Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1941 — Page 21

FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 194]

Hoosier Vagabond

I.ONDON, March 14.—And so back to the big city. The returned sojourner can see changes in London after being gone for a month. Not much physical change, of course, for the bombings were light during most of my absence. But I can sense changes in “situations.” For instance, there a _. . is more sugar, more chocolate, = : more cigarets. In a restaurant ’ N the waiter brought four lumps of i sugar and whispered, “Two for = a’! your first cup, two for your sec- : ond.” Of course he was angling [ has for a bigger tip, and he angled ORS well. | There are now plenty of chocolates in the shops, whereas choco- : lates were close to being extinct right after the holidays. There has never been a real shortage of cigarets, but there has heen a scarcity of various brands. When T first came to England I shopped around among the English cigarets to see what most closely resembled the American kind. I finally lit on one called Wix. Well, the day I left London for the north I went to 15 different tobacco shops and succeeded in collecting only five packs of Wix. Yet on my return when I went Wix-hunting again the first two tobacconists sold me a carton each. While there are more cigarets and sugar and chooclates, there is less meat. For several nights now they say Simpson's has been without its famous roast beef. My hotel has no steaks or chops. This is a temporary shortage. possibly due to transportation trouble, but it is becoming more habitual all over London.

Food More Plentiful

In fact there seems io be more food and a greater variety of it everywhere in the provinces than in London. The smaller the town the more food there is. The supply of sugar and eggs is practically normal in the smaller places. The Food Ministry has announced a general allaround tightening of the British belt, and personally I think it’s a good thing. For an island that imports so much has such vulnerable sealanes, England has been eating far too much. As a matter of fact the Food Ministry is several months behind the people. They have been quite willing for a long time io have their belts tightened. Furthermore. the business of rich people eating so grandiosely in restaurants while the poor theoretically go hungry is rapidly becoming a hallucination. You still pay exorbitantly at the big hotels, and you get all the over-abundance of silverware and yessits

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”)

PROSECUTOR SHERWOOD BLUE'S attack on Chief Morrissey, on traffic case “fixing” in general, and on Judge Bradshaw for the handling of juvenile court cases 1s certain to do one thing—stir up a first class party feud in the Court House. The Prosecutor is one of the very few Republicans in the Court House. All he has to help him over there is the Surveyor, the Coroner and one of the County Commissioners. That leaves nine County judges who are all Democrats (and not political novices, either), the County Clerk, Auditor, Treasurer, two Commissioners and on and on and on. Put this down, tee. Judge Bradshaw is a mild-mannered man, But everytime somebody has cracked off about Juvenile Court they've found they had a wildcat by the tail. Well, it will be good reading.

For You Laak Waltons

THUS FAR, WE'VE refrained from trying to give vou advice about where to fish. But after Walter Kesterson (an operator at the Circle Theater and who iives at 1024 Wallace) got through with us, we decided to come clean. Walter got a 3':-pound and a 3-pound bass in two hours. The place? On Fall Creek on Sunnyside Road, just north of the covered bridge, where Walter savs there's a deep pool in the middle of the stream. He got his pair at the bottom.

Washington

WASHINGTON, March 14 —Food from the United Stafes has become important to the British but this does not mean that a wartime farm boom, such as

the last war caused, is in prospect. The American farmer, on the whole, will not share in the war boom which industry is enjoving. This war has hit the American farmer hard ard will continue to do so. Ofiicials here advise that no one be misled bv the fact that the British are in need of large quantities of certain kinds of foodstuffs anda that these will be moved under the lendlease program. They don't want to see any repetition of the silly, needless, housewives’ sugar panic which occurred at the outbreak of this war, The British want to obtain quantities of certain foodstuffs here, largely meat and dairy products, They have been buying as little as possible in the United States, primarily because they wished to save their American exchange for purchase of munitions which could be obtained nowhere else. The Lend-Lease Bill removes the bottleneck of limited dollar exchange. Furthermore, the shipping shortage grows more acute and the British are driven to abandoning long hauls from empire points in favor of the shortest haul, which is from the United States and Canada. Those two reasons bring the United States into line as the food supplier.

No Help for Cotton

But this demand is restricted, and will not affect ithe milk of American farmers in any way. For instance cotton growers will get nothing out of it. Their exports have practically stopped. We have a whole otton crop piled up in storage. with another coming bn. Britain is not in the market for cotton in any increased quantity. Neither is Britain in the market

My Day

GOLDEN BEACH, Fla, Thursday.—Our days continue to be bright and sunny and the moon is so glorious at night that it seems a pity not to be 18 again and subject to its influence. We have had one or two showers, but they were over quickly and everything seemed to be greener afterwards.

On Tuesday afternoon Ignace Paderewski drove down from Palm Beach to call on me. He had gone there to attend a concert and evidently had enjoyed his evening. It was very kind of him to want to come to see me, but I felt rather guilty that he should take so much trouble. The last two years have not been happy ones for him, with the storm clouds gathering everywhere and the danger coming ever closer to his beloved Poland. I think when vou have given as much of yourself as he has to his country, it must be bitter indeed to see all vour world thrown away and apparently lost because of the cruel ambitions of one man. I do not suppose, however, that any really good work is ever lost: Somewhere the seed remains and the influence is felt in the future. But for a time at least, all that Paderewski has done as a states man must seem to him wiped out. One feels that these years have sapped his

By Ernie Pyle

and delay that seems to be fashionable, but when you come to sum up what you've had to eat you could have fared better in somebody's home. And speaking of food, you may remember that in one of my earlier columns from London I said the | only thing I missed over here was enough sugar. That must have put ideas into people's heads, for I have already received two separate one-pound boxes of sugar from readers in America, And I hear that more is on the way. So thanks a million but please don’t send any more. I will be on the way home before it could get here. One box of sugar was sent by Mr. and Mrs. Dick Petticrew of East Lansing, Mich., whom I don’t know at all. On the customs declaration which accompanied the package they had to indicate to whom it should be delivered if I couldn't be found. So the Petticrews wrote “Winston Churchill.” It’s too bad I hadn't gone before the sugar arrived. Maybe Winston could have traded it to somebody for cigars.

No Coals for Newcastle

I muffed a chance for immortality on this recent trip, when I went to Newcastle-on-Tyne and forgot to take a piece of coal. With a little foresight I could have gone down in history as the man who actually did carry coals ts Neweastle. Scotland has become a new national home for the Poles who got away after the German occupation | There are many thousands of Poles in Scotland now, and most of them are in the army. They get along well witli the Scots. They are fine soldiers. Nobody in this war is fighting with more burning fire in the soul than the Poles. I have yet to hear a word abeut them that wasn’t in praise. No German will ever get mercy from a Pole on this island. The other day I saw a question sent from America asking what people in theaters did when an air-raid waming sounded. Well, I can tell you. Having a touch of the heebie-jeebies, I decided to go to a movie. The picture was “Duley,” and everybody thought it was swell. The theater was a huge one in Leicester Square, and it was absolutely packed. In the middle of the picture the film stopped and a sigh was flashed on the screen. It said the sirens had just sounded and that anyone who wished could leave and go io the public shelters just across the street. The picture was then resumed. I watched, and not a soul in that whole theater stirred. Afterwards another sign flashed, saying the allclear had sounded. People simply don't pay attention to daytime warnings any more. Even my own faint heart ceased Tong since to do even a slight dervish when the sirens moan.

He used rod and reel and split mouth minnows. The bigger fellow was sporty and put up a battle. The other came right in.

The A, B and C of It

MRS. JOE HARRIS of Muncie, who is the niece of Harry Toner, the Probate Court bailiff, had trip-| lets the other day. The hospital attendants named the trio of hoys| “A, B and C.” So the family went right ahead and! named them Anthony, Bernard and Charles. Hearing about that, the ABC bus line, which runs out of Muncie, promptly handed the whole family al six months’ pass. Mr. Harris’ sister, by the way, married Harry! Toners brother, who is Stephen Toner, a City fireman. In ease you're confused, see Bill Flanary, the! registration clerk at the Court House. He wrote a poem about it. How's This for Service? MARTIN KILLILA and Roy Fiigel, the file clerks at the Court House, got a letter day before yesterday from Mississippi, bearing salutations to “Headquarters of Indianapolis, Ind.” The writer wanted to locate relatives and, by golly, Martin and Roy did find two relatives. , , . William H. Book, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, leaves for Florida tomorrow to rest up from the rigors of watching the just concluded legislative jam session. He'll be at

Orlando for about a week. Carl Dortsch is driving down with him.

By Raymond Clapper,

for United States wheat. Canada has an enormous surplus. This backs up against our own huge wheat | stocks and the gigantic crop which is in prospect. | Actually there is more wheat in the world today than has ever before existed. We have more corn on hand than we ever have had. Among those three surpluses, corn alone stands to! be favorably affected by the prospective exports of war food to Britain. The United States is the chief pork supplier for the world. British access to Denmark and other continental sources of pork has been cut off. It is natural that she should turn here. If Britain should seek large quantities of pork and perhaps dairy products these can be supplied without disarranging American supplies to any noticeable degree. The Government has huge quantities of eorn held under the loan program, for instance, and these would be fed out to keep prices steady. {

Price Increase Unlikely |

Secretary of Agriculture Wickard has participated in Administration conferences over prospective British | needs and has already begun activities to meet them without upsetting domestic markets. This is possible because of the heavy surpluses in most commodities. | Officials see no reason for any sharp advances in! prices and every effort will be made to prevent them. The net of it is that continuation of the war will result in prolonging the drastic choking off of our export market for surplus crops. The demand for labor in industry will drain off farm labor and in-| crease the costs of farm production, as will rising prices in farm implements and other goods used by the farmer. There is no prospect of increased farm prices to offset these increased costs. Officials foresee! the possibility that the agricultural programs will have to bear an increased burden. Last week farm | members in Congress sought to expand the Govern-| ment subsidy to agriculture but were unsuccessful. Pressure for this will continue. The Brivish food needs will help ease the situation some but only slightly in the special lines already indicated.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

strength, but his eyes are as keen as ever and they look at you with an expression which is indicative of the same courage we have grown to expect from this gentleman. We were interested too, in his young secretary. who told us a good deal about his travels in South | America. I was happy to have this opportunity of seeing once again a very great man and shall take his message to the President when I return to Washington. Yesterday afternoon I went with the supervisor of the Florida migratory camps, Paul Van Der Schouw, to see one of the new farm security camps just being completed at Pompano. On the way up, we passed through a great deal of farming land where beans, tomatoes and peppers all seemed to! be ripening. In some places the workers have had | a hard time because there has been so much water they have not been able to make crops, but around | here I gather that the crops have been fair. We drove by the houses which are at present be- | ing used by the workers, and I was impressed all] over again by the lack of organization and sanita-| tion surrounding these living quarters. The new Government camp seems to me better planned that! the old ones. None of the houses have accomodations for more | that four families. Most of them are for two-family use. The clinic and assembly hall are very adequate for the size of the camp. This particular camp will house about 300 families and is almost ready for occupation.

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in the mind of Germany should Adolf Hitler decide to come to the aid of Premier Mussolini in Albania.

fields also are highlighted. By VICTOR FREE

Indianapolis Times News Editor “YT is the fixed policy of this Government to make for de mocracies every gun, plane and munition of war that we possibly can.” Thus tersely, President Roosevelt this week enunciated the broad objectives of all-out help for the foes of aggression. Swiftly, he mobilized virtually the entire field of American econ-

omy to produce the tools of war

while approving for immediate release certain Army and Navy equipment as a token warning to the Axis powers. Developments came rapidly after Senate passage of the Lease-Lend Bill by a vote of 60 to 31, House concurrence in amendments and the signature of the President 14

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White House.

Declared Sir Archibald Sinclair, |

British air minister: “The choicest fruits of American craftsmanship will get here in time.” Jeered the Axis: “It is too late.” n » »

$7,000,000,000

Congress, the course charted, moved quickly to approve the President's request for seven billion dollars to produce planes, ships, tanks and motorized equipment. Budgeted cost of the defense program so far: 35 billion dollars. The hyopthetical average additional burden: $33 for every man, woman and child, n » 2

EAST TO MEET WEST—

ERMAN and Italian propagandists, charging the American challenge would prolong the war, said the Axis’ answer would be supplied in the trip of Japan's Foreign Minister Matsuoka to Berlin, Rome and Moscow, ostensibly to clear the path for an ase sault the length and breadth of the British Empire. Other de velopments of the week on war fronts: 1. Great Britain “celebrated” the Lend-Lease Bill approval by sending new-type planes with twice the bomb-carrying capacity to batter Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg and the invasion coast. 2. Tempo of the air and sea war stepped up, indicating big spring offensives in the making and hint ing that Hitler has released his U-boat “wolf pack” against Atlantic shipping lanes. 3. Britain reportedly landed 175,« 000 troops in Greece to bolster Greek determination “never to yield a foot of soil.” 4. Jugoslavia still was a Nazi holdout, apparently seeking a formula whereby Germany could claim a diplomatic victory and the Slavs could retain their pride, 5. British Minister Rendel, are riving in Turkey from Nazi Bulgaria, missed death by minutes but saved his secret documents when bombs exploded in his luggage at an Istanbul hotel. 6. Vichy threatened to break the British food blockade with the French fleet, a move that might bring France back into war against her former ally. 7. Great Britain rushed powere

ful reinforcements to the Middle

East and slashed deep into Ethie opia. 8. Greece, continuing the Albanian offensive, reported Mussolini was in personal command of his troops but had failed to halt

the widening of the frontier from | the Adriatic to the Jugoslav bor-

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DEFENSE ITEMS—

HE largest Indiana draft call so far was announced for April. It will be approximately 6000, about 500 of them from Marion County,

Warren H. Atherton, American |

Legion defense committee chair-

man, toured the nation's defense | and Navy |

plants, Army camps bases and reported: “America will not be in a position to fight until the beginning of next year.” President Roosevelt considered a joint recommendation of

rectors Hillman and Knudsen to establish a super-mediation board to handle defense labor disputes.

The Allison Division of General | Motors, it was learned, plans to |

hire an additional 2500 workers within 30 days to speed production of liquid-cooled motors. Location of the new brass car-

tridge case plant of the Bridge- |

port Brass Co. was announced for southwest of Minnesota St. and east of Field. A Citizens’ Committee on fense Housing pledged its mem-

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Indianapolis within four months to prevent a serious local housing shortage.

HOLD EVERYTHING

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An American Red Cross ship finally reached Marseilles after a long voyage through the British blockade to deliver 1500 tons of milk, vitamins and clothing for the children of | unoccupied France. Children at the dock waved American | and French flags and cried: “Vive L' Amerique, vive Presi- | dent Roosevelt.” an

| AT LONG LAST—

| The 82d Indiana Legislature ad- | journed at 3:10 a. m. Tuesday, the | lawmakers weary after 61 davs of scrapping. The record: 198 Bills passed by the House, 69 by the Senate, Of these, approximately 225 have become laws, The major accomplishments: Gross income tax relief for retailers; liberalization of old-age pension and unemployment compensation laws, and reduction of the budget. The outlook: Court tests of Re- { publican “ripper” legislation, which sheared the Governor of most of his power, Behind the scenes: Emergence of Arch N. Bobbitt, Republican State Chairman, as “unofficial governor” if the decentralization bills stand up in court,

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Said Governor Schricker of the legislative probe into the Nov. § election: “I've been crucified . , . the State of Indiana has been humiliated and I'm going out and

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SAFETY —

HE traffic death toll mounted while public officials and safety groups sought remedial action and courts bore down on law violators, A resume:

I. A subcommittee of the Mayor's Advisory Committee char acterized traffice law enforcement as “feeble, vacillating and almost a farce”; suggested employment of a full-time traffic engineer responsible solely to the Mayor; blamed the major defects in traffic “police inefficiency, court laxity and friction between police and courts.” 2. The Safety Board approved a “ghost patrol” proposed by Chief Morrissey, with policemen in plain clothes patrolling in unmarked automobiles. 3. Prosecuior Blue and Chief Morrissey worked on plans for a “cafeteria-type” court to expedite traffic cases. 4. A taxi driver involved in a crash after hauling five small children to school, was fined $70 and sentenced to 60 days on intoxication and drunken driving charges,

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BUSINESS —

Real Silk Hosiery Mills reported it lost money the first half of 1940 because raw silk was so high, made money the last half because raw silk was cheaper, lost $341, 955 for the year as a whole, Indianapolis Water Co. reported it made $707,013 profit during the last year (it was $649,173 in 1939) and added 2034 customers, most for any year since booming 19290. The Indianapolis Times weekly business summary showed retail trade here in February was 14 per cent over February last year,

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DEATHS

Stuart Walker, Hollywood producer and playwright and former= ly of Indianapolis at Beverly Hills, Cal. He was 53. Sherwood Anderson, novelist, at Critstobal, Canal Zone. He was 64.

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SPORTS —

TATE high school basketball continued to dominate ale though 761 teams already have mothballed their uniforms. The 16 survivors will be whittled to four in four semi-final tournaments tomorrow, with the Quality Quartet playing for the title on March 22 at the Butler Fieldhouse. Butler University spent the week dusting and polishing its sprawling Fieldhouse for the annual Butler Relays tomorrow, Advertised as the “world’s greatest indoor track show,” this carnival will attract 24 teams and 329 individuals to shoot for titles and a large assortment of trophies. The Indianapolis Capitals fought down the stretch for a place in the American Hockey League

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playoffs; the Indianapolis Indians opened spring training at Bartow, Fla., and Butler's basketball team elected Wilbur Schumacher and Elwood Norris as its 1941-42 cape tains. n ” » Richard Liese, 22, acquitted on a first degree murder charge, said after the verdict: “Now it's time to look for a Job.” The next day he received his draft questionnaire,

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QUESTION OF WEEK~—

Is the personal property of Chief Big Bear taxable? A deputy in the Center Towne ship Assessor's office asked it. The Assessor's office doesn't Know. But James Cunningham, the Ase sessor, said that since there seems to be only one Indian in the town= ship, he might forget about the whole thing. WARNING: Mr. Cunningham announced that residents who persisted in being away when as- | sessors call, would find their pere sonal property assessed “sight une | seen.” | >» 8 LEST WE FORGET: Tomors row at midnight is the deadline for income tax returns, {

TRUCK-AUTO CRASH TAKES ITS 2D LIFE

VALPARAISO, Ind, March 14 (U. P).~—Harry Anderson, 486, Chesterton, died in Porter Memore ial Hospital yesterday, the second victim of an automobile accident

here Tuesday. Ray Dibbern, 45, Michigan City, was killed instantly when the car in which the victims were riding skidded into a light delivery truck during a snowstorm. The truck was driven by Joseph Shewanick of Gary, who was not injured. Mr, Anderson suffered a fractured skull and never regained consciousness.

Back From Navy, Army Wants Him

GLEN COVE, N. Y., March 1 (U, P.).-Anthony M. Nigro re« turned home yesterday from San | Pedro, Cal.,, where he had been ! honorably discharged from the Navy after a four-year enlist« ment, | He registered immediately with his draft board and was assigned Serial No. 3558. Draft board officials checked un today and found that No. 3553 had been called several weeks ago. Nigro is at the head of the list for the board's next call,

DIVORCES WRITER } RENO, Nev. March 14 (U. P.) .— Mrs, Margaret T. Smith yesterday divorced Lawrence B. Smith, Mille brook, N, Y., sportsman and writer, They were married June 7, 1923. She charged mental cruelty,