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. LONDON (by wireless).—Before, I started over here I had a horror of being caught in the outbreak of ‘some big wartime epidemic this winter. Well, it hasn’t happened. So far, England’s wartime health apparently is excellent. How or why that is true I don’t know, for it seems to me that with a fourth of London’s population crammed into holes beneath the earth’s surface an epidemic would be a setup. It’s true that the city has been full of colds this winter. Many people who use the air-raid shelters suffer from something: called “shelter throat.” There ‘is always much coughing—heavy coughing. I've had my cold, along with the rest. It kept me in bed for ) nearly a week, and I didn’t feel so good, but I wasn’t half as sick that week as I was the day I got my doctor’s bill— $3 . | | fever and diphtheria have actually shown far this winter. Pneumonia is up just a littie. . There has been no outbreak of real influenza. Typhoid (has caused ro worries. The only disease that has really gone up is cerebrospinal meningitis, known as spotted fever. This has jumped from 1500 cases in [1939.to 12,500 cases last year. Keeping Fingers Crossed

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heir fingers crossed, knocking on wood and ! throwing salt in seven directions. If’ they can go - another month theyll be over the winter hump, and ldo get through without an epidemic they - think tHey should salaamr three times to Allah and _ then start the “fur flying on preparations for next winter. ‘| ; Those shelters have got to be improved faster than they are being improved now, regardless of cost. An epidemi¢ in London might give Hitler the very opening he’s Afaiting for. These people simply can’t g on living through winters this way without grav trouble. ‘ i : ems to me that before another winter every or must have a system ‘of forced ventilation, ‘toilets, adequate heating and warmer floors.

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; THE PHONOGRAPH RECORD business around town is booming and one downtown store, after remodeling and putting in more listening booths, found there Still wasn't enough room for the customers. And so now they're thinking of putting a row of | ; glass booths right through the middle of the room. , . . Eddie Craft had a date with Simone Simon the other evening. It was all arranged through his friend Jack Appel, who received a wire from a producer friend asking . him to see that Simone had a nice timé during her visit here. . . . The Variety Club has changed “the lock on: the front door. and new keys sent only to those mem- . bers who have paid their dues. . . . People who depend on that ne big neon-lighted clock atop the insurance company offices at Meridian and North are having a little trouble. Something’s happened to the lights on the minute hand and it doesn’t show up ati night. Pardon us if we say it ought to be fixed.

Tarkington Legend

. UP ON N. PENNSYLVANIA in the 1100 block (on “the west side of the street) is that same bronze plate

‘imbedded in the sidewalk with which Booth Tarkington used to have so much fun. The plate was put down by the U. S. Geodetic Survey years and years ago when the Tarkingtons lived on Penn. It says sim= ply “114 Ft. Above Sea Level.” ‘Tis too. The U. S. me ed it on Sandy Hook ratings. .-. Booth they say used to hail a hansom cab downtown and say airily: “Take me to 714.” - the legend comes down: that not a single

Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—In the end, Republicans .

may find that Wendell cted bless to the party. Pn Ie ied rh think that waly about Mr. his return to the United States is awaited with much distaste by . those in the party who resent his support of the Administration -in this crisis. Mr. Willkie has been an embarrassment to these Republicans from the time he was nominated in the Philadelphia convention. Isolationists, riding high, wide and handsome, were set to make an | issue «of the ' Administration’s | policy abroad. Mr. Willkie. was committed to the same general line as the Administration, and | in his acceptance speech he rewrote the Republican platform into a frank support of| the Administration course. He placed the party so close to the Roosevelt position that the Democratic “effort to brand him as an appeaser became ludicrous misrepresentation. : | Now Mr. Willkie becomes even more embarrassing. He has crossed most of the top party leaders in indorsing the Administration Lend-Lease Bill with mild reservations. He returns from England strengthened in his position by some first-hand observation, plus e prestige of an unexpected amount of attention in gland where he was rated as on® of America’s first popular leaders. This big Indiana hick, as some his former: supporters now describe him, is still oing to the party what he did to it in Philadelphia.

Willkie and the Leaders

Naturally it is painful to the old established leaders in the Republican Party .to have this interloper isregarding the party line. ‘It is splitting the party here and out in the states. in A few days ago there was much talk about read-

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g Mr. Willkie out of the party for his heresy. But when meetings at Omaha and Des Moines actually came to the job of dressing him down by formal ction, there was some hesitation and cooler heads prevailed. The Republican National Chairman, Rep.

My Day

| AMHERST, Mass., Thursday.—The drive from New |York City yesterday over the Merritt Parkway, up | th Danbury and Simsbury to Amherst was very beautiful. The snow gleamed and sparkled in the sun and the bare trees were very lovely against the blue sky. We had no idea how long it would take us but’ everything went very smoothly. . The roads were clear and our one concern was whether we would find any inn open for lunch. Mrs. Morgenthau had set her heart-on stopping at the White Turkey Inn, but when we got there, it was marked “closed for the winter.” In New Milford we found a gift shop and tea room combined and had a very good lunch.. Some ; youngsters discovered that it was 7 the President’s wife who was inand came in with the usual autograph books. - Pinally, there arrived a young lady, quite ‘breathless, who said she was the reporter for the. weekly paper... Her questions were very few, her real conern was to get a young man, who had just enlisted in the army, to come in and shake hands. She told me his courage had failed him, so that I was evidently . more terrifying than possible battles. But she went out and urged him in, and I hope he found the

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By Ernie Pyle

They must be made dry. They must have better medical departments. They did the best they could this winter. The

‘biggest shelters have nurses. There are some doctors

on duty. But mcst of the smaller ones have nothing cf this sort. I visited one in a good part of the city where the people themselves had chipped in money to buy a medical kit, and the shelter marshal, who knew nothing at all about it, was acting as doctor and nurse. and whoever had the key hadn't been around for days, I remember reading # repor: by British doctors early last fall, saying that the lice and flea population of London was increasing alarmingly. I've asked

about this at several of the pocrest shelters, and so|

far as I can tell this increase has begn halted. The smell of disinfectants is strong in all the big shelters, for they are cleaned and sprayed every

morning. But, to my mind, they still aren’t clean:

enough.

Poor Diet Brings Boils

The first aid rooms ini the larger shelters are really miniature hospitals, staffed by British Red Cross nurses and doctors who volunieer to donate their services nightly. At XX Shelter I looked over their records for the last twa months, About a fourth of the cases they had. treated wee of people suffering from boils. v This seemed odd, so I asked about it; and one of the nurses said, yes, it was tae result of the poor people’s diet. Blood, toil, tears, sweat—and boils. And so let’s wind up this series on shelters. At best, it has been only a stab. The subject is so com-

plex that it would také a whele government full off

men to see it all. So far as I can see, shelter life in.London, even at its best, is no‘bargain. I had thought I might find

it exciting, or even romantic ia spots, but I didn’t.|-

Somehow, it seems to nie there's something degrading to the human spirit in lying all night, crowded among other people, on a basement floor, within arm’s reach of open toilets, in bad air land under constant supervision even an nights when no raid is in progress. 1 fear eventually it will do the same thing .to weaker characters that being in prison:does. There are millions of people in London .who prefer to take their chances in their’ homes, or somewhere else above ground. And I believé I am one of them.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’) ’

cabby ever failed io drive him straight fo that bronze plate in the sidewalk.

Obit on .a Tarantula

HARRY COBURN, photographer at the State Conservation Department, for years has had the habit of collecting tarantulas. He's had a nice, big fat one now for a year. The other day he fed the giant poisonous spider. through the little door in front of the cage and then went home. About midnight Harry woke up, cold perspiration standing on his forehead. He couldn't remember whether Re had closed the coor to the cage or not. At 6 in the morning, he was. down at. the offices, red-eyed and weary. The tarantula was safe, but not for long. Harry mixed up a solution of potassium cyanide and bid a sad farewell to his pet.

Goodby to Sonja A BELATED . NOTES ON the ice show: Harrison Thomson, the leading man ir the Sonja Henie revue,

paid his respects to the other leading entertainment attraction of last week-enc—Jascha Heifetz. Mr.

Thomson (accompanied by a young lady) attended |

the Friday afternoon performance, applauded freely. . . . The ice revue’s big chorus bunked out at the Fairgrounds Hotel during their stay so they could be close to the Coliseum for rehearsals. , . . The band for the show was composed of 14 local musicians and threesthe director, trombone player and drumimer—who travel with the show. They said their hardest number was the Bolero. Usually that Ravel composition is played in 8-4 time, but the Sonja routine called for & 2-4 arrangement. That made it tough. .

By Raymond Clapper

Joseph Martirf although disagreeing with Mr. Willkie over the Lend-Lease Bill, advised against any formal action that would make the split in the party a matter of record. The struggle continues. Mr. Willkie is not without friends in the party, and some of them are exceedingly influential. These take the view of Governor iStassen of Minnesota that the Republicans must not be obstructionists and that this nation cannot have twp foreign policies. France and other nations that have fallen have been cursed with that “internal .divisior. It paralyzed them, took the spirit out of them, created national confusion and produced a condition out of which Hitler could get what he wanted.

No Comfort for Hitler

The Republicari Party maylcontinue to be at war within itself for sime time. But Mr. Willkie has prevented it from being shoved into the position where Col. Lindbergh would be its spiritual leader. He has prevented it from being & party which, by its policy, would serve chiefly to give aid and comfort to Hitler during this period. No one can say that the whole Republican Party is committed to gu blind, destructive: attitude which would war on the Roosevelt Administration exclusively while remaining indifferent to anything else. Some of them, like the head of the United States Chamber of Commerce, look passively upon the idea that Hitler might establish his domination over the lower part of South America. Mr. Willkie and his following in the party prevent that atfitude from becoming the party position. ‘The Republican Party is running on the isolaonist momentum given is by its defeat of the League f Nations more than 20 years ago. It hasn't been running very fast but that has been the direction.

Mr. Willkie says that “if the Republican Party allows itself to be presented to the American people as the isolationist party, it will never again gain contro of the American Government.” HE may be right or he may be wrong. But so far as the Republican Party is concerned, it can thank Mr. Willkie for keeping one of its feet on the other side of this issue, which. is better than not being représented there at all,

: By Eleanor Roosevelt!

We reached Amherst a little before 4 o'clock. Bob Morgenthau met us and took us to our rooms. With great care, he had chesen rooms at the back of the inn because the birthday ball was being given and he thought, otherwise, we would be kept awake by the dancing, There were flowers awaiting us from the political union. I am beginning to feel that these young people are not only extremely good organizers but very thoughtful and considerate of the comfort of their guests. : Several people dropped in to see me, all of whom I enjoyed. Then we dressed and prepared to meet the press and the photographers. President King came over to share this interview, and then Mrs. Morgenthau and I dined with dent and Mrs. King. The hall for the meeting was filled and the questions of the young men after my short talk seemed to me very thoughtiul and interesting. The times are such that youth today is taking life very seriously.

I think this younger generation is going to face the ‘realities of the world situation and the changes that|

have come about here and abroad with a more realistic understanding than ever before. This attitude in youth is what gives us greater hope for the future. Another lovely day, and we are starting out now for Mt. Holyoke and Smith Colleges. It will be interesting to go from a man’s college to colleges where orward

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far as the eye can reach, a stream of Italian soldiers taken prisoner by camps. The British claim that 38,000 Italians, including four generals, were captured at the Libyan coastal town,

Mussolini asa “bastion of Fascism.”

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the foreground are machine guns.

HOUSE WORKING AT HIGH SPEED

Attorney General Bills and ~~ State Investigation “+. “In Spotlight.

The Indiana House continued to work -at 11th-hour speed today with the: Senate-approved State . inves-

tigation resolution and the Attorney General bills highlighting this morning's program. : The - investigation measure would set up- a six-member legislative committee to probe any irregularities in’ previous State Administrations. It passed the Senate unanimously and was to be reported favorably to the floor ‘of the House by the Judiciary Committee today. The State’s financial situation remained a prominent subject. of discussion on the House floor, almost resulting in the defeat of the bill to establish a pension fund. for State Accounts Board employees. When the bill came up for third reading yesterday, Rep. Roy Harrison (R. Attica), Ways and Means Committee chairman, asked that it be | recommitted for further study since - it carried an appropriation and “the State doesn’t know where it's going to get the money to: keep up what it already has started.” Rep. Frank O'Rourke (D. Hammond), a Ways and Means Committee member, also said the bill should not. be rushed ~ through . “because ose going to need a magician as The bill was passed and sent. to the Senate by the narrow margin

COUNTY WILL AUCTION BUNGALOW AND LOTS

The Marion County Auditor will sell at auction at 10 a. m. on Feb. 15- the following real estate at not less than the listed appraised value: 1735 ‘Shadeland, -modern bungalow, $2500. Lot: 375_ Rainbow addition, 20th and. Exeter, $125. Lot 404 Rainbow addition, 20th and Berwick, $125, _ Lots’ 269,” 239 Rainbow. addition, 20th near Berwick, $125 each. Lots 429, 430, 431, Rainbow addition, 1700 Exeter, $100 each. 201, 202, 203 Rainbow addition, * corner 17th and Berwick, $300 all three. - Lots 14,15, 16 Northup. addition, Meridian and ' Corydon. Sts. $1100

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By EARL RICHERT The . smoldering fight over whether Indiana. should -have a Home Guard is expected to flare into. the open in the Senate Mon-

ay. : . Scheduled - as a special order of business is a motion by Senator Roger Phillips (D.. New Albany) that two bills creating a State Guard: and an. Administrative Defense Council: be brought out on the Senate floor for consideration of the entire body sitting as a committee.of the whole. The two bills, approved several weeks ago .by: both Democratic and Republican leaders .in a meeting with. Governor Schricker, have been buried in the RepublicanSoiinaisd Military Affairs Come.

Herr Hits Cost-

Republican leaders have not committed themselves as definitely opposed to establishment of the Home Guard, but. they have introduced a bill ‘to increase - the State Police force by.200 men during the next two years. Senator Ben Herr (R. Lebanon); Military Affairs Committee chairman, said that he believed the ‘increase in the . State Police force would make it unnecessary to #tablish’ a Home Guard, which he: estimated would cost the state:at least $1,000,000. : Senator Phillips® -asserted that “quick action” should be taken in the interests of defense. Ready for final Senate action today were the House-passed main G. O. P. “decentralization” bill which sets up four Repuhlican-dom-inated boards; to control most of the State Government, and the: “ripper” bills giving the Republicans con-trol-of the way Commission and the Department’ of Financial Institutions. “3 : Amend ‘Backstop’ Bill The “backstop” G. O. P. bil placing the State Budget Director under a board composed of the Governor, the State Auditor and Secretary of State was recommended: to the Senate for passage, with one major amendment. That provides that the State Budget Director shall replace the Chief Examiner of the fd of ‘Accounts as a member of the State Budget

Committee. ; (ai Two bills designed to further restrict the powers of justices of the peace -and constables were passed unanimously by the Senate yester-

day. ; | The measures, authored by Sen‘ator: Harold 'W. Handley .(R.. LaPorte), would remove criminal cases jurisdiction :

the- ‘of justice of

Senate Fight Expected on Formation of Home Guard

which, one municipal court was located and. prohibit: constables from making arrests unless they had warrants issued by the justices of the peace. Another measure passed to the House .would require applicants for all types of licenses to present personal property tax receipts in addition to poll tax.receipts. 3 Hearings on several Senate bills have been scheduled fof next week. The Senate Education’ Committee will consider amendments. to the Multiple Textbook Adoptions bills Monday afternoon; the Labor Committee will hold pub-

Hour bill and the Workmen's Compensation bill at 7 p. m. Tuesday: and. Wetlnesday respectively; Judi~ ciary B committee will consider the bill (to tax ‘outdoor advertising

culture Committee will hold a pub= lic ‘hearing on the Milk: Control Bill ‘at 7 p. m. Thursday in the Senate chamber,

ISCHRICKER TO TALK

AT SCOUT BANQUET

Governor Schricker will speak at the Yankee District Boy Scout and Cub, father -and son banquet Wednesday night .at the Woodruff Place Baptist Church. “A brass choir from Technical High - School, directed by Frederic Barker, will play. A court of honor for district Scouts and Cubs: will be conducted by Gerald O. Martz, Scoutmaster of Troop 14. George D. Coldren, district commissioner, will preside. : In addition to Mr. Coldren and Mr. Martz, the committee on. arrangements includes Charles Youngman, Troop .30) Scoutmaster; Capt. W. R. Glass, Poop 125 Scoutmaster, and Clyde Benjamin, O. E.

' | Breedlove and Fred Wolf, neighbor-

-hood- oners.

NOVELISTS ‘TOPIC FOR 1. U. LECTURES

A series of seven:lectures on outSanding contemporary novelists of ie world will .be given at the In, diana’ University Extension Cenfer beginning, Feb., 24. : ba The first lecturer will be J h Friend, English ‘instructor at the tension Division. The lectures will be held from 8:10 to 9:30 p. m. on the following Monday evenings: {Feb. 24—D. H. Lawrence; March 3—Aldous Huxley; March 10—Thomas Mann; March 17—Lion Feuchtger; March 24—Andre Malreaux;. 31 rest Hemingway, and

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JUDGE ELECTION BILL IN HOUSE

Rocky ‘Road Ahead After Committee Reports but Doesn’t Advise. .

‘By WILLIAM CRABB

Storm signals flew today for the Indiana Judicial Council’s bill for the non-partisan election of judges. ‘This bill has the support of bar

is one: of the chief goals of the Judicial Council, ~s But 10- members of: the House Judiciary: Committee~nine of them lawyers—attempted - to sit in judgmet on the proposal yesterday and he . result - was. puzzling, even to themselves. rr Rep. :Geofge- Henley . (R. ‘Bloomington), chairman of the committee and author of the bill, asked for comments and a gray-haired man jose from the small gallery of visiIS. ) Disputes ‘Bill's Effect ’ He wag: Otto Gresham of Indianapolis,, a well-known constitu-

the bar nearly 60 years ago. “The purpose of this plan, you say, is to take the judges out of politics,” said Mr. Gresham. “Experience has shown it would put them deeper into politics.” : Then came the executive session of the committee when the members let down their hair and talk fromthe, shoulder. Some were not sure that all members of :the groups backing the plan were sold on it. They were, not sure they were sold on it themselves. : A few of their objections were: 1. There are very few cities, if any, - large enough to keep any prominenf man’s politics a secret.

Party ‘Sends Out Word’ 2. In places where it has been tried, the candidate generally concentrates on .the members. of « the party with which he always had been affiliated. : 3. The local political organization “sends out'the word” on. a candidate so that. the only - non-political advantage is that the party emblem doég not appear on the ballot. Rep. Henley, said. he personally was very much ‘in favor of the plan. He said it was his understanding it had been successful elsewhere. | Rep. Prank Millis (R. Campbellsburg), the only non-lawyer member, moved that the. bill be reported out with the recommendation for

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the ‘British at the fall of Bardia march toward concentration which had been described by

who are members of the British Imperial Army rush through Bardia’s shell-shattered streets in search of Italian defenders.

TEST YOUR | KNOWLEDGE

1—Who wrote ‘the. song, “Home Sweet Home”? . 2—Who said, “What this country needs 'is ‘a gogd 5-cent cigar”? 3—James J.'McEntee is Director of which Federal Government agency? . 4—Name the . Prime Minister ' of Great Britain who immediately preceded Winston Churchill. 5—How wide is the Strait of Gibrale tar? : 6—Is steel a chemical element, or an alloy of the elements iron and “carbon? : : 7—The Colossus of Rhodes was on an island in the Mediterranean Sea, .the Caspian Sea, or the Black Sea? “i 8—Which of the following fam: f Americans was born in the West Indies — Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, William Penn or John Hancock? >

Answers 1—John Howard Payne,

as R.' Mate shall. 3 3—Civilian Conservation Corps. = 4—Neville. Chamberlain. ; 5—Fourteen miles. ‘6—Alloy of iron and carbon.

7—Mediterganean Sea.

8—Alexander Hamilton. : # 8 8

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TALKS ON LINCOLN, DEFENSE “Our National Defense as Abrae ham Lincoln Would View If" w be discussed by Vayne -M, ‘Arms strong, local attorney, at a meetilig of the Washington Township « Re publican Club at 8 o'clock tonight at 6065 College Ave. Music willsk

furnished by: the. Marion LOUul

G. O. P. male. chorus,

Oliver W.' Pickhardt. to- oppose. their chairman’s did they want to sign a report against it. ‘They said th thought it would be best to repo it out “without recommendatior —let the House take its choice, = A vote was . The . count was 5-to-5. Rep. Henley

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said thought maybe the House better take its choice, after all,.

he agreed to report it out “withe