Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1940 — Page 11

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LEGAL EXPERTS POINT TO WIDE "F.D.R. PONER

Doubt New Proclamation Necessary to Spur Defense Program.

“By NED BROOKS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—A proclamation asserting the “imminence of war,” now being urged on PresiMent Roosevelt by some as a way to spur the defense program, would be merely a repetition’of a declaration issued 15 months ago, legal authorities said today. When the. President on Sept. 5, 1939, proclaimed military rule over the Panama Canal zone, he went as far toward declaring the imminence of war as he could go in any new edict, these authorities asserted. Mr. Roosevelt issued this proclamation “by virtue of the power and authority vested in me” by the statute governing administration of the Canal. This statute provides that military rule can be prescribed for the zone only when we are at war “or when, in the opinion of the President, war is imminent.”

Legal Opinion Varies

The Panama Canal act is one of 100-odd statutes conferring unusual powers on the President and other officials in time of emergency. These acts define in various ways the circumstances under which they may be invoked. Some permit executive action in a “national emergency”; others stipulate a “threat” or “imminence” of war. Most authorities contend that a new proclamation would give Mr. Roosevelt no more powers than he now possesses under the individual statutes. .Legal opinion varies on the lengths to which ‘the President might go in invoking many of the emergency powers, and the Justice Department a year ago declined a Senate request for an analysis of this authority. A report submitted by Justice Murphy, then Attorney General, merely listed the statutes containing emergency provisions.

Possible Moves Listed

Other sources, however, have compiled digests of the acts, disclosing the scope of the President’s authority in times of giress. Among the ‘moves \which Mr. Roosevelt could take are: Put the Coast Guard into the Navy. .Establish limited censorship by designating places. about which information could not:be published. Make service promotions without regard to seniority in various

grades. ee Establish temporary forts. Waive the eight-hour-day law on Government contracts. Suspend tariffs on food, clothing and medical supplies. Impose stringent regulation on foreign exchange and domestic cur-

Otto Abetz... returns to France with new power.

ABETZ IS POWER AS NAZI ENVOY

Diplomat Close to Hitler Gives Petain Orders and Laval Is Freed.

Times Special PARIS, Dec. 19—Exceeding in fact any fiction about the poor young pacifist and internationalist who became the rich servant of dictators is the story of Otto Abetz, German Ambassador to occupied France, who at the request of Adolf Hitler forced the release from custody of Vice Premier Pierre Laval after \the latter had been ousted by Marshal Phillipe Petain. Abetz, still this side of 40, is the son of a poorly paid German estate manager. After finishing his schooling he became a drawing teacher. He was a confirmed pacifist. Then the same fate that grabbed a wine salesman named Ribbentrop, put him in close touch with Hitler and thus made possible his being German Foreign Minister, put Abetz across the path of the cabineteer. Ribbentrop quickly made him an ardent Hitlerite. : Ribbentrop, back in 1938, sent his

young pupil to Paris as a sort of unofficial agent of his own. ‘Then Premier Edouard Daladier discovered a widespread network of Nazi espionage, Abetz was considered the head of it. June 30, 1939, he was kicked out of France. A little more than a year after that event, Hitler sent that same

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PURDUE TO HOLD

Engineering Students to ‘Receive Pay and Rating As Second Lieutenants.

An Army Air Corps engineering school will open at Purdue University on Jan. 6, one of two such engineering courses to be established in the country. ; The other school to train engineering officers for the air: arm, will be opened at New York University. : Instruction at the universities will be, limited to airplane engineering and design. Afterwards, students will enroll in the airplane mechanics course. at the Air Corps Technical School, Chanute Field, Rantoul, Ill. . The two courses will require nine months. Although engineering students will receive no pilot training, they will be known as Flying Cadets and will receive some pay and allowances. Upon completion of the school, they will be commissioned second. lieutenants in the Air Corps Reserve and will be assigned to regular Army units as squadron engineering officers.

Stop af That Second Drink

. . KANSAS CITY, Mo. Dec. 19 (U. P.) —If three drinks make you feel good, you'd better stop at two next time. That's the advice of Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, head of the department of physiology and pharmacology at Northwestern. University Medic School. He said that alcoholism: was one of the five major health problems of the country. The best remedy ' for a hangover, he said, is to stop with that second drink. «iff An interviewer asked Dr. Ivy: “How about drinking with your meals—a cocktail, white wine, red wine, a little brandy, one scotch and soda? How does that soun to you?” : “To me,” he replied, “it just sounds like a lot of alcohol.”

ENGLEWOOD LODGE SETS INSTALLATION

Englewood Lodge 715, F. & A. M.,, will install new officers at 7:30 p. m. Saturday in the lodge hall, 2716 E. ‘Washington St. Melvin C. Bartle will become worshipful master. Other new officers are: H. Audley Woosley, -senior warden; Hal E. Sconce, «junior warden; William T. Quillin, treasurer; Roy W. Allred, secretary; Edward B. Branch, senior: deacon; ‘William P. Ramsey, senior steward; Theodore H. Ellis, junior steward, and Arthur Anderson, tyler. Edward Hinton has been elected’ a trustee for three years. Lloyd M. Thompson, Chester Ward and Frank, T. Yates will be the installing officers. : A Christmas party will follow the installation.

'M’GUFFEY SOCIETY

The Indignapolis McGuffey Society will hold its annual Christ= mas party tomorrow evening at the Y. W. C. A. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p. m. and a Christmas program will follow. H. F. Bond, Mrs. Lucy Milne, Mrs. Albert Keys, Mrs. Evelyn Keown and Henry Reynolds ' are in charge. - iy A. E. Rettig is president of the society. .

SCIENTISTS TO ‘HEAR BUTLER PROFESSOR

Dr. John E. Patzger, Butler University botany professor, will read two papers to the American Association . for the Advancement of Science at its conference Dec. 27 to Jan. 1 at Philadelphia, Pa. He will describe the characteristics of the forests in northern Wisconsin and upper Michigan and, in collaboration with Dr. Ira T. Wil-

son of Tiffin, O., will present another paper on bog formations.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1940

(Fourth of six articles on the new bread for defense.) ;

For years a tall, gray-haired doctor has gone around the countryside, chiefly the Southern countryside, begging tenant farmers and any poor peoplewith a little bit of yard by their house to plant vege-

to it that they got seed for the gardens and directions about the planting and growing of vegetables. He is Dr. William De Kleine, medical assistant of the American Red Cross. He begged poor people ‘to plant vegetables so they would have vitamin-rich foodS to fight their vitamin famine. For years achemist worked nights, Saturday afternoons and Sundays in his garage, where he cooked and extracted and analyzed thousands of pounds of rice polishings, the vitamin-rich stuff that is thrown away when rice is pol-

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ished to snowy, gleaming white kernels. He is Dr. R. R. Williams chief chemist of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. His years of spare-time work in a garage-laboratory resulted in the isolation -and chemical synthesis of thiamin, formerly known as vitamin Bl, the antiberiberi vitamin which we are going to put back into our flour and bread. ; For years ‘a brown-eyed woman with a warm, friendly smile has gone around the country,

asking | housewives what they buy at the

grocery, what they cook for their families’ ‘meals, how many dollars they have to spend for food. She

is Dr. Hazel Stiebeling, senior food

economist, of the U! S. Bureau of Home Economics, whose years of querying housewives has shown how many million Americans must live on starvation diets sc far as being able to buy vitamins and minerals are concerned. ‘ For years a stalwart young Texan

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families in Birmingham ‘and Cincinnati. He even included the pets because the family dog or cat suffers vitamin famine, too. He is Dr. Tom D. Spies, of the University of Cincinnati and Hillman Hospital, Birmingham, who has been getting these sick people back on their feet and back to work with good diets and doses of vitamin chemicals, only to have them return every spring sick again: with ¥itamin famine from their poor et. . For years a doctor in New York has worked over the nervous wrecks, the palsied, the alcohol crazed men and women, the demented who are

brought to the wards of Bellevue,

Hospital, trying every way known to science for restoring their sanity and health. He is Dr. Norman Jolliffe, of New York University: and Bellevue Hospital, who has found in vitamins the means of helping many of these tragic wrecks of hu-

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For Years They've Toiled—These Bread Revolutionists

in the bread and flour revolution. They are only a few, because to name all the men and women leadin gthis revolution would be to call the roll of Who's Who in vitamin and nutrition research. " These few are typical, however, of practicing physicians, laboratory scientists, government experts and food processing researchers who have recognized for years that vitamin famine stalks the land and who have clamored, in the quiet way of scientists, for a new kind of flour and a new kind of bread,

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CENTURY-OLD CROSS FOUND SAN ANTONIO, Tev., Dec. 19 (U. P.).—A century-old cross intricately carved with minute designs—including three dies énd a pair of pliers— has been placed in a shrine here. It was discovered recently in Laredo,

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ANNUAL YULE TALK

Every year at Christmas time Judge Wilfred Bradshaw goes out to the home of the Tillman H., Har« pole Post 249, American Legion, and gives a talk te the children of the community. The post puts up a tree and has a party for them. One year about 400 attended and this year the veterans are getting ready to entertain 350 at the 1940 party, set for 4 p. m. Saturday. Judge Bradshaw usually tells the children the opportunities they have in life and advises them to. stay out of trouble. He knows something of this latter matter, for he’s judge of Juvenile Court. The day before Christmas the post will deliver 25 or 30 baskets of food to needy families. . Robert E. Skelton is post come mander and Van Parrot is adjutant, Judge Bradshaw was district Legion commander when the post was ore

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