Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1940 — Page 11

TUESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1940

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

ABOARD S. S. WASHINGTON, in the Caribbean, Sept. 17.—Early in this series I made the remark, largely facetious, that I would bet nobody would speak to us on this trip. Well, that prediction has turned out more nearly accurate than I really expected. is We've made fewer acquaintances than we ever have on any other sea voyage. We have a casual nodding acquaintance with perhaps a dozen people, and an actual sit-down-and-talk acquaintance with only about half a dozen. It isn’t that the people aren't nice, for they are. There probably are two reasons for it. First, we have personal friends aboard, and that kind of makes a little party which other people doubtless are reluctant to break into. But foremost, I have an idea, is the fact that we're sitting at the captain’s table. I believe people are actually afraid to speak to us on that account. It makes me feel terrible. Two of our friends are Ivan and Vivika Timiriasieff, of San Francisco. I haven't been able to introduce them to anybody else, because I can’t pronounce their last name. “Timi” came up to me one day and said he had followed us in the column all through Latin America. He was especially interested because he has lived in many of those countries. “Timi” is a Russian who escaped after the revolution when he was 15. Although he is still under 35, his life has been almost fabulous.

An Adventurous Life

He fled across Siberia with his older brother, lived a while in Japan, then in the Philippines, graduated from Columbia University in New York, speaks four languages fluently, has worked in Ecuador and all over Central America, made half a dozen trips to Australia as a wine steward, has sailed a small schooner all over the South Seas, has gone to school in Mexico, and now for five years has hardly stirred out of San Francisco. His wife, Vivika, works in ceramics, and “Timi” recently built her a studio with his own hands. We

like the Timiso . . . Timiras . . . well they're nice people, however you say it. Two other of our friends are Mr. and Mrs. J. Oestricher, who own a big store in Fresno, Cal. Mr.

OQestricher was born in Bohemia, and his folks came §

to this country when he was 12, just to please him, as he says. The Oestrichers are now in their 70s, and are quiet, friendly people whom we enjoy. They spend about six months at home, and about six months traveling. Most of their travel has been to Europe. Mr. Oestricher has made 14 round trips across the Atlantic. And another friend is a girl I suddenly found standing at the rail that queer morning when we started through the Canal after being up all night. One minute I was standing alone in my usual daze, and the next minute there she was. And she was both so freckled and so lovely that I almost fell over=board into the locks, and would have had to pay tonnage on myself, as Richard Halliburton once did.

Helps Win a Bet

By Ernie Pyle|

It seems she is Miss Mary Dennehy of Forest @} Hills, N. Y., and she was traveling down in tourist,

and had no business up on our deck anyway. So I called the captain and had her arrested and confined to first-class for the next two days. And there is Hilda Coopersmith, who works for the Government in Washington, and spends her vacation taking sea trips like this. She has been clear to Rio on one cruise, and to Panama two or three times. I have inadvertently enriched Miss Coopersmith by

$1. It seems she reads this column in The Wash-

ington Daily News and saw our name on the pas-| SEs

senger list.

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was wrong. But she wasn’t, so she won the dollar. She hasn't offered me 50 cents of it though. There's one other woman on board whom I know, except I don’t know her name. She, too, reads this column, and she came up this morning and said she'd just this minute got things straightened out. She said she’d been telling everybody on board that the tall man was the fellow who writes this column. She was referring to Admiral Franklin, who is 74, and 6 feet 3, and has a beard. I'm sorry she wasn't right, because if Admiral Franklin did write it I'll bet it would be a lot better column than it is.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

THE INSIDE information at the State House is to the effect that Lieut. Col. Robinson Hitchcock will be named as the executive in charge of conscription in Indiana. The Governor, who is charged with the responsibility of carrying out the law, is entitled to appoint an “executive” who will act for him. Lieut. Col. Hitchcock has attended several meetings in Washington dealing with the functioning of the law and has obviously been groomed as the “No. 1 man” in the state’s draft setup. The registration will be done Oct. 16th through the state's election machinery. In other words, the 92 county clerks will head up the registration machinery in each of the their respective counties.

About Mrs. Knute Rockne

AS PART OF the celebration of Knute Rockne Week, proclaimed as Sept. 29 by the Governor, Mrs. Rockne was the guest of a group of movie people yesterday at the Claypool. She carried the day with ease. Mrs. Rockne is small with sparkling black eyes and a quiet, cultured voice. She lets others do a good deal of the talking. She set a number of luncheoners right on the correct pronunciation of “Knute.” She said it was pronounced “Knute,” as in flute with the “k” definitely sounded. She said the movie “Knute Rockne -—All American” had “choked her up” when she saw it in its completed form but that the ending had been done with such finesse that “it wasn’t hard to bear at all.”

The Downtown Scene

JUDGE HERBERT SPENCER “shopping” at the bookstore. . . The spiffy promotion for the 1941 Chevrolet—a 1914 Chevvie, . . . Dr. J. William Wright lunching at the Lincoln. . . . George A. Saas of the Gas Utility, confessing sadly that he’s given up

Washington

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Wendell Willkie is fearful of what he deseribes as the ‘‘desperate concentration of power” at Washington during the last two terms. His alarms would be less pertinent if President Roosevelt had not given them point by manipulating a third-term nomi- : nation for himself. The piling up of strong power at Washington is likely to continue whether the next President is Roosevelt or Willkie. It is the personalizing of this power in the prolonged tenure of one man that is the most disturbing. Out on his campaign swing, Willkie may think he could make government a simple one-horse FF affair again. But if he became 5 President, he would be driven as Roosevelt has been, to the same course. Conditions would do it, just as conditions have caused Willkie to indorse peacetime conscription which is certainly another concer .ration of power if there ever was one. Throughout his Coffeyville speech, Willkie displayed a longing for the simpler days when: government was a remote incident and not a protruding presence in our every-day lives. Willkie appeared to think that simple and weak government had disappeared because of some kind of moral decay in America. He campaigned for the virtues that are taught in childhood . . . how to get along with others «« « gratitude , . . fair play . . .

Concentration of Power

- Willkie said the lessons of childhood were the preparaticn for democracy. They were and still are. Without those standards it is difficult for any society to live, and especially a democratic society. But it wasn't because people had lost their childhood virtues that Herbert Hoover was driven to set up the RFC and thus forward by a large measure, the massing of power in Washington. It wasn’t be-

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Monday—We left the country this morning by an early train. I must confess to departing reluctantly, because I must be away until

next Saturday and spend the intervening days in many different places, and the summer has made me lazy. Yesterday the sad news came to us of Speaker Bankhead'’s death. I have had the pleasure of talking with the Speaker on many occasions and always found him a kindly, tolerant, high-minded human being. He will be missed, for his position as Speaker of the House of Representatives was one of great importance. He had the respect and affection of his colleagues. His life was a full one, which must be a consolation to his family and friends. In the last few days I have read a book called: “Beyond Tears,” by Irmgard Litten, with an introduction by Pierre van Paassen. There is a short foreword by the Archbishop of York, so short that I can quote it here: “I hope this book may be widely read as a moving human record which illustrates the spirit of Nazi tyranny.” In his introduction and epilogue, Mr. van Paassen points to the implications which this story and the

cigarets. . . . Dan Frisch going to luncheon in one of our better dining rooms and having to pay 85 cents for a piece of pie simply because that’s the minimum luncheon charge. . . . And the policemen being relieved from duty, pointing to an automobile parked all the way in a yellow restricted zone and shouting for all passersby to hear: “That’s ’s car. He's in getting a haircut.”. . . Ah, the majesty of the law.

See Why We Need a Zoo?

TOM HUTCHINSON of the Public Library sends us a note telling us this little story just to show why we need a zoo in town. It seems that two boys came to the desk at the library’s West Indianapolis branch and asked for a book on horses. “Do you want a story about horses,” asked the librarian, “or how to take care of them or some other kind of material?” “Well,” answered one boy, “this here guy says you don’t tell a horse’s age by its teeth and I say you do. You do, don’t you?” All right, Tom, we'll put not one but two horses in our zoo.

What Squirrels Drive You To

AND THEN THERE'S the woman in Irvington who bought a new home this spring. She was specially anxious that a good pear tree bear a full load of fruit since she’s particularly fond of pears and she wanted her own land to produce. Well, the squirrels ruined all the pears. They don’t really eat them, you know, they just eat the seeds out of them and discard the pears. It enraged the otherwise mild woman and she looked around for something to do about it. Finally, she marched on down to the store and purchased a bee-bee gun. Now she sits a lot of the time on the sideporch, the gun on her lap. She takes pot-shots at the squirrels. She’s been doing it for several weeks now and only Sunday she explained it all in perfectly good humor. “And do you know,” she said, “I really think I hit one once.”

By Raymond Clapper

cause those virtues were gone that millions of idle walked the streets. It wasn’t because those virtues were gone that Hoover's successor, Roosevelt, had to go further in concentrating power here. The demands for old-age pensions, for collective bargaining protection, for stock market control, for development of TVA, and for the farm relief which Willkie promises to continue, did not arise out of decaying morals or loss of self-reliance. There always have been mere men than jobs at the mill gates. The stagnation which has plagued this country for a decade began not under Roosevelt but under Hoover when private enterprise was ruling the roost and no New Dealers were prowling around.

Edging Into Socialism

Those not interested in partisan debate will suspect that our trouble has arisen from something more fundamental than wrong-headed actions by Hoover or Roosevelt. Private capitalism is sick and everybody knows it but it isn’t supposed to be diplomatic to admit it. We are edging into state socialism because we are driven into it and we will be going in deeper before we get through, whether the next President be Roosevelt or Willkie. When the Germans and any other survivors of the European war begin to manipulate their foreign trade with desperate cut-throat tactics, we are likely to find that our own Government will be compelled, whether Roosevelt or Willkie is in the White House, to take a still more direct part in trade matters which were once the exclusive province of private activity. Democracy’s survival now is largely a question of whether it can operate with sufficient speed and skill in the treacherous rapids of today. We are faced, not with a test of good intentions, but a test of competency. It is unfortunate that at a time when the Government needs more power than ever before, the question is confused by Roosevelt seeking a thirdterm for himself, thus introducing very justified fears of prolonged personal government. These fears are bound to arouse popular resistance to giving the Government the authority which it ought to have.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Hitler triumph in Europe have for our country. To me the book was painful to read and deeply moving. One cannot help but be proud for the whole human race that such people as Hans Litten and his mother have lived in the world and kept faith to the end. On the other hand, when one sees what an able

fight was put up to preserve justice and respect for the law and freedom under the law, one must tremble for what may happen to the rest of the world if such a regime as Hans Litten fought gains mastery permanently over a great area. The doctrine that might is right is no new one, and martyrs have suffered down through the ages in establishing the fact that justice is meted out according to a code which is above might and which protects the weak as well as the strong. There is one other point to be made and emphasized—that those who have power purely through physical force are very apt, when there is no restraint over them, to become brutal and to use their power with cruelty. I hope with the archbishop, that many people who are not yet awake to the menace of power which knows no restraints except the measure of its own physical force, will read this book. But I shall not blame them if they put it down occasionally with a feeling that they cannot bear the human suffering

of warplanes” for defense.

in less conspicuous but just as important ways are doing their part. Among these is the P. R. Mallory Co., located at 3029 E. Wash-~ ington St. The Mallory Co., which specializes in radio, electrical and metallurgical products, is preparing to get into production on two Army Air Corps contracts to supply materials badly needed for huge bombing planes. The parts, developed by the company’s extensive engineering and research department, are bomb shackle releases and an electrical device—the “Intervalometer’— that operates the releases at predetermined intervals. Altogether, the Government orders call for well over $400,000 worth of equipment. » = u HE bomb shackle releases are electrically = operated devices that mechanically release bombs from racks on the underside of bombing planes. The other device, the Intervalometer, is an electronics instrument, inside the plane, which, when set by the crew, sends electrical impulses that operate the shackle releases, dropping bombs, one by one, at the desired intervals. Technical details of the two devices are a closely guarded

military secret. Besides these two Government

ANGRY DEMPSEY TRAILS CHAVEZ

Calls on FBI to Inquire Into Coercion Reports in New Mexico Vote.

SANTA FE, N. M,, Sept. 17 (U. P.)—Rep. John J. Dempsey, who piloted the Hatch Clean Politics Law through the House ' today sought to invoke it in the Democratic senatorial primary which he apparently had lost by a narrow margin. He trailed Senator Dennis Chavez, who, in his fight for renomination, had the backing of the state Democratic organization. Counting of the ballots in Saturday’s primary continued today but with each return from the

scattered Spanish-speaking northern counties, Mr. Chavez strengthened his hold on the lead he wrested from Mr. Dempsey only yesterday. Mr. Dempsey announced that agents of the FBI were en route here to investigate ‘reports of in=timidation and political coercion by political bosses.” He refused to say whether the “reports” had been tendered the bureau by him but said he “presumed the agents would investigate reports of intimidation and coercion by political bosses in Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, Socorro, Taos and Mora counties.” “The bosses don’t seem to realize that the Hatch Act is now law,” Mr. Dempsey said. The act, drawn by Senator Carl A. Hatch (D. N. M.), and steerad through a rebellious house by Mr. Dempsey, prohibits political activity by government employes.

WOMEN’S GROUP AT STATE HOUSE ELECTS

The Democratic Women’s State House Club held its annual election last week, with the rule that there be no campaigning strictly enforced. The new officers are Miss Lilliam Bobilya, president; Miss Frances Marsh, vice president; Miss Katherine Moore, secretary; Miss Merle Harvey, treasurer; Miss Betty West, membership committee chairman; Miss Kathleen Mullican, entertainment committee chairman; Mrs. Dorothy Rau, place committee chairman, and Mrs. Effie R. Talbott, publicity chairman. They will serve

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during the coming year,

A workman in the P. R. Mallory factory, using an induction furnace, makes a sample melt of some of the alloys used in the plant’s products,

By Lowell B. Nussbaum

IY DIANAPOLIS industrial plants are playing an important role in helping the nation realize its goal of “clouds

The principal contributor to the program, of course, is the Allison Engineering plant, with its powerful Allison liquid-cooled aviation engine. But there are a number of other local factories that

contracts, the Mallory firm also is aiding in the defense program by supplying its regular products to other Government contractors. It makes various radio parts used by most of the major radio factories, including some of those supblying radio receiving and transmitting sets for military planes. t- 2 ” ® NE of the company’s popular radio parts is a vibrator, which changes direct current, from batteries, to alternating current for use in radio sets. This product is used widely not only

in aviation radio sets but also in auto and marine radios. One of the firm’s newer developments is a hermetically-sealed stratosphere vibrator, designed to operate successfully in the rarefied atmosphere of extreme altitudes. These vibrators probably will be used in the proposed interceptor planes being designed to cruise at 35,000 feet as they wait to pounce on enemy bombers. Various other Mallory radio products, including volume controls and switches, dial and ~ondensers, also probably will find their way into the warplanes’ equipment. Another of the company’s products that is helping in the fabrication not only of warplanes but other defense material, as well, is its welding equipment. It manufactures types of welding electrodes that are widely

Our America

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These girls are assembling radio station selectors.

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used throughout the automotive, aviatlon and similar industries. Constant laboratory and field research has resulted in the development by the firm’s engineers of extremely long-wearing alloys for the electrodes used in both spot and resistance welding.

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NE of these—Elkonite, which is made of tungsten—can be used in welding 10,000 automobile wheels whereas the copper electrodes in use formerly wore out after about 200 wheels had been welded. The Mallory company, which was started in 1916 in the East by President P. R. Mallory, moved both of its plants here in

U.S. Unity Strong Because It Is Not Forced

By JONATHAN DANIELS

AUTHOR OF “A SOUTHERNER DISCOVERS NEW ENGLAND,” DISCOVERS THE SOUTH.”

AND “A SOUTHERNER

(Eighth of a series of articles by 24 authors)

I can claim no credit because I come from a region where long ago men went about grumbling that it was a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight but fought like the devil just the same. I'm glad I'm a man of a land where a part of freedom has been to cuss the boss, damn the Republicans and denounce the Democrats, t o stomp brogans in fury at town meeting, fuss abo ut taxes, complain about the poor, berate the rich. We began to quarrel before we landed in the wilderness, we moved across the mountains and the prairies arguing among ourselves, sometimes with guns. We made the American unity in a bloody civil war. Maybe we could have made a better job of America if we had always moved in disciplined agreement. I doubt it. Maybe this would be a stronger America now if we the people always spoke with the same voice, the sare views. I am not sure. But I am sure that there is now as there has been an American unity stronger because it is the willing unity of individuals and not the docile or driven unity of the mass. But America is different now, they tell me. We are not the homogeneous people once we were. We are the product now of a melting pot that did not melt. It may be so, but sometimes as an old American I have felt almost rebuked in my own casual acceptance of my citizenship by the eager, passionate allegiance of new ‘Americans to the meaning of this land. Among the new and the old Americans undoubtedly there are traitors and grafters, profiteers, troublemakers and termites, The past did not lack them; the present should not be incapable of dealing with them. But the world is different now, they tell me. You could wait for

Jonathan Daniels

the growth of a fighting unity once, now it must be full-grown in an instant. It is true. But we made speed here. We have made it not only on wheels but on wires —without wires. Sometimes now we swoop in decision like a dive bomber. We may ke quickly wrong, but that is no! lack of unity. That is somebody’s minority opinion. Maybe mine. But today decision must not only be swift in emergency, it must be also continuous, implacable, maintained. There was continuity which ran 12 years from the election of Harding to the defeat of Hoover—a continuity in the American mind which ran at least from 1920 to the decision-making disaster in the fall of 1929. It has been eight years since the first electoral determination upon the New Deal. Now in almost unopposed unity, the decision upon military and naval security has been made. Who expects that mood to change soon?

America a babel, an ant hill overturned? I have heard some of the voices. As one of the ants I have met others in a good many different parts of the hill. There are differences certainly between a man cutting pulp in a Maine woodlot and a man on an automobile assembly line in Dearborn. But America! That's different We let the politicians and the professional patriots make the speeches about it. e But we are Americans and all that that has ever meant in any American time. A little bit of honest history beside the current fears, I think, will show that we never faced or fought a war with anything like

the unity which already is erected in|

this land. It isn’t in the newspapers, it does not come over the radio. But it is out there in the country. To hear it where it is often still sounds like a quarrel, as argumentative, individualistic, and dogmatic as the pioneers were, as the first patriots were. But those who hear only confusion in it have never heard America speaking.

Gladys Hasty Carroll tells what the American way of life means to her, and what she thinks it means to all of us, in the next article of this series on “Our Country,”

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1929 and consolidated them in the large building on East Washington St. constructed a few years earlier by General Electric's lamp division. This big three-story building soon became inadequate because of steadily increasing sales, and three or four years ago a large building was constructed just south of it. Another large plant just west of the latter was completed a month or so age and now is being equipped for use.

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ALES of the company, which has about 1200 employees, gained approximately a million dollars in the first eight months

TIGHTEN GUARD AT ARMS PLANT

Anonymous Caller Declares Remington Factory to Be Blown Up.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Sept. 17 (U. P.).—Armed police and private guards surrounded the Remington Arms Co. today after an anonymous teiephone call warned that the huge munitions plant would pe “blown up today.” As soon as the call, relayed from the 71st Police Precinct in Brooklyn, N. Y., was received at W stport State Police Barracks, the company called in its guards on a ~'-hour basis and a detail of more than 20 local officers was rushed to the plant. The company, one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of rifle and machine gun cartridges is engaged on a $700,000 United States Govern= ment order. Guards were posted at the powder reservation, which is set apart from the plant in a protected grove, and at all entrances. Precautions also were taken to safeguard individual mixing rooms, scattered throughout the territory.

ARMY SHOE PRICES MAY BE ADVANCED

BOSTON, Sept. 17 (U. P.).—~Increased demand for Army shoes as

result of the conscription law will}

not mean higher retail shoe prices,

President George A. Dempsey of the |

New England Shoe & Leather Association, predicted today.

Mr. Dempsey said, however, that! the Government may have to pay|

as much as 25 cents more per pair for shoes because of shortages of elkskin used for Army shoes and heavy calfskin for Navy shoes. At present, he said, Government orders

Parts for home, auto and aviation radios are among the plant's principal products.

and its newly completed plant

this year over the same period last year. Mallory’s products, although receiving high recognition in ine dustry, are little known to the average Indianapolis resident, This is because it doesn't man= ufacture complete articles. Ine stead, it makes tiny electrical de= vices that are vital in the manufacture of electrical equipment by other firms. Although the company now holds two defense contracts and is offering its further services to the Government, it isn't neglect« ing its regular peace-time trade. For this reason, the company expects to remain on a firm footing when the demand for defense products er#.s.

Sues the Girl To Get His Ring

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 17 (U.P). John A. Kish, 31, has asked Coun= ty Court to help him get back the diamond engagement ring he gave to Betty Bodnar, 26. In asking for a writ of ree plevin to force Miss Bodnar to return the ring, Mr. Kish revealed he had proposed on Feb. 17 and Miss Bodnar said ‘‘yes.” But, he added, when the romance later went blooey and he asked her for the $126 ring, she said “no.” At her home, Miss Bodnar blamed Kish for calling off their wedding and claimed she was “stuck” for the cost of a wed~ ding gown.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—On the Fahrenheit thermometer, what is the designation for sume mer heat? 2—Do fish live in the Dead Sea?

3—Is helium or hydrogen the lighte est known substance?

4—-What is the proper title of the presiding judge of the highest court of the United States? 5—What is the name for the smalle est combination of atoms that will form a given chemical com= pound? 6—Are German police dogs descend ed from wolves? T—Is the number of persons per family in the United States ine creasing or decreasing?

8—What was the name of the first Lord Baltimore?

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were being filled at greatly-reduced|3—Hydrogen.

prices because of sharp bidding.

KEEL FOR LARGEST | BATTLESHIP IS LAID

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 17 (U. P.). —The keel of the $93,000,000 45,000 ton superdreadnaught New Jersey, largest battleship ever to be built here, was laid yesterday at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Original plans called for laying the New Jersey's keel on Oct. 27 but the date was moved ahead in conformity with the naval rearmament program. The New Jersey is a sister-ship to the Iowa, now under construction at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. ®

4—Chief Justice of States.

5—Molecule. 6—No. T—Decreasing. 8—George Calvert. ww ~ o

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