Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1941 — Page 16

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VanNuys Claims Letters Show Wide Support But Willis Says His Mail Is 50 to 1 Against Bill; Both Invited to Hammond Dedication. |

By DANIEL

M, KIDNEY

Times Staff Writer {5 WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Whether a Senatqr’s attitude determines his mail or the mail determines his attitude might be speculated upon as the result of the decidedly different tabulations in regard to lease-lend bill letters coming from the offices of Senator Frederick VanNuys @ Ind.) and

Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.). Senator VanNuys says that he is certain, judging from letters to his office from

Indiana, that the majority of Hoogier citizens favor all-out aid to Britain by an amended lease-lend bill.

But Senator Willis reports that his mail is running 50 to 1 against it. The Democratic Senator expects __to support an amended bill and the Republican Senator to oppose it. According to a tabulation from the Willis office, 11,597 letters have been received against the bill and only 243 for it. But Senator VanNuys’ office reports 80 per cent of the letters favor aid-to-Britain, and the opposition to the bill as drafted runs only about 60 per cent.

From Local Woman

The attitude of some ‘Hoosiers toward taking the testimony of one-time Col. Charles A. Lindbergh as an authority on foreign policy wag reflected in the following postcard: “Since aviators seem to influence our foreign policy, we have one or two good ones in Indianapolis. And when the Foreign Relations Committee gets to the automobile mechanics and truck-drivers, we can furnish g lot of them. “Each district deserves fair representation ‘While Rome Burns.” This card came to Senator VanNuys from an Indianapolis woman. A sample of the letters received on the other side is one for Senator Willis from a college professor, who said he was a Democrat, from Whigh the following are excerpts:

2 ‘Powers Given Easily’

“This Bill (lease-lend) gives to the President powers never before granted even in time of war. It practically surrenders without time limit the powers of Congress, and puts in the hands of one man irresponsible control over the property of the country, the currency, and the foreign relations of the United : States. “1 would oppose this bill if President Roosevelt were at one and the same time the world’s greatest general, the world’s wisest man, and the world’s greatest Saint. “Powers are more easily given away than regained. And this measure changes wholly the immemorial government of our country.” Senator VanNuys, who as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has been attending the hearings on the bill, predicts that it . will be amended to eliminate some of the more controversial features and then promptly passed.

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Invited to Hammond

Both Indiana Senators have been invited to speak at the dedication of the new Hammond Federal Build«ing next week, the exact date having not yet been determined. Since Senator Willis will be in Indianapolis Feb. 8 for the winter meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association he may accept, if the date is convenient, he said. Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick is in charge of the Hammond ceremonies. Others invited include Walter Myers, Indianapolis, now Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, and Rep. William T. Schulte (D. Ind.) who is the Lake County Congressman. Always an organized labor advocate, Rep. Schulte announced this week that he intends to take part in developing a congressional bloc to fight all attempts to pass defense emergency legislation which would take away from labor the right to

strike, ‘The bloc will be bipartisan, Rep. Schulte said.

DOCTOR, EX-HEAD OF RAINBOW UNIT, DEAD

ATTICA, Ind, Feb. 3 (U.P) — Funeral services will be held Wednesday for Dr. J. Roy Burlington, 65, past president of the Indiana Chapter of the Rainbow Division veterans. He died yesterday at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Lafayette, after a two-year illness. He was a former Fountain County Coroner and past president of the Ninth District Medical Association.

GRANT ATTACKS LEASE MEASURE

I's ‘Grab for Power’ by F. D. R., Congressman From State Charges.

WASHINGTON, #eb. 3.— Rep. Robert A. Cirant (R! Ind.) charged today that the Lend-Lease Bill is] not an aid-to-Britain measure, but! a “grab for power” by President Roosevelt. The

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ministration’s lifting the embargo” on Russia: “It is already apparent that neither the Fouse nor the Senate will accept President Roosevelt's dictatorial War-pow ers bill in the form proposed,” Rep. Grant asserted in a prepared statement. “Another history;making legislative battle is on, to! insure the preservation of American constitutional government. To those of us who have been fighting dictatorship in the United States constantly since President Roosevel’’s subversive attempt to pack the Supreme Court, it is very encour:zging to see toe

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Mrs. 30 Shea abe “Letter opened by Pxaminer 5361”

‘The Bombs Are Terrifying,’ : Briton Wetites Local Friend

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By FREMONT POWER i Until a few days ago, Mrs. Joe Shea didn’t know whether her Znglish friend, Mrs. George Edwards, was still safe in Great Britain or whether she had been a victim of] a Nazi bomb. Then there arrived a travel-worr, letter that bore the date De¢. 1% and the heavy mark of a censor’s stamp. Inside was the cheering news that so far all was well.

day’s growing national resentment against one-man government. The United States cannot rescue democ-| racy abroad by repudiating free government &t home. “Neither can we afford to strip) our vital defenses in a war-macd| world by shipping urgently-needed | men and materials to participate! in the age-old wars of European power politics. i “I have said mdny times before, and I want fo repeat again—I will never cash a vote, directly or indirectly, to send American boys to fight overseas. Ifeither will any vote of mine ever be cast to establish a one-man dictatorship in Washington. »

HOSIERY WORKERS IN BRITAIN ARE CALLED

LONDON, Feb. |3 (U, P.).—Brit~ ain’s conscription call for 500,000 women for essential war work will take its first recruits from the Leicester hosiery industry this week. The inclustry was to complete by| today a census of its women work- | ers, and within a few days each factory will be required to release a proportion of its women and girl machine operatives, clerks and warehouse employees for armaments work. The industry decided to make the selection itself rdther than wait for the Labor Ministry to draft women Workers.

DISMISS REPORT OF POPE'S PEACE PLEA

Copy? HENS Jol, by IThe Indianapolis Limes

icago Daily N VICHY, France, Feb. 3.— Although taken by surprise in the middle of a crisis in relations with Germany, officigls here attach little imporianty 10 J to a report that Pope Pius recommended & French-Axis Be treaty. His Hpliness is said to have urged such a pact ih conversation with Bernardo Attolico, Italy’s ambassador to the Vatican. A report fo

Now, of course, a blanket of silence has closed ‘down again and Mrs. Shea is once more apprehensive about her friend. But atleast {she is cheered, even surprised, that the Britishers take their plight sp well

‘Raids Are Fearful Things

On Dec. 15, Mrs. Edwards wrote Mrs. Shea: “I still have my sister and two brothers living with me. Both the brothers are registered for the Army, but have not been salle on so far. “You wonder how we all fare. Well, it’s not easy living these days. We have a great deal to put up wi ‘h and the raids are fearful things. It’s bad enough to live ia the country. “The cities are wicked: Wg have our share here. For weeks, night after night, we never knew what it was to get a good night's sleep. We have slept downstairs on the flgor sometimes to get in a rest. Bombs have fallen too close to us to be healthy. They just give you an aw- { ful, terrifying feeling. “The best week for sleep was last {week ever since August. There's more action this week, as it's moonlight. | Reports Uncle Safe |

“Your letter had been opened and examined. We must be careful these days. So many spies, etc. “George saw your Uncle Jack (Mrs. Shea’s father’s brother). They are well and safe. We can’t be sure of the letters now. If you have written before I expect they have

the sea. Well, I won’t write more. If you get this, try to answer. It seemed like old times to hee xr from you. ”» Mrs. Edwards’ letter word a piece of paper around the end of it and on it was printed: *Openct by Examiner 5561.”

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It was the first time Mrs. Shea had heard from her English friend in about a year, although rs. Shea said that she herself had written

this effect, of Roman origin, has been printed in Switzerland, but is, being ignored by the French press.|

about a half-dozen times. | . War in all its terrifying might is no stranger to Mrs. Shea, wha lives

VICHY, Fra| ce, Feb. 3 (U. P.).— The fate of ¥rench Indo-China, a tempting prize to her underfed and overpopulated | Asiatic neighbors, remains a puzzlp of the Far East following a truc¢ with Thailand under Japanese leadership after a threemonths’ undeclared war. Indo-China, a nation of 23,000,-

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Relieved of their sufferings, often for the first time in years, scores of happy men and women continue to pour into the Hook’s Drug Stores ‘to obtain Retonga and express their gratitude for the happy relief obtained through this purely vegetable stomachic medicine combined with Vitamin B-1. Many of these now happy men and women say they had almost given up hope of ever finding a medicine to make them feel so good again. For instance, Mr. Ray Abney, resident of 31 Frank Street, Indianapolis, gratefully declared: “I'll always bless the day I got Retonga. Indigestion, sour stomach and gas harassed me so for two

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ing. I had t take strong cathartics all the time for constipation, my stomach alweys seemed ‘in a turmoil and I had terribly bad headaches. My nerves stayed on edge, and I hardly ever [got enough refreshing sleep. I lost lots of weight and felt so weak I could hardly get about. I tried medicine after medicine without relief till I started taking Retonga. Now my distress from constipation indigestion and nervousness is relieved, I eat heartily three times a day and it is wonderful to sleep like I do now. I feel strong and full of energy. Retonga is the best medicine I ever saw.” Retonga (is a purely vegetable stomgchic medicine combined with Vitamin B-1, intended to increase the flow of gastric juices in the stomach and help nature remove toxic wastes from the bowsls, thus relieving indigestion, toxic poisoning, muscular pains, weak run-down feeling, and other distresses due to such causes. Accept no substitute. Retonza may be obtained at all

Indo-Chind's Fate Is Mystery As Three-Months War

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000 people with an ares of 92,500 square miles, is one of the richest in the Far East both agriculturally and in natural resources. Eer hopulation -is essentially rural, 21,000, 000 living on the land.

Rice, the cause of more than one bloody war in the Far East, is IndoChina’s chief commodity. For cultivation of this traditicnal staple food, the French Government has built vast irrigation and drainage works which have enabled IndoChina not only to take tere of her domestic requirements birt to maintain a steady flow of exports.

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at 217 N. Hamilton Ave. In 1917, she was a volunteer Red Cross nurse and served in England for a year and two months. Then she became ill, her husband was killed and she returned to America. Mrs. Shea went to school in England and one of her childhood acquaintances was the English girl who is now Mrs. George Edwards, who now lives at “Alice Villa,” Nursery Road, Farncombe, Surrey, England. Mrs. Shea, a costume designer and maker, worked for the Federal Theater Project here, where she met her present husband. Mr. Shea, a former ballet dancer for the Metropolitan Opera, was stage manager. Mrs. Shea would like to go back to England to see the war and Mrs. Edwards.

HONOR ROLL LEADERS AT MANUAL LISTED

Alice Miedema with 43 honor points, and Arvin Popplewell, with 40, topped the girls’ and boys’ senior high honar roll, respectively, at Manual Training High School for

the first semester. Others on the girls’ list were: Eleanor Ayers, Mariam Reick, Helen Kerr, Florina Schaefer, Clarice Sponsel, Florence Willard, Mary Bunning, Ella Mae Sutt, Helen Addis, Shirley Stotler, Imogene Elkins, Annie Hassell, Bernice = Cohen, Martha Hills, Elna Houston, Marylouise Wessner, May Costello, Betty Irish and Sara Passo. Runners-up to young Popplewell on the boys’ list were: Harold Bretz, Carl Maier, Edward Reich, Albert Tavenor, James Bottin, Harry Mark, Harold Van Treese, James Foxlow, John Ritter, Richard Etherington, Charlesh Hamer, Joseph O’Nan, William Clark, Elmer Eisenbarth, John Gumerson, Milton Bohard, Paul Brandt, Robert Hill, Kenneth Marshall and Robert Crossen. “Top Tenners” in the junior high school division were: Donald Miller, Donald Wiebke, Edgar Hamer, Louis Schabler, Julius Heisler, Robert Schilling, = Morris Alboher, Max Cohen, Bernard Horwitz, Carl Kenninger, Louis Gerbofsky, Bill Sumner. Others were Mary Fritsche, Helen Carter, Doris Colligan, Ruth Johnson, Leona Kipp, Eleanor Kuntz, Bonnie McKee, Ingeborg Weck, Helen Need, Mary Jean Raftery and Patsy Ritter.

FIRST AID CLASSES TO OPEN THURSDAY

Advanced first aid classes sponsored by the American Red Cross will start at 7:30 p. m. Thursday under the direction of Ivan 8S. Glidewell at the Indiana World War Memorial. Eligible for the classes are those persons ho have completed the Standard First Aid courses, also offered by the Red Cross. The course will be held in 10 weekly classes. Those who pass the course successfully will receive a certificate good for three years and will be eligible to take Instructor's training later. There is no enrollment or tuition charge for the courses. Frederic A. Delano, uncle of President Roosevelt, will address the convention of the Indiana Civic Associations here Wednesday, Lee J. Ninde, president, announced today.

Coffee and teas also a‘e profitable sources of revenue. Indo-China’s mineral resources play an important part in her economic picture. In 1933, sh¢ produced 2,335,000 tons of fuels, 72,000 tons of iron, 65,162 tens of zinc, 42,000 tons of phosphates, anc small quantities of tin, mangenese, and gold. Commercially, Indo-China is in a healthy position. Rice represented 67 per cent of her total exports in 1914. In 1917 the figure dropped to 41 per cent, but the decline was more than compensated by a rise in the export figures o: rubber, corn and coal, testifying to the cevelopment of a more varied econpmy. The progress of produciion in Indo-China has been favored greatly by generous capite! investments from abroad. From the hest information available in Vichy, it was estimated 492,000,000 gold francs were invested in the country between 1888 and 1918. | Indo-China has 375 miles of railroad, most of which was built with French capital. The ‘Trans-Indo-Chinese Railroad, complstec in 1936, links Hanoi and Saigon, joining the deltas of the Red River and Mekong, the area in dispute between Indo-China and Thailand. Recently i was extended as ar 88 the Chi

FT. WAYNE POSTAL CLERK SENTENCED

FT. WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 3 (U.P). —Dwight D. ‘Snyder, 41, former Portland postal clerk, was under an 18-month Federal sentence in Leavenworth Penitentiary today after Judge Thomas Slick found him guilty of defrauding the Government of $414 in postal receipts and falsifying money order records. Snyder pleaded not guilty to the charges, although he assumed responsibility for the loss and made restitution. He was indicted Feb. 15, 1940.

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48 BOMB RAIDS

Nazis Use Fireworks for Anti-Aircraft Shells, He Reports.

AN EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT, Feb. 3 (U. P.).—Lee Sullivan, 20-year-old Texan who served nine months with the Royal Air Force in Great Britain as a pilot officer, was en route home today

'with tales of air battles and bomb-

ing raids over Germany. Sullivan, invalided out of the R. A. F, told of the 48 times he flew over Germany and Nazi-occupied

territory with cargoes of bombs, of |PF00

having his plane riddle by antiaircraft shells and machine gun bullets and of crashing once after a night bombing raid in Germany. “It was a great experience,” he said. “I wouldn’t have missed it for anything. But just the same I'm glad to be on my way home. It will be nice to see the folks.”

Lives Near Dallas

Son of a cafe owner in Hillsboro, 40 miles from Dallas, he is the first American flier invalided out of the Royal Air Force. Frequently, he said, British squadrons met stiff resistance in raids on Germany, but there was a belief in R. A. F, circles that the Germans were using fireworks in an effort to mislead attackers into believing it was anti-aircraft fire.

Gave Them Something

Mr. Sullivan said German radio announcers sought to mislead attacking planes by reporting fake messages. “They did that to us one night,” he said. “We told them to go to hell and gave them something to remember us by.” Sullivan said he plans to continue his aviation career, possibly joining the United States Army or Naval Air Corps. He also is considering an offer to ferry bombers across the Atlantic to Britain.

By DICK THORNBURG ; Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The Army, which has just ordered 4,500,000 emergency medical tags to be

attached to its dead and wounded, also is ready with an ingenious new system to insure the correct identification of its men at all times. The system has beén worked out by the War Department and the Addressograph-Multigraph Co., of Cleveland. In the World War soldiers wore one identification tag. Clerks, doctors, etc., copied names and numbers off the tags by hand, a method subject to error. The new system is virtually foolf. It comprises: 1. Identification tags to be worn by the soldiers. 2. Embossing machines for punching the necessary information on the tags. 3. A small, hand-operated machine for reproducing automatically on paper records the information on the tags. Addressograph is manufacturing 4,000,000 tags of non-tarnishing monel meal (cost: 2 cents each). They are about half the thickness of a dime, measure 2 inches long and 1% inches wide. Each soldier will wear two tags bearing identical information. Thus when a soldier is killed in action one tag can be. buried with him and the other attached to the cross on the grave.

ual’'s name, his Army number, tne name and address of the person to be notified and the type of the soldier's blood so a transfusion could be made without waiting for a laboratory test. This information is stamped into the tags by an embossing machine also being manufactured by Addressograph (cost: $760 each; in production, 88). Each Corps Area headquarters and reception center will have one of these machines, which are about half the size of an ordinary desk. During induction the soldier will go to the operator of the machine,

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about 12 inches. Strapped on the side in a leather holster, clerks,. physicians, nurses and others who will handle the information on the tags, will wear the reproducing machines (cost: $34 apiece; in production, 2000).

HOSTESS FINDS ARMY JOB IRKSOME, QUITS

FT. DIX, N. J, Feb. 1 (U. P).— The Army is having trouble already with its women members. Miss Ernestine Latimer, 36 and red-haired, announced that she had resigned as junior hostess at the Second Army Corps Area Headquarters here, because .the job had been “misrepresented” to her. She was hired as a dietitian Jan. 3, she said, but instead of being permitted to handle food, her specialty, she was put to work greeting drafted men, greeting drafted men’s relatives on visiting days, and “co-ordinating recreational activities,” an obscure asignment which consisted mostly of distributing stationery.

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