Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1941 — Page 9
~ MONDAY, FEB. 3 1941
Hoosier Vaga
LONDON (By Wireless)—The average Iondoner who sleeps underground every night has dojie a lot of shopping around before settling down in a particular shelter for the duration. It has been sort of like going around looki new apartment to rent. The choice is based on what looks sajest, and on whether you like thé crowd or not. As horrible as shelter life seems to me, one marshal told me he felt ' sure that after the war many people would want to keep ¢n living underground. Londoners are gregarious, They like to he in a crowd. I'll have to admit that ple I've seen in many | shelters seemed to be making a picnic of it. Also, people have ¢ feeling that the more of them there are together, the safer they are. : I was in a good-sized room under a railvray arch. The room was only half-filled, and the pedple were grumbly and unhappy. The marshal said that if you'd pack 50 people in there they'd be as happy as June bugs. Some people, of course, do piefer the quiet and privacy of the smaller public sheltérs, where Just ‘a few people can sit around, sew, play cards, and talk. ] I went into one basement that held only two dozen people, and they had a piano. They were all singing when I walked in. And they happened to be singing “Marching Through Georgia.” In Soho I visited two or three shelters which were in the basements .of small office buildings, It was cozy and nice down there, and you had at last a feeling of privacy.
- The Comforts of ‘Home
In the small shelters you can fix up a Hunk in a corner with some permanency, and gat a few little homey things around you. | People often go long distances to sleep} in their favorite shelters. They say people travel by bus and subway four or five miles to sleep in the |big, jolly Double-X shelter, yet other people who live within ‘two blocks of Double-X will travel four or [five miles nightly by tube to sleep underground gt Maj'ble Arch. There is just no making head nor tail pf human nature. | Although people in all the public ing. have to
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take their bedding home every moming, “iuests” in
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By Ernie Pyle
some shelters are so permanent thet they are allowed to bring their own iron beds and chairs. You see whole rows bf deep olcl leather chairs right out of the sitting rooms at home. with old people sitting up asleep in them. And there are hundreds of canvas deck chairs that people sleep in all night. . Whenever, late in the afternoon, you see somebody with a cheap brown suitcase going down the street, he is on his way to a shelter for the night. I wish I had been in the cheap-brown-suitcase business this past year. You even see people going to shelters in taxis, but with their cheap brown suitcases. Up at the Double-X shelter you see iaundreds of baby buggies parked around the walls. They didn’t bring babies; they brought bedding. Officials think they may be forced to forbid baby buggies, people bring so much stuff in them, It takes up too much room. Some people come practically ready to set up housekeeping. I was amazed at the number of soldiers in the shelters. That seemed dreadful to me ~ A soldier comes home on a few days’ leave for some life, liberty and a little fling at happiness. And then, because his home has gone or his folks have moved he has to spend his leave lying on a dungeon floor. However, not all the soldiers go to shelters because they have to. Lot of them go there to pick up girls.
Bunks Are Disliked
Incidentally the girls over kere are wearing coats with those Alaska-type parkas, of the sime material, that pull over the head. And ‘believe me they look snappy. Many people, after trying the new shelter bunks
"installed by the Government, go back to the floor.
The bunks are less than ‘two feet wide, and too short for comfort. On the fidor, people have room to stretch and roll around. Most of the bunks are three-deckers. Those in the tube stations are made of steel.! All the rest are made of wood, pegged together at the joints so they can easily be knocked down and moved. ‘Chey are unfinished, and look very home-made. Some have slat bottoms, others canvas bottoms. ’ The other night I was in 2 shelter that had not got bunks yet, and the marshal said the people had taken a vote and only two out of the 300 wanted bunks. But they have to take them ariyhow, for the Ministry of Health says so. A few people, in the better shelters, bring pajamas and put them on before going to bed. But very few. Most people sleep with all their clothes on, even their hats.
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)
A MINOR CRISIS HAS BEEN avertd d at the School Board, but for a while last Friday (the last day of January) it looked as though ons Indian--apolis principal was going to be lef: out in the cold when pay checks were passed out. If seems there is a State law requiring eacli principal to certify that his schdol hold a fire drill during the mdnth. The same law says thal the principals get no pay for the month if they fail to file the report. Well, the priricipal ih question overlooked the little majiter of the report and when Bill livans, the schools’ safety director, ot on the phone and reminded | him, the errant school head set something of a speed record in getting the report in before the deadline. Money certairly works wonders.
Never a Dull Moment
DR. FRANK ADAIR, the New York caricer expert, who ¢ .rives here today for the caricer coritrol meeting at the Claypool, is the gentleman who {jot off one of the best wise cracks of all time when hp was here two years ago for the American Ccllege of Surgeons’ conferences. “I have just looked over your city.” said Dr. Adair witt serious mien. “I have been to the |top of the Mortiment, I've seen the World Wer Meinorial, the American Legion’s national headquarters and your library. They’re all very impressive. i “But I was even more interested in | {your State House. Over there I discovered one statu of George Washington, one statue of Abraham Liacoln, and at least 12 pictures of John Dillinger.” | This trip, Doctor, we've got the Cegislyture.
Here and ‘There
DR. THURMAN B. RICE, editorializing in the cure rent Board of Health bulletin, says there has been
Washington
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—This falk Hy Secretary of the Navy Knox and other officials that Hitler's showdown with England doesn’t strike me as ballyhoo for the War-Aid Bill but rather as a genuine expression of their judgment. This bill can't h 1p England much in the next few weeks. The sober fact is that no man knows whether there will even be an England to help by the time the bill passes. That is the cold situation. I hardly know why I write this because it tan’t do any good. For the moment the situation in England is beyond much help from here. England must meet Hitler with what she has on hand, not what is on order,
What Secretary Kiox has just revealed to the Serlate Foreign Relations Committee, they have been mulling over for several days. All circumstantizl evidence gleaned from our lookouts in Europe peints, in Secretary Knox’s judgment, to the start at any moment of the blow at Brgland, Secretary Hull makes the same Jicgment, So does Lord Halifax, the British Amassador. > {
Can England Survive?
* All information suggests that the Blow will fax exceed in force anything yet seen. Very likely new planes with greater speed and striking power will be used in enormous waves. No informed person
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~ here attempts, in his private moments, to minimize
the danger. This Lend-Lease Bill would scarcely help if Cone gress passed it tomorrow. The measures will be of material value only if England survives and is able to continue the war. Actually officials are concerned much more about the desperate weeks. just ahead. No bone deceives
My Day
. i WASHINGTON, Sunday—On Fridaj’ afternoon, I attended a Girl Scout ceremony in the D. A. R. national headquarters. This was a birthday celebration at which they presented the work oi their service pureaus in tableaux which showed what the girls can do in national defense, The ‘climax was reached when they handed me a blank check, drawn to the order of the people of the United States, on | | the hours ot their service. ‘ In the evening I went to a meeting called by & group of people who wanted tb consider the advisability of forming a municipal assembly in the District of Columbia. I was! astonished at the number of orgenizations existe ing in the district. are civic organizations which are federated and which, if they agreed on any one thing ought to be able to bring a great deal of influence to bear on the district government and the committees in Congress which deal with {district matters. . Since I am only a temporary resident of the district, I feel that I have very little right to take part in affecting the citizens bi the district, except as the district is of importarce and interest to any citizen of the United States. Where thé dis trict institutions are concerned, I. have. always. felt.
| Many of them
“too much hell-raising, too much drinking, too much cheating and lying.” He says “unless there is a return to. the principles of character and uprightness . +» . we had about as well pull down {he sashes and lock up for the night.” ... Robert Frost (Pete) Daggett will be off soon for Trinidad where he will serve as a design engineer for the Army in the construction of an Army base (to protect the Navy base leased from Britain). . . , It looked like a riot at City Hall Friday afternoon. Fact is, it darned near was one, too. Police cars lined the sfreet and uniformed officers talked briskly to passersby. Ii was only pay day after a 17-day payless stretch.
Dowr, Gasoline Alley
MAYBE IT WAS the late and departed spring weather that made us think of Race Day. Anyway, a check around with the boys here who go fast brought up this information: Bill White, racing car owner who had a winner ia. 27 driven by George Souders, is rebuilding his Alfa Romeo . . . it'll be piloted again by Harry MacQuinn. . , , Bill, incidentally, is known as Hollywood Bill but he’s made Indianapolis his home . . . the address is 5639 Washington Blvd. . . . Wilbur Shaw, the Speedway’s top man, and Mauri Rose, thirc man last year, are still with Firestone and Allison’s, respecfively. , , « J. J. Corum, who was co-winner with Jo2 Boyer in 1924, is an Allison's foreman and Hany Hartz is out there, too. .. . If you've been wondering how they're going to police the Speedway next time, what with the National Guard gone off to camp, don’t worry. . « « Maj. William Carpenter, who aways has charge of keeping everybody in line, says he has a plan about worked out but he doesn't care to say what it is just now . , . things will operate as smoothly as with the Guard, he said. . . « Which means if you
‘don’t have the right kind of ‘pass, you can’t get
through this or that gate , . .and this means you!
By Raymond ‘Clapper
himself that it will be easy for England to turn Hitler back. The danger of successful landings at some points is considered great, provided Hitler is ready to pay the cost in casualties. Officials, thinking over these matters, have little interest in talk of a negotiated peace or of war aims. The whole question as they see it, is the survival of England. We are playing cown the Far East and everything else that does not bear immediately on the showdown. None of these things will matter if England goes down. Our whole problem will be chenged. Col. Lindbergh doesn’t think so. My mail is full of “so what?” letters. The Republicans are trying to excommunicate Wendell . Willkie.
London Another Vichy?
Hardshell Republicans hate hini as much as they hate Mr. Roosevelt. It's all because Mr. Willkie takes’ the same grave view of the crisis that the Administration takes and refuses to play politics
‘with it.
Secretary Knox says that we have for years had the benefit of a two-ocean navy without possessing one, and that the British fleet has nullified the threet of aggression in the Atlantic.
Many people do not zgree wita him. What will
. be their attitude if Hitler does tc England what he
did to Prance and if, within the next month or two, there is'a Vichy-tyoe Hitler-controlled governmen’ in London with Nazi naval officials sitting in the Admiralty “advising” a puppet government what to do with the fleet? That's the kind of thing that viorries officials here. That is why the quibbles and hair-splitting over the precise amount of zdditional power to be given the President seem to me a waste of time. If Hitler does to England what he did to France a few months ago, the measures we shall be compelled to take will make this Lend-Lease Bill look like chickenfeed.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
that all citizens shoulc take an interest in having here, models for the res: of the country; both for the value it would be to us in carrying back suggestions to our own states and communities, -and because of the service we could reader to observers from other countries. I have always found that I could learn things from other countries and would like to feel thet we offered here cur best in every field in the hope that we might be useful,
The people of the district must decide whether a municipal assembly would be a good instrument for them. I was certainly impressed by the number of organizations there seem to be in the district, and the small results they seem to achieve, After this meeting, I attended the Bureau of Engraving and Printing birthday ball, which like all th: others, seemed to be better attended than last
year. Yesterday, Mrs. Montgomery Angell and I, en her two children, mad: a trip to Monticello. stopped first at Mt. Vernon, and then I joined Co ‘We were fortunate in having a beautiful day, which made a picnic lunch possible. After visiting Jefferson’s home, the children came back to Washington, while Mrs. Angell and I went fo Richmond, Va., to attend a meeting of the newly organized Southern Electoral Reform League. I hope they will be sucSess} in Virginia in having the poll tax removed, for
1 always fen) What ihe state of Virginia should leader. in all reforms. whe 8
BOBBITT 1.0F 5 HINTED FOR GOP NATIONAL POST
Martin’s Successor to Be Suggested at March Meeting Here.
State Republican Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt, who returned last night from a conference of G. O. P. leaders at Omaha, Neb., is one of five party leaders being mentioned for the National chairmanship, it was learned here today. Republican leaders of two dozen Midwestern and Western states will meet in Indianapolis March 21 to make recommendations for a sucessor to National Chairman Joseph Martin (R. Mass.), who has said he plans to resign. A resolution was presented at the Omaha meeting to consider recommendations for a national chairman, but the state chairmen voted to delay action until the Indianapolis conference.
conference will center on plans for the 1942 campaign in the Midwest. Others mentioned for the national chairmanship are Kenneth Wherry, Nebraska State chairman; Werner Schroeder, Chicago National committeeman; David Ingalls of Cleveland, national committeeman, and Dudley White, a former Ohio Congressman. At the Orfiaha conference, Thomas Blaine, Oklahoma State chair= man, presented a resolution urging appointment of a national chairman from the Middle West “where Republicans won the election.”
Judgment Withheld On Wendell Willkie
OMAHA, Neb, Feb. 3 (U, P.), — Republican Party leaders from 17 states withheld judgment of their leader, Wendell - L. Willkie, presumably on the advice of retiring National Charman Joseph W, Martin. Definite action on the 1940 Republican Presidential candidate’s recent actions was delayed until March 21, when the leaders will meet again at Indianapolis, but his indorsement of President Roosevelt’s defense policies was discussed at a closed meeting here during the week-end. “At Des Moines Ia., the Young Republican Federation staved off a revolt against Mr, Willkie’s leadership and adopted a resolution urging every possible military and economic assistance to the democracies, consistent with America’s determination to stay out of war.
‘Explanation’ Awaited
The party leaders agreed that before Mr. W e be deposed as spokesman for the G. 'O. P. he should ‘be given an opportunity to explain more fully his position on defense and other subjects when he returns from an inspection tour of England. Mr, Willkie gave his indorsement with limitations to the Administration’s lend-lease bill before he left the United States for the tour but was unable to appear at the Congressional hearings on the bill, Mr. Martin was unable to attend the week-end conference of Republican chiefs but sent his secretary, Robinson McIlvaine, ag his personal representative to explain his position on proposals to censure Mr. Willkie and perhaps “read him out” of the party. “Mr. .Martin believes the leaselend bill is a matter to be handled by Congress and not by organizations,” Mr. McIlvaine said. “This thing is not being handled on a party basis. There are Republicans who favor the bill, some who favor it with modifications and some who are rabidly against it.” Defer Choice of Successor Also deferred was action on a proposal that the party leaders recommend a successor to Mr. Martin, who has announced his resignation as national chairman. Spokesmen said the action was proposed to prevent appointment of an “amateur” to take leadership of the party. The decision to defer was made, it was said, when some speakers suggested that Mr. Martin might be induced to reconsider his resignaon. Delegates sent a telegram of appreciation for “admirable” leadership in the House of Representatives to Mr. Martin and also expressed “entire confidence in the Republican delegation in Congress.” “We believe it will protect the best interests of the nation in any crisis that may arise,” the telegram said. A similar message was sent to Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon, 1940 candjdate for Vice President and Senate Republican leader.
Noland Wright Heads
Young G. 0. P. Committee
Noland C. Wright, chief clerk in the House and state chairman of the Young Republicans, has been named chairman of the legislative committee of the National Young Republican Federation. Mr. Wright's appointment was one of the first announced by Gordon Allott, Lamar, Colo., attorney, after his election last week as national president of the Young Republicans at the organization’s convention at Des Moines, Iowa. Other members of the legislative committee are to be appointed at a meeting at Chicago later this month. As president, Mr. Allott succeeds Donald W. Hornebeck of Cleveland.
BLACK TOP ASKED ON ARLINGTON AVE.
Arlington Ave. probably will be black-topped for two and a half miles south of Washington St. in the near future, County Commis sioners said today. They took under advisement a petition presented by 25 Franklin township residents who were headed by D. 8S. Goble and Robert C. Eichoff. Petitioners said Arlington Avenue had been prepared for black topping and that unless the dressing is put on soon continued pound-
a|ing by traffic would wear the road - dOWD.. :
Chairman Bobbitt said the local| g=
ing one submarine a month.
and a Liverpool wounded but still
WINS SUPPORT FOR FOOD PLAN
Director of Plan to Aid 5 Democracies; Talks to Local Clergy.
Starving citizens of Nazi-con-quered European democracies can be fed without defeating the purpose of the British blockade, Chauncey McCormick said here -to-
ay. Mr. McCormick is Midwest division chairman of the National Committee on Food for the Five Small Democracies. He addressed the Indianapolis Ministerial Association at Roberts Park Methodist Church. He emphasized that he was not asking for funds, but only for support of the idea. Immediately after his address the association passed a resolution favoring Mr. McCormick’s plan,
Distributed by Americans
Mr.. McCormick said that the chief drawback to any relief plan was that the food might get to the Nazis. Under the committee’s plan, all the food would be distributed by Americans. “During the last war,” Mr. McCormick said, “we fed Belgians and there was no problem of rickets or malnutrition in Belgium, whereas right over the border in Germany these diseases were a serious problem. “This was the best kind of proof that Germans did not get the food.” Mr. McCormick also said that it was to the great advantage of the democracies to keep these democratic citizens fed so as to keep their spirits up.
Cites Nazi Arguments
“German propaganists are telling the hungry in Europe that (1) the democracies don’t care about them, (2) the English blockade is keeping the food out and (3) the ‘sooner you give into the auto-~ cracies the sooner you eat,” Mr. McCormick declared. Following the last war, Mr. McCormick was commissioned by Mr. Hcover as his representative to organize the administration of relief in Poland. He holds five decorations from the French Government and three from the Polish Government. Mr. McCormick said that about $1,000,000 in food has been sent unofficially to Poland and that the committee will be ready to function on a full-time basis just as soon as England gives permission. Mr. McCormick is a Chicagoan. Committee headquarters are in New York.
HOUSING PROJECTS ADVANCED FOR STATE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Plans for construction of 400 additional family dwelling Mnits near the Charlestown powder plant and 500 at South Bend, were submitted to President Roosevelt today by C. F. Palmer, Defense Housing co-ordin-ator. They were part of a program of 14,375 additional dwellings in defense areas throughout the country to. relieve housing shortages,
The famous No. 10 Club will adjourn .for the last time tomorrow night when the sole survivor raises a glass of 55-year-old champagne in a toast to the nine members who have died. John Thatcher, who now is 79, will sit alone at a table set for 10 in the Cabin Room of the Indianapolis Athletic Club. The chairs of the nine deceased members will be tilted to the table. - At another table, 12 guests, ne cluding Mr. Thatcher's three sons, will sit silent while he “closes the book” of the Srguinizalion which
Boat Co. yards in Groton, Conn, last Friday.
Shambles of Coventry Midland Cities Shock Willkie
By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. MANCHESTER, Feb. 3.—A shambled Coventry, mourning for dead buried in a common grave, a less battered but still shattered Birmingham,
and
doing business, have just provided
Wendell L. Willkie with a series of shocks which he will carry home to Washington with him when he leaves the United Kingdom Wednesday. He wound up his tour by driving on to Manchester, which, after
Coventry, is one of the hardest hit cities in the realm. The sights which confronted Mr. Willkie during his week-end tour of Midland industrial centers were enough to try the stamina of any man. Mr. Willkie was able to learn from officials and personal observation far more than most people had known at the time of the German blitz against provincial England. His own impression was that the Amer-
story in every case. Production Nearly Normal
The dreadful moonlit night of Thursday, Nov. 14, seemed to be re-
bombed the blazing center of town. Water supplies stopped after the first hour and a half; ambulances could not approach the center of town. : Mr. Willkie was told that production nad now been brought up to 80 or 90 per cent of normal. He posed for photographers amid the shattered remains of Coventry Cathedral and later remarked that the tower, which remained comparatively intact, seemed to be the symbol of England. Newspapermen noted that the cathedral tower was titled at a dangerous angle, but they Sid nos try to make a symbol of that ac
Shocked at Birmingham
When Mr. Willkie moved on by car toward Birmingham, he had another shock.. First, he was nearly mobbed by well-wishers at the outskirts; later he caused two mob scenes outside City Hall. As he cruised down toward the center of town, the recent Republican candidate was amazed by the number of buildings that had been laid flat. He got the impression that the damage was even greater than in Coventry.
CHRISTIAN PASTORS OPEN 2-DAY SESSION
Approximately 150 Christian Church ministers today opened the annusl midwinter meeting of the Indiana Christian Ministers Assocation at the Central Christian Church. Theme of the two-day meeting is “Christianity and Contemporary Civilization.” The principal speaker is to be Dr. T. Hassell Bowen, Harrodsburg, Ky., who will talk three times on “Contending Doctrines of Men”; “If the Church is to Save Civilization,” and “If This Be the End of Our Era.” Other speakers will include Dr. Ephraim D. Lowe, secretary of the Indiana Christian Missionary Society, and Dr. Errol T. Elliott, pastor of the First Friends Church here. Music for the meeting will be directed by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wilson of the Butler University College of Religion. The college choir also will participate.
POPE MAY CALL BISHOPS
VICHY, France, Feb. 3 (U. P.).— Pope Pius XII is sounding out cardinals on a plan to convoke a meeting of 2000 bishops from all parts of the world as soon as the war is over, the Paris Soir, now published in
Lyons, said today.
Champagne Toast fo Close No. 10 Club Books Tomorrow
rib of prize beef. Game, on the menu in the first and each succes~ sive banquet, also will be served. Guests at the second table will be George H., A. J. and John H. Thatcher Jr., Robert F, Oakes and Max Fowler, Bicknell Blakenship, W. G. Ross, Cecil Shawver, John Evans, Louis Miller, Roy Gaskill and William Robison, all of Frankfort. The club was founded when the 10 original members prepared a banquet following a hunting trip and decided to hold a similar affair every year. The champagne was left from the first meeting and has occupied a
ican newspapers had underdone the| [=
vived as Mr, Willkie toured the|} tumbled-down center of Coventry to] the cheers of the townsfolk, fresh|f
out of church. For three solid hours that night, German Stukas dive-
center place on the banquet table | each year since. :
The United States Navy’s new 2475-ton submarine “Grayback” slid down the ways at the Electric Facilities at the yard are being enlarged to allow for build-
10% LINK PEAGE T0 “AID-BRITAIN'
Gallup Poll Shows That 85% Still Oppose War With Axis.
By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion : . PRINCETON, N. J, Feb. 3— Back of the widespread Ameican desire to help England today—a nation-wide study by the American Institute of Public Opinion shows —is a belief that such aid is more likely to keep war from U. S. shores than it is to draw America in. Probably the whole phenomenon of the American people’s desire to help England win cannot be completely understood without taking this fact into consideration. In the Institute survey voters in all parts of the United States were offered two opposite statements as to the probable results of American aid, and were asked to choose between them, The statements were designed to reflect the arguments of the pro-aid and anti-aid groups respectively. Seventy per cent of those interviewed in the national cross-section chose the statement: “Sending war materials to England is helping to keep us out of war, because if Brit-
Dr. Gallup
ain can keep Germany in check
there is less chance that we will have to fight the Germans later on. Twenty - three percent believed that: “Sending war materials to England is bringing us closer to getting into the war, because once we start helping we wont be able to stop short of war.” The remaining 7 per cent said they were undecided or without a definite opinion.
F. D, R. Winning Argument
The survey results indicate. .that President Roosevelt is winning one of his arguments with the so-called isolationists and non-intervention-
ists. In his recent “fireside chat” to the people of America the President explained the plan to give greater aid to Britain in these words: “The nub of the whole purpose of your President is to keep you|jn now—and your children later—and your grandchildren much later—out of’ a last-ditch war for the preservation of American independence.” Col. Charles Lindbergh and numerous non-interventionist Senators have challenged President Roosevelt’s conclusions, arguing that the more desperate the British cause becomes the more the United States will have to “underwrite” the British, with a consequently increasing danger of war. First Line of Defense Running frequently through the comments on the majority side in the Institute survey is the argument that “Britain is our first line of defense,” and that “aiding Britain is aiding America.” Whereas in December 12 persons in every 100 with opinions on the subject said they would vote to enter the war and 88 were for staying out, the latest Institute survey gives the following Picture of U. 8. war sentiment: “If you were asked to vote on the question of the United States entering the war against Germany and Italy, how would you vote— to go into the war or to stay out of the war?” To Go In. cossesassnceies 15% To Stay Out......... 85% Nine per cent said they were undecided or had no opinion. Here are the results: of seven successive surveys on war entry: Favor Entrance
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October, 1939. . June 2, 1940.
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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 3 (U. P.).— Shirley Temple’s big brother, Sask, and his bride, Miriam Ellsworth of Los Altos, Calif, were honeymoon-
Jefferson Were Quizzed In Investigation. of
Written statements, which Feds eral investigators sald they took from Arthur E. Eickhoff, Indianaps olis real estate man on trial with two others on WPA fraud charges in Federal Court, were read to the jury today. The statements were
Silver Hills addition, where the Government contends the WPA projects were private profit.
2. That Mr. Jefferson had invests ed $9000 in money and fees in the development.
$300 a Year Taxes
3. That 72 acres in the area, purs chased by Mr. Eickhoff, in 1923, had been a “white elephant’ ‘that cost him $300 taxes a year and brought an income of only $100 a year, - - 4. And that he, at the time Ritter ve. and Minnesota St. proj were proposed, ed WPA officia if the work “didn’t smack of a pri vate project” and was assured thas it did not. The statements into evidence, and they were taken during the investi gation by Matthew Connelly, now
Joseph Ryszeleski, a Federal WPA. investigator.
Jefferson Statement Read
saying he had not known and had
péter, the other defendant, who then was Marion County WPA co ordinator, ‘A statement attributed to Mr. Jefs
him as telling the investigators that he did no believe that the WPA projects had been executed illegally. Mr. Kortepeter, convicted on othe er WPA charges ‘in Federal Court i n1939, was to have begun a prison sentence today. but a stay of mane
sued until next Monday. District Attorney B. . Howard
tion asking that the jury be mitted to visit work projects w! the Government contends were exe cuted illegally.
Filing Today Asked
Mr. Caughran made known his intention of filling the motion for the jury’s trip at the close of Satury day’s session. Federal Judge Robert OC. Baltzell Ske that the motion be filed to= ay. favor of the procedure. He ex=plained that often the evidence which such an expedition would expect to see has chan almost completely when any considerable time has elapsed since the perpetra= tion of the alleged law violation. After a week of testimony ‘the Government has brought to the stand WPA foremen, timek supervisors, property owners in vicinity and a former member of the Marion County Board of Com= missioners.
Newhouse on Stand .
Taking the stand Saturday, John Newhouse, former County Commis
question, to the best of his knowles edge, were not approved by the commission. { He did testify, however, on Crosse examination, that “sometim roads were repaired without the commissioners’ knowledge. He denied that the commissioners had suggested the road projects or that they had taken any. initiative “he matter. hi date the Government has of fered testimony intended to prove that the roads were cut through Sil= ver Hills and were staked out over “pasture and through timber.” The prosecution also has attempted to prove that the work was done by the WPA and that the men on the proje ect were paid with WPA checks. It is the Government's ch
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repair of “existing roads” which ! been damaged by rains and for roads which were: farm-to-mar arteries. A
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Dick Turpin was an English highwayman, slave trader, or motion. picture actor? 2—The instrument used" tom the velocity of wind pressure 4 called a barometer, anemometer or hydrometer? . 8—Do Panama hats come chiefly
Paraguay? 4—Name the capital of ‘Bolivia. 5—How many degrees are in a righ angle? J 6—Which freezes ‘quicker, hot cold water? : 7--By what document were the 18 original States first united under
a basic law?
1—English highwayman. 2~-Anemometer. 3—Ecuador. 4—La Paz.
quoted as making these points: x 1, That he and Charles Jeffersory (another defendant) expected to split the profits of 72 acres of the.
executed for their
Government offered the said’
an investigator for the Senate, and
Mr. Eickhoff also was quoted as #
had no dealings with Carl Kortees
ferson, also read to the jury, quoted
Caughran was to introduce a mo=
He said he seldom was in
that the money spent for these projs ects was set aside by WPA for the
date, because of this trial, was ise 4
sioner, testified that the projects in