Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1940 — Page 10
PAGE 10 In the Federal Offices—
FBI OFFICE HOURS:
24 HOURS A DAY
. Sabotage and Espionage Are Not Only Crimes Which Head G-Man Wynn and His Agents Seek to Control Throughout Indiana.
Charged with fighting espionage and sabotage in Indiana, the FBI office here is manned 24 hours a day. Located on the third floor of the Federal Building lights stream from its windows all through the night.
“Crime does not happen a. m. and 5p. m., The methods of the sabotage agent are as many as human ingenuity can invent, Mr. Wynn said. But as for details the FBI office is silent.
“There is no sense in suggesting ways and means to aid the country’s enemies,” is the belief of the G-Man. Meanwhile, the FBI phone is never out of earshot of one or more vigilant G-Men. The number — RI. 5416. Most Men in Field
However, being watchdog over the
nation’s national defense program
is not the only duty of the FBI in Indiana. Their duties include not only crimes of violence and spectacular hold-ups but of bankruptcy frauds, bondsmen and sureties, copyright violations, violations of the Federal _ Reserve Bank Act, peonage statutes and many others, ranging from enforcement of the Migratory Bird Act to veterans’ administration violations. The number of Federal Agents in the local office and roaming the state is a Bureau secret, but more men are in the field than are assigned to the office. The nerve center of this organization is 323 Federal Building, the office of Mr. Wynn.
Five Filing Baskets
From the two phones at his elbow come the reports of every Federal violation in the state. His incoming and outgoing corresppndence requires five file baskets|and two secretaries. This does not count a large clerical staff which is constantly correcting and bring-
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ing up to date the huge files of the local office. Mr. Wynn's office is a mirror of the FBI as a whole. Carpeted rooms, modern furniture, chromium gadgets and indirect lighting all blend to create a quiet, seemingly empty office which nevertheless leaves an impression of ‘activity. The office runs like a quite well oiled machine.
How a G-Man Looks
Those business-like young men who. hurriedly leave and enter the Federal Building with a brief case under their arm are G-Men. All 5 feet 7 inches tall or over, the Federal Agents average age is slightly less than 34. All of them are either attorneys or expert accountants. Among themselves they refer to their profession as “the service” and yes, they carry a gun. Trained in the use of firearms, their’ accuracy with” Weapons is a foregone conclusion.
2153 Aliens Registered
In the past month 2153 non-citi-zens have registered under the Alien Registration Act at the Federal Building. If original estimates of 400 aliens in Marion County are true, the job is half over here. Office hours for the registration which were, in the beginning, from 10 a. m. until 8 p. m., have been reduced to 3 p. m. to 8 p. m. Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker wishes to remind all aliens who have neglected to register to date that the deadline for registering is Dec, 26.
140 to Get Second Papers
Approximately . 140 persons will receive their second naturalization papers before next week-end, according to W. A. Kiefer, assistant district director of naturalization. These persons will become citizens in January. However, “there will be a back log of about 150 persons because we are not equipped to handle all of them,” Mr. Kiefer said. These persons will have to wait until next June for their second papers. Thirty-six women who had lost their citizenship when they married aliens regained their civil rights
0 yesterday when they swore allegi-
ance to this country. Seven others, however, who appeared failed to regain ‘citizenship when they could not show proof of their statements. Under the present naturalization
[laws a woman need not lose her | ary
citizenship if she marries an alien. She relinquishes her rights, however, if she leaves this country for the country of her husband’s birth. Before 1907 wherf the laws were repealed, a woman who married an alien lost her citizenship automatically if she lived here or abroad, according to Mr. Kiefer.
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SUPREME GOURT RESUMES WORK
Session Is First to Begin With Majority of Justices Named by F. D. R.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (U.P.).— The Supreme Court met today for the first session of its 1940-41 term during which it may rule on many phases of the nitional defense program and the constitutionality of the Wage-Hour Law. Today's session will be brief and no decisions will be handed down. After admitting lawyers to the Supreme Court Bar, the Court will adjourn for a week to study review petitions and decide whether they involve questions meriting further hearing. : When Chief Justice Charles Hughes opened the plush drapes behind the bench in the imposing court room at noon, it was the first time that a session has begun with a majority of the Justices President Roosevelt's ~appointees. The fifth New Deal member, Frank Murphy, was appointed last Janu-
All Justices were present. The Court already has decided to review certain phases of the WageHour Law. The promulgation of 3215 cents minimum wage for the cotton textile industry is involved in another case which the Court has not yet agreed to review.
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The leaders of the little fellows in Boy Scouting, the cubmasters and assistant cubmasters of packs in the Central Indiana Council, will be guests at a dinner tomorrow evening, The affair will be held in the recreation room of the Woodruff Place Baptist Church, Michigan and Walcott Sts. Because of the rapid growth in packs, the leaders will meet separately instead of with scoutmasters as in the past. Homer T. Gratz, new Scout Executive, will be presented by Arthur
apolis and Central Indiana Council. Dinner arrangements were made by H. T. Vitz, field executive, and Maj. A. W. Paul, cubbing committee, in co-operation with. the four district commissioners, George W. Hofmayer, John Callender, H. Edington and Ohmer Vance.
BRITISH FREIGHTER REPORTS ATTACK
NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (U. P.).—
Mackay Radio has intercepted a message from the 6980-ton British
ported she had been torpedoed early today about 600 miles off the southwest coast of Ireland. It was the second message from the ship reported by Mackay. Late yesterday Mackay said it had intercepted a message from the same ship saying she had been torpedoed at 12:30 p. m. (Indianapolis Time).
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12 Teeth Must Meet; Feet, Eyes, Ears Must Be * Fit, iS. Says.
By MILTON BRONNER
Manager, NEA-Times Selective Service Information Bureau
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—In all this excitement about men between the ages of 21 and 36 registering on Oct. 16 for possible service in the armed forces of the United States, the chaps who may be in a class all by themselves are those whose pearly smiles are due not to nature’s handiwork, but to man’s. In other words, dentures. false teeth. Or store teeth. The old Army regulation about soldiers’ teeth will still be in effect when the selective service machine calls men up for questioning. The Army’s minimum requirement is that the soldier shall have three upper biting teeth meeting three lower ones and three upper chewing teeth meeting three lower ones. In taking men for the draft, the Army leaders want the best physical specimens they can find. So teeth are an important item. It is also going to be an Army that can walk its way to places. After being duly trained, the draftees will ultimately be expected to take 15 miles in their stride, carrying a 50-pound pack. This means that men with varicose veins or flat feet or fallen arches may be looked over twice and thrice before the medicos decide to take
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‘them for service.
The same goes for good sight and hearing. These latter exemptions lead to many attempts to evade service by faking bad sight’ or bad hearing, or both. I asked one of the higher-up medical Army officers how they would prevent malingering on the part of men otherwise fit for service. His reply was that they had up their sleeves a bag of tricks which would expose the fakir, The false impression has gone abroad that in taking men in the
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Questions?
Do you have any questions about conscription? The Indianapolis Times has a - special Selective Service Bureau in Washington. This bureau will mail replies, correct and complete, to all questions sent in by readers. Questions must be accompanied by postage, prepaid postcard or stamped envelope, self-ad- - dressed. Mail your questions to Milton Bronner, Manager, NEA-Times Selective Service Information . Bureau, 1013 13th St.,, N. W. Washington, D. C.
selective service draft the standards required for the regular Army and Navy would be considerably lowered. This is entirely wrong. About the only concessions made are that men may be a bit shorter, and also lighter in weight than the armed services usually require. Otherwise the standards will be much higher than they were in the draft during the last World War. They will not be the run of the lot. They will be the pick of the barrel, men who can be trained now, placed in reserve after one year with the Army, and with a very fair expectancy of being fit if, within the next 10 years the Army needs them for real active service in real war.
ADVANCED STUDENTS ELECT CLUB CHIEFS
Miss Jane Fix of Bloomington, Ind., has been elected president of the Social Work Students’ Club, an organization of Indiana University graduate students at the I. U. Medical Center. . Other officers = are Miss Doris Goldsmith, Indianapolis, vice president; Edmond Phillips, Indianapolis, secretary, and Ray Carter, Bed-
ford, Ind., treasurer.
This aerial view of Boulder Dam in the Colorado River was taken 7000 feet up from a TWA plane, as engineers opened the dam’s 11 emergency valves, creating a waterfall by releasing 33,000,000 gallons of water per minute, to test the gates. At the right is Lake Mead, whose level remained unchanged.: The river’s level rose one foot. At left, valves are shooting water across the canyon.
Good Health 1st Requirement For Those Taken by the Draft
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MORE MODESTY URGED BY POPE
Warns Also Against ‘Wrong Kind of Novels, Plays And Films.
VATICAN CITY, O¢t. 7 (U, P).— Pope Pius, speaking #@esterday to 10,000 girls of the Italian Catholic action on the need of renovating the world after the war ends, told them that “style and modesty should go together but there is nro longer modesty in style.” “You should ask your conscience before putting on a frock how Jesus Christ would judge it,” he said. ‘The Pope also warned against the wrong kind of novels, plays, films, and places of amusement. “Not a few girls,” lhe continued, “who, because of ambition, have forgotten the meaning of Christian modesty, expose thernselves to the dangers in which their purity may be lost. They suffer passively the tyranny of style even when it is immodest. They have lost all sense of danger and instinct ¢ instinct of modesty.”
CITY NIGHT SCHOOLS ENROLL THIS WEEK
Registration will be open all this week for night school classes and any special class will be offered if there are enough requests, John A. Mueller, evening schools director, said today. He said more than 1000 adults already have enrolled at the seven public high schools. “We want the night schools to meet the needs of people who are ambitious—those who want to develop their skill in industrial and domestic arts and those who desire to study languages or other academic subjects purely for their cultural value,” Mr. Mueller said. Inquiries have been received for a course in the study of Federal and State income taxes, Social Security problems and other current phases of economics. Such a course will be offered if there are enough applicants, he said.
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CHURCH-STATE LINK DEBATED
Also Must Decide Stand On Draft Objectors.
OMAHA, Neb, Oct. 7 (U.P).—| Relationship of church and state in a democracy and the issue of conscription will be debated at. the 12th biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church beginning here Wednesday. Both questions grow out of actions taken by Dr. Frederick H. Knubel of New York church president. After the Sppotment at last |
as President. Roosevelt's special! representative to the Vatican caused a Protestant furore, Dr. Knubel urged the appointment of a committee to study the proper relation between the church and state in g democracy, He is to renew that! proposal in the report of the executive board to the convention. Opposed Conscription
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will, in a measure, church to the same position.
to the convention are Dr. Henry E. Turney,
and Dr. C. C. Donelson, all of Indianapolis.
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gencies of War,” prepared by the Rev. Paul H. Krauss, of Ft. Wayne Ind. Quotations from the official “Augsburg Confession” lead to a
Christian citizen is in duty bound to bear- arms and fo offer his life; if need be, in country.” Objector’s Right Cited Recognition: is given to the personal right of the conscientious
that such recognition imply the Church's approval o that standpoint but only proclaim
Scriptural principle of the supreme moral responsibility of the individual conscience.” Five memorials on the conscien:
less in conflict with the officia statement and that presented b: the Rocky Mountain Synod ask “recognition by official pronounc
of the United Lutheran Church - good standing to refuse to bear the arms on the ground that it conflicts with his interpretation of t teachings of. Jesus.”
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Before the passage of the Burke-!' Wadsworth Selective Service Bill,! Dr. Knubel declared his public op- || Approval of his report, which will restate that opposition, : commit tne!
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Indiana Synod president, 0. K. Jensen, Dr. George A. Fisher ||
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