Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1940 — Page 7

MONDAY, JULY 8, 1940

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

ABOARD TRANSCONTINENTAL BUS fornia) July 8 —The Sour-Puss got on at Reno, and Rot off at Truckee, Cal, only an hour beyond. I don’t know whether he intended to get off there, or whether he just got too mad First, he didn't like his seat He started telling the other nas sengers about it hen we stopped at the California State line, and all the hageage had to be taken out and mspected, It took about 10 min. Nobody minded, except the Sour-Puses It's a racket There must be 20 ployed there. They're ere! And then, back on the bus he dug up a new grouch. “What's this about smoking only in the last five rows?” he said You ought to smoke all over All the women moke nowadavs anvhow Women smoke and chew obacceo, too. This thing's a racket He was all richly dressed up, and had a big mean None of us had asked him to get on this bus and nobody said goodby or shed a tear when he got off

(In Cali-

utes

he said men em all graft

nose

» » n Mountainsides Violently Green

When you cross by from New York to San Francisco, you do not any terrifically big mountains, That Wyoming plateau forms a shelf across the Rockies, and you never see a single startling peak But vou see an awful lot of nice empty desert I'he and real dash of mountain scenery 1S when come down out of Reno inte California Sierra Nevadas mountainsides are steep and violent

See

one only vou There TOU erose the

The green:

Our Town

LILY LANGTRY showed up ih Indianapolis in the part of 1883 a vear after Oscar Wilde Aecstheticism at English's at the Park Theater he first night she to play the in "As You I The following night he turned up in Tobin's “The Honeymoon,” in which play she took fullv-eclothed part of uliana. Both performances were ops Nobody back, however cause nobody pectation of actress What find out was whether Miss Langtry ing as AM ilde said she was. Not only that, but whether there truth in the Oscar Wilde (old during his stay in Indianapolis, Oscar that Lily entered a drawing room so majestically nm one Queen Victoria far forgot to see how Miss Langtry

early about delivered his lecture Opera House, He:

was good for two

m engagement performances appeared in tights

of Rosalind

the

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wanted hig I'hat

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aid occasion 80 he stood up exageerate a bit was a superbly the like of

Wilde didn't Miss Langtry ‘ arriage and walk had never been seen around here

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Indeed. she even looked good standing still which come to think of it, was the way John Millais caught his famous picture “The

called

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WASHINGTON, July 8-1 Roosevelt i about a worked himself because he failed to into his confidence earlier regarding his intentions He has come to outsmarting him

ble spot

Roose - himself

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ARO convention best political third -term ambitions

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Different Tine 156 now create utter in the Democratic Party. All possible can the nomination have been either smacked or have just been allowed to die on the vine candidate except Roosevelt would appear AS 4 weak second choice. And Mn Roosevelt himself would be in the position of having suddenly taken a run-out powder after Willkie, a SIrong opponent unexpectedly nomithe Republicans Mr. Roosevelt runs he will be subjected to embarrassing attack

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the road is crooked but not frightening: snow still lies in shaded patches level with the highway, you look back down from Donner Pass to a dark blue lake that makes vou glad to be alive, | » » ” |

Hills Fade Down Into Nothing

fade down into nothing, and the road gradually swings into a long straight line, and the temperature goes up, and the fruit trees abound, and vou are in the lush Valley of Sacramento and the home streteh nN ”n ”

And then the hills

I'he nicest time on a long bus trip is each evening just as it's getting heavy dusk You have alwavs eaten by then, and had a good stretch, and vou feel full and relaxed and contented like the proverbial eat. and the encroaching darkness is snug to vou, and vou are nice-tired and calm, and for some reason the bus makes hardly anv noise at all, and you just settle in sort of snugly to float along till sleep comes, which it does early on a bus ” » ”

I became accustomed to riding in a full bus. Clear from New York to Denver the bus was packed. Sometimes we ran in two or more sections, and I always happened to be in the first section, which was full to the last seat | But at Chevenne I got shunted to the second | section, and it was only about half full, and that was much better. People move around, and talk move, and the individual stands out and you can remember who he is People get miles or move endless stream

ride all day get to know and miles

or all night-—500 them. But the and States and you inte a haze, and the yesterday morning vou ean among all the new faces

on, and and vou of time dissolves behind knew well remember tonight

people peopl e barely

vou

By Anton Scherrer

piece to explain the behavior of Indianapolis people at the time. With Queen Victoria and John Millais acting the way they did, it wasn't any wonder that people around here should lose their heads, too Which brings me to the point of today's piece, namely the day Lily Langtry took a notion to see Indianapolis without the help of a carriage or courier It was the second morning of her stay in Indian apolis that Miss Langtry ventured on the streets all by herself. Legend has it that she left the Denison Hotel that morning and turned south, At Market St a crowd consisting mostly of males, sighted her Aware that a crowd was collecting to follow her, Miss | Langtry turned west and landed in the Circle T'o get rid of the mob, it was the worst thing she | could have done because, once she was inside the Circle, she didn't know how to get out of it. She went round and round completely bewildered

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She admitted as much after a gallant old gentle- | man wearing a plug hat rescued her and escorted | her back to the hotel Some people said that was the | reason her performance of "The Honeymoon” that | night wasn't any better than it was | After Miss Langtry left Indianapolis there was a movement around here to call the Circle the “Lily Langtry Labyrinth” The idea was plausible enough because back in the Eighties when Lily was going good, everything under the sun was named after her. | A twisted piece of black velvet with a quill stuck through it was called a "Langtry hat” And “Langtry | shoes” were mighty stylish, too. Why, there was] even a “Langtry bustle” conceived in the hope that it would make a woman look like Lily. It was made of bive tempered steel and had coil springs, I remember It was a grand idea, but it took more than a bustle to make a woman look like Lily

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By Raymond Clapper

He is whipping up the totalitarian issue. National Chairman Farley and Speaker Bankhead assailed the Republican nomination of Willkie as suggesting some- | thing foreign to the American way of life. At Hyde Park. Mr. Roosevelt said there was some Fascist sympathy in this country He deplored the impatience | that is sometimes expressed with the slower methods of democracy and even spoke with tolerance of the checks and balances and the long delays in the courts It is certainly a different tune from the one we had} during the Supreme Court fight, The old horse-and-bugey davs look mighty good to Mr. Roosevelt now, | and apparently all set to put on a full-dress! defense of democracy, warts and all hat is all right. But it is going to be quite an to do that while at the same time running for a term. which is sure enough something new in American government, While Mr. Roosevelt, running for an unprecedented third term. is vleading for the American wav of life and casting suspicion that the Republicans are out to scuttle it. he will in turn be charged with making the boldest move on record to change an American practice which has come to have almost the sanction a Constitutional amendment

act

third

” » » The First Requirement

He could make a much more effective defense of the American wav of life speaking as one who had renounced the opportunity to take another nomination and as one about to resume private life as the squire of Hyde Park However no matter

no matter what occurs at Chicago, and what form the arguments take during the campaign, the essential point that the rest of us may well keep in mind that the first requirement of democracy is that the people retain their right to change their officials. So long as that power, the power of the electorate, is maintained against direct and indirect encroachment, American democracy cannot be in any serious danger. Mechanical forms are of secondary importance. The nation's liberties are likely to be safe if the voters are able to change Presidents and Senators and Representatives,

35 Per Cent Expect Nazis

To Be Victors By Dr. George Gallup

Director. Institute of Publie Opinion PRINCETON, N. J.. July R If the people of the United States marched to the polls to vote on the question of “peace or war” today—a procedure proposed in the much-dis-cussed Ludlow referendum plan—the final count would likely show about 6!5 million voters in favor of entering the European way, but approximately 39 millions opposed. That conclusion is indicated to-

day in a nation-wide war survey

hy the American Institute of Pubin which the opinions of American to the 45's voting popu-

lie Opinion of a eross-section voters were applied millions in the U.S lation Together with other Institute survevs on the same issue since June 1. todav's sample “war referendum” gives a graphic picture of what has heen happening to American sentiment during one of the most eritical months of historv. Here is the step-by-step story as U. 8 opinion reacted to the ups and downs of the conflict overseas 1. In the first of three consecu tive survevs the Institute found 16 persons in every 100 saying they would vote for war if a national referendum were called. This survev, completed June 2 followed closely on news of the Battle of Flanders How much sentiment had increased is shown by the fact that a month before—on May 29 only 7 per cent hod voted “ves” to the question: “Do you think the United States should declare war on Germany and send our Army and Navy abroad to fight?” 2 In the second Institute study completed June 14-war sentiment was still rising As Adolf Hitler's “panzer” divisions drove deeply into France, and as Fascist Italy came into the war, the Institute found nearly one person in five (1972) saving he would cast hig vote for war, The Institute's war referendum question had been altered to include Italy among the belligerents, of course, and now read: “If the question of the United States go ing to war against Germany and Italy came up for a national vote within the next two weeks, would you vote to go into the war or to stay out of the war?” Public opinion in mid-June may also have reflected to some extent President Roosevelt's rousing Charlottesville speech June 10, in

28 AT BUTLER GIVEN ‘WINGS’

Ryan, ‘Graduation’ Speaker, Stresses Aviation as Key to Defense.

By SAM TYNDALL While 28 Butler University stu-| dents formally “graduated” as primary civilian pilots vesterday, Oswald Ryan, Indiana member of the Civil Aeronautics Authority took the opportunity to tell a nation-wide radio audience that 141.000 trained pilots will be available for national defense in 12 months Speaking to more than 1000 parents and friends of the graduating fledglings at Municipal Airport, Mr Rvan stressed the necessity of the CAA eivilian pilot training program “The price of aviation's neglect in certain European countries has led to national destruction,” he said.| Aviation is the most important subject in the world this afternoon Events in other parts of the world have removed anv doubt that it is not.” Begin Pilot Training

war

“In the United States, as a result of development in air industries, we are faced with a defense problem more difficult than ever confronted this nation before.” Although still termed “ecivilian’ pilots, the “graduated” college youths are just beginning their pilot training. The Government plans for them to continue training, next attending an advanced school and then.

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By Erie Poe Q € of Vote Against Entering War

TREND OF ‘WAR’ VOTE IN RECENT WEEKS ki

FRENCH DRIVEN BACK~ITALY ENTERS WAR

BEFORE ‘BATTLE OF

AFTER

FRANCE'

FRENCH SURRENDER

which he castigated the European dictators,

” ” ” FE HE latest of the three survevs reflects what has happened to American opinion since the news of the French surrender, From 16 per cent in early June, and from 19 cent in mid June, the number saving they would now vote for a declaration of war is 14 per cent-—or approximately 6! million voters when applied to the entire voting popu. lation The actual figures tell the story of American public opinion in one of the most memorable periods in U. S. history

per

Would Would Vote Vote For Against War War June 2 (after Battle of Flanders—hefore Bat tle of France) June 14 (French driven hack-—Italy enters) Today (after French surrender) 14 86 I'he surveys show just where the greatest sources of war sentiment are to be found in the Southern states and along the Eastern seaboard I'he average war vote’ in the South is 23 per cent. (See box drop

FE in war un-

doubtedly the growing pessimism

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P) Lamar and Markey was one

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whose marriage last veal of Hollywood 's

their

higgest surprises

today went separate wavs The explanation Mise Lamarr as the rea

standardized film colony

incompatibility-—was

given by son {or their separation 16 months after they Mexicali, Mexico “It is true we have separated Miss Laman For many months we have incompa - tible and we have consider ing this step [ best for hoth of Mr. Markey had no make on his failure with a queen. He formerly to Joan Bennett

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HILLCREST OPENED

A white canvas tent belonging to| Claypool the Inhas!

‘hurches of Association

the 34 Baptist dianapolis Baptist

{been pitched on the grounds of the | Hillcrest Baptist Church for a twobegin-

week evangelistic meeting

ning this evening

| Speakers for the two weeks will include the following Baptist min-| were: the Pf LC Crafton

isters: the Rev. C. A. Wade, Rev. Reuben H. Lindstrom Trent, the Rev. Louis G and the Rev. George T. King The tent which was at and West 10th St

for two

King Ave. weeks will be moved from place to place Muncie;

NEW ENGLAND STATES MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES Me.. N. H., Vt, Mass, R.

EAST CENTRAL STATES..... Ohio, Ind, IL, Mich,

WEST CENTRAL STATES

N. Db, 8S. D. SOUTHERN STATES

WESTERN STATES

Sectional Vote on War

I, Conn, N.Y, Pa. N. J, Del, Md, W. Va.

Wis., Minn,, Towa, Kas, Neb, Mo.

Va, Ry, Tenn, N. C, 8. C, Ga, Fla., Ala, Miss, Ark, La,, Tex,

Colo, Wyo, Utah, Mont, Idaho, Ariz., N. M., Nev, Cal, Ore,, Wash.

Would Vote For War

149%

Would Vote Against War

86%

. 2

Okla. 16

in the United States about the chances of England and her dominion allies Whereas 82 per cent expected Allied victory when the war began, a supplementary question

in today's survey shows that only 32 cent expecting Fngland to pull through, with the remainder undecided or foreseeing

per are now

an Axis vietory.

The trend at three significant

points in the last 10 months has been:

“Which side do you think will win the war?” UnAllies Axis decided Sept, 1939 (War Begins) May, 1940 (After Battle of Norway) Today

[Interestingly

82% 1% 11% 55 32

enough

28 33

voters in

the lower and middle income groups

are declaration than well-to-do groups:

in favor of a the present

now more

war time

Would Vote For War

Would Yote Against War Upper Income Group Middle Income Group Lower Income Group

..10% 90%

84 u HIS may perhaps be the result party affiliations, for the survey shows that many more Democrats favor entering the war than Republicans. Roosevelt backers are 19 per cent in favor of such a move, while Republicans average only 9 per cent in favor. Throughout the country, only 8

per cent said they were undecided

or without opinions on the ques= tion. The program for America most overwhelmingly favored, other surveys have shown, is one that will give planes, guns and other materials the English while building up our own national de fenses, and our relations with the rest of the Western Hemisphere, against any eventuality

GROCERS TO ASK | SUNDAY CLOSING

Draft Blue Law Bill for 1941 Legislature Action: Fight Gross Income Tax.

Dealers’ vou won't be able to buy gro-

at to

ceries on Sunday The directors also voted to con- | tinue their fight against the gross [income tax. They will back legisla- | tion to repeal the levy at the 1941] session of the legislature Mav 4, 5 and 6 were fixed as dates next vear's convention in the on record as favoring city ordinances requiring | peddlers to have licenses. Retail prices of not less than 6 per cent

above cost were urged. | Directors attending the

| The directors went

meetings

Ed Helsley Jr. Evansville, president; E. C. Baumgardt, Lafayette, vice president; W. F. Swiggett, Franklin, treasurer; B. L.. Tharp, Indianapolis, secretary; O. W, Roseberry, Anderson: Willard Brock, Jesse Chenoweth, Rich-

Hoosier Goings On

FREE WHEELING

Chief Rawlins Stops I[t—Lawyer Car 'Trade' Loser—Badger Bit 'Er

FRIENDS REPORT that for

By JOE COLLIER

several

days, now, Chief of Police

John Rawlins of Bloomington has been muttering to himself:

“It's gotta stop!

It's gotta stop!”

They assumed he meant double bike riding, a project to which the

chief and his force have been assiduously

terest of traffic safety. “Two boys aren't safe on one bicycle,” the chief has said repeatedlv, and the record of accidents has supported his contention. One of his good friends, however, quizzed the Chief about his mutterings and discovered that several days ago he discovered not two but .three boys on one bicvcle, each with a 20-foot fishing pole, bound down three miles of the most dangerous highway near the City One was on the handle bars, one on the cross bar and one on the seat. He sent them back pronto, two of them afoot, been unnerved ever since.

home, He's

” ” ”n A THIEF at Martinsville turned time and automotive science back an even 10 years for Attorney John Hurt last week. While Attorney Hurt was asleep in his Harrison St, home, the thief stole his 1937 auto, parked there, He left in its place a 1927 model car. Attorney Hurt lost no time contending to police that he got

devoted recently in the in-

his sinus couldn't

(sinus belt)

explained that

stand Indiana sums

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TWO HIT-AND-RUN horses raced driverless at the Osgood track the other day, after a three sulky erash dumped their pilots to the track. They were Banker Direct and

Miss Grace M. They finished second and third in that order, and were proud of it

5—Do

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Where are United States postage

stamps printed?

2--Does the Army or Navy have a

goat as its mascot?

3—Are East and West Flanders cite

ies, towns or provinces of Bele gium?

4-Name the donor of the Rhodes

Scholarships? cashew nuts grow ground or on trees?

in the

the “hot” end of the deal, an insisting that something ought to be done!

By Eleanor Roosevelt eventually entering Randolph Field

Tex, where they will be turned out las a backlog of Army pilots for any | “eventuality f | Col. Roscoe Turner, whose new or to enter into debates, I! nq) will give many of the trainees : I was particularly grateful to their next course in fiz Ing, per- tist Church each evening this week a grand time asking everyone where Odessa my delightful opponent because he gave me an op-| ain presented the new fliers with | beginning tomorrow at 7:30 when the natural response would come portunity to bring out many things which I would .\ ... “wings —CAA certificates of; = -_— was in Russia the Black Sea not otherwise have thought of saving j he would gleefully remark: “My I'he only thing which troubled me was an ac

accomplishment A f + 'V, it M n wife going there on Friday cysation made by my opponent against the Dies a EE rs I § ronomers o ISI 00 and will be back Saturdal Committee, He said that this Congressional com-| For Two Hours Wednesday

: | there will be fewer women students night mittee, charged with the duty of investigation for the 400 miles nearer

6—The port of Odessa in Russia is on what body of water? T-—-What is the size of a soap box racer; how old must the driver be; and where are they held? 8—How many U. S. soldiers served overseas during the World War?

Answers

1—Bureau of Engraving and Printe ing, Washington, D. C. 2—Navy. 3—Provinces. 4—Cecil John Rhodes, 5-—Trees. 6—Black Sea. T—Detailed information can be ob tained by writing to the Alle American Soap Box Derby, Inc, A-223 General Motors Bldg., De= troit, Mich. 8--Two million, fifty-nine thousand, six hundred and twenty-nine.

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My Day

PARK, Sunday.—Early Friday morning we a bi-partisan meeting, drive half way across this state. My hus- enjoyed this occasion

Brinduse of yy u =n

There's heen a shift in the population center of Mexican badgers in Elkhart, owing to a difference of opinion which resulted in a personal injury. Mrs, CC. M. Dunn, who originally owned the badger, went to give it some water the other day and the badger, for mo decipherable reason, bit her. Apparently, he just didn't like the way things were going, Mrs. Dunn immediately called the dog catcher, who eventually found a home for the badger with Eldon Madlem, who lives several blocks away. Mr. Madlem is very cautious in-

HYDE started to band had was, and that Odessa

and on

in the future, because of the fastprotection of the people of the United States, had hanging status of the “civilian” peen influenced hy my attendance at two of their program ta one of outright military pearings, It was claimed that the committee had preparedness. y A two-hour therefore not said as strongly as it might otherwise i 9 | man will have, the things in which it really believed. New Class Prepares Ean The moon always has fascinated I cannot for a minute entertain the thought that| py; even while the first class was! ‘vcanesday night |astronomers because of the grandeur a Congressional committee, headed by patriotic Mr.\peine honored yesterday another | If you want to go along drive out of its geography. The lunar mounMartin Dies, would put consideration for any woman, | ace of 45 Butler students was pre- to the Indiana Astronomical So-|tains soar up to some 30,000 feet 10 matter to whom she might be married, ahead of | paring to begin flight vests . |ciety’s observatory just west of| above the surrounding plains. Earthduty to the nation as a whole When this new class. which starts | Crooked Creek on 72d St. about 8/ly peaks only reach that height| deed about the type of service he It is a long time since I have driven in leisurely! yc week, has finished the primary |p m. measured from sea level. gives the badger. fashion through any part of New York State, and Fe in September ti and| Nobody will be left behind, be-| The most prominent features of sy 8 8 enjoyed it very much, There is great variety in this| 1 obably even larger grou will because the mode of YrRNssortation tis moon are the crater-like objects JIM GIVENS of B Colo state. Though I love and enjoy many other Parts ready to begin—and so ere Indi- | Will be the Society's 10-inch re-|which dot the surface with dark ho: has b a 0 OS Bre i of the United States, I cannot help having an esPe- |» hapolis and other cities throughout | fiector telescope Wednesday will be|splotches. Astronomers divide them . DO at SE! prospec ne yown cially soft spot in my heart for the state of New York.| yo ation «ror the duraty g lan excellent time to observe thelinto three classes: (1) mountain-| County streams for gold the last We spent Friday night with Miss Flora Rose in - Silo, moon, say society members, because | walled plains some 60 to 150 miles;| few weeks, has gone home. Not her house on the Cornell University campus. It wasj _ as it nears first quarter the sun's! (2) mountain plains, 10 to 60 miles| because he didn’t like Brown an inspiration to see her, as it always is. Our drive] VINCENNES NURSE DROWNS |,a0¢ clant across its surfaee making|across; and (3) the baby craters| County. Not because he wasn't back on Saturday was as beautiful as the drive out| VINCENNES, Ind, July 8 (U.P). |the valleys, clefts and faults stand from 3 to 10 miles across. finding gold. Nashville residents had been. After the radio program, given in Pough-|—Margaret Pearl Siegle, 23, Mt. [out sharply Conductor and engineer for the| said he often separated gold from keepsie last night, we went rather wearily to bed. To- Carmel Hospital nurse, drowned| With a three-quarter inch eve- moon voyage will be Russell Sullivan sand and mud in paying quanday is lovely again and the President is taking us all when she fell into the Wabash River piece the reflector will magnify the/and Walter Wingenroth, prominent| tities. . to church, | Saturday, great globe to appear 1.500 of itsllocal amateur astronomers. Climate got him. Mr, Givens

New lake

an Odessa In in the finger section We enjoved its beau tiful location and the historical interest of the old Fontainbleau, where we dined. A group gathered after dinner, at the invitation of the proprietors, Mr. and Mrs. Ericksen, to ask me questions about the problems of vouth, with special reference to the American Youth Congress At this meeting I had expected to talk in a nonpartisan way on a non-partisan subject, and then to be asked questions by people who were really anxious to know something about the problems facing young people today. Rather to my surprise, I found that, while I might have thought in this way, the meeting was to have a political tinge, Our hosts, and 1 suppose the neighborhood, had not been able to forget that I am a Democrat, and so had provided an eminent Republican, Mr. Mark Sullivan, to speak with me. Although I have made it a rule never to speak at

There is York State “expedition” to the distance or about

leave Indianapolis|to the earth.