Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1941 — Page 9

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“WEDNESDAY, JAN._I5, 1941

Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie Pyle

.... LONDON (by wireless).—Food isn't a very romantic subject. - You've never heard of a medal for valor being presented to a war hero because he lived on one meal a day. The girls don't flock around the

English farmer who makes two potatoes grow where only one grew before. Bul believe me, food in this war as in most other wars is only a jump or two behind planes and big guns in importance. And as each month passes the food problem will become increasingly vital to both sides. Ultimately, perhaps years from now, it may be that food will decide who is to win this war. ‘It is too early yet for any food shortage to begin making deep

marks on the warring populations.’

go They say food ig still plentiful in Germany, and I know that England is in good shape. That is obvious to anybody who just eats around. "4. There is rationing, of course. Prices are high, and gome things are so scarce they have almos: ceased to exist. But of the basic things that are nceded to keep body and soul together, the situation in London hasn’t reached any dead seriousness. “Dispersal” is becoming more and more the theme of England in wartime—dispersal of troops, of factories, of children, of food. The bombings have brought that about. Scatter every vital thing all over England in tiny Units and small groups—that’s the keynote. Today only 80,000 of London’s one million children are left in the city. They are all over England.

# What Rationing Means

They tell me that the soldiers, with some exceptions, eat and sleep in groups no larger than 30.

Army trucks are always parked a good 50 yards apart:

50 a single bomb won't get more than one of them. Factories have branches everywhere. And as for food, it is stored in thousands of nooks and crannies all over Great Britain. . England began working out a wartime food-con-trol plan four years before the war started. It even had all the ration books printed and waiting months before the war. _ The first rationing was not put in effect until four . months after the war started—that is, last January. Bacon, butter and sugar were the first: iteins dealt with. - “ The term rationing is often misleading. When a certain food is rationed, that does not necessarily mean the country is running short of it. 1t means that the government considers this particular food to

be essential, and so it begins raioning to conserve a surplus for the far future. - Alsc, many things are rationi:d to insure an gqual distribution—so the rich people won't eat up ail the things the poor couldn’t afford if there were no such controls. | | ° Today in England it is alm)st impossible to get onions, raisins, eggs, lemons or ‘heeses. Yet nope of these things is rationed, because the government: considers them nonessential to stur:ly, healthy living. It is ready to let them go out of e:istence for the duration. ! Today rationing applies to tiie following iteras in the following ways: . f BACON AND HAM—Four ounces a week per person. (Peacetime consumption averages 5.6 ounces.) BUTTER—Two ounces of butter and four oinces of margarine a week. (Before jhe war, people averaged seven ounces of butter.) . SUGAR—Eight ounces a weet. (Consumption has been cut more than half; it used ta be 17 ounces on the average.) | TEA--T'wo ounces. (Pre-war| consumption wis 2.9 ounces.) But tea is not really short in England, as you can get it in any restaurimat and nearly every grocery. Consumption is down ¢nly about one-fcurth. MEAT--The rationing of miat is based on price rather than weight, because uv] the many quelities available. People today are allcwed to buy one shilling tenpence, or about 37 cent; worth of mea} per person per week. This means about two pounds of fair beef. Fowl is not rationed and there is a good

supply. ‘ He'd Like More Sugar The ‘government makes mistakes that cause some confusion, as all governments do. For example, in dealing with rabbits the goverr ment set a maximum price for the retailers but none for wholesalers. [As a result, ‘the grocerymen must pay 17 cents a pound for rabbits | more than 15 cents. The upshot is that pleniy of rabbits are wasting away in werehouses. The cut in sugar is probably what pains the average Englishman most. The English people have always been used to tremendou quantities of sugar, probably a great deal more then was good for them. Doctors think this cutting of sugar consumpticn in half will be a fine thing for th: national blood pressure. Back in Lisbon I kept slippiig cubes of sugar into my pocket from the hotel table, and I arrived here with about 20. So for a whil: I had an extra one to drop in each cup of coffee but they're all gone now. If I were making this tiip over again I yrould throw away my shirts and kring three pounds of sugar. ~. : | |

Inside Indianapolis (“nd “Our Town")

. ONE OF THE THINGS you ought to know about {s the plunger with which they clean the pipe line finning from the Texas Panhandle to Defroit and Which supplies that city with natural gas . Every once in a while they put a plunger in the Texas end of the pipe. The pressure of the: gas pushes it slowly toward Detroit, cleaning the pipe as it goes. One of the stations for the line is at Zionsvile. There's a man out there who puts his ear to the pipe when the plunger is due along, and he can tell by the noise how far away it is. - When the plunger reaches - Zionsville, it is sidetracked into a chamber. From there it is lifted out, and then cleaned. - Then it is replaced in the main pipeline: and continues its way on to Detroit. When it reaches there it is lifted out, cleaned, and shipped back to the Texas terminus by rail, to begin thé journey all over .. again, : : ‘

Need an Officer, Chief?

EVEN IN THE BEST regulated Safety Boards, some odd things cccur once in a while. Tae yester= day morning, for instance. The meeting broke up at City Hall, and the members began to lzave. . Suddenly it became apparent to Police Chief Morrissey that some one else had his overcoat. He hurried to inspect the coats of -departing mer bers. “Sure that’s your coat?” he asked all who were still there. . “Yep,” all replied. i Chief Morrissey figured he was out a coat and called a police squad car to take him back to Head-

,Washington

. 1 ‘ WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Let those who won't take President Roosevelt's word for it ponder the statement of Wendell willkie in support of the Adminis-

tration war-aid bill. ; His arguments are the more convincing because, as the Republican Presidential candidate, Mr. Willkie spent months warning the country of the dangers;of excessive executive power. So when he says Mr, Roosevelt ought to .1ave more power in this emergency, perhaps there is something in it. Mr. Willkie says we must not slip into the fallacy of depriving

this Administration of necessary *

powers just because this Administration has displayed an undue fondness for power. : The term dictatorship is confusing.” We now associate it with the modern tyrants and have forgotten that the Administrative dictator . was a temporary device used repeatedly by the ancient democracies when they were in danger. In Rome the administrative dictator held office for six months. It was the only way of meeting emergencies and it served to save the democracies.

The World As a Whole

" Democracy has never. been able to furction in a is without temporarily giving large power to one man. That necessary protective device should not be confused with imposed tyranny. Such is: the distinction which is implied in Mr. Willkie’s “indorsement of the war-aid bill. He properly wents a time restriction inserted, so that’ the powers will lapse

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automatically. , _ Also Mr. Willkie gets away from the lrypothetical .. Speculation ‘as to whether Hitler could land an army in the United States, which is made by some tne only test of whether we should Ye coficerned about , the outcome in Europe. Mr. Willkie says we must see the world as a whole. He says the difference /

My Day =

7 WASHINGTON, Tuesday —Yesterday afternoon _ Wwe had a charming musical at the White House. ‘Eugene List, the young pianist, made me feel that I Would selfishly like to drop in some time when he was playing for his own pleasure, and ask him to ; . run over many of the things which I like bést and which I remember having had played to me when I was a child, artists yesterday were. young.

‘William Horne has a lovely voice

and ‘his program was delightfully ~ chosen. Everyone - tho whom I spoke afterward tolc. me. that they enjoyed the afternoon. Maurice Davidson came in late for tea to tell me something more of the trip to Mexico with Vice i President-elect and Mrs. Wallace. oS I gather they all had a most suc- " gessful time. Mr. Davidson is the president of the * Society of American Friends of Mexico and has a ecial interest in the development of friendly relajons between us and the Mexican government and

- aople. i * #These days before the and Miss Thompson,

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, pleasant party, for it will not be too large.

inauguration are particularly

quarters. Just as he was leaving, Donald Morris, a board member, re-entered the Board foom, breathlessly. | | “I've got some one’s coaf” he said, and sure enough, it was the Chief’s. | i They are identical. Only {he Chief's had a pair of gloves in'the pocket, whicli Mr. Morris found to discover his error. fe

| Jack Harding Writes Book

SCHEDULED FOR Marct| publication by The Bobbs-Merrill Co. is a book entitled “I Like Brazil” by Jack Harding. The autho; is Indianapolis’ Jack. Harding, presently transplanted in Hollywood swwhere he and lis wife both are writing for the movies. He gathered the material while h2 and his novelist wife were in Brazil last summer. ¢

Sevitzky—And Peppermint

PEOPLE—AT LEAST the nore observant concert

_goers—hdve been asking shyly whether or not Fabien

Sevitzky has to take medicine while he is condtcting the Indianapolis Symphony Crchestra. Bs

The answer is that he do‘s not. What he does

* filch from the pocket of his white vest now and then

and pop into his mouth are the old-fashioned round white peppermint candies. | He has worked it out now so that he can get eight of them into the pocket | which thus constitutes his candy diet during a concert. ! No cine has reported seein: him eat these af any time but during a concert. i

Identifying Yourself | :

WHEN YOUNG: men of draft age apply these days for library cards, the penn identifies then; and their addresses from regiStrat on cards, and not from the city directory, as usual, |

By Raymond Clapper

between a British defeat of victory would "he not

only military but economic. | He says that if Ger-

many wins the war and the {rade routes of the world are closed to us, or are openid only on a totalitarian basis, we shall inevitably sufier either collapse or the adoption of a totalitarian cpntrolled economy both as to foreign and domestic trade. Freedom of theesseas is a vital thing for us because in reality it means freedom | of transportation over ocean highways. The purpo'e of seapower is to insure freedom of such traflic. Seapower controls commerce and protects transportation, enabies us to carry on commerce. !

Freedom of Seas Vital

Do those who say we donot need foreign trade mean tc say they are ready jo accept permanent loss of half of our cotton market, for instance? With our trade shut off, or forced ont: a barter basis with the Axis, the farm-relief problem alone would hecome so staggering that the depiession years with their milk strikes, their mobbing ¢f sheriffs, their wandering Okies of the “Grajes of Wrath” |would seem like the halcyon day: of prosperity. Willkie sees that. It is to be hoped that some of his recent campaign supporters will liave as much faith in him now as they had before election. Freedom of the seas—with the United States and Great Hritain dominating—is vital to us. We¢ have lost sight of that because iinder our neutrality act we suspended some of our rights simply in order to keep out of war. We mide that contribution toward peace and toward 1sstricting the arena of hostilities. But we cannot accept the threat of the

* Axis powers imposing upon us control over our right

to use the ocean highways ally more than we accepted the threat of the Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean in our infant days. | That is what Willkie undoubtedly means; when he says we mus’ look at thii world as a whole, It is what Secretary Hull meant when he said, some time ago, that an Axis victory would mean that we could do business outside of our cwn borders only with the

consenl of Berlin and Tokyo.

By Elean or Roosevelt

. or tea. We know quite well that seats cannot be

expanded indefinitely and that, wonderful as the staff of the White House is, thire comes a point] where even the simplest lunch or tea cannot be served to any mole people. . Ho | Rather sadly, Mrs. Helm said to me this morning: “Don’t. you -think we can say to anyone who hasn't answered yet that the lists are closed?’ I think she was rather discouraged wh:n I explained .thaj there would: continue to be requests up to the last jninute; some ¢f which we would ‘indoubtedly have t con«

“The weather is perfectly beautiful and we praying it will hold over inauguration day. Yesterday, former Governor O. Max Gardn( is chairman of the Goveriior's reception com came td see me to invite the entire family {to the reception which is being given for the governors by the inaugural committee at the residence of Ambassador anc Mrs. Joseph E. I'avies. This should be a It is being képt entirely official in order that the governors may carry ouf their desi'e to talk to government officials on defense problems which have arisen in their respective states. : the J

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or, who mittee,

Many of us hope that ittending will be pleasanrter this year for

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and they dare not charge their cust¢mers|

WEST SIDERS DRAFT 5-POINT ‘SAFETY PLAN

Lives in Traffic.

By EARL HOFF

West Side civic leaders today put the problem of safeguarding the lives of school pupils on a commu-nity-wide basis and started work on a five-point program. The program was put into motion yesterday at a meeting of representatives of 10 public grade schools, three parochial schools, the Police Department and the Washington High School P.-T. A., faculty and Student Association. ° The points of attack outlined at the meeting in the office of Walter Gingery, Washington principal, are: 1. Selection of the safest routes from grade school areas to the high school. 2. Registration of all automobiles and bicycles used by Washington pupils or faculty members.

Seek More Sidewalks

3. Close co-operation with the Police Department concerning pupils required to attend Saturday Safety School sessions because of traffic violations. 4. Construction of additional sidewalks along important pupil routes.

the high school to impress on them

will face by going a longer distance to school. Study Routing of Pupils

A special committee, headed by Wilbur T. Portteus, was named by Mrs. Roy Katterhenry, Washington P.-T. A. head, to select the safest possible routes for children to travel to the high school, even though the route in many instances would mean pupils will have to walk or ride a longer distance. Special attention will be paid to Tibbs Ave. now a favorite route of many Washington pupils, but which is'a main artery for workers at the Allison Division, General Motors Corp., in Speedway City. The Student Association of the high school was given an important role in the safety drive. Members will register all autos and bicycles used by students and faculty members. : Violators to Be Known

In addition, Miss Francis G. Moder, secretary of the P.-T. A. Safety Committee in charge of the campaign and safety director at Washington, said the pupils would help faculty members in a drive aimed at law violators. l %The police ‘department has promised to notify the school of the names of all pupils requested tos attend the Safety School because of violations, Miss Moder said. The West Siders will take a request for construction of sidewalks on S. Belmont Ave. before the Works Board at the Board's next meeting, Jan. 24. Flood Lights Asked

There are 273 Washington pupils now - using that street as a route from their homes to school, Mr. Gingery pointed out. A number of other streets in the community used by the pupils also do not have sidewalks, the principal said. Shortly before the second semester opens, Jan. 30, parents of eighth grade pupils*who will start to high school then will receive letters from the school warning of increased dangers to pupils who have to leave their own small communities for the first time. In addition to their request for sidewalks on the West Side, the school patrons will seek to have the Works Board erect flood lights on the concrete abutments at the ends of streetcar pedestrian islands in front of the high school. One person was killed this week when a bus struck one of the abutments. This was the second fatality there.

Community Action Stressed

Mr. Gingery emphasized that the high school, since its beginning, has always been a community school. Therefore, he said, the best possible way for the safety problem to be handled is on a community basis. Traffic dangers have been heightened for the West Side pupils by the war boom, since traffic to a number of industrial centers passes through the school area. To add to the school officials’ headaches, the heaviest traffic coincides -with the opening and the close of school. Grade schools in the Washington High School area are: Public Schools 5, 16, 30, 50, 52, 75, 67, 46, 47 and 49 and St. Anthony, Holy Trinity and Assumption parochial schools. y

U, S. TO BUY MORE MERCURY IN MEXICO

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (U, PJ). —The United States is stepping up its purchases. of . mercury from Mexico in an apparent “squeeze

play” to cut down on the Axis powers’ supply of .the important metal, a “The more we buy, the less there is for sale to the Axis countries, particularly Japan, which has been a heavy - purchaser of Mexican mercury,” an official explained. Mercury has become an important item in modern warfare and

much larger supplies are needed

now - than during . the World War, when the United States was .able to produce its own requirernents domestically.

terial which may later be included in a purchasing program that would extend to all of Latin America would include tungsten, vanadium and molybdenum. All are essential for high-grade steels. -

FALL KILLS PLUMBER SOUTH BEND, Ind. Jan. 15 (U.

5. A campaign of letter-writing to parents of pupils about to enter

the additional dangers the pupils

- The Indianapolis

‘There Was Haybrook With His Easel,’ After Unusually Dangerous Blaze.

Times Special

LONDON, Jan. 15. — The 30,000 men fighting fires in London have won the praise of every man, woman and child now living in this world’s largest city. They have been called heroes and some have been awarded medals for conspicuous bravery. But there is no compensation, no sick leave with pay for firemen injured by the Luftwaffe trick of returning to a fire and dropping hore oil bombs and more high explosives on the same spot.

nursing themselves back to health while living on money saved out of a salary of $12 a week. Attempts have been made to correct this during the past months when the fire soldiers proved to be as much the saviors of Londontown as the R. A. F. Rudolph Haybrook, however, is one man determined to do something. For Rudolph Haybrook is not only a fireman but an artist who can paint pictures which sell. That is why one-third of the proceeds from his paintings of London fire scenes, now being exhibited at London's swank - Leicester ' Galleries, will be donated to the Firemen’s Benevolent Fund. : Rudolph Haybrook was an artist long before a fireman. ' Paralyzed during a drive along the Western Front, during the last war, he lay for months in a base hospital. Gradually he began sketching to pass

STIRLING TALKS HERE SATURDAY

Replaces Yarnell on Town Hall After Latter Is Recalled.

Admiral Yates Stirling Jr, former chief of staff of the United States fleet, will talk on “The Challenge Across the Pacific” at the Indianapolis Town Hall at 11 a. m. Saturday in English’s Theater. Admiral Stirling will replace Admiral H. E. Yarnell, who was scheduled to talk at this meeting of the Town Hall series. Admiral Yarnell, who was retired in 1939, has been recalled to active duty. Mrs. E. H. Bingham, director of Town Hall, received from Admiral Yarnell’s agent a letter which said that Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, cancelled the admiral’s tour. Admiral Stirling's talk, however, will be about the same military problems that Admiral Yarnell’s was to have covered. Admiral Stirling served as commander of the Yangtze River patrol during the days of the Nationalist revolution- and he once commanded the great naval base at Pearl. Harbor. Admiral Stirling, is the naval expert for the United Przss, for which he writes weekly articles. He is author of several books, the most outstanding of which is his autobiography, “Sea Duty.” His father commanded the Asiatic fleet during the Russo-Japanese war, and Admiral Stirling Jr. served then as Flag lieutenant. Col. Alvin M. Owsley will introduce the speaker, who will arrive Friday night.

200 DRAFTEES ENTER . ARMY TOMORROW

Two hundred young Hoosiers will be inducted into the Army tomorrow at Ft. Harrison in the second Selective Service call. The group is from northern Indiana, 187 from St. Joseph County and 13 from Clinton County. The men are to arrive here at 12:10 p. m.

The firemen just retire from duty,’

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SECOND SECTION.

London Artist Does His Bit With Fire Hose, Then Steps Back to Paint Scene of Ruins

Fireman-artist Rudolph Haybrook on the job.

At City Hall—

TIPS TO WIVES ON FOOD BUYS ARE PROPOSED

Safety Board Plans Market Service Co-ordinated With U. S. Consumer Aid.

By RICHARD LEWIS The Safety Board is busy with plans to set up a Municipal Marketing Service which would aid

housewives to make bargain buys in foodstuffs. : The plan is being advanced hy

| Safety Board President Leroy J.

Keach and would be carried out in co-operation with the U. 8. Agricultural Marketing Service and the Consumer’s Division of the Advisory Committee to the Council on National Defense. Simply, the plan is to broadcast tips on food bargains daily over the radio to housewives. The broadcast would be.arranged by Federal home economists and market experts, with possibly a municipal home economist doing the speaking.

U. 8S. to Co-operate

At City Hall, the service would be conducted by the City Market and the Bureau of - Weights and Measures. In this arrangement, it would resemble the Bureau of Consumer Service of the New York City Marketing Department, which has been operating for years. Both Agriculture Department and Defense Council Consumer Division officials have indicated their interest in helping the city perfect the plan. Already, similar aid has been extended to other cities. Behind the plan, from the Federal standpoint at least, are two major objectives; to prevent local profiteering in foods as a result of the de-

time, and gradually he became more adept at drawing the scenes around him. He worked hard at his new craft, learned it well. Today, one of his paintings is on permanent

exhibition at the National Gal-

lery. It's a Dunkirk Scene. For during the B. E. PF. retreat from Dunkirk, Haybrook was aboard the fire-tender. Massey Shaw. during the one voyage it made to evacuate soldiers. When the little boat moved slowly away from the sandy beach with a full load of exhausted, men, Haybrook captured that memorable scene on a sketch pad. His worst moment, he describes as that time. “Bombs and shells were all around us. On the way out, one of the engines stopped. Everyone expected a bomb to fall dead on the little ship but somehaw the

Phelps Wants Poaching Curb

Rep. Charles A. Phelps (R. Ft. Wayne) today had submitted to the Legislature a bill to curb outstaters who invade northern Indiana every winter to fish through the ice. It wouldn't be so bad, says Mr. Phelps, if they would use some fish sense. But they take three and four bags-full of fish a day and hurry back to Michigan, Ohio and Illinois. The fish they catch through the ice are generally the big ones, leaving only the little fellows for" the cottagers who fish at their lakes during the summer. His bill would limit the present open season in the winter to 20 days. ;

PACKAGES AVAILABLE FOR WAR PRISONERS

Standerd 1l-pound packages of cigarets and food can be bought and delivered to soldiers in Europe’s prison camps through the American Red Cross for $2.20 each, the local chapter announced today. The boxes may be sent to individuals, or may be sent to soldiers of specified nationality unknown to the sender. Further details may be obtained at the local chapter offices in the Chamber of Commerce Building. William Fortune, chairman of the

local chapter, said that this plan of |

sending packages to war prisoners. is only part of the service performed

by the Red Cross for prisoners of

war. A plan is being worked out to send clothng packages.

CLIP, CLIP, CLIP—HE LOSES HAIR, WINS $18

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 15 (U. P.).—Ralph Beglow, a 18-year-old New York City sophomore at the University of Michigan is $18 richer but.is minus his hair and eyebrows. The youth made the mistake of boakting to his fraternity brothers that he wouldn’t mind having his hair clipped for $15. In a twinkling ths money was on the line and the shears on his head. \ Then hey offered to remove his eyebrows for $3 and he agreed he

Officials said, however, other ma- | -

might as well go whole hog.

TELE

FACT

P.).—Thomas Turnock, 53-year-old

inauguration of the

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engineer gol the boat again and we reached England.”

pad and paints,

rather remarkable

well under control.

ness has disappeared.

a particularly dangerous fire:

overhead.” :

SURPRISED BY

gress Likely to Oppose All-Out Aid.’

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. surprised!”

moving

Eighteen months ago, with sketch Haybrook joined the London Fire Brigade as a member of the auxiliary force, working the full time shift of 48 hours on duty and 24 hours off. And in 18 months he has produced a series of documentary paintings of the biggest fires London has experienced. As a brigade member he works at a fire with the rest of his unit until the blaze is Then he begins to hastily sketch in a rapid effort to capture the scene before its vivid-

As one fireman remarked after “There was Haybrook with his

easel, making a sketch by the light of the flames with enemy bombers

WILLKIE STAND

State Republicans in Con-

15.—“I'm

This was the unanimous reaction of Indiana Republicans in Congress regarding the statement of Wendell L. Willkie urging support of the

fense emergency and to dispose of surplus commodities which would be marked down to facilitate purchase. » » »

Buy Aerial Trucks

The Safety Board bought two aerial trucks for the Fire Department yesterday, at a total cost of $36,005. The purchase was made from the American = LaFrance - Foamite Corp., Elmira, N. Y., which promised delivery in about 120 days. Competition was keen in the sale between American-LaFrance and the Seagrave Corp. of Columbus, O. Both offered the aerial trucks with 100-foot ladder extensions at the same price.’ The Board accepted the Amer-ican-LaFrance bid on the recommendation of a purchase committee headed by Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy. , Chief Kennedy informed the Board he preferred this bid because, he said, the New York firm's aerial truck had greater weight than the Seagrave truck. A bid submitted by the Peter Pirsch & Sons Co. of Ke~ nosha, Wis., was disqualified on the grounds that the bid did not follow specifications. > » ”

The Last Word

The last word in fingerprints, the Safety Board's newest proposal, is a statute which would require undertakers throughout the State to send th: fingerprints of deceased persons to local police departments. Police Chief Michael F. Morrissey explained these fingerprints would aid departments in eliminating many sets of prints rendered useless _. by death. The Board sent the pro= posal to the Legal Department where it will be drafted for introduction into the Legislature.

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President’s plan for complete power to aid Great Britain with war supplies. » Senator Raymond. E. Willis and the eight Republican Representa-

Right Hand Turn

Indianapolis may go back to the

room. seconds -

the war.

England as “my Ambassador.” Own Views, Says Willis

Party,” Senator Willis commented.

accord with what he says. I intend to support his program.

phrase: “I'm surprised!”

son, Gerald Wilson. Rep. Charles A. Halleck felt deep personal concern over the Willkie stand, since he made the nominating speech for him at the Philadelphia convention and was & leading lieutenant during the 1940 Presidential campaign. Opposes All-Out Aid Although he declined to comment, Rep. Halleck is known to be opposed to the ‘all-out aid to Britain plan giving President Roosevelt dictatorial powers.

man‘ and Willkie campaign man-

Willkie lisutenants here were informed in advance of the announce-

4 |ment it was learned.

Considerable sub-rosa resentmen resulted.

CEILING FALLS, 15

IN OFFICE UNHURT

P.).—Eight hundred square feet of

ceiling of the National Discount Co., office yesterday and 15 persons narrowly escaped injury. W. R. Zesinger saw the ceiling sag and warned the other em-

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tives from Indiana all jare rated as isolationists and likely will oppose all-out aid if they conclude that it might lead the United States into

Nothing but gloom greeted the Willkie statement among the Hoosier' G. O. P. here, although there was some joking about his going to

“Certainly these are Mr. Willkie’s own personal plans and views and not that of the rank and file of the people in Indiana or the Republican

“I must confess that I am not in Nor do

Rep. Raymond E. Springer suggested that the prevailing attitude of the Hoosier Republicans in Congress be expressed in the single

This view was shared by Reps. Robert A. Grant, George W. Gillie, Forest. A. Harness, Noble J. JohnW. Landis and Earl

}, Neither Rep. Joseph W. Martin, G. O. P. Floor leader, national chair~

ager, nor Rep. Halleck or any other

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Jan. 15 (U. plaster and steel lath fell from the

ployees. They rushed from the before. the. crash al-|

right-hand turn on the red light— but at one intersection only. This is at 16th St. and Northwestern Ave., where traffic moving west on 16th St. would be perrpitied to turn on a red light onto Northwestern. Chief Morrissey said that cars making the turn would have to pull over in the right lane, come to a complete stop and then swing cautiously into Northwestern. The idea is to relieve-congestion at the intersection, he said.

AGREES TO ORDER

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (U.P.).— The Federal Trade Commission today announced that the (Lydia E. Pinkham Co, Lynn, Mass, has agreed to cease making certain claims for its vegetable compounds.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Which bird is the national emblem of the United States? 2—Are coffee and tea imported into the Uaitea States duty free? 3—Shaould a widow be addressed by, her own given name or that of \ her husband? 4—In what country is the lira the monetary unit? 5—In which group of islands are the Leeward Islands? : , 6—Can a heavy automobile with four-wheel brakes be stopped within the same distance as a lightweight car with four-wheel" brakes? ~ T—The late William Jennings Bryap was born in New York, Illinois or Nebraska? 8—Who makes the state laws?

Answers

1—The bald or American eagle. 2—Yes. 3-—Her husband’s given name (as Mrs. John Jones). 4—1taly. 3—The West Indies. 6-—Yes, T—Illinois. 8—State Legislatures.

ASK THE TIMES

of fact s The Indianapolis Times Wash. ‘Ser vice Bureau, 1013 13th