Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1940 — Page 23
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FRIDAY, DEC. 20, 1940
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LISBON, Portugal—Our first night in Lisbon is still like a weird dream to me—neither especially good nor bad, just weird and confused. We docked around dusk. The two-hour trip up the Tagus River had been lovely. The sun was warm and shone blindingly on the smooth water. : : The shores were green and hilly and treeless, like the hills north of San Francisco. In the late-afternoon ~~ shadows they see soft and velvety. All the passengers were packed, and our bags were in the halls. We. all strolled the decks restlessly, writing possible future addresses for each other on scraps of paper. I had thought that as we approached the continent there would come over us all a feeling of closeness tq the war. But not so. When we sighted land we didn’t think to ourselves. “There it is, the continent of war.” Somehow it was ‘more a tourist's thrill at seeing a new place. A bunch of us were still chatting in the smoking room when Portuguese officials came aboard. Most of the passengers, like passengers everywhere, tried to be the first off. ; : But my. newspaper friend George Lait and I continued to sit. And pretty soon two Portuguese newsbapermen came aboard—one representing George's newspapers, one mine. We didn’t realize until this + morning how glad we should have been to see them.
Putting Up in a “Pension”
For they spoke a word about our baggage, and when we went out to the customs house the formal- + ities were brief and friendly. We each had six packs of American cigarets, and these were taken out and stamped, and given back to us. That was all. Our Portuguese friends said Lisbon was so crowded it was impossible to get a hotel room. So they had arranged for other quarters for us. Taxis were called. Portuguese flew right and left. George Lait and I shook hands and agreed to meet in the morning. And then,.crammed into tiny Portuguese taxis, we sped away. Ten minutes later two taxis drew up in front of a “pension” a couple of miles from downtown. Out of one stepped George Lait. And out of the other stepped I. Our men had unknowingly taken us to the same pension. I put out my hand and said “Dr. Lait, I presume.” ~ But it wasn’t so easily settled as that. Lisbon Is packed. On your first night in Lisbon you ‘sleep Where they put you—if you're lucky enough to find
Inside Indianapolis And “Our Town”)
FROM THE LOOKS OF THE Court House lawn, youd think the County was in the Christmas tree
business. But it; isn’t. Those rows of sawed-off ever--
greens offered for sale there represent private enterprise. It's been that way for about 20 years, but the County never has made a nickel on the deal. . : There are eight concessionaires 13 spaces around the grounds. As the Yule season approaches, Groundskeeper Fred Hohlt (no relation to County Commissioner Harry Hohlt), draws a plat of the Court House grounds on a piece of rough manila paper. A concessionaire comes in, deposits $10 and his name is entered in one of the spaces. At the close of the season, after the vendor has cleaned up the tinsel and debris, he goes back to Mr, Hohlt, who gives him his $10 and scratches off his name. Those are the only books kept on the whole thing. ’ A few years ago, some of the concessionaires fell to arguing over who gbt what spot. The Commissioners decided to put a stop to the annual event. But when Christmas time 1olled around, they relented and by a vote of 2-to-1 decided to continue business at the same old stand.
Stopped Just in Time
A BEVY OF BEAUTIES WHO hoped to be in Florida today almost got stranded in Indianapolis yesterday. They were aboard the “South Wind,” new
Washington
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—People are asking what it is that William S. Knudsen describes as the ‘“terrible urgency” of the situation. : Putting it in my own words, the substance of it as I gather it here is about as follows: * Hitler is expected to make his supreme effort to knock England out of the war just as soon as the weather permits. No one knows exactly when this will be but it probably will be in the late winter or early spring. One official puts it as roughly 90 days away. This ‘is understood as, Hitler's short cut to win the war. England is the heart of the resistance and ~ must be broken if Germany is : win. Hitler must strike in the y - near future because by early sum7 1. . 7 mer American production will +7iv begin to.count. His one chance is to. beat folly BoE planes,. ships and munitions to the firing line. : : England
holding
has made the best preparations she can ‘ for this crisis. But: her best is not enough to be * completely reassuring. Her own production is about at its peak. Transportation congestion, temporary ‘power interruptions, loss of machine-tool facilities, and bomb damage’ generally, ,are not laughed off as of no matter. Steady loss shipping is endangering England’s lines of supply from outside.
Help “Is Needed Now
England must hold during the expected attack or begin to resolve "The ,whole fu
the war is over with a German victory as complete as the conquest of France.
war material which can States during the next few weeks.
of production cannot take place quickly enough to
the next few weeks. : : If there is ‘to be any such increase as apparently
My Day
WASHINGTON, Thursday—Every day I receive and the novel experience of : trying to understand,
new ideas for ways in whigh we can help the British people. One is novel and interesting, and should be an outlet for some of our young people. The All-American football team ‘has been asked to be chairman’ of the football blankets and hoods committee of bundles for Britain. ;
eo The Bundles for Britain organization and the English speaking union will be glad to receive contributions of discarded .hoods and blankets at the Jefferson Hotel, Richmond, Va. They®will be sent to London for use by the people in the bomb cellars. They ask you ‘to leave on your school “or college colors, because they may add a bit of cheer to timgs and on conditions which must be a drab fortable part of existence. Boo lunch yesterday, Her Royal Highness, the . Princess * Juliana, with - Admiral-Baron . and Baroness de Vos Van Steenwyk, her gentleman and lady-in-waiting, arrived: They are delightful guests and I only hope they are hot heing worn ‘out by ‘our usual effort to show them more than they prob- ‘ ®
- ably desire tg see.
Princess Juliana 1s deeply interested in the Red
.'/ Cross, and this morning sheshas gone to our Red
b , Yesterday afternoon we drove to gross Ing on sated to enjoy the country
Hoosier Vagabond
. grabbed a door handle as it rolled by, swung aboard
By Ernie Pyle
anybody to put you anywhere. . George slept in the porter’s room of the pension. It was about 8 feet by 4. He woke up in the middle of the night, couldn’t think where he was, saw the size of the place, and thought to himself “Uh huh, Lait’s in jail again.” . As for me, I was led by a talkative French-speak-ing porter around the corner, down a narrow street, through a great heavily locked door, up many dark winding stairs, and finally into a room with one bare bed and one made up. There he left me. : In a minute a man came in who spoke some English. He was Austrian. As far as I could figure out, it was his and his mother’s apartment, and I had their spare room. : : The Austrian wanted to talk about the war. I didn’t want to talk about the war. But we talked about the war for two hours and more. Gradually the night turned colder. I began to shiver all over. Seeing at last my distress, the Austrian left around midnight. 4
It Could Be Worse
I havén’t been so cold in years. I went right to bed with all my clothes on. Sometime during the night I got the mattress off the other bed and piled it on me. - : When I awakened at 8 in the morning the porter was there ‘again, with coffee and rolls. I was too cold to eat. And thankful that I was already dressed. Today they have made other arrangements for us. George and I are sharing a twin-bed room on the third-floor-back of the pension. In case you don’t know, a pension is something haifway between 8 boarding house and a hotel, and from my slight experience with pensions in this and other countries, you can have them and welcome. ° Our room is not bad, excgpt we can’t see out of it, and the bath is down the hall and it isn’t much, and anyway there is always somebody else in it. - The rooms on each side of. us are filled with children, and they crack each dawn with screaming fits of Portuguese hysterics. Maybe we’ll be lucky and get into a hotel in a few days. Our friends from the S. S. Exeter had various luck. Some of the Frenchmen who had been here before did get hotel- rooms. The Hungarian priest has a bed so short his feet stick out the end and freeze at night. One Englishman has a sofa in the writing room of a swank hotel. The two Swedish girls are sleeping on cots in a hotel kitchen. The two British girls have bedbugs. Thus we go slapsticking into our European odyssey. But before it is over, I imagine each of us will look back with yearning for the Ritz-like first-night comforts of good old Lisbon. ‘
streamliner which made its inaugural run through here. The shiny train pulléd into Union Station right on time—1:02 p. m. Out clambored two publicity men, “Miss South Wind,” “Miss Miami,” “The Orange Bowl Queen” at least three more pretty girls and several official-looking persons. : While the press agents and girls were chatting with and smiling for the press, the train started slowly moving away. It was 1:05 p. m., and a schedule is a schedule to a streamlined engineer! The platform crowd started whooping and waving to the engineer. Nice sendoff, he thought and gaily waved back. One of the about-to-be-stranded gentlemen
and pulled the stop-cord. That saved the day.
It Was a Long Day
A YOUNG MAN WE KNOW went to work as usual at 8 a. m. the other day at Allison’s, He didn’t come home that night, and the next morning his
parents were pretty worried. But at 8 a. m. he called and said he had worked around the clock: and wouldn't be off until about 3 p. m. that afternoon. . . . Val Nolan Jr., son of the late U. S. District Attorney, is hanging up quite a scholastic record at Indiana University. We're told that if he continues to merit the same standard of grades until his graduation he will have established the highest four-year grade recorded since the University was established. . .. A night owl told us that there are only eight blue bulbs in the Monument Christmas decorations. All the rest are red and green. If you don’t believe it, count them.
By Raymond Clapper
is heeded, it will have to come first by our turning over additional shipping and second by turning over part of our own military stocks. President Roosevelt seemed to be preparing the way for such action when he said this week that planes and war materials were more useful to our defense if placed in British hands now than if kept in storage here. The war between Germany and Britain is going to a showdown. If Germany knocks England out, then the United States is left alone, still unable to defend both North and South America on two ocean fronts. Everything else will be in the hands of the Axis,
Our Future at Stake
That will mean that we shall have to dig in, with a far heavier preparedness program than we have now, with conscription for én indefinite period, with a degree of internal government control that will extend over the whole economy. We would have to live, as all Europe has had to live, under a state of perpetual war alert. If England stands up under the crisis it will mean that the irresistible force has met the immovable object. I don’t find much belief that Hitler caw be crushed -on the continent by an invasion. Blockade, interpal unrest, detesiorating morale might do it through a long war lasting for years, with both sides disintegrating. If the British cannot be beaten, then definite limitg will have *been set to Hitler's expansion and the disintegration of his muchroom land empire “will be hastened. When it is demon-
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By RICHARD LEWIS OR almost 10 years, City officials and civic leaders have seen their vision of an Indianapolis Police Department second to none in the: nation blocked by a stone
wall. Four walls, to be more accurate. The Walls of the City’s 19th century police headquarters. Built more than 50 years ago in a horse and buggy age, Police Headquarters now fits Indian-
apolis like a size 28 belt around a size 42 wajstline. * It’s a pretty tight squeeze. : “Dilapidated, disgraceful and disgusting,” are the adjectives W. Rowland Allen uses in describing it. And Mr. Allen is a member of the Police and Firemen’s Merit Board. “Conditions are damaging to police morale,” Mr. Allen charges and he has asked the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs to lend its support in remedying the situation. For years, there has been talk of giving Police Chief Michael F. Morrissey a new headquarters building to fit his ideas of a streamlined police force for a bigger, and still growing Indian- - apolis. Now, a group of downtown businessmen are tired of talking. They're ready to act as soon as they get the go sign from City Hall.
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HE businessmen feel that Headquarters is not only an eyesore. It actually handicaps police operation. They have come to the conclusion that Chief Morrissey and the Safety Board have exhausted ingenuity in remodeling the building to fit the police needs of a growing metropolis. * Year by year, they claim, the municipal waistline is growing. The belt is getting tighter. The squeeze is definitely uncomfortable. Over the coffee cups of a down-
' town luncheon group, a plan has
been evolved to finance the building of a new, multi-storied Police Headquarters by public subscription.
CHARLESTOWN WORK SPEEDED
Du Pont Expects to Start Production Ahead of Schedule.
Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today that du Pont company officials
strated that Hitler "has met his matgh, the erisis will ward a settlement. re of the world, our own future ie included, is staked on England during the next few The balance probably rests with the amounts of weeks.” For us it is a question of wheth=r our most be shipped from the United = useful friend is- to be wiped from-the face of the earth, whether the: last barrier betwéen us and the That is the point. . Help is needed now. Speedup deadly enemies of democracy is to be struck down. Some people see no great urgency in this situation. accelerate by very much the flow of supplies during Our officials do see great urgency, terrible urgency. I believe. their judgment of this situation is sound, and. true, to our own national interegt. ; :
By Eleanor Roosevelt
have decided to get two of the six production lines at the Charlestown, Ind., powder plant into production in the spring, two or three months ahead. of schedule. : Mr. Stimson referred to the Charlestown plant in reporting in-
sponsored construction of munitions plants and the building of canton- . |ments for Selective Service trainees. Meanwhile, National Defense Council officials were studying a request from Governor M. Clifford Townsend of Indiana, that the city of Charlestown be designated as a defense area. If this is done, WPA funds can be spent on improvements
creased progress in the Government |g
+ She is here studying gynecology and will then re-
what an old-time American plantation was. like in the 1700's. The scent of the box in the garden was noticed at once and enjoyed, when we walked through on our way back th the cars. The Princess Juliana joined me in receiving the foreign students 1 the afternoon. The two Dutch students, who had last been presented to her in Holland two years =go, were, of course, greally pleased to see her here. She remarked ® afterward on the interesting faces of the young people as they went by, anid was much impressed by the four who . were interviewed on the radio. It was rather thrilling to see the first girl graduate as a doctor in Haiti.
turn to serve the women of her own island. In the evening, we attended the concert given by the National Symphony Orchestra, with Dr. Hans Kindler conducting. As a special attention to the princess, this orchestra played a well-known Dutch ¥song. r. Joseph Szigeti, who appeared as the guest artist, is, of course, a great-violinist and we all enjoyed the concert very much. 5 At about 12:30 this morning I took our guests to -see the President in his office and then we had an informal luncheon. Later in the afternoon the Princess will go to her own legation to attend a reception. : ~ I am so thankful that the weather is at its very best. While, for us it is fairly cool, our guests, who ‘already have snow several feet deep all around them in Canada, exclaim about how pleasant it is to be in such a warm cilmate. : hi
in the town without a sponsor’s contribution. : Governor Townsend said that the city needed a $300,000 school build-
ing and a sewage extension which|
would cost $100,000.
Under the present situation, the}
city would have to put up 25 per cent of the amount needed as a sponsor’s contribution. The city is without fumds now and mew taxes
will not come into the city’s coffers
for some time yet, the Governor explained. \
EVANS NEW HEAD OF HONOR ‘SOCIETY
William: Evans has been elected president of the Shortridge High School thapter of Honor Society. = " : Joyce Smith is secretary-treasurer
and divisional heads are Fred Rass-| |
mann, Irving Sablosky a Huston. Seventy seniors, 1 of/ the graduating cl
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Still in the tentative stage, the plan has been discussed at City Hall. But no action has been taken on it. There is no question of the need of a new headquarters at City Hall. The question is how soon? Business leaders and Chief Morrissey feel the need is immediate. They are supported by several members of the Safety Board. Mayor Sullivan, with whom the final word rests, is inclined to approach the proposition more cautiously. The need is there, he admits, but he also feels the police can get along with what they have until the City is in a more favorable financial position to undertake a $250,000 enterprise. ” ” 2 HIEF MORRISSEY is a warm advocate of police streamlining. In personnel, through the merit system, he has been able to supplement the force in the past five years with young, alert men. He believes they would be considered the cream of any police force anywhere. Freed from political control, he has been able to shuffle the older men into jobs he thinks they do best. He has sent men to the FBI Schools at Washington, D.C., to keep abreast of new developments. His traffic men have attended special schools at the University of Michigan and Purdue University. An executive of the International Association of Police Chiefs, he is constantly in touch with new procedures developed by experts over the country. : But while he can improve personnel, he is limited in the scope
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THIRD SECTION
Ph ONL FOES. EEE 1 RR CS TR TR EAT PL MECC Te as | 0 EE RATNER TP.
1. Double deck files in the Bertillon room at police headquarters give a good indication of crowded conditions: At work on the records are Patrolman J. W. Vaughn, on ladder; and Patrolman Victor Houston. 2. Exterior of the 19th century police station, replacement of
of mechanical improvements to the ‘antiquated four walls of Headquarters which was designed for a city half the present size of Indianapolis. Hidden away in the corner of the Police garage, for instance, is one of the nation’s best-equipped police laboratories. They call it one of “Mike Morrissey’s miracles” this lab, where not an inch of space is wasted. Equipment lines the walls like the units of a modern kitchen. But when new equipment comes, it takes hard thinking to find the room for it. : ” ” t J UST outside this room are the roar and fumes of police car motors. The garage is too small to house the motorized equipment. Part of the equipment is outside
the building, in a tiny parking lot. One of the newer mechanical developments is the lie detector. But there wasn’t room at headquarters to install a lie detector room. In 1890, there wasn’t anythink like that. : Chief Morrissey has made room —in a tiny mezzanine he has had constructed in the roll call room of the detective department. To keep up with new methods,
It's Bad News if Air Cadet Puts Clothespins on the Line
FT. WORTH, Tex. Dec. 20 (U. P.).—When a ‘dodo bird” makes a “ground loop” he'd better prepare for a “wash tub ride” and pray that it won’t be a “wash-out.” In plain English, that means: When a rookie Army Air Corps cadet’ misjudges the landing field, he'd better get ready to take a test flight with the Commanding Officer and pray that he won't be dropped from the service. It's the’ vernacular of the air corps, as used at Hicks training field here. Here are a few more items from the Air Corps glossary: Dodo—A rookie underclassman, a rare bird that has wings but can’t
y. « Ground loop—The spinning movement of a plane when a cadet brings it go earth and the rudder gets away from°®him on touching the ground. Wash tub ride—A flight taken with the Army captain to determine whether the cadet is to be dropped from service. Wash out—Dropped from service. Wash tub—The plane used for wash tub rides. s Hanging the wash—When a cadet
is washed out, he must hang a clothespin on the “wash line” in the mess hall before leaving for home. Check ride—A flight taken with the Flight Commander to determine whether the cadet needs the wash tub ride. : Getting the lemonade—Another term for wash out, derived from the word “elfminate,” via “liminate,” “leminate,” “lemonade.” Crash tag—Bracelet worn by cadets taking their first solo filight as a means of quick identification in case of a crash. Stuffed cloud—A mountain with a cloud around it. 2 In a flat spin—Synonymous with “he’s goofy” or he ‘doesn’t know the score.” Sinker—A dangerous convection or down draft that pushes the plane’§ nose down. Hedge hopping—Flying too low. The old man—The Commanding Officer. Keep your nose down on the turns —Advice to cadets to avoid letting the ship’s nose point up when making a bank or a turn. . They pulled his number out of the hat—Grim terminology to describe’s a cadet’s fatal crack-up.
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which by a modern $250,000 building is being urged by prominent businessmen. 3. Corp. Robert Murnan looks for a piece of evidence in the property room. i 4. Mechanics at work under difficulties in the police garage.
police have to spend several hours a week in classrooms. Classrooms weren’t provided 50 years ago. : But the Chief has made room for at least one. It’s in the “show room” where the daily line-up is
reviewed at 8 a. m. behind the :
lighted screeii. After the line-up is over, police can go to school. Another Jniracle has wrought in the basement... Thousands of dollars worth of prop-
erty and evidence is stored down
there. ‘The basement is also broken up into the paint shop, maintenance room, mimeograph room, supply room, record room and locker rpom. Adidtional pace has been gained by the elimination of the chicken room—where stolen chickens were once stored—and the use of the abandoned furnace room as a stor-
second floor, the Bertilrn—where the finger-
serve as offices. They rge enough for a big a small desk, or vice
GUARDIAN HOME SALE IS TALKED
Bradshaw Gives Tentative 0. K. to Irvington Clubs’ Plan.
Guardians Home in Irvington for a hospital or an apartment received the provisory approval today of Judge Wilired Bradshaw of the Juvenile Couist. Irvington riasidents have filed an injunction suit seeking to block moving the [Detention Home from W. New York St. to the Children’s Guardians Home at 5751 University Ave, The move to Irvington would also include establishment of a ‘social clinic” by the Juvenile Court and
Guardians Home. : Seek Huyer for Home Judge Bradshaw said he felt that if the Guardians Home could be sold and the money used to provide a place equally advantageous to the needs of the Welfare Department and the Juvenile Court, he could see no objection to it. He said, however, that until a satisfactory sile could/be completed,
fare Department and County Com-
|missioners, would continue to fight
the . Irvingtory residents’ suit. : The suggestion for the sale of the Guardians Home was made by the Irvingtor. Union of Cluhs. It is expected that they will attempt to find a buyer for the property. Any such ssle would have to be
{approved by County Commissioners.
Ailm—“Oul of Court House”
-:Judge: Bradshaw said any satis-
factory solution to the problem of
* {crowded - conditions’ both at the . |Juvenile: Court and: the Detention| Home.
been
A plan to sell the Children’s
the Welfare Department at the
he and other defendants, the Wel-
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The Chief's office itself, larger than most of the offices, is the size
“of a medium kitchen. The Chief's
desk takes up about a third of floorspace. New office space has been taken from the corridors, some of which are so narrow two persons cannot pass unless one flattens against the wall. The second floor bull pen is overcrowded, with inadequat sanitary facilities. ot The third floor cells for women are sometimes so crowded that six persons are crowded in a cell with only two bunks. Three persons can sleep in each bunk if the one in the middle rests with
. his head at the others’ feet.
Police clerks and patrolmen who use the files daily have gotten used to the bugs. There's a dispute on at the Station just what these bugs are—some think they're ordinary cockroaches. They seem to thrive in the building, jumping unexpectedly out of a desk drawer or a file when it is opened sud-
denly. ; In addition to the police activities, two courts of municipal criminal division are held at the Police Station. The courtrooms aren't very big and nearly always crowded, close and stuffy. In the headquarters for 500 men;. there is no place for the men to: clean up and change clothes aftera day’s work. There is no, hot: running water. For police as well as prisoners, sanitary facilities are ' inadequate. ' The belt has been let out to very last notch and it is still tight. .
House is no place for a Juvenile Court.” re The Juvenile Court has been in the Court House since its founding in 1903. The only move ‘made sinca then was when it was transferred across the hall in 1910, according to ‘Judge Bradshaw.
FETES O. E. S. GROUP
Mrs. Ralph Wikoff, 5525 E. Raye mond St., entertained the Electa Group of the 11th District, Order of the Eastern Star, at a Christmas party last night. She was assisted by Mrs. Florence Baker and Mrs. Janice Sparrow. Mrs. Dorethy Mars vel was in charge of the program.
TEST YOUR . KNOWLEDGE
1—How many times has the pope
lation census been taken in the |: °
United States? 2—The number of insects known to: science totals 50,000, 250,000 or 750,000? 3—Which New England State has no seacoast? 4—On which continent is the Zambezi River? 5—Which candidate for President of the United States spent the entire period of his campaign in jail? : 6—Who is the new chairman of the
National Labor Relations Board?
7—What do the initials U. 8. P. H, S. stand for?
8—Who painted “Baby Stuart”?
Answers 1—Sixteen. 2—1750,000. 3—Vermont. 4—Alrca. 5—Eugene V. Debs. 6—Dr, Harry A. Millis. ri T—United States Public Health © Service. : : 8—Van Dyck. ’ #0. 8
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