apothecary Sloan in 1898 before the “White Elephants,” a society of Indianapolis drug clerks. The title of Mr, Sloan's paper was (Fifty Years in Pharmacy.” . Mr. Sloan was a 14-year-old boy when, in 1848, ‘he went to work for his uncle, David Craighead. At that time there were only three other drug stores in Indianapolis—those of William Hanneman, Dr. Samel Ramsey and Tomlinson Bros, : ” f ”

. Perfume From Cinnamon

- At first Mr. Sloan had to run errands for his \mnele. “Next he was put to work compounding essence ‘of cinnamon. Mr. Craighead bottled a hundred gross €14,400, to you) of the stuff every year. It was the great perfume of that day and sold as fast as it was bottled. Not only that, but the girls used it to color their cheeks and lips. Mixed with red saunders it made a rich pink, just the thing with which to fool the men. Apparently there isn’t a bit of truth in the theory that modern women are smarter than their grandmothers. Even more amazing is the discovery that the old

“time drug store was the original department store. The druggist, said Mr. Sloan, was the man called upon

to keep all the things that were not kept by other

~ Washington

. PHILADELPHIA, June 27.—Did you ever see a dream walking? Well I did. It's the Republican National Convention. Some morning the Republicans will wake up and read’ the newspapers. Let us hope that it will not be too late. ‘For the moment they prefer to live in a dream world. They mumble a platform which has less relation to the reality around us than Grimm's Fairy Tales. Reading the Republican platform you would never suspect that at this very moment some of the most decisive events in all history are heaving up over the horizon. They are destined, ‘ as surely as I am writing these lines, to cause the most profound changes to us. : ; Do you realize what is about #0 happen? | Read your newspapers. Did you read that statement by Senator Key “Pittman, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee? He said it is no secret that Great

«Britain is totally unprepared for defense against the

. German attack that is about to come. He said nothing the United States has to give could do more

“than delay the result—he means delay ‘the inevitable ~ ‘defeat. He urged the British to transfer their navy

‘to Canada immediately, implying that this was the “only way to save it from falling into Hitler's hands.

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The Near East Situation

What Senator Pittman doesn’t say but what he has in mind is that if the British fleet falls into German hands as the French fleet has, the United States will thereupon become an inferior naval power, Remember that in the Atlantic we have no Hawaii standing as an outpost. Our outer line of defense has peen the British navy dominant in the eastern ‘Atlantic. That guard is about to be lost.. Read your newspapers. Did you read the dispatches

My. Day

"HYDE PARK, N. Y., Wednesday.—Miss Dorothy Thompson is a fellow columnist for whom I have the

¥ eatest respect and admiration as a writer as well as

person. We do not always see eye to eye on all subects, but today I want to quote a few words from her column which I hope will sink deeply into the minds of Republicans and Democrats, and people in general all over this country. The part of her column which reads: “He willl work and fight when democracy means work, and bread and human dignity and brotherhood. He will work and fight to make this country the most beautiful home for men that the sun ever shone upon.” Nothing truer than this was 3 ever written. I have wanted to something just like it for a long time. That is I believe that in spite of much that is being said ’s we must continue along the lines which will ¢ life more worth living for the average man. Even though we arm, even though it costs all of ‘us something to change our conception of personal irty—-which to many has meant the right to und material profits—still we must have more housJ services and jobs that insure a de-

Both outfits use Chevrolets—the

‘By Ernie Pyle

before - the ‘French Army set that as. a limit. ‘The services also stipulate that a man have some college education, but this has been winked at in a few cases. A great mahy bums and floaters have applied -But mostly the applicants have been adventurous college youngsters. The drivers in FFance include artists, clerks,. newspapermen, and one cowboy. In selecting the men, character is the main thing. You have to give four references, and these are traced. The AVAC says it has made only one mistake. A young fellow concealed the fact that he was a drunkard and got to France, but he’s on his way home now. These drivers are not supposed to work in “the line of actual fire. French medical-unit men theoret-

ically have picked up the wounded and carried them |§ The Americans then {rans-|

to dressing stations. ferred them farther back to hospitals.

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In Thick of Fighting

But actually, the Americans have been; in the thick |

of it, for war is faster nowadays. The Corps people say the work has been many times as dangerous as in the last war. munity from aerial attack. even considered taking off the traditional red cross; it makes too good -a target. When I visited the offices of the two Corps, the last available information showed that six drivers were missing, two were prisoners of the Germans, one had been wounded, and one decorated for bravery. In addition to six lost ambulances, two others had been blown to bits. Until the French erackup, the drivers lived in chateaus just behind the lines. They often worked for days on end without ‘sleep. Occasionally they were given liberty and went to Paris for some fun. Both Corps have worked directly under the French Army. The ambulances were grouped in “sections,” each section consisting of 22 ambulances, a repair car, a kitchen trailer and a staff car. An American was in charge, and to each section was attached a French officer who spoke English.

By Anton Scherrer

dealers. Craighead’s drug store, for instance, ‘carried

‘a complete line of paints, oils, varnishes, dye. stuffs,

coal oil lamps, hard soap, whiskies, window glass, and

‘all kinds of hrushes. To say nothing of everything in

the way of wrapping, fools’ cap and letter paper. During the Civil War period dye stuffs were a very important part of the business. Everything that could make a blue or a black, especially a blue, was in active demand. One morning before breakfast Mr. Sloan sold $375 worth of indigo.to one man and got the cash for 1t. He was so excited that he never asked the customer what he wanted it for. : # 8 = Some Pioneer Experiments Most surprising, however, of all the things Mr. Sloan remembered was the one about citrate of magnesia. Believe it or not, Craighead’s drug store, was the second anywhere in the world to make citrate of magnesia. The first to make it was the drug store of Henry Blair in Philadelphia. David Craighead and Henry Blair had beeh school boys in Carlisle, Pa. They remained friends and every time David went to Philadelphia, the market for chemicals, he made it a point to look up Henry. On one of his trips he caught Henry Blair in the act of making citrate of magnesia. Blair gave Craighead the formula with instructions to report whether or not it worked in the West. It worked all right. It turns out, too, that Mr, Sloan was the first around here to make gelatine coated pills. Anyway, in 1865 Dr. Theophilius Parvin of Indianapolis went to Europe. He returned with a formula for making -a phosphorous and iron pill with cocoa butter to be gelatine coated. When Mr. Sloan tried to get the thing to work, he discovered that the heat necessary ta make a solution of gelatine would melt the pill. Finally it dawned on him that dilute alcohol was a solvent for gelatine. He dissolved some-pink gelatine, then went out and bought a hundred darning needles and a box ‘of white sand. Probably because of the darning needles, Mrs. Sloan got interested, She dipped the pills into the solution of gelatine two or three times and stuck the needles into the sand. Then, said Mr. Sloan, he removed the needles and “clipped them off.” I don’t understand it any more than you do. The fact remains, however, that Sloan’s drug store sold gelatine aia pill¢ years before they were put on the market.

By Raymond Clapper

from Japan? The Japanese Minister of War addressed his entire war-office and told them that Japan's hour had come. The controlled Japanese press explained that Japan was preparing to issue a new declaration of policy prociaiming the autonomy of East Asia. Under this new policy “Japan will not, allow any foreign power to interfere in East Asia, including French IndoChina and the Netherlands India.” That means Japan is about to throw her clutches around one of our important sources of rubber and tin. It means the white man is to be driven out of the Far East. 2 2 &

‘God Save America’ ’ Read your newspapers. Did you see the dispatch

from Buenos Aires that Germany already nas offered to purchase immense quantities of foodstuffs from

“Argentina, and proposes to pay for them by electrify-

ing the Argentine state railways and by building hydro-electric plants? But I see by the Republican platform that America must keep Argentine products out of the United States. The Revublicans didn’t

mention Argentina; they did it by declaring for an |

“effective quarantine” against imported agricultural products. That’s the old question that has so embittered, Argentina. Read your newspapers. Read them and weep. They will tell you in what kind of world we are caught. The Republicans won't tell you. Their platform goes on fighting the last World War, telling us how much it cost in life and treasure. They don’t tell us what this world revolution is going to cost us. Herbert Hoover knows. He is talking about some kind of Western Hemisphere tariff wall, a hemisphere trade cartel, some ‘such thing as. the Roosevelt Administration is trying to work out. But the Republican platform knows no evil, sees no evil, hears no evil. It comes out strong for equal rights for women, Negroes, Indians and Hawaii. God save America. The Republican Party will never save it on this platform,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

I do not claim that anyone has found the perfect solution, or the things that have been done cannot be improved, but I know we must keep on trying. I feel deeply that we must not slacken our efforts and whatever we do must be done with the ultimate objectives always before us. I am much interested in some of the news ‘Yeports which state that Mr. Gene Tunney is leading some 200

young people to the convention of the American Youth Congress in Geneva, Wis. I have only one hope, and that is that this opposition will show real wisdom in being sure that their delegates have proper cretientials and meet the rules for Tepresentation on the floor of the congress. In this way they can avoid the disappointment in their efforts to present their point of view. Why does not. Mr. Tunney publish in the papers, since he seems .to be able to obtain publicity, these rules and the manner in which these 200 delegates will be chosen? All of this small group of vocal young people who are for and against many different ideas, 11 be watched by both sympathetic and unsympathetic people during their annual conveéntion, and will be given, I imagine, a good deal of publicity. Therefore, it behooves all of them to behave with restraint and fairness, to have the wisdom to find out what the neces-

sary requirements are, and to live up to them on every | | :

. Ambulances seem to have no.im-|¥ In fact, the AVAC has| }¥

and Ira Stabler, both of Portland.

Showman Bays

Democratic Convention at the Fair ed by a carefully arranged spectacle

The flags, bunting, posters and flowers plastering the walls and ceiling outdid anything within the memory of the oldest delegate.

Entering the Coliseum, the delegates were greeted by beautiful young women (mere than 200. of them) attired in lavish evening gowns and serving as ushers. They looked more like debutantes prepared for a junior prom than a state political gonvention. There were ahout 150 male ushers, decked out in neatly pressed white linen suits and wearing red badges and carnations on their lapels, but they weren't much in demand.

Ovation Shakes Rafters

, The ‘entire convention gave evidence of the state chairman's flair for showmanship. An example was when Paul V. "McNutt and Governor M. Clifford Townsend entered the convention hall. They halted for a moment to receive a five-minute ovation that shook the rafters. At the same time, a yellow spotlight aimed from the rafters singled out Mr. McNutt's silver thatch to provide an added bit of drama. ; The parade, preceding the formal convention opening, was another high point. Groups of delegates from each of the State’s 92 counties marched around the hall, each delegation led by a pretty girl carrying a huge American flag. The marchers carried banners with the legend, “Democrats of Indiana— All United.” As the paradé neared an end, Chairman Bays, seated on the speakers’ platform, turned to Mr. McNutt with a broad grin on his face and winked as though to ask: “Well, what do you think of that, Paul?” The chairman had some mo-e surprises for the delegates. One was a troupe of vaudeville artists, “direct from New York to give the convention goers a touch of Broadway.” Another was a huge photograph, about 30 feet square, hanging from the rafters and hidden behind: an immense American flag. At the psychological moment, the portrait was unveiled, and again the rafters trembled with a roaring ovation.

Roosevelt, a Te ov «Shriek with Schricker” was the: slogan suggested to ‘Second Dis- | - trict delegates by. Mrs. Margaret Afflis, district chairman - from Delphi and a sirong supporter of the Lieutenant Governor,

"George Durgan, Lafayette, former Congressman, ped on the national situation and said that if Paul V. McNutt isn’t nominated “We will all vote for evelt

dgain.”

» # 8 . A Sixth District fight between Tom O’Mara, boss of Terre Haute, and Prosecutor Leonard Kincaid, leader of a Vigo County faction outside idl of thr was settled by’the el ee delega to the national convention stead of eR Bach will lan | tnothins.. a vote. _ William

.It was a photograph of President

A popular spot on the Claypool Hotel's mezzanine floor: last night was the Young Democrats state headquarters—and not without reason. On the headguarter’s staff are (left to right) Mrs. Gertie Lewis, Terre Haute; Mrs. Sylvia Koons, New Castle; Miss Wreath Field, Princeton, ; and Mrs, Alvin Johnson, Indianapolis.

The Claypool lobby and corridors were packed with delegates, alternates and just plain political enthusiasts last night and this morning. In this group, discussing the chances of the gubernatorial candidates, were (left to right) Paul Arbaugh, Muncie; Lon J. Wehrly

Tops Career

With ‘Biggest Show of All

Convention Flags, Posters and Pretty Girls Outdo the Extravaganzas of Ziegfeld.

State Chairman Fred F. Bays, the old circus man, climaxed his already noted career as a showman today with the opening of the State

Grounds Coliseum.

As the delegates entered the huge convention hall, they were greet-

rivaling the extravaganzas produced

by Flo Ziegfeld, Earl Carroll and Billy Rose.

be able to attend the Chicago parley, 3 2 nn L. E. Reeves, Ninth District ‘chairman, predicted that there will be no change n the White House this year. * ” 7s 8 " The- Eighth District. delegates ‘wore Lewis badges almost to a

man. “I thought this was an unbossed convention,” one of the dissenters shouted. “Oh, shut up. You're just mad because Peters hasn't a chance,” a Lewis man shouted. * The chairman rapped the gavel for order and the meeting ended. ” o 2 Mr. Schricker spoke at the Second District caucus last night, He pledged himself to the support of the gubernatorial nominee, no matter whom it might be. “Whatever happens, we have conducted an honorable and clean campaign,” he said. “We were friends of our opponents: when the campaign began and we still are their friends.” : ” 3 » The Lake County delegation of 140 arrived at the convention 20 minutes late. They had been in a downtown caucus after- which it was reported they agreed to support R. Earl Peters, Previously, the delegation was reported favoring Marion County Prosecutor David M. Lewis. : ® zn = The band swung into “Back Home Again in Indiana” as the “victory parade” moved down the center aisle at the convention opening. #8 8 Chairman Bays presented a halfhour of musical entertainment by the campaign troupe which has toured the state. A 13-year-old boy tenor, Gordon Kronoshek, brought down ‘the house with “God Bless America.” -. ; A » 3 One convention note brought chuckles from the wandering delegates. Large poster photographs of President Roosevelt and Governor Townsend hung over the. east and west entrances to the Coliseum. Under them were signs reading “Exit, n : on i» Two white-uniformed nurses were seated on the speakers’ platform, ready to eare for any one who found the. going too rough. ; ® 8 8 Downtown callers at' the ‘State House, Court House and City Hall were greeted by clerks. with “Nobody

| here today.”

8 ® nn “The Federal Building was represented at the Coliseum by at least three visitors, U. S. District Attormney Val Nolan, U. S. Marshal Julius Wichser and Internal Revenue Collector Will H. Smith.

PHILADELPHIA GIRL CINDERELLA OF FAIR

"NEW YORK, June 27 (U. P.).— Mary Jaeger, 19-year-old Philadelphia girl, was named “Miss Cin-. derella” of the. ‘New York World's

Fair last Bight. ‘Sponsored “by the Philadelphia

‘| Record, Miss er won - over 10 othe

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happy.

SECOND SECTION

And speaking of smiles, here are a couple of Democrats with plenty to make t y. U. S. Senator Sherman Minton (left) had no worries about being renomin at today’s convention, while ‘Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt wasn’t

actly unhappy about his prospects in the nafional convention picture.

a delegate, just an enthusiastic guest.

One Republican eased into the picture during the caucusing at the Claypool Ho He’s Levi P. Moore (right), member of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture. him is Otto McMahn; Fulton County, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, Mr. McMahn is.

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While the rest of the delegates and party enthusiasts thronged lobbies and private rooms last ni

these members of the Resolutions Committee toiled to prepare the platform for the convention.

group (left to right) are: Seated—John McFaddin, Rockville; John W. Baumuth, Brazil, and Albert H Cole, Peru; standing—Judge Russell Ryan, Indianapolis; Walter L. Clements, . South Bend, and John

Heller, Decatur.

STOUT FIELD AT TOP OF WPALIST

$500,000 Improvement to ‘Be Speeded as Priority

Defense Project. The improvement of Stout Field

at an approximate cost of $500,000

has been placed on the Indiana WPA priority list, it was disclosed today. . Assurance that WPA funds ‘would be made available immediately for the National A Guard Airport = was

'“ lgiven John K. Jennings, State WPA

Administrator, in a conference with high Army officials yesterday at St. Louis, Mo, Mr. Jennings is attending the conference with 47 other state administrators who are mapping the WPA’s course in the national defense program. Airports, Army posts, armories and training camp sites

. | will head. the list of WPA projects

here .and throughout the nation. Mr. Jennings will confer with Army officers at Ft. Harrison and Adjt. Gen. Elmer F. Straub on WPA national defense work next week. The Stout Field improvement, which will bring the field to Class A rating, includes addition to runways, boundary and runway lighting, a ‘ldrainage system, a control tower Land , buildings to house a medical unit. * :

COUNTY SUED FOR $302.90 OIL BILL

The : Perine Oil Corp., Inc. of Indiana yesterday sued. Marion County Commissioners for $302.90, allegedly! owed for gasoline. pure chased last year. William: A. Brown, cotinty ‘commissioner, explained that the gasoline fund in the budget became exhausted last December and the only way for the company to collect the money due them to sue,

und r statutes controlling _gove

Smack! Smack! Hitler's Elated

NEW’ YORK, June 27 (U. P). —A Berlin radio report picked up here yesterday said that newsreels released throughout (Germany show Adolf Hitler “in a moment of youthful elation, hitting his

palm with his fist” upon receipt of news that the armistice with France had been signed. The newsreels, the report sail, will enable the German’ people to “see the Fuehrer’s look of serious determination leave him to be replaced by one of joy and satisfaction. Afterwards, he slowly resumes his poise.”

2 AWAIT TRIAL IN

DISPUTE OVER FLAG :

‘CONNERSVILLE, Ind. June 27|

(U. P.)—Mrs. Grace Trent and Mrs. Lucy McKee - today awaited trial on charges of riotous conspiracy in connection with a dispute over their]. beliefs regarding the American flag. They pleaded innocent to: the

charge and. were held for $3000

bond. They are also charged with desecrating the ‘American flag.

Four other women, Mrs. Keziah|

Ullery, Mrs. Clemmie Evitts, Mrs.

Frances Laughlin and Mrs. "Ruby |" Canadian Colonial f ‘Airways

Revalee pleaded guiity to .charges of desecruting the flag and were released on their own recognizance. The women told police they were members of Jehovah's Witnesses, a religious group, and did not" believe in paying allegiance to the Tag: of any country.

AIR COURSE GROUND INSTRUCTION STARTS

“The “Butler University civilian}

pilot training quota of 45 students has been filled, Dr. Seth E. Elljott, aviation director announced : today. Ground school instruction has been underway for the ‘past. Weak. | fuie Flight training ;

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