Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1940 — Page 2

Writer Visits One of Stations as Watchmen of Air Go Into Action in Tracking Down Suspicious Broadcasts Of Unlicensed Operators.

A United Press reporter visits one of the nation’s seven monitor radio stations mow engaged in tracking down suspicious broadcasts . from unlicensed stations in the interests of national Slefense.

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent

ATLANTA, Ga., Dec.: 14 (U. P.).—Hop aboard a megacycle and let’s go for a radio spy hunt. ie The base of operations: A cottage in the hills outside| Atlanta. It looks like a modest rural dwelling, but inside the walls are lined with massive radio receivers, tables littered with slide rules and charts, the whine of generators mingling with the screech of loudspeakers. :

This is one of the nation’s seven radio monitors operated by the Federal Communications Commission. In.normal times, the monitors make

routine checks of broadcasts

by commercial stations and see that amateur short wave operators conform to commis-

sion regulations. But at present, with war and its

accompanying espionage spreading over much of the world, the monitors have heen assigned to a minute-by-minute radio spy hunt. Although the -routine checking operations are continued, the FCC monitors are now most concerned with national defense.

Work Around Clock

For instance, agent in a Southern port of the United States attempt to communicate the departure time of a certain ship to a naval vessel of his nation, the FCC monitor would be on his trail within a few minutes if it had intercepted the message at one of its listening posts. Around the clock, seven days & week, expert radio men sit in the monitor stations with earphones clamped on their heads, slowly patrolling the spectrum of radio frequencies for any attempt by an unlicensed transmitter to broadcast information for any purpose. - The suspicions of these “radio cops” are aroused principally by the sending of unfamiliar code, chipers or other material unusual to regular radio channels,

Watches for Strange Signals

For example, the monitor hears an unfamiliar signal in the band or channel customarily used by the nation’s 55,000 “hams,” or amateurs. The Gavernment operator increases the volume on his own set and clears his desk for action. “7088 SX50P XOPT,” he hears this unknown station click out. The monitor operator’s experience tells him immediately whether the message is originating from a manual or autometic sending key. The apparently meaningless ciphers arouse further ‘suspicion . because they usually mean code —and strange code usually means an attempt to cover up. The operator throws a switch. An automatic recording device goes to work, making a permanent record of the suspected . messages. The slide rules are brought out and the frequency .of the suspected signal computed. , Other Government , monitors are notified.

Police Go Inte Action

Then Uncle Sam’s radio police force goes into high gear. The various monitor stations work together in taking a long range bearing on the suspected station. This consists of using highly developed direction finders. Such a sub-rosa station would be stopped within a brief period. The mysterious ciphers are transmitted to the FCC in Washington and turned over to a trained staff of cryptographists who specialize in breaking down codes. After examination of the content, the FCC consults other governmental agencies which may be interested such as the military intelligence services and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, _

Streamlined 'South Wind’ Sets Record on Chicago Run

By DAVID MARSHALL Times Staff Writer CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 14—Hundreds of Chicago railroad fans stormed the Pennsylvania Railroad yards todey to see and phootgraph the “South Wind,” one of America’s most modern streamlined trains, which yesterday set a new speed eso 0 from the Indianapolis-Chi-

* piloted by Edwin R. Carter of ;, a veteran engineer, the sleek maroon and gold all-coach train, said to cost more than half a million dollars, whipped over the 202 miles in 3 hours and 19 minutes. This record run was set _ despite .a six-minute stop just outside Indianapolis for picture taking, another six-minute stop .at Logansport and two other oneminute stops in South Chicago. .At. times, the ultra-modern streamliner whizzed north at a top speed of #0 miles an hour. . With the taciturnity of old-time engineers, he observed that his record-smashing trip was made “in good time.” Not once during the teip, he added, was the 280-ton (560,000-pound) engine opened “all the way io its maximum speed of 110 miles an hour.” Mr. Carter took over the throttle

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ELECTORS CAST VOTES MONDAY

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President of Senate: ‘14 for Willkie.’

In a drab and routine way, the final chapter of the most colorful presidential campaign in recent years in Indiana will be written Monday. Fourteen Republican electors will meet at 10 a. m. in the House of Representatives to vote for Wendell L. Willkie for president and Charles L. McNary for vice president of the United States. The votes of the 14 will be tabulated by Governor Townsend and Secretary of State James Tucker. Mr. Tucker then will notify the President of the United States Senate of Indiana’s vote. :

Sign Two Ballots

The Republican electors were certified by Governor Townsend after the official tabulation of the election showed that Mr. Willkie polled 899,466 votes to Mr. Roosevelt’s 874,063. The ballots which will. be handed to the electors read: “The undersigned Presidential Elector of the State of Indiana hereby casts his ballot for —— for President of the United States.” The vice presidential ballot is the same. The elector will sign both. There is nothing to keep the elector from writing in the names of the two candidates who lost in Indiana — President Roosevelt or Vice President-elect Henry A. Wallace hut it never has been done here, and the Republicans say it won't be this time.

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The 14 electors are George A. Ball, Muncie; Frank N. Gavit, Gary; Mrs. Mabel - Sites Fraser, Delphi; David M. Hoover, Elkhart: John H. Edris, Bluffton; William H. Long, Peru; Burt Fleming, West Lebanon; Reid Dugger, Franklin; Joseph E. Kelley, Mt. Vernon; Estal G. Bielby, Lawrenceburg; Mrs. Ruth W. Hancock, Greensburg, and M. Bert Thurman, Harry B. Dynes and B. Nelson: Deranian, of Indianapolis.

Sign Michigan Pact

Indiana yesterday signed a reciprocity agreement with Michigan

By JOE COLLIER

When you dig up an ancient Indian village you must make minute calculations based on Polaris, the sea level at Sandy Hook, wasp nests and prehistoric pigs. In suitably modulated tones and a more dignified sequence, Glenn Black, archeologist in charge of the diggings at Angel Mounds, related these things today to the Indiana Historical Society at its annual session here. He was one of a number of history specialists who addressed various groups of the society in the second day of its session. The sessions close tonight with a banquet of the Society of Indiana Pioneers in the Claypool Hotel. To begin with, Mr. Black said, the expedition which he heads decided to make records of their diggings so

records any: new expedition years and years hence, could take right up where this project leaves off, if it doesn’t dig the mounds completely out. As a basis for these records, the star Polaris was shot for true north. Compasses vary from true north and the variance differs from year to year. Thus, 500 years from | now, the compass north might be a few degrees from the present compass north.

B. 0. P. LEADERS SCAN NEW BILL)

Reorganization Act to Be Discussed at Session Next Week.

. Republican majority leaders of the Legislature will convene here again Monday and ‘Tuesday to reach a final decision on bills to reorganize the executive branch of the State Government. Frank T. Millis, majority leader

lof the Lower House, said a committee of attorneys had completed preliminary drafts of the executive reorganization bill.

neighboring state to use Indiana license plates and driver licenses during 1941. Indiana also has such agreements with Virginia and Mississippi.

of the Republican leaders favor a compromise plan, giving Democratic Governor-elect Henry F. Schricker a sizeable slice of executive powers in a bi-partisan setup of state boards. However, other G. O. P. leaders are holding out or. a “no appease-

No accurate figures are available yet, but Frank Finney, commissioner of -the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, estimates that the sale of auto license plates and drivers licenses for 1941 will break all records. “The motorists are virtually

swamping us,” Mr. Finney declared. said, however, that the difference of

opinion among the Republican majority is not great enough to block an Agreement,

HURLED BASKET KET ON WILLKIE FAN, FREED

DETROIT, Dec. 14 (U. P,).—Miss Dorothy La Roue, who admitted throwing a waste basket cut of a hotel window during the appearance of Wendell I. Willkie in Detroit early this fall, was acquitted of a charge of felonious assault | 2% yesterday. Miss La Roue admitted hurling

With him in the cab on the dash to Chicago were M. C. Edwards, fireman, also of Logansport, and C. J. Sears, road foreman. The nearly 30 persons who made the Indianapolis-Chicago trip included officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Edward G. Budd Mig. Co.

The run was the first eliirce the officials had to learn for certain just what the train could do and would -do. Each of the cars—an observa-tion-buffet lounge, diner, baggagedormitory, and four full-length coaches—were taken from the Budd plant at Philadelphia to Indianapolis separately and there assembled. Thus the trip was not only a preinaugural run but also the initial road test of the first north-south streamliner in the nation’s history.

hotel window as a crowd gathered shortly before Mr. Willkie’s arrival. The waste basket struck Betty Wilson, 19,

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True north them was marked by a block of concrete placed in the ground. About three ‘miles ° east of the diggings site, on top of a high hill and in the center of a farmer’s barnyard, is another little sunken rock marker. On the copper plate which tops it is engraved the exact height of that surface from sea level at Sandy Hook. From this, working with precision instruments and painstaking accuracy, the party measured backwards to the Polaris marker on the site and calculated how far its surface was above sea level at Sandy Hook. Only after the project was thus hooked up to the solar system and the seven seas, so that there would be a timeless accuracy about the record of every post hole and village street yet to be explored—only then was the first shovel full taken from the mounds. By now, Mr. Black and his fellow workers know or strongly suspect some of the following things about the prehistoric tribe that

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once had a village nearly a mile long there, filled with well-econ-structed homes, and probably living the lives of gentlemen farmers. The houses were built of logs placed vertically in the ground in a trench. Soil was pounded be-

U.S. Warship af Scuttling Scene

NEW ORLEANS, La. Dec. 14 «(U. P.)—The United States destroyer MacLeish stood by and watched the scuttling of the Ger-

' man freighter Rhein and the cap-

ture of her crew by a Dutch and a British warship “in the Gulf of Mexico last Wednesday, it was learned from seamen today. The MacLeish was on neutrality patrol,* but did not intervene because her job was to see that “no attacks are made on any ships” in the Pan American Neutrality. Zone and the Rhein was not attacked—she was set afire by her own crew when the Dutch destroyer Van Kinsbergen came

alongside, it was learned. The Rhein refused to sink in spite of the fire, until the British cruiser Caradoc arrived and fired a broadside into her.

Emsley W. Johnson Sr. (left) and Christopher B. Coleman, Indiana Historical Society secretary, are participants in the annual society meeting which ends a two-day session with a banquet tonight.

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Black Tells Historians How Excavations Are Marked to Insure Timeless Accuracy

tween the logs after they were placed in the trenches, The houses were from 20 to 33 feet square. After the logs were in place, they were lathed horizontally with the ground, inside and outside, with reed. Over this was plastered mud mixed with straw, However, the ground markings show no doorways. This bothered Mr. Black at first, but he speculates this way now about it. , They probably cut doorways after the loga were in place, leaving the logs of the doorway sticking up from the ground a few inches. That would keep the pigs out of the house, Mr. Black believes. The roofs were thatched. This was determined by the discovery of mud-dabbing wasp homes. Built inside next to the ceilings, these mud homes were baked hard when a home would burn now and then. Thus they were preserved. And each one found has marks of the grass to which it clung. The work there is by no means finished. In fact, Mr. Black says, it’s, silly to even speculate on how much longer it will require. Already more than a million and a half bits of bone, pottery, etc., have been found, and catalogued. “Anything that’s worth digging for, is worth savy Mr. Black says.

DUKE WANTS TO VISIT GCC GAMPS IN U, S.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Dec. 14 (U, P.).—The Duke and Duchess of Windsor plan to return to the United States soon after the first

of the year, it was indicated today. The Duke said on his return from a two-hour talk with President Roosevelt aboard the cruiser Tuscaloosa, that he wanted to return to visit typical camps of the Civilian Conservation Corps and that he had asked the President if he would make arrangements for him to visit several camps sometime after the new year. The Duke did not comment on reports that he might be chosen to succeed the Marquess of Lothian as British Ambassador to the Unit‘ed States. . The Duchess, virtually recovered from her dental operation, remained in their suite at St. Francis Hospital. It was said she might go for

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Cult Solicited J Jewels to Help the Process, Witness Says. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14 (U. P).

—Leaders of the “I Am” cult told their followers that they were

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they had healed “more bodies,” a Federal jury had been told today. Mrs. Gertrude M.. Host, 33, a school teacher and former member of the cult, testified in the mail fraud trial of Mrs. Edna Ballard, widow of its founder, her son, Donald Ballard, and eight other. leaders. At five lectures in San Francisco and Los Angeles which she attended, Mrs. Host said; the Ballards said Jesus was an “Ascended Master”; that they were masters who hadn’t ascended yet, and therefore they were akin to him, though greater, To heal even more bodies, the Ballards asked "their followers to contribute,” especially jewels, - she said. They adopted this slogan: “Every time you give a jewel you heal a body.”

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Mrs, Host added that she never knew personally of the Ballards having healed anyone but she did have several friends who had donated jewelry. Defense Attorney Charles Carr asked if it were not possible that some of the jewelry given to heal the sick had been “tinsel.” Mrs. Host replied that she “knew a few of the students who gave jewels to the Ballards and they don’t wear cheap jewelry.” G Mrs. Host testified that Guy Ballard, who died in 1939, and Mrs. Ballard had promised to have some of the “Ascended Masters, especially St. Germain, a French theologist of the Fourth Century, appear at their meetings. “But they added that if the Ascended Masters didn’t appear it was because the, students’ bodies didn’t keep harmony,” she said. ~ Government Attorney Norman Neukom read from’ the movement's magezine, ‘the Voice, a message” from St. Germain, which said: “One day I will show before you | in visible, tangible form. My good brother Jesus has seen fit to join me in this wondeful activity. I feel | very close to you dear ones—now doesn’t that seem chummy?” Told to Purify Bodies Mrs. Host testified that ad-| herents were taught to “purify”| their bodies, mentally, physically | and emotionally. “It is only in this manner that|: you could obtain your ascension,” she said. | “Jesus was described as! an Ascended Master. He came here | to purify his body and then went on.. ‘He got sick of the place.” Defense Attorney Carr asked Mrs. Host if the movement did not teach that when one ascended, one left a part of his physical body on earth, “No, sir,” she replied emphatically, “you were supposed to take your bodies with you.” She said the Ballards told 'their followers not to read the Bible. Federal Judge Leon R. Yankwich then recessed court until Tuesday.

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Olivia De Havilland . . . faces appendicitis operation.

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 14 (U. P.). —Stricken with appendicitis while in Sante Fe, N. M., for the pre- - miere of the .film, “Sante Fe Trail,” actress Olivia De Havilland was rushed by plane to Hollywood today for an emergency operation. May Robson, actress, also was stricken in Sante Fe and removed to an Albuquerque Hospital. If was reported She was suffering slightly from a condition brought about by the high altitude.

APPROVE NEW SCOUT HEADS

Ruddell President esinent ani Gratz Secretary of Indiana Council.

New officers and executive board members of the Indianapolis and Central Indiana Council, Boy Scouts of America, have been officially approved, it was announced today. The officers are Almus G. Ruddell, president; Harry. T. Ice, C. Otto Janus, Wilson Mothershead, William Schloss and Clarence &£. Sweeney, vice presidents; H., Foster Clippinger, treasurer;’ Wallace O. Lee, commissioner, and Homer { T. Gratz, secretary. C mmittee chairmen include Mri, 1: - advancement; Mr, Janus, Cc g and activities; J. Frank |Ho...}es, finance; Dr. C, A, Stayton, health and safety; DeWitt . Morgan, leadership training; F. E. | Glass, organization and extension; 'L. J. Badollet, public relations, and | Gregg Ransburg, senior scouting. | District chairmen are Richard | Adney, Boone County; Clayton | Cook, Clinton County; Fred A. Turner, Lew Wallace District; William { Huddleston, Hendricks County, and | Frank Moore, Shelby County. Executive board members for the coming year are Mr. Adney, Mr. | Badollet, Arthur R. Baxter, Mr. | Clippinger, Mr, Cook, F. C. Evans, | Mr. Glass, E. W, Harris, Mr, Holmes, ‘A. ». Hook, Mr. Ice, Mr. Janus, Harry V. Jones, Mr. Lee, L. C. M¢Namara, Frank Moore, Mr,- Mor-. gan, Mr. Mothershead, Gregg Ransburg, Harper J. Ransburg, Mr. Ruddell, Mr. Schloss, Walter Spencer, | Louis Starken, Dr. Stayton, James {A. Stuart, Clarence S. Sweeney, Fred A. Turner, George Vonnegut and Irvin Williams. The. Christmas Court of Honor will be held Wednesday at the|

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NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (U. P).—

& | Oren Root Jr., chairman of the As- | | sociated Willkie Clubs of America, told delegates from 36 states, | ing today to set up a permanent organization, that “so long as the

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country is in'vdanger, people who believe in the things in which you and I believe are patriotically bound to stand up and be counted.” Mr. Willkie, returned from a conferred with leaders before the meeting and Mr. Root said Mr. Willkie “asked me to say . that any organization which may be formed should ver clearly be entirely free from his political fortunes or the political fortunes of any other man or group of men.” The ‘plan reported under consideration was to rename the organization and designate it as a patriotic rather than a political one; to decentralize control, spreading it among state and local groups. Mr. Root said he was resigning as chairman bécause “future activity calls for joint responsibility and leadership rather than tor individual leaders : Mr. "Root said it was up to the delegates whether they wanted to form a permanent organization, but if they did, they should set up one criterion to judge “every proposal, every action, every idea.” The criterion should be, he said: “Is it good for my country? Not is it good . for the organization? . . for the Republican Party, or

bad for the Republican Party or the ‘| New Deal.”

Mr. Willkie goes to Washington tonight for the Gridiron dinner and returns tomorrow for a reception to be given by the Willkie clubs.

PATRIOTIC SOCIETY MEETS WEDNESDAY

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