Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1941 — Page 14

. Its population of 172,172 in - 1940

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TEN TOP CITIES SAME AS IN'30

Washington Is Now 11th; Miami Shows Most Rapid . Population Growth.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P.).— “The city of Washington has climbed from 14th to 11th place since 1930 ‘in the list of the United States’ largest cities, final 1940 census "figures revealed today. ® There were 663,091 Washington--ians compared with 486,869 in 1930. The increase was attributed to the “great influx of Government workers. Miami, Fla., showed the most rapid population growth, jumping all the way from 78th to 48th place.

represented a 55.6 per cent increase over the 1930 count of 110,637. Other cities with large increases were San Diego, Cal., 37.4 per cent; Jacksonville,” Fla., 33.6 per cent; Houston, Tex., 31.5 per cent; Charlotte, N. C., 22 per cent, and Los Angeles, 21.5 per cent. The figures covered only cities .of more than 100,000 population. “Indianapolis, is twentieth in the - nation, having climbed from twen-ty-first. The only change in the position of the 10 largest cities was a reversal of We positions of Baltimore and St. Loui Final I inion figures for the 10 largest cities are: 1930

1940 New York ......7,454995 6,930,446 Chicago ........,3,396,808 3,376,438 Philadelphia ....1,931,334 1,950,961 " Detroit .........1623452 1,568,662 Los Angeles ..,..1,504,277 1,238,048 Cleveland ....... 878,336 900,429 804,874

Baltimore ....... 859,100 821,960

Committee Probed; Hints | German Preaching.

By FRED W, PERKINS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 3--There are laws to cornpel disclosure of the men and money behind foreign efforts to influence the country’s political thinking, but none fo deal with American propaganda on today’s most important subjec¢t—-how closely the United States shall flirt with involvement in the European war. : Half a dozen “committees” on lecting money and using it spread their views. ~ The State Department said today it did not know exactly how many committees were working, nor who was behind them, nor what they were doing. A law compels tHe registration of agents for foreign governments, buf it does not apply to American citizens trying to build up . public sentiment for or against upsiinted aid to the British. Most active currently are the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (from which Wil« liam Allen White résigned yesterday as chairman, with the apparent understanding that he would beconie honorary chsirman); the America First Committee, and the No Foreign War Committee. Senator Josh Lee (D. Okla), an advocate of full aid to the| British, said today that he was corisidering a resolution for an investigation of the No Foreign War Committee. “There’s a startling similarity between its preachings and those of

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Senator Josh Lee. . . . Sees a ‘startling ~ similarity ‘to German propaganda.’ | to the argumenis in the Senate by: members who are isolationists, Liat whose patriotista is not questiondd. “In particular, I'd like to’ heve an investigation, of William Rhoces Davis, who hag offered “to finarice the No Foreign | war Committee, sccording to the committee’s chairman, Verne Marshall. Mr. Davis, it is reported, liad a financial ccnnection with Berlin through selling Mexican oil to Germany in the months before the war broke out.” Senator Lee’s interest was ccnfined to the ong committee, and no other Senate 0; House member lias publicly shown ja. disposition to lgok into the backgr bund of all the veri-

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(The following dispatch, written aboard a British flying boat far out over the North Atlantic, deseribes how British fliers ‘escort convoys of war materials:

port.) By NED D RUSSELL United Press Staff . Correspondent ABOARD A BRITISH FLYING BOAT OVER THE NORTH AT-

.|LANTIC, Jan. 3.—This is the story

of a typical night in the lives of 12 young men of the Royal Air Force coastal command—youths who are

charged ' with the aay-and-night task of a protecting Britain's over-

'|seas trade from Adolf Hitler's

blockade. These are the men "who roar over the wilderness of the North Atlantic in 25-ton flying warships to clear the ocean trade routes of Nazi U-boats and surface raiders and soar over little clusters of ships crawling through the waves to bring food to Britain’s 45,000,000 inhabitants and material for her war machine from the United States and Canada. - : It is cold here in the ward room. The oil in my typewriter is getting stiff and my fingers are numb. The story begins early this afternoon on the coast of Scotland.

Orders Changed

Bill, the chief pilot and captain of the Sunderland; Butch, his second pilot and Lofty the chief air gunner, and I were sitting around a fire after lunch wondering how we would spend the evening. We were scheduled to fly ai dawn”—a few hours befors dawn so we could pick up a convoy coming to England from across the Atlantic. Suddenly Bill was called to the telephone. He came back and announced: “Orders have been changed. “We take off in an hour to relieve the other fellows who are coming back. We will get out there

about dusk and patrol over them

until after midnight and then come back home.”

14-Hour Flight We took off for a 14-hour flight in a battle against starvation in Britain. The din of the engines pounded incessantly in our ears as we roared over the smooth sea into the afternoon sun. The cold became intense. I am dressed in fur-lined flying togs of boots and trousers but they don’t even keep-out the cold. Hours passed. Nobody talked much. All the conversation was carried on through an intricate telephone system linking the 12men aboard. What talk there was was limited to the business of flying this war machine—reports on the course, the weather and radio advices from shore. Finally the navigator reported we were near where the convoy should be. Then the wireless operator, using a special instrument—a sort of “magic eye”—told me: “The convoy is about five miles ahead and a little to starboard.” -

“We Are Here”

Bill maneuvered the Sunderland in the swiftly falling twilight. Then he pointed out a small black shadow which crept out of the dim light— the first ship of the convoy.

Then other shadows. appeared. Butch seized the flash lamp apd signalled: “Hello. We are here.” There was no response from the ship because it wasn’t worth risking an announcement of their positions in case any German ships were hovering near enough to see the flash. We began the patrol, over and around the convoy. . Midnight came and we headed back toward Britain.

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ways than those who are idle. That, at least, was the experience last year of the Criminal Court Probation Department. Of the average of 129 persons on probation during 1940 from that court, only 13 failed to “make good.” Probation Officer A. G. Cooley credited this to the fact that most of the probationers obtained jobs. And, carrying the matter a step further, he attributed the fact that so many jobs were available to the probationers due to the upswing in employment, and to the fact that employers have a better understanding of the problems of the probationers and are more willing to give them a chance.

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The conversion of its bulletin from a mon to a weekly and the establishment of downtown offices were stressed yesterday as major accomplishments of the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce

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