Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1940 — Page 17

FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1940

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FRANCISCO, George Creel Director of Information during the last was George Creel’s mind that moulded and the emotions of the rest of us 130,000,000 He wrote the propaganda of America's participation in the World Wat Often, since the first day of last September, 1 have wondered to myself what George Creel was feeling. what he was thinking, what his own emotions were todav. Now I know, terday. We were at a buffet luncheon in the Chinese Village at the Exposition. It was a lovely party, for everybody likes the Chinese. All the big people connected with the Exposition were there. Onc after another the speakers went before the mike. People in the crowd continued to talk among t We paid less and less attention to the

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With Frightening Gravity

From on I listened. Mr. Creel stood microphone with his hands in his pockets. the only one who had not read a prepared manucript There was a terrible intensity on his face His voice was soft, but the words tumbled out in such a stream of articulate thought that they just stopped you in your tracks Mr, Creel fodav, in He said gravity,

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brother of the Gerarrived in New York on Feb. ibly to attend the launching of the in-built vacht, “"Meteol but more loster [riendly relations between Germany and the United States, I'he Meteor, launched on the v, was christened by Alice Roosevelt, eldest daughter of the President. After which came the more fatiguing part of fostering {riendly relations Indianapolis was in on that Soon as the Mayor and the Governor heard what the Prince was ip to, they sent him cordial invitations to drop in and see us. Mayor Bookwalter addressed his letter to “His Royal Highness’; and Governor Durbin, to "His Imperial Highness.” Everybody was sure that postoffice people would return one of the letters because of a faulty address.

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I'he fact remains, however, that Prince Henry received both invitations. At any rate, both the Mayor and the Governor received replies that, sometime in March, the Prince and his entourage would stop off in Indianapolis—maybe long enough to take a carriage ride around town. Both letters made it plain, however, tl In no event would anybody be allowed to ke hands with the Prince.

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12.—This thing that here next the renomination of President Roosevelt, cannot properly be called a draft. The draft 1s used to drag in an unwilling victim Roosevelt has exhibited no unwillingness to run Oh, ves, he has said rather vaguely that he wanted to go back to Hvde Park at the end of his term. But he must mean he wants to go back for a weekend. Actions are what count, and Mr. Roosevelt's actions have contributed only toward setting the stage for his renomination. Any word now from Mr. Roosevelt that he preferred to retire could be only a gesture for the sake of appearances. The only thing now that could acquit him of an accusation that to bring about his renomination would refusal to run. osevelt has for months sat most trusted Cabinet members lose in his confidence have ] i* belief that he has allowed their

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a rush. His son, Bates Creel, stopped him and introduced us. And he told me why he was rushing away. He was on his way back to bed. | The war has literally driven him into illness. The | war is so real and terrible to him that he has not | been able to sleep for weeks, and finally his harassed state of mind set up an actual organic infection in his system, and he went down, under a doctor's care. But he got up long enough io say what he felt. In words, I cannot convey the terrific impression of sincerity that George Creel made on me in those few brief moments. And I doubt there is a man in America today who is suffering more intently over the vast tragedy of it all than this one who taught! us how to think war thoughts the last time. on =

‘Tommy Gun’ Gets Big Play

There's a gallery at the Fair which features a “Tommy Gun,” and it's getting a hig play. The gun holds 50 shots, and theyre all gone in about three seconds. A friend and I spent a dollar shooting the things About the best we could do was to knock down six targets with 50 shots. You see, they go so fast, that if your aim isn't perfect to start with, the bullets are all gone before you get your aim corrected. After that, we bought a big ice cream cone apiece, and walked over to Sally Rand's DNUDE RANCH. Sally's front-spieler last year was good. and this year's is even better. But inside, nothing has changed. The girls, if my memory for detail is any good, are the same girls as last year. They do the same things! with no clothes or—play badminton, ping pong, | horseshoes. The girls, just like all us other people Who wear | overcoats, are a vear older now. But I must sav thev | play a lot better game of ping-pong than they did | last year, j :

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By Anton Scherrer

The fostering of friendly relations took place on the platform of the train and lasted less than an! hour. Mayor Bookwalter dressed in a swallow tail suit and a silk hat made a speech of welcome, in| the course of which he presented the Prince with an album of Indianapolis pictures including photographs of the State House, the Court House and the Soldiers! and Sailors’ Monument, It was supposed to be the| equivalent of the scheduled carriage ride. The photograph of the Monument was so clear that the Prince could count the windows in the Blacherne. the new apartment house three blocks away If the Prince! gave Mr. Bookwalter anything, I never heard of it.

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A Noble Collection of Beards

As for the royal entourage the Prince carried around with him, it was the grandest collection of beards that ever came to Indianapolis. Prince Henry, | a blond, had a dandy one himself, but the prize of the! lot belonged to His Excellency Alfred von Tirpitz| who stood beside the Prince all during the ceremony. His Excellency’s beard started on both sides of his! cheeks and worked down in two immense forks which ended midway hetween his throat and waist. Fourteen years later Von Tirpitz's beard reached his waist. By that time he was Lord High Admiral of the German Navy, the man credited with having organized and planned the submarine blockade of the British Isles in World War I. I'll bet you never knew that, once upon a time, the developer of tne sub-| marine, spent an hour fostering friendly relations inside the Indianapolis Depot | Which still leaves me to tell about Col. Russell B.| Harrison. He was one of the reception committee that night. Sure. he too wore a silk hat. When it] came time for him to be presented to the Prince, he| was introduced as a son of a President of the United | States. Immediately the Prince held out his hand. Evervbody gasped remembering what the Prince had| said about shaking hands. The Indianapolis Military Band, standing nearby, caught the significance of the| occasion and struck up “Die Wacht am Rhein.”

By Raymond Clapper

he has boxed up and sent down the chute the am- | bitions of his faithful manager, Jim Farley, in a| silent, cold-blooded purge 4

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Compelled to Join Parade

Mr. Roosevelt has by his silence encouraged politiclans in the party to desert all other possible candidates and to commit themselves to a third term. | Politicians seeking favors from the Administration | have not dared, in face of the situation, to take a| chance of cutting themselves off from their meal-| ticket by supporting anyone else, All over the country Democratic politicians have | been compelled, for their own political security, to Join the third term parade. | Mr. Roosevelt's silence has been the most positive activacing force in the thira term movement, At any time, Mr. Roosevelt could have changed | the direction of affairs by stating, as McKinley did when third-term talk began early in his second term: “I will say now, once for all, expressing a long settled conviction, that I not onlv am not and will not be a candidate for a third term. but would not accept a nomination for it, if it were tendered me.” |

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The Urge for Glory | Mr Rooseveli mav be tired long for the quiet of Hyde Park. But his indicate Te does not really want to give power which he 1s now tasting to the full he 1s about to be tendered a third term nomination. and on the eve of that triumpn over America's No. 1 political tradition, Mr. Rooscvelt rolls the morsel | under his tongue in jolly glee over the wild curiosity | of a whole nation that is trying to get at the secret

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Russia Is On The March

Reds Set If Nazis Go East

(Here is the first of two uncensored dispatches dealing with events in the Soviet Union since the imposition of censorship there in the second month of the war. It has been transmitted from Tokyo.)

By Peter C. Rhodes United Press Staff Correspondent OKYO, July 12.—Soviet Russia is on the move. She is mustering every ounce of her vast military power to maximum strength in the next few months. She moving on all fronts to strengthen her strategic position against the day when Germany may look to the East. That day, many observers in Russia believe, will come when and if Great Britain is knocked out of the war. Russia is not convinced that Germany and Italy will quickly defeat Britain. But she is taking no chances and hopes to strengthen herself sufficiently that whatever happens, wherever the war may spread. she will be strong enough to stand aloof Never have the Russians been more tight-lipped, never has the Russian censorship "and the restriction on movements of foreigners been more stringent. The observations in this uncensored dispatch are based on talks with diplomats. Russian officials, and neutral observers long resident in Russia. They are based on what I saw and heard in nearly a month's journey from jittery Stockholm, across the Baltic states where I watched endless streams of Russian tanks and troop columns moving in, a stay in Moscow where Germans and Russians eye each other with obvious suspicion and hostility, and the long journey across the transSiberian where I saw train after train of military supplies and big uns. HERE ARE SOME of the stand-

out points of the information I collected.

Internal Situation

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I had several opportunities to converse privately with Russians but they made no open expression of dissatisfaction with the regime. The usual attitude was that when the war emergency is over civilians will benefit from the great resources now being concentrated on defense In Siberia 1 saw some gangs of prisoners working under guard and two trainloads of prisoners bound for the desolate northeast But private citizens are being pinched by the concentration of all energies on defense. The Moscow housing situation, always bad, is growing worse. Army demands for steel and concrete are so great, that even work on important public buildings has been suspended. Old timber houses of the

Russia displays its armed might in the Red Square of Moscow.

logging camp type are used to house the overflow population. There is a shortage of all kinds of consumers goods and the shortage is growing. Basic foods like bread, potatoes, meat, sugar and tea are plentiful but there is a notable lack of vegetables and fruits. From Moscow to Vladivostok— more than 5000 miles—the only well dressed people I saw were soldiers and sailors. The average person wears drab, old clothing. A second-hand foreign tailored suit in Moscow sells for 500 roubles out of reach of the average citizen, An overcoat of similar mage costs 800 roubles But the Russians 1 healthy and conditions were better than a few vears back. o

The Baltic States

THE MOVE INTO the Baltic states was a reflex of Russia's surprise and shock at the quick collapse of France and fears that the war might suddenly end. The French defeat was not expected by the average Russian or—from

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The British were also said to have told Russia that they did not consider Turkey bound any longer by the Allied Treaty. With these assurances, the Soviet was said to be well advanced in negotiations for a new Russo-Turkish« Bulgarian Black Sea accord. Such an accord was said to be .viewed by the British as erecting a barrier to any German attempt to thrust down the Bagdad line toward the Mesopotamian oil fields.

Far East

The Sovief. is strengthening its position in the Far Eeast, 1 noted a tremendous movement of traffic on the trans-Siberian railroad. T counted the number of freight trains we passed and as nearly aa I could estimate we must have passed one every 20 minutes or so all the way to Vladivostock. Many of these trains were car= ryving military supplies. 1 spotted 20 trains of 60 cars each carrying tanks, trucks, artillery and other heavy military equipment. (A second dispatch tomorrow, describes the Soviet Union's elabhorate precautions against war on her Eastern borders.

rested and held for several days when he tried to make an unauthorized trip in the Leningrad region. This, of course, would probably happen to anyone as Leningrad is an important military base. The Russians with whom I spoke indicated plainly that they regarded the moves into the Baltic and Rumania as insurance against German attack and designed to strengthen the Soviet sufficiently so that Germany will not be tempted to move against her,

the few hints that have filtered out—by the Soviet rulers. The Baltic move also may have been intended to forestall Germany. For a month before the Soviet acted German sources in Stockholm had circulated antiRussian propaganda. Reports were current that Germany might offer a military alliance to Sweden, Finland and the Baltic states in case of a Soviet ultimatum. The march into Latvia occured on the eve of a projected sports festival at which some 20,000 German tourists were expected. The Germans had already started flocking into Riga when Soviet troops suddenly moved over the border in great strength.

Relations With Germany

Despite official correctness 1 saw and heard of many instances of hostility and suspicion The Moscow hotels are jammed with trade delegafions, many of them German. They are ciosely supervised. The Germans are allowed nowhere except under offi-e. cial surveillance. The Germans 1 talked with made no secret of hostility toward the Russians. One German told me he had been ar-

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"THE BRITISH APPEAR io he making a major effort to win Soviet friendship. Relations be tween the new British ambassador, Sir Stafford Cripps. and Premier V. M. Molotov are said to be very cordial. The British bid for Soviet friendship may explain to some extent Russian activity in the Balkans and Near East. It was reported that the British had assured Russia of a free hand in the Balkans and promised support of any changes Russia made there.

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ANTI-SPEED NET

ENCIRCLES CITY

State Police Act to Incoming Traffic; Arrested.

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State Police are patrolling Marion roads leading into Indianlapolis to “break down’ the speed of

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motorists entering the City,

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None Knows Why, But City BAR SUPPORTS Is Pollen Capital of World

By JOE COLLIER

Last September 4th in Indianap-

olis made world hay fever history. Barring no other time or place, [the atmosphere here on that day [was the worst ever for sufferers

from ragweed pollen. When the count are 50 pollen to a cubic air, one who allergic has fever. The count on Sept. 4,

cubic vard of atmosphere record anywhere before that been a little more than 2000 This information was todav hv an Indianapolis allergist This city. according

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indicates there vard of hay 1939 in Indianapolis was 5628 particles a The had

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NE STUFF

Glib Salesman Evades Penalty, Sells Judge

JUDICIAL BILL

‘Wants Partisan Politics Removed From Election Of Judges.

Nearly 200 members of the Indi-

Three kinds instance, are irritants in this vicinity. in the air from early spring to frost, Their real names are alternaria, helminthosporium, and hormodendrum. Then there are materials to which erial ersons are allergic. There : ) en i a bov who, having un- anapolis Bar Association were on | dergone an operation, appeared to record today as approving the Roe; improve noticeably under the care partisan election of judges as p *} of one nurse and to noticeably vided in a hill prepared by the Ju-| wane under the identical care of dicial Council of Indiana. another | Only one member voted against The trouble was traced to a silk indorsement of the hill after it had garment the one nurse wore. He heen discussed by Bernard C Gavit, was allergic to silk. dean of the Indiana University law A relatively high wind will in-school, and Paul Y. Davis, attorney, crease the number of particles of at the Association's meeting yesterragweed pollen in the air. On Sept. day. Ernest R. Baltzell was chair1939. for instance, the peak Vve- man. locity was 22 miles an hour and the| The bill provides that names of 1 average a little over-10 m. p. h. leandidates for judgeships would be Driving in a car will increase the placed on a separate ballot in prinumber of particles a sufferer will mary elections without designation contact. las to party.

NEW YORK, July 12 (U. P.).—~ Sam Blank was arrested yestere day for selling suspenders on a Brooklyn street without a license, He went to court, talked hims= self out of a $1 fine and-a day in jail and then sold Magistrate Charles Solomon, the arresting patrolman and two court attaches suspenders at 25 cents a pair, He pocketed the $1 and wens home,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Who was the only bachelor Presl= dent of the U, S.? 2—The emperors of which Oriental country bear the title Imperial Son of Heaven? 3—Was the Lusitania sunk in 1915,

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. eaki y {motes lush vegetation, then the lout for persons breaking the 50-/as much. New York and Boston| o.oo. he bad from the stand- names placed on another separate, non-partisan ballot in the genera)

order to meet it. However, I hope sincerely that I mile-an-hour limit on restricted | have very little and Shere h HOR! point of the sufferers. am wrong and that we may not be facing as serious |roads leading into the City. At the|at all on the Pacific I the! If it is dry, and the weeds tend | ejection. known as The Commoner? a situation as seems indicated by recent events. | same time they have been instructed For that matter, no one has to dry up, the season will be good.

: : Thu rill I was impressed yesterday by the interest that to make arrests when a motorist SR Bo A es wil people are taking in giving homes to refugee children. | traveling under the limit is driving Ftv th gn all. Allergy is just | A young woman, who has started a nursery school in | recklessly. bother ou ay dicates that in some] Not Enough 13s Toledo, came in to tell me that she would attempt| Magistrate's courts [8 Word thal ind cate: |

at Beech |, ooieri ay some substance to raise money to support a group of refugee children | Grove, Lawrence and Speedway | mysterious aly So poh F M Ellen | I are a state | ° TN ] weed : ollen particle | or ary | Mr. Davis explained that the idea nate their care. This seemed to me a very generous | Police, Sergt. Burkett said. ie. Tag Hoe : ‘behind the bill is to permit voters 1—James Buchanan, g measures 20 to 25 microns in di- |

offer from a very small nursery school which is’ just | w ; cave THE BIG REGRET in Mary to make an intelligent choice for 2—Japan. getting on its feet. I hope she will be able to find Given 30-Day Term ameter. A nieron Is og twenty Ellen Hardcastle's life is that |judgeships, without being influ- |3—1915. people to sponsor some children, for she seems to| Edward W. McElfresh, magistrate | ive thousandth of an el 2 oi there aren't 13 letters in her |enced by the candidate's poliitcal 4—Robert E. Sherwood. have a very good plant. |at Beech Grove, yesterday found |? Microscope, a pollen particle Joos! pame, connections, '5—William Jennings Bryan Some members of the Sandusky Altrusa Club! Norman E. DeHoff, 24, of 914 S.|like a green horse chestnut. Tt has | Mary Ellen will be 13 years old Dean Gavit said any improvement | 6—Dry land, came in to present me with a very beautiful corsage | West St. guilty of reckless homi- What appears to be barbs sticking | y,m.0.rw, the 13th of July. The !in the bar in Indiana must begin | 7—Horace K. Dowell, bouquet. On every hand friendly people waited to! cide, speeding and reckless driving, | Out from a spherical surface. | letters in her address—943 High |with the improvement of the per- vs greet. me, which is always a pleasant experience. | DeHoff was fined a total of $135| These particles get into the mem-| gioat__cqunt 13. She went to [sonnel of the judiciary. He said We drove to Cleveland after the lecture, some 75! and sentenced to 90 days on the brane of the persons sensitive 10 gohggl 13 for six years, where |Indiana attorneys favor the non- ASK THE TIMES miles, but the road was good and we had an hour in| State Farm. them and create one large and pain-| there were 13 teachers. Now | partisan election of judges by three a hotel to rest before we took a plane to New York.| Thirteen-year-old Edward Mayes, | ful hive. Besides the discomfort| she's at School 8. where there are |to one. Inclose a 3-cent stamp for This is the first time, I think, that I have been on a [635 Dorman St. was in the shock and inconvenience it causes the suf-| 13 teachers—but she has to count The non-partisan plan has been | reply when addressing any night plane and failed to see the sun rise, but I was |ward at City Hospital in serious ferer, probably the most serious re-| the principal. adopted by more than a dozen| question of fact or information so sleepy that it did not matter to me in the least condition today. He was dodging | sult is loss of weight from sneezing Mrs. Hardcastle says Mary El- |other states in recent years in ef-| to The Indianapolis Times when and how the sun rose. 1 slept until the|in and out of parked automobiles and loss of sleep. len “just about drives us crazy” |forts to remove judges and courts Washington Service Bureau, stewardess awakened me to say that we would be|last night and was struck at the! Hay fever probably is the best! trying to find new ways to get | from political influence. 1013 13th St, N. W.,, Washingin New York City in 15 minutes. | corner of St. Clair and Meridian | known allergy, but is not necessar-| 13s in her life. . A bill somewhat similar to the ton, D. C. Legal and medical Today seems to me fairly warm and I shall be Sts. The driver, Bernard Haver- | ily the most widespread. Many | As for luck, Mary Ellen says to- |one under consideration was sub- advice cannot be glven nor can glad when our New York City appointments are over camp of 5329 E. 10th St, was not | other things affect other persons in| morrow is going to be the luckiest [mitted in the Legislature several| extended research be underand we wend our way back to the country, held, Imuch the same way that ragweed birthday in her life, | years ago but died in committee, taken, v

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lap of the gods. If there is, from 1916 or 1917? The two receiving the highest vote

4—Who wrote “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” the Pulitzer Prize play for 1939°° 5—Which American statesman was

My Day

: NEW YORK CITY (Thursday)—Lakeside, O., where 1 spoke vesterday, is very like Chautauqua in New York State. It is run by the Methodist Church people, and offers a religious program as well as many other types of educational and pleasurable entertainment. The location on Lake Erie is very beautiful and the opportunity for sports and out-of-door recreation must make it a haven for many families.

The auditorium holds about 4000 people, but they have smaller auditoriums which are turned over to the young people for meetings. This is a favorite meeting place for groups of the Epworth League. The Northern Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs was holding 1ts meetings there, and the head of the Toledo club came See Mme Perhaps T am wrong in feeling that a great many women are still living in the world which hope exists, rather than in the world which does exist today They are still talking of world peace and what we ean do to hring about peace this world, in the hope that it ean be accomplished '€ present time and in the same way that peace roups have worked for manv vears I'} » alscouraging to me, for 1 feel that our situation in the world is so completely changed that old

methods and old approaches must be changed in

If the bill became a law, it would | 6—Terra firma is a kind of pottery, be a misdemeanor, punishable by a| & body of dry land, or a body of

fine of $1000 and six months’ im-| Water? prisonment to urge election of a T—Who composed the popular song,

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