Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1940 — Page 7

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SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1940

The Indianapolis

imes

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

SAN FRANCISCO, July 12—When that old bus rolled into San Francisco the other night, with my own personal head sticking out the window, it made the 18th time these frail bones have rattled their way across the American continent. That means going clear across the United States, from coast to coast. It doesn't include any of little crossings down where he continent is slim, such as yuatemala and Panama, Its 18 ull-length, pure, all-wool eross- } I'm getting so I sort of e travel Those 18 crossings have been made by train, by Model T Ford by real auto, by airplane, by bus, and in parts by truck, blind baggage and on foot. On three of the crossings I sat up day and night all the way across. On two of them, I slept every night in a tent When I got here there was a letter from a whimsical friend in Washington, urging me to make the return trip by pipe-line. The novelty of his suggestion to me. and I am now negotiating to see how big around a pipe-|

appeals

and Better

The other day I was up at the Fairmount Hotel lunge, where the classy people of San Francisco go It was a funny place for me to be, since I can neither swin dive, and can Just barely wade a little if the water is calm But I was talking with Phil Patterson, the great diving coach up there, who has trained thousands of swimmers and scores of star divers, including Helen Srlenkovich, the present sensation. And Phil re-

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C marked that California girls are bigger than other girls C “Hun?” He said, yessir, they are, and he rove it he picked up the telephone and calied a numnd spoke a girls name, and then I heard him I've friend here who wants to ask you a restion, and you tell what vou honestly think.” And he handed the phone to me 1 don't want to ask her anything,

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epends altogether on the plate and on the degree of carving. A single meal housand shifts, and in no less than one for. Europeans, for any zig-zagging at all—at any last time I saw them which was they still had something to eat fork in left hand at and it always stays put his right hand, and any shifting, laving after he gets started as as it sounds, work out of eating

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Washington

Some difficulty has been g¢ Administration plans for Convention which opens Vice-Presidency and to

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CHICAGO, July 13 { in completin National a) relate to the the national Chairmanship Presiden

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t Roosevelt wants Sectary Hull as his Vice-Presiden-al candidate, but thus far has able to persuade the Secaccept Hulls value to the not lie in anv spec-

ticket does

“Go ahead and ask her,” Phil said. “Ask her what?” I said.

“Ask her if California girls are bigger than other! girls.”

So I asked her. And the voice said, “Well, I would say that girl athletes in California are bigger than girl athletes in Oklahoma, but if they're not athletes, then they're not as big.” “Thank you,” I said. who she was,

I haven't the slightest idea

By Ernie Pyle

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| “See,” said Phil. |

“See what?” I said. ,

“See, theyre bigger,” he said. |

As these lines are written, I am still somewhat vague on how big girl athletes really are. But I'll bet that even in Oklahoma theyre all bigger than I am.

Friends and Associates We must go back to the Exposition for a moment.

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Last year, the Art Museum was one of the big hits of the Fair. This year, the great collection of old masters] is gone, but for a coarse fellow like me they have

something even better.

1t is called “Art in Action,” which means they have a whole batch of artists actually drawing pictures. | chiseling sculptures, carving wood and painting murals right before your eyes. Diego Rivera is the star. A big white wall, laced with scaffolding, is all in place for the mural he will paint. But so far, he hasn't painted any. He's just making his preliminary sketch in a little attic-like room way up among the rafters, back behind the mural wall. Nobody was in. sketch was on the wall letters addressed to him. The foreign stamps had been cut off by collectors. { But I got to see him anyhow. Discovered he's living in the same hotel where I always stay, and I) ran onto him in the lobby. We talked a few minutes.! but neither of us said anything worth repeating. Everybody who knows him says he's actually scared | to death of assassins, and was glad to get out of Mexico. They say. also, that everybody likes him, and he has more friends than anybody else in San Francisco. So there goes Rivera, surrounded by a jolly crowd of friends and assassins, |

Mr. Rivera's unfinished pencil

By Anton Scherrer

cause vears of experience with the knife and fork] have given me the speed of a presdigitator, and no| doubt there are a lot more like me around here. | The matter of dissipated energy is something else, | however—especially with the thermometer behaving] as it is todav. I didn't want to mention the weather, | but the more I watched the thermometer the madder | I got thinking about the way we were handling our table tools. Indeed, it burned me up to think how little we were doing to conserve the little energy we have Come to think of it. I see no reason why we should spend so much time fooling with knives and forks To heck with table tools. If I had my way wed do} more eating with our fingers. And as good a way as any is to start with asparagus | It’s a sad commentary on our so-called civilization (or democracy. if vou will) that a town the size of ours. with Grace Brown to run its Kindergartens and DeWitt Morgan to run its schools, should still teach the voung to eat asparagus with a fork. It just doesn't make sense | The practice persists, no doubt, because of a belief that a vegetable fraught with a whimsical determination of its own needs disciplining when it gets on the table | 5 5 ny

Let's Treat It Lovingly

Nonsense! The asparagus is a gentle non-aggres-sive creature when it reaches the table unless aroused. Attacked with a fork, however, it begins to show a will of its oxn. Indeed. I've seen what looked like a! limp lethargic legume turn into a writhing fighting monster when stuck with a fork And if vour experience is anvihing like mine, you'll agree that nothing in this world is worse than a stuck asparagus. The secret of eating asparagus is that it wants to be treated with respect—with love is even better.! We touch the things we love. Indeed. we go even farther and caress and fondle the things we love—| with our hands, of course. Certainly not with knives and forks I feel the same wav about corn on the cob, a slab of pie and the drum stick of a fried chicken

| By Raymond Clapper

taken this situation to heart. He possibly has gathered the idea that the Vice-Presidential business is a scheme to kick him upstairs, and the old Tennessee mountaineer doesn't kick upstairs easily Also. it must be remembered that had President Roosevelt retired, the Democratic ticket almost certainly would have been Hull and Farlev. No doubt there is some feeling, subconscious at least, because | of that. It would be only human { Although Secretary Hulls refusal is fiat, it | possible that he might yield to a draft from the | convention itself —indeed, he could scarcely refuse if} the sentiment of the convention were made plain. |

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I climbed up there. {

On a bare table were some) By

SAM TYNDALL ITS WAGON hitched to the rising star of aviation, Indianapolis is maneuvering to make itself the aviation center of the United States —to become to the airplane what Detroit is to the automobile. Already the home of the Allison Engineering Co. and owner of a giant, first-class airport, the City keeps driving forward on four fronts: 1. To attract manufacturing fix 2, To improve Airport until it ality the finest services in the country 3. To induce the Federal ernment to put tion laboratory eggs into the local basket. 4 To increase mercial flying peak points ” = 5 RIGHT NOW the airport se tion of the city is taking shape as a vast aeronautical center The city has not one but two airports. The big Municipal field is the chief one. of course, but the expanding Stout Field, only two miles away, makes the West Side an aviation suburb Municipal Airport 1s 1. The alrcraft 2. The terminal for line flights 3. The site of the 8135.000 Roscoe Turner Air School 4. The largest with more than with additional unobstructed terrain for ture Its concrete runways equal to 50 miles of paved hl ways

aviation s City

Municipal

more ms to thi the becomes in actu-

in equipment and

(FOV -

more of its avia-

and to

civil com-

new

artivitie activiues

today boasts it Federal Government's radio research cente: 22 daily air-

the

acres

nation and flat fuare gh-

in 1000 thousands of

the

on n ® THE AIRPORT soon 1. Schoen Field Army re serve base at Ft. Harrison, which is to be transferred and expanded this fall

SCHOOLS OFFER

will get

the

TRAINING TO 400

6 Weeks’ Technical Course,

Free, Part of U. S. Defense Program. facilities

The

Indianapolis’

1. Stout Field. where these mechanics tune up a National Guard | plane, soon will be expanded to a first-class military base. (Nish)

2. Superintendent I. J. Municipal Airport,

Left to right: Mason, head of Navy Comm. F. E. Weld, board member: J. M. Rutherford, also a Navy

Dienhart, in the control tower of |

Maurice Tennant, Works Board member; Capt. C. Board making a survey

Pr, of facilities; Lieut, Mayor Sullivan and Lieut. Comm,

Board member.

3 Mavor Sullivan. pointing out a Municipal Airport site where the | 4. Myron Green of the Chamber of Commerce, who “shuttles” be-

Navy Department could establish a $250,000 aviation training base,

2. Double to be »naid 250.000 Fed

the of paved

out of a port ap

Indian-

amount runways for new ral a propriation earmarked fo apolis in addition to this, the hopes to gel £8 Q00 000 Federal airresearch laboratory 181 wm which is expected in a few weeks This in itself would skyrocket the city's aviation stock 2. A Naval training base amined local faci 3. Another airplane manufacturing company. Negotiations are reported to be going forward with the City

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aviation of things tor just an idle dream City civic officials spend davs shuttling back and forth between here and Washington, con-

ana

Hoosier Goings

Marathon | Jumpin' Catfish! They're Monsters

By HARRY

EXPRESS it's highly illegal

THE OLD PONY around Martinsville—but One or more persons than their et stole a in Gasburg

1932

hice

whose taste coupe

All the big aviation concerns throughout the country have been “covered” and invited to locate here, Mr. Green and Mr. Dienhart know they have something to sell. They talk about the largest airport, the flattest unobstructed terrain, advantages of the inland protected location for aviation projects, the fact that Indianapolis is a center for the tool-mak-ing industry. Aviation needs these and they find interested listeners. City officials, from Mayor Reginald Sullivan on down, have taken a keen interest in the city's aviation development. spurred, naturally, by the Federal Government's apparent inclination to treat Indianapolis as the “favorite child.”

tacting Federal officials. Loaded with brief cases full of specially prepared literature, the envoys go to present the city's case for this Federal project, and then that one The city's two chief “runners’ are Myron Green, Chamber of Commerce industrial commissioner. and I. J. (Nish) Dienhart, airport superintendent Mr. Green is in Washington todav presenting briefs to the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics who will decide which of 50 cities will get the aircraft engine laborator) Mr. Dienhart personally escorted the Naval Board around the Airport yesterday. giving it the “sales talk” for which he is so well Known ” " ” THE WORKS Board, “boss” of Municipal Airport. has taken a down every clue or rumor that good deal of time recently to map an industry is looking with favor a future building plan for the Airport. Laid out was a scheme

BUSINESSMEN

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THESE MEN and others chase

Stealers Active;

Car

PHONY EXPRESS T0 TRAIN HERE

300 From 4 States to Don Khaki for 26 Days at Fort Harrison.

MORRISON

is riding the night winds down

better of gas

ingenuity 1s ran out

in cars and

in Mooresville, Three hundred businessmen don

tween here and Washington te “sell” Indianapolis.

to put Government projects. air

stations, and Army and Navy

flying fields on the northwest side of the port: private hangars both on the south of the administra=tion building and on the north side of the 1000-acre reservation Members have talked about leaving sufTicient space between rows” of future private hangars to allow taxiways for planes with wingspreads of over 300 feet— the planes of the future They can see the day when the airport is “ringed” with plants, hangars and laboratories. The national defense program has placed a new premium on in= land cities like Indianapolis. Avia= tion is expanding like never be= iore under impetus of preparedsness in the air. Indianapolis be= lieves it has a lot to offer. “Push the aviation bandwagon" toward Indianapolis is the way this city’s business, civie and public officials feel about it And they're sticking to it

Hooded Prowler Seen on E. Side

Unreported for the black-robed and ure which has been sighted on the North Side several times, appeared early today in the 1400 block Brookside Ave. Fred Stewart, 116 S. Noble St, cab driver, reported to police that he saw the hooded prowler standing in the middle of the avenue

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several weeks,

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tole a 1937 model there and ran it clear to Martins- ¢ tak ‘ifle " Pel rd — khaki and take up rifles at Ft. Har-{ ith one arm extended.

| vi h y ws | | training, by . : | back,” Stewart said, “and he was

Soldiers . . : | still there. I started to turn the The special training is to Improve; cap around and he disappeared.” [their physical condition and give — cs —

tars mintary procesures. They will TEST YO KNOWLEDGE

[retain their status as civilians while Is one, lwo, or three the leash

lin camp. | They are part of the 3000 who will] number of solar eclipses that can occur in any year?

tacular appeal as a campaigner. Nor he have anv special

was any | exchanged brand new haven't

ville before the tank At this point they the "37 model for a 1940 job So far they been found Wonder how was in the 40

Whether the Administration will continue to press| Public Schools Ne Jnl pan ceopraphical appeal that would for the nomination of Mr. Hull as Vice-President, or 2°" opie bri nb ANE EAE ca look elsewhere. is not vet clear training as part of the National ring into the Roosevelt column ! > : Defense program on July 22 particular states that otherwise &E & 8

micht be lost Plans for a six-weeks training ] Through, Farley Says

. . ; course, to be given without charge ow et, he IS consigren valuable to the students, were formed ves3 Ww Wein I nl the The Administration is still begging Jim Farley to terday at a conference between Decach as to impress many DE National Chairman again, Mr. Farley has said Witt S. Morgan, schools superin- 8 & 4 : e become re Demo. he is through. But President Roosevelt still wants|tendent; George J. Smith, Indian- THE CONSERVATION Departance the Republican candidate Wi him and so do others high mn the Administration. | apolis Employment Service man-' ment is sitting around laughing \ SO highly of the Secretary of IO ree 2 en Fp IR yey Show agers and s at bE oe state quietly to itself at the og A skb ih eh i : lev is st m om c . I supervisor of industrial and ais- i X e in Wells | A : rd wanted because of the tone he aj agree on that. They are working on Jim very | tributive education Wty, ke Rune! seed store. Come to think of it, | Those at the local a hard now | “Initial applications will be han- denartme ithout telling | maybe that was smarter. [selected from Indiana, have to | ! The department, withou |tucky and West Virginia for certain circumstances. It It must be sweet solace. For several Vears Jim | dled by the local employment _of- anvone about it, stoc ked the lake nd pe » . y 0 Eligible are business and profes-|2—Can a moving object reverse its lv known that there has been some division has been high-hattea all around the Administration | fice,” Mr. Smith said, "and final with 20 to 10-pound river catfish IT'S GOING to be moving da) sional men between 25 and 50, who| course without stopping? State Department, with Seretary Hull on He has seldom been called to the White House and | gecision on the applicants will be they brought up from the south- | on a large scale for three small | oq) pay their own expenses, except |3_The expression “pussyfooting" Under Secretary Welles and Assistant has had practically no contact with Mr. Roosevelt! made by the school officials ern Indiana streams. Then June towns on Road 29 between Madi- \for uniforms and ammunition Them!" Fhe os Fi aay ig e on the other except at Cabinet meetings. This has been a bitter| Applicants are expected to have 16 they turned the fishermen | son and Versailles. [will pay $25 for general expenses, ing 10 Nake ru oi : experience to a man of Farley's intense personal| had some previous training in this| loose without a word of warming. They're planning to widen the [gis for food and provide their ong, Themis, insead oo Lating 3 SLIORR For some time nothing hap- | road for the 25-mile strip and | stand, was popularized by Presie d | dent Lincoln, Theodore Roose

loyalties | line of work and must be over 18 : | transportation. pened. Then, one day, a fisher- stores, residences, fences an velt or Hoover?

does have said look so large, you'd think they were plums. And then there's the homing pigeon from South Bend that walked into McMahan's seed store in La Porte. At first blush, he'd appear to be a smart pigeon, walking into a seed store that way, but when My. McMahan loosed him, instead of going home he just walked back into the

much gas there

job? he has are

otherwise

[be assigned to camps throughout | the country. Bl will be

Ken-

post Ohio, been more acceptable

= » ” Unwelcome cartel proposal for South America was Mr. Hull. as it is a repudiation \ underiving the reciprocal-trade Secretary is a sensitive man and had

ler vi Mr. Fariey probably has burned his bridges. He vaars of age

may well be saving to himself, “Now let them try!" ar. Morgan said that the modrunning a campaign themselves.” Whether he can |g, equipment at Manual, Crispus! be persuaded to change his decision is anybody's attycks, Tech and Washington guess. 1t would seem that he has gone too far to) yjeh Schools will be used. This] change now. | course is similar to one already in| | progress but which charged a $10 | tuition fee Applications will be received at the employment office. 148 E. Mar-| ket St. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

filling stations in Bryantsburg, Belleview and Rexville will be shoved around a little to make room

man caught onto what he was sure was either the Lake Windermere sea monster or the bottom of Lake Kunkle.

4-With which sport is the name of Nathan Mann associated?

5--Is the South American

$6,018,450 READY FOR STATE SCHOOLS" fe i,

The coffers of township school | 6=What is the F. B, 1?

funits in avery county in Indiana | 7=-Name the Territories and Pog [will be swelled $6.918.450 next week.| sessions of the United States The money will be sent to school |g__what countries are associated {boards and township trustees as| with the names Ivan, Canute part of the State's share of teach- and Cvrus? ers’ salaries for the last six months ; Ron- | at the rate of $700 for each teach- | ing unit of 30 pupils. | Last January the State sent tog ng | school units $6,914,950 for teachers’ | . |salaries. The current distribution | —Theodore Roosevelt. makes a total of $13,833,400 for | 4-—Boxing, this year

; : | 5—Chilean, The money for teachers’ salaries gq nye pederal Bureau of Investis is appropriated from funds cellected |

by the Gross Income Tax Division. | gation. { si Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico,

FOOD SHORTAGE IN LL NORWAY 1S FEARED «yNJUSTIFIED' PRICE ~ in ours

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N i Now way Islands. e azl conquerors o orway y have shipped back to Germany| WASHINGTON, July 13 (U. py | 2 Tusia, Denmark and Persia. much of the grain and patatoes |The Internal Revenue Bureau to-| sa & =» » stored up as food reserves before gay warned merchants against rep-| (the war and a dangerous f00d resenting “unjustified” increases in ASK THE TIMES | Shortage may develop this winter, | the prices of their goods as being Inclose a 3-cent stamp for C. J. Hambro, president of the|que to defense taxes. reply when addressing any | Norwegian Parliament, said here| penalties of one year in jail and| question of fact or information | today. $1000 fine may be levied, the Bureau| to The Indianapolis Times | Hambro came to this country tol said, if merchants ascribe any part| Washington Service Bureau, look after Norwegian interestsiof the price of an article to Fed-| 1013 13th 8t., N. W., Washington, D. C. Legal and medical advice cannot be given nor can research be unders

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My Day

PARK N Y. Fridav.—I went to a meeting of the refugee children’s committee and. as usual, was impressed by the horrid legal < which enter into doing anything between govI came away feeling that all I could possibly cope with was something perfectly concrete and simple, such as finding homes into which to put children when they ar-

ri rive

By Eleanor Roosevelt

they get the

HYDE I hope that, from now on, the re-

yesterday morning

: Answers deta ernments.

| How how we rules and

they are to get here, or to live up to the regulations of our regovernments, is someing which requires such patience to find out and follow up that I believe only trained legal minds can possibly learn it I gather from the accounts in some of the metropolitan papers his morning, that there still confusion as to whether these children can be transported across the ocean. Some people assure us that the British Government is prepared to bring 2000 immediately. Other people, who should know, insist that the ships are not available. However, most reliable sources of information seem feel quite certain that several thousand children will 1e immediately if our reguiations are made easy oh so that only rich children, but poor chilmay also be admitted. This, I understand, the Department and Department of Jugtice are

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When he got it out it was a g #& 23-pound catfish. The fishing IT WAS A CASE of either firstanglers all over the lake rowed for a perfect getaway with a couover to see the monster. ple of 15-year-olds in Richmond get a hook inte the 39-pound Like little gentlemen, arranging todav. he = a haby the department put in the helped Mrs. Harold Turner the British Government. Cur responsibility is to see § | i # street in his wagon that we facilitate their coming in every possible way. § 1 . : Mrs Tur Aer d son which I am sure is being done. THERES A HEN belonging to i I Co posed to be lunch with me. We were so hurried, we, OWNER REUNITED who evidently read about that prowavly Mwuired » A ae only had a few minutes in which to swallow a mouth-| | large egg that had another egg | IlDe anQ wiey SWOOP w tain in Rockefeller Plaza. Then we went straight tol and his master, Bert Steinbarger.| hen went right to work and has | Ner's purse out of her son's arms. the NBC studios for my broadcast. From there I Who is blind, hopes that life now| turned up with an egg almost The swag was 75 cents. see Mrs. William Brown Meloney. loved pet than it has been for the| ft looks like the hen can't read She always holds my profound admiration for her past few days perfectly though, because so far the triumph of her active mind. She feels as I do. bile Wednesday night in front of | another ege inside the first one that for the moment. defense on every front is the Mr. Steinbarger's home, 3775 E.| Of course one complete egg aldiscover that the old situations which we faced are no| Dazed and frightened, the dog has| ence might . be better than two longer with us, the safer we shall be. hidden himself most of the time.| eggs eight and a half inches those who cling too long to the past, are not only use- only at intervals, then hiding again. | $ = less, but dangerous. Instead of clarifying the reall Worried, Mr. Steinbarger, took him|{ POR THAT MATTER. the state thinking. : The dog apparently became still, There's the potato plants that Home to find a guest awaiting me, and to spend a more frightened and left again. | belong to Mrs. Tillie Smith of been gone a long time and had moved in a stream of ers at Roberts Dairy, Millersville] there are what appear to be small hectic activities, and vet we only left here Tuesday Road, two miles from the E. 39th St.| hard tomatoes growing from the L € Rain today, but that can be enjoyed with an open in the drive. | Just outside of Plymouth, Floyd ( fire, pleasant company and the usual amount of mail, The dog was taken to the Stein-| Jacoby has some Starks Gold “|

1ren

stopped for about two hours while try timidity or “casing the joint” Someday, someone is going fo recently. sponsibility for sending children will lie entirely with lake. Then—look out! her Buvearsold Soh 4COSS After the meeting, two friends had what was sup- Mr and Mrs. John Leap at Milroy | ald got a half a block away they ful of food at the little restaurant down by the foun-| “pal.” a Chow dog. is home again,| jhside it. At any rate the Leaps’ the pair and snatched Mrs. Tur drove to Quaker Hill Farm near Pawling, N. Y. to| may be a little smoother for his be-| as big. courage and ability to conquer physical ills through “Pal” was struck by an automo- | there's been no confirmation of greatest issue before us. That the sooner that we 39th St. most eight inches in circumferNew situations have to be met in new ways and creeping to the feet of his master| around. issues, they becloud their own and the peoples to a veterinary. is full of little oddities of nature. very pleasant peaceful evening. I felt that we had| Today police were called by work-| Lafayette, for instance. She says night. address. A Chow dor was lying sick | stems. on which to catch up. ; | barger home. cherries that impartial observers

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