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STALIN WOOED BY * AMERICA, BRITAIN

Envoys Wait at Kremlin, Not Because U. S. Likes Russian Government, but Prefers It to Japanese

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* This is the first of a series of to Europe and America.

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in Pacific. articles on Russia and its relation

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer

Nov. 19.—Washington is wooing Sta-

sia holds the balance of power

in the Far East and in the European-Near East war. To slow down the Axis at the Channel and to counter its sweep through the Balkans to the Near East, Britain needs Russia co-operation. To block Japan’s march toward the Indies and the Philippines, Britain and the United

States want Russia to continue h gl ping China and threatening Japan. Washington and London hate Stalin and all he stands for. More important, they distrust him. And | he distrusts them. So the negotiations are

neither pleasant |

nor easy. But the negotiations are necessary. Therefore they

TAPPING’ PROBE CALLED WASTE

Senate Investigation Only a Political ‘Smear,’ G. 0. P. Members Say.

continue, and are apt to con-| tinue in one] form or another as long as the war lasts, regardless of the mutual dislike. Of course, these dealings are kept as secret as possible, Stalin is supposed to be| Hitler's non-belligerent partner. Motorrns Washington fears a8 kickback |from American public opinion. Americans! have been told over and over agdin by Washington that this war is |a world revolution in which dictatorship challenges delhe death. Russia is a symbol of |dictatorship. Russia weakened ier by a back-door treaty with Hitler, and js thus held jointly responsible for ‘the fall of Poland, Norway, Denmark, the Low Countries and France—not to mention the Lh of Finland and the seizure of the Baltic States.

"No Time for Idealism

But neither the State Department nor Downing Street can afford the luxury of theorizing right now. Wars are not exercises in purity or consistency. The object is to win—and [no price is too high to pay for survival. It my not Ye nice for London to woo Moscow, but it is nicer than going the way of France to Nazi slavery. It may not be nice for Washington to deal with the Com- _ munist dictator and the invader of Finland, but it may be nicer than Japanese mastery of the Pacific. One fact is [faced by London:

Hitler is isolating Britain. And Wachington thinks our turn is next.

And, so, crgwding Stalin’s doorgtep are diplomats with their hands out. The American envoy is there with the British, scowling at the German and the Japanese.

Hold Balance of Power

We are in on the bidding because Washington and| Tokio officials are threaténing each other with war. Tokio, strutting her new alliance with Berlin and Rome, and trying to establish her “New Order” in Asia, says we will get hurt if we interfere. Washington reply insists on maintaining the status quo. To prove that it ds not bluffing, the United States broadens the embargo against Japan, | gives China more loans and war supplies, encourages Britain to reopen the Burma. Road to those supplies, and strengthens American military, naval and air forces in Hawaii and the Philipi

ines. || P Meanwhile Japan digests her latest conquest in upper Indo-China— a take-off base against British Singapore and [American Manila— bbth sides are [painfully conscious that Stalin holds the balance of power. Neither| side dares go too far until it knows, or thinks it knows, what Rutsla will do.

Just “Guess” Result

* Just how Stali comes to have the key to the Far East is a rather involved story, like everything else in the Orient. Briefly, the explanation is not so much that he grabbed it with his own strength and cunning, as that it fell into his lap while the others were fighting among themselves.| That, plus Rus-

gia’s geographic position.

While it is easy to demonstrate}

the truism that Stalin holds the key ‘to the Far East in this war, it is not easy to guest what he will do with it. “Guess” isthe precise word, for nobody knows—and nobody can be sure even after he acts, if he does act. : 1f he makes a non-aggression pact with Japan, it may not mean much. One thing certain is that nothing, including his own signature, will tie gtalin’s hands. Treaty or no treaty, he plays both sides—as Hitler has

earned. 1 —t JLLINOIS MAN NAMED

GRANGE SECRETARY

} SYRACUSE, N. Y, Nov. 19 (U. P.).—The National Grange yesterday elected E. A. Eckert of Mascoutah, Ill, secretary of the Executive Committee and voted to conduct the 75th diamond sj convention in New England next year. Boston and Washington, D. C, were contenders for| the 1941 convention. Officials said the executive committee will confer with representatives of several New England cities to select the convention site. Washington State, Oregon and Michigan also entered invitations for national meetings in 1942 or 43.

51, of Philadelphia, told Federal Judge John Knight that he stole a letter from a Post Office box at Olean, N. Y., in hopes that he would get funds for a new set of false teeth. Yale, who had been released from a Michigan prison 20 days be-

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (U. P.). —Two Republican members: of a Senate committee investigating wire tapping charged today that the investigation was a “waste of time” on a political “smear” campaign. Chairman Tom Stewart of the Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee said an executive session would be held today to discuss committee action. The session was re-

(R. S. D.) and Senator Wallace H. White (R. Me.). Senator Stewart said he understood Senators Gurney and White want to discuss statements made shortly before the Presidential election by committee counsel William P. Maloney. The statements, he indicated, concerned Thomas E. Dewey, New York District Attorney. * Senator Gurney declined to comment, but said the committee was wasting time on “non-essentials.” Senator White said the committee could have made a report and recommended legislation two months ago. ’ At a hearing yesterday witnesses testified that an alleged former subordinate of Mr. Dewey's hired a New York Telephone Co. employee to tap the wires of J. P. Morgan & Co. and three other New York business and professional concerns. The wires never were tapped, J. J. Robinson, special agent of the company, said. Mr. Dewey's name ‘was brought into the committee hearings several times. George H. Parkman, dictaphone operator working in the

House of Representatives, said he was approached by a fellow oper-

ator employed by Mr. Dewey, who was attempting to get the income tax statement of an unnamed judge.

ANCIENT SEA SHORE TRACED BY FOSSILS

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Shorelines of a sea that 450 millions years ago flowed where now the Rocky Mountains rise were traced during the past summer by Dr. Charles E. Resser, Smithsonian In-

stitution paleontologist. Fossils of animals that once lived in its waters were his guides. : This sea, dating back to the Cambrian geologic period, stretched from Alaska .to Lower California. High land, about where the Sierra Nevada now stands, was its western boundary. To the east, there was lower land near the present location of the Rockies. “Ir. Resser was able to tell where the sea shoaled out toward the shorelines by the presence of fossil beds considerably thinner than .the normal bottom deposits already known.

Draftees to Be

One of a series taking a draftee into Uncle Sam’s new army.

By MILTON BRONNER Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—John Q. Citizen, drafted by his local board and passed through the induction station and the army reception center, is now ready for real training at a regular army or national guard post or at a replacement camp. But he and his fellows will only be. called up when proper canton‘ments or tented camps and complete hospitalization are ready. The ‘War Department does not wish to run any chances of having draftees come down in an epidemic of ill-

medical facilities. . Men chosen in the draft will be assigned to various branches of the army according to their abilities, the needs of the army and their chief branches of the army are: coast artillery, air corps, engineers, signal -corps, quartermaster .corps and chemical warfare section. The army posts scattered throughout the United States house these various units. But the army and the national guard canno{ absorb all the draftees at once. So replacement centers where draftees will also be trained until they can be filtered into the ranks of the regular army and the national guard are needed. Some of these replacement centers have not yet been completed, but all are expected to be finished by next March. Locations of the centers are listed here with the number of men to be accommodated by each: INFANTRY-—Macon, Ga., 16,500;

fore he stole the letter last month, was sentenced to serve two years : and six months for the theft.

Camp Wolters, Tex. 17,000; Naci-

quested by Senator Chan Gurney|

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At the State House—

DEPUTY AUDITOR POSITION GIVEN TO TECKEMEYER

Named James’ Assistant; Both to Take Office On Dec. 1.

By EARL RICHERT

Ross Teckemeyer, field examiner for the State Board of Accounts for the past 17 years, today received the first appointment under a new-ly-elected Republican state official. He was named deputy auditor of state by Auditor-elect Richard T. James. The appointment will be effective Dec. 1, the date on .which the new auditor goes into office. The deputy auditor is the only appointment that can be made by the State Auditor under the Reorganization Zct. Mr. James announced, however, that he was poing to Governor Townsend before he takes office and ask that he be allowed to name his own private secretary and three or four department heads.

Lived Here Since 1900

“I think Governor Townsend will be agreeable to that,” Mr. James said. “And I think Governor-elect Schricker will be too.” The auditor-elect said he had no comment to make now on any de-’ partment changes. Mr. Teckemeyer has been a resident of Indianapolis since 1900. He attended Manual High Schoo] and the Extension Division of Indiana University. He was employed by the City of Indianapolis as track elevation auditor from 1918 to 1921 and by Indianapolis Railways, Inc., from 1922 to 1923 when he regeived the position with the Board of Accounts.

Instructs at I. U. Center

During the past 17 years he has installed accounting systems in many state departments. In addition to his work with the Board of Accounts, Mr. Teckemeyer has substituted as an instructor at the I. U. Extension Center. He is a member of the Columbia Club, Central Christian Church and Oriental Lodge, F. & A. M. He lives at 3603 Washington Blvd. “In naming Ross Teckemeyer as deputy auditor of state, I have chosen a man who is most competent for the job. He is highly qualified by reason of his many

Board of Accounts,” Mr. James said. Mr. Teckemeyer has been given a leave of absence by the Board of Accounts to accept the new position. As the Board of Accounts is under the merit system, Mr. Teckemeyer has a life-time job there.

GOLDEN RULE 0. E. S,

The Golden Rule Chapter, O. E. S., will observe a Friends’ Night at 8 p. m. Friday in the Masonic Temple, North and Illinois Sts. The following officers will serve: Mrs. Beatrice Bower, worthy matron, Lawrence Chapter; Howard E. Klinger, worthy patron, Lyndhurst Chapter; Miss Effie Roseberry, associate matron, Cumberland Chapter; Hilden Kiser, associate patron, West Newton Chapter; Mrs. Louise Rosebrough, secretary, Indianapolis Chapter; Mrs. Henrietta Thompson, treasurer, Bridgeport Chapter. Mrs. Lelia Wimmer, conductress, Nettie Ransford Chapter; Mrs. Mary Frances Wright, associate conductress, New Augusta Chapter; Mrs. Garnette Scake, chaplain, Acton Chapter; Miss Algie Campbell, marshall, Queen Esther Chapter; Mrs. Mayme Passmore, organist, Naomi Chapter. Miss Virginia Carter, Adah, Brookside Chapter; Mrs. Jane Frazier, Ruth, Broad Ripple Chapter; Mrs. Catherine Linch, Esther, North Park Chapter; Miss Mary Zimmerman, Martha, Prospect Chapter; Mrs. Nettie Messersmith, Electra, Irvington Chapter; Mrs. Hazel McIntyre, warder, Beech Grove Chapter; Mrs. Rose Sowers, sentinel, Keystone Chapter. Special music wiil be provided by the O. E. S. Chorus under direction of Mrs. Agnes Singer of Daylight

Johnny Gets His Gun

ness due to bad housing and poor

mento, Cal., 15,000. :

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- When Camps Are Prepared

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John Q. won’t have to undergo anything like this, because this time the Army is making sure it has adequate housing facilities before calling up men.

CAVALRY-Ft. Riley, Kas., 7000. FIELD ARTILLERY-—Ft. Bragg, N. C, 16,500; Ft. Sill, Okla., 8500; Nacimento, Cal., 6000. : ENGINEERS—Ft. Belvoir, Va. 10,500. SIGNAL CORPS—Ft. Monmouth, N. J., 7300. ORDNANCE — Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., 5800. CHEMICAL WELFARE — Edgewood Arsenal, Md., 1000. QUARTERMASTER CORPS— Camp Lee, Va. 12,000; Ft. Warren, Wyo., 7000. ; COAST ARTILLERY-—Ft. Eustis, Va., 14,800; Galveston, Tex. 7600; San Diego, Cal., 7000. ———

years of efficient service for the,

SETS FRIENDS’ NIGHT

School News— “Voice

PUPILS HELP IN SCHOOL OFFICES

Answering Phone Trains Children, Frees Principal For Class Work.

By EARL HOFF

“School 100, pupil speaking.” That's the typical greeting you would get if you called one of the City’s 85 public grade schools by telephone. If your message wasn't urgent and if the principal was out of his office, chances are the small but businesslike voice at the other end of the line would request you politely to leave your phone number. The principal will call you back later.

Gives Pupils Training

There are several reasons for that pupil to be answering the telephone. First, it gives him training in answering a telephone. Second, it allows the principal to leave his office and help in classroom instruction without listening anxiously for the telephone. Not all of the public schools have pupils answer the telephone. Those that do use them don’t all use the same system. It’s an individual matter with principals.

Only One Period a Week

In every case, no -pupil is on phone duty more than one period a week, so that he doesn’t lose too much class time, All are upper classmen. In some schools the pupil remains in the principal's office, others have a pupil in a nearby classroom designated as phone boy or girl. Some station the pupil in the hall. 2 In this latter case the pupil on duty not only answers the phone, but greets visitors. With him on duty strangers are prevented from wandering around the school. This pupil also checks on other pupils. None is allowed to leave the building without permission.

They Have Responsibility

As one principal explained, this prevents unfortunate happenings such as occur when the child's parents are estranged and one removes the child from school without knowledge of the other. Aside from the value of the pupil’s aid to the principal, who thus is allowed to follow his program without constant interruptions, the task puts responsibility on the shoulders of youngsters. And they love it:

URGES TRAINING OF CANADIANS IN U. S.

CHICAGO, Nov. 19 (U. P.).—The Chicago- Daily News, controlled by Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, yesterday editorially, commended a plan fo permit training of several Canadian filers at a private air school in Florida and urged the War Department to “make our Southern air fields available to the regular Canadian training plan.” “The War Department has consented {0 allow a contingent of Canadian or British airmen to attend the navigation school for long-range flying maintained by Pan-American Airways at Miami,” the editorial

|sald. “Under the terms of our joint

defense agreement with Canada, we have an equally clear right to make our Southern fields available fo the regular Canadian ‘training p n.”

Rules Students Must Don Shoes

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 19. (U. P.).—University of Minnesota authorities ruled today that students = attending university dances “will be required to wear shoes.” . G. Ray Higgins, manager of the university’s huge, recently . completed - $200,000,000 student union building, described shoeless dancing as “very undignified.” s “We do not think shoeless dancers are In keeping with the luxury and dignity of the new union building,” Mr. Higgins said.

Anne Dudley Blitz, dean of women, said: “We want that union used just as any other civilized place is used. We want students to learn how to act in publie.” = . Consequently, the dance’ committee brought its foot down on shoeless dancing. The practice originated when students who found dancing impeded by crepe rubber shoe soles parked the

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Eva Jane Hundley . . . a pleasant voice over the telephone from School 39, 801 S. State St.

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Corn or Bourbon —It's the Same

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (U. P.). — The U. S. Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the Government may decide any time it wants to what is and what isn't corn whisky and what’s bourbon. In 1936 the Maryland Distillers Products Corp., distilled a batch of whisky. It met Federal specifications for either corn or bourbon, and in 1939 they labeled it “corn.” Specifications were changed in the meantime and the liquor no longer met requirements for corn —it came under the bourbon classification. The Maryland company complained that under retroactive legislation . Government agents wolud not release the whis-

ky. The Court of Appeals ruled the liquor would sell just as well labeled bourbon and the Government could change its specifications when it desired.

2 CONSTABLES FACE CHARGES AT MARION

MARION, Ind., Nov. 19 (U. P.).— Two Grant County constables were free on $100 bond today on charges of making arrests while out of uniform. : They were James Howell and John Eaton, both of near Marion. They were allegedly working out of the court of Justice of the Peace Myrtle Evans. Howell was charged with making an illegal arrest in an affidavit signed by State Policeman Donald Weber while Eaton was accused of carrying a coneealed weapon. Both officers allegedly arrested Herman Jackson of Anderson on.a

‘Mr. Tucker as chief deputy Secre-

TUCKER NAMES |

FRED E. SHICK CHIEF DEPUTY

For Clerkship; Loring Gets Post.

with a new set of chief assistants.

commissioner under Mr. ' Tucker since May, 1939, has been named by

tary of State to succeed Richard T. James, Portland, whd will become Auditor of State Dec. 1. 3 Robert H. Loring, Rising . Sun, auditor for State Securities Commission, will succeed Mr. Shick as deputy securities commissioner. William Hutchinson, - Paoli, investigator for the Commission, wii! become Mr. Tucker's chief clerk, suc ceeding Lawrence Crosby, Bluffton, who has accepted a position as field representative of the Nationai Alumnate Corp., Chicago.

Former FBI Agent

Mr. Shick, an Indianapolis - attorney, lives at 763 N. Bolton Ave. In 1929 and 1930 he was an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serving out of the Pittsburgh and Oklahoma City offices. He resigned from the FBI to return to Indianapolis to practice law. Born in Terre Haute, he moved to Indianapolis in 1918, spent three years at Butler University and was graduated from the Indiana University Law School in 1929. In the recent campaign, he was assistant director of the Republican State Speakers Bureau. Mr. Shick is a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, Delta Theta Phi Legal fraternity, the Lawyers Club of Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Bar Association, Lawyers Association of Indianapolis, Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Masonic . Lodge, Scottish Rite, Irvington Methodist Church, and is a past president of the Irvington Republican Club. He is 35, and is married. Loring Only 26

Mr. Loring, who is 26, was graduated from DePauw University in 1935 and studied at :- the Indiana Law School. He became office manager for the Huntingburg plant of Kingan & Co., later serving as claim adjuster for the Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., at Boston. In 1936, when he was only 21, Mr. Loring was chairman of the regular Republican organization in Rising Sun and young Republican chairman of Ohio County. He is a member of the Columbia Club, Indianapolis Press Club and the Rising Sun Methodist Church, of which he is a trustee. He is a past president of the DePauw Chapter, Delta Tau Delta Fraternity.

AGREES TO FREE FRENCH VICHY, France, Nov. 19 (U. P.). Adolf Hitler has agreed to the liberation of 30,000 French soldiers interned in Switzerland and will grant “leaves of absence” to many in Ger-

William Hutchinson Chosen|

Secretary of State James M.| = Tucker will start his second term|

Fred E. Shick, deputy securities|:

man prison camps, the Government

reckless driving charge.

announced today.

A DEMOCRAT IN GOP TOWNSHIP?

(Naming - of Successor to

‘Dawson Up to County Commissioners. Washington Township, which has

‘|piled up overwhelming Republican

Fred E. Shick, Indianapolis attorney, has been appointed chief deputy by Secretary of State James M. Tucker, while Mrs, Roberta West Nicholson, a Demo= crat, may be appointed by the County Commissioners as Wash= ington Township trustee ‘to succeed Charles M. Dawson, a Republican, who becomes Lieutenant= Governor Jan. 1.

Model Airplane

Found on Range

THERE'S A BIG argument on down at Police Headquarters today. And it's all over a miniature airplane found on the police range in Eagle Woods southwest of the city by Sergt. Carl Ashley and Patrolman Earl Halstead. The plane, painted yellow with a red trim, had a gasoline motor and an identification slip which read: “William Brothers, 400 Burr Bldg, New Castle, Ind.” Police are trying to figure out whether it was possible for the tiny craft to have flown from New Castle or whether it had strayed from an Indianapolis airport during a model plane meet. The plane was taken to the property room at Headquarters until the owner can be found.

VETERAN ACTRESS DIES HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 19 (U. P.).— Funeral services will be held Friday for Mrs. Sylvia Ashton, veteran actress who died yesterday after a

pluralities in elections for the last six years, now faces the prospects of having a Democratic trustee for the next two years. : - Lieutenant - Governor = Elect Charles M. Dawson, present Reaublican trustee, must resign after Jan. 1 to take office in the State House. The appointment of his successor, under the law, rests entirely in the hands of the Board of County Commissioners which after Jan 1, will be composed of two Democrats and one Republican.

Two Are Mentioned

Democrats mentioned prominently for the trustee post include Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson, defeated for a seat in the Legislature, and Fred Buskirk, a Washington Township party worker, Mr. Dawson said he will make a recommendation, to the Commissioners on his successor. “I am interested in seeing that some one qualified for the job is appointed,” he said. The probability of the Demancratic

publican for the post was described by Court” House Democrats as ‘‘ex= tremely remote.”

Take Office Later

Although two new Republicans were elected Commissioners, only one of them, William T. Ayres, will take office next year, replacing John S. Newhouse, Democrat. The other Republican Commissioner = elect, William Bosson Jr., will not take office until Jan. 1, 1942. This will leave Commissioner William A. Brown, Democrat, in office another* year and Commissioner Harry Hohlt, Democrat, two more years.

HOLDS INDIVIDUALITY IS NEED TO LIBERTY

spoke last night in Cadle Tabernacle on “Christian Science; A Message of Freedom and Dominion.” Mr, Winn, who is a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scien-

‘|tist, Boston, was presented under

the auspices of Fourth Church of Christ Scientist here. He said: “Nothing is more conducive to liberty than a true sense of individuality. God-is infinite good and as we discern this divine verity we see clearly that man’s true selfhood must express goodness, righteous-

“Iness and virtue.

“It sometimes happens in human experience that an innocent person is wrongfully accused. We learn in Christian Science that a man’s real self is the reflection of God's goodness. To identify ourselves with any other concept of man is always a case of mistaken identity. To accept as real a mortal concept of man

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