Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1941 — Page 2
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Hoosiers in Washington
WILLKIE “WOWS' THE REPORTERS
Capital Writers Concede He Was Star Lend-Lease Witness.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—Wendell I. Willkie, the only defeated Presidential candidate who ever made Page One on Inauguration Day, still stirs the Washington press corps, many of whom are always in search of a new hero. The curly-haired Hoosier wowed the Women’s National Press Club and next day did a repeat performance with the men of the National Press Club. In addition, he put on an off- therecord question period for certain favored journalists at the home of Eugene Meyer, owner of The Washington Post, at which he is said to have “let his hair down” on personal intimacies ranging all the way from the White House to the Court of St. James. And the press boys and girls love it! A Professional Witness,
Everyone conceded that Mr. Will- ~ kie was the most outstanding success ‘of all the pro-Lend-Lease Bill witnesses before the Senate Foreign " Relations Committee. Mr. Willkie’s forte is that of a
professional witness. He first gained national prominence appearing as a witness before Congressional committees to defend private power companies against public ownership. As president of Commonwealth & Southern, he constantly battled TVA and finally won a $78,000,000 settlement. : Whenever Mr. Willkie chose not to give a direct answer to his critical questioners on the Foreign Relations Committee, he took the tactic , of tossing the question right back in their teeth.
Had Adroit Answers
For instance, if one of the Senators opposing the bill would say: “If this bill does not save England would you favor going to war to do it?”. the adroit Mr. Willkie would reply: “Only you of the Congress could declare war, Senator.” The only criticism regarding the Willkie testimony revolved around his suggestion that some statements he made in the heat of the campaign should not now be taken at face value. At the G. O. P. Lincoln Day dinner in New York City, the night after the hearing, Mr. Willkie was back again in his campaign role of New Deal critic. Challenging the Republicans to follow his leadership
and support Lease-Lend, he listed
Washington, Lincoln and Robert E. Lee as his great American heroes.
New Lineup Seen
This was taken to mean that should the G. O. P. decide against him he might be able to line up the so-called Jeffersonian Democrats. When the stories were published that he is considering going to China, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.» called him “our Clipper ambassador.” : All of which adds up to the fact that Mr. Willkie is the liveliest and most controversial Republican Presidential candidate who ever went down in defeat.
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Witty Mr. Wickard
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard turned out to be one of the wisest and wittiest speakers in Washington when he responded to Toastmaster Charles A. Halleck at the Indiana Society dinner. He gave a homespun Hoosier talk which brought rounds of applause from the several hundred Indiandans present. An unpremeditated feature of the gathering was that Indiana Repub- + licans turned out in force to honor ° Mr. and Mrs. ‘Wickard, while the high-ranking Hoosier Democrats were absent. Senator and Mrs. Willis were at the head table and they had as guests Senator and Mrs. John H. Bankhead (D. Ala.). Senator Bankhead is chairman of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee of which Senator Willis is aymember and paid high tribute to the latter’s industry on the Senate floor this week. Rep. Hampton P. Fulmer (D. S. C.), chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, was the guest of Rep. George W. Gillie, who is a Republican member. Rep. John W. Boehne Jr. Evansville, was the only Democratic Congressman from Indiana there. Senator VanNuys wired his regrets. Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt and his assistant, Wayne Coy, were at the White House with their wives, where Mrs. Roosevelt was trying out songs they are going. to sing to soldiers. Former Senator Sherman Minton, now a Presidential aide, apparently was exercising his “passion for anonymity.” So the highest ranking Hoosier ‘Democrat in Washington was pretty much in Republican hands. He made a great hit.
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Neither Senator Frederick VanNuys, who is a Democratic member of the Foreign Relations Committee, nor Senator Raymond E. Willis, Republican isolationist, plan on making a speech in the Senate on the Lend-Lease Bill.
SEEK SEAPLANE WRECKAGE VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 22 (U. P.).—Salvage workers to- . day sought to recover a seaplane
. of the Royal Norwegian Naval Air
Force, which crashed into Burrard
Inlet, carrying two‘ Norwegian of-
ficers to their death.
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‘It’s Meaningless to Talk About 1944, He Says; China Trip Unlikely. (Continued from Page One)
as a trim Barkley-Grow twin-mo-tored private plane brought him into the port yesterday after 4 p. m. He was met by about 35 persons, some onlookers, some members of his family, the press and a group of Legislators who asked him to adress the Legislature yesterday afternoon. “Maybe I could talk to you fellows Monday or Tuesday,” Mr. Willkie told the legislators. “I certainly appreciate the request.” Among the legislators was Senator Walter S. Vermillion (D. Anderson), one of Mr. Willkie’s legal
practiced law around Elwood.
first and rushed into the arms of her sister, Mrs. Miller Hamilton of Indianapolis. - Mrs. Hamilton’s son
Hamilton to Rushville. Among the others who greeted the couple were James F. Frenzel, Willkie Clubs of Indiana director, and Roger Wolcott, treasurer of the clubs. En Route to Rushville, Mr. Willkie stopped off to inspect his farms
Speeder Jailed, Officer Rebuked
JUDGE JOHN L. McNelis reprimanded a police officer in Mu-~ nicipal Court 3 today for causing’ a speeding motorist to spend the! night in jail when, according. te tie judge, he should only have been given a ticket. J Judge McNelis told Patrolmar James Owens that he was right in making the arrest of Hugh Lawless on the speeding charge, but that, since it was a misdemeanor, he was wrong in sending him to jail to await hearing. Judge McNelis fined Lawless $25 and costs on charges of speedins and $1 and costs on charges of reckless driving. Lawless is 20 and lives at 935 Bellefontaine St.
GERMAN MARSHAL IN SOFIA INCOGNITO
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airports where. German techniciiins work. ? The Bulgarian peacefully about its business, |al- | most completely ignorant of the advanced stage of preparations.) The British Consul-General and | the officers of the military at &che are under ‘close surveillance by se=cret, agents, whose employers [can
closing of the British Institute, where the final party of farewell will be held this evening. American correspondents were invited to the festivities, but they blanched when they heard the name the British had given td the occasion. It is to be called a Valentine party.
DR. BACKUS TO GIVE SERIES OF LECTURES
Three thousand announcemeits of the new sermon-lecture series, “Sci ence Remolds Religion,” have heen distributed among Indianapolii people of all faiths by All Souls Unitarian Church. The lecture-sermons, also heralded by 50 posters in show windows and other conspicious places, will be delivered by Dr. E. Burdette Eackus, All Souls’ pastor, on seven c¢olisecutive Sunday mornings at 11 a. m. beginning tomorrow. “The Vast Drama of Creaticn” is tomorrow’s subject.
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foto Hurls Gifts 'At Gargantua
SARASOTA, Fla, Feb. 22 (U. EF.) ~iThe mating of Gargantua and [Toto is going to take a lot of patience, circus men said today. | The meeting and mock marriage of the two gorillas yestertay =2vening produced no amorous adva aces from either of them, and ! ‘when their cages were hauled apa; after an hour, there was no Lomi laint. © When Toto, just arrived from Havana in a $20,000, air conditioned cage, was Wheeled up ‘alongside: Gargantua’s equally lavich cage, and the heavy glass in tach cage was rolled down, leaving only bars between them, ‘Toto sprang back in surprise and barked. Gargantua was nibbling a stalk of celery and he offered it to her. She grabbed it and threw it between the bars at him. He gave her a head of lettuce and she threw it at him. Then he sulked in a corner and she played with her pet kitten, Principe.
CONTROL CLAUSE IN HSA -BILL ERASED
Provisions of a Senate bill which would have placed the Indiana’ 'High School Athletic Association under State control were removed | from the bill today by an amend{ment by its author, Senator Robert Lee Brokenburr (R. Indianapolis). The change left only the provision that the I. H. S. A. A. could not bar Catholic and Negro school teams from tournaments. Senator Brokenburr said this was the original intent of his bill. The Senate passed to the House a bill that would bar Communist candidates from the ballot. It was introduced by Senator John Atherton. (R. Indianapolis). Two G. O. P. platform bills also were passed to the House by the Senate today. One would create a Department of Agriculture, combining several state boards related to agriculture under a commission of seven men, three to be appointed by the Governor and three by the Lieutenant Governor, and the seventh to be the director of the Purdue University Experimental Station. The Lieutenant Governor would head the Commission until 1945 when the Commissioner would appoint a Commissioner at a salary of $6000 a year. The other bill was the confroversial School Text Book Adoptipns bill, which was ‘passed without debate. It provides for single adoptions in grade and multiple adoptions in high schools.
FRONTIER OPENS
Nazi “Test Atta Attack Fails; British Box-in Italy With Mines. (Continued from Page One)
laying down a smoke screen close to the shore between Boulogne | and Calais. Significance of this action was
not explained but smoke screens are often used to cover the movement of ships down the coast. A big British squadron roared off to the French coast a few moments after the smoke screen appeared. Relay after relay of airplane squadrons joined in the combat which broke up into a series of fierce dogfights fought at an altitude of 20,000 to 25,000 feet. The planes could be seen and heard diving and gunning in constant combat.
Narrow Section Mined -
All day long British fighter squadrons flying in close formation
with single flanking planes flying on each side circled high over the coastal area. Key to the new mine fields were the narrow waters between Sicily and North Africa. The British said they had cut the Central Mediterranean at its narrowest point. Only British vessels equipped with charts of the new fields can safely traverse them, it is claimed. The action was believed to be designed to block any moves by the Axis Powers to use sea, lanes to bolster Italy’s fading position in Libya. Previous speculation has centered on the possibility Italy might attempt to evacuate her garrisons at Tripoli by sea or that the Germans might move in on French Tunisia. Spanish Now Worried
In Spain Generalissimo Francisco Franco called his second Cabinet council in 24 hours, possibly to consider the sensation created by news that German military units were coming to the relief of fire and hurricane stricken Santander. One report was that foreign reaction to the news might cause the Spanish Government to decline the German offer. There was no word yet of the arrival of German relief columns at Santander where an advance liaison officer arrived yesterday. London’s concern over the Spanish situation eased somewhat when the small size of the relief column was established, but the British continued to distrust the possible precedent of open entry of German Army units into Spain. The Germans made a heavy attack on the South Wales city of Swansea (population, 164,000) for the third night running. A movie theater and several restaurants disappeared into piles of rubble as a result of direct hits. Wrecked churches, smashed buildings and broken schools and houses were seen all over the city. One hospital had to evacuate its patients and several Y. M. C. A. canteens and an American ambulance arrived to aid the ctiy, which four days ago was a bustling port.
Bomb France by Daylight
The British today made another big daylight “sweep” of the French coast. Yesterday the fighter planes of the R. A. F. had patrolled the coast all day without losses and today bombers were ‘sent over as well. Last night the German naval bases at Wilhelmshaven and Emden, the Ruhr Valley, Brest and airdromes in northern France and Holland were bombed. It was the 43d raid of the war on Wilhelmshaven. Athens claimed to have routed Italians from Albanian positions they had been crdered to hold at all costs, but did not locate the posts. The Greek radio claimed that “Italian artillery had distinguished itself by shelling its own troops severely, whereupon those who man aged to escape being killed sur
rendered to the Greeks.”
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You can go out to Garfield Park and see for yourself. The skaters may not be in exactly the same places as they are in this picture, but they'll be there, skating for dear life against the day when warm winds will melt the ice. It’s the city’s most unpredictable winter sport. There’s also day and night skating at Lake Sullivan and at South Grove.
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believe we can still keep out of this war and still give to Great Britain the assistance for which she is asking. We are not in the war today, and we will not even be in the war if the Lend-Lease Bill is passed. “But in the great powers of that bill we are asked to give one man the power to take us into war, and by passing the bill in its present form we are in effect approving a war policy if he sees fit to declare it. There is no need to give these powers if we intend our aid to Britain to be short of war. “The Senate faces the choice now. If the people remain opposed to war, I doubt if the President will exercise his privilege of going to war. But the people are going to face the same choice Suring the next six months.” He said the bill “imposes “practically no limitation on the President’s power to involve the United States in financial expenses. Either we will have to levy additional taxes on our citizens to pay for this British aid, or we will have to dangerously inflate our indebtedness and our bank deposits to a point where after the war we either face bankruptcy or, at the best, depression and unemployment.” Senator Capper called on the President to answer three specific questions before any action is taken: “Where are we going?
“What are we going to do when we get there? “What are we going to have, and what are we going to do, when we get back—if we get back.” Noting that some supporters of the bill have proposed that Congress should be told Britain's war aims before giving “all-out” aid, Capper said: “Now I suggest that before we enact this all-out grant of power and authority provided in this socalled Lease-Lend Bill, the Senate and the country ought to be told what are our own Government's aims, whether for war or for peace.” If the British-aid program is carried out, he said, it means “the United States policing the world” and “apparently envisions that nebulous but highly dangerous “Union Now”’—
“If the people of this nation were|
not in the grip of a war hysteria,” he continued, “this whole thing would be recognized for what I believe it is, a most fantastic, bombastic nightmare. “Any nation can be forgiven for being fooled once; but to insist on being fooled again while its hospitals are crowded with human wreckage from -its previous gallant attempt to take democracy to the world that doesn’t want democracy —Mr. President, that is heart. breaking.”
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‘Unless Ready for War, Beat Aid Bill'-Taft; "Where Are We Going From Here?’ Capper
sade to save the world .. . we will have certain problems of our own to take care of.” “We will have a government debt that will run into the hundreds of billions, in all probability. We will have an economy geared to war production, probably to war-making. “We will have war industries built up to the point that only more war, and more wars, can stave off the explosive collapse that is inevitable if war stops. “We will have fastened upon ourselves Government controls of industry, commerce, finance, agriculture, aye and Government controls of labor, that we dare not, that we cannot, get rid of without revolution..”
REPORT: GIRL MISSING
YUBA CITY, Cal, Feb. 22 (U. P.). —Ten-year-old Gracie Van Doorn was reported missing from home today and a state-wide alarm was broadcast for detention of a laborer on suspicion he might have abducted her. The girl is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Van Doorn.
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SATURDAY, FEB. ‘99, 1941
ONLY 3 COUNTIES T0 BE SHIFTED
Marion to Remain as One Unit Under Redistricting Measure.
Only three counties will be shifted to new districts and all of Marion County will be left in one unit une der amendments made to the Cone gressional reapportionment bill in the House. In abolishing one of the States 12 Congressional Districts as a ree
sult of the 1940 census, the bill wipes out the present 11th. As amended, it shifts Clark County from the Ninth to the Eighth Dise trict, Hancock to -the 10th District and adds Madison to the Fifth Dise trict, Five Marion County townships originally placed in the new Ninth District were restored by the amend=ment. Rep. Howard Hiestand, chairman of the committee which drafted the bill, said the original proposals were changed after conferences with Republican district chairmen. Both Ivan C. Morgan, Ninth District head and former state chairman, and Benjamin Huffman, Eighth District leader, objected to the original proposal.
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