Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1940 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1940

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

TIME WAS HEAVY on my hands today, so I appointed myself a corporal in the Panzer division and went out and rode around the country in a tank. I sat in the machine-gunner’s seat, and mowed down trees and weeds and tence posts, and also killed a man on a dirt scraper driving two mules. His last words were, “Hey, what's comin’ off here?” The tank I rode in was a fiveton baby one, out at the Mar-mon-Herrington Co. The ride lasted about half an hour, and was really only a small part of my afternoon's education. For Marmon-Herrington is deep in expansion for defense orders, as are most concerns of their type, and what they are doing was thrilling to me. But I'll tell the rest tomorrow was built for two men, and was You climb over the caterpillar tread

My painted brown mechanism. and step down inte it from the top, like

little tank

stepping into a box. Then you pull the steel roof down over you and lock it. And there you are, for better or worse. Inside, it’s very much like the front seat of an

auto, except it's all full of levers and gearboxes, and the machine gun handle is right in your lap. I had my hands resting on it before I ever knew what it was, anc it almost scared me to death. The driver sits on the left. He has a regular clutch and throttle, and two gear-shift levers, which give him eight speeds forward and two backward. There isn’t any steering wheel. You steer with two upright levers—which are air brake levers.

Blit:krieq (1! la Pyle

Pull one of them. and it simply locks the tread on that and the tank has to swing around. When you ease the brake off. you hear a shot of compressed

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side

air come out, like the brake on a street car. You can steer the thing thus with one finger The seats are well upholstered bucket seats. and are comfortable. You wear a safety belt as though You were mn an airplane. The newer tanks have a cannon in the middle over the gear box. and =a machine gun in front of each seat. But from the

way things looked to me. the driver will alwavs be teo busy driving to do much shooting : You see out of a little glass-covered hole level with your eves. There's another one at

Our Town

TIME AGAIN TO PRINT another edition of the Department of Amplification and Cerrection. Todav. Frank Seidensticker (the Posmaster's brother) has the fiom “1 was

right each

more than pleased.” begins Frank. vou had dug

mother's

“thai up somewhere mv recipe for Thee-La-La that recipe had been a long time. However, I want to make a correction in the story as to how the name Thee-La-La originated The fact was that Maennerchor Fair the booth which sold Thee-La-La was originally a Japanese booth. The first night this booth took 1n, I believe, 81.57. My father knew this would not do, and he asked my mother she could make some Kind of an orange punch. I remember this because the Seidensticker kids were busy that dav, and the rest of the week, rubbing loaf sugar on orange peel. “The second night of the Fair the Japanese booth was again open for business, but several of the men were quietly called into the booth and given a sample

hecause lost for

at this

that whether

of the new Thee (tea) being sold that evening. Mr. Heckler volunteered to act as barker tor the booth and loudly proclaimed that instead of having Thee they had Thee-La-ILa or as he expressed it In

German "Wir haben nicht Thee sondern Thee-La-1a.”

(Mr, Seidensticker didnt translate it for me. and 1 am not unmindful of the compliment For the same reason I'm going to let vou figure it out for yourself.) » n » Bul. to Continue Mr Seidensticker continues: "The word soon got around ahout the new Thee-La-La. and that booth which had been a flop the first night, turned out to be ane of the most profitable at the Fair Adolph said he told vou the story in this wav but no doubt because of the time which elapsed

Washington

WASHINGTON, July 24 —The other day I noticed a heart-rending newspaper advertisement. It was headed, “Mercy Ships for Children,” the advertisement, sponsored by a group of American women, pleaded that American ships be sent to rescue the children of England from the de-

struction which threatens the island. Details of the advertisement

are such as to wring tears from the eves of Gen. Hugh Johnson's brass Buddha. It is stated that the dominions undersecretary told the House of Commons that the British Government had received aponlications for evacuation from England of about 200.000 children whose parents wish to spare them the horrors of the expected total war But Clement for the Prime Minister, told

Attlee Commons that the Government had been compelled

speaking

to suspend the evacuation plan because the British

navy found it impossible to provide the necessary convoy for the Atlantic crossing. n n n Another Advertisement

Then the advertisement suggests that only the United States can relieve this situation by sending mercy rescue ships, on he same basis of immunity that is given to Red Cross supply ships. But the Neutrality Act would have to be amended. It permits American Red Cross ships to go into the combat zones to carry medical supplies, food and clothing on missions of mercy. But the law would have to be changed to permit American ships to go into combat zones to bring out children on missions of mercy. There 1s no difference in the spirit of the missions.

My Day

HYDE PARK Tuesday --1 suppose for many people the question of the three months closing of the Burma Road. over which supplies go to China, seems

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rather an academic question Yet, when a nation is cut off from its ports. its one source of connection with the outside world, it must * seem rather important to that nation

I can remember, when IT was young, having had explained to me what a great stride had been taken in drawing together the various nations of the world when trade had been established : between China, Japan and ourJ S— selves, The “Open Door” policy i 3 3 a was considered one to create § ¥ better understanding between t Sa 1 the yellow races of the Far East and the white races of this continent. Just as we see understanding receding between us and the natfons of Europe, we see it disappearing in the Far East as well. In & minor way, Japan is doing to China what some day, a combination of nations might do to us. It is hard even to imagine such a thing, but the continent of Europe under one dictator can have all the advantages that the United States’ economic system established when it drew 13 sovereignties into ore and . extended that sovereignty over 48 states.

side, and one in the back. Your vision could hardly |

| Vagabond”

The Harmon-Herrington test field is within the

be termed 100 per cent.

plant grounds, just back of the main factory. innocent-icoking patch of weeds and trees,

den inside of 1t are enough contours to make a relief |

map of the Rocky Mountains.

We ran over humps and across ditches. And then | the driver took right off into a great patch of weeds | 1!

and bushes, where we couldn't see two feet ahead. held on tight because the interior wasn't padded, and I didnt want to get my head split open.

This tank will do up around 35 miles an hour. ground, then the] driver would suddenly lock the brakes on one side, and | and we'd spin clear around in our own length, and

We'd run along ahout 30 on level

the dirt would fly. n

Final Test Exacting

The driver was Charlie Ambrose, who is a tank driver from wav back and a very nice fellow. Last vear he went clear around the world with a MarmonHerring'on tank. No. I don't mean he drove it across the ocean. He took it on a boat to the Dutch East Indies to demonstrate. And then, instead of coming back the way he was supposed to, he took another

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boat on around. He has driven thousands of miles in tanks. He even goes cross-country over highways in tanks,

ior these are rubber-treaded, and you can run on pavement without hurting anything. The Government requires, in its final tests on a new type tank, that it be driven non-stop for 250

By Ernie Pyle!

It’s an | But hid- |

miles at high speed. Charles Ambrose does this, and

thinks nothing of it.

As a matter of fact, inside the tank was enither,

as noisy nor as stuffy as I had supposed tanks are. But of course nobody was shooting at us, and that probably make a difference. The engine is in the rear, and is separated from the driver's compartment by a heavy steel wall, in case of fire. The engine is a regular Ford V-8 These little tanks are designed largely for landing parties. They can be run around on shipboard, and can be swung easily over the side. They can go through water about three feet deep. If vou'd land two score of these things on some barbarian coast, it would scare the head-hunters right out of their loin cloths. The U. S. Marine Corps has a bunch of them. And although the company officers won't say what is

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next, it's rumored around here theyre soon to start #&.

on another $750,000 order for the Marines.

By Anton Scherrer

since vou heard it. vou forgot some of the details.” So much for Frank and his scrupulous regard for the truth. Now a word about arrack. the distilled spirit which Mother Scidensticker mixed with her punch to make it the distinguished drink it was You have no idea the number of mquiries I've had. all in the last who want the subject cleared up

week from thirsty souls around here |

Arrack, a transparent liquor with a color approach-

ing that of straw, the fermented juice of the cocoa-nut palm (Cucus nucifera) and is obtained from trees of the flapper age (from 12 to 15 years old), the period when they show the first mdication of flowering At any rate, that's the Kind Mrs. Seidensticker insisted on having. Other kinds of arrack are made of rice and molasses. I wouldn't know what they are good for. Chances are, they aren't any mixers at all. n

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Now for Kirschwasser Back in the nineties every decent wine cellar in Indianapolis had a couple of quarts of real-for-sure arrack. It was a natural mixed with hot tea. Fact is, it made tea-drinking worth while. And right

this connection, I might as well let you in on something else, namely, the secret that the same people

who knew about the virtues of arrack also knew what kirschwasser was good for. They used it to enhance the taste of black coffee; thus proving again, if farther proof is necessary, that the muchmaligned nineties had their good points atter all. Indeed, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that civi)zation started to crack the moment people stopped

using arrack and kirsch. With the result that civilization has heen creaking ever since | Which brings me up to today. Right now, Indianapolis 1s just about down lo its last hottle of zrrack That's the fix we're in. The O'Connor bovs, who share my pessimism. tell me they sold their last hottle more than six months ago. Thev got $4.85 for it and there was no Navy tax on it either. Mrs Seidensticker didn't pav anvthing like that for hers. She had the luck to live in happier times. |

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By Raymond Clapper

In the same newspaper I notice another advertisement. This announces that a new American steam- |

ship, the America, is to make her maiden commercial voyage Aug. 10. This ship was built largely with Government funds. She is announced as the newest, largest and finest ocean liner ever built in the United States. | Owing -to unfortunate world conditions, the 'S.S. America will cruise between the American mainland and the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico. Haiti and Cuba probably half empty most of the time. for she was built with heavy European travel in mind One could not read those two advertisements with out thinking first of the 100.000 children of England walting for ships to carry them out of danger and then of this new American ocean liner with nothing but time on its hands.

| | * Worth a Trial, Anyway Why not paint the American flag on her sides, paint the Red Cross on her sides, light her up at night, allow the German consulate in New York to make searches to insure that she 1s not loaded with munitions, and send her over to England to fetch | these children? The law could be changed quickly | to permit it. But, you say, Hitler would sink her with all those children aboard and then we would be in the war. First—Hitler is no fool. He isn't dragging us into | this war right now if he can help it. Second—I am authoritatively informed that the | British Government has good reason to believe that if the United States made an official request of the | German government, and provided the guarantees | that Hitler would naturally expect against misuse | of the occasion, a pledge of safe conduct would be forthcoming from the German Government, Why not try it?

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

With this kind of economy in Europe. under a man whe does not have to persuade his people that he is right in anvthing he wishes to do. but simply gets the best advice he can and orders something done, we may well look with some concern on what is happening in the Far East, for we might find ourselves between two fairly strong pincers. The Chinese people are making an interesting experiment in co-operatives which we might well as-' sist. Their success and their economic ~~‘-up may mean freedom of intercourse in the Fe 1st with!

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Ernie takes a bike ride at Rushville, where he visited the Wendell Willkie farms.

This is the last of two articles about Ernie Pyle, the Indiana boy who has hecome one of America's favorite columnists, and who has just returned te his native state to write about what he sees “back home.”

By Joe Collier RNIE That Girl, who haven't had a home

and

for five vears, make elaborate plans to travel light. For example, he has only one suit he bought for $20 in New York a vear and a half ago.

Most of the column correspondence is done by a secretary in Washington so that it won't burden them. Yet, although Ernie is a freakishly natural speller and never has to consult a dictionary, they carry one for That Girl who needs it to look up archaic words for her Double Crostix puzzles, at which she is a shark. Also, Ernie and Mrs. Pyle carry with them the tackle necessary for keeping up steady correspondence with 300 friends throughout the Western Hemisphere and he has a little wooden filing box for tips and ideas for future columns, Thev carry a suitcase full of his travel pictures which would take vou three hours to examine, but he hates to take pictures and figures if he gets one good picture out of 18 that's slightly better than Pyle par. ” » » E carries three neckties, but wears the same one every dav for as much as six months He goes bare-headed in the summer and in the winter wears an old gray Borsalino. He hasn't had on heavy underwear in 20 vears and likes the weather when it gets around 90. A further slight complication of his luggage problem is created by carrying around a box of foreign coins for the children of his friends as presents. He would rather stay in a hotel even though he has a good friend in the town, He admits he owns a tuxedo but =avs it has been hanging for five veats in the basement of a friend's house in Washington. He carries overalls and galoshes In his ear all the vear around Also. he carries an Underwood noiseless portable around and writes on thin paper because he usually air mails his columns to headquarters. The winter he was

which

165-Foot

BIDS RECEIVED

Span Planned

Over Little White Lick Near Plainfield.

A further step toward the improvement of Road 40 from Indianapolis to Terre Haute was taken vesterday by the Highway Commission in receiving hids for construetion of a 165-foot bridge over Little White Lick Creek west of Plainfield Deniston & Garber. of Rochester, submitted the low hid of $67.876.26 The bridge will be a part of the double lane highway—two

lanes | |

separated by a parkway—now being |

east of StilesIt will have a

from ville to Plainfield. roadway of 80 feet. Low bids totalling $614,332 were

people living under a democratic form of g. ernment received by the commission for —a situation which we must hope to see in both construction of six other bridges

China and Japan in the future. An appeal has come to me to help China with their industrial co-operatives.

They have more than

and two grade separations in vari-

lous parts of the state.

Largest of the projects was for

2000 small industries now established, making more the construction of five bridges, than 500 kinds of goods of local raw materials for! yne over White River, less than a

local needs, with a monthly turnover of $6,000,000 in Chinese money. There are millions of men and women to work in these new industries. It may sound very selfish, but from the point of view of our own interest, wouldn't it he wise to encourage the growth of economic security in China? I realize the needs of Japan, I am all for peaceful trade with Japan, but somehow it seems to me that

mile north of Rockford, and four over nearby White River overflows

| which are crossed by Road 31. The

L. & K. Contracting Co. Terre Haute, submitted a low bid of $89. - 413.59 for construction of three of the overflow bridges, while R. P. Olinger, Huntingburg, submitted a

this spread of war all over the world must be stopped bid of $174,361.26 for construction

and the best wav to do so in the to build up economic security.

Far East would be of the main bridge and one overbila bridge. ”

Koos

With Albert Moss, “the grandest old sourdough who ever lived” on a

boat

in South America he spent $35 on airmail postage. He can type with two fingers almost as fast as a trained typist can with 10.

” n ” HE never has lost a column in the mails. He keeps carbon copies of them, however, until he learns the originals have reached Washington, Then he destroys the copies. He keeps a detailed expense account, He pavs a certain basic amount of his expenses each week, and the office pays everything above that He chooses his own itinerary and his own column sub jects He frequently oui. of touch with his office for weeks at a time. His pay check is deposited in Washington and he hasn't actually seen one in five vears For five vears he has put out about $1.25 in tips a day and he still doesn't know whether he tips

Of Young

When a high school boy dreams

of going to an out-of-state college, then finds it financially impossible, ‘and then gets a $1200 scholarship enabling him to fulfill his dreams— it's almost too much.

When Floyd I. McMurray, state superintendent

of public instructions,

in the Yukon River.

too much or too little. His muchvisaed and brightly inked pass=port is a sight for tired eyes. He still has all his teeth, except one, and he brushes them after every meal; never wears glasses except when driving; never has had a bone broken; and has never gotten sick from anything he ate except in tropical countries, loves to be a patient in

E H hospitals and was operated for appendicitis in 1933. The incision was so small there is no visible scar As a good Hoosier should, he loves fried chicken best of all, al though he at no time eats enough to keep a bird alive. He has no kind of hobny whausoever, likes the movies hut gnes no more than half a dozen times a year, and almost never listens to the radio

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Mr. and Mrs. Ernest T. Pyle.

On Santiago Island, off the east tip

entirely by

In the city he'll take a cab around the corner, but in the mountains may casually take off for a 50-mile hike. H2 curries White House and Congressional press cards, a Washington police

card, an air travel scrip card, passes for both New York and San Francisco fairs, a pocket

calendar and a card showing he's been across the Arctic Circle. He wears a wrist watch given him by 100 pilots (including Amelia Earhart) when he quit covering aviation eight years ago.

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IS spins rise and fall cveles and he 1s subject depressions He feels that he hasn't written an out. standing column since he came back from Hawaii two and a half vears ago. Also he detests starch in shirts and has to write notes to laundries so informing them

in to

extreme

ROAD 40 BRIDGE | Scholarship Fulfills Dream

She was Miss Geraldine Siebolds and she's from Minnesota,

of Puerto Rico, the isle populated monkeys,

He has stayed in nearly 800 hotels. There are days when he has to force himself to go out and see people. After all this time, he still has a horror that the next fellow he meets isn't going to be nice to him, Yet practically every= body is nice to him and always has been, he admits. At least a third of the time nobody in the world except themselves knows where he and That Girl are. He has not tired the least bit of travel in these five constant. vears of it. Neither has That Girl. Some day he may get a base to go to and rest for a month or so out of the year

But he has no plans whatever for settling down now. Unless. he adds, his column gets “so bad"

that not a soul will be left reading it—a condition which he perpetuallv expects to exist tomorrow at the very latest.

BONES OF U, S.

Tech Graduate

notified him last week that he had been awarded the scholarship, Albert said:

HEROES FOUND

Hoosiers May Be Among

“I can hardly believe it.”

The youth, who graduated with

| “I'm practically there right now,” Albert savs.

1st U. S. Rural Housing Bid Let

WASHINGTON, July 24 (U.P), —The U. S. Housing Authority approved a base bid today of $1324 for the first farm home to be constructed under the Rural Housing Program. Price E. Jinright of Thomasville, Ga., will build the house for the family of Elbert B. Ellis of Thomas County. There will be three bedrooms, a living room with an open fireplace, Kitchen with dining space, screened rear porch and open front porch. The house will be wired for electricity.

{cued by a nearby tug boat,

TWO FLYING TO ALTAR PLUNGE INTO RIVE

TOBINSPORT, Ind, July 24 (U. P.).—The projected marriage of Hy-|1847, might be those of the men land Elam of Owensboro, Ky. and from Mississippi, who, under JefferVirginia Wilson of Stanley, Ky. son Davis, saved an American army literally nose-dived into deep water led by Zachary Taylor from an-

yesterday.

While flying to Frankfort, Ky., to who stood with them, or the regbe married their plane plunged into | ulars under such men as Sherman [the Ohio River near here and sank and Bragg who helped to save a day The couple was res- (which, opening with threat of a deThey |cisive defeat at the hands of the to Owensboro after brilliant Mexican General Antonio

immediately.

were taken treatment of slight injuries.

They reported that with the plane | victory which marked the end of the

Those Who Fell on Mexi-

stopped and the area closely guard- | 1

led until he could ask the Institution |of Historical Investigation here to | send a commission to study the finds! and direct the exhuming of the re‘mains. The bones of the Americans who fell in the battle of Feb. 22 and 23,

[nihilation, or the men of Indiana

Lopez De Santa Anna, ended in a

they lost $100, a diamond ring and all their wedding clo

northern campaign of the

Mexioan

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name six animals, other than cows and goats, whose milk is used by man. 2—What was the nickname of the long range guns used by the Gere mans during the World War.

D vav Albert F. Trites high honors from Tech last month, i ; og SN 5 Box 455 had been planning throughout his can Battlefield. 3—What famous address begins I n d ianapolis, high school career to become a MEXICO CITY, July 24 (U. P.) — Four Sool e and seven years feels about the|metallurgist. . y ago... ."? four-year schol-| He felt that he would be better The skeletons of American soldiers| 4 what is the common name for arship he re-|qualified upon graduation from col- who fell in the Battle of the Nar- | sodium chloride? ceived to the lege 18 Snuer hn chosen Ded if he rows at Buena Vista have been 5—-Are new songs protected hy ‘oloradn School atten a school noted for its met-| . ot . rnvvsmpe.] tents or copyrights? oF Mines at allurgy courses. And he preferred | Found bY Mexican arm Workers o- Be RE - aid es cast ite Golden, Colo. |the Colorado school. But he didnt after searches extending over near-| = i..0 delegate vote for Presilast week. dare think of it too much because ly 100 years, press dispatches from dent throughout the 103 ballote He sent In of the extra costs of attending an|gaitillo reported today, in the 1924 Democratic National his application out-of-state school | With th eskeletons were found! Convention? for the scholar-| And now the school of his choice | hreds of uniforms bearing the 7--Is Adolf Hitler married? ship in the/has picked him. The four-year netallic designation “U. 8. A.” and 8—What is pediculosis? s pring but scholarship exempts tuition and lab-| American coins of the period of 1830 Albert Trites thought nothing oratory fees averaging approximate- The Governor of Coahuila state 2 2 2 would come of it.|ly $300 a year. lat once ordered all excavations Answers

Reindeer, llamas, water buffalo, camels, zebus and sheep. 2—-"Big Berthas.” 3--Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. 4-—-Salt. 5—Copyrights. 6—Senator Oscar Underwood. T=No, 8—Infestation with Nce,

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