Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1941 — Page 9

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 194}

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

: Hoosier Vagabond

_ BRISTOL, England (by wireless).—In Bristol I met a man who is a “reader in imperial history at the University of Bristol. The great hall of the university, with its lovely walls patielled in oak, stands just out-

side the professor's window, or rather did stand there before the fire bombs gutted it.

.. My history professor says the hall was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. To him its loss was the worst of all the blows that have befallen Bristol. My professor is blind, but just the same he can see these beautiful things that are now gone, He invited me to come out to his apartment after dinner. His name is Charles MacInnis, and he is a dandy fellow. There's nothing professorish about him at all. He said he couldn't offer me anything to drink except whisky, beer and wine. I told him not to worry, that we just had to put up with these hardships in war-

+ 1 time,

He insisted on sending a taxi for me, because it is hard to get taxis at night in Bristol. The sirens sounded just before the taxi came. The driver took me out in a hurry, for he was on roof-spotting duty at his garage and he had to get right back. Mr. MacInnis is a Canadian, from Calgary, way out west. He has always been blind. Once he took a crack at newspaper work in Calgary. “But because I was blind they thought I was religious,” he said, “so they put me on the church notices. That's all the newspaper work I ever did.”

A Game of Skittles

In 1915 he finished school in Canada and came to

.Oxford. When he finished there, the University of

Bristol offered him a job. He has been here ever since, He has written a book about Bristol, and he gave me a copy of it. He married a Bristol girl, and they have a 12-year-old boy who has now been evacuatéd to the country with his grandparents. The Maclnnises have a nice six-room apartment with a center hallway, a library, and a big sitting room at one end. We went into the sitting room, and in the middle of the floor there stood a table with nine wooden pins on it and a stick raised above, from which hung a wooden ball on a string. “Have you ever played table skittles?” Mr. MacInnis asked.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”)

IT NEVER FAILS. It happened last night during the Butler University round table discussion on jour-

‘nalism. They were right in the middle of a news-

paper's viewpoint on international policy. when the lights blinked off, then on, and then on and off again. “One if by land and two if by sea,” remarked Judge Henry O. Goett sagely. The light was off, though, right above the forum group and Prof. Charles Kinter began motioning for one of his journalism seniors to get a new bulb. The young man darted here and there, the eyes of most everyone following

“I never even heard of it,” I said. “Then you had better learn,” he said. they play in the pubs around here. plays it.” So we played, and Mrs. MacInnis won both games. “Do you have a shelter in the basement?” I asked them, “There is one,” Mr. MacInnis said, been down.” “Not even during those terrible all-night blitzes?” l asked. “Not even then,” he said. “What's the use? You might get buried. We never stir from the apartment. You sort of get used to it.” “l don’t want’ you to think I'm impertinent,” I said, “but can you describe to me what a blind man’s conception is of the damage to Bristol?” “Well,” Mr. MacInnis said, “I'm sensitive to light and when I walk down the street I suddenly realize there is light at my side and I know I am passing a building that isn't there any more. I see it as piles of brick, partly standing walls, charred timbers and twisted girders.” And I realized that although he was using the same words of cescription that I use, there was no possible way for him to tell me what he sees in his mind, because piles of brick and charred timbers are only words to him. He has never seen any.

Busy Night and. Day

Mr. MacInnis does voluntary work day and night. He has a job that might best be described as that of a morale-keeper-up for the blitzed and homeless of Bristol. He makes speeches, organizes entertainments, helps people find homes, and gets better things for the shelters. Everyone I met was full of praise for him. He has lots of humor—a sort of sardonic humor. He thinks the funniest war story is one that happened right at the university, and he heard it himself. It seems that Kings College, a big medical school! in London, decided to evacuate to Bristol. All the, professors arrived and held their first meeting on the morning after Bristol had experienced one of its worst blitzes and many scores of people lay dead. “The meeting was very serious and businesslike,” Mr. MacInnis said. “The professors were doubtful whether they could. carry on normal instructions here because transportation from London was not so good and the new school was not properly equipped with corpses!” The doorbell rang. The all-clear having sounded, our taxi driver was back right on the dot.

“That's what Everybody

“but we've never

student came to the reference department desk the other day and asked: “May I have Who's Whom please?” , .. As far as Mrs. N. A. Clancy of Ravenswood is concerned spring has arrived. She spotted four “nice, plump” robins in her backyard this morning.

Higher Education FOR THOSE OF YOU who may have not been following the progress of the high school basketball tournament, this summary may enlighten you: There are 16 teams left in competition. On Saturday there will be four semi-finals tournaments, four teams to each meet. There will be two games in the

not for Washington, Government, would be ready to call | Vichy’s bluff and accept Vice-Pre-mier-Foreign Minister Admiral Jean Darlan’s challenge that he is ready] to use force to get French ships] through the British blockade.

deep-seated idea that, peasement everywhere else in the

By Ernie Pyle| So They May Walk Again

Children are the principal sufferers from bomb-shock—the wracking of tender nerves from concussion

and terrific blasts.

placed slightly above the floor, at St. Christopher's N ursery Training College.

U, S. PREVENTS BLUFF CALLING

Stops British From Taking Darlan Challenge to Run Blockade. KIRKPATRICK

By HELEN

The Chicago Daily News,

LONDON, March 12.—If it were! the British |

Washington apparently has the while ap-

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/ clare that the bomb-shock of the present war differs widely from the shell-shock suffered by troops during the last. » n »

'SHELL-SHOCK has been diagnosed as a psychological “escape” mechanism which resulted in varying types and degrees of nervous condition. It was common among soldiers of all armies during the last World War. But modern bomb-shock is .comparatively rare among adults. Medical authorities declare that, having a physical rather than a psychological basis, it has less effect on the stronger constitutions of adults. Treatment consists of rest con-

But when the first cases of bomb-shocked babies began to appear, British medical facilities were already overtaxed by the war. Many hospitals and nursing homes had been destroyed. And cities which regularly were being blasted by bombs were no place for bomb-shocked patients to recover. # » 8 APPEALS FOR AID to the American Committee for Air Raid relief (London affiliate of the U. S. British War Relief Society) resulted in the development of a three-fold plan for all possible help to the young victims of bomb-shock. Some of the stately country homes of England are being converted into refuges and rehabili-

A common effect is to deprive victims of the normal sense of balance, so that often they | have to learn to walk all over again. One treatment ( pictured above) consists of walking along wooden rails, | destroys that instinct.

Bomb-Shocked Babies, Newest War Victims, Need Rest to Repair Shattered Nerves

. Play to Grow

Normal children indulge in ro balancing themselves as instinctive

Well

bust play, running and climbing, ly as little animals. Bomb-shock

British physicians speed. recovery by such

devices as this arrangement of ladders.

As second and third steps, warm clothes were secured for those who had lost their possessions and their homes, and doctors and nurses were enlisted.

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ONE OF THE FIRST institutions which was turned into a

sanitarium for bomb-shocked babies is St. Christopher's Nursery Training College. There youngsters who have lost their normal sense of balance are gradually brought back to robust activity by learning how to climb ladderlike devices and by walking along wooden “rails” a few inches above floor level. Toys also play their part in the treatment. Hobby horses, rocking” animals and table games

MOROCCO CHIEF DEFIES INVASION

Promises to Lead Tribes Against Any Foreign Force Trying It.

By JOSEPH L. RAVOTTO United Press Staff Correspondent MARRAKECH, French Morocco, March 12. —French Moroccans will fight any foreign force which “dares set foot upon our territory.” El Hadj Thami EI Galoui, his eyes flashing fire as he spoke, told me that today. El Galoui is the pasha of the Marrakech region and probably the Moroccan leader best known in Eue rope. He attached no strings to his

him, Rowland Allen was just in the middle of a sentence when Butler's chief janitor came striding in. Mr. Allen paused and 60 pairs of

which require . co-ordination of brain and hands are among the commonest device§ employed. The little patients usually re-

tation centers for the children as rapidly as funds and materials arrive from the U. S. Among these Syston Court, home of Lady

world has proved a dismal failure, the anti-British and pro-German rulers of Vichy can be appeased by shipments of American foodstuffs

trolled exercises, the attention of skilled doctors-and nurses and a_ friendly environment, Commonest therapy consists of re-educating

statement that Moroccans would fight invasion from any quarter. He said that regardless of the attitude of the Vichy Government, Moroc=

afternoon, one at night. The thing will wind up with only four teams left. The favorites to be in this lucky four are Anderson, Washington, Central of South Bend and Burris

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eyes fixed on the janitor. He walked briskly to the

~ wall, touched the light switch.

~The light went on. Showing Up Father

WALLACE O. LEE JR. 14-year-old son of the Power & Light executive, has just finished teaching his father a thing or two about fishing. The Lees went to Florida and Wallace Sr. came up with a

sailfish and then proceeded to rest on his laurels.’

Wally Jr. came up on the last day with not one, but three sailfish and a barracuda to boot. . . . The Spade and Trowel Garden Club has just passed a resolution asking the Park Board to approve the Holliday residence in Holliday Park as a Garden Center ‘“to provide library facilities and a meeting place for interested persons.” , , . A sophisticated junior high school

V/ashington

WASHINGTON, March 12.—One of the most reassuring facts about the defense program is that the

Administration is now, and has been for some little

time, leaning heavily upon Bernard M. Baruch for advice and quiet backstage assistance. Typical of what Mr. Baruch is doing is his effort to smooth out the snarl which caused Leon Henderson to go to Florida for a long vacation because of his feeling that he was being sidetracked in the defense organization. Through the good offices of Nr. Baruch, efforts are being made to persuad. Mr. Elenderson to return to Wash--ington and to resume his work in steadying prices, which is one of the most vital jobs of management in the whole program. This is a sign thal President Roosevelt is moving in the direction of stronger supervision over the whole field, not only of the factory but of materials and prices. The rise of Mr. Baruch

‘as one of the regular advisers suggests that this more’

.comprehensive, all-inclusive policy is being urged and sympathetically considered. It forecasts the creation of a conservation division, possibly a request to Con‘gress for authority over prices and, in short, all-out .econcmic mobilization.

lot @ New Deal Scheme

Ww The vast increase in defense production that is

Jexpected to be undertaken as a result of the lend-

lease bill will compel many steps in economic management to be taken sooner or later. The only question is whether difficulties should be anticipated, as Mr. Baruch is urging. or whether we wait until they are upon us and make hasty improvised action imperative. . The idea of going very much further in this. defense effort without moving into the economic field

of Muncie. Then on the following Saturday, the big four gets together at Butler Field House to decide the state champion, Simple, isn’t it?

How to “Fix” It

CHIEF MORRISSEY leaned over and handed an official looking slip to Safety Board President Leroy Keach at yesterday's Board meeting. Mr. Keach hurriedly tucked i¢ in his pocket as a reporter looked inquiringly at him. “Go ahead and ask him,” chuckled the Chief. The reporter did. It turned out to be a receipt for a sticker which Mr. Keach had “fixed” for a friend by paying $2 out of his own pocket.

By Raymond Clapper

frankly as was done-in the last war seems out of the question now. Priorities are necessary and already are in effect on some items, with more to follow as supplies are increasingly strained. But priorities must be accompanied by powers over commandeering, pricefixing, conservation and substitution. That is the judgment of men like Mr. Baruch, whose work us chairman of the War Industries Board in the last war gave us the only practical experience upon which to draw now. It cught to be noted that this is not a scheme of “New Deal’ gtonomic planners.” Mr. Roosevelt has been slow tg.1a0ve into it. Leon Henderson is classed as one of the New Deal group but he and Mr. Baruch have been working closely for some months and their relationship of mutual confidence now ought to be reassuring to businessmen who are inclined to look with apprehension upon further Government controls.

Industrial Mobilization

Our defense problem has heen looked at largely as a specialized problem in producing planes, guns and ships. Now it 1s coming to be regarded as a problem in total industrial mobilization. Mr. Roosevelt has

been less inclined than Woodrow Wilson was to cen- cupied France, the French are only

tralize the whole operation in one body like the War Industries Board. He. will keep the OPM occupied with | actual production. The new special Cabinet committee with Harry Hopkins .as a planning group will list the goods for OPM to execute. This stil! leaves the field of economic management uncovered. Some favor a special body, a third group. which would sit at the economic controls. However, Mr. Roosevelt apparently leans toward including it within OPM. The main thing is that, whether in or out of OPM, the industrial mobilization which extends far back of the assembly lines and the machine tools is essential for the conduct of such an enormous industrial program, to save it from traffic jams and from exacting indefensible prices.

to France.

State Henry Petain and Admiral | Darlan have promised full economic co-operation with Germany, Washington appears prepared to negofiate with Darlan when he threatens to escort French ships, through the British blockade if necessary.

ment is not in a position to argue with the United States, certain point, it has been prevented

{which the strategy of this war seems to demand.

French and not to the Germans.

into France is carefully supervised

quantity for shipment to Germany

STONE ANTI-TRUST

Federal Judge Charles A. Woodward today allowed reopening of an anti-trust law conspiracy indictment | involving three Chicago stone com-| panies, and 12 individuals.

the indictment of conspiring

British Can’t Argue Despite the fact that Chief of |

And, since the British Governbeyond all

from giving Darlan the answer

The best judgement, both of British economic experts and of the British cabinet, would lead them to tell Darlan to “try and do it.” But Washington is in the midst of ne- | gotiations with Vichy and the Brit{ish have been requested to “go leasy,” they have little alternative hut to accept. As a matter of fact, the British would like to see their own people get more than the 'ncreasingly stringent rations that are now available. And even in this war to the death in which Britain is engaged, they would be more than willing to lift the blockade for food into Prance if it were possible to make suré that the food went to the

Tremendous Pressure

It is recognized that the Germans ‘aave put tremendous pressure on Vichy for all kinds of concessions. Up to this moment, all food going

by the Germans who take the major and Italy, In some cases, only 20 per cent of food shipments are reaching the French people, the British say. In others, where entire shipments are received in unoc-

allowed to keep 30 per cent of it.

SUIT IS REOPENED

CHICAGO, March 12 (U. P).—

a trades council, a union |

The defendants were accused in| to|

diana aviator r services as flier to the Greek Govment, Committee nounced.

the patient in the normal behavior of the body.

CLAIMS JAPAN

DUPED FRANCE

ndo-China Official Says Nipponese Gave ‘Open Aid’ to Thailand.

SAIGON, Indo-China, March 12

(U. P.).—A high French authority | charged bitterly today that Japan cheated Indo-China in the peace negotiations and that,

acting as mediator. supported Thailand in its demands.

instead of “shamelessly”

He charged that Japan had vio-

lated pledges to Indo-China and that it had openly aided Thailand during the fighting.

Asserting that the peace terms

had caused more bitterness against Japan than against Thailand, the authority said:

“French people resent this peace.

But we could not fight because we lacked materials and troops. were not fighting Thailand—only Japanese-equipped and Japaneseadvised Thai forces which used Japanese airplanes.”

GREEK AID OFFERED

BY TOMMY BOGGS

Tommy Boggs, widely known Inand dirt track auto ace driver, today volunteered his the Greek War of Indianapolis

Relief an-

The offer to fly for the Greek

Army is being forwarded to the ‘Greek consul in Chicago, the Committee said. Mr. Boggs, who is 26, lives at 201 N. New Jersey St.

HOLD EVERYTHING

Gunston, has become an outstanding example.

U. S. Gathering Vast Ship Fleet

NEW YORK, March 12 (U. PJ). —Shipping circles reported today that the Government is gather-

ing, by construction, reconstruc- |

tion and purchase, a vast transport fleet that in any national emergency could move more than 250,000 soldiers at one time to any point in the Western Hemisphere or beyond. Fast passenger liners and freighters have been taken over, some of them from busy trade routes, and old transports such as the George Washington of World War fame, are being overhauled. Another World War transport, the America, has been commissioned as an Army transport.

BRITON URGES CATS AS PLANE ‘HUNTERS’

LONDON, March 12 (U. P.).— The suggestion that cats be used to help find night bombers was among 40,000 ideas received by the Ministry of Aircraft Production in December. “One urged that the way to tackle night bombers was to take up a cat in every night fighter and as the cat could see in the dark whereever the cat was looking the gun should be aimed,” Col. John J. Llewellin, prliamentary undersecretary of the Ministry of Supply, told the House of Commons. “Another suggestion was from a gentleman who said he couldn't] think why we had not decided previously to freeze the clouds and mount anti-air guns on them. He didn’t teil us how to get the guns up there or that the cloud is not exactly a stationary platform, or that ice is heavier than air.”

cover rapidly and rarely show symptoms of relapse.

PREDICTS MORE

cans would defend their homegland “with or without French aid.” The gaunt, tall Moroccan received me in his palace in this 800-year-old walled Capital that for more

PLANE CRASHES

Air Corps Cites Expansion Program and Modern Training Risks.

WASHINGTON, March 12 (U.! P.).—The U, S. Army Air Corps! said today that the public must expect an increase in fatal flying accidents because of the aviation expansion program and the risks in training for modern aerial combat. The statement was issued after a series of recent crashes by Army flyers. The Air Corps said that the proficiency of pilots, planes and ground equipment is measured by the accident rate and not by the number of accidents. “In 1940, the Army airplanes were flown more than 900,000 hours, as compared with about 77,000 hours in 1921, but the percentage of .acciclents in 1940 was fer below that of two decades ago,” the statement said. “Recently, however, several accidents have occurred which indicate that an increase in the accident rate may be expected as a result of the lowering of average experience of pilots.” The statement did not disclose the number of fatal accidents or the accident rate. It said, however, [that because of the great expansion |of the air corps and the more hazardous nature of military flying, accidents have become both more numerous and conspicuous, It noted that military planes are now larger than previously with the result that the average number killed in each crash has increased more than 30 per cent during the last 10 years. The Air Corps said: “Sabotage has not been a cause of accidents, either recently or during preceding years.” The corps records, the statement continued, showed that personnel errors account for 80 per cent of all mishaps, while mechanical failures

generations than can be ree membered has been the gateway to the south and the pleasure city of western Islam.

Voices Admiration for U, S.

It is to this city that the fierce and primative berber tribesmen of the white-crowned Atlas Mountains come to trade with the nomads of the Sahara and the wandering shepherds of the grazing . lands | nearby. Speaking his native tongue, he expressed admiration for the United States and said that despite his ree 'moteness from America he had followed the Congressional debate of the Lease-Lend 3ill with the great= est interest. He said that he expected much from the United States. He made it plain that he is a friend of France. His beliefs fol= low those of his father who enabled France to pacify the entire Atlas Mountain region by himself obtaining the allegiane¢ of the tribes which produce the toughest fight« ers in all Africa. The son wants to see Morocco continue to be French. “The United States,” he said, ‘can and must help preserve our civilizations, our ways of living. Wa are doing all that is possible {0 help France solve her food problem, We are short certain raw materials which the United States can easily supply. ’ Ready to Lead Men “We can belp in many other ways to restore France to her former position but again aid must come from the United States.” When I asked him what Morocco's reaction would be in case of invasion, his eyes flashed and he said in French: “We would fight anyone who dared set foot on our territory, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain ine sists on the armistice terms being respected. “I personally will lead my men to battle if African soil is violated. At this moment we are like a dried up river, but if any enemy entered Morocco we would be like a tore rentous river which sweeps away all obstructions. “We would resist even if we had to resort to sticks and stones.”

and defects cause 14 per cent of the

violate the Sherman Act in the jobaccidents.

bing of cut stone at Bedford and Bloomington, Ind., for shipment to

By Eleanor Roosevelt CIVIL WAR VETERAN

My Day

GOLDEN BEACH, Fla., Tuesday.—Last night three of us went to a movie. I think it was called “Adam Had Four Sons.” We arrived toward the end of one showing, so we entered in the dark and came out bvefore we reached the end of the picture. It was like reading the end of a book befare the beginning. I was interested in a suurt presentativn of some of the boys in the Army and Navy and ‘the entertainment provided for them, It didn’t seem to me particularly inspiring, but perhaps I am expecting too much. Our days continue sunny and * warm, We walked miles along the beach yesterday and out of the sun. It was really cool, but I succeeded in burning my face and lips to a crisp, which I hope will eventually turn into a goad brown. There is a column by Mr. Pegler in the morning paper down here, which I think is particularly fine. He points out that the search for an individual or a group of people, on whom to pin possible war guilt, is really futile, Adolph Hitler has told us that he planned for this war and that he has thought out gach move with care before making it. Mi. Pegler tells us that even if we ai: dfiwn into

te war, will 6 Dut oi Dui ihe pressarged

, mentation than there were. of findi less and unprepared. Jor aay shestubing, : ing

plan of Mr, Hitler. He expresses it, of course, much better than I can, but the thought seemed to me Lf be one that it is wise to bring home to all of us, because what happens during the next years does not lie entirely in our own hands. Our statesmen, our Congress and our people may strive in the sanest and most temperate way, to meet each situation as it arises. But we are dealing with people who lay their plans far ahead and we will have to try to be as far-sighted as they are. . For the. time béing, I think that far-sightedness lies in stepping up our production, in aiding those who believe in the things in which we believe and, at the same time, in preparing ourselves in every possible ‘way for ‘future défense. Part of this defense, it seems to me, is a mental defense, and is as important for the women and children as the men. It lies in building within us a kind of courage which is ready to meet whatever comes and which is willing to prepare to do so. I noticed that there was some talk in Congress the other day about the horrors of regimenting women against their will. I can’t imagine that such a thing would even be suggested. On the other hand, in view of the numerous organizations which women are forming to help in the defense program, I would not be much surprised if the Congressmen found that there were a good many women afraid of regiented ves use-

Chicago.

told Judge Woodward that the indictment was now demurrable in view of recent United States Supreme Court decisions.

must be ready for trial within a few days.

ment with the Indiana Hill Stone

Co. Corp. for jobbing of stone.

dictment are Eric Skogland & Co., E. Heldmaier, Inc., Golly & Van Etten, Inc., the Journeymen Stone Cutters Association of North America, Chicago local, and Chicago and: Cook County Building -and Construction Trades Council.

Ben Carmell, a union attorney,

Judge Woodward set Tuesday for arguments, and said the defense

The case arose from an agree-' and the Indiana Limestone

Among those named in the in-

WINS TARGET TROPHY WASHINGTON, March 12 (U, P.).—The War Department today awarded the 244th Coast Artillery of the New York National Guard the Coast Artillery Association trophy for the most efficient target) practice during the 1939-3 year.

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of the bonds, issued during struction days by so-calied eae

LARGEST MAGNESIUM PLANT IS APPROVED

MIDLAND, Mich.,, March 12 (U. P.).—Plans for construction of the largest magnesium plant in the world were disclosed today with announcement. by Dow Chemical Co. of a War Department contract for plant expansion at Freeport, Tex. Company officials said the contract calls for construction of an additional plant to double output of the concern’s magnesium metal factory at Freeport. Construction would be financed to the extent of $8,000,000 by the Defense Plant Corp.

BUY “CARPETBAG” BONDS

| Alabama has just purchased an|other $26,000 in “carpetbag” bonds

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (U. P.).—

for its sinking fund, bringing the total bought to approximately $75,000 since last year. The state expects eventually to retire $8,500,000

DIES OF PNEUMONIA

CULVER, Ind., March 12 (U. P)). —John S. Cromley, Marshall County’s last Civil War veteran, died yesterday of pneumonia. He was 96 and ill four days. Born in Sandusky County, Ohio, Mr. Cromley moved to Culver when he was 10. He was a member of the 68th Indiana Infantry during the war and saw both Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee while in the Army. He returned to ™ “ver after the war and operated a meat market, He is survived by three sons.

KUHN RULING RESERVED NEW YORK, March 12 (U, P.).~=_ The Appellate Division today ree served decision on Fritz Kuhn's ap= peal from the two and a half to five-year term he is serving for stealing sums from the Germane American Bund.

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