Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1940 — Page 9

TUESDAY, OCT.

1940

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

CINCINNATI, Oct. 15.—The leading makers of tin cans in America not so long ago formed a trade organization for themselves, the Can Manufacturers’ Institute. This organization has offices in New York and Washington, and its: main purpose in life is‘ to gather and disseminate information among the can makers, although the Institute of course wouldn't object if a few kind words about tin cans seeped out to the general public. The president of the institute is Dan Heekin, and he and two prothers own the big Heekin Can Co. of Cincinnati. He serves the institute without pay, but he doesn’t serve his own factory without pay. As he says, “Tin cans have been mighty good to me.” : It was the Heekin can factory that I have just visited. It was started by Dan Heekin’s father in 1900. In those days, cans were made entirely by hand, and you can’t make very many by hand. Today the Heekin plant ships as many as 4,000,000 cans in one day. And even so, the Heekin company is tiny compared to the great American and Continental Can companies. American dominates, with some 65 branch factories, and a total of around seven billion cans a year. Heekin comes fourth in the list. At their two plants here, they turn out around 150,000,000 cans a year.

An Intricate Process

Offhand, I should call a tin can one of the simplest things in the world to make. And in truth it is, if you make it slowly. But when cans come off the line many times faster than you could possibly count, the whole thing becomes intricate and fantastic. - First, a machine cuts the flat sheets into smaller rectangular pieces. The ‘next machine bends them around into a cyiinder. That is dene by two handlike hammers on each side of a solid shaft. These hammers strike as fast as you could pound on a table, and with each stroke they have fashioned a can,

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

COMMUTING TO Indianapolis is becoming more and more “the thing” among downtown office workers. We have always had a considerable number of persons living in small towns and cities who have commuted back and forth each day, but with our rapid indus-

trial expansion lately, the number has gone up remarkably. You can guess how much hy the fact that there are now just about 550 daily arrivals and departures of passenger motor busses to and from Indianapolis. Almost every office has its commuter or commuters, from as close by as Zionsville to Franklin to as far out as Kokomo. It's not as expensive as you might think. To Zionsville, for instance, it costs 40 cents for | a one-way ride, but you can buy blocks of tickets that cut the cost down to somewhere. about 30 cents. What's more, the commuters claim to be the best-read persons in Indiana. They really get a chance to go through their daily newspapers. And lots of ’em carry library books that they take out just for “bus reading.”

Hot Dog!

THE TRADERS POINT HUNT on Sunday got off to a hot start. It-was 76 in the shade, not so com-~ fortable when you're all togged out in a heavy vest and long-tailed pink coat. There were 30 taking part in the hunt, but the menfolks couldn't take it. They jet the hounds bay impatiently while they removed their vests. Back on went the pink coats and off to the hunt they went. P. S.—They didn’t scare up a fox. “him, too.

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—Although the book, $‘Capitalism the Creator,” has had strong influence on Willkie in this campaign, it is not fair to attribute to him all the ideas contained therein since the candidate is Speaking much more sympathetically of labor legislation than the author, Carl Snyder, does. Only the central thesis need be considered as spelling out what Willkie means when he says that private industry can give jobs to all. Snyder, an economist and close friend of Willkie, has combed history, past and present, to assemble evidence supporting his thesis that inventors plus capital savings have created our modern civilization and that they must be given full head to continue it. Labor, Snyder holds, has had little part in the process and none in the creative phase of it. Throughout history, peoples have risen from barbarism and poverty only by that concentrated and highly organized system of production and exchange that we call capitalism, says the author of “Capitalism the Creator.” Solely by accumulation and concentration of capital, and directly proportional to the amount of that accumulation, have modern industrial nations risen, It has been true throughout history. No agricultural or pastoral nation has grown rich or powerful, Where the will to live, to gain, to discover and to conquer has waned, and a nation is given over to visionaries, doctrinaires and novices in social experimentation, decadence has begun.

Wealth Product of Machines

We accept, says Snyder, the idea of exceptionally endowed poets, musicians and painters. But the idea that the accumulation of great wealth belongs in much the same category, and is of vastly more value to society, seems to incite profound incredulity.’ The big powers are the machine powers. This wealth is not the product of “labor.” Nine-tenths of it is the product of machines, They and they alone

My Day

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Monday.—I pulled my curtains back early yesterday morning as we were leaving Tucson, and soon afterwards the stars began to fade and the sky turned a delicate pink. Even in the west, the reflection of the sun was seen as it came over the horizon. I wish it were easier to talk to one's neighbors on a plane, but I find it a little difficult, unless they are sitting in the seat with me. I enjoyed talking to the gentleman who shared my compartment. I also liked chatting for a few minutes with Miss Rosemary Lane, who was across the aisle. She has a nice friendly quality, so that when we landed in Los Angeles I really felt I had made not simply an acquaintance, but a friend. Yesterday was, I think, the most completely lazy day I have spent for a long time. James and I had breakfast in the most leisurely fashion, and then we sat on the roof in the sun until we had lunch. In the afternoon we drove to Arrowhead Lake, which is some 5000 feet up in the mountains. ! the blue lake -and the'view of the plains and mountains as you drive up is very impressive. a, ay fe ive down, however, at sunset time, and

Too hot for

.going strong without any interruption from the police

The pines grow tall and straight around .

By Ernie Pyle

The tin cylinder now slides on down this long steel shaft. And as it slides it is automatically soldered together, automatically cooled, the rough edges of solder brazed off with a grinding wheel and the cans twirled onto an upward moving pelt at the end. In the meantime, other machines have been stamping out the bottom of the can, and the lid. The bottom now goes into a machine which curls up the edge, making a groove around it. Another machine squirts a little liquid rubber into this groove. This hardens as it moves along. Then the cylindrical can and the bottom finally meet, and are crushed together under great weight. The rubber gasket seals the thing. There is no soldéring in the bottom.

Even the Owner Baffled

The final apparatus is a testing machine. The lidless can is forced against a rubber cushion «which makes it airtight. A slug of compressed air is shot into the can. Little instruments record it for 30 seconds. If a can loses more than 2 per cent of its

air pressure, the machine automatically kicks it out into an old box and it is thrown away. A can-making factory is the most Rube Goldbergian thing I've ever been in. If you stand in one spot, and trace a row of cans from the beginning to the end, you'll get awfully dizzy and you'll have the giggles too. The carrier lines go up, down, sidewise; they do ioops and barrel rolls; they turn corners and wind in and out and over and above. And all the time they produce a gigantic rattle that, for some strange reason, sounds exactly like a bunch of empty tin cans. On many of the machines, and at intervals all along the carrier lines, there are radio tubes and radio eve beams. Mr. Heekin, who owns the factory and who has spent 40 years in it, says he never has found out what the hell they're for. All over the factory are signs saying “Do not take cans out of packages. See Fred.” It got to be quite a joke with us. They said Fred was quite a fellow. I wanted to break open a package and get a can and take it to Fred, but he was out to lunch. I feel sure that sooner or later, this intriguing call to see Fred will pull me back to Cincinnati,

Life in the Big City THE MAIL BAG: “Dear Inside—Since you have

repeatedly called attention to the bingo games’ revival in town, how about an old racket that has been

or prosecutor's office, or even the ministers in this

The City Hall—

4 OTHER CITIES EAGER TO HELP OPEN 200 HERE

Cincinnati Animal Director To Confer With Sallee Later This Week.

By RICHARD LEWIS : Officials of several U. S. cities have expressed their wonderment at the fact that Indianapolis has never developed a municipal z00. : Some of them appear just a bit put out about it. So they write Parks Superintendent A. C. Sallee in response to his questionnaire on

ZOOS. Zoo superintendents who have replied thus far are eager to lend Indianapolis a hand if it wants a zoo. Joseph A. Stephans, animal director of the Cincinnati Zoological Society, will stop off here this week on a trip west to tell Mr. Sallee about the Cincinnati zoo.

Not Built In a Day

The consensus of the zoo officials is that zoos aren’t built in a day. Five years is the minimum length of time some superintendents prescribe for the development of a zoo here. First, there is the capital outlay— for buildings, animals and 'personnel. For a city the size of Indianapolis, this is estimated at between $500,000 and $2,000,000, depending on the kind of zoo the city wants. Annual maintenance of well-de-veloped zoological gardens runs from between $35,000 and $80,000. The Milwaukee zoo, he explains is a large one, covering 35 acres. It has an animal collection of 800 mammals, birds and reptiles valued

town. They have a total ‘take’ of not less than $20,000 weekly, This is not pin money in any language— B.R” Draft Board Clerks HOW LONG WILL the draft last? Well, here's one way you can tell. At yesterday's big draft board session at the State House (500 attended), the Selective Service officials made it clear that each board is empowered to hire a clerk. “How long,” came a voice from the rear, “will the clerk have a job?” “From at least one to five years,” came the answer from the Selective Service bosses. The clerks’ pay, incidentally, is at a minimum of $100 and a maximum of $350 per month.

The County Ballots

THERE DOESN'T SEEM to be much concern at the Court House about the outcome of suits filed in Superior Court by the Communist Party trying to get on the Indiana ballot. It is understood that the ballots are being made ready for printing without the names of any of the Communist candidates.;. . . We hear that used car stocks invIndianapolis are now the lowest in years. . . best-known authors, has an article in the current Saturday Evening Post entitled “Micrometer Fever.” Makes us think of Allison's, somehow. . . . Up at Carmel the Republicans put up a big sign saying “Another Willkie City.” And then along came some Democrats right after to do a little retouching and now it reads: “Another ill City.” :

By Raymond Clapper

made possible the colossal aggregate of capital. The machines are the product of brains and exceptional ability, literally the creation of geniuses—inventors, discoverers, enterprises and accumulators, The method, says Snyder, is essentially that of placing surplus capital accumulation largely in the hands of a relatively few individuals who have the rare gift for the management and utilization of this surplus—all for the general good. In a single generation this method has provided two-thirds of our people with 25 million automobiles. The price of this system? It is to reward the rich and the exceptionally capable—a bagatelle. Besides, most of the reward is plowed back into industry. The rewards are so slight as to be of no practical impor=tance, whereas the loss to the country of this talent would be indescribable.

The Genius Population

The achievements of civilization are not the achievements of the-whole human race, Snyder says, but always cf a'very few nations, and of a few people among those—of 1 per cent or less of the whole population. The genius population does it. To them, Snyder believes, we owe all. Without them and their creativeness, energy and organizing power our modern world simply. would never have been. Ten or a dozefy industries produce one-third to one-half of our total industrial output—all creations of our own day, in (4 electric power, automobiles, chemicals, rubber, rayon, aviation, radio and the like, The machine is the liberator. It has abolished slavery, Yet a part of the workers, who have contributed so little, would now claim the whole. Just one concession would Snyder make. He would have Government, control of the volume of credit, to prevent booms and depressions. Otherwise give capitalism full right of way. Regulation of any kind is bad, even of railroads and utilities. The economics of capitalism provides its own automatic regulation. That, in brief, is the Snyder thesis as I read it..His book is long and carefully documented so that it stands as the classic case for modern capitalism, I have tried to give a fair factual summary of it because it goes to the core of the difference between Willkie and the New Deal.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

looking straight toward the west, which was almost breathtaking in its beauty. I do not think the brown hills of California are in themseives very beautiful, but when they are coiored by the sunset and turned to a sort of purple and pink, you. lose all sense of arid waste lands and think only of the space and color spread out before you. There is space in this land out here—so much space that you wonder whether man’s ingenuity will have to be exercised to bring it all under cultivation to make it serve Hig will for food and sustenance. At present, there is waste everywhere, but then, we can still afford to be wasteful. We dined at the Arrowhead’ Springs Hotel, after a look at a most unique swimming pool, which was very inviting if only we had had time to go swimming. I was very much interested -in the hotel, for they tell me it was decorated by my friend, Mrs. Dorothy Draper. She has done some bold and almost startling things. I'm sure she received her inspiration for the doors from some of the old fashioned iron safes, which I can remember seeing when I was a child. The predominant color is an emerald green, which reappears in many shades. and forms in many rooms. While I feel ‘that her work here is somewhat in the nature of a little boy who is showing off and says: “See what I can.do.” in a spirit of bravado; still it is charming sud restful. The porch, with its Jeon green benches

. Ray Milholland, one of the town’s"

at $55,000. Held Best Principle

Dave Renfrou, superintendent of the Memphis, Tenn., Zoo, puts his maintenance figure at $40,000. The zoo has 316 animals, 606 birds and 311 reptiles. Paid admissions should cover only the operating budget, not the capital outlay, advises Ralph Griswold, superintendent of the Pitsburgh, Pa., zoo. “The principle of charging admission to public zoos,” he adds, “which are not already committed to a free policy by some gift or legislation is generally conceded to be the best olicy.” Mr. Sallee is assembling his information for Presentofion to the Park Board. ” 2 »

May Buy Aerial Map

Works Board members are studying the advisability of acquiring an aerial map of Marion County .for $1,600. Some of members favor the idea if other city departments and the County will chip in. » ” o

The Mayor Approves

Mayor Reginald “ H. Sullivan is sold on the use of the new oil aggregate for street resurfacing. He and Works members inspected the surfacing the other day. Put up by several national oil concerns, the aggregate can be spread to resurface streets at slightly more than half the cost of heavier paving materials.

TAX GROUP ELECTS ATKINS, BROOKBANK

The election of Henry C. Atkins, president of E. C. Atkins & Co. as a director of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, was announced following a meeting of the association's board yesterday. John A. Brookbank, manager of the International Harvester Co. farm implements division here, was named treasurer. Both Mr. Atkins ahd Mr. Brookbank were selected to succeed Fred C. Gardner, who died several weeks ago. Mr. Gardner was both treasurer and a director. Tax rates and budgets for next year will be lower than this year in quite a few counties as a result of the association’s efforts, the board was told by Harry Miesse, executive secretary. Mr. Miesse said the association was able to obtain budget reductions ranging as high as $795,000 in one county.

M’NUTT SAYS WILLKIE

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Oct. 15 (U. P.).—Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt charged last

the diplomatic training to deal with the dictators. “What chance has such a man, with such a background, in the deadly . .game of international politics~a game in which one false move ‘may isolate a people in a hostile world,” Mr. McNutt said. “The kind of master-minding Willkie has displayed on Wall Street and with Commonwealth & Southern would work poorly in dealing with people like Hitler and Mussolini—where you have to be right the first time; they don’t allow second guesses.” Mr. McNutt spoke at a political rally in another address in his tour in behalf of President Roosevelt.

ROOSEVELT TO GIVE THREE RADIO TALKS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (U. P.) .— President Roosevelt plans to present his third-term case to the nation in three nationwide Fagio broadcasts to be paid for by the Democratic National Committee. The schedule calls for a speech Oct. 23 on National Youth Day; one a week later on Oct. 30, and one on electiqp eve, Nov, 4. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said the Oct. 23 and 30

chairs is inviting, ade A fe 2 b Ze 7 # x J is : SE oH

speeches will be *ouirighl political Adgzgamcs;” 1

LACKS IN DIPLOMACY}

night that Wendell L. Willkie lacked |

beat the goal this year.

Pledges 90% of Quota

Other Community Fund group leaders are aiming at the 90 per cent of goal already pledged during the first week of the campaign by the special gifts group headed by Charles W. Chase (above). group has a separate ribbon marking off its percentage of goal in a display at the Claypool Hotel. When all the ribbons are at 100, a total of $688,500 will have been collected or pledged. Fund leaders hope to

Each

CRUM TO TEST DEVICE IN TRIAL

Will Attempt to Put Iron in Well Water With ‘Absent’ Treatment.

weeks will watch three ‘demonstrations of Dr. Hiel Crum’s “etherator.” The black mahogany box which has been the object of hearings before the State Medical Board and the Marion County Circuit Court will attempt— 1. To ironize the well at Riley Hospital through an “absent” treatment. 2. Treat infantile paralysis patients at the I. U. Medical Center. 3. Restore sanity to a patient at the Central State Insane Hospital. The tests were arranged by Special Judge Herbert E. Wilson who is hearing Dr. Crum’s appeal of a Medical Board order nevoking his three licenses to practice drugless medicine. Dr. Hiel Crum claimed his instrument could perform these feats during the hearings. Testimony in the court hearing was completed yesterday. Dr. Crum askéd for a few days grace before attempting the experiments. His attorney, William Faust Sr., said the pressure of the trial had made the doctor “somewhat’ nervous. The first demonstration will be carried out from some undisclosed spot, where Dr. Hiel Crum will “treat” the well at Riley Hospital. He will attempt through manipulation of his “etherator” to add iron to the water,

Skeptical scientists in a couple of

M oT karina Of Willkie Hurt

RUSHVILLE, Ind. Oct. 15 (U. P.).—Mrs. Cora Wilk, mother-in-law of Wendell L. Willkie, was re-

covering today from a wrist injury suffered Saturday night

when she! fell off the steps of a *

neighbor's home. It was revealed last night that a small bone in Mrs. Wilk’s right wrist had been broken in the fall, Dr. R, O. Kennedy, who treated the injury, said that it was not serious. | Mrs, Wilk had been visiting Mrs. Sue Megee, a neighbor who recently returned from hospitalization in Indianapolis. When she left, she stumbled from the steps of the Megee home.

FUEL IN TABLET FORM REPORTED

Dissolves in or Water and Serves as Gasoline for Nazi Motors, Is Claim.

BERLIN, Oct. 15 (U, P.).—Reports circulated today that German chemists have produced a synthetic gasoline in concentrated tablet form, which, when mixed with water, provides a fuel that will operate any of the army’s motoyized units. It was said to have been in production for eight months at one of the Hermann Goering works plants in Austria. It was not specified whether the fuel would operate airplanes.

Biographer of President Roosevelt

Eras K. Lindley

U. S. Soldiers to Be Trained To Walk 30 Miles a Day

the noblest virtues of a soldier.

soldier should be able to cover day after day on his own feet, with 50-odd pounds of equipment on his shoulder, The good old days of the World War when 12 or 15 miles a day were enough to make a fairly well ~ hardened infantry ma n yearn for the hospital are gone... The standard is now 30 miles day upon day, after which you are supposed to’ have enough .energy left to charge the enemy. 5 Obviously this is quite a task to set for young men in a nation where walking, even without a pack, is avoided whenever possible and where automobiles are so common that for years biologists and other seers have been predicting that legs, at least on the male, would gradually become a vestigial remnant. Army officials believe the 30mile standard is still within the capacity of American young men.

Mr. Lindley

tion is that they will be regarded as old fogies for suggesting that in modern war anyone should go into battle except in an airplane, a tank, or an armored car, or riding a motorized field gun.

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ORTUNATELY, the Army is able to summon to its defense of the foot soldier the testimony of the prime authorities on the blitzkrieg: the Germans. - The role of the infantry in a blitzkrieg is treated-in the Military Ochenblatt, or Berlin, issue of Aug. 2.The article begins: “That catchword blitzkrieg and new tactics, which our enemies have adopted and which we, too, have quickly ,accepted, seem to have given rise to a wholly false | conception in the minds of many,

Their chief .worry in this connec- -

OST of the young men now entering the Army are going to discover that, blitzkrieg or no blitzkrieg, the ability to march mile after mile, carrying full equipment, In fact, one of the effects of the blitz krieg has been to increase the mileage which our, Army thinks that a

is regarded by our Army as one of

people. It is time to analyze these terms in order that the valuable experience gained in previous wars may not be lost, that we may be guided by new experiences gained in the present war, and that the victories won by an ingenious command and well trained troops may not be minimized through the belief in a miracle.” The Military Ochenblatt concludes that there was nothing in the recent German blitzkriegs to modify two of the fundamental principles of warfare. The first is: “The object of all arms is to allow the infantry to reach the enemy while still in possession of sufficient firing and attacking power to bring about a final decision.” The second is: “A beaten enemy is relentlessly pursued and each man gives every ounce of

. strength that he has in accom-

plishing this purpose.” ® " ” N many cases in the blitzkriegs airplanes and tanks ran the interference for the infantry so perfectly that when the infantry arrived there was no more fighting for them to do. However, according to this military journal, various engagements in Poland and the decisive attacks ‘on the Weygand Line of the Somme and the Aisne and on the Maginot Line prove that the bulk of the infantry must still rely upon cooperation with the artillery, Some of the German infantrymen were transported in motor vehicles. But the great majority of them traveled on their own feet. The more rapidly the air force and tank corps dreve into the enemy’s lines, the faster the foot soldier had to march in order to exploit these initial break=throughs. The German infantrymen who poured across the Lowlands and into France, apparently marched as no such large bodies of troops have ever marched before. So it’s going to be 30 miles a day for our ddughboys.

.S. SEEKING BASES IN SOUTH AMERICA

Negotiations With Key Latin Neighbors Approximates Military Alliance for Total Defense of Western Hemisphere.

BUENOS AIRES,’ Argentina, Oct. 15 (U. P.).—The United States has started negotiations with key South American countries for a diplomatic and military agr eement, almost approximating an alliance, for total defense ‘of the Western Hemisphere against aggression, an authoritative

COUNTY MAPS DITCH PROGRAM

All to Be Cleaned Within Year, for First Time Since 1885.

By HARRY MORRISON

For the first time since 1885, all drainage ditches in the county are to be cleaned completely within a year, The Tax Adjustment Board, the County Council and the Surveyor’s Office are collaborating on a program that will clean 24 miles of ditehed this year and 24 miles next fall—all the ditches in hundreds of watersheds. : Ditches have been used more and more frequently to drain off excess water during the fall and spring, and are an important aid to good farming. Law Was Disregarded

They clog up, however, and Indiana law says they must be cleaned twice a year. The only trouble was—they weren't. In the first place, the farmers weren't co-operative. Secondly, the Surveyor’s.- Office didn’t have any money. This year, the County Council asked the Tax Adjustment Board to

lallow the Surveyor’s Office $5000 to

clean the ditches. The general system has been for the farmers to clean up all they could. Then the Surveyor let out the rest of it on contract, billing each farmer for the share next to his property. The bills went on the taxes.

Lack of Funds Handicap

The biggest trouble has always]

been the lack of funds held by the

Surveyor, because, after all, he had to pay the contracts and wait sometimes two years for the Treasurer to collect the money. This year there has been plenty of money and the farmers have come around to seeing what a good thing it is for their crops, so that they are.doing much of the:cleaning themselves. Year in and year out, because of the lack of correct drainage, portions of fields of corn have been drowned and the ground has been unfit for fall drilling for wheat. This ‘year, three-quarters of the farmers whose land borders ditches already have said they would do the cleaning themselves. Within six weeks most of the work will be done and, so far as drainage is concerned, the county-will be bestequipped it has been for many years for a bumper Cron:

STATE T0 SEND 0uT 6 MILLION BALLOTS

Distribution of 6,105,000 paper ballots to the far corners of Indiana for the Nov. 5 election will be started in the lobby of the State House Thursday. 5 More than 100 guards, clerks and watchers—50 Republicans and 50

the State Election Board prepare the bundles for shipment. About 500 pounds: of sealing wax will be used to seal the bundles to prevent tampering during the shipment to county clerks. The ballots furnished by the State Board are those carrying the national and state tickets. Each county prints its own ballots for county and Congressional candidates. Only 12 of the 92 counties in the state will use voting machines. They are Marion, Allen, Delaware, Hendricks, Madison, Miami, Montgomery, Newton, Pulaski, Spencer and St. Joseph Counties.

FRENCH ART PIECES SEIZED IN ENGLAND

LONDON, Oct. 15 (U. P.).—Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton told the ‘House of Commons today that more than 500 pictures, including works of Renoir, Cezanne, Gaugin, -Degasse and Picasso, the property of the Vichy Government, were seized at Bermuda on Oct. 3 while they were en route to New York. Mr. Dalton said it was possible that the pictures had been taken from a well-known Paris collection and he added that the British now were considering where they could best be the war without suffering damage and in such manner that they still would be visible to the public.

U. S. FIRM TO BUY BRAZILIAN BUAXITE

—The Reynolds Metals Co. of Washington has contracted to purchase

100,000 tons of bauxite—basic ore which. aluminum is made—

from next year from the Companhai

Geral de Minas, a Brazilian mining

firm, it was learned today.

Observers’ regarded -the deal as

the first major step toward development of South American metalic resources with the aid of American

capital, and perhaps the forerunner of other wrrangements for purchase

of South American metals.

stored for the duration of

source said today. Under the proposed agreement naval, airplane and army bases would be made available for mutual defense among the republics of the Western Hemisphere.

So far-reaching are negotiations, according to authoritative informge tion, that they would provide if suce cessful for new bases for the cone struction of which, it was indicated, American financial assistance would be extended. The negotiations: envisage far more than mere leasing by the United States of bases in various Latin American countries, accorde ing to authoritative information. Instead, American republics would seek to effect a grand-scale understanding as the result of which they might seek aid of one another or extend aid to each other for united action to keep this hemisph®re inviolate. It is the negotiations for total hemispheric defense, now in their preliminary phase, that have led to reports that the United States has leased or is about to lease naval bases in Brazil and Chile and perhaps other countries, according to information here. Reports of leasing of bases by the United States were said here to be premature and at the same time to tell only part of a big story—the attempt to effect an agreement which would mean, without infringe ing on the sovereignty of any country; the presentation of a united front to any foreign aggressor.

Three Rescue Ships Are Sent to Orient

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (U. P.).— The first of three steamships to make special trips to the Orient to evacuate Americans leaves Los Angeles a few hours after an emebargo on steel and iron scrap bee comes effective at midnight tonight, The embargo, announced last month by President Roosevelt, bars shipments of that important armae ment commodity to all nations oute side the Western Hemisphere, except Great Britain. Japan was this country’s best customer for scrap. The State Department announced last night that the “luxury” liners Monterey and Mariposa of the Mate son Navigation Co. fleet, and the S. S. Washington of the United States Lines will bring back from Asia as many as possible of Americans who have been warned to leave what this Government cone’ siders a danger zone. It was understood that only about 3000 of the estimated 17,000 Americahs in China and Japan want to return. The three ships would ace commodate that many. The State Department also cone firmed that it had ordered passport offices to refuse, passports to Amer~ ican women or children and “une necessary” men seeking to travel to or in the Orient. The order exe empts the Philippine Islands. Announcement that the United States and Canada have taken preliminary steps to develop the Great Lakes-St. Lawrenee basin project was interpreted today as another move to strengthen relations be= tween these two neighbors. The State Department announced last night that the two countries have agreed to an immediate exe change of water along that watere

{way “to assist in providing an adee Democrets—will be on hand to help |

quate supply of power to meet Cae nadian defense needs.”

KILMER'S SON IN SERVICE NEW YORK, Oct. 15 (U.P.).~ Christopher Kilmer, 23, son of the poet, Joyce Kilmer, who wrote “Trees,” was inducted today into the 465th Infantry, the old “Fighting 69th” regiment of the New York National Guard, in which his father was serving when he was killed in action in the World War.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Do {lying squirrels have wings? 2—Acidophilus is a disease, form of buttermilk or name of a famous Greek philosopher? 3—Was Montgomery, Ala., or Riche mond, Va., the first capital of the - Confederacy? : 4—Who succeeded James A, Farley as Postmaster General of the United States? 5—Brittany is in France, England or Scotland? 6—What word, growing out of the World War, is applied to economizing in the use of foodstuffs? T7—Where is the Roosevelt Memorial - Library? 8—What is a “dead parcel?”

Answers

1—No. 2—Buttermilk. 3—Montgomery. 4—Frank C, Walker. 5—France. 6—Hooverize.

” { T—Hyde Park; N. Y. WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (U. P.).!

8—One which cannot be delivered or returned to the sender by the Post Office. = # tJ

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