Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1941 — Page 8

"MONDAY, JAN. 27

1941

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' LONDON (By Wireless)—The brother of a man 1. know has a hobby of riding around on a wae every morning looking for new bomb damage. | He phoned this morning to report that he had f # big special one. (Reports of unusual bomb damage |

are: spread around town by | mouth-to-mouth grapevine, since i the newspaper aren’t permitted to b mention specific locations). So we took a bus to the scene. i The report. was correct, plenty. i We learned later that the damage was caused by a German | plane which crashed with its full load of bombs. They found little pieces- of the plane. | All the nearby houses had | ' been: blown ‘down. Big stone 3 ‘buildings remained standing, but | their office furniturs was splin- | red: and smashed ‘into ruin. There wasn’t | & window left for six blocks in. any direction. And | yet a policeman said only a dozen people were hurt | and . nobody was killed., Many bomb exlposions are | freakish like that. Fe | All the public clocks in the area were stopped, | but none at the same minute. Among a half dozen of them that I saw there was a variance of half an | hour, The answer is that the blast moved the hands.

The Peter Pan Statue

| | Some London buildings now have .corrugatedi steel shutters that are pulled down at night over | windows and doors. They don’t save the glass. if a i bomb hits close by, but, they do prevent shattered | glass from flying so badly all around. In this | particular explosion these steel shutters were bent | and twisted, some of them bashed ir. but others

{ ballooned out toward the street like a weak spot in .

{an inner tube. ; | That is another freakish thing about bomb exi plosions—the pull if often greater than the push. | © I saw the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington | Gardens today for the first time. I think it must | be the loveliest statute in the world, There is a big | bomb crater two hundred yards away, but the statue lis untouched. I think they ought to remove it and | bury it for the duration. | The statue of Queen Victoria at K ensington Palace | lras several small chips missing from the hem of the | Queen’s dress: the result of a small bomb ‘that | dropped about a hundred yards away.

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| MAYBE YOU'VE NEVER HEARD o: “Alcoholics | Anonymous” but it is one of the most useful organs~ {izations in America. The reason we mention it is that we’ve just learned that Indisngpell Ss now has a chapter. That's right. ! The “A.A.” is composed of exalcoholics—confessed soaks who got together, to see if they couldn’ find unity ‘in “strength in their

battles with the giant that comes --

out of the bottle. These chaps are not umbrelia-waving, psalm-sing-ing sinners. They're just plain

= people who wanted to stop drink--in

g. We might mention that there are no dues or: fees to the “A. A.” We want to add that we wish the Indianapolis chapter. long life and success.

Courtroom Vigil A COUPLE OF county judges were unwitting hosts Saturday evening to Criminal Court attaches waiting {for the Iozzo verdict. Judge Frank A, Symmes, called in at 3 a. m. when it was indicated the jury might be ‘ready, slept on a hard couch in Judge Earl R. Cox’s chambers. A reporter nabbed a soft couch in Judge Herbert. M. Spencer’s rooms. . . . During the. wait prosecutors and spectators played bridge in the Prosecutor’s Office. The telephone rang continuously with requests for information. Albert Ward, deputy prosecutor, answered it once. “No,” he said, “this is ‘tAlbert Ward.” He put the ’phone down and said to no one in particular: “They wanted the First Ward.” . . . Vincent Iozzo showed the most strain’ of any of the Tozzo men during the trial. As soon as the verdict came in, it was he who rushed to the telephone to call his mother and tell her about it.

Washington

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—An ugly temper seemed to be brewing a few days ago when Senator Wheeler | said President Roosevelt was preparing to plow under | every fourth American boy and the President retorted | that the remark was the most dastardly, rotten and unpatriotic thing tha: had been said in a generation. If that was just the kickoff what would the rest of the battle be like? Fortunately, sinice then tension has relaxed, or so it seems. Col. Lindbergh came and went. Lady Astor was hurt at what he said, and a crowd of ladies in the House committee room mooned over the young hero and hissed Congressmen who fried to ask him ques~ tions they didn’t like. But the House hearings have fr gone along in remarkably. good temper considering the nature’ of the question in- | volved. Chairman Sol Bloom and‘ Rep. Hamilton : | Fish have had their moments, but always they were | able to bury differences and unite in a firm .stand _ ‘| together in: front of the cameras. Col. Lindbergh's Stand i Perhaps one reason for this is that sveryone is | being given credit for sincerity. Not all those who are | talking may be sincere, but it is just as well to assume | that they are and get that question out of the way. | It 4s’t whether ‘a man, is sincere or not that is im- | portant in weighing these questions, it's whether his arguments seem sound, whether his case seems best in the national interest. Everyone is trying to figure whether Col. Lind- © | bergh has a grudge against England. From London | comes the story that he offered .his services to the - | British government as an aviation adviser and they | were not accepted. - What of it? We are not trying | to decide whether Col. Lindbergh is paying off an | old grudge but whether there is anything to what he says when he tells the Sommgiies | that it was a mis-

My Day

"WASHINGTON, Sunday—VYesterday morning, in New York City, I certainly did as many things as one could well put into the hours of one morning. * Miss Esther Lape went with me to my first appointment at 10 o'clock at the Museum of Modern ae Art. There we began on the top floor and progressed downwards through the Indian exhibit. I think it is one or the most excit- . ing and : thrilling : exhibitions I have been to in a long while. What beautiful work the Indians did, even in the days when stone tools were all they had. I am thrilled

died out and that meny of: the

easily adapted to:our ‘niodern life, Some woven: Indian. material makes. a delightful cover for a | modern ola, and an Indian:drum makes a very convenient little table for use beside that chair. Much of the silver work is really beautiful and one | of the. best silversmiths was there himself to explain | his art, which he is now teaching in one of the | Indian schools. | + Never before have I had the :sense of centuries of development which lie back of ‘the arts of our . This Indian exhibition sould cer Jbproduction

and bring us, as cone

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Hoosier Vagabond

by the fact that their skill has not’ things which they make today are

By Ernie Pyle

Mary bomb craters in the parks sre being filled with debris hzuled from ‘bombed. buildings. Three-fourths . of the windows of Buckingham Palace are biown out ‘and boarded| (up. . In one window a torn, ragged blind his beer hanging for weeks, | I'll bet they wouldn't fix it for 10 thousand pounds; for it shows: all Englanil that | their King is taking it too. While the checkrooms in restaurants will check tin hats and soldiers rifles, they aren't supposed to accept as masks, the point being to make you keep your mask with you all the time, just in case. And I thought this was a good ope: The lost-and-found department of the London Transport announced: the other day that not a single lost plum pudding has keen found over the holidays. (There are usuilly hundreds, it seems) The streets are full of soldiers on |’ leave, but you rarely &ze a szilor. |

Polish Fliers Admired,

There are so many different uniforms that I haven't got them all straight yet. But I can tell all the dominion soldiers, for they have the name of their country--Canada or Australia or! New Zealand —spelled| out’ on their shoulder tabs, And. that is true also of foreign units in the British Army. You very frequently see the word Poland or | Czechoslovakia ‘or Belgium on officers’ shoulder! tabs. The Poles, incidentally, have beer, doing some wonderful fighting with the British, especially in the air.” They are highly skilled fliers, and they fight with a terrible zeal. . England looks upon the Polish airman’s uniform with deep respect. | | The uniform of the Royal Air Force is a pale blue. England idolizes the R. A. F., as well iff should. The uniform: eommands a deep- -down gratitiide the minute it is seen, whether on a wing commander or a lowly corporal mechanie. .Another thing about: soldiers on lea re in this war —almost any place you go you can see a private and a colonel and their two girls eating together. No, it doesn’t ‘mean that the war| has brought true social democracy to England. It merely means that conscription makes officers of sore, aristocrats and privates of other aristocrats, and when they're on leave they're still both aristocrats regardless of their uniforms. King Zog of Albania lives aft a prominent hotel,

‘and sirice he doesn’t like to sleep in the hotel’s regu-

lar shelter he sleeps in the b#sement dining room. The waiters have to clear out all diners shortly before niidnight so the King can go fo bed!

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town’)

Roi ice of the Teletype

A YOUNG LADY of our acquaintance operated a teletype machine in a downtown offize, taking and sending messages to a Chicago bffice. At the Chicago end, the machine was operated by |& young man. Finally they got so they'd say “hello” to each other on the teletype. The conversations gre dually became more extended. - The Chicago opérator asked the Indianapolis operator if he might visit her. Sire. Now they're married, live out in OKkl: yhoma. Happy,

The Greatest, the Most—

SUN-TANNED INDIANAFOLIS i{olk returning from Florida report Joe CoppsA press agent extraordinary who handles the Speedway plugs, is still the same husy, hand-shaking man. | If you know him well enough he can get-you a couple of tickets to Hialeah Park. . . . The big snow last week brought the sleds in droves to the splendid sliding site! at Hilton U. Brown's place at 5087 E. Washington St. Saturday they werz out before their papss even started for the office, . Friends of Omar White, & Red Cabbie, says he’s a perfect double for tough-guy Jimmy Cagney, the movie man. Mr, White says it makes his fares ask him a lot of fool questions. , .. Mrs, Helen Boyd Higgins of Golden Hill isthe lat st short story writer (tc (come through with an acceptance check from a national magazine, It was a ¢! hildren’s story. . About twice a month a man calls 1p the Mayor's office, wants to speak to Hizzorier pronto. The secre tary ther: asks who's calling . |, . the man refuses to say, hangs up. This has beer, going on for a long time now. .. . Biggest. customer for tha Sonja Henie show is Harold West, president of the West Baking Co. He bought 220 tickets, then went back for g few more . . , hell take the whole company in one big party. Incidentally the Saturday and Sunday shows are already sold out. It opers Thuriday night for

. six performances.

By’ Raymond Clapper

take to help England at all and that we ought not to expand that aid any more. Col. Lindbergh stands almdst alone, among those who have spoken publicly, and it's a good thing to have ‘the pol icy of ‘aid to England | double-checked by one who is able to challenge it. Tlie Administration case is all the stronger now, if 1 am any judge at all, because Col. Lindbergh had to say that he saw little difference between lingland land Germany, and that koth were equaily to blame, a statement that collapses of its own weight under the facts of British efforts to appease Hitler, and ¢f his repeated aggressions in the face of pledges to, the contrary.

The Need for Tolerance

The fight over the pending War-Aid Bill is far from over. While. passage appears to be assured with a time limit and some other restrictions acceptable fo the Administration, there will be much debate and need for tolerance during it. Bug tolerance doesn’t come by merely urging tolerance. It comes only when one has iespect for the sincerity of the other side. You c&n believe the other side: completely wrong end be totally confident that your side is right, and you can argue and vote without ever once wavering ar.d you can still be tolerant. Tolerance means only fighting within the rules of the game. It is more important, to think, to hamnier down Col. Lindbergh’s argument than to hamnier him down.

That is not being naive it is heing effective. Senator Borah was.the most effective fighter among the isolationists in the League of Nations battle. He, more than any other individual, fixed isolationism as &. national policy during 20 post-war years. He was effective because he never indulged in personalities. He made a case that von the ¢onfidence of a majority of the country, and he fastened his view so deeply in the public mind thet it hasn’t been shaken out completely yet. There wes never a more tolerant man in public life than Senator Eorah—nor one More fixed in his conviction about American foreign policy, ;

By Eleanor Roosuel?

sumers, a realization of whai we can |do to keep the Indian aris and skills alive for future generations. After | ieaving this exhibition, I me; Mr. and Mrs. Edward 13. Andrews, who. are concerned about the disposition of their wonderful Shaker tollection. They have: exainples of all types of Shaker work and they have coll:cted information ¢n Shaker life and customs for many years. This collection -should undoubtedly be preserved for the future because the Shaker colonies are rapidly dying out I went to the Hammond Organ Co. to receive an organ whieh’ they are presenting {to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. From there I proceeded toithe Vanderbilt: Hotel to see an exhibition of furniture made by. the Arthurdalé, W, Va. furniture factory. I‘was much pleased with the work which they are now doing on a commercial basis. At 1:0'clock, I attended the National Public Housing Conference luncheon and was much interested in Myr. Swape’s speech on the | pecomplistments in New York City. By 4

“for Philadelphia, where I spoke at the commencement,

exercises of the South Philadelphia High School for Girls. The class sang a part of “A Plain Chant for America” by Mrs. Francis Fiddle, and later part of the *'Balacd for Americans.’ ' I enjoyed seeing this fine group of girls. After & call or Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Bek, I took a plane gt 11:35 r. m. for Washington id was very glad tc reach home, This is a

4 o'clock, Miss Lape ind I were on the train}.

2 MORE DIE IN TRAFFIC HERE, TEN IN STATE

Police - Claim Confession From Driver in Hit-And-Run Death.

‘Two more lives were added over the week-end to Marion County's record-breaking traffic toll as 10 other persons were killed in state traffic. Deaths in the county for 1941 total] nine compared to three on Jan. 27, 1940. Victims here were Louis Richardson, 55, of 502% S. Meridian St., ii Fred Wigal, 23, 4902 Hillside ve. Mr. Richardson was ‘killed by a hit-and-run driver Saturday night: Critically injured, he was found lying 1n S. Illinois St. near the Union Station overhead. His clothes were nearly -torn off. He died about six hours later at City Hospital. On the basis of a name plate and part of a grill found near Richardson’s body, police yesterday arrested a man on a vagrancy charge.

At his hearing today in Municipal

Court, an involuntary manslaughter charge was added to the count, bond was fixed at $500 and the case continued until Feb. 11.

Confession Claimed

Police said the man signed a statement admitting that he had struck Mr. Richardson. Mr, Wigal was killed when his car crashed head on into a truck on Road §7 south of Belmont Ave. Calvin Church, 314 E. 10th St., and Miss Mary Wellman of Eminence, Ind., both passengers in the Wigal car, were reported in critical condition at City Hospital. In an accident this morning on Road 40 immediately west of Bridgeport, two were seriously in-

|jured when their car rolled down

an embankment and into a creek. The injured were Robert Symmonds, of 6222 W. Minnesota St., and Miss Lenora Shelton, 1340 Nordyke Ave. They were taken to City Hospital with severe injuries about e head. Worst of the state accidents was a wreck south of Kokomo on Road 31 Saturday nighf, in which four already have lost their lives and another remains in critical condi-

tion. ‘ Four Are Killed

The four victims are: E. STUART MATLOCK, 38, New Castle. MRS. GANNELL MATLOCK, 38; Mr. Matlock’s wife. z uns: NINA LEWIS, 25, Prairie, nd. CARL LEWIS JR. 1, Mrs. Lewis’ son. Mrs. Lewis’ daughter, Wilma, still is in a critical condition. State police said the accident occurred when Mr. Matlock’s car skidded and crashed head on into Mr. Lewis’ car. Another auto then rammed into the wreckage. The injured were taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Kokomo. Mr. Matlock was manager of the Mt. Summit Products Co., a canning establishment, and was a former State Legislator and active in AAA and Farm Bureau affairs. He and Mrs. Matlock met when they were students at Purdue University and were marired in their junior year. . She was the daughter of A. B. Ayres, wealthy New Castle oil man and a Pennsylvania Railroad director. She had attended Tudor Hall school for girls at Indianapolis.

Mother, Daughter Die

Other victims in the state were: . ESTHER ENGLAND, 33, and her daughter, LOIS FITCH, 15, killed when their auto stalled on a railroad track at Anderson. MRS. RUTH HELGERSON, 35, Chicago, who died Saturday following a six-car crash on Road 41 near Rockville Friday night. CHESTER S. LAMENSKI, struck by a train in South Bend. HILDA JEAN ERTEL, 24, of North Vernon, killed * yesterday morning when the car in which she was a passenger rolled down an embankment on Road 50 northeast of North Vernon. CHARLES ROBERTSON, 22, of Evansville, killed in an accide Saturday on Road 41 in Vanderburgh County.

Burial Tomorrow

' Services for Mr. Richardson are to be held at 3:15 p. m. tomorrow at the J. C. Wilson Funeral Home, with burial at Floral Park Cemetery. Surviving him are four daughters, Mrs. Savanah Hunsucker of New Castle, Mrs. Martha Mahoney and Mrs. Marie Ringler, both of South Bend, and Mrs. Belinda Ritter of Indianapolis, and brother, William, of Indianapolis. Services for Mr. Wigal are to be held at 11 a. m. Wednesday at the Alaska Christian Church in Eminence, Ind. Burial will be there at the Mannan Cemetery. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Wigal; a brother. Earl Eugene, of the Navy; his grandmother, Mrs. Vessie Wigal| of Lewisville, Ind., and his maternal

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grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank]

Hammonds of Paragon, Ind.

3 ON TRIAL TODAY IN “WPA FRAUD CASE

The Federal trial of three of five defendants indicted a year ago on charges of defrauding the United States Government through the illegal diversion of WPA funds and labor to private property will begin at 2 p. m. today. Those on trial will be Arthur PF. ‘Eickhoff, president of the Eickhoff ‘Realty Co.; Charles E. Jefferson, contractor, and Carl F. Kortepeter, former Marion County WPA co-or-dinator. They are named in one indictment. Two other persons, who with Mr. Kortepeter are named jointly in a seperate indictment charging the same offense, will not be tried at this time. They are Arthur V. Brown and Miss Elizabeth Claypool. Two physicians have told Dederal ‘Court that Mr. Brown cannot stand

Quiet day of Task id

irlal at this ime without seriously endangering his health. i

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Sis. Tight on Double Duty Defense Job

(This article, the fifth in a series on ' defense production chiefs William 8S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman, pictures Mr. Hillman at work in Washington.)

By Tom Wolf

- Tins Special Writer HE man they said would - be wrong no matter what he did, is still sitting tight. And if he ever has been very far wrong, nobody—not even his best friends or his severest crit‘ics—has caught up with

the fact yet. When the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ beloved and beleaguered Sidney Hillman took the job of No. 2 National Defense Commissioner, knowing Washingtonjans dubbed him: Sidney-on-the-Spot. They pointed out, and not without reason, that no matter which way he turned he would be criticized. If he held out for labor’s interest, industry would flay him. If industry gained an upper hand, he would be: called a betrayer of the labor movement. For in Hillman’s hands rests a double duty — or maybe double moral responsibility is a better

phrase. First, it behooves him to see that labor is available so that the $10,400,000,000° (plus $5,000,00000 for a two-ocean navy) appropriated in 1940 can be used. Second, he must see to it that the labor gains of the New Deal are preserved during a time. of ‘ national crisis.

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ment, but Hillman is a man who says he can straighten out any difficulty in 48 hours if both parties. are reasonable. If they are not, e has several weapons. Against labor he has the threat of calling out public opinion. His “strong words of advice” to Vultee workers. were instrumental in settling that strike. Then, too, he has a four-man committee (two A. F. of L. and two C. I. O.) to iron out jurisdictional disputes. Finally, there are his personal contacts. In one near row between rival longshoreman union heads, Joe Ryan and Barry Bridges, Hillman got Ryan on the phone and informed him: “Look here, Joe, you can’t do that . Against sitions. Hillman has a legal weapon. There is a penalty clause that may be invoked against a manufacturer for late delivery. To date, Hillman has invoked it only once. But, above and beyond all these, Sidney Hillman knows business— and thus is an ideal co-pilot, with William S. Knudsen, of the national defense drive. Amalgamated is famous for ine vestigating manufacturing concerns with which it makes con-

GERMANS LEAVE FOR U. S. GAMP

400 Sailors to Be Put in 1st Concentration Unit Since World War.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27 (U.P.). —Four hundred Germans, officers and sailors of the scuttled liner Columbus, leave today in strictest secrecy for the first concentration camp established ‘in the United States since World War days.

The Department of Justice sald they would be transported to an abandoned Civilian Conservation Corps camp near Ft. Stanton, N.M,, in a special train. The camp consists of 14 frame buildings. Five more are under construction. It is in remote, south central New Mexico, where Billy the Kid, the famous Western gunman and outlaw, had his hangout. The camp is 68 miles west of Roswell. The - sailors will be policed by their own officers, but six Immigration officials will accompany them, and it was expected that some would : remain. Boundaries of the camp are marked, and the Germans will not be allowed to wander outside them. The German. Government will pay for their board.

HAT'S a formidable -assign--

Hillman “On The Spot’— But He Likes It

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Sidney Hillman on his defense job in Washington

tracts. It has often helped them . .

work more efficiently, for as Hillman once said: “There is no chance to bargain efficiently with - an employer whose business is not , prosperous, and it cannot be prosperous if efficient production is lacking.” Labor, says ilillman, “must be. ihdustry conscious.”

t 4 ” ” ILLMAN also knows something about banking, real estate, and insurance. In 1922

Amalgamated started a system of unemployment insurance for its members and also started two banks—one each in New York and Chicago. More recently it built a co-operative housing project in the: Bronx for its higher-income members. And last year Amalgamated successfully experimented in Chicago with a Life and Health Insurance Company for union members. But his newest job is a gigantic one at best, and Sidney Hillman approaches it with a healthy respect. To get the job done, Hillman, like his colleague Knudsen, gets up about 6:30 every morning. A cold shower - precedes breakfast, cooked by a maid in his sixth floor ‘apartment in the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington. Conferences fill the morning—- . once a week with his Labor Policy Advisory Commission, consisting’ of six C. I. O. men, six from the A. PF. of L. and four from the railroad brotherhood; twice a week with the whole Office of Production Management (Knudsen, Hillman, and War and Navy Secretaries Stimson and Knox); and once a week with the President (along with other defense commissioners).

Rhumba, Samba Arrive in City

The “delayed-action” rhumba and the Samba will be brought to ‘ Indianapolis by Miss Mavis Moore, former member of the Cincinnati Summer Opera ballet, who arrived last week-end from New York City. Miss Moore will join the Indianapolis staff of Arthur Murray’s New York Dance School and will teach at the Hotel Washington with William Holmes as her partLer. Starting her dancing career at the age of 4 when she studied ballet in Europe, Miss Moore has since studied in Washington and New York City. She has trained with the A. H. Woods dramatic school and with Albertina Rasch.

MOGG HEADS Y. M. MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

Clayton O. Mogg will act as chairman of the Y. M. C. A. membership committee during the organization’s annual membership drive. Feb. 11 through Feb. 21. Opening meeting of the drive will be Feb. 11, when workers will meet at the Central «“y” for a dinner and the first report. The campaign formerly was held in the fall, but has been changed so that it will not conflict with the

annual Community Fund drive.

More Guards Leave Today

Several more thousand Federaljzed National Guardsmen were on the move by train throughout the state today continuing the mass transfer of new Hoosier “regulars” to their winter quarters at Camp Shelby, Miss. National Guard armories in nine Indiana cities were vacated today and the remainder of the troops|c will entrain tomorrow. : Trainloads of Guardsmen pulled out early today from Wabash, Delphi, Frankfort, Darlington, "Terre Haute, Martinsville, Spencer, Shelbyville and Greensburg. The main body of Indianapolis units already have left the Union Station here and the remiander will leave tomorrow. Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, commander of the 38th Division, left by motor for the South today. Gen. Tyndall will officially open his Division headquarters on Wednesday at Camp Shelby, and take over his added command, as commandant of the entire camp, which will house more than 65,000 men. The last to go. from diane will toh

Axtell, In-

For Station in Mississippi

in charge of personnel, who will formally close the Division headquarters here late Wednesday at the same hour the new headquarters opens in the South. Approximately two-thirds of the Division’s present strength in Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia is| going South by train. Truck convoys |. carrying the balance of the units are en route now. The 12 planes of the Division’s observation squadron were scheduled to take off from their base at Stout Field at daybreak today, but Capt. Matt G. Carpenter, squadron engineering officer, said bad weather in southern states had delayed takeoff. The units hoped to get off later today. The squadron, knewn as the 113th Observation Squadron, will base at Key Field, Meridian, Miss, ‘along with other observation groups. Key |is Field is about 100 miles from Camp Shelby.

The arrival of the squadron at

Key Field will mark th

A variety of problems occupy his afternoons. .He leaves for home about’ 6:30, dining . more often than not with outsiders there to talk - defense business. Occasionally he. dines at the White House, - or with Defense . Commissioner Stettinius, with

- whom he has become very friend-

Jy.” ‘ 2 8 8 : FTER dinher an hour alone relaxes him and allows him to review the day’s activity. After this, perhaps around 10 o'clock, friends may drop in for a social chat. But by 11 he turns to his mail, which may occupy his attention until well after midnight. His defense job marks Hillman’s first departure from a career as a professional union ‘leader which began a very: few years after the Cunarder 'S. 8. Cedric, in 1907, dropped him at Ellis Island. .Hillman did not come to America for business. reasons. Born in .Zagare, Lithuanian Russia, in 1887, the. second son of a small Jewish grain merchant, young Hillman ‘had been slated, to be.come a rabbi. But when he was 16 he broke with orthodox Judaism’s dogma and absolute values. Whether, as some tellers have said, he was jailed during the uprising of 1905 for yelling “down with autocracy” is unimportant. He found the liberties he. most sought were lacking in Russia and fled to 4 wealthy uncle in business in Manchester, England. But business did not interest young Sidney and he sailed in 1907 for a dynamic America’s freedom. °

NEXT—Comparisons ‘and contrasts between . Knudsen and Hillman as they go about their mutual task - of production for defense.

NUTT SCORES

THE INTOLERANT

Anti-Semitism © Used Wedge to Weaken Democracy, He Says.

Times Special 5 WASHINGTON, Jan. '27.—How anti-Semitism is used as an entering wedge to weaken democracies so that they become easy prey for dictators was pointed out in address here today by Federal Security Administrator’ Paul V. McNutt.

Mr. McNutt was the : principal speaker at a noon meeting of the. National Conference for Palestine held under the auspices ‘of the United Palestine Appeal. “There are many. who understand and recognize that the assault upon Jews in conquered nations is merely the opening wedge in the greater assault upon ‘civilization itself,” Mr. McNutt said. “Anti-Semitism has been used to sow the .seeds for demoralization and internal weakening of the countries marked for slaughter by the war ‘lords. “We have had ample evidence of anti-Semitic : activity in our own country. We, nurtured in an atmosphere of freedom of expression

as

have recognized its sinister motives. “The totalitarian persecution of

all minorities are .in jeopardy. “We: cannpt think of oppressed Jews, oppressed Catholics jor « oppressed Protestants., We must’ think only of: ‘oppressed ‘iluman * beings.’ In every corner of this land, in every house, whether (it; be Catholic, Protestant. or Jewish," there is a deep feeling of horror: over the suffering of minorities.’ ”

NEW SEWAGE PLANT PLANNED FOR FORT

Plang (for a $500,000 sewage disposal plant at Ft. Harrison were announced today by post: construction quartermaster, Lieut,. Col. Theodore P. Heap. ‘ The proposed plant will accommodate a population of 10,000 and may be expanded later to ‘a 20,000 population unit. Plans are being drawn. ‘by the Charles H. Hurd Co. Indianapolis Bydranije: engineers. Leslie Colvin to be the contractor. Mr. Cola also. is the contractor for the 100~bed hospital ‘to

and racial’ and religious equality,|’

the Jews is a sharp reminder that}:

Be ‘Wuily at the} 0

QUICK AIR AID FROM AMERICA

One Plane Now Is Worth

Awaiting Mass Blow.

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN

ight, 1941, by The Indianapolis T Spyz ani axa "Dally Neve: In Times

can airplane and every American gun that can be delivered to Great Britain before May 1 will be worth three or four sent after that date, in the opinion of British political and military experts. Everybody is now positively cone vinced that Germany will launch the

mer. Everybody likewise is sure that if will be touch and go whether this country can resist the invader suce cessfully. They are particularly sure that the Royal Air Force, admitted= ly greatly inferior in numbers to the Luftwaffe, will be. forced to-stand up and win a knockdown, dragout battle to the death with its opposite number. * Quick Aid Important -

In this situation, Britain would have to use practically everything that can fly to beat back the enemy, Every American plane, and partice ulary . every first-rate American plane, whieh is on hand by the zero hour would help to tip the scales. This does not. mean that the British are not interested in longe range help from the United States. They are confident that they will beat back the Germans after a very grim and very close struggle. It will then be their job to prepare their own offensive against Germany and this they can hope to: do successfullly only with a colossal amount of assistance from the United States. But they are anxious to have the Americans rea= lize the necessity of speed in dee livering all possible assistance.

Some Want War Declaration

Representatives of other Allied Governments here go even farther, They, too, are confident that the British can beat off invasion, but

it will involve. They are convinced

openly—that the danger of a Gere man victory here :could be really dissipated only. by: one thing—an American declaration of war. That, they believe en the basis of their own information, would dee prive Germany of the high morale which would be needed to carry out

country. They further believe that it would

countries, ‘including France, and ‘would result in such a series of

sabotage throughout German Eu rope ‘that the offensive would be hamstrung before it could begin, They, more than British leaders themselves, value the stiffening efe fect which such an a¢t would have on the British people.

Attack on Salonika Possible

at least three non-British

famous, have expressed this opinion in the last few days. All of them, I are convinced that the American people—as distinct from the Wa n Administration— have ‘taken their decision and are ready to go :the limit the minute antybody. convinces them that it is nec

know, exactly how and when the Germans will strike, but everybody has a pretty good idea of the gene eral pattern. In the first place, it is believed that Adolf Hitler will do something pretty imposing in the Mediterrane ean, partly to rescue his weake kneed Allies, partly to dilute Allied successes there, and partly off . further forces from Britain's home defenses. A German stroke at Salonika is regarded as very probable. A direct attack on "Malta" is regarded as equally probable. - Germany: is now ought to have 400 or 500 aircraft in Rumania and nearly 200 in Sicily,

JEAN PARKER TO WED

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 27 (U.P.).— Jean Parker, film actress, and Douge

day had an application for a mare riage license on flle in San Diego, Cal. . They. plan to. marry Diego on St. Valentine's Day.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Are there rail ‘and Highway conenections . between continental United States and Alaska? 2—Did Columbus discover the South ‘American continent on his first, second or third voyage? 3—Are U, 8. silver coins made from pure silver or an alloy? 4—Are there more or fewer moonsrises than sunrises ina year?

s ‘of an organpation is called the 6—Which : President of = ‘United . States was affectionately nick« named “The Major?”

ing: Puerto Rico or Porto Rica? §—Where are the Harz Mountains?

Answers 1—No. 2—Third .voyage. 3—Alloy. 4—Fewer. : ’ 5—Minutes. | 6—William McKinley. “1-—Puerto. Rico. 8~-Northem Germany.

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BRITAIN'S NEED

Three Later, Experts Say,

LONDON, Jan. 27.—Every Ameris

greatest mass assault in history against the British Isles before sume

they do not fancy the gamble which —though they are! unable to say so

a successful frontal assault on this sound’ the tocsin for all occupied

rousing rebellions: and waves of

“This 'is not hearsay, or conjecture; Allies

whose -names are internationally

E5SAry. No. responsible Briton claims to

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